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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31

Until March go, you get one chance In
tho Piano with each dollar you spend.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31
SToCKS FOR SALE.

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so shares Riverside Iron Works.
100 shares BellAire Nail Works,
% shares Wheeling Stecl 4 Iron C0nrNay.
Wheeling Railway Bonds
10 shares FOstorlA Glass Company.
10 shares Exchange Bank.
10 shArcS of Rational BANK OF wnSt V.r..a.S
10 shares Wheeling Ice aud Storage Co
10 shares !Etnl Standard steel { Iron 60
X = IRWIN. Broke,
doSi No. q Twelfth Stree,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31
SToCEHoLDERS' MEETING.

The annual meeting Of the stockholIe-s Of,
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Cnmpsu,
held at the office OF the COMPANY or N01l,r
January Il, 1886 between the hours Of mi /
O'Clock n m, for the election OF Manage. 10
serve during the ensuing year.
JOS LAWSON, Scrfcr.r.
WHEELING, W Va. December u. 1874 De-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31
NEW ApvERrIsEMENrs

ITO LET-THE DIN ELLING M a
Il Fourteenth street For Terms call A. $50 y
Fourteenth street lde2al MRS N = nom
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31

"ANTED-AN INTELLIGENT
w middle RGed lady. one hAylr. ~ a.
edge Of hygiene or some eXpcrlrnCr a, arc.
preferred. SO per month. with increase -
factory. For personal interview aIia,,
GRAY" by letter, intCiligCncer OHrr g.,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31

EoR SALE-ONE lO.lNCH lrg
IL pillow. Is good as new; one snow pow. 40,
lot OF ice SAWL Onc lot OF poles AMI b i, Ia.
cutre Of CHAS SEtBERr. Pleasant Va ., ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-31

UvASrED-HOUSE OF FIVE IA
w SIX rooms. well located either N d.
on Island. Must have both gases hoi .s.l r.. 4
water. bath room and wafer closet. pu,,r,,
now or on April L Address M, p CT. Ia.
telllgenccr ottice- u.9s
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
The Inheritance Tax.

II the proposed scheme of taxation
is carried out by the House it will
probably prove boon at least to
holders Of real estate. In levying the
tax on inheritances, which seems to
have been pretty we'll decided upon, il
is stated that this will apply only to
personal property. If this is true
there will be a considerable movement
on the part of good many who have
funds invested in stocks and bonds
which they had intended to leave to
their children to convert into real
estate holdings to escape the burden
OF the new tax. There is no doubt
that all possible effort will be made to
evade this tax, just as there is to get
the bet er of every other law levying
on personal property. If the distinc-
ton is drawn in this case, so that lots
and houses and farms may descend
from man to his heirs without pay
ing tribute while cash and securities
must be mulcted by the tax gathercr
there will be quite a scamper among
people OF wealth to get at least q por.
ton OF the resources into shape to be
transmitted without paying lis portion
to the State. As real estate is the
only form of property that will an.
swer this description the demand for
it would increase. Lana would be
more desirable holding than ever
when We have an inheritance tax OF
the variety proposed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
WITH THE SCIENTISTS.

A silk worms thread is one-thOu
sandth part of an inch thick.
To be perfectly proportioned man
should weigh twenty-eight pounds
for every foot of his height.
If a well could be dug to depth ol
forty-six miles the air at the bottom
would be as dense as quicksilver.
The average speed OF the transmits,
sion of earthquake shocks is nearly
sixteen thousand feet per second.
The idea of an ancient tropical con,
tinent at the south pole uniting South
America, Madagascar and Australia
is arousing considerable interest and
discussion in scientific circles.
After two years trial with pine, oak
and greenheart in the Suez canal
works, it has been found that while
pine and oak are destroyed by the
borer worm. the greenheart, which
comes from British Guiana, was un-
harmed.
The latest intelligence concerning
DR.. Nansen's Arctic expedition is to
the effect that he has made satisfac-
tory progress. Norwegian whalers re-
port meeting him in the Kara sea and
off Nova Gambia in August and fur
ther state that the water was singu-
larly free from ice,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

