Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-29
TIMELY TOPICS.

DR.. Book, OF Lelpslc, holds Tea anu
coffee accountable for nervousness and
peevishness.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh to the
Cincinnati Enquirer complains oil the
scarcity of water. Well, they have
plenty OF beer.
The cost OF living is very low in Mel
bourne, Australia. Prime meat is 4 too
cents pound. and bread l2l cents for
iour-pound LOAF.
The Connecticut school fund, obtain
ed by thesale of the lands N the Western
Reserve, in Ohio, yielded in interest
last year eighty cents for each scholar
in the State.
The State Temperance Alliance oil
Louisiana have adopted an address to
the voters of the State declaring that
unless intemperance is checked by legis-
lation they will nominate State ticket.
The world-iamous Cologne Cathedral
is at length approaching completion, and
it is confidently stated that August OF
next year will see the mighty minister
finished. The first stone was laid in
l24S.
The Topeka Capital, one of the lead
ing Republican newspapers OF Kansas,
sets a good example to partisan journals
by its impartial course in regard to the
ingalls, investigation. 1t would be well
if we had more such organs.
The separation OF the church from the
state is being agitated in Switzerland.
The most popular proposition is one
which provides that no one shall be
taxed to support church which he
does not attend.
Custom House officials in New York
aud Boston are keeping an unusual
sharp lookout for fashionable SNUG
glers" on the arrival OF the European
steamers this fall, and have already
made some notable seizures.
\ MAIL contractor in the West en-
ploys thirty wild Indians to carry the
mails. They do their work well. They
follow no roads, but strike straight
across plains and deserts, and travel
night and day, as no white man could.
THIS was what the Chattanooga health
officer found pinned to the curtains Of
berth No. in a sleeping-coach: Dear
Sir: do solemnly assert, first, that l
am well; second, that | have been in
Nashville a month, and came there
direct from Chicago, ILL.,; third, have
never been in Memphis or any other
velow-iever district; fourth, | don't
want to go there. w. II. Goodrich, birth
No. 3. P. 81 have large dog and
spring gun here in my berth. Please
don't wake me-"
Mr.. HAYES is vehemently assuring
people out West that he won't be can
! didate for reelection. Nobody aXed
YOU, sir" she said.-PhaadeiphiG Times.
THERE isan extensive game Of "blutf "
or "brag' going on across the river. Both
parties profess to be confident of sue
cess, and the Nationals to hear from.
Somebody must be badly deceived or be
doing a heavy JOB of lying.-Nc'c Mar
tiBsriHe Messenger.
4 SYSTEMATIC attempt to abduct The
children of wealthy parents, in order to
obtain money by their release, has been
discovered in Buffalo, and the woud-be
perpetrator of the crimes arrested. If
there is no law by which this man can
be kept under lock and key for the re-
mainder OF his life, there ought to be-
| PhiladelDhia Press.
IT was sensible on the part of Mr.,
Fernando Wood to confne himself last
night in Paris to extolling the republic
can institutions of France and America
as "a private individual" 1t would
have been awkward for him to wander
of into the questions OF free trade and
tariff reform rs "a representative OF the
United States Government" -NeW York
World.