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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
Habits of the Fur Seal.

Tho fur seal never sprawls out and
founders when moving on sland, as
might be supposed from observing the
progression Of the common hair seal ::
on the contrary, this animal carries its
body clear and free from the ground,
with head and neck erect, stepping for
ward with its fOre-fect, and bringing the
hinder ones up to fresh position after
every second step forward. When ex-
erting itself it can spring into lum-
boring, shambling gallop, and for a few
rods run as fast us man, but will sink
quickly to the earth, grasping, painting,
and palpitating. In the water all move.
ments when swimming are quick and
swift, the fore-hippers propelling, and
the long, attenuatea hinder ones serv-
ing to guide the course. The animal
always in travelling swims under water,
ever and anon rising, with head and
survey the field. The seals will fre-
quently, when in play or suddenly
startled, leap from the water like so
many dolphins.
The young seals are exceedingly frol,
icsome at sen Gas also great part of the
time on land) running acrobatic races
in the surf, chasing one another, and
whirling in swift circles, they seem to
be brimiul of warm, joyous life. They
also delight, especially the old ones, in
lazily turning over and over in the
swell, scratching and rubbing them.
selves with their flippers, exposing as
they float in the water but small por-
tion of their bodies they also sleep
upon the surface in the same short, un-
easy slumber so characteristic Of them
when on land. There is nothing dull
or lethargic about the fur seal when
asleep or awake. A healthy seal is
never seen sleeping without an involun-
tary nervous muscular twitching and
flinching of various portions of its
DO ly, usually an uneasy folding out
aud back of its hippers, with quick
crawling movements of it's skin, the
eyes being, however, always tightly
closed.
Arising from these great bands of
herling seals is peculiar dull, vibrat-
ing roar, the joint effort of hundreds of
thousands of vigilant and angry males,
together with the calls of their harems,
din which never ceases for an instant
day or night, during the six or eight
weeks of the breeding season it can
be heard at sea miles away, and fre-
quently has warned vessels of danger
ous pr 'ximity of land when searching
for the islands in thick, foggy weather.
There also comes with this sound a
most dsagreeable smell. The seals
themselves do not emit this odor, al
though they have sweetish, oily breath,
but they are constantly stirring up the
decaying bodies of the dead, on and
over which they sleep or necessarily
founder. r.-Harper's MagasiHc.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
A Committee of the Whole Against
Death.

We neeJ to set our faces against all
the mischicfs that sicken and destroy
our race, and to rally all friends OF
civilization into grand committee OF
the whole against disease, corruption,
and death. Especially we should guard
the germs of life, and discern what
Plato said in his claws" so many centu'
ries ago, that life begins before birth,
and the mother is the cradle OF the I'M
born child The mother should be, as
such a sacred person, and her offspring
protected by all skill and care, while all
The diabolical arts of abortion and fet-
icide should be made infamous and
criminal. The fearful habit Of looking
upon maternity rs loss OF girllsh
beauty, and as bitter pledge to care,
should be put down, and we should
have no liberation for the new race OF
monks and nuns who would be chlIdless
without chastity, and be virtually, but
not virtuously, celibates in the service
of vanity and seli-inulgence, not OF de-
votion and self sacr flee.
Our whele method of amusements,
especially for the yonng, should be re-
formed. Gas-light should yield to day
u
light, night vapors in heated and close
rooms 81 lould give way to fresh air un-
der the open heavens, and our young
people should be brought up to work
and play under the ministry of that
great solar force which is the most be-
nign and godlike agent known to men.
Ardent spirits and tobacco should be
given up, and in their stead genial ex-
ercise OF riding, gymnastics, and the
dance, with music and beautiful arts,
should be employed to sti the languid
powers and sOothe the troubled .effec-
tions. The old Greeks taught music
and gymnastics as Parts of education
aud Plato, in urging the Importance o
these, still maintains that the soul i
superior to the body, and religion is tn
crown of all true culture. Why ma
not christian people take ms broad n nc
sition on highe' ground, and with ger
erous and genial culture associate
faith that is no dreamy sentiment q
ideal abstraction, but the best power G
man and the supreme grace OF God 2
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
" Translated " Wine.

