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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
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An amusing incident recently occurred
at theatrein q neighboriug city, which
illustrated the depreciation Of West Vir'
ginia currency better than the dotectors- =
Accompany Of volunteers from our town,
on their way to tho seat Of war, stopped in
tho city Of P TO be equipped, and
some Of tho boys spent Intervening at The
theatre. The heroine Of tho play is des'
pcrately in love with poor young gentle
man, but her wealthy father iss violently
opposed to tho match. In the last not,
however, the cruel paricnt relents, gives
his consent to the marriage, and presents
his daughter With q large sum Of money,
The scene was highly xcitlug, and the au'
dienco was breathlessly silent, when just
as the old gentleman hands his daughter
the roll Of notes, ono Of the soldiers (wAc
had v which be couldn't pass exclaim-
cd: "Look'co hero. old fellow. 10 that's
Wheeling money It amt worth a cent?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
The Distrikt schoolmaster.

There IL one thing in this basement
world that | always look upon with feel.
ings Of mkt pity and respect,
There IL one man iu this world to whom
| always take Of my hat aud remain un-
covered till be gifts safely by, and that is
the distrikt schoolmaster.
When meet him, look on him as q
marter just returned from the stake; or on
his way to be cooked.
He leads more lonesome and single
life than an old bachelor, and more anx-
ious one than an old made.
He is remembered just about as long
and afTectiouat.oli az gido boord IL by q
travelin pack pedlur.
If he undertakes to make bis scholars
luv him the chances are be will neglect
their lurnin aud if he dunt lick um now
and then pretty often, thcigh will soon lick
him.
The districkt schoolmaster ANT got
friend on the fiat side Nv the globe. The
boys SNOWFALL him during recess, the girls
put water in his hair die, and the school
cummittcp makes him work for half the
money a bartender gifts, and board him
round the naborhood, where they give him
rye coffee sweetencd with molasses to drink
and cod fish bolls three times q day for
yittals.
Don't talk to me about the pashun oI
the aushunt Jobe. Jobc had pretty plenty
ofbilcs all over him, no doubt they were
all Nv one breed,
Every young one in districkt school
| is a bile Nv different breed, and each
young one needs different kind Nv poul
tiss to get good head on him
Every man who has kept distrios'
school for ten years and has boarded around
the naborhood ought to be wager gen,
eral aud have penshun for the rest Of his
natural days, and a boss and wagon to d.
bis goin round in. Josh Billings.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
Mother and Child,

One Of the most touching Of many sov-
rowful incidents OF the recent terrible cat
astrophe is the following from the pen Of
a New York reporter:
One Of the most pitiful scenes in tho
hospital was q handsome young woman,
with beautiful golden hair, the side Of her
head badly cut aud her arms bruised. -
This was Mrs. Mary Mccall, aged twenty
two. thew Of. respectable tradcsman
residing at 5S7 West Thirty. fifth street.
She had gone out for trip to Staten ISL
and With her little daughter Mary, beau
tiful child two years and three months old,
and intended to ride out to Richmond, on
tho steam cars ia Staten Island. She was
blown into the Dir and fell among some
timbers Her child was found by the pol
ice terribly scalded and in the wreck and
ruin ofthe main deck The child lay in
a bed near by; il was fatally burned and
scallcd; the skin was parchcd completely
of the poor little face. and through the
blackcncd lips the child lisped; Nanny,
nanny, won't yon come and kiss little
Mary; she is so sick?' The poor mother
cravled to the bed, and bending down,
her lips met those Of the poor child, and
almost instantly the burnt arm, of the lit
tie sufferer we're raised in the vain cndeav-
or to clasp the mothers neck. The doc
tors hardened by the sight Of constant suf-
fering, wept, aud many a man Of nerve
turned away unstruug by this scene Of
simple pathos
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
How siperians Eat.

