Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-25
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

CErEwAYo is smart, but his captor is
Marter.
LONDON Truth advises Lord Chelms-
ford 10 retire into obscurity, which is
more elegant than 10 tell him To go and
bag his head, and means just about the
same.
THE coming of a new guest may
awaken new interest, but he can never
entirely crowd out the memory OF the
one that is gone, says the Philadelphia
B,ilLtm. It's different with a boil.
You'll think of only the new one.
"Thev are trying lot OF 'PinafOre'
singers in there Said Smith TO Jones, as
they passed building whence Heated
strains Of "A maiden fair To see, etc.
Glad ofit," returned the misanthropi-
cal Jones: "hope they'll give 'em sixty
DAYS and costs.
A PHILADELPHIA lady is the owner Of
a valuable relic i'm the shape OF a manu-
script copy Of Wesley'S Hymns in the
handwriting Of the author. The book
descended 10 this lady from her grand
father, 10 whom il was given in partial
payment of a debt by the son OF the
man who printed the first edition OF the
hymns.
TUE Boston Post says that ANNE
Louise Cary darns her own stockings.
We don't Cary so much about that, but
c-n she COOk?-N1r York Commercial
iaIr.rtis,r She can. She knows how
to make a stew for her manager, andshc
and Clara Kellogg cooked up pretty
kettle OF fish.
TuE New Haven Register says: "Paul
BJvton is the son of an lrShman."
Isn't it about time to stop blaming that
unfortunate nation for everything -
Boston Post How can We help It?
Doesn't hc float like Cork, with all he
can Kerry, big rubber Ulster on to
boot, and isn't he the "darlint buoy OF
the sea? We do not Erin our state
mrut.-Nelr Harm Register.
THAT LEyEL-uEADED old gentlemen,
W.. Punch, isn't half wrong when he
saws that a picnic would be very tame
affair ii the sun were not boiling, and
the sand didn't get into the salad, and
the sand were soft and smooth. and
there were no hornets, and one hadn't
To 20 thrrc-quarterS OF a mile Tor water.
4 MINISTER i'm the North OF Scotland
was taking % task one OF his hearers
who was q frequent absentee, AMI the
accused defended himself on the plea ot
dislike 10 long sermons. "'Deed,
man. 80 said his reverend monitor, a little
urttled at the inSinuation, "it We dinna
mend, We may land yerSell where ven
M oe troubled wi many sermons, either
longorshort." "Weelaiblins .perhapsl
sac. rrtorted John, but it will be nae
for want o. ministers.
4 CALIEoRNIA lady writes an indig-
uaut note 10 contemporary, IN which,
with true rustic innocence, sheeXpresSeS
a belief that editors never 90 to heaven.
We thought even country people knew
that journalists never went anywhere
They don't get the chance. They Just
sit mp nights thinking how 10 do good,
until the tops Of their heads wear holes
through their hair.
A wAGGIsu journalist, who is often
merry over his personal plainneSS, tells
this story OF himSeli; Il went into
drug store early the other morning for
a dose of morphine for sick friend.
The night clerk objected to giving it to
me without prescription, evidently
fearing that | meant To- destroy myself
.p~haW' Saii /, do look like a man
who would Kiln himsyli?' Gazing at me
steadily for half a minute, he replied:
I don't know. Seems 10 me II | looked
ike Won, should be greatly tempted to
Kill myself"