Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-21
NOTE AND COMMENT.

LEb IMAM iofty per Ccut. vi I''e N
in Pennsylvania Is improved.
NINE Princeton students have been
rusticated for blowing the midnight
horn.
SNAIL hotels and boarding houses will
take the place of the large hotels burned
at Cape May.
SOME fne morning Edison will wake
up and find himself murdered by gas
company he has ruined.
The mellow-voiced Conger, Of Michi-
gan, is on his way to sound his soft
bazoo in Washington.
BENJAMIN SWING, OF Fairton, \. j., has
Just died OF an excess OF fat about the
heart. He weighed 525 pounds.
THE only two men pledged for Blaine
in 1880 are Blaine and IngersOll. But
wait, there is one more, Gail Hamilton.
KRARSEY has started West. Heaven
grant that he may be swallowed up in
that far off Occident, for he is q loud
smelling fraud.
ALEcx. STEPHENS thinks the Demo-
Gratis need leaders, but in view OF the
last election, q few thousand more fol-
lowers might not be amiss.
The convict labor of Bullock county,
Ala, for the next year has been let. The
contractors pay $9.s5 month and board
and clothe the convicts.
Such is the mania for otfice-holding in
the West, that recent convention Of
poultry breeders in Illinois appointed
twenty-nine vice presidents.
some Solon once remarked ~ fellow
telling makes us wondrous kind Then
why don't the Radical Presidential
thieves let up on their cries of ballot
box stutiing.
SENATOR EDMuSDs has had long con-.
fab with Hayes. The disagreements
have no doubt been all healed over, and
the Vermonter leaves with new batch
OF soft soap.
Bon INGERsoLL, in his lecture on
"Moses," speaks OF the angels guarding
the tree OF life, and says that il it were
guarded by modern police, the whole
tree could be stolen.
BALrIMoKE and Philadelphia walk
arm in arm towards reduction in street
car fares. In either place, If 3 man
walks for year and saves his fares. ne
can buy house and lot.
When Ingersoll talks about the mis-
takes of Moses, he must recollect that
the old patriarch didn't live in the
Nineteenth century to profit by the ex-
ample Of the illustrious Grant. r
KSEELING at the feet of his obdurate
sweetheart at Bridgeport, Conn, the
other night, Frank Lane sent bullet
crashing through his brain, dying from
the effect of the wound soon after.
THE New York Sun is the most com
ceited paper extant. There is no re-
form inaugurated or no villainy un-
masked for which it does not claim
credit. As it remarks: The Sun threw
light upon it
A WIPES nose in New York isregarded
AZ valuable appendage. VIM. Yates
few nights ago cut of his spouse's
natural protuberance with table-knife
and hard-hearted judge sent him to
prison for two years and hall.
MEXICAN dollars are down to seventy
FIVE cents in Texas. In Newfoundland
tho banks have declined to take Mexi-
can and Spanish dollars at more than
eighty cents, which is the value Of
American silver in the Dominion.
An American citizen was tried, con-
victed and showed into German prison
for shooting off his mouth. Where was
Bayard Taylor7 somebody asks. Sam
pling Rhine wines; anybody could an
swer that.
SENATOR JoSEs' nurse-no, Senator
Jones' child's nurse, invested 81 900 in
mining stock and now boasts So, 900. Of
course, she will marry Congressman
and go on Mrs. Jones visiting list.
cARPEr-BAG Senator whose term mhas
Just expired, when asked how he pro-
posed TO occupy his time hereafter, re-
marked, 81 shall devote the rest of my
life to wondering how ! ever got into
the United States Senate"
THERE is some talk about ex-Gov.
Morgan's looming up as a dangerous
rival to Conkling for the United States
Senatorship, when the New York Legis-
lature comes TO settle that question. But
il will probably be found that too many
Senator'S and Representatives were fixed
for Conkling even before the election.-
Springfield Republican.
They say We OF the South mean revo-
luton: that We of the Democratic party
will revorutioniLe the country, if We get
control. Yes, Isay, We do mean revoln-
ton. Weintend to havearerolution from
fraud to honesty, from extravaganza to
economy, from ruin to prosperity, from
unconstitutional Republicanism TO CON
stitutional Democracy. To take this
country by the hand and lead it back to
glory and prosperity il the mission Of
the Democracy.-Ben HH.
A Fiery Female.
PaRKEksBuRG, November IA wo-
man. name unknown, got on q drunk