Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

STATSTICANc say tllhl bhS Pr "A"N
of the world shows daily net increase
of about q, 1000.
An Indiana Touring mill is grinding
25, 900 barrels of -four to be shipped
direct to Germany.
TAKING the census OF the United
States next year will cost on an average
one dollar to every twenty inhabitants.
CHARIrABLY disposed persons will
find worthy objects for their munih-
cence in the people of Red Rock, Pa,
two hundred of whom were lett home
less and utterly destitute by the fire last
week.
Ir turns out that Afghanistan is not
so much subdued and pacifed as We had
been led to believe. The English troops
have had skirmishes of the hardest kind
with the hill tribes, and what is more
important, they came off second best.
LAWRENCE BARRETT, the tragedian, is
TO become manager OF the California
Theatre, San Francisco, next spring.
The stockholders guarantee him against
loss, the establishment having been,
like the rest OF the Pacific coast theatres,
financially unsuccessful for several
years past.
Miss ALICE LoNGFELLow, daughter OF
the poet, has become the Massachusetts,
Vice. Regent of the Mount Vernon La
dies Association. This society owns
the former home OF Washington, and
its main object is the preservation oil the
house and grounds for posterity.
An announcement has recently been
published of the discovery OF uranium
the first ever made, it is said, in this
country in the Sacramento mining dis
trict, California. Uranium is very
hard. but tolerably malleable metal, re-
sembling IN general appearance iron or
nickel. 1t is rare and costly, and highly
valued by glass makers for imparting
| rich tints 10 their wares.
Miss KATE FIELD brought from STRAIT
ford slip of Shakespeare's mulberry
tree, which she has presented to the
| Central Park Commissioners. 1t is to
be kept in greenhouse until April and
then planted with proper ceremony
probably upon the poets birthday, The
Park Commissioners sent for the slip on
Miss Fields arrival, and it is now in
their care.
BY virtue OF an arrangement between
tine French and Austrian authorities
urgent kilograms" will be received on
and after December l, for transmission
between the Geographic Offices at the
Paris and Vienna bourses. These dis
patches will have priority over other
private messages and will be charged for
at three times the rate of ordinary tele-
grams. Could not some such arrange
ment be made in this country? 1t
would be OF great advantage to many
people.
THEY stood gazing attentiyely in a
Main street show window yesterday
afternoon at a choice ermine cloak en-
veloping the attenuated form OF female
dummy. "Dum me- said he, as the
yariegated comforter around his neck
received violent yank from passing
boot black, 'knowing Us do Christmas
is comm I'd give most anything if that
cloak was mine" "Er-mine,' she re-
piled demurely, and they wandered on
10 the adjacent holiday display, totally
| HRGpRs"jR"5uRS as atrocious as those a
Sunday newspaper man is frequently
shot at for.
For good sport Montana seems to be
the happiest hunting ground. Two
Scotch gentlemen who are travelling
over the world, and everywhere looking
for good shooting, have gone to San
Francisco after several months sport
along Montana rivers. They say they
were never in want of something royal
to shoot at, finding buflalOes, elks,
bears, deer, antelopes, mountain lions,
| lvnxs, wildcats, and other game in
abundance. They brought as trophies
magnificent sets of elk and deer antlers,
buffalo heads, bear and other robes.
Twenty-eight bears, mostly grizzlies, fell
prey To their rifles. One of these was
estimated to weigh 200 pounds, and
measured thirty-three inches around
/ the forearm. The robe, handsome and
well preserved, measures eight feet three
/ inches from nose to rump.
SID MULEY HAssAN, the reigning
Sultan Of Morocco, may Justly claim to
be one of the unluckiest sovereigns OF
his period, for poison has been admin
istcred to him in his food upon two sue
cessive occasions. Indeed the effect of
the last dose he unconsciOusly swallow
eel has been to undermine his constitu-
ton so gravely that he has become
confirmed invalid None OF the drugs
prescribed Tor him by his body-hakim
have done HIM any good; so, in sheer
desperation he has sent off from Fee,
his capital, to Mecca a holy man OF great
local repute as his ambassador to the
Keeper of the Sacred Kaaba, imploring
that pious iunctionary to part, at any
price, with the blessed broom daily used
for dustingand polishing up the mystic
marble that covers the Prophets grave.
The course OF treatment imposed upon
the august sufferer is very simple. 1t
consists in hanging up the broom in his
bedroom, where its presence is expected
to bring health, wealth and long life.
SOME of the German papers are flat
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