The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-05
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

1t 10 announced that the Turkish
minister OF public works has decided to
reconstruct tho aqueduct which sup.
piled Jerusalem with water in the time
OF King Solomon.
There ia n movement in North Adams,
Mass, to make the town q city. With
a population Of $1,000 1t claims to DO
the largest town in America. with the
exception OF " atervliet. N. y.
The Brewers Journal states that
English syndicates have sol 900, 900 in.
vested in American breweries, tho divi.
dend on which, A. 0 per cont last year,
was $4,000 and was paid in gold.
Searchlights are such good targets for
the enemy's guns that the Germans are
arranging to throw the light first on a
mirror aud thence on the enemy, there.
by concealins its real source.
Two men in Mississippi md fight in
a room. Oae throw tho other out OF a
window and. thinking he Ind killed
him, jumped himself. They fell dis.
tance OF thirty ieot and neither was
hurt.
Switzerland is about to establish a
state bank at Berne which will have tho
exclusive right to issue bank notes. The
capital is fixed at $1,000, 900 francs, the
Swiss confederation making itself re.
sponsible for liabilities.
The city Of Buenos Ayres ha, the
largest street car system. In proportion
to its population, OF any city in tho
world. Tho total number OF passengers
carried last year was Il ,346.56i. while
the monthly average was 1865
1t ia common belief among women
that the moth will not attack any green
material, and many OF them make it a
point to buy stuils OF green dye when
ever the color is no. compatible with
the purpose for which the material is
intended. Green dyes often contain
arsenic. and that may account ior tho
antipathy OF the moth TO the color.
American chooses used to be sent
abroad by the thousand pounds twenty
years ago and returned by tho same
steamship line properly labeled "a Eng.
fish. 1t is perfectly well known that
most OF tho popular foreign chooses arc
moro or less successfully counterfcited
in this country and it would be inter.
esting to know what proportion OF tho
large expectations OF American cheeses
return aa foreign.
The Confederate silver half.dollar is
reckoned rs ono OF the rarest OF Amcri.
can coins. Only four such coins were
struck. The Confederate silver half.
dollar bears the date OF 1861. and was
struck Mt the mint OF New Orleans BY
the federal troops. 1t has tho GOODIES.
OF liberty on one side and a stalk OF
cane. one Of Cotton, and the stars and
bars OF the Confoderacy in cont OF
arms on the other side.
Several dnya ago William Banks, col.
ored. was convicted in the circuit court
at Mar,inburG OF stealing waste from
the boxes OF cars standing on tho tracks
OF tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Sat.
urday Judge L. Boyd Faulkner sen.
fenced him to tho penitentiary for liio
Tho prisoner has been before tho court
threo tlmcs and to tho pen,cntiary
twice prior to this conviction, and under
tho laws OF West Virginia tho third
conviction is necessarily life imprison.
mont. This ia the first life sentence
ever passed in tho berkeley circuit
court. A petition will probably DO pre-.
sontcd to tho governor Tor tho unior.
tunate mans pardon.