An ingenious fraud, by which wine
costing about twelve shillings dozen
in France was translated" so rs to sell
for two guineas a dozen in England, was
exposed recently in one of the London
police courts. The prosecution was in
stituted by several well-known cham
pagne manufacturers, including Roeder-
er and Moet e Chandon, and the evil
dence they brought forward went to
show that the prisoner or his accompli-
ces were accustomed to buy champagne
of the poorest quality in France and
ship it to London; there the corks were
drawn, aud replaced by others branded
so as to resemble genuine ones, the
original labels were removed, and forged
labels were pasted on the bottles, and a
transformation was thus effected which
would deceive even experienced buyers.
The bottles could not be told externally
from those containing high priced cham
pagne, the imitation of one of MOet n
Chandon's brands being especially clev.
or. The justice, indeed, considered the
fraud so dangerously ingenious that the
prisoner was sentenced to hard labor for
the term of twelve months. This ex'
pose should teach people the folly oi
buying well-known branGs of wine foi
much less than the ruling price,
Thackeray used to say that man might
as well talk of getting sovereigns fol
ten shillings as to say he could ct gen
uine wines at half the market rates.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
Figures for Crusaders.

The distillers of the country, for the
last fiscal year, produced over 6S, 100000
gallons OF spirits. There were 4i5 of
them, in which about S70,000,000 cap
ital is invested, 10000 men employed,
and nearly 20,0OO,00 bushels of grain
consumed, four-fifths being corn. The
spirits produced yielded nearly $50, ,00O,-
90 of taxes to the treasury. Illinois
is the chief producer and the western
states distilled more than five-seyenths
of all the spirits made. A letter from
California says, this year, there will be
produced there 12,0O0,0O0 gallons of
wine, 1000, 900 pounds of grapes for
table use, and $50, 600 pounds Of raisins,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
Temnnrancn in Russia.

In some parts of Russia strong tenn
perance movement is nov on foot. In
the month of January last forty-eight
village communities in the district OF
Mohllew adopted stringent regulations
in regard to taverns or drinking saloons.
BY these enactments, it was made an
olfense to buy or sell liquor on credit
or in exchange for other articles, or to
lOiter in a drinking saloon. In the
district OF Pensa, some two hundred
villages have resolved that no inns OF
drinking saloons shall be erected on
any soil belonging to the peasants. In
consequence Of these regulations many
saloon keepers have been prosecuted
aud sentenced to undergo punishment
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30
TO THE IVY.

Ione tenant of the wasted spot
Where s0ftcned desOlatOn smiles;
Where weeds grow rank DER grave forgot
Aud ruin sghs through grass-grown aslcB!
Sill clingIug round some Wihcred trunk,
or mOuldrrug tenement of age;
or where the riycn wall has sunk
Beneath distinctions loaNcring rage.
Child of decay! no bushng flower,
No cup of treasured sweets iS thine,
10 breathe in bcauty's fragrant bower,
Or charm where statclicr rivals shine;
The column of the desert place,
The warriors cross, the nalneless stone,
Receive thy clasping boughs' embrace,
And show thy clustering wrcaths alone!
The violet and the queen-!ile rose,
Frail minuns of pa'sing day,
Brief AZ the faith which falsehOOd shows :
But bloom while lasts their wOrshppcd lay;
10 me thy mOurful loaf cXCes
The farest buds whose petals fling
Their odOrs where the summer dwells
Or gem the verdant robes Of spring.
Yet type of truth when fortune wanes;
And grief. that hauntS tho ,'"''A A~-!~o A~'ei,
And love that, strong as death, slstains
The whirlwinds shock and tompcst's gloom
Thou still, amidst the bowling blast,
When all IL drear, art smiling on;
Unchanged, unshrinldng to the last,
And green when even hope is gone!
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30

The time is approaching when the
feminine dweller in the suburbs will say
to her little girl &" Susan, go in and ask
Ms. Smith If she won't keep a few OF
those hens at home. I've just planted
my seeds and 1 can't have all those fowls
here at once"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30

-Cobbett's wife caught him by the
grace with which she used Eer wash
tub. She never was known to use it
after the wedding.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30

Life is like theater, for the worst
often occupy the best place in i'll
durCiius.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-30

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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

