Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-06
sEAsoNABLn SENTIMENTS.


The leaves are scattering. This is
strew.
The oak leaves begin to assume the
color of an old toper's nose.
ALL the mills are running full time
Republican Newspapers, Including the
mills OF God, the popularity OF which we
need not mention.
MRs. JESSIE BENTON Fremont has CIV
en- thirtv-twO "History Talks 10 the
larger pupils of the public schools in
Prescott, Arizona.
GENERAL SHERMAN's third daughter,
Miss Ellie, is engaged to be married to
a Young naval officer named Thackeray,
who is a relative of the great novelist.
The man who tried for half an hour
10 guess how Chicago people pronounced
"eclat," wasn't bit satisfied when he
ascertained that they pronounce it as
other people do.
WE don't think the fact that Carl
Schurz has got lot OF teachers at work
instructing young Sioux in mathemat-
les will result in more than one Indian
summer this year.
"HARPER's WEEELY," observed Mr..
Cornell. when he noticed that it advised
Republicans TO scratch, els very small
affair, very small affair indeed. 1t
takes cordwoOd on subscription"
II Judge West allows himself to be
seduced into Joint discussion with Dan
Voorhees,, it will be about equal to his
being struck by lightning or being kick
ed by mule. And by this latter We
mean no disrespect TO Mr.. Voorhees,.
THE fact that General Ben Harrison,
of Indiana, has crossed the border In
the interest OF Charles Foster has no
significance unless the General wears a
new shade i'm his necktie or offers some
thing original in the cut OF his clothes
A MICHIGAN evangelist is inspiring
hundreds of hearers with frantic de-
sire 10 be saved. He pOrtrays hell as a
hall i'm which an Ashley belt walking
match is in progress, while at one end
is a platform from which q. W. Smally
is lecturing on the life and labors OF
Sarah Bernhrrdt.
A CINCINNATI business firm recently
had sight draft on a Columbus lOhlo)
man come back TO them protested, the
notary who handled the case winding
M his report as follows: 81 found said
office locked up. i thereupOn stood in
front door OF said office and demanded
payment of said draft in an audible
tone OF voice, and thereupon received
no reply.
CoNNECTICUT may now as wei give
up the ghost and die. \ Kansas genius
representing himself as a practical farm
err, has lately been visiting all the lars
with a prize pumpkin and took the pre-
NUNS every time. 1t measured I feet
in circumference and weighed 80
pounds. Several days ago, at Council
Grove, a rival farmer attempted TO tap
the pumpkin in the absence OF its own
er to get some of the seeds, and discOv-
cred that it was made OF wood. 1t was
a sort of flat pumpkin and OF course
wood not 10.
JACKSONVILLE Fla letter to Savannah
Ners: A curious discovery has been
made i'm carrying on the excavations re-
auired for the water-wOrks AT. the
depth of twenty-eight feet the wOrkmen
encountered an extensive bed of oyster
and clam shells, mixed with pieces OF
wood and charcoal, showing evidently
that the ancients were as fond as the
moderns of these delicacies, and that
roasts of this description were fashion,
able i'm the DAYS of remote antiquity.
Truly there is nothing new under the
sun"
AMAN i'm Pennsylvania noted for his
generosity lately had 100000 left him
as a legacy. Beggars OF all manner OF
causes, good, bad and indifferent, flock
ed upon him so fast that he adopted the
plan of stating to each the amount OF
his legacy, and the fact that he had hosts
of applications, and the inquiry, in
view of all this, how much he ought to
be expected to give the applicant. The
amounts than applied for he noted
down, and promised an answer in six
months from the time he got his legacy.
At the end of that period he added up
the amounts applied for and found the
sum total thereof was 100000.