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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-27
FOREIGN GLEANINGS.
LIFE OF the KING OF DENMARK
THREATENED.
Proclamation Of the Ameer Sym
pathetic Messages to Mrs. Taylor
A Canard-General
Foreign Notes,
Threatening the King of Denmark.
The Pommeranian Disaster.

CopESHAGES, December ga hotel
keeper has been arrested for threaten
ing TO shoot the King.
The Pommeranian Disaster.
BERLIN, December 25.-The captain
and officers oi the steamship POmme-
rania have been acquitted. The inquiry
decided that human effort did all that
was possible to avoid the collision and
loss Ol life.
Sympathetio Messages TO Mrs. Taylor.
BERLIN, December 25--The Empress,
in an authograph letter to Mrs. Taylor
widow oi tho late Minister, has IN the
most sincere and sympathetic language
rendered her coincidence, and through
lord Odo Russell Her Majesty has re-.
uucstcd an interview with tho bereaVcd
lady. Prince bismarck geographically
sinniicd his sympathy, and expressed
the deepest regret at the loss "i an emit
ncnt statesman whom he greatly cs-
teened. Mrs. Taylor will proceed with
the body of her husband 10 America,
where il will be placed III the family
vault. The Transatlantic Steamship
Companies have rendered Mr. Taylor :
family y Tree passage to the United
States.
Separation of Church and State.
GENEVA, December -. Tho Great
Council oi Geneva has accepted the
principle OF separation "l Church and
State and appointed q committee t" eN-
anime the separation bill.
A Cauard.
PARIS. December II. The report that
iorty-eight children were drowned yes
terday hv the breaking oi the ice on II
pond at Chapcllc Mechc is a canard.
Proclamation of the Ameer.
LoSDoN, December 2d.---A CORE
spondcnt at kurhm says that Il procla-
tion oi the Amrcr Of Aighanistan has
been discovered, dated November llth.
II shows that he had declared a holy
war against the British.
Afghan Soldiers Punished.
I.nxnoX, December 26.-A CorrC-
spondcnt at Muram says an Afghan
soldier in the British service was hanged
for iiringto warn his conntrymen at the
advance on Pciwcr Pass Eighteen 9TH
ers were sentenced to terms of from
seven tn fourteen years penal SciNliuhr
for dcScrtinn.
General Foreign Notes.
Sulcman rasha, who,c alleged con
duet oi the Turkish armies during the
late war, was due 10 Danad ra-ha'<
orders has been pardonrd.
Another snow storm has hl"ckalcd
the scotch railway WORSE than ever
Tho Supreme Court "l Justice, "l
Spain, has finally condemned to death
Moncasi, who attempted /" assasalnate
the King.
\ marriage has been arranged be
tween Iuianta Pillar, sister to the King
of Spain, and Prince II" Juinvillr's cld-
est son.
-Arclldukc Rudolphc, Crown Prince
oi Saxony, will shortly hc bctrothcd 10
the niece "i the King ri Sax"ny.
Further agitation has occurred among
the students IL kicll and Moscow, hut
ii wa, promptly suppressed. Most "l
the students recently arrested al St
p,icrShur,, have been released,
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Orders Tor Silver Dollars.

W,,mNCru>, December 26. Before
gold irll H. par the orders at the Treas
ur, prrurtmrul l"r standard silver dol
Iar, averaged ahuut .-iu.OoO daily. To-
,L,y orders ten = iDCur were received III
Dr,, mail
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-27

BERLIN, December 25.-.The captain
and officers oi the steamship Pomme-
rania have been acquitted. The inquiry
decided that human effort did all that
was possible to avoid the collision and
loss of life.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-27

COPENHAGEN, December ga hotel
keeper has been arrested for threaten
ing TO shoot the King.
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Exports OF Provisions.

WA>uNor"N, December DC The
lurctu ul States has just ISSUED Il very
inter sting statement showing the rN-
rurr Of provisions from the nltcd States
duru. the month al October last, thr
I.lIl- rI which are a. follows
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-04-23
The Eyes of the Egyptians.

