Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-08
TIMELY TOPICS.
SoNG Of the ice men-"Shall we
gather from the river?"

RDNN VI NilN ANN AAiNAA mum " y
gather from the riyer?"
THE rats of Illinois eat up and destroy
100000 bushels of corn every year, and
the query with her is whether to stop
raising corn orrats.
A WErzEL county girl says one hug is
worth dozen love letters. They can
not be introduced as evidence in a
brecch of promise suit, either.
ArANoUs physician announces the
discovery that brandy is good medi-
cine for insanity-probably inst as green
apples are good" for the cholera-mor-
bus.
Pru,ruK believes this world TO be 5OO,-
100000 years old, but none OF us care to
90 back farther than the days when
watermclons tasted as they never will
again.
We sometimes talk of annexing Can
ada, and perhaps it is aretaliatory spirit
that actuatcs the Robinsons, Of Ottawa,
Ontario. They seem to desire to annex
some 100000, 600 worth OF this country.
They claim 800 acres Of land in the
City of Philadelphia, eleven square
miles ON the Hudson river, large tract
Of coal lands in Pennsylvania, besides a
great deal Of property in the State of
New York.
THE officers Of the English army of
Iululand were ordered to discard all in
sigma of rank in order not to attract the
attention Of the savages, and thus pre-
serve their lives. But it was the cause
of their death. For, although Cetc-
wayo ordered his men to bring the Off
GERS i'm alive, and told them the officers
carried swords, and the men guns, yet
they could not tell them apart and kill
ell them Unfortunately.
TINS is the way the Baltimore Ga:ciic
speaks of Grants expected visit to Gin
cinnati: at is claimed that Cincinnati
will out-do Chicago in obscquiousncss
to Grant next week. All the old Saen-
geriest and May Festival trimmings are
to bee hung out and the gentlemen who
are to have the proud privilege OF sitting
down to a hotel dinner with the red
eyed hero OF a dead-head trip around
the world will pay IS per capita. Quite
number of these tlunkies will raise the
-, but they will make many a good
meal during the holidays on pigs feet
and sausage to atone for their reckless
extravaganza
4 DISPATCH from Washington to the
New York World says that 4 part Of
Murat Halstead's business in Washing
ton last week was to Consummate plan
10 cngender western sentiment against
Grant rs a Presidential candidate Ii is
said that the Cincinnati Commercial and
Ga-,tir will begin the anti-Grant crusade
in a few weeks 10y the publication of a
series of interviews with prominent Re-
publicans, leading off with Secretary
Schurz and ex-Secretary Bristow. The
series will run until after the conven-
tons. The project is said to have origi-
mated with Secretary sherman.
VERA SASSoLIrcH, the noted female
Nihi,ist, has had a fortune OF 100000 left
her bv Russian merchant named
Karpot. who lived at Tambow. On the
will being presented to the local tri
bunal 10 bc proved, instructions were
applied for to the ministry OF justice,
and the reply was that the law must
take its course. The doCumentwaS there
fore held to be valid; but in order to
profit by the legacy, Vera SaSsolitch
must 20 to Russia, where she would be
Immediately arrested. She is therefore
likely to remain abroad, and unless she
returns to her native country within
five years she will be deemed an emf
grant, and her property cOnfscated for
the benefit OF the treasury.
THE talk about the Republicans not be-
ing able to carry any OF the Southern
states next fall is ridiculous. Delaware
could easily be carried by a strong candi-
date-in a wheelbarrOw. - Cincinnati
Star.
GEN. WooDFoRD, of New York, will be
hereafter known as the Great Un.out-
ragged. lie tried his level best while in