Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-11
PASSING EVENTS.

The autograph fan is the latest inven
ton. 1t is made OF parchment, aud dis
tinguished personsges can write theiI
names on it,
The movement ia Boston in favor Of
a Worlds Fair in that city in 1885 il
growing and strengthening.
The Supreme Court at Washington
closed its last session with its business
farther in arrears than when the term
began.
Puck speaks of a young lady who is
not native New Yorker, but New
Yorker only by vaccination.
James z. Ha!pin, a pedestrian, died in
Portland, Me-, few days ago OF con-
sumption, brought on, II is claimed, by
over eXertion in walking matches.
The Western Indians have again mar.
rowly escaped determination. Three
small bows have been taken from a
freight car in which they had intended
to ride to the plains.
A jury in Bangor. Me-, which return
ed verdict for Sl50624, is said TO have
been divided for two hours and half
upon the half cent
Hank" Monk, who drove Horace
Greeley on the memorable stage ride
across the continent" is now regularly
driving on the stage line between Car
son and Lake TaheO, in Nevada.
After supper at n ball--ile: with
out Joking, Elise, do adore you. When
| look at you, there is such q conmOtion
in INV breast" She: "And in mine,
too, Henri; it must be the lobster sal
adj"
The Christian Register has sometimes
thought that. il Mr.. Phillips, in a mo-
ment of enlightened remorse, should
sting himself with his own sarcasm, he
would quickly die OF the effect OF SELF
acquaintance
The C0ngregaiioEalid thinks the short
est prayer on record is that oil the little
son OF Boston minister who upon be-
ing put to bed, said he would only say
amen" as he was so very tired.
Many ladies' cannot travel on the cars
without being made sick. The Boston
Herald says that conductor OF palace
car saws sure preventive is to put
sheet Of writing paper over the chest
next the skin. Ii never Tails.
Lord Beaconsfield, as Mr.. Disraeli and
a lawyers clerk, performed the usual
drudgery at that time imposed on learn
ers. He copied papers, an old fellow
clerk says, and served them, but he had
no taste for the profession, though he
was in the greatest house in the city OF
London.
In critical discussion the standpoint
is everything. Them things" said the
reflective felOn who had been convicted
of breaking the laws, and, as he spoke,
he pointed To a soaring church.steeple;
chem things is what is ruinin' this
country"
The Worcester Spythinks even George
Gorham has great capacity for useful
ness. Pins" said little Johnny" have
saved many people slives." Chow 500
said the schOolmaster. by mot swal-
lowing them," replied Johnny.
An elderly countIyman from Ulster
county saws that in the Olden time rifles
were very long and heavy, and he sar-
castically adds that marksmen did not
have to lie down in cradle to shoot u
target.
When the Sultan Abdul Aziz died
nineteen foreign physicians certified
that he committed suicide by opening
an artery in his arm. To-day twenty
persons are in prison for completely in
the murder of the alleged suicide. There
is either a great deal OF professional ig-
norance or of comprehensive lying in
COnstantinOple.
The Princess Amelia Caroline Gaspa-
rine l.eOpoldine Henrietta Louise Eliza
beth FRANCHISE Naximilienne OF Fur
stenberg, the lady TO whom James Cor
don Bennett is reported to be engaged,
is the only daughter Of Charles Eson,
Prince OF Furstenberg, and is 50 years
old.
Slips are being sent to the newspaper
offices setting forth that Joseph Cook
has been going on from glory to glory
in Great Britain, being about to give an
other course Of lectures in Surgeons
London tabernacle. Notwithstanding
the earnest calls in this country" Mr.
Cook will remain abroad for another
season, and We must get along Just the
best way possible without him.