The poorly-fed donkeys were tried to
the utmost to carry us back to the steam
er, and scores Of the half-blind, sore-eyed
Arabs kept pace during the entire two
hours ride. A traveller in Egypt is sur
prised at the amount of ophthalma and
the sightless eyes seen among the ma
tives. Want of cleanliness is the cause
of the epidemic, but the dead eyes pro-
coed from the most shocking causes.
Through some inhuman superstition au
Egyptian mother never has her child's
eyes washed until eight days after birth,
by which time the organ is frequently
ruined. Again, it is said that formerly
the men destroyed one eye to escape
military service, but happily the Khe-
dive has lately decided that such a
physical defect shall no longer be suffi-
Gent cause for exemption. Miss Whate-
ley, of the British mission schools of
Cairo, told me that mother considers it
an insult to suggest that her child's eyes
need washing. The crusade of the
teachers to save the children's eyes is a
most difficult one, as are many of the
other self-inficted tasks. The American
mission schools and Miss Whately's Brit
ish mission schools have upwards of l 900
children under tuition. Both are noble
charities.-Corres. Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Fashion Notes,

AsscAsAVss 4NVSCDs
"RICHEL1EU ribbed hosiery is new.
New collars and cuffs are wider than
ever.
FA1LLE continues in favor for house
dresses.
Rows Of machine stitching will trim
summer dresses.
BUTTERFLIES are the new ornaments
for spring hats.
CoLoRED pearl ornaments are on the
new spring bonnets.
The mania for beads and bead trim
mings is likely to continue.
BRoCADED black silk will be used in
combination with plain black silk.
The old color, "ashes Of roses" so
long out of fashion, will be revived this
summer.
SIMULTANEOUSLY stones are again
worn, after having been out of fashion
nearly ten years.
PARAsoLs and sunshades differ in shape
from those of last year, being bell-shaped
instead of canopied.
LACE scarfs, of elaborate figures and
tissue softness, will come in with tho
spring hats and flowers.
"PERLE DE LYONS" is one of the
many new colors this spring, and "Giul-
eta" is another.
The Byron collars and cuffs for ladies
are the latest; those in guipure embroid-
cry are the prettiest.
The jauntiest of spring wraps will be
the coats that fasten over the chest with
a single button, and show a waistcoat
below. They are somewhat masculine
shape and style. =, .
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Peculiar People.
Old bachelors who never smoke.


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Old maids who do not love cats.
People who have catarrh annoying and
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Women who do not love babies.
Women who will suffer from all those
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efficient remedy for these maladies.
People who believe their progenitors were
apes.
People who will read about "Helens Bal
bies," and "That Husband of Mine," and
"That Wife of Mine," and "That Mother
in-law of Nine" and "That Son.in.law of
Mine" and yet fail to read about themselves
in 1.-THE Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser"
Christians quarreling with each other on
their way to Heaven.
People who will seek health at fashionable
watering places, smothering at Saratoga or
Graham diet" at Water Cures and Health
Institutes, when the magnifcen. Invalids'
Hotel, at Buffalo, offers all the elegant COM
forts of the finest hotels, combined with the
best sanitary advantages, Russian, Turkish,
and plunge baths, gymnasium, etc.-and is
situated in and near some of the finest
natural scenery in the Empire State.
The most peculiar of all are the people
who read these paragraphs and fail to profit
by them.
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basket, which is held in the hands of an
assistant. Occasionally he makes a di.
version by pitching a hard one to be
scrambled for by the crowds of children
who have assembled to see the sport.
Near time (while wagers are laid as to
who will likely VIM the other contestant
speeds the distance of a mile or two to
an appointed goal, marks it as proof of
his having touched it, and if he succeeds
in returning before all the eggs are
thrown, the victory and the prize are his,
otherwise they belong to his opponent
The game finished, the prize is present.
ed to the victor with due ceremony and
amid the cheers of the crowd; the hard
eggs are distributed among the COM
pany, and the raw ones carried urroar-
ously into the neighboring inn, there to
be cooked in various ways and eaten.
The remainder of the day is spent in
dancing and making, and if
wedding can possibly be arranged to
take place on that afternoon the fun is
wilder than ever.-F. E. Lorne, ST.
Nicholas.
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4 Notice for Tucker.

