Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-26
MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS.

Henry Strong, a California fruit
farmer. says: "When the Chinese go
the fruit interest here dies"
The Duke of Manchester remarked to
q Chicago reporter the other day: This
is certainly q country of large sur
prises."
General Abe Buford, of Kentucky, OH
horse racing: ut is absurd to suppose
that it hurts a man to see the fine ami
mails exert the muscles that God gave
them"
1.-THE teachings of the Land League
have been always and almost fanatical-
" law-abiding," writes James Redpath
to the editor of the Chicago Tribune.
Professor Hedge, of Cambridge, has
said a great many good things in his
long life, but nothing better than this:
"Wha we need most is not to realize
the ideal, but to idealize the real"
sit is amazing to the inquirer" says
the Rev. j. A. Hanson, of San Francis
CO, 'tO learn how many there are in
nearly all communities who have not
been inside a church for from n to
fifteen years and who don't know the
sound of the gospel"
"Idon't care a d-n for newspapers
criticism" says Robson, with a naval
exuberance of language equal to the ex-
penditure for repairs on a man-of-war,
and adds, still with a fondness for
marine rhetoric, sit rolls OIL me like
water off decks back"
Representative Cox, known as Sunset,
i'm his tariff speech: "The little girl
cannot play with her doll nor the boy
whiz his top nor the mother wash her
offspring with soap, except at an eX-
pense of from One-third to One-half of
their cost for the domestic privilege"
A new line from Governor Hamilton's
speech at the recent Baltimore banquet:
'ENTy watchword for the Democracy,
and particularly for the young Demo-
cracy, is popular rule, a free scope for
the expansion of the national idea and
perditiOn to the Bosses"
Mr.. Longfellow wrote not along ago
to a young correspondent: mo man,
/ think, should devote himself to poetry
as q means of making q living. True
poetry is the o~ffspringso of our best hours.
If you make a trade Of it you may be
sure that it will degenerate into mere
VerSe-naklnS.'
ooh! mother, you al have no idea
what we went through. / sat at the
helm fourteen hOnrs; my feet were
frozen stiff so that l had to cut part OF
my great toe offafterwards clear to the
bone: and when relieved from the helm
/ tainted TO the bottom of the boat
Hebert w. Leach, one of the Jeanette
survivors, in q letter to his mother at
P~enobscot, Me.
Now who knows DowhRg%' asked
jefferson Davis in a New Orleans adj
dress the other day, adding: "And yet
this Bowling / hold higher then
Leonidasn Bowling commanded for
ty-two men in = mud fort at Sabine
Pass and just before a hard fight with
q Federal iron-elad fleet these men
shook hands with Bowling, he saving
to each: I'VE will fight till we die"
Young George w. Johnson, a
nephew of General Albert Sidney John
son, in his junior prize address at Yale:
1.-THE cause for which the South fought
is, indeed, lost. Shall luminosity still re-
ject her advances? Answer, sympathy
and fraternal affection. Answer, JUS
tiee and msgnanimity. Answer, r
wisdom which searches the future.
Noble South, rising superior to poverty
and grief and bitterness. Your appeal
is heard. Generous North, re-
sponsive 10 the call, now dOubly deserv-
ing your prosperity! Happy union of
such q North and such a South"