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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

If the disgraceful brawl, in the
House of Representatives few days
ago had been between Southern
members the organs would have set
up another howl about plantation
manners" As the participants were
Northerners it was only IAN episode"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05
Enterprise in West Virginia.

West Virginia is railroad crazy.
Charters for seven new railroads
have been issued at Wheeling within
u few weeks past. Among these are
the Baltimore, Cincinnati and West
ern railroad, already mentioned; the
Big Sandy and Great Southern rail.
road, principal office at Charleston,
with s1,096000 capital; the New
Martinsville, Middlebourne and
Pennsboro' railroad, capital 100000,
running down near the southwest
bank of the Ohio, in parts of Wetzel
and Taylor counties, where there is
no railroad now; the Keyser and
Pendleton railroad, 100000 0capital
to run from the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad in Mineral county, through
Hampshire, Grant and Hardy coun.
ties to Pendleton county, possibly to
form part of Pittsburgh's southern
connection with the Lexington
branch of the Richmond and Ale
gheny railroad, and the Buchannon
and Weston railroad connecting the
seats of Upshur and Lewis counties.
But the biggest of all has not pub
lished its intentions, the West Vir.
ginia Railway Company, capital
s25, 0O0,0 00.-RhiLa. North american.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

]. !. !. ]. !. ! ! = :
q .ee7 Joyful Ncws for Tloya ard Giri,u
...SeSt y Young and Old!l A NEW IN.
~ NENTlON just lg.;euied Tor them,
E3S,GS5iA Il for Home uSa
tstssIS Fret and Senil sawlng Turning,
~ II Boring. prllling,f Pollahinc'
~, 81 Screw Cutting, Price 81 TO $50.
Si.Ns "a Send centa for 100 pages.
H'-<--S'sSD ESusAlN BROWN, Lowell, ssps.
ian = ISSI-I,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

The latest returns from Texas give
Hancock majority over Garfield of
103,23O, and nobody can feel entirely
satisfied that the returns are all in
yet.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05
The dam which Uncle Sam finish.
ed building last summer in the Mon

The dam which Uncle Sam finish.
ed building last summer in the Mon
ongahela river, just below Morgan.
town, was badly danaged by the late
.freshot. There are two intermediate
dams required to finish the work, and
Uncle Sam began at the hind end Of
the job, the damaged dam serving no
present purpose further than as
mammoth obstruction in the river,
and furnishing an irresistible argu.
ment for the further and immediate
prosecution Of the work to compile.
ton, which latter was the motive
power that directed it. When the
rive: is improved up to MorganEown
it will furnish an outlet to that Sec
tion of the State which will be Of
very great benefit, aud there is no
necessity for having it delayed four
or five years. With q little enter.
prise and management the people of
that section can have the entire APP.
preparation and the work completed
next summer, and thus save five
years Of lost time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

Grants brutal assault upon Gen,
Hancock should not be forgotten or
forgiven.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

The agitation against the Hebrew
element in Berlin continues without
abatement. Pamphlets are circula.
ted condemning the Jewish popula-
ton. Several disturbances have oc-
Cured and prominent Israelites have
taken steps TO defend themselves
An officially inspired communica-
ton has been published in a Berlin
paper declarins that Prince Bismark
has no symnathy with The agitation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

The Washington Capital says
Grant and Blaine do not speak to
each other.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05
CHAs. b. WAGGENER, Clerk.
Chas. L. Ragg, p. q. [jan5-4W.

State of West Virginia, County of Mason, IS:
A I Rules held in the Clerks office OF the
II Circuit Court OF Mason County, West
Virginia, Monday tho.3d day OF January,
1881.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-01-05

A 4 Rules held in the Clerks Office ofthe
"a Circuit Court Of ssIason- County, alNsst
Virginia, Monday, the Sd day OF January,
1881.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Women in the Treasury.