Writing of those who scrawl their
names in Egypt, John Russell Young
says: "The greatest donkey of the tribe
the monumental donkey Of the age
is Powell Tucker Of New York. If
Powell Tucker reads these lines he will
learn that his name is the theme of re-
peated excavations throughout Egypt.
Pow as the story goes, did not content
himself with carving his name on the
walls-that, perhaps, would have been
too much trouble. So he carried a
sailor with him, and this sailor had a
pot of black paint and brush. When
ever Powell came to a mountain the
sailor painted in large black letters,
Powell Tucker New York, 1907
Sometimes it is only p. IT,, but the
tracks are here and there all over Egypt.
The authorities in charge of the antiqui-
ties have tried to rub out this and other
marks Of vandalism, but Powelps sailor
painted deep"
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Hold on, Bows.

Hold on to your tongue when you are
just ready to swear, lie or speak harshly.
Hold on to your hand when you are
about to punch, scratch, steal or do any
improper act.
Hold on to your foot when you are on
the point of kicking, running off from
study, or pursuing the path of terror,
shame or crime.
Hold on to your temper when you are
angry, excited or imposed upon, or others
are angry with you.
Hold on to your heart when evil asso-
ciates seek your company, and invite you
to join in their mirtk, games and revelry.
Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is of more value than gold,
high places or fashionable attire.
Hold on to the truth, for it will serve
you we'll, and do you good throughout
eternity.
Hold on to virtue-it is above all price
to you at all times and places.
Hold on to your good character, for it
is, and ever will be, your best wealth.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
My Wife.

My Wife.
Nv little wife Is out beyond burn,
see her parasol behind the fir,
And here am intliting verse to her
Ere she return.
Ths pretty bird Is happy there conceald,
rhis fragrant chamber smiles peaceful smile
WhaE y to sing the joys OF home-the while
w My joys atield!
NV spouse is mild-shes meek as any nun,
And vet her spiritual calm Is SUCH
Somehow ones always feeling she Is much
Too good for one.
Oh. thinks Pm wise and handsome-'tis her creed,
I wonder am either! On my word
Sometimes I've wondered /" an my bonnie bird "
Thinks so indeed.
Perhaps! for she my homage meier repels;
Perhaps might have loved her half life,
p,rhaps--had she but been the little wife
Or some one else.
But why should com plain Of cross or cares?
While entertaining her (who won't complain)
1t may be l an angel entertain
And unawares.
-CornhiH Magasine.
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The British Fleet.

Constantinople Letter to the Phi ladelphia Pr ess
The English squadron, which lies at
anchor between the Princes Islands and
Maltepe, on the northern shore of the
Gulf Of Ismid, is in sight of CONSTANT
nople behind the promonotory of Moda
Bournou, the projecting point of Kadik-
eny or Chalcedon, into the sea of Mar
mora. For some time it was moored in
the deep water in front of the islands of
Prinkipo and Haiku. The Russians
having objected to its proximity to the
capital, the position was changed.
Maltepe is small town on the Gulf of
Ismid, and in vicinity celebrated for
its abundant springs of water, its vegeta-
BILE productions and marble quarries.
The squadron is visited by fleets of boats
from the Princes Islands and the Gulf
coasts, and lively is the traffic carried
on. The Gulf of Ismid is a beautiful
sheet of water about the same width
and length as the Lake Geneva. 1t re-
sembles, in fact, a lake rather than a
marine gulf. Its shores are exceedingly
picturesque-particularly the Asiatic
The European coast is dotted at frequent
intervals with villages and castellated
towns of the Greek era and the middle
ages, while the Asiatic shore rises bold
from the water 10 considerable eleva-
tions, covered With vineyards, olive
groves, plantations of fig trees and flower
beds. The population on both coasts are
almost exclusively Greek. At the
eastern extremity lies the town of Ismid,
Turkish corporation of Nicomedia, at
one time, in the reign Of Dioclctian, the
capital of the Roman Empire. There
also is one of the minor ship-building
stations of the Turkish government.
Nicomedia was on several occasions
shaken to pieces by earthquakes. What
the commissions of nature did not destroy
the Cloths and vandals finished. There
is hardly vestige left Of its ancient
glory,
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THERE was a panic at the Metropoli-
tan theater, Sacramento, March IA. A
boy who had concealed himself in the
loft to witness the play surreptitiously
by peeping through the ventilator, made
a mistake and forced his leg throug the
plastering, large fragments Of which fell
over the east and lower side of the par
quette. The spectators sprang to their
feet and began to work their way into
the aisles, and toward the doors, but as
the whole ceiling did not give way and
the small boy was speedily discovered,
the panic was soon over and the play
went on.
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A Horse Story.
Spirit OF the Times.