There is one country in Europe at
any rate where the Salvation Army
has been unable to secure foothold-
namely Russia, and so anxious are the
Muscovite authorities to keep it out
that they object to any one bearing
the name of Booth entering the do
minion OF the Gear. An illustration
is furnished by the letter which we'll
known English timber merchant has
addressed to the London Times. 1t
seems that on reaching the Russian
frontier at Eydtkuhnen he was in
formed that notwithstanding the pass
port that he had been furnished by
the English foreign office, duly vised
by the Russian ambassador in London,
he could not be allowed to enter the
land of the Gear, instructions to that
effect having been received from st.
Petersburg. He thereupon proceeded
to other frontier towns, but the same
impossible barrier blocked his path.
II was not until his return that the
reason for this attitude on the part Of
the Russian authorities was explained.
1t seems the name of the merchant
was Booth, and it had been assumed
that he was either relative or q dis.
ciple of the General"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
A Hard Tunes Paper.
Wolla Walla gfafaamau

A novel publication comes to hand
from San Francisco. 1t is called
Hard Times and is published daily in
the iu terests of the laboring classes
It is truly a "hsrd times" paper in
every sense of the word, both in paper
type and make; but bristles with line
editorials and fair quota of adver
tisements. The paper upon which il
is printed is what is usually known
as "brown butchers paper" and the
type used looks as if it had been Sc
lected from the "hell box" of some
defunct country journal of pioneer
days in the Golden State. However
the idea is appropriate aud the paper
may serve the purpose for which il
was started. In an editorial an
nouncement the editor says: "The
paper, while laying no claim to liter
ary excellence, is both odd in appear
ance and general character, and fit
tingly represents the condition OF the
times, not alone in California, but the
whole world"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
Standing Room for Statesmen.
Boston Globe.


News to many people is the state
ment of Justin Mccarthy in the North
american, that with 670 regularly
elected and sworn members, the House
OF Commons has seats for but little
more than half OF that number.
When all the commons are called out,
then, about half must lounge around
the tearoom, newsroom, smoking-room
or library, or crowd around either bar of
the house until called On for business
of an important division.
1t cannot be altogether agreeable to
be sent to parliament to find that
much of the time there is standing
room only. But then there are doubt
less good many members who find it
fully as pleasant to loaf as to legislate.
There is, after all, some advantage in
q legislature having twice as many
members as seats. The men who care
enough about legislation to be on hand
early and secure seats are apt to be
earnest workers. Those who prefer
lounging to legislating are just as we'll
without seats as with them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

ages, evidently the book had remained
unmolested many years. There was
the document just as described, but
now faded and yellow. The secret OF
the confession never became known
to the world. The good bishop regard
ed it as a confidence from the spiritual
world and always ended the story with
the assurance that the priestly specter
was never again seen. 1t Il fact, how
ever, that about the time of this ex-
traordinary occurrence the magnifi-
cent estate in question passed into
possession Of a remote member OF the
family, who until then had lived in
obscurity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
Destroying Coin Dies.
Chicago Herald


In accordance with the revised
statutes, the 1873 dies used in the coin
age at the mint last year were de-
stroyed at the Philadelphia mint on
the morning of January 2, under the
supervision Of Coiner Steel, in the
presence of Superintendent Bosbyshell
and Assayer Eckfeldt. The dies de.
stroyed were as follows: Double eagles
l3, eagles 81, half eagles %. quarter
eagles 6, silver dollars II, half dollars
q, quarter dollars 6S, souvenir quar-
ters 4, dimes As, nickels 143 and cents
80. This destruction of mint dies
occurs on January of every year, and
ii one happens to get a coin now
dated 1903 he will know that it is q
holdover coin and not a new one.
New coins will bear the date of this
year.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
To Annoy Napoleon.

A curious anecdote, of which we
may say, 81 non vero ben trovato,
is illustrative of the disposition of
Talleyrand. 1t was resolved that
each OF the allied powers should desig-
nate commissioner charged with the
surveillance of Napoleon at st. Helena.
Talleyrand proposed to the king for
this Office NJ. de Montchenu, described
as "an insupportable babbler. a com.
plete nonentity." On being asked
why he had selected this man, Talley-
rand replied: at is the only revenge
which wish to take for his treatment
of me. However, it is terrible. What
q punishment for man of Bonaparte's 3
stamp, to be obliged to live with an
ignorant and pedantic chatterer! l
know him. He will not be able to
support this annoyance. 1t will make
make him i'll, and he will die of it by
slow degrees"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
MANY TIMES MARRIED.
A Man With Seven Wives Wanted
Seal Skins for All.
Chicago Post.


