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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09

Ar the teachers examination held at
Richie last Tuesday, in reply to the
questions as To who were President and
Vice President of the late Southern Con-
federacy, a teacher wrote: Thomas
Jefferson and Jefferson Davis, both
dead now" We guess so, ourselves
Rifrbis Ga-efts
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09
FIN ANCE.

NEW YORK, August s.-MoSKY-Mar-
ket easy At 2l@4 per cent. closing Al n
percent. Prime mercantile paper ga
4 per cent. Sterling exchange dull at
49,; sight exchange on New York 4s4.
Dry goods imports for the week, 81, 1884,
600.
SILvKR-At London 5l:d; bar silver
here III; subsidiary silver coin sSli
per cent. discount.
Sov.Rsnr
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09

There has been q fair demand for all
kinds Of good stock, butchers sheep,
lambs and stock sheep. Some 1000
lambs have been resiipped 10 Phila-
delphia and New York during the week.
The qnality was fully as good A. las,
week. We quote butchers sheep at
3s,4ic; few selling at either extreme;
lambs at 3ta5c stock sheep, liCs,5c.
Tuy suyyp xaHy7
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09
LIVE STOCK.

Baltimore Live STOCK.
BALTIMORE, Aug. Z.
Rrryfrrs ypR TuE WHY.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09
REMARKS on BEEr CATTLE.

The arrivals Of cattle during the week
amounted 10 2,6l3 head, against 2,09s
last week and 3.0lj head the CORES
ponding week OF last year, and the sales
during the week amounted to SAP
head, against 1854 last week and =, 10
head the corresponding week Of last
wear and were a. fpllDws.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09
Toledo.

TOLEDo, August s.-Wheat-Weak ;
No. white Michigan 81 90; No. do
Csc; amber Michigan spot CSC; seller
August &c; seller September S6ic; No.
2 amber Michigan 96!e; No. 2 red winter
spot oslo; seller August and Septem-
Der 97c; No. 3 red 96lc; No. 2 Dayton
and Michigan red s7c: rejected Wsbesh
9Oc; western amber 91ic; seller A Auenst
97tc. Steady; high mixed 3S3ci
rejected 37.c. Oats-Dnll; No. 2 red
26c, 25.c bid; No. white 254c.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09

PRIcks ~ INV CATTLE AT THk hARkEf ThIs
wRKk.
Very bc-t on sale this w,sk .,.........o oot, =,
That gencnlly ratcd nrst quslity...... 5oosi ~
Medium 0r god fair quality -....... ) ilSSesi l2't
Ordinary thin steers. oxen aud cOws .ba2 ~,
fStremr range oi prces .. ..... ...... 80, -
Aoa pi the sales Wen, frOln, .........., SHbfst 70
WHERE ruR CATTLE ARK REroRrSD TBos.
Virginia, 10jG; Ohio, 7j0: West yir.
ginia, 62s; Maryland, i0i; Illinois, 70.
Total, 2,8l3
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09

The market Was trihe more active
this week and prices shade better than
they were last week only toward the
close trade was slow. The quality was
not Of ~ good an average - last week,
the tops being not a. numerous In pro-
portion ~ last week. and tho middle aud
lower grades relatively more plentiful.
the line ~ middle being extensive.
Prices ranged from y cts. for very few
common cattle 10 y cts. for some select
tops.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-09

PITTSBURGH, August S.-Petroleum-
Quiet; crude 74ic at Parker's Tor imme-
diate shipment; refined 6ic for Phila-
delphia delivery.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
DIAMONDS.

One smile for the living is worth a
dozen tears for the dead.
Laziness is a premature death. To be
in no action is not to live.
Aman owes his success in his life work
to the woman who walks beside him.
The sweetest thing on earth is little
child when it has learned to know and
love.
After friendship and love came benevo-
lence. and that compassion which unites
the soul to the unfortunate.
How contagious is the laugh of some
people; how jarring that of others, like
playing on wOrn-Out piano.
The innocence and purity of childhood
brings bitter pangs to the sin-harde ened
man and worldly-woman.
1t is better to wear out than to rust
out. We must not only strike the iron
while it is hot, but strike until it is made
hot.
People who cannot heartily love and
hate will never command the first or
know the clearing influence of the lat
ter.
If the loved ones could come back to
earth only long enough to be forgiven,
it would relieve many a remorseful
heart.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home. If we are not
happy there we cannot be happy else
where.
Tears are the gift which love bestows
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
An Extraordinary story.

