Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-22
PERSONS AND THINGS.

gets his due.
As Greeley remarked: "The Ameri-
can people is not fool.
! Grant continues to be welcomed and
toasted in Boston and vicinity.
Miss Kate Field is one of the regular
contributors to the London Truth.
Rev. DIR. Chaplin, of New York, is in
the enjoyment OF greatly improved
health.
An Ohio news paper speaks OF a man
being bruised by the emphatic gesture
Of a mule.
Vanderbilt has expended $500. 600 in
Europe FOR art treasures, and Is still IN
the market.
The man who likes to study the tenn
per OF the people finds good opportun-
ity on the day after an election.
Disraeii is rapidly making friends with
the CID Scotch nobility, with whom he
was formerly at swords points.
Two Young hopeiuls oil Indianapolis. a
boy aged II and girl -, eloped yester-
day, coming Chicasoward, TO set mar
ried.
The Senate Of the Toronto Cam Uni
yersity has ~ elected Hon. Chief JUS
tee Moss Vice Chancellor OF the uni
vrrSity.
The Directors OF the Edinburgh Phi!o-
sophical Institution have ordered the re-
moval OF "0uida's" novels from their
library.
Ex-Governor Thomas Talbot, OF Mass
achusetts, will celebrate privately next
Monday the twen,y.tiith anniversary oil
his marriage.
At the funeral OF the late Henry
White, in New Haven, Conn, last Mon
day, the pall-bearers were the six sons
OF the dead man.
The tramp's occupation is gone. He
now begs 80 cents, and then rides IN
first.class railway car between Chicago
and Kansas City.
Professor Elisha Gray, OF Highland
Park, ILL.,, OF telephone fame, has ac-
cepted the Chair OF Dynamic Electricity
al O5erl;n College, Ohio.
Ii las been found necessary 20 put
guard over the obe!i5k in New York,
serious damage having been done to It
by reiic-hunters clipping oil portions.
Hon. Henry ID. Foster died at hi. res.
ilence at Irwin Station, Westmoreland
county, Pa, Saturday night. lie was a
member OF Congress for many years.
Hon. James f. Cantrill, Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, was married TO
Miss Mary l.. Cecil, daughter OF James
G. Cecil. Esq, OF Danville, in that State,
last "Wednesday.
Senior Ponies Pererrl dc Milo, the
ex-Prime Minister Ot Portugal, has ne
gOtiated the marriage of the heir appar-
en-, 10 the throne Of Portugal with
Russian Princess.
The twin sons OF Secretary Evarts,
one at Harvard and the other at Yale
College, celebrated their ?lst birthday
ri New Haven recently by 4 dinner at
the Yale Club House.
The Boston TcartGer has discovered
that General Grant wears no watch
guard, and W tn the exception OF
Il4in gold ring on the little finger oil his
left hand, no jewe!ry.
General Grant has returned TO New
York, and last Sunday attended the
Central Methodist Church, Rev. Mr..
Newman, the Generals pastor i'll Wash
ingtOn, conducting the services.
The French Bonaparlists. hostile to
Prince Jerome Napoleon, who is recog-
nized as the heir To the throne, desire
him 10 renounce his claim IN FAVOR %!
the young Prince Victor Napoleon.
The German Emperor recently sent
the SULTAN 100 OF the larg st trout ont Of
his imperial fishing pond; also Il large
number Oi small trout and eggs. The
sultan in return sent the Kaiser twelve
Arabian horses.
The Rev. Samuel Farman, oil Cam
bridge. Eng, vicar OF IT, John : Church
at Colchester, has just seeded from the
Church oi England. and has joined the
Catholic Church, into which he has
been accepted at the Oratory, Biomp-
ton.
Madame Balzlc, widow of the famous
author, and now a woman 81 years oil
ace, has had built Tor her use superb
hotel in Paris, and will 1--we in 1t this
winter. IL is rumorrd that she may
furnish the world with memoirs OF her
husband.
\ Washington paper saws that tea
partics' will he in vogue this winter,
after the style Of the Martha Washing
ton tea parties oil an earlier day, the
former involving entertainments such
as Mrs. HAYES example is rendering
fashionable.
The wardrobe aud accoutrements OF
the late Charles fletcher, the actor, were
sold at auction yesterday in New York.
TIE prices obtained were low. Thepro
cre,ls are To- 90 towards the erection OF
monument to the deceased actor in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, in answer
10 an inc .lry recently, wrote in clear,
delicate and vigorous style OF penua&-
shin. that does not betoken his age, the
following note: You ask me about
Washington's stature. IL was exactly
six feet two inches"