IL was once in q big store in Salt
Lake City," remarked a woman who
has travelled across the continent not
less than twelve times, "when Q man
came in and asked the proprietor for
seven sealskin sacques.
"What style of sacques," inquired
the proprietor very properly.
al don't care what style retorted
the purchaser, with some savageness,
just so they are all exactly alike.
There mustn't be one inch more seal.
skin in one than the other, and
mustn't be a hairs breadth difference
in their length, width or quality, OF
my seven wives will make it hot 70,
me at home. Understand, don't
care about the fit or anything else
You send up seven seal skin sacques
that are exactly alike-that's the
main point
From which," concluded the wo.
man, it would seem that polygamy
was not the bed of roses that the
Mormons would have us believe"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
DIED AS A TRAMP.
Hut Ile Wrote n Hymn which Made
Him Famous Years Ago.

A minister who will be remembered
by old residents in this country, says II
Kansas paper, died recently as tramp
in the Jail in Cotfeyville, Kansas. He
had arrived on freight train from
Texas and put up at the Jail, dying
four days later. Before his death he
told the jailer his name was Edward
Dunbar and that he was the author OF
the beautiful hymn. "There's a Light
in the Window for Me-"
The history of this man was as in
teresting as romantic. He lived when
small boy in New Bedford, Mass.
and worked in factory. AS the lads
work kept him till after dark his
mother always placed a light in the
window to guide him home. Soon he
went TO sea for three years cruise
and before he came back his mother
died, but she never failed I'd have a
light placed in the window every night
for her wandering boy.
The boy had grown to manhood be-
fore he returned, but the story of his
mothers love so moved him that he
reformed and became preacher, writ
ing as the resnlt Of his own experience
the song that soon made him famous.
In the course of a great revival led
by him in New Bedford he married a
young lady by whom he had several
children. He made great reputation
as pulpit orator, but one Sunday
morning he skipped, leaving his family
behind.
After going to Kansas he went to
Minneapolis and led big revival, dur
ing which he married one of his con-
verts. Soon after his arrest was caused
by some of her friends and he was i'm
prisoned for bigamy in 1867. Judge
Lochren, the present Commissioner of
Pensions, defended Dunbar.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

The fact that the $5O,0OO,OO0 OF
bonds which Secretary Carlisle pro-
poses to issue will all be taken in this
country is an encouraging indication
OF financial prosperity. 1t shows that
the United States government does
not have to 60 abroad to borrow
money; it shows that the credit of the
government is today stronger than it
ever was before. A year or so ago the
secretary OF the treasury of a Republi-
can administration was skirmishing
over Europe, trying TO arrange loan
for his government. Today the secre-
tary of the treasury of Democratic
administration does not have to go be-
yond the borders of his own country
to get all the money he wants.
Another good feature of the loan is
that it will strengthen the gold re-
serve, first broken into by a Republi-
can secretary of tho treasury, and fill
up the deficit which has resulted from
the legislation OF Republican con-
gress. This leaves the present demo-
cratic majority in congress entirely
free to proceed on the lines of fnan-
cial and economic legislation marked
out in the national platform and re-
lieves the Democracy OF all necessity
for following any dangerous and mis-
chievous Republican precedents.
Lastly, the sale OF the bonds will set
idle money to good use. 1t need not
be feared that it will cause any cur
rency contraction, because the money
that goes to pay for those bonds is
boarded money. In the true sense of
the term, it is not currency at all, be.
cause it is not current. If paid
over to the government, most of it
will get back again into the pockets of
the people.
The bond issue, the increase OF the
national debt, is VI course an unfor-
tunate financial necessity, but it has
its bright side, and before this admin.
istration is over the national debt will
be reduced again, as it was so signally
reduced during Cleveland's first ad-
ministration. This $50, ,00O, 900 will be
more than wiped out, and we shall
have again the handsome surplus with
which Cleveland left the treasury, in
stead of the ugly deficit with which
Harrison left it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
A Goat Eats q Trolley Wire.

