Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-20
TIMELY TOPICS.


natl Commercial, in complimentary
mood. Very true; but the English way
of spelling that sort of chic is cheek.
EVERY student in a Vermont college
has Struck" or gone into voluntary
suspension on account of alleged unjust
treatment OF a member Of the sophomore
class by the faculty.
THE Newport Daily Ne,rs is engaged
in a war against what it calls "a piece OF
vandalism OF American robbers" namely,
the removal of Cleopatra's needle from
Egypt to New York. The Ners should
not get excited. II is bad for the
nerves.
BEDFORD, the Republican member
from Colorado, says that ii Congress
doesn't oblige him at the next session
by turning the Indians out OF the lands
they own in Colorado, then the State
will DO it in spite of the nation. But
then perhaps Mr.. Belford is not as terri
bile a brave as he supposes.
IT was a sorry day for the Afghan bar
barians when they slaughtered Major
Cavagnari and his embassy at Cabul.
Fiitv-twO OF the butchers have been
strung up already and the end is not
yet. 1t is possible that YakOob Khan
himself may dangle at the end OF a rope
before the investigation closes.
Mr.. II. III. BOYEsoN'S paper on Victor
Hugo, in the December Scribncr, will
give account of the poets personal sur
roundngs and of the people whom one
meets at his levees. A remarkable incl
dent is the revelation by the poet OF his
ignorance of even the existence OF an
American by the name of Emerson.
Mr.. HAYES, in a gush of confidence,
has assured Mr.. Public Printer Defrees
that under no circumstances will he be
q candidate for second term in the
White House. 1t is not reported that
Mr.. Deirees asked him to nurse boom,
or permit his friends to hoist his name.
Thus far no one has ventured on such a
suggestion.
A FRIEND of Chief Justice Chase at
tributes his death to the fact that he had
not practiced law for twenty years when
he became Chief Justice, and found HIM
self so deficient among the profound old
Judges associated with him that he
studied day and night to remedy his de-
fects and bring himself up to the fit
standard, and under this mental strain
he broke down.
An Arizona judge has just shown his
appreciation OF modern improvements
in firearms by shooting and killing an
editor. The editors partner immedi-
ately shot the magistrate, and was him
sell wavlaid and extinguished the same
night by some parties unknown. The
total bag for the days sport was judge
and two editors. Altogether, it was a
great day for Arizona.
THE invitation OF Speaker Randall to
attend the unwilling of the statute OF
General Thomas this week states that it
lis extended not only on account OF
your official position, but because the
records of the War Department show
that YOU were one Of the first, while
serving as a private soldier under Cen
eral Thomas, to call the attention OF the
authorities in Washington to his merits
as a commander"
ADoLPH SUTRo, OF tunnel lame, de-
clares that the Comstock lode cannot be
exhausted for century. Chicago eX-
pertS show that by breaking new ground
the wheat crop of the great Northwest
can be doubled in a few years. Thus,
from the bowels of the mountains and
the surface OF the plains, there is prom
Used an increase OF material wealth,
which, under good government, ought to
make US the richest'as well as the most
comfortable and busy people on the
earth.
JosEPH Cook began a recent lecture
in the Old South Church, Boston, with
the startling command: Call the roll
Of the ghosts which float through this
building as thickly as leaves in Val
lambroSa-John Adams, Samuel Adams,
John Hancock, Joseph Warren, James
Otis, George Whitefeld, George Wash
ington. l will venture TO say that there
is not one of these historic souls that
does not sympathize with the POnca
Indians 30 lar, nobody has called
the roll, and the ghosts OF these h. 5.
continue to float.
Mr.. WILLIAM NORRIS, the poet, writes
from Venice lamenting the vandalism OF
the Italian government, which is tear
ing down and rebuilding in modern"
style some of the 0randest historic struc