An extraordinary story comes from Il
Russian correspondent at Odessa. He
says: There exists under the author
ity of Russia funerel island, situat-
ed in the neighborhood of Archangel, on
the Volga. The Kalmucks convey their
sick there, and as soon as member of
family becomes i'll he is shipped to the
island, so great is the dread lest his
disease may be communicated to the
members of the household. If, in an ex-
ceptional instance, the poor fellow gets
well again he is none the less doomed,
for he is fated to die of starvation on
that dismal island. On reaching the
shores is Overpowered by the Often
sive smell. Myriads of flies are seen
rising in swarms from this charnel place,
and thousands of birds take to flight.
The ground is streWn with cOrpses and
skeletons. In March, when the river
throws off its icy fetters, its waters rise
and flood the island, carrying away into
the waves of the Caspian all those hu-
man remains. These facts are published
in Panslavist organ by a hardy cor
respondent who had the courage to visit
this Kalmuck metropolis. He asked if
no authority or law existed in the place.
The law, he was told, was the ndgaika,
or knout, with which fifteen or twenty
strokes are given ON the backs of the
Kalmucks when they rebel against the
will of the men in power" and as these
people are, in summer, naked to the
waist. the task is no difficult one. If it
SO happens that some high functionary
Wanders so far as AStrakhan, you may
be quite sure if he has ever heard of the
island he will not ask to be taken there"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Curious DerivatiOns.

The word pamphlet is derived from
the name of the Greek authoress, Pam
phylia, who compiled history of the
world into thirty-five little books.
punch and Judy" is contraction
from Pontius and Judas. 1t is a relic of
an old miracle paly, in which the actors
were Pontius PLATE and Judas Iscariot.
"Bigot" is from Misigotha, in which
the fierce and intolerant Adrianism of
the Visigoth conquerors of Spain had
been handed down to infamy.
"Tabby cat" is all unconscious that
her name is derived from Atab, a famous
street in Bagdad, inhabited by the manu-
facturers of silkens stuffs. called Atab
or tafferty; the wavy markings of the
watered silks resembling pussy's coat.
"Humbug" is from Hamburg; "a
piece of Hamburg news" was in Ger
many a proverbial expression for false
political rumors.
"Gauze" derives its name from GAIA,
where it was made.
''Old Nick" is none other than Nikr,
the dangerous water demon of the Scan
dinavain legend.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
CASTLE Soap.

A subscriber wishes to know how cas-
tile soap differs from other soap. The
hard soaps made in this country are al
most exclusively made from animal fats.
In the south of Europe, where the olive
grows abundantly, the poorer kind of
olvive oil is used. Common soaps are
soda and animal fat; CASTLE soap is soda
and vegetable oil. In making CASTLE
soap great care is taken to avoid an ex-
cess of alkali, (the soda) only Just
enough being used to neutralize the oil.
On this account the soap is much milder,
and may be used on wounds and other
surfaces where common soap would ir-
ritate and give pain. The mOttled ap-
pearance of CASTLE soap is due to small
quantity of solution of cOpperas (sul-
phate of iren) which is stirred into it
before it hardens; this leaves blush
oxide of iron in the soap, which, when
exposed to the air becomes changed to
the red oxide. White CASTLE soap is
sold which is the same as the other,
without the coloring. Though called
CASTLE, it is by no means exclusively
made in Spain, the largest share coming
from the South of France, and indeed it
is generally known in Europe as Mar
seilles soap-American Agriculturist.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
My Tramp.

That's he again. know his whoop
AS he sailies down the lane,
No need to stay till he calls for "grub"
With his face against the pane.
As set me here in my easy chair
can note the staggering gait
OF his sunburnt feet, but III go at once,
My tramp doesn't like to wait.
Little brown breeches and brimless hat
could tarry me yet for awhile,
And ponder, my young king-democrat,
With mother philosophers smile.
The possible future of your young rule,
The imperious doctrine learned
So early, alackl "Ho meatI ho bread"
OF the store you have never earned;
Could divine, OF the little tanned, tired feet,
What sort of a road, by and by,
They would travel apace, and at even time
To what sort of home would HE.
"Ho bread, no meat!7 would he find then
there:
These are all the names be knows
For the great God love that makes the home,
For the fullness, the repose.
Ab, apple cheek and chestnut curls
That are lying upon my breast!
| wonder if this is typical
OF the days end and the resti
And lay my little tired, worn out tramp
On his little bed all white,
AS pray that the blessed Saviour's arms
MAY gather him in that night.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Legal Opinion.