The first female clerks in the National
Treasury were appointed in 1862 by Sec
retary Chase, who placed them in the Of
fee of the Comptroller of the Currency at
5000 year. They cut and trimmed the
United States notes issued in sheets, and
did their work WELL AS soon as they had
been appointed there were many other ap-
plicants, and their number steadily in
creased, many Of them securing places
through the peculiar energy and persever-
ence which will refuse to take no for an
answer There are now more than thir
teen hundred women in the department at
Washington, the majority employed in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the
Government Printing Office. They excel
as counters, their slender sensitive fingers
turning notes with great rapidity and ex-
actness. They detect counterfeits, it is
said, quicker than men, though they do
not succeed so we'll with accounts, as the
average female mind has little natural love
of figures. Counters and copyists receive
5000 a year, other women 81 200 to ST.
400, several of them 81 900, and one in
the Internal Revenue $500. Most Of
the clerks are educated and refined, and
many of them have seen more prosperous
days. A number are widows and daugh-
ters of army and naval officers who lost
their lives in the civil war. Very few Of
the young women or widows marry or re-
sign, and consequently the hundreds who
are seeking places in Washington have
slender prospects of success. The most
untiring, obstinate place-seckers at the
federal capital are women.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Maiolica Ware.

Pesaro, says a correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, is little old town on
the Adriatic; its walls overlook the blue
sea, and fig trees grow within short dis
tance of breaking waves on delightful
beach. Up there, hidden away by the
nearer hills, is the birthplace of Raphael,
and, still further, is Gubbio, famous for
its Cubic ware and its great painter of
majolica, Maestro Glorgio. From the mar
gin of the sea to the naked slopes of the
Apennines is found the famous clay Of
Pesaro, with which its majolica was made
Venice imported this clay for her "Venus
purselague."
The most fourishing period of majolica
painting in Pesaro was 400 years ago,
when the Duke of Urbino commissioned
Battista Franco, a Venetian painter, to
make designs for vases and plates; and
bought at high prices all the drawings of
Raphael he could procure, which, with en-
cravings of Marc Antonio, he gave to his
majolica painters. Pesaro and Loretto
are now the two places in Italy which have
unrivaled collections of majolica, and this
one of Pesaro is perhaps surpassed by
none. Half a million francs was refused
by the municipality of Pesaro for this COL
lection, which is rightly valued as the pc
culiar and appropriate glory of the town,
which is also the birthplace of Rossini,
The taste and passion for antique majol-
lea can only be gratifed by princes and
millionaires. Once in the hands of the
antiquarian, rare majolica plates or vases
cost as much as plates of gold or silver,
The Queen of Sweden is said to have Of
fered their weight in gold for the Loretto
vases
Moorish plates or Hispano- Arabic plates
were the first models of the Italian majol-
lea makers. Not only did Loretto and
Pesaro produce this beautiful ware, but
Pisa, Genoa. Milan and Florence also.
The collection at Pesaro is richest in plates.
The walls of two rooms in the town hall
are covered with this beautiful pottery.
And what revelation of taste and inven-
tion are these lustrous objects, iridescent
like mother-of-pearl, white like shells or
blue like lapis lazuli, ruby and red gold,
on which the most clever artists have
traced with a sure and light hand ara
besque, painted portaits of NEUROLOGICAL
and sacred subjects, coats-of-arms and bor-
ders and patterns, of wild and curious fan
cy. 1t is tradition that Raphael himself
painted majolica, and that Titan and
Dosso-Dossi were employed in making de-
signs.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Another Good Boy.

A Detroit grocer was the other day
hungrily waiting for his clerk to return
from dinner and give him a chance at his
own MONDAY meal, when boy came into
the store with a basket in his hand, and
said:
81 seed boy grab up this ere basket
from the door and run, and I run after
him and made him give it up"
"My lad, you are an honest boy"
eyes sir"
"And you loak like good boy
eyes sir"
"And good boy should always be en-
couraged. In box in the back room
there are eight dozen eggs. You may
take them home to your mother, and keep
the basket"
The grocer had been saving those eggs
for days and weeks to reward some one.
In rewarding a good boy he also got eight
dozen bad eggs carried out of the neigh
borhood free of cost, and he chuckled a
little chuck as he walked homeward.
The afternoon waned, night came and
went, and once more the grocer went to
his dinner. When he returned he was
picking his teeth and wearing compla-
cent smile. His eye caught basket of
eight dozen eggs as he entered the store,
and he queried
"Been buying some eggs ?"
eyes; got hold of those from farmer S
boy" replied the clerk.
GA lame boy with blue cap on ?"
eyes"
"Two front teeth out p
eyes"
The grocer sat down and examined the
eggs. The shells had been washed clean,
but they were the same eggs that good
boy had lugged home the day before.
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Cur 0lio.
Tom Oorwin and Mrs. Shannon.

