Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

THE japanese eat Tulip bulbs. The
brutes.
WHAT is the matter up at Fall River?
We have not heard OF a strike there for
a long time-nearly two weeks.
An exchange explains that the reason
they never hang murderers in Texas is
that they recognize that it is worse
fate to let man live there.
PROFESSOR W. p. ATKINSON asks
whether Harper's "IIalf Hour Series
and "Franklin-square Library" are not
to prove the true remedy for the dime
novel disease? 1t were a consumma-
ton devoutly to be wished,
THE newly appointed Senator from
Michigan is a townsman and political
ally of Gov. Croswell. This accounts
for his elevation from comparative OBJ
security to one of the most digniiied and
responsible offices in the country.
\ FEW years ago a horse that could
trot mile in 2:40 was considered
prodigy in horsellesh. The New York
Herald of Sunday published the names
of 2SS American horses that have made
records OF $50 and less during the YEP r.
This shows what breeding and trai ming
is doing for our horses in this Ct ,untry.
TIE persons who threw the three
eggs at General Grant " nile he was
speaking from the plato nm of the rail
road car at Galesbur =, Ill.,, last week,
three vulgar street urchins, age Is, IT
and ID years, have been arrested. Be-
Ing asked ii = ley "were instigated to
the act by s'Iybody," one of the boys
SAID they were not, but " they was a
man Sanding there who looked real
mad as if he was going to instigate us,
an we ran away" SO the egg will not
re feature OF the campaign.
THE instruction in Cuba causes great
anxiety at Madrid, and heavy reinforce
ments are to be forwarded to the colon
ial army at once. 1t is costing Spain
very heavily to retain her hold on the
Gem of the Antilles" There is g
strong movement in Madrid in favor OF
the abolition of Cuban slavery, and the
idea that pacification and tranquility
would result from emancipation, is pre-
sented with much force. After the we'd
ding of Alfonso the Cortes will decide
the question OF abolition, They are
tired of colonizing the Cuban graveyards
with Spanish soldiers.
IL all probability "Prof' Tice will &C
on prophesying concerning the weather
and other meteorological phenomena, in
spite of his recent conspicuous failure
All authorities agree that meteors trave
in systems round the sun, and that dis
PLAYS of falling stars occur when the
earth passes through a meteor system
There are already recognized more than
one hundred meteor systems, known 10y
the directions in which the correspond
ing falling stars encounter the earth
The best known meteor systems are
those which produce a shower Novem
Der 1914, in certain years, and those
which usually produce Il display on
August lO-ll. The shower Tce pre-
dicted this year, however, is believed by
the best astronomers to be due in about
eleven years.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer, in a short
political history OF Ohio, relates the
story of the Stste's admission into the
Union, and tells how earnestly the Fed
eralists struggled to prevent 1t. For the
first time we find ourselves agreeing
with Alexander Hamilton's party. Ohio
should never have been admitted
UJSJHgiOH Post.
Bon TOONBS represents nobody but
himself. He never was Democrat, but
a Wing of the old school. On the slav'
cry question he was an extremist and
went with his section. Had he lived al
the North he would have been another
Ben Wade. He is blunt and sensation
al, but there is not a particle OF Demo
cratic blood in his veins, and there new
| er was.-BOStOn Post.
1T is reported that plan is on foot to
reconcile" the Democratic party IN
New York and that Gov. Seymour has
undertaken the difficult role OF arbitei
or pacifcator. This is something like
locking the stable door after the horse
is gone. Mr.. Seymour should have