An honest farmer once called upon the
late Roger NJ Sherman, the celebrated
lawyer, and told him that he wanted an
opinion. He had heard a great deal
about the value of Mr.. Sherman'S opi1l-
ions, and how great many people went
to him to get an opinion; and John,
though he never had had, nor was likely
to have, law suit or other difficulty for
a lawyer to help him from, thought he
would have an opinion too.
We'll, John, what can do for you?"
said Mr.. s., when, in his turn was shown
into his room.
"Why, lawyer" replied John, 81 hap
pened to be in town, and having nothing
to do, l thought l would come and get
your opinion"
"State your case, John, what is the
matter?"
"Ohl nothing. amt got no law suit;
[ only want to get one of of your Opin-
ions; they say they are very valuable"
"But John-abOut what 2"
"Ohl anything sir; take your pick, and
choose!'
Mr. Sherman seeing the notion of his
client on the matter in hand, took his
pen, and writing a few words, folded
them up and handed them to John, who
carefully placed the paper in his pocket.
Whats to pay sir?"
-Four and siXpense, Yankee money
Is cents"
When John returned home the next
morning, he found his wife; who pretty
much took the lead in his business mat
ters, anxiOusly discussing with his chief
farm servant, the propriety of getting in
large quantity of oats on that day.
which had been cut on the previous, or
of undertaking some other labor.
John was appealed to, to settle the
question: but he could not decide. At
length, said he: I'll tell you what, Pol
ly, I've been to lawyer, and got an
opinion that cost me four and SiXpence.
There it is-read her out; it's lawyers
writing, and can make head or tail of
itr' John, by the way, could not read the
plainest print; but Polly, who was some
thing of scholar, opened the paper, and
read as follows-"Never put off till to-
morrow what can be done to-day"
Enough saidp cried John; "them oats
must be got in" And they were "got in" !;
and the same night such a storm came
on, as otherwise would have ruined them
entirely.
John often afterwards consulted this
opinion, and acted upon it; and to this
day entertains high estimate of law
yers' opinions generally and of the la
mented Mr. Sherman's in particular.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Webster and Jenny Lad.

Jenny Lind gave concert at Wash
ington during the session of Congress,
and as mark of her respect, and with a
view to the ecLdt, sent polite invitations
to the President, Mr.. Fillmore, the mem
bers of the Cabinet, Mr.. Clay, and many
other distinguished members of both
Houses of Congress. 1thappened on that
day several members of the Cabinet and
Senate were dining Mr.. Bodisco,t the Rus
sian Minister. His good dinner and
choice wines had kept the party so late,
that the concert was nearly over when
Webster, Clay, Crittenden, and others
came in; whether from the hurry in
which they came, or from the heat Of
the room, their faces were little flush
ed.
After the applause with which these
gentlemen were received had subsided
and silence was restored, the second
part of the concert was opened by Jenny
Lind with Hail Columbia" This took
place during the height of the debate
and excitement ON the slavery question,
and the compromise resolutions of Mr..
Clay, and this patriotic air, as part of
the programme, was considered peculi-
arly appropriate for concert where the
head of the Government and a large
number of both branches of the legisla-
tive department were present. At the
close of the first verse Webster's patri-
otism boiled over; he could sit no long
Ell, and rising like Olympian Jove, he
added his deep sonOrOus bass voice to
the chorus, and perhaps never in the
whole course of her career did she ever
hear or receive one-half the applause
with which her song and Mr.. Webster's
chorus were greeted. Mrs. Webster,
who sat Immediately behind him, kept
tugging at his coat-tail to make him sit
down or stop singing, but it was no use
and at the close of each verse Webster
Joined in, and it was hard to say whether
Jenny Lind, Webster, or the audience
were most delighted. At the close of
the air Mr.. Webster rose with his hat in
his hand, and made such bow as Ches-
terfield would have deemed fortune for
his son, which eclipsed D'Orsay's best.
Jenny Lind, blushing at the distinguish
ed honor, courtesied to the floor; the au-
dience applauded to the echo. Webster
determined not to be OutdOne in polite
ness, bowed again-Jenny Lind recour-
tested, the audience reapplauded. and
this was repeated nine times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Bound 10 Have Her.


