Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-27
TIMELY TOPICS


HTaLi dumb animals are not remark
able"
Ma TowSsugND, Member Of Congress
from Illinois, was once page IN the
House.
TmusE Mexican editors Who demand
that Grant be- elected President ut the
United States fool themselves, A Prcs-
idcnt in this country doesn't have t.
stay home.
Mrcu has lately been said about the
distressed state Of the English working
classes. which Is hardly borne out 10y
statistics. In reality, despite the Occa'
sional pressure oi severe prlvalion, their
condition has been steadily improving
ever since the cotton famine Of lSb2.
The statistics Of the small savings banks,
ALWAYS a sure criterion Of the state oi
English labor, show this to be true.
SENATOR BEN HUI, OF Georgia, has
finally filed an affidavit with the United
States District Attorney at Washington,
declaring that he is not the father OF
Jessie Raymond boy, that he has never
seen her except once at Atlanta, IN
the presence II witnesses, and that she
is A woman OF abandoned character and
A blackmailer Who has threatened to
have his money OF his life. Samuel W.
Smalls. oi Gcorgia. Corroborutcs Mr..
Hills statement.
JonN nAKAN, Of Rosby's Rock, Mar
shall county, has invented AN ingenious
device in tue way Of an iron lock.boit,
Tor which lac has applied for u patent.
Il il entirely different from any We have
seen in that line. II is intended to hold
fast the bolts ia railroad cars where the
constant Earring and shaking remove the
nuts. aud finally the bolts drop out.
That some such device il badly needed
can best be- seen by short walk on any
railroad track in this country. Railroad
men who have seen the model are OF the
opinion that it will supply longiclt
want
IuLIg pKyEREUx BLAKE make wise
suggestion, which might With propriciy
be- adopted by the police authorities ol
every large city in the country, and that
| is that one or more pollccwomen he en-
ployrd at each station house 10 care Tor
female prisoners. She estimates that
at least three hundred women are ar
rested every night in New York, m all
kinds ui conditions, crazy ~ Ill With
drink, and greatly needing the attentions
of one OF their own sex. Tier estimate
Of the number oi women committed
may be, and probably II, too large, but
| there Is no doubt that sufficient mum
| Der are committed To- warrant tbc EN-
| ploymcnt Of women 10 care Tor them.
TuE first swimmer drowned this sea
son is an Ohio man. How that State
hangs onto everything , Boston Pod,
There was man namcyi williamson,
| 4 British blonde ashe,
| literary sharp he VA,
| Ant he wrote puct rcr.
| In order O. Increase his wealth
Hc prosecuted DIX,
| Wherefore this man uamel williamson
WV " Rstiias royt-y in FiH,. L,rt,r
TuE iall Of the carpet. bao,cr in South
Carolina appears at least 10 have pro
molcJ the education Of the cOlOrCd race
there. The annual school attendance
of colored children irOm 1863 10 1876 was
ll,69l, while from 1876 To the present
Law il has been SO.12S. The Cast. will
please take this as the basis ol pro,
ionged vail about the barbarism II
Southern Democrats, aud their upprcs'
sion OF the negro iiiis. Poi.
BY all means, women should have
chance. but such chances as they some
times take only confirm the loug,set-
tied opinion that. after all, their best
chance il in the house, rs the better
hall Of soCicty's lie, the main spring OF
social. moral and religious movements,
and a balance wheel IN politics even,
through the silent, educational intiu-
ence which they exert upon the COM
muniiy through the examples vt good
homes and benelicvht lives. -sNpru'9aeid
Mass, tRtot.
EXCESSIVE decoration Of tue most
ford character is the keynote Of mod
ern American architects. u YOU criti-
else the ensemble or the details OF a
building in progress Won are CURLY told
that the marble OF the brONn-stone was
brought from some far distant State,
and that the building itself cost a quar-
ter or a half a million dollars. and is
reckoned to be 'one OF the finest e'iitices
on this continent After this you are
expected 10 dry up OF to take rel
t.se in abashed silence. Previous, how
ever. TO their recent plunge into
ultra Byzantine, INTO exaggerated Italian |
als ....ss ~ nc kss2 Sss 81. III, 10
call ere c>ckiu1-ee-e-tyte 81 srvhit~etnTe.
In psrticutar. thc big hotel 81 some at
teen years since was % the recktng- ca.e
or,ier~-a huge quadrangular block %
brick OF stone. plerced with 20 many
tiers 81 narrow windows, destitute Of any
feature Of portieo. loegia, balcony or par
apct. aud correspondingly bereit Of any
preeentment Of superficial light and
shaded. 4. Siia, ~ ENo'isA jo'I',aaiisi.