The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-11
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS


The Winchester Qnd.) Democrat says,
Dumps Haggard has eleven children
and nine cases OF measles in the fam
lily"
The "Bab Ballads" are to be issued in
new edition, with editions from Mr.
GiIbert's opera Iibrettos and more illus
trdtions,
Janet Carlyle, who is now living In
Toronto, is the only surviving member
OF the immediate family OF her brother.
Thomas Carlyle. the famous philoso-
pher.
Baron William Rothschild has all his
food prepared according to the strictest
Jewish laws, and takes his own cook
and cooking utensils with him wherever
he goes.
Ex-Queen Natalie Of servia lost dia-
mond ring at BiarritS, and vowed that
If it was found she would give it to the
Little Sisters of the Poor, The ring,
worth $1,000, was found. and Natalie is
selling 1t by lottery.
An ex-sheriff Of Michigan Is at pres
ent using as an ordinary carriage a IA
nous chaise owned by Governor Co.'s in
territorial days. The chaise is said to
be as strong as 1t was seventy-flve
years ago, and able to stand fifty years
more OF use.
Charles Swain, hermit, who was
once worth $4,000, died in his hovel near
Wllliamsport, Pa, on Sunday. He was
aged 81 years. During the Clay presi-
dental campaign, when Swain was one
of the foremost boatmen of the Lehigh
canal, he wagered all his boats and
mules, to the value Of $4,000, on Clay,
and OF course lost.
Representative Harvey Horner of
Sumner county. Kansas, is snake
tanner, and usually carries around with
him In his pocket live bull snake, with
which he makes lots Of fun. A pick
pocket touched" Horner at the circus
at Wichita on Monday, and happened to
get his hand into the pocket where the
snake was kept. The shock made him
scream, and Horner held him until the
police arrived.
Readers of Henri Rochefort's me-
molrs will remember his account OF his
marriage with his first wife, when the
latter, who had long held n less formal
relationship, was on her death bed, His
second wife secured q divorce: and
word now comes from Paris that the
journalist of the barricades is to be
married for the third time. The pros
pective Marquise de Rochefort-Lucay
is q young woman, whose name, Mar
guerite vallois, brings up historical as
sociations.
In the work house of Holden, in the
canton of Appenzell. Henry Dunnant,
the founder OF the International Red
Cross society, is passing the closing
hours of his life. His mind islmpaired so
that II is doubtful whether he will ever
know that 1t was to him that the inter-
national medical congress, held at Mos
COW few weeks ago unanimously
awarded Its prize as to "the man who
has done the greatest service to human
lty and medicine in the present age. "
Some years ago an announcement OF
Dunnants destitute condition aroused
universal surprise, which was only set
ut rest when a statement was published
to the effect that the Dowager Empress
OF Russia had settled upon him an an
nunlty sufficiently large to enable him
to end his days In comfort and peace.
Unfortunately, these good intentions
of the czarina do not appear to have
materialIzed, or else the money which
she Intended for the founder of the Red
Cross has been diverted and misappro-
priated by those intrusted with Its
transmission.