The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-03-15

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"DsAn Sln:-I arrived here this morn.
iug-founl tho dam by the mill site, but
no mill by dam SITE"
A gentleman coming to an inn 10 Ohio,
and seeing the hostler expert and tract.
able about the horses, asked how long he
had lived there, and what countrymau he
Was.
I'm yankee" said tho fellow, "nnl
have lived sixteen years here"
II WONDER replied the gentleman,
that in 50 long time, so clever q fellow
as you seem to DO. have not come to be
master of tue inn yourself"
"Ayc," answered tho hostler. 'but the
landlord is a yankee, too"
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A little newsboy attempting to jump
from street car 10 New York, the other
day, fell under the car and was fearfully
manglcd.
As soon as he could speak BIO called pitc.
ously for bis mother, and u messenger was
sent to bring her to him. Ga her arrival
she hung over tho dying boy in an agony
ofgrief. "NIother" be whispered, with q
painful effort. II sold four newspapers
and the-!he -the--money is in my
pocket" With the hand Of death upon
his brow, the last thought of the suffering
child was for tn, poor, hard working moth.
or, whose burdens be was striving to light.
en- when be lost lis life.
A ScuLpToHs YouTn. john Rogers
the sculptor, whose brown statuetts have
made him 50 famous, is q native of Mass.
achuetts. lie was FIRST dry goods clerk
in Boston, aud afterwards a machinist.
Seeing a boy modelling figures in clay he
turned his thoughts to what proved his 70.
cation. lie has produced about forty
groups in all, and has sold about fifty
thousand copies Of his works. 1t is said,
that his next undertaking will be Bret
Ilarte's Heather Chinee."
One man in a hundred read book;
ninaty-niuc read newspaper. Nnary u
century ago, the American press, which is
spreading oak, was in the green twis,
Thomas Jefferson said he would rather live
in country with newspapers and without
government, than in q country with a
government and witbou, newspapers. The
press, instead Of being the fourth, is the
first estate Of the realm. For good or for
evil it Yields powerful influence.
Nothing illustrates the wonderful trans.
fer Of political power from the East to the
West in the United States rs we'll as tho
following figures showing the representa-
ton in Congress Of two great Western in
connection with the greatest Eastern State,
in 1910, constrasted with 1872: Illinois
and Missouri had, in 1910, together, FIVE
congressman; New York bad forty Con.
gressmen In 1872 Illinois and Missouri
have thir,y-two Congressman; New York
has thirty.two Congressman Thus thirty
years ago New York had eight times tho
number Of Congressmer Of these two Vest
ern States Now she has precisely the
same number! westward" says Bishop
DerRley, tue star OF empire takes Its
way"
The fact that q thousand men are in
tho wrong, give no more weight in the
scales Of the right than does the sum of
thousand ciphers signify of themselves
certain amount.
President Smith, Of Dartmouth College,
used to settypc in printing office in Wind.
sor, Vt He says that the experience was
Of great use to him, as it taught him to
spell correctly, and he thinks be is better
co!!ege president for having been q priu.