The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-23
VARIETIES.


boys out of the business.
The artesian well at Fort Wayne,
Ind, has been sunk $500 feet, but no
water has been reached. 1t Is proposed
to continue for another 900 feet.
AN old gentleman dying lately in
Charleston, Mass, left al annual income
of S5OOto bo expended in the purchase
of theatre tickets for poor but respects-
Bile people in Boston.
A MAN in London earns living by
going round waking people whose busi.
ness requires them to get up very early
in the morning Many policemen also
increase their incomes in the same way.
BRATSLEBoRo, Vermont, has been
made famous by the birth of quadruplets,
who have been christened Sarah, Mary,
Kate and Jennie. The infants are on
exhibition and have already earned q
small provision for their coming years.
THE Narragansett Indians at Charles
town, K. l., held their annual town meet
ing few days ago. The method OF cleo
tion consists in placing the two candidates
some distance apart, after which the MEM
bers Of the tribe divide with the two men
and those in the majority are declared
successful.
\ PHYSICIAN of Saylorville, Ia, who
was made the victim of first of April
hoax by receiving summons from he
titious patient and travelling Il consider
able distance in haste 10 answer it, turned
the tables Oh the jester by sending in to
him bill for professional services and
compelling payment with costs, by pro-
cess Of law.
WHEN you see sofa and two lengths
Of stoyepipe ON front stoop, and Il
child on the premises eating slice of
bread and Jam, it is safe to believe that
the family have just moved in. When
YOU see several windows open, with
lengths of carpet hanging from them
and a child ut the front eating bread and
Jam. it is an equally sure indication that
the family is cleaning house.-Dan6"ry
NelcS.
BosToN offers some prodigies in the
way of cats. Five kittens were born in
one of It's suburbs recently, each of which
was ioined to another after the manner
of the Sismese Twins. The owner, who
had doubtless never heard Of Barnum,
had them all drowned. At the South
End lady has kitten. now two months
old which has five heads-One in the
usual place and one at eaoh kncc,joint on
both front and hind legs. The tail grows
perpcndicularly up from the back, and
cannot be bent downward without caus-
ing the animal TO cry.
"No EErIy appuls in school ours,
reads sign on the blackboard Of a
schoolhouse in enlightened old MasSa-
chusetts. where education is supposed TO
sit on the top rail and make faces at iS-
nOrance.
The first locomotive used IN the
United States was the John Bull, i'm
ported from England by the Albany and
Schenectady Railroad in 1890. The
John Bull is still alive 1t i kept as a
curiosity at the Albany Iron Works near
Troy.
Two brothers, one of WHOM fought on
the Union side and the other on the
rebel during the war, met at Columbia,
Tenn, the other day after separation Of
fifteen years, but refused to recognize
each other, and separated again without
speaking.
\ HALF century ago an old gentle
man IN southern Massachusetts caused
every shingle with which he covered his
root, to be dipped in boiling whale oil.
The other day his grandchildren rcplac-
ed the shingles on the old mansion for the
first time and found many Of them in 1t
perfect state of preservation.
a FULTON young man who was visiting
abroad came home Saturday, and in the
morning at breakfast remarked, as he
reached his plate over, Father, little
of the mixture in the brown dish, if you
please and small piece cf the prepared
meat" The old gentleman, who is II
plain, matter of-fact man, replied, as he
loaded up the outstretched plate, "We
like to have you come visitin' us
John, but just remember that while
YOU re eatin' here, if you want hash, say
SO; and if you want sausage, call for
sausage, and not 90 to spreadin' on any
Brooklyn misery at my table.-fHfon
Times.