The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-18
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SoNG OF THE PERIoD-"Sprig, sprIg
beautiful sprig"
"'Tis but little faded flour, but, oh
so fondly dear!" Fourteen dollars
barrel.
THE bunting costume affected by younl
ladies is pro badly hint to the lads no
TO let their courage flag.
WHICH av the sides in this ware d.
viz take, Mixer The Toorkes, av coorse
Dinnis, for they re fond OF tobsccy ant
ladies.
THE market quotations of A No.
Spitzes have risen since it was fount
they made profitable export as gun
swabs.
CHORUS of females issuing from thu
Boston Theater after performance o
"Camlie:" "Boe-hoo, boo-hool Gimme
ha-hsnkch'ip
WHEN Greek meets Greek ther
comes the tug of war, we think, bu
when American meets American IT!
"Whst'll you have to drink"
BUFFALO Express: "Tbe New 4orh
Herald says: According 10 the Russian
law two brothers cannot marry two
sisters Can oneW Don't be so greedy
THE season fast approaches when the
young man with finances to cover two
plates OF ice cream, awaits breath
lessly the answer to, "Will you have
cake"
Ir's easy enough TO pronounce those
Russian names. All the practice neces
sary is slight attack Of catarrh and the
holding of three or four carpet-tacks IN
the mouth.
WE don't know how the editor OF the
Detroit Free Press managed to borrow ST
much money, but he says it cost 81, 900 tt
kiss California seamstress.-RochsSte'
Democrat.
AMERICAN girls are always proud, snc
when Que has TO Work for her living yol
can tell it, because she carries lev
scientific textbooks with her on tn
street.-Butato Exchange.
TIE Pittsburgh Dispatch says tina
when Aimee Is in town II is AS Difficult
to borrow q married mans opera-g las
of an evening as to secure tn
temporary use OF an umbrella on rain.
day.
CoNsIsTENT-A psper-hanger huns
himself recently in New Jersey.-BCsto'
| COMMERCIAL Bulletin. OGe of our incor
rigibles suggests that he WAS border
ina on insanity.-Cyereiand PlaiEdedtcT
"How old Is her" asked middie-sget
female of young man who WAS ofierln!
n pup for sale on the Common yesterday
Two weeks old last night 1T 10 o'clock,
replied the dog-merchant, with com
mendable exsctitude.
SLANG claims its victims from tn
lowest to the highest. Swell Engllsl
society has been much chagrined ant
the rude mob elated to read in one OF tn
late Prince Albert's letters that his wit
the Qneen-was much cut up by til
death Of Queen Adelaide.
There is nothing in English lterstur
more pathetic, perhaps. than the besuti
full sonnet beginning:
LAS a grasshoper sat on a sweet-potat'
Up Jumped Turkey goboler and jerk e'
! him of behind"
"STlcK y ginger snap on the end OF
knitting needle and you have the ia'es
style of parasol, -H.raid Z. 1 can
wrap sheet of ioolscsp around the nee
of a mineral water bottle and You hav
| u nf
tOion Herald.
A SALEM storekeeper has hit on
happy plan to keep losfers away tror
his corner. He waits until the crowd
. good sized one. then Sits cayenn
pepper literally into n feather buster
goes out and gives his widows thoroug
brushing. An Immediate stampede 10
lows.
THERE is a woman who bought sew
ing machine on weekly payments tn
day before the rene Val OF the patent W.
refused, and now her stove is neve
without \ kettle singing softly for tn
agent to come around and collect tn
second installment.-PittsJurgh DE-
patch.
The wheat has been beaten down b
the rain, the peaches have been n'ppe
IN the bud, Colorado beetles are Ate
the potatoes, grssshopers are consumin
the hay crop, and altogether, 1t the Wa
continues, poor people Will be con
PEELED TO i've on pie and ice cream me-
year.
Thu politicians might take hin
from the system of jointsuthorsh,
adopted BY Bret Hsrte and Mark Twsi
Ii ten or dozen of the members OF II
les islature were to put their heads l.
sether they might manage to Produ'
u live, snsppy kind of speech. = Bostf
7rdUcil,r.
UNPLEASANT sURPRIsE-lt SHOCKS
Wisconsin woman swfully, about wee
after she hiss read Of her husbands d
structlon by erssshoPpers, to hear
familiar step on the stairs and b
well-known voice asking. "hanne
have YOU got them breeches OF mil
patched YETI.
, A SAN FRANCISCO girl, on nearing
q mortal accident to discarded love
: crushed to the beds dc OF the dying me-