Detroit Free Press?
The old man Bendigo keeps a pretty
sharp eye on his daughter Mary, and
many a would-be lover has taken walk
after few minutes conversation with
the hard-hearted parent The old chap
is struck this time, however, and cards
are out for a wedding. After the lucky
young man had been sparkling Mary for
six months, the old gentleman walked
in as usual, requested a private cOnfab.
and led off with:
You seem like nice young man,
and perhaps you are in love with Mary 7"
"Yes am" was the honest reply.
Haven't said anything TO her yet,
have you?"
We'll, no; but think she reciprocates
my affection" u
Does eh? Well, let me tell you some
thing. Her mother died lunatic, and
there's no doubt that Mary has inherited
her insanity"
I'm willing to take the chances" re-
turned the lover.
"Yes, but you see Mary has terrible
temper. She has twice drawn knife
on me with intent to commit murder"
"I'm used to that-got a sister just
like her." was the answer.
And you know that l have sworn a
solemn oath not to give Mary cent of
my property" continued the father.
well, I'd rather start in poor and
build up. There's more romance in it. I"
The old man had one more shot in his
carbine, and he said:
perhaps l ought to tell you that Ma
rvs mother ran away from home with a
butcher, and that all her relations died
in the poorhouse. These things might
be thrown up in after years, and l now
warn you"
"Mr. Bendigo," replied the lover, "I've
heard all this before, and also that you
were on trial for forgery, had to jump
Chicago for bigamy, and served year in
the State Prison for cattle-stealing. I'm
going to marry into your family to give
you decent reputation. There-nC
thanks-good-byep
Mr.. Bendigo looked after the young
man, with his mouth wide open, and
when he could get his jaws together he
said:
"SOme hyena has gone and given me
away on my dodge"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Facts I'm Our History.

Our children are taught French. NOR
al science, and the comic sections. and
read history of Greece and Rome. How
few of them, and how few men and wO-
men, know anything of the history Of.
their own country, except an outline of
a few detached. facts, How few under
graduates know that Columbus under
took his first voyage in the expectation
of finding the great Khan of Tartary,
that he set sail on Friday, 1492-that un-
lucky and direful day-and on Friday,
ten weeks after, he discovered land that
he supposed Cuba to be the Continent;
that he first reached the Continent on
the North coast of America six years
afterwards; that upon his fourth and
last voyage he founded the. first colony
on the mainland on the Isthmas of Pan
anna; that 5wenty-one years after the
FIRST discovery, the Old World was as
tonished to find they had discovered a
New World, when they reached the Pa
cific across the Isthmus; but that Cabot,
an Englishman, reached the shores of
New England full year before Column
bus touched the continent; that San Au-
gustine, Florida, is the oldest town in
America, being just 800 years old; that
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the second
town in point of age; that twenty-one
years later-16O2- California was dis
covered and explored; that in 1903
Frenchman, Sieur de Monts, made the
first settlement north of San Augustine,
at Annapolis, and twice attempted set
tlement at Cape Cod, but was driven off
by the natives that Champlain founded
Quebec in 1908; that our coast from
Pennsylvania to New Brunswick was
named Acadia, afterwards New France;
that Canada formerly cOmprehended our
Vermont and New York; that Virginia
was so named by Sir Walter Raleigh. in
honor of Queen Elizabeth, in 1884, when
he made his exploration of the North
Carolina coast; that the first English
child born in America was Virginia
Dare, daughter of Ananinus; that the
projected colony failed; that jamestown
was the first English town in America,
began 1907, and named for James l.; that
the want of wives in Virginia was so
great that in 1921 large number of
young women, "of good character" were
transported to the colony on speculation,
and sold to the lonely settlers for hun
dred and twenty to hundred and fifty
pounds of tobacco each; that New En-
gland was so named by John Smith,
1914 that at length a settlement was
made, without a grant from the kings
Icouncil, at Plymouth, and sent its roots
deep and wide into the scanty soil by a
band of 1O2 passengers, Dec. IL, 1929,
who came in small craft, whose name
has been spoken from Occident to orient,
to wit-the 'Mayflower."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

