Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-27
BREAKFAST TABLE.

THE first newspaper advertisement ap.
peared in 1854. ggs --s.s 4
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857. 81
OREGON supports twenty-three Chinese
in its State prison.
THE favorite dish with impecunious
swells is woodcock on trust.-PiHsburgh
Telegraph.
A pERspIcUoUs Vermont legislator said
in a speech: "Ny wife, who is a married
woman"
In one week last summer Naples
merchant fshed up from the Mediter-
ranean ten tons of coral.
THE civilized Indians OF the Cherokee
Nation are organizing a brass band, 80
there wifi be no further use for the quo
tation: 40, the poor Indian, whose
un-toot-ored mind-."-Jersey City Jour
nal
The swollen brooklet murmurs louder:
All sonleSs fit the feathery troop:
The clam departed from the choWderr
Leaves but poor potato soup.
So great is the scarcity of money in
Fialand that recently cows were sold at
prices equivalent to twelve cents each,
and horses at eight cents.
Ina Connecticut town recently COM
munion service was celebrated with
brandy instead of wine, the druggist hay
ing made blunder in filling the order
for sherry.
ABOUT 1900 telephones, says the
Polytechnic Rerie,r, have been introduced
into the United States up to the close Of
the year 1877, and the manufacturers
are receiving orders at the rate of about
1000 month.
We have received large paper de-
voted "to the interests of agents and
canvassers." Now hear us, We immor-
tai gods, that roost on high Olympus!
Thase people may be able to own and
control sixteen page newspaper, but
the old double-barreled shot gun, loaded
with slugs and ten-penny nails, standing
within easy reach of this table is all our
Own.-M CITY Derrick.
He caught cold, horrid cold,
They do who go a-fishinD
And this accounts for what would else
Have sent him to perdition.
For when neighbor kindly asked.
With voice as sweet as t0tfy,
Did Java pleasant time he said.
Well. yes, little coughy!"
- YonkprsGdzetie.
"TRy not to pass" the old man said;
so the urchin made it next" instead.
-Nnr Hdsn Register. And the old man
chuckled and nudged his pard, for he
held both bowers and the joker card
Bridgeport Standard. And the fourth
man muttered, ave can't afford to have
so much talking across the board. y
Detroit Free Prees. Then smile DER the
urchin's face did steal, as he threw down
six cards and exclaimed, "Misdeal"-
Nor. Herald. No smile, next minute,
that urchin smole, for handful of sport
cards the dealer DOLE Transcript.
A MAN called in last night and an
nounced that he had just arrived from
the West. And what he wanted to say
was that he had the pleasure of seeing
a sleeping car porter crawl under the |
lower berth, take up the carpet, remove !
the planks from the floor, rip open the |
mattress, rend the pillow to pieces, tear
the stufiing out of the seats, and then
shake the bed clothes, in his efforts to
steal his boots, black Them and levy an
assessment of % cents on him the next |
morning. The passenger laughed so
hard he could be heard block off as he |
explained that he pulled a pair OF stock
ings over his boots and went to bed
with them on his feet. Every day some
thing turns up that causes us to lose
faith in human nature Toledo Com
ntprcial