Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-10
TIMELY TOPICS.

Mr.. DOYLE, an American, built the
first paper mill in Japan, in 1874.
TT. GRIFFIrH, of Utica, n. Y, owns
the first greenback issued by the Gov
eminent, and has refused 500 for it.
BRAINS count in war more than ever,
in spite of breech-loaders. Sir Garnet
Wolseley did in Zululand with 5000 men
what Lord Chelmsford failed TO do with
$4,000.
Mr.. LoRILLARD, the owner OF Parole"
finds that he cannot bring the cup,
valued at g, 500, which his horse won,
into this country without paying 81 900
duty on it. Blaine will explain all that
away.
OLIVER HE'LL is really the name OF a
Kentucky deacon-O. He'll for short.
New York has a similar church official
named Gaudam. 1t would sound odd
TO hear the minister address one ofthese
men by name, and request him to "pass
the plate"
THE Boston Herald, deeply affected
by the pitiable spectacle which General
BUTLER presents in his persistent but
vain endeavors to become Governor OF
Massachusetts, suggests that the State
build miniature State House and let
General BUTLER occupy it at moderate
rent. The idea has such an air OF char
ity about it that the fund necessary
might, perhaps, be raised by private
subscription.
Mn. BERGH will shudder to learn that
it is proposed TO propagate sponges on
the Florida coast by cutting the live
sponge into small pieces, attaching
them to pieces of rock and sinking them
to proper depths in suitable locations.
Prof. Schmidt reports that in three
years each piece will attain remarkable
size. He estimates the cost Of raising
1000 sponges at SIS, which can be sold
for $50, leaving a net profit OF S35.
THE walking match tor the O'Leary
belt has been chiefly remarkable for the
sickness and apparent breaking-up of
"Blower" Brown, the rodoubtable Eng
lishman, hitherto regarded as one OF the
foremost of six day pedestrians. When
the men who never should have entered
have been crowded out of the race-four
Withdrew on the first day-we may look
for spirited contest among the remain
ing competitors and probably for the de-
velopment of some good pedestrians.
THE continued uncertainty as to the
fate Of Professor Wise and Mr.. Burr,
who assembled in a balloon from st.
Louis on Sunday, September 2Sth, re-
calls the aerial voyage of la Mountain
and IIaddock, twenty years ago, in 1859.
They assembled from WatertOwn, New
York, sailed 800 miles in four hours,
and landed in the depths OF Canadian
wilderness, far north OF civilized habi'
tations. They were four days without
food, and were absent from home thir-
teen days, returning after everybody had
given them up for lost.
AFTER the death OF Mark Hopkins,
one Of the Bonanza milliOnaires OF Cali
fornia, the property was distributed
among the heirs. \ short time since
Mr.. c. p. Huntington, friend of the
Hopkins family, was in Washington on
business and accidentally learned that
the United States Treasurer had s. 700,
600 in bonds and 100000 in gold which
he was holding in trust for the Hopkins
heirs. Mr. Hopkins had kept no record
of the deposit Of this vast sum, and it
was not included in the inventory after
his death. His heirs claimed it, and it
will be divided among them. There are
not many fortunes in this country or
any other, from which S5,3OO,OO0 would
not be missed.
GEv. GRANT kindly informed the eX-
ConiederateS the other day that what
they needed was travel. But, uniortu-
nately, the ex-COnlederates can't travel
arorni the world as Gen. Grant cam
LOuisrjHs COUrier-JOTTdl.
ANY expectation that victory will be
easy this year, because OF Democratic
diSsenSons, may be at once dismissed.
About the only result that can be pre-
dicted with certainty OF the Kelly
Robinson fight is that it will bring out
a very large Democratic vote, and on
all names, except the first on the State
ticket, that vote will be solid.-New York
Times lS1iTHHN.
II arsenic is commonly used in stuff
ing teeth by dentists, as prominent
dentist Of this city has asserted, the peO-
pie ought 10 know it. George Arthur
Gardiner has died in the most eXcrucia-
ting torture from gangrene OF the head
and neck, produced, it is alleged, by the
placing Of arsenic in a hollow tooth to
kill the nerve. I'm Justice 10 the dentist
who inserted the stutling, the body
should be exhumed and an analysis
made in order to test the theory of the
physicians who claim that death
was caused by arsenic. This unfOr-
tunatc case has, however, more
comprehensive lesson to teach, and 1t Is,
that no man should be permitted by
law 10 practice as dentist who has not
had the training of a physician and sur
geon. Nine-tenths of the deaths that
result from dentistry are tracable di-
rectly or indirectly to the absence OF
this training.-BrOOklm Times.