TELL us not in mournful numbers
that this life is but a dream, when a
girl that weighs one hundred gets out
side quart of Greenland then wants
more.-Elmira Gazette. Life is real, life
is earnest, and the girls know what they
need, but on cream they are the durndest
set to show their grit and greed. No
encofe.-New York News. Let us, then,
be up and doing, with heart for any
fate; but never let us go wooing girls
that want a second plate. How's that :?
-Newsboy. Lives of such girls all re-
mind us, as we float down the stream,
that the boys who come behind us will
have to pay for lots of cream. N-e-x-ti
Yonkers Gazette. Be not like dumb,
driven cattle, be hero in the strife;
never with her mother battle, save the
ice cream for your wife. Proceed
Eagle. Art is long and time
is fieeting; he who higgles is churl.
SoOthe with cream her hearts wild beat
ing, pay the score and win the girl
Farmers Review. Now let us go on
with this chant, and let our sweethearts
hollow give the girls all the chance,
and in the cream they'll wallow. Slush!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Scientific Gossip.

1t has been calculated by Ritter that
$4,000 years ago the sun radiated 1 per
cent. less heat than at present, and that
100000 years ago it gave out 10 per cent.
less. Each kilOgramme of the suns mass
contains, he thinks, about 100000
units of heat.
Some Interesting experiments and OBJ
ServatiOns have been made by two French
savans at Marseilles on disease resem-
bling diptheria, which attacks hens and
pigeons with fatal results. 1t was PROV
ed that the disease could be communicate
ed to mammalia, and it was found that
diptheria was very prevalent among the
people at the time the fowls suffered
from the like malady. 1t was suggested
that the fowls affected should not be al
lowed to be brought into the city.
Prof. w. A. Norton, of Yale, MAIN
tainS that the ultimate molecules of bod
les, under varying conditions of pressure
and other relations to surrounding mo-
lecules, are subject to change in the in
tenSities of the forces of attraction and
repulsion they are capable of exerting at
a given distance, on such contiguous mo-
lecules, while retaining the same tenn
perature and chemical constitution. The
evidence on which he supports this pro-
position Is presented in the American
Journal of Science and Arts for March
Macallister attributes the low grade of
civilization of Australian Aborigines to
the total abcence from the continent of
ferocious and powerful animals.th the COM
parative ease with which the poor and
limited quantity of their food was OBJ
tanned, and their national isolation. If
Australia had not been discovered by
Europeans when it was, in the course of
few thousand years, climatic and other
like changes and the occasional contact
with their Polynesian neighbors would
perhaps have afforded the conditions of
advancement to the natives.
Speaking of the proposed observatory
to be erected at the foot of the cone of
Mount Etna, at height of 5000 feet
Professor Langley states the advantages
this elevated site will afford in solar
physics research. He expresses the
earnest hope that something similar to
the Etnean station, though even less Ella
borate in its equipment, may be soon es-
tablished in this country, which has sites
fully equal to that selected by Italy for
every astronomical purpose. IF wei
wait" he says 'for such distant event
as the completion of the Lick Observa-
tory, we shall find the laurels gathered
by European observers before we are in
the field"
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upon the memory of the absent, and they
will avail to keep the heart from suffo-
cation.
at is curious fact that on the track
of knavery misplaced switch will be
found somewhere, and it is sure to wreck
the train"
Show me the man who cares no more
for one place then another, and 1 will
show you in that person one who loves
nothing but himself.
Good pictures are great teachers. A
fine work of art hanging in ones house
speaks to him constantly in language of
tender beauty that wins its way to the
heart.
How few realize that the strata of
love and hate lie so cloose together that
it takes but little to bring the latter up
permOst, when under pressure of un-
kindness or injustice.
You are more sure of success in the
end if you regard yourself as man of
ordinary talent, with plenty of hard
work before you, than if you think your
self man ofgenius, and spend too much
time in watching your hair grow long,
that you may convince people that you
are not like other folks.