We have heard of the enormous appe.
tites Of the natives Of Siberia, writes q
correspondent. We now have ocular de-
monstrations oft. One Of our Tungus'
ians had been sent back on an Grand
The other two sat down to their supper.
First they made away with a gallon Of hot
sea' lneu Iuey procured o ronr quart
pailful Of boiled fish and soup. Just as
this was dispatched their comrade returned
and the same pail was twice filled with
boiled beef, all Of which was devoured by
the three, the bones being cracked for the
marrow. They then rinsed out the pail,
and cooked it full Of "crupa," q kind of
mush, which went the way Of the 6sh and
beef. Then they fell upon "ukale," or
dried salmon, devouring even the skin. af-
ter broilingit over the FIRE. Then they
built their own camp fire, and began to
cook another meal. We did not keep any
account ofthe dishes, but the last thing
we heard after retiring was tho cracking
OF beef bones to get the marrow Swartz
told us that a few months before nun.
Der Of horses had been sent to Alan under
charge ofhalf dozen Cossacks. One Of
the horses broke its leg, and had to be
killed. At evening the six Cossacks sat
down to the carcass, and in tho morning
there was nothing left Of it but the hide
aud bones, Even the head and entrails
bad been eaten. y 01f 300
r HH|HT5 Ir#|.H| '.ts.a.. d
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

An English writer has boon engaged Ia
estimating the amouut,of gold 10 tho world
in bulk He says itcopld melted into q
Iump-be contained in q eeller twenty.
four feet square BY sixteen foot in depth.
Says too, that all the boasted wealth taken
from the gold mines Of California and
Australia could boEmelsod and putinto ~
iron safe nine feet high and nine feet square,
A small lump indeed to cause as much La
Dor audisacriice qs Il has to obtainitl
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
Law VS.. Gospel.

Low 's' Hospo''
The Commissioner Of the General Land
Office received letter to-day from Reg
istrar Of Public Lands, u enclosing o cory
Of testimony taken in contest against q
homestead entry From tho tho evidence VIZ it
appears that a certain Methodist preacher
was stationed BY the Conference at place
some distance from his land ,d and he was
therefore, compelled to re''nquIs'h his ' land
or the ministry for the time beng. Inc
letter Of the Registrar is somewhat 'tn' ,' face
'lous Na. and and unique anu 8f' fe''err'ng % 'n'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

A GaAvE ArpAIn. "A manufacturer Of
tombstoucs lately received q call from .
oountrymau who wanted stone toplaco
over the grave Of bis mother. Aiterlopk-
ing around for some tilno, and making
sundry remarks about tho taste Of his Do,
ceased mother, lla finally pitched upon one
which tho stouc-cutter bad prepared for
another person. Il like this opo," said
lie.g g"Butp saidthe manufacturer, chat
belongs to another man land has Mrs.
Perry's name cut on II, ltwouldn't do for
your mother" :" "Ob, yes-it would" said
the oountrymsu, "sbe couldn't read! And
besiics.D' be continued as be observed tho
wondormept Of tho stonc-cuttor '.Perry
was always afavoriIo onamo Of hers, !any'
howl Il ds3 ba gsls n 4sI
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

They dotell tough stories out in No.
braska Notlon9g sinoe, vo bad from
there the report ofa tornado which blewa
freight train tbirtyafcet from tho railroad
track. And now voaro told to believe
that In a severe storm Wost Of Omaha,
the other day. aquarter Of q milo Of track
was carried bodily over q fenoo four feet
biuh. landing some distance in the prairie,
Porhap, this is alltruo, but il must have
been an uncommouly strong fanoo.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

s'''Wdat are you drawing, Auua9' asked
the clergyman, Use making you, pia.
tuF,@ answered th'e. child. So The gentle.
man satvery still and she worked 5awsy
earnestly fora while. Then she stopped.
compared her work with'tho original, and
shook b0r little head u don't like d
uaoA,' she said, ',saiu'tiagreatdssl like
youe | dsss Illppta Ito it and eall ia
dos.' Fancy bis tssliugs.a
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
Necessary Rules For Sleep. b