St. Clairsville people tell an amusing
story of the late Mrs. Shannon, widow OF
Ex-Governor Wilson Shannon, who died
recently at Leavenworth, Kansas. In lo4O
Governor Shannon was candidate for re-
election as Governor of Ohio on the DEM
ocratic ticket, his opponent on the wing
side being the famous Thomas CorWln'
who was successful in the canvass, and be-
came Governor, though Shannon was
again chosen at the biennial election IN
1912. During the canvass of 1910 Mr..
Corwin was announced to speak at st.
Clairsville, where Governor Shannon re-
sided. Possibly there was to be a joint
discussion between the two candidates-at
any rate the meeting was looked forward
to with absorbing interest, and Mrs. Shan
non, who was visiting friends in this city,
took the morning stage to 60 out home on
the day of the occurrence. There were
in the stage quite number of st. Glars
Vile ladies, and man, apparently very
dark mulatto, who seemed to be OF re-
tiring disposition, and occupied corner
as remote from his passengers as
possible.
Arrived at watering station, near the
foot of the "Big Hill," Mrs. Shannon, who
was accompanied by babe in arms, de-
sired to procure some milk for the child,
and requested the dark man in the corner
to hold the infant for her. Upon return
ing with the milk, having fed the baby,
and the stage being again in motion, the
babe was once more consigned to the care
of the 'smulatto," and the ladies proceeded
to discuss the great event of the day.
When the stage arrived at the hotel at
St. Clairsville, the nurse deferentially in
formed Mrs. S. that he was at the end of
his journey, and transferred his charge to
her care, not, however, until she had ten
dered him quarter in payment for his
services, which was, much to her surprise,
declined with much dignity, though very
politely, withal.
The sequel transpired in the afternoon.
What was Mrs. Shannon's surprise, upon
reaching the grove in which the meeting
was to be held, to see her mulatto nurse
of the morning occupying seat of honor
upon the platform surprise scarcely in
creased when the dark gentleman arose
and was introduced by prominent local
politician as "Thomas Corwin, the next
Governor of Ohio The great orator was
introduced to the wife of his opponent la
ter in the day and enjoyed her embarrass-
ment over the affair hugely, but Mrs. Shan
non never quite recovered from the NOR
tifcation she felt when she discovered
what a mistake she had made Wheeling
I,fo1TinoDoo1.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Superstitions About Cats.