PERsoNALs.-E. G. Cracraft, Esq.,
returned from his trip out west on Sat-
urday evening. He is highly delighted
with that part OF the moral vinyard
and thinks Colorado and Kansas is q
"boss" country.
Elk Governor Price and Attorney
General Matthews, OF Greenbrier, and
John E. Kenna, of Charleston, are in
the city, the two former gentlemen are
stopping at the Mcclure House.
Colonel John Zoeckler, returned
from an extended trip through the
western States last week.
We are glad TO announce that Judge
Hoffman. whose severe illness prevent
ed him during several days last week
rom the discharge Of duties in the SUI
preme Court of Appeals, is now rapidly
improving and will probably be able
this week 10 resnme his seat upon the
bench.
&c. Orr, Esq. a former well known
citizen of Wheeling but now OF Pitts
burgb, is in the city. Mr.. Orr has just
recovered from long and severe i'll.
ness,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29
River News.

The marks at the landing last even
ing indicated 3 feet9 inches and fall
ing.
The Mallie Rsgon departed for far-
kersburg on Saturday morning at the
usual hour.
The Hudson left for Cincinnati at
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The Science did not arrive here until
late Sunday morning, having been
compelled to lay up at MouudsVlIle
during Saturday night on account OF q
dense fog, which river men say was the
worst they have seen for many yesFs'
She will return to Psrkersburg this
morning at half past ten o'clock
The Andes is due from CInc'nnat'
this afternoon, but the low water may
prevent her from getting here on time
There is very little doing about the
landing, and unless we have RAIN soon
there will be less.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

THB Use OF ICE.-The high price oil
ice, or the threatened high price of that
commodity, has given rise to a school
of philosophers who believe that the
uee Of iced drinks of any kird is inju-
rious to health, and that it is delusion
to suppose that you feel any better after
YOU have drunk Of ice water than be-
fore. The immoderste use Of ice water
is admitted to be injurious, and the
new philosophers shrewdly clinch
their argumsn. against it's monerate use
by showing that it begets thirst which
constantly demands more. Persplr1ag
humanity will be slow 10 come to this
belief, or, at least, to act on it, and yet
it is a cousolipg philosophy for those
who cannot get any ice. Something
more ussful to them than a theory
however, will be the knowledge that a
common flower pot inverted over q
a plate of butter and covered wit sever-
al LAYERS OF wet cloths, will keep the
butter from melting, and preserve it in
more or less solid form.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

ELM GROVE RAILwAY.-A meeting oil
the Corporators Of the Wheeling and
Elm Grove railway was held at Mr.,
Hornbrook's office last Saturday, when
the final estimate OF the cost Of the
proposed road were submitted by Mr..
Walter C. Smith, Civil Engineer.
The estimate for the cost
OF the track complete, as far as the
Catholic Cemetery, including right OF
way, two bridges across the creek at
the Peninsula, and all other expenses
is:69,O00. Mr.. Smith places the cost
of the necessary equipment OF engines
and cars at sos 900; making s94, 900
This is below the figures expected by
the company, but from information at
hand, is believed to be in fact, the out
side cost. The estimate is made for
~ inches guage while Sc is all that is
needed and it is believed that the road
may be equipped at less cost than the
sum proposed.
The corporators were very agreeably
surprised by the estimate, and CORE
spoudingly encouraged, and will doubt
less push the project to complete sue
Gees. 1t is in the hands OF energetic
business men, and there is every reason
TO believe that the stock will prove 8
good paying investment. Subscriptions
may be made at the Peoples Bank.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

MERCHANTS NATIONAL BAN6.-We
learn that the officers Of the Mer'
chants National Bank OF this city have
decided to invite the stockholders to a
meeting some time in July to consider
the propriety OF winding up its affairs
The bank is thoroughly solvent and in
good financial condition, but in the
course Of its long business it has scquir'
ed a large amount of real estate aud a
number OF slow paying debtors and ii
is a question whether or not it is beet
for the stockholders to proceed at once
to the collection OF outstanding claims
and in the meantime settle up old bus
mess preparatory to fresh start. The
institution enjoys and fully deserves the
full confidence OF the public and the
step proposed is merely measure Of
business policy.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

