The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-10
BREAKFAST TABLE TALK.


The 5oll-punch notch even the fall of
! q swallow.
THE beautiful cucumber is piled in
vitingly at the door of the green grocer,
and the doctor and undertaken smile and
wink az each other as they pass BY
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The young man whose fancy lightly
turned to thoughts of love, about q
month ago, had better begin to buckle
down to business, and provide sinking
| fund against the advent Of the ice-cream
| sesson.-Puck.
AN Olive street girl who has just per-
fectei her musical education in Boston
sings most artsticaIly such gems as "Oh,
Garry Me Bach," "LizzLen TO the Mock
log Bird" "Verdi, l am Tired Now
and "Tm q Flotow, I'm Ahoat."-St.
LOuiS Journal
Personal item in the Virginia Chron-
icle about certain Police Justice: "He
sits with his feet upon his desk and his
bead drawn down between his shoulders
like mud turtle. This morning his
head was drawn so far out Of sight that
his shoulder blades stuck up on each side
of his neck like the collar Of an end man
in minstrel show"
THE spooney editor who wrote the word
"lesd" across the upper right hand cor
ner of a letter to his sweetheart was only
little absent minded; he thought he
was fixing up COPY Lo1oett Courier.
If he was solid with his glrl it's all right.
Globe. Perhaps he thought there was
more space between them than there
ought to Georgeto1cr' Addocate.
OH. don't YOU remember the orchard,
And the gnarly old tree by the gate;
And the apples that came when the
blooms were gone,
Which the worms and the children ate Z
Oh don't remember now IL struck inc
worms, dear Maud
But mind Just how awfully felt.
When they carried me home, in bow
knot, Maud,
4 LAWYER once asked the late Judge
Pickens, OF Alabama, to charge the jury
that at is better that ninety and nine
guilty men should escape that one limo
cent man should be punished" "Yes,"
SAID the witty Judge. 81 will give that
charge. but IN the opinion Of the court
the ninety and nine guilty men have al
ready escaped in this county. Courier
! JOnrHGL
Two or three incidents connected with
MIR. Morrisseys frat Official appearance
| in Washington are not unworthy OF
mention. The day after he arrived here
TO take his place in Congress he WIS
seated in the bsrber-shop Of Willard 5
MOTEL. when Beau Hickman" well
knewn as 1.-The champion gentleman beat
of America" approached MIN aod s"Il:
mir. Morrissey, permit me, cir, to con.
crstuInte YOU upon your election to Cor
cress. to = position, sir, | have no doubt
! 7cu will edorn." That's not bad" re.
IIied Morrissov. "but what does 1t COST
nOo, only So" replied hickman. That's
CHEAP" said Morrjssey, and then handed
him the money without another word
v. l. Times.
PvrycE BISMARCK entered the in
ror;oI presence few days ago with a
! raIord an his brow. The new Amer can
roinisLer. Mr.. Taylor, is expected in day
n- two" he said. Kaiser William looked
da-kIy p. the Prince, and rang for the
bntler and the steward, who promptly
ornosrcd "Give me the keys Of the
nc cellar" demanded his majesty,
Thor were rjven him. "And OF the
1enfrvn be Continued. They were given
nm and his majesty handed them to the
chancellor. Put them in your pocket,
said the Emperor, g!oomliy. I'll TINS
man thinks he can come over here and
oct the German Empire into half rations,
with a W.T. right AZ our doors; ne Il
nightly fooled, and the chancellor IaiG
his FINGER on the side OF his nose' sno
l['srcinG at letter from Secretary
Tver,s SAID: You drinks a Dutchmsn
was 8 geese, hey2"-Brlmgton Ha'7|eys
CHARLES WELLS RUSSELL native
Of Wheeling, West Virginia, who no"
lives IN Washington, hiss written MIS-
,a-,csI novel entitled The Fall OF Dam
sscns " which Lee & Shepard sro about
70 nnbIisb. Ii is located in the time o.
Ho4aoIius and attempts, but with nc
verv marked success, to picture the con-
temporary life aud manners IN DamasCus
and the East. Fierce war ana isltniu
love are mingled in the story tlt
heroine beng Though this fact Is no
made known until the close) dsugh
tor of Hersclius named Eudricls, ana th'
hero a youth OF Damascus named JONES
who wins the Emperor's favor alter prev