A most miraculous display of animal
endurance has come to light in Indepen-
dence, Mo. On or about February 18th,
one of Messrs. Larkin & Sons large bay
bus horses mysteriously disappeared
from the open commons directly in the
rear Of their stables, on Rock street, and,
although thorough search was made,
no trace of the missing horse was found.
They finally advertised the horse as
strayed or stolen, and offered reward
tor his recovery, but still no trace could
be found until Monday last.
Mr.. H. G. St. Clair had::occasion to 20
into his carriage-house for the first time
in several weeks, and, on opening the
door, beheld to his great astonishment
the missing horse, which had undoubted-
ly been shut up ever since the day of his
disappearance-twenty-eight days--with-
out single drop of water, and all the
food he had had was about $50 TBS of
bran, which Mr.. St. Clair had placed in
the carriage-house short time before the
disappearance of the horse. The bran
was entirely consumed, and the greater
portion of the box which it had been in
had been eaten by the starving horse,
which had also eaten its own manure, as
none was found in the house.
1t is supposed that the horse, in its
wanderings, had found the door of the
carriage-house open, gone in, and the
door had blown shut, and fastened, and
as no one had occasion to enter the
house, it had been prisoner ever since.
When Mr.. St. Clair discovered the horse
it was very much emaciated, but was
still upon its feet, and rushed for the
door as soon as it was opened, and made
its way directly to the stable of its own
ers. That it had not had water during
the twenty-eight days imprisonment is
known to be fact, as there was no wa
ter in the house, and no one had been
there during that time.
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.


merry Rain.
BY FLETA FORESTER,
Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain,
Tapping on the window-pane;
Trickling, coursing,
Crowding, forcing
Tiny rills
To the dripping window-sills.
Laughing rain-drops, light and swift,
Through the air they fall and sift;
Dancing, tripping,
Bounding, skipping
Thro' the street,
With their thousand merry feet.
Every blade Of grass around
Is ladder to the ground;
Clinging, striding,
Slipping, sliding,
On they come
With their busy zip and hum.
In the woods, by twig and spray,
To their roots they ind their way;
Pushing, creeping,
Doubling, leaping,
Down they go
To the waiting life below.
Oh, the brisk and merry rain,
Bringing gladness in its train!
Falling, glancing,
Thinking, dancing
All around
Listen to its CHEEKY sound.
81. Nicholas.
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Flirting.

Girls are sometimes admonished not to
Airt because, however pleasant it might
be to them, it might break the hearts of
those with whom they firt. Nonsense.
We have heard of victims of blighted
affection, but never yet came across one.
Time, in this sort of matters, works Won
ders. We doubt whether any man ever
vet died of broken heart. Men are
more vain than women. There are ex-
ceedingly few of them who are not fiat
tered BY the idea of some woman falling
in love with them. The lady for the
moment affords them this qualification
of self-love. She makes herself as agree
able as she can. If the vanity of the
man leads him to believe that she has
fallen victim to his charms, this is his
fault. The illusion has raised him to the
seventh heaven for brief period, and if
the period be short he has been the gain.
er. In one Of DeBernard's novels he
describes an old captain who lives very
happy because he fancies that, years ago,
some girl died of broken heart because
he had declined to marry her. He car
ries about her portrait, and on all occa-
sions pulls in out and weeps over it.
One day, however, he meets girl, who
had not died, but had married a grocer,
who forgot all about the captain. He is
in despair. He can no longer indulge in
the luxury of grieving over the sad fate
of the object Of his youthful affections.
Flirt on, young ladies, and do not i'm
agine that the amusement will break the
heart of any one. 1t mays wound his
vanity, and where this is the only quail
ity the man has, the blow may, stagger
him. But it will do him good-show
him his real selfshness. So firt on,
young ladies, but at the same time tenn
per the blow to the tenderness of the
youth who is to receive it.-Bov Bells.
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The Cardiff Docks.