ATTEMPTED RoBBERY.-Last night
about II o'clock some unknown person
entered the house of James Quigg,
ESQ, on Fourteenth street, for the pur.
pose OF robbery. The thief climbed up
on the porch.and then entered a window
into . room occupied by the mother Of
Mr. Kenna, now Mrs.. Ashby. The fel-
low was going through the trunk in the
room when Mra. Asbby heard and gave
the alarm. The thief broke for the
window and soon made his escape, but
without any booty. All the neigbbors
in the vicinity were aroused by the
noise, and terribly excited. One of the
"Buckeys who lives in the vicinity
scared all the ladies by his reckless
brandishiug OF a pistol and threats Of
what he would do in case he run across
the villain.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

THOMAS MAST is said to have said,
ALWAYS wear pure white vests in sum-
mer. These are the words OF man
whose name is a household word the
length and breadth of the land, man
OF acknowledged genius, and the iac'
that he wears pure white clothing
during the warm season proves that ne
has excellent taste. 1t is not possible
for every one to be a Thomas Mast.
Yet it is possible aud easy Tor
every man aud boy to dress well
and in good taste, when you can
buy such elegant skeleton suits as are
still on sale for the trivial sum Of II at
the great One Price Clothing House OF
n. Frank, 40 Twelfth street. Wheeling
He invites all TO call and see him,
whether merely to inspect the stock or
make purchase. No Iflense II you
don't purchase. The same polite and
courteous attention will be shown to
all. But most positively no banteriug
will be allowed, as the lowest cash
value Tor the ready money IL marked
10 plain selling 6sures on every article
One hundred dollars in cash is offered
as a reward to the first person who can
prove be varies from this rule.
Remember the place and number OF
this great and only one price Clothing
Hall OF Il. Frank, 40 l2tn street. When
you 60 TO Wheeling don't allow some
drummer TO euiice you 10 some out o.
the way place, Tor most
positively they will take every
possible advantage OF you, "a the mer-
chant must divide halt OF bis spoiIs-
10 other words half the profit with this
drummer. No doubt thus is not gene
rail- known, but it is most positively q
candid TACT "A word TO the wise. &c.
"Fore warned is tore armed.
Business at the one price clothing
house OF II. Frank, 40 l2Ih street, IL
like poor mau's family, Away on the
increase. Why people begin to sp'
preciate lie style OF doug business, viz :
Asking only one and the lowest price !;
never taking more and under no CIR
cumstsnces less, ard returning money
as cheerrully AZ received for all goods
purchased that are unsatisfactory
Frank continues to sell summer coats
warranted TO wash Tor Coo; skeleton
euts a, 81 co; gauze underwear al
35 cents, &c. &c. As al extra induce
ment this week package OF fire crack
ers or torpedoes will he given to every
purchaser OF 50 90 worth or more
Don't mistake the place, and above all
do not let some drummer get hold Of
you. Look for the Green Front, 40 18th
street
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

CONCERNING SuNsrRoKRa-The season
is now at hand when divers people will
be volunteering information as to how
suustrokes may be avoided. Some OF
the ideas expressed are quite amusing
if not useful, as witness the following
About a year since 1 saw in q news~
paper 40 account Of case OF sunstroke.
written by the party himself. After
suffering long time, and having to q
considerable degree recovered. he ex"
perienced suffering even from the rays
OF the moon. This led him to ref1ec'
ton that it was not altogether the heat
Of the sun that produced prostration'
After much research be discovered that
the injury came from the chemical ray
and not from the heat ray. He was
guided to this by the fact that a pho
tograph could not be taken through a
hollow glas.. Accordingly he lined
his hat with two Livingstone OF orange
yellow to arrest the chemical ray, and
one Of green to arrest the heat
ray. Thus prepared, he went where
the rays OF the sun were most intense
with perfect IMMUNITY. 1t is well
known that the negro is seldom sum
struck. The color Of his skin over the
skull being of an orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact.
practiced upon this suggestion all las'
summer, lined my hat with green and
orange yellow paper and had confidence
in the truth Of the theory 10 neglect
my UNI brella, which / had never done
before. | mentioned it to many, who
tried 1t also, and in many cases tina
came under my observation, they uni
'ormly asserted that the oppressive bea
of the cum upon the head was much
relieved.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29
Cu.posp v,ra Exsrz,Luxrxr-Sat.

