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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-12

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and 20 %. N. connect a. Yellow Greek fos
Qsyeiapd. An trains daily sxcsg Sunday
M. A. BALDWIN,
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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

"Changed!" exclaimed Deacon Green
to the dear Little School-ma' am, year
ago come Christmas, ~ should think
they had changed. Why, many IS the
time We heard my dear old father tell
how, years ago, when he and Aunt
Mary were children living on their
fathers farm in old England, the least
little present used to delight them.
"They were well-to-do people, too,
the Greens were; but to find one book
or a ball or a shepard's pipe in his
Christmas stocking would make father
perfectly happy when he was boy;
and his sister thought box of sugar
plums, or new doll, or any one pretty
gimcrack, was a joy indeed. Changed
well, l d like to know! Why, | m
told that boy of this day, a real boy
of the period, would consider himself a
much-abused fellow if he did MT find
on his Christmas-tree q ball, q six
bladed knife, a scientific top, a box Of
carpenters tools, printing-press, a
jig-saw, sled, a bicycle, ice-skates,
roller-skates, a Punch-and-Judy show,
a telephone, steam-engine, micrs-
scope, steamboat, working train Of
cars, box of parlor magic, pistol, a
performing acrobat, real watch, a
gold scarf-pin, gold cuff-buttons, a
bound volume Of St. Nicholas, and
twenty or thirty other books, more OF
less, besides a pocket-book with gold
money in it, and pair Of kid gloves.
81 may have forgotten something"
added the Deacon, wiping his brow,
"but, SO far as l can make out, that 4
the proper thing for ap average boy'i
Christmes, nowadays.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
How tho War brought Peanuts int
Prominence.

NOllblN Niih'H'"H'
Norfolk is now the largest peanut
marketin the world, except Marseil'es
France, and the peanut trade here has
Drown to be an important feature OF
cur commerce. Besides numerous
commission houses, where they arc
handled. we have two large cleaning
establishments which employ some 200
hands and have n capacity for cleaning
about 1000 bushels per day. The
cleaning process is simple. The pea
nuts are first placed in large revolv-
inc drum, which takes off the dirt and
the rough surface. Thence they are
passed through brushes which polish
the surface, and finally over series of
canvas strips in motion, about which
number of hands stand and assort
them as they come along, picking out
the faulty ones and allowing the choice
peas to find their way into bags.
The peanut is native OF Africa,
though it has never had the advantage
of an emancipation act and is still
bought and sold rs commercial COM
moaity. 1t has, however, materially
improved its condition by coming to n
civilized country, and is now much
larger and daintier than its African
brother or, let us say progenitor.
The African article was one largely
imported to this country, but it is no
longer favorite with us, and an in
voice of African peas shipped to New
York last year was not marketable.
The variety now finds ITS market in
Marseilles, where it and the Indian
cotton seeds are manufactured into
olive oil and imported to this country,
so that in point of fact the African pea
does find its way to America still.
Seriously, it is little singular that
the war which was waged for the
emancipation of the black man should
have brought the peanut into promin-
erce. Up to this time peanuts were
not grown to any appreciable extent as
an article of traffic, and their CONNER
cial value is post bcllum. The
Yankees tasted the dainty nut during
the war and while they did not become
so facinated with its delicate flavor as
did the soldiers of Xenophon with the
lotos, they fell so much in love with it
as an article of diet that as soon as they
returned to their homes in tho North
they began to clamor for it, and the
Southern farmer turned his attention
from the negro to his neighbor, the
peanut, and soon the growing of pea
nuts came to be great industry in
portions of Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Advices from Kingman, Kansas, in
dicate high state of excitement in
that county over the alleged unearth-
ing of dark crime that has slept for
two years. 1t appears that two years
ago a gigantic land swindle was in OPP
Grafton in that county, and included in
its active participants the sheriff and
county attorney. The fraudulent
scheme was discovered, and all of the
parties were arrested. The sheriff,
McClain, broke Jail and escaped, while
the county attorney, Sprowls, gave
bail, and as he suddenly disappeared
from the neighborhood, it was sup
posed that he had jumped it. A rich
relative of Sprowls in Maine fearing
foul play from his confederates, sent a
Pinkerton detective TO Kingman some
time ago to ferret the matter out. The
result was the finding Of part of q
charred coat on the farm Of one Carr,
which had two bullet holes in II and
was identified as that Of Sprowls. Carr
was one of the men implicated in the
land swindles, and It is supposed thai
all hands interested in the case killed
Sprowls to prevent his turning state'i
evidence. Arrests have been made
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
THE SN0W-BIRD'S CHRIST
MAS-TREE.

Yes, the snOw-birds had n Christmas
tree at our house last ycar-a real tree,
Just biz enough for the dear little
things. | II tell You about it.
We were rs happy as we could be
around our own beau-ti-fu! tree, when
all at once Roy gave n shout, and
pointed to the window. (Roy is my
!it-tlcst brother. lie has lovely brown
hair, and it S banged in front and hangs
way down behind. Mamma says he
is the pet Of the house, or that Lulu and
he are the pets of the house, For Lulu
looks very much like Roy, and has the
same kind of lovely hair, and it s
banged in front and long behind, just
like Roys. Only Lulu is older than
Roy.)
Well, when Roy pointed to the win
dow that morning, he called out:
"Sce! See. they want n Ks-mas-tec,
too!n And we all looked around, and
what do you think? There on the
win-dow-sill were four lovely little
snow-birds, looking in at our tree!
And they would peck, peck, at tho pane,
as if they want-cu us to open The win
dow.
LET 'cm in! Let 'em in! shouted
Lulu, and She ran to raise the window.
But the little birds were afraid of her,
and flew away.
But they did not fly very far AWAY
only TO tree out in the yard. And
we opened the window