Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-09
TIMELY TOPICS.

GEN. GRANT has more engagements
than variety company, and he is well
supplied with advance agents who know
how to work up the business.
The Boston Post alleges that Mary
Anderson can kick football forty feet
into the air and not start hairpin?
But how does the Post know"
AND now they have discovered that
poor genius named Collier wrote most
OF the good things in "Pinafore." He
himself has said it, but it is probably un-
true.
IT is a significant fact that German
newspapers in the United States are
one-third more numerous than IN the
Fatherland, where Bismarck's censor
ship keeps them in perpetual fear OF fine
and suspension.
REMARKABLE as it may seem, the Pres
ident-with the able assistance OF Sec
rotary Evart3-has decided that neither
of the vacant foreign missions can be
filed by an Ohio man, unless Minister
Moves comes home from France. This
depressing news has already been tele-
graphed to Ohio.
A CHILD in Auburn, Maine, whose life
was despaired of, is said to have been
cured of diptheria by doses OF lime.
Small Jumps of lime were keptconstantIy
shaking near its mouth Tor over day
and half, until over'a barrel OF lime
was thus slaked The child was thought
to be dying before this remedy was EN-
ployed. 1t breathed the fumes OF the
lime constantly until cured.
The wool trade just now is in very
fiourishing condition. Stocks are COM
paratively light in the warehouses, and
the supply is scarce all over the coun-
try. Medium grades have advanced
since the middle Of August about 10 per
cent, and fine grades about II per cent.
Last February wool was down to rs and
% cents. The low prices tempted man
ufacturers, and they bought up every
thing that was offered.
The trial of Major Reno now in pro-
gress reveals the fact that that officer IS
addicted to drunkenness and gambling,
and that some Of his associates are no
better. 1t is said that Gen. Sturgis is
astonished at the evidence, and will issue
an order against excessive gambling" at
officers quarters. This forcibly reminds
us of gentle old Methodist minister,
who once read from his pulpit sentence
OF suspension OF amember,f for excessive
profanity and immortality"
IFthe House OF Representatives passes
the resolution calling upon the State De
partment for all the correspondence be-
tween it and Colonel Mosby, Consul at
Hong Kong, the public will get some
mighty interesting reading. 1t is quite
time the facts about some of the Con-
sular officers in China were given out.
A lot OF people, more than suspected OF
rascality, are kept in place there, and it
ought to be known what the administra-
ton is doing it for.
An elaborate and careful search has
been ordered to be made in Zululand for
the Prince Imperiaps watch. Attachedto
the chain, his Highness wore that relic
"a fragment of the true Cross which be-
longed 10 Charlemagne, came into the
hands OF the first Napoleon, and
was always worn by the late Emperor,
who regarded it as a species OF talisman,
and il is in the hope that this may be
recovered that the search is to be made.
Two octogenarians on what was re-
garded as their bridal tour, were des-
cried on the cars near Rutland, VT, one
day last week. They were Amos Par
ker, the New Hampshire poet, and his
bride, formerly Miss Julia Smith, OF
Connecticut. The marriage ceremony
was celebrated last March, just after
Miss Smith had passed her 80th birth
day, and the groom was only few years
her senior. Miss Smith was one OF the
famous Smith sisters, of Glastonbury,
Conn, who owned some cows and trans
lated the Bible.
WHEN the Australian authorities were
threatened with an inundation of Chi
nese cheap labor, they devised a plan
for keeping John Chinaman out, which
proved altogether eiIectual. 1t was to
impose poll tax of $50 upon each ar
rival, the amount to be refunded upon
the return Of the immigrant to his ma
tive country. 1t worked like charm,
and if it ever becomes necessary for us
to protect ourselves against the almond
eyed foreigner, the Australian plan
might be worth trying
THEY tells us that King Cetywayo is
said to have astonished people by his
courteous manner and his liking for
cleanliness. When Sir Bartle Frere
asked HIM If there was anything he
wished for, the savage answered that he
would like to have the floor OF his room
cleaner. He suffers somewhat from
rheumatism. He takes an interest in
illustrated papers, and when he was
shown one OF them with a picture OF
himself sharpening knife to kill Gran
der, he burst out laughing, and said he
never knew what a real lie was until he
saw that.
SENATOR BAYARD sawed the limb off
between himself and the tree when he
said that he never had spent any
money TO obtain an office, and that lie
''never would spend any for that pur-
pose. "-Cmcinndt Commercial.
Congressman Speer's bill to prevent
dress parades of the army on Sunday
and Senator Plumb's proposition to
abolish draw poker are adopted the
army may as well be reduced to nothing
without any more DELAY. There won't