The trolley of an East End electric
car got tangled in one of the cross.
covers and tore town live wire, which
squirmed about on the asphalt, kissing
like a snake, and causing the specta.
tors to flee in terror. At last the wire
came to rest, and attention was di'
verted from it momentarily, but called
back again when a newsboy cried out
Gosh, look at the dead billy goat
He's swallowed the wirew
And, sure enough, he had. While
the vulgar mob had ignored the wrig
Cling wire, the gentle goat, wandering
out of the alley behind the college
building, where boy had tied him
with rope, caught sight of the wire
and thought to eat few feet of it te
settle the springy rope meal. He had
gotten about two feet swallowed wher
the current pulsated through it agair
and Billy fell dead.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
And Now 1t Ii Said That Grip IL II,
E0Ferunner.
Philadelphia Times.

Evangelist Davenport preached at
st. Georges hall last evening on "The
Worlds Present Crisis" The present
disturbed condition of things, he said,
is a warning from God that he will
soon send His son, Jesus Christ, to
earth to reign as king. The setting OF
. special time for the coming of Christ
he denounced as sin. The Christian
churches, he said, ought to be prepar-
ing for the Lords coming. and God is
grieved because they are not doing so.
Hence the troubles which are now
causing so much misery in the world
The grip, Mr.. Davenport said, is a
warning from God, as is also the univer-
versal monetary and commercial panic,
and the fear of anarchy and socialism.
About 60 years ago, the evangelist
said, the Lord chose IL men, whom he
supernaturally called and made apos-
ties like the first II. to warn the
church and to prepare by apostolic
teaching and prayer all who are to es'
cape the tribulation which will precede
Christ's coming.
The church has not yet accepted
them, but many individuals have, and
these have been formed into churches
which are waiting patiently for the
Lords coming, and the members Of
which will escape the present tribula-
ton. Evangelist Davenport said tina.
he is not one of the II apostles, but
an evangelist sent by them to give the
warning and to tell the ministers and
people of Philadelphia that if they
will they may have all the apostolic
blessings and wisdom which the first
Christians enjoyed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
WHOLE NUMBER 1880.
STATE NEWS.

A $4,000 bridge is to be built at La
tab.
Mr.. Mister lives at Oso, Snohomisl
county.
Wild geese are flying north over tn,
Sound.
So far 81 Chinese have registered
at Seattle.
The Sprague postoffice has opened
up in new quarters.
A colony of 20 Illinois families i.
coming to Sprague.
st. Patr!ck's day will be elaborated,
celebrated at Tacoma.
Rising water has stopped operations
Tor the Latah elevator.
The First National Bank OF Centralis
is going into liquidation.
Spokane's 2O6 employees drew down
$1O,SS9 for January salaries.
A crazy quilt of 1000 pieces is ready
ut Oso for the interstate fair.
Boundary City will have news.
paper in three or four weeks.
Coal prospecting is going on ex.
tensively about Port Angeles.
Grandpa Babcock, a pioneer of 1855
died at Waitsburg, 80 years old.
Something like 25O,OOO bushels OF
wheat is yet stored at Davenport.
Snow has shut Lake Cushman in
for three weeks without any mail.
Snohomish county has bought a
cemetery in which to bury its poor. =,
An expert carpet-layer at Sprague
out OF work, has gone to backing boots
Banker Hart's wife is in Baltimore
and doing all she can to secure his
freedom.
The old Theater Comique at Ia.
coma has been converted into house
of worship.
Counterfeiter Learnsbury is held to
await the action of the Whatcom
grand jury.
Emma Alfstad, of Spokane is under
$500 bonds for setting fire to hel
millinery store.
Ground has been broken at Sultan
City for the first shingle mill in the
Skykomlsn valley.
The bridges over the StillAguamist
At Hildebrand and Haller City will be
finished this week.
Somebody las been writing Il
Richard Roe at Collar, and of cours.
the letter is advertised.
Rev. H. w. Egan has solemnizet
422 marriages in Walla Walla since hi
came there q years ago.
Another ] 500 kegs of nails have left
Townsend for the Midwinter fair and
1900 more will be ready next week.
Frank Hartley Jones, an attorne,
and newspaper man OF Seattle, acci
dentally shot himself with BULLDOG
pistol last Friday.
The Oregon improvement Company
left $1,000 in gold with the Jefferson
county treasurer, taxes on the Por
Townsend Southern.
George Goodhue, president ant
manager of the Kootenai Hydraulic
Mining Company, writes from Buffalo
N. Y, that the company will put on ,
force of 200 men in the spring.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
Why the Hair Whitens.