The cat has been connected with many
curious superstitions in various parts of
the world. In some localities, for instance,
it is believed that witches in the shape of
cats are in the habit of roaming about the
roofs of houses during the month of Feb
ruary; hence they were promptly shot.
In Germany, also, a similar notion pre-
walls respecting black cats, in consequence
of which they are never allowed to so near
the cradles of young children, though it is
not easy to understand why the young
should be more exposed to danger from these
superstitious witches than those more ad-
vanced in years. Numerous instances
might be given of the incredible nonsense
that has been believed and is believed
about cats. In Sweden the peasants have
deep-rooted faith in the cat-carrier.
This belief is traceabIe to the seventeenth
century. At this period there were seven
ty tried who made nearly the following de-
clafati0n After compelling them to sign
a compact with him, the devil often
served hearty dinners, followed by games
and wrestling. When he was in good hu-
NOR he thrashed them with long pole,
after which he laughed heartily, or played
the harp, in order to divert them aud make
them dance. They added that he made each
one Of them a present of cat endowed
with certain gifts. This cat comprehended
all that was said to it, and would go out
and steal objects that were indicated, with
out the possessor being able to perceive
him. At the present time the peasant
does not complain whatever object is sto-
len from him. They attribute the theft
to cat carrier. In Sicily, where the cat
is looked upon as sacred to st. Martha,
there is a superstition that any who will
fully or accidentally kills cat will be
punished by the serious rctribution of sew
en- years unhappiness. Melton, IN his
"Astrologaster,'' says: "When the cat
washes her face over her ears, we shall have
great store of raine" The saeezing of a
cat was considered lucky omen to bride
who was TO be married the next day. In
Wilsford's mature Secrets" "cats covet-
ins the fire more than ordinary, or licking
their feet and trimming the hair of their
heads and mustachios, presages rainy
weather." In the "Statistical Accounts
of Scotland,' it is stated that if a cat was
permitted to leap over corpse, it por-
tended misfortune. Their tenacity of life
comes out in the proverb; "Care killed
the cat" Their familiar presence at ev-
cry ones hearth is alluded to in GA cat
may look at king" In Hungary there
is curious superstition that before cat
can become a good mouser it must be sto-
lon
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Making Time Tables.

The following description of the appa-
ratus used by the Pan Handle road for
making time tables will be of interest: 1t
is large board, down each end of which
are the names of the stations, with their
distances from the termini and from each
other given. Along the top and bot
tom of the board are placed at intervals of
two or three inches the hours Of the day,
and these spaces are still further divided
into twelfths, or FIVE minutes. The end
of thread is pinned at whatever hour a
train is desired to leave-say Pitts burg
and that thread, representing the train, OF
course must move to the right as it is
drawn down the board, giving it an OBJ
lique direction.
The hour to which it is pinned at the
bottom represents the time of arrival at
Columbus, and it is evident that wherever
it intersects line drawn across the board
from station to station, the perpendicular
line also intersecting that point indicates
the time of the trains arrival there. With
trains coming the other way the process is
reversed, and the intersections of the
threads represent passing points. When
the threads are all adjusted as you want
the trains to run, you have time chart
Of the road (Which looks little like gov
ernment weather map), the figures are
called off, set down, and the time table
printed.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Select Qoetrg,
WHAT OF THAT7
TiredI Well, and what of that?

Tired! Well, and what of that?
Did,st fancy ife was spent on beds OF ease,
Flntterng the rose leaves scattered by the breeze?
come. rouse thee Work while it is called to-day;
coward. arise! Go forth upon lhy way.
Lonely! And what of that?
Some must be lonely; tbs not given to I'll
To feel a heart responsive rise and fall,
To blend another life into its own,
Work may be done in loneliness; work on,
Dark! Well, what of that?
Did'st fondly dream the sun would never sci?
Did'st fear to lose thy way? Take courage yet;
Learn thou to walk by faith and not by sight,
Thv steps will guided be and guided right.
Hard! Well what of that?
Did'st fancy life one summer holiday
With lessons none to learn, and naught Dut play
Go! get thee to thy task; conquer or die;
1t must be learned Learn it then patiently
No help! Nay; it's not so;
Though human help be far, thy God is nish;
Who fed the ravens, hears His childrens cry;
He's near thee wheresoe'er thy footsteps roam,
And He will guide thee light thee, help thee home
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II wish 1 was STAR" he said, smiling
at his own poetical fancy. 81 would
rather you were comet, she said, dream
lily. His heart beat tumultuously. "And
why?" he asked, tenderly. "Oh," she
said, with brooding earnestness that fell
upon his soul like bare foot upon cold
oil-cloth, "because then you would come
around only once every five hundred years. y
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

There is nothing so charming as the
innocence of children. Mamma" said a
five year old, ~ wish you wouldn't leave
me to take care of baby again. He was
SO bad that / had to eat all the sponge
cake and two jars of raspberry jam to
amuse him."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

A darkey who was stopping to wash his
hands in a creek didn't notice the peculiar
actions of goat just behind him. So
when he scrambled out of the water and was
asked how it happened, he answered: 81
dunno 'zactly but pears as if the shore
kinder listed and frowed me"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