At the time that the father of the
present Marquis of Butte came into pos
session of the town of Cardiff, it was a
little unimportant village at the edge of
a large tract of desolate moorland, which
had never been utilized in any way.
Finally he resolved to supply the town
with docks, and is said to have risked his
last penny in the enterprise, but it was
successful, and Cardiff is now a busy and
thriving seaport. A great income is de-
rived from these docks, which is all ap-
piled to further expansion of CONNER
cial facilities. The present Lord Butte is
also the owner of large fields of the
smokeless coal, that is so extensively
used by navies.
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him he has a bad temper, and after
brief and stormy season of welded infe-
licity the courts again set her free, and
she goes forth convinced that happiness
is only to be found with moderate
drinker who has brown locks or is bald
headed. If her first husband was poet
she is apt to imagine that literature is
incompatible with content, and to con-
slder only men of business eligible for
her second choice; while clergyman or
doctor is taken for her third companion
with the conviction that in the learned
professions alone wise, tender and affec-
tionate husband can be found-one who
can command wife's respect as we'll as
win her love. The woman who has found
a lean man sc0undrel turns to fat
man for honesty and kindliness, and she
who has seen the little man play the
tyrant seeks a slave in a tall one. It
takes years of suffering to convince a
woman that it is not her duty to cleaye
to the man to whom she is first married;
but when she has one learned the
lesson of disloyalty and set out
from her home in the pursuit of happi-
ness, she puts her ideal very high and
roams until she has found spouse
corresponding to it. For this reason
woman who is once divorced is very
likely to be divorced two or three times,
and for this reason woman when once
divorced is not likely to be reconciled
to her husband. The case of Mrs. Louise
q. Fenner, of Chicago, forms a curious
exception to the latter part of this rule.
She was married in 1860 in Oharga,
lroquois county, Illinois, and lived thir-
teen years with her lord and master, Da-
vid Fenner, when she procured a divorce
from him on the ground OF cruel and
brutal treatment. Instead of making
use of her liberty and concluding that
the world was all before her where to
choose, she remained single for year,
and the disconsolate Fenner, lonely for
want of something to beat and abuse,
came wooing her, promising that he
would for the future be softer than silk,
milder than lambs wool and sweeter than
the honey of Hymettus. The foolish
woman, in spite of the lessons of her
long experience, put faith in his prom
ises, and remarked him at Joliet, March
5, 1874. For three years she lived with
him in various places, and was from time
to time called vile names and beaten
with great spirit and persistency until
she fled to Chicago and began proceed
ings for second divorce. It is grave
question whether the court should grant
her petition. What security is there
that she may not wed Fenner a third
time and thus make the judicial decree
a mere nullity? Having thrown away
one chance for new deal offered to her
by the Illinois judges, is it we'll to hold
out another opportunity? Is it safe to
leave at large woman who could be de-
luded into matrimony for second time
by a man with whom she had lived for
thirteen years? "Who fools me once"
said the Scotchman, "shame on him.
Who fools me twice, shame on me-"
Should not she who married without the
maiden's fond illusions, without the
widows aspiration for better luck, with
out the divorced woman's yearniug for
variety, be left to suffer as warning ex-
ample for all her sex?
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"KNowLEDGE is power" and we pub
lish this to inform you that if you wish a
sure and certain remedy for Heart Disease,
Nervousness, Sleepless Nights and General
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Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking
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DR.. Graves HEART REGULATOR is for
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CAUTIoN.-Wc caution all persons
not to buy the extra large packages of dust
and ashes now put up by certain parties and
called Condition Powders. They are utter.
ly worthless. Buy Sheridan's Cavalry Con-
dition Powders if you buy any; they are alb