There is no fact more clearly establish
ed in the physiology Of man than this,
that the brain expends its energies and its.
elf during the hours Of wakefulness, and
that these are recuperatcd during sleep
If the recuperation does not equal the ex-
penditure, the brain withers--,his is in
sanity. alpus it is that in early English
history, persons who we're condemned to
death BY being prevented from sleeping,
always died raving maniacs, and those who
are starved to death become insane; the
brain is not nourished. and they cannot
sleep The practical inferences are three:
LIST. Those who think most. who do the
mot brain work, require the most sleep.
I'd. The timo saved from necessary
sleep is iufallibly destructive to mird, body
and estate. Sd. Give yourself, your chill
dren. your servants, give all that arc un-
der you. the fullest amount Of sleep they
will take, by compelling them to 60 to bed
at some regular. early hour, and to rise in
the morning the moment they wake; and
within fortnight, Nature, with almost
the regularity Of therising sun, will uu-
loose the bonds Of sleep the moment en-
ough repose has been secured for the wants
Of the system. This is tho only safe and
efficient rule. H ol. ISL .,a
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
III o T Il ES.
SELBE HOUSE.
o. PvIyr pleasant, WEsr Va.

JOHN R. SELBE, Proprietor.
THIS House has recently been renovated, and
L newly painted aud papercd, and furnish
ed with new furniture. 1t is within easy access
Of the steamboat landing, and being situated
in the business part of the town, affords every
convenience TO sojcurnes. slabling and the
best attention to horses furnished The pat.
ronage Of The travelling public and of the cit
zens is respectfully solicited. Charges mod.
crate March 9.ly
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
Babies in Turkey.

A Mrs, Harvey, who has been travel
ing in Turkey and visiting harcms, gives
the following account Of the manner in
which newborn babes arc there treated:
Soon after their birth they are rubbed
down with saltand tightly swaddled 10 the
Italian fashion. Tho pressure ofthesa
bandagcs Is often so great thatlths circu.
hiion becomes impoded, aud incisious and
sacri6casiops are then made on the hands,
feet, aud spiao TO lot out what the Turkish
doctors and'nusos call "the bad blood -
Tho unhappy little orcaturc Is only occa-
sionally released fromits bonds, and never
hotouehlywashcd until tho sacred month
Of thirty days has expired, when il istak-
en- with its mother to the bath, No won
der that the sickly audailing sink under
suoh treatment, and that tho mortality
amongst infants should be frightful, I'd
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

80 Z 81 = O. 3
Din SUE Lovs. -"Martha, dost thou
me- asked q Quaker youth Of ono Of whose
shrine bis fondcst hearts feeling had been
offered up. "Why, Seth, wo arc COM
maudod to loyo one another a'e We notH'
she answered. "Ah Martha! but dost 70,
gard mo with that feeling which The world
calls lovcl' II hardly know what to toll
thee Seth. I have tried to hossow my lovq
upon al; but Isomotimes think that po'.
haps thou art getting moro than shy
share. aia eF siia 8ali9ss asi'.3
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

Tue Result The majority in this
State foots up something over 5000 for
the Convention. GsA
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
One Drop Of Evil.

| don't see why you won't lot mo play
with Will Hunt poutod Walter Kirk
II know ho does not always mind hiS moth.
or, and smokas cigars, and oncoin 4 While
svears sjust little, But | have beou
brought up better than that, he won't hurt
me, l should think you would trust no,
| mightdohim somo good,
Waller" sud his mother, "tako thia
glass ofpuro, clear water, aud put just ono
drop Of lux intoit'
20, mother! who would have thought
ono drop would hlapken . whole glass
sop'
.',Yas; it has changed tho color Of the
whole, has it not? Itisa shame to do that,
Just put drop Of clear wster init, and
restorei i,s purity" said Mrs. Kirk,
"Why, mothcr' you arc laughing atma,
One drop, no nor 4 dozen, nor day, wop'tda
that 9'aigia0 Fl ios asi g7s
"No, my sou, aud therefore | can not
allow ono drop Of Will Hunts evil nature
to mingle with your careful training, many
drops Of which will make no impression On
him. Young Reaper, ea llb8la
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

If a seaman should turn back every time
he ecounters o head wind, he would never
make voyage. So with the person who
permits himself to be bafflcd by adverse
circumstances will never make headway in
tbc voyage Of life. ;a5T II,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
First, Step to Ruin.

