Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-01
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

ALFONSO is going to see his girl next
month. He is to be married to her IN
October, and he wants to see what she
looks like.
WHEN Fontenelle was diving his doc,
tor said ado you suffer" "No," replied
the philosopher, 81 only feel some diff
Guilty in existing
THE Princess OF Wales fashion of
wearing flower on the neck-irill OF her
dresses close To- the left ear, is being lmi-
tated by Paris ladies.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE has made
nothing out OF "Uncle Toms Cabin" IN
dramatic form.-BangOr Commercial.
She's on a level with the man who tried
to get play from the story.
SIR ROWLAND HILL, OF England, the
founder of the cheap postage system ana
one OF the original movers in Australian
colonization, died in London, aged 81
years.
VICToR HUGO, with an eve OF a pro-
phet, looks into the future, and remarks
that in the twentieth century war; capt.
tai punishment dogmas and frontiers
will all disappear. There will be but
one Countrywide earth; and one great
hOpe-heaven.
THE death OF Mr.. l.. ID. Ingersoll (the
"IihkenSale' of the press formerly OF
Iowa, subsequently OF Chicago, and more
recently of Washington, is announced.
He died of consumption last Sunday, at
Greeley, Col.
THEY say that Adelaide Nelson used
To be bar-maid. As Adelaide is COM
ING TO this country we don't believe a
word of it, but suspect her OF being a
daughter of some duke travelling under.
an assumed name, and with a coat-ot-
arms tattoOed on her right LEG. by the
way, we hope this Adelaide her.
THE Savage is the most Democratic OF
all the London clubs. 1t has numbered
among its guests the Emperor Napoleon
ILL.,, Garibaldi, Mr.. Dickens, Gustaye
Dore, the painter; Tchborne, the claim
ant; James Gorden Bennett, the duelist,
and Sergt Bates, the tramp.
BISuor GILL HAVEN, the unequaled
political humOriSt, IS engineering the
Grant conferences, and presiding over
the Methodist boom-nO, stop, that is
not it. He's booming the Grant engl-
neer, and presiding over the-well, he 5
ont ON the Pacific coast Officially
anyway.-.S .UbdHs AdrertjSer.
CAPTAIN EDWARD DoHEETY, who COM
manded the detachment which made
John Wilkes Booth a prisoner, is street
contractor at New Orleans. He got a re-
ward of $4,000 for the capture, and a
suit of his for a reward of $4,000 offered
by the city of Washington will probably
he reached this year by the United States
Supreme Court.
DR.. BYLEs' wit once met with severe
retort. EncOuntering lady who, hav-
inc declined an offer OF marriage from
the doctor, had married gentleman OF
the name of Quincy, he said:-"So, mad
am, it appears YOU prefer quincy TO
biles." "Yes. she replied, "torif there
had been anything worse than biles God
would have afflicted Job with them"
"Old 81" OF the Atlanta Constitution
is reported to have received SO, 900 from
the DOwager Anna Paulina Cathcart OF
SomersetShire, England, for rescuing her
from perilouS situation under a loco
motive once upon a time. Some folks
are always having Sttedh Vi EpOu lpi-
tune, but when We risk our life to get
some fellow out from under a horse car
or something of the sort, it is just our
blamed luck TO have il some one to whom
we're owing money.-BOt0H Post.
AN association has been formed at
Savannah, Ga, for the purpose of erect
ing monument TO Sergeant Jasper, who
on the 9th day of October, 1879, fell in
the attack on the British forces on Sa-
vannah. The Sergeant's exploit in leap
/ ing over the ramparts OF Fort Moultrie,
| Charleston harbor, during the hottest
part of the British attack at that place,
and fixing anew the flag which had been
shot from its staff, will be remembered
as one of the most stirring episodes OF
the Revolutionary war.