Sheridan was much annoyed in the
House of Commons, by member who
kept constantly crying, CLEAR, hear"
The witty orator described fellow who
wanted to play rogue, but had only sense
enough to play fool, and exclaimed with
great emphasis, "Where shall we find a
more foolish knave or a more knavish fool
than he ?" "Hear, hcar!'' shouted the
troublesome member. Sheridan turned
round, and, thanking him for the prompt
information, sat down amid a general roar
of laughter.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

"What did the Puritans come to this
country for p asked a Massachusetts,
teacher of his class. "To worship God in
their own way, and make other people do
the same," was the reply.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
A Curious Clock.

A curious clock belongs to native prince
of Upper India, and is jealously guarded
as the rerest treasure of his luxurious
palace. In front of the clocks disc was a
gong, swung upon poles, and near it was a
pile of artificial human limbs. The pile
was made up of the full number of parts
of twelve perfect bodies, but all lay heaped
together in seeming confusion. When
ever the hands of the clock indicated the
hour one, out from the pile crawled just
the number of parts needed to form the
frame of one man, part joining itself to
part with a quick metallic click; when COM
plcted the figure sprang up, seized a NAL
let, and, walking to the gong, struck one
blow that sent the sound pealing through
every room and corridor of that stately
palace. This done, he returned to the
pile and fell to pieces again. When two
o'clock came, two men arose and did like
wise; and so through all the hours, the
number of figures being the same as the
number of the hour, till at noon and mid
night the entire heap sprang up, and,
marching to the gong struck one after an
other each his blow, and then fell to pieces.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

"Tom, where can I get good two foot
rule? p II can give you one on the spot,
john" "Well, let's have it." "Don't
wear tight shoes That rule applies to
both feet.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

When old Mrs. Bunsby had got through
reading in the morning paper an account
of the last fire, she turned her spectacles
from her eyes to the top of head and re-
marked :-"If the city fremen would wear
the generwine humnit stockints, such as
we make and wear in the country, they
wouldn't be Dustin of their hose at every
fire "
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

A Philadelphia man who discovered a
piece of bark in his sausage, visited the
butchers shop to know what bad become
of the rest of the dog,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

"We cant all of US be great, remarked
seedy philosopher. "Some of US have
got to run peanut stand, or children
would grow up comparatively ignorant of
luxuries."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
If a laddie meet a lassie
Comm thro' the rye,
and especially the other couplet
A the lads they smile on me
When comm thro' the rye,

and especially the other couplet'
A the lads they smile on me
When comm thro' the rye,
seem to imply that traversing the rye
was habitual or common thing, but what
in the name Of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety could be the object in tramping down
crop of grain in that style. The song,
perhaps, suggests harvest scene, where
both sexes, as is the custom in Great Brit
ain, are at work reapins, and where they
would come and go through the fields in
deed, but not through the rye itself, so as
to meet and kiss in it. The truth is, the
rye in this case is no more grain than Rye
Beach is, it being the name of a small,
shallow stream near Ayr in Scotland,
which having neither bridge nor ferry,
was fordcd by the people going to and
from the market, custom allowing lad to
steal kiss from any lass of his acquain-
tance whom he might meet in the mid
stream. Our contemporary will see that
this is the true explanation, if he will refer
to Burns original ballad, in which the first
verse refers to the lass wetting her clothes
in the stream.
Jenny is a. wat puir boddie;
Jenny's saldom dry;
She drag it a'her petticoatie
Comm thro' the rye.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

An Irishman, seeing vessel heavily
laden and scarcely above the waters edge,
exclaimed :-"Upon my soul, if the river
was but little higher, the ship would go
to the bottom"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

Persons who fret more than they work
can never be happy.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29

Pleasure comes through toll and not by
selEindulgence.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Comm Thro' the Rye.

The Albany Argus says A New York
pictorial published an Illustration of
"Comin' Thro' the Rye" and blunders
into what we presume is the popular mis-
conception of the ditty, giving a laddie
and lassie meeting and kissing in field
of grain. The lines