~
my first step to ruin!" exclaimed a
wretched youth, as he lay tossing from
side to side on The straw bed in one corner
Of his prison house; my first step to ruin
was going fishing on the Sabbath. !
knew it was wrong my mother taught
me better; my master taught me better |
didn'tbelieve them, but I didn't think il
would come to this l am undone. |
am lost" IS at''ustNe.' + N 'il'i
Perhaps ho said; P'Itis not pleasant to
DO cooped up in q church What harm
Is there in carrying my fishing tackle, and
sitting on the pond to ashg Whatharm?'
Why, the harm is, that God'is disobeycd,
who says, "Remcmber the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy" The moment q youth
determines to have bis own way, choosing
bis own pleasure before Gods will, that
moment he lets 60 bis rudder, ,hiscoupass,
bis chart. Nothing but Gods word can
guide you 'afoiy over tho ocean Of life,
Give that up, aud you will 1get bowildcred;
you are drifting, you viii bo lost. I,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14
KLHN II HOUSE.

(near the Steamboat Landiag,}
POINT PLEASANT, VEST VIRGINIA
A,P. DEEM, Proprietor.
THIS well known house having been thor
( | oughly repaired and refurnished through
ont, is now open for the accommodation of the
travelling public.
LIVERY STABLE.
.r> There is connected with this House
H1A. a frst.class livery and feed stable,
which is we'll supplied with buggies and hor.
ses, q
COAL! COAL!! COAL!!!
The undersigned, having opened Coal
Yard in Point Pleasant, is now prepared 10
deliver coal in large Or small quantities to all
desiring it.
uJParticular attention paid to orders up the
Kanawha or down the Ohio rivers. sg y
Office at the Kline House. H.
aug, 26-ly. A.P, DEEM
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-09-14

. ra|.
Gen. Grant has been President nov for
two years and half. Within that period
there has been collected in taxes not less
than l,0OO,OO0,OOO. In addition ha has
had $lOO, 100000 more from tho sale Of
government property, making $l,lOO,-
900, 900 in all. II is claimed by the
friends Of the President that he has paid
of 5000, 100000 Of the public debt
Granting TINT, what has become Of the
$9OO,0OO,0OO Can any ono tell? Will
some one onlishtcn US as to the remaining
5000, ,OOO,O 900 l...i
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
Studies of Faces.

1t is very trite remark (says the Sat
urday Re0ieW) that while one observer
notes the form Of face, twenty perhaps
will note its expression. A twitching of
the mouth or eye, or any other peculiari-
ty OF facial movement, is sure to strike
attention, although the form of the fore
head and chin entirely escapes observa-
ton. And this greater attention to ex-
pressional or other movement is always
the more observable in proportion as
the face is familiar. Every reader may
easily persuade himself of this by think
ing of some intimate acquaintance, of
whose face perhaps he remembers only
some singular movement of the eyes or
mouth. He cannot very probably recall
the image of the whole face but his idea
consists of distinctly marked move
ment of some feature on dim back
ground representing nothing but very
general type of facial outline. The fact
appears to be that though we may be
struck by the contour of head or the
disposition of the features at first i'm
preston, familiarity very soon renders
us Indifferent. Philosophers tell us that
change of impression is universal con-
dition of consciousness. And it is prob
able that familiar face, so far as it does
not undergo ohange-tbat is to say, in
its general outline, and the form Of the
less mobile features, tends to impress the
consciousness with less and less distinct
ness. Being frequently recurrent and
unvarying impressions, they come, like
the perpetual din of neighboring forge
to be scarcely noticed. On the other
hand, popularity of facial movement
does not partake of this dead uniformity
of character. 1t recurs but compare
lively seldom, and impresses us always
with some degree ofintensity as cham ge
from the accustomed position of the fea-
lures.
A curious Importance is given to this
subject of facial knowledge by its legal
bearings. When a question of life or
property is found to depend inter ala on
peoples power of identifying acquaint-
ances, the right apprehension of what
such power actually amounts to is a
very desirable attainment. If every
body could be brought to study pecuii-
arities OF face as an object in itself, there
would certainly be great simplifca-
ton of one difficult problem in legal evil
dence. Possibly at some future day We
shall hear of an educational reformer ad-
vocating for our elementary schools some
amount of practical knowledge of form
such as can only be obtained by drawing
from natural objects. And certainly if
this resulted in nothing else than a
higher average of intelligence about the
subject of faces, it would be of scarcely
inferior utility to an acquaintance with
the elements of music. But, howev er
this may be, the difficulties in the way
OF general accurate knowledge of the
human countenance in its individual di-
versities do not seem capable of easy re-
moyal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
The Metric System.

