The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-03
Some Curious Anecdotes orthewires.

There is probably no better place In
all this world for studying human nature
than telegraph office, says Mr.. john
son in Geographic volume, just pub
lIshed, called Lightning Flashes You
are brought in contact with SO many
different people, made confident OF so
msRY peculiar people, and see so many
strange messages passing over the wire,
that you ieel rs if from some loophole OF
retreat you were viewing the world
shorn of its shams and It's preferences.
Perhaps no class OF men enjoy good
Joke better than telegrsphers, and they
certainly often find IN the ordinary rou-
tine duties Of their position many dis
patches calculated to provoke q smile.
For instance, Massachusetts man re-
Gently telegrsphed TO MS son; 81 am
diving; come Immediately" which elected
the very sympathetic reply: Cannot
come. Let me know when you die
The following Message, addressed to
an insurance agent, recently passed
through the Western Union general
office in this city:
"Have you received proofs of my death?
1utN were lOI"dIutu e4ANN utiN as
lSignsdl JOHN BAIRD. deceased,
per Mary Baird"
AS the operator always follows copy"
and senders are often a little excited,
very queer messages are sometimes SENT
for an example this is one: "Cousin: Go
for Annie. Father is dying as soon rs
possible" An Irishman-Of course-In
Palmer, Mass, sent the following mes
sage TO his brother in New York:
your wife died yesterday. We will
wake her tonight. Come home. L. ).
Don't open this for two hours, so as to
prepare yourself for the melancholy
news"
But the most lsughsble messages are
generally from those Of love sick SWANS
to their swaethearts. A gentleman IN
the South not long since tclegrapheo TO
his attisnced in Maine: "Your life Is q
rich boquet of happiness, yourself the
sweetest flower. If Northern winds
whisper Southern wishes how happy
you must bel Good night. Happy
dreams, sweet lovel-Frank." The fol-
lowing message recently passed though
the Chicago office: 81 lent you one year
ago tonight four dollars eighty seven
cents Ii you have not bad 1t long
enough, please keep it one year longer"
To this delicate hint this answer wssare-
turned Had forgotten 1t, ard hoped
you had. Let her run another year
A few months ago darkey came into
the office at Balm bridge Ga, and said be
wan ted TO send an "expatch" to his girl.
"Very we'll" said the operator, Preaching
for blank, "what do you want 10 say to
herr" "Now, that's cool" remarked the
ebony customer IL amt gwine to tell
you what l want to say TO her, l amt
no fool, amt" and he put his quarter
back in his vest pocket and marched OF.
Anna Dickinson WAS once telegraphed
to by a lecture committee, inqulrlng the
subject Of her lecture. She replied that
it would be breakers Ahead" The
committee telegraphed back, "AIl right,
come and lecture on Break his Head, y"
! which was what the message read after
being improved by the intelligent opera
tor.
On one occasion the message "Arrived
all right" dispatched by some ladies, was
delivered Arrived all tight" In an
other case husband who had gone to
the seaside to engage apartments tele-
graphed. call right; come tomorrow"
He was astonished that his wife did not
come to him, but the mystery was
explained when IL was discovered that
"All right, home tomorrow" had been
the message actually delivered.