CHARGED WITH ENBRzzLHNKNf.-Satr
urday afternoon Mr.. Kennedy Friend
went before Squire Caldwell and .wore
out warrant Tor the arrest OF Samuel
Tippett, charging him with embe1zls'
ment. Tippett has been in the employ
of Messrs. Friend & Son, furniture
dealers. as bookkeeper, for two or three
year.. and has enjoyed the fullest con.
fidence of the firm. Here recently,
however, Nh. Frierd came to the con-
clusion that he was living rather beyond
his means, and that, in connection with
two or three mysterious transactions on
the part of Tippett, caused Mr.. Friend
TO watch him, which he has done
closely for the last three or fonr weeks.
1t was the desire OF Mr.. Friend to keep
him until the first of July, 10 see in
what way be would balance his books
to make them tally. Mr.. Friend having
satisfied himself that the accused
was making false entries and carry
ing a forced balance. This
plan was prevented, however, by
little uupleasantness that oc-
CURED between the proprietor and
book keeper on Saturday. which re-
suited in the latter declaring his inten-
ton Of quitting" which he did. Mr..
Friend then had him arrested as above
stated.
After hearing the evidence in the
case Squire Csld veil held the accused
in the sum OF $1,000 Tor bis appear.
ance before court. He furnished the
bail and was released from custody.
Mr.. Friend informed a reporter o.
this paper that at the present time be
did not know the amount of his loss
but supposed It would reach two Of
three thousand dollars. In justice te
Mr.. Tippett we will state that he posi-
lively denies being guilty OF the charge
perferred against him.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

FALsR REPoRr-It was extensively
reported 90 the streets Saturday morn
ing, that Beverly n Eof. ESQ. had
died suddenly at his residence on Mar
ket street, in the Fifth ward. We arr
glad to auuou oce the ruraor Was false
He had q severe epil,ptic fit but it va,
not fatal and Yesterday Mr. Eof had 90
Gar recovered a. 10 be out VI ell pres
cot danger.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

OFFICERS ELEcTED.-The following
gentlemen have been elected officers o.
their respective lodges, in addition to
those already reported.
Eintracht Lodge No. 2S4. D. O. H.,
VIM. Mugge, E. B.; Emile Hennig, o.
B.; Herman Heperd'zed, U. P; Carl
Gauding, Secretary; Frod Appel, Treas
urer; Edward Voss, Representative to
the Grand Lodge.
Eureka Lodge, No. 4S, l. 0. O. F.
Godfrey Schul, N. g.; A. j. Schultz
V.G.;J J. R. Wolf, Secretary; Charles
Springer, Sreasurer.
wildey Lodge, No, J, D. OR, /. o.
o. F. N. g.. D. w. Posei v G., Mrs,
Harris; Secretary, Rev. A j. Lydia
Treasurer, Mrs. Hannah Walters.
Wheeling Lodge, No. 9, I. 0. o. F,
]. C. Morrison, n. G. j. c. Cunning
ham, V. G.; James Hollingsworth,
Secretary John H. beverly, Treasurer
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

PROBABLY FATAL AcCIDENT-On Sat-
urday Conductor NJ. Nose attempted
to jump on a train at Benwood as il
was moving, and fell underneath it
Both his legs were cut of and man.
sled terribly. He also received seriou.
injury to bis bowels and cannot live.
The injured man is abont twenty Blk
years of age, and is native of Braxton
county. w. Va.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

up IN A BALLOON BoYs."-A great
many persons thought of the above
when they were gazing alta beautiful
object silently gliding through the air
on Saturday evening. The balloon was
sent up by Mr.. Schulz in front Of his
candy establishment in Market street.
After being up for aboCt half an hour,
it descended near the Market street
bridge.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

A FINE collection OF flowers, rare and
common, most tasteiully arranged into
boouet so large as 10 require an able
bodied man TO carry it, Was presented
10 the REsIsrsR Office Saturday With
the compliments OF the ladies OF Force,
Home" IL was greatly admired 81
lsy BY The May callers and pssssrs
~, and aumsrous wsTs the gssuiss
oonplimsSIs bsslo.si uPas Il aud spoe
The skill oi ~ Tar xfvbtlsc@.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-29

CHILD ScALDED "A two year old
child OF Henry Christman, who lives
on Main street, North. Wheeling, was
badly scslded about the face and breast
on Saturday morning, by knocking of
can OF boiling milk, which was on
tse stove, and spillng it over him.