l give the following, the authority
being limbs Doctors and Patients: :"
Chemists have discovered that hair
contains an oil, nucleous substance,
iron, oxide of magnesia, phosphate and
carbonate of iron, flint and . large
proportion Of sulphur. White hair
contains also phosphate of magnesia,
and its oil is nearly colorless. When
hair suddenly becomes white from
terror, it is probably owing to the sui
phur absorbing the oil, as in the oper-
alton OF whitening clothes"
The above is probably good expla'
nation, but why does such chemical
change take place simply because the
mind is parslyzed with frightf
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

WANTED. 'sprs:s...,,'s IF for s,ss,r our
est book ever offered to the public.
A Christmas Present for both old and
young.
Our coupon system. which we use in
selling this great worl;, enables each pur'
chaser to get the book FREE, SO every
one purchases.
For his first weeks work one agents
profit is $I68O0. Another $l36. A lady
has just cleared Sl20 for her first week.
work.
Write for particulars. and if you can be-
gin at once send Sl0O for outfit. We give
You exclusive territory. and nay large
commissions on the sales Of sub-agents.
Write at once for the agency for your
county.
Address all communications to
RAND, McNALLY & co.,
Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
A Preference.

He was selling her dry goods.
Is was evident that her naughty,
distant manner cut him to the quick.
Excuse me, MISS" he said, as he
stopped her in the middle Of measure.
ment of cloth, h,"but aren't you the
young lady who promised to be sis.
ter to me at Cape May?"
at may be that l am" she an.
swered freezingly.
al wish you would take back that
promise"
"Why"
because I'd rather be a total
stranger than poor relation"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
Sweets of Solitude.

Sheep and geese become restless
when separated from the flock: the
eagle and lion seek isolation. From
quiet and solitude spring the greatest
thoughts, inventions and formation.
Our most valuable acquisition in the
time OF our development through ma
ture, art and circumstance is the fruit
OF hours spent in quietude, desirable
for our growing youth and absolutely
essential for our future philosopher
poet and artist.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

dust begins to smolder. Next piece
o! dried touchwood is applied and
blown up until it glows. In this
way, and with perfectly dried wood,
native will produce fire in something
less than Il minute. But the art is
not easily learned, and a European
who lived on the island for some time
says that although he had tried until
his shoulder ached he was never able
to produce more than smn kr
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
Powder and Bail.

The total number OF men in the
worlds navies is 237 600.
In less than 800 years Great Britain
alone has spent al 1853, ,OOO, 600 in war
The Spanish army costs l42,OOO,OOO
pesetas year. Twenty-Five pesetss
equal $5.
The estimated cost OF both sides OF
the great civil war in this country
was Sc, 800, 100000.
The army and navy OF the Argen'
tine Confederation are kept up at an
annual cost Of $l3, 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09

A FROG cannot breathe with its
mouth open. Its breathing apparatus
is so arranged that when its mouth
is open its nostrils are closed. Ts
suffocate frog, it is necessary only to
prop it's jaws so that they cannot shut.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
How the Islanders Obtain Fire


They select stake of dry, soft wood
about as thick as a mans wrist. From
this they slice off few chips in one
place, so as to make fiat surface for
rubbing. The stake is then placed on
the ground in front of the operator
who sits at one end of it and holds i,
firmly between his toes. He then
takes a piece OF hard wood, shaped like
a pencil, and holding it with both
hands begins rubbing up and down
the fiat surface of the stake. A groove
is soon formed in the stake and a dark
colored dust, which is pushed to the
end of the groove. By and by this