The London Spectator of July 30 says
Wednesday was taken up in the Com
mons with great discussion on a bill
which proposed the revolutionary step
OF making the French metric system
compulsory on England, proposal
which, though the Government resisted
it, was only negatived by majority of
o (S2 to ~. The discussion showed
clearly enough the real need for uni
formly decimal system of weights and
measures in England; but it also showed
great reason to doubt what the units of
that system ought to be, whether those
taken by the French or some of those
now in use in England. Sir John Her
schel preferred the English foot to the
French metre, and the English ounce to
the French gramme but as no practical
statesman has yet proposed to take our
foot and ounce as the basis of an English
decimal system of lengths, weights, and
(solid) measures-with the pound, or
measures OF value, this has been pro-
posed and steps taken toward effecting
1.-THE authority of Sir John Herschel is
used at present only to deter from the
French system rather than to help the
solution of the difficulty. 1t may be
that we shall come in the end to the me-
trio system, and translate our old pro-
verbs from "Give an inch and take an
ell" can ounce of sense is better than
a pound of learning" into "Give mil
limetere and take a centimetre," OF, "a
gramme OF sense is better than pound
OF learning" But in the meantime
much has to be learned and good deal
forgotten.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
Cyclical Changes.

There is story afioat that Russia and
Sweden are both after the Island of
Spitzbergen for future summer garden
the fertility to be occasioned by
changes in the Gulf Stream. But this
comfortable prospect of grapes at the
North Pole is defeated by the established
fact that the Northern hemisphere is
cooling, and that the Southern is ac-
cumulating heat. The Arctic ice is
steadily encroaching ON the yet unfrozen
portions OF Europe, Asia, and America.
In the thirteenth century the vine
fruited in England freely where now it
will hardly put forth leaves. If these
things are so, Russia and Sweden need
not go to war about future vegetable
garden in Spitzbergen. Besides we
are to have another deluge. Deluges, it
is now discovered, come once in about
10000 years. Hence it is about $500
years to the next food when the ocean
will take possession of its former bed in
the Northern Hemisphere. All those
measureless waters south of the Equator
are to be poured over Europe and Amer
lea, new continents are to rise in the
south, and Australia is to be the future
great country of the world. Such is the
prediction of Adhemar, which is now
taken up and discoursed upon in re-
cent scientific publication. In view
therefore of the statement that sixty
three centuries are to finish us up, it is
full time that we began to prepare for
the bitter and inevitable end.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
An Old Burglar.

According to the Hartford Times, Will
son, the murderer, who is to be hanged
on the 18th OF October next, is the wick
eldest man in Connecticut. He has writ
ten book of 100 pages entitled "Thir-
ty-three Years in the Life of Crack"
He says he has broken out of nine State
prisons, and that he has committed a
very large number of burglaries, two or
three hundred we believe. The first of
his burglaries was committed in Phila-
delphia, when he was 10 years old, in
company with an experienced cracks
man. They We're to go halves in the
plunder. Entering jewelry shop they
took watches and jewelry on which they
realized 81 900, and his half ($3, ,5OO) gave
him capital to start with. Since then
he has tried his hand on banks, safes,
jewelry and silk stores, in many places.
He proposes to continue the narrative
and expose certain receiving shops in
New York and other places, which are
kept by men who "carry their heads
high in society" Wilson seems to be
quite confident he can take his own life
at any time. But how he is to do it is
puzzle to those whose eyes are upon him
at all times. Blood-letting, deadly poi
son, choking-all these, it is believed,
can be prevented. But still Wilson is
confident that he holds the pulsations of
his own life in the palm of his hand, and
has only to close his fingers to stop the
beating of hardened heart. He ignores
religious counsel, and is as much a bur-
glar to-day, defying the laws of God and
man, as he has been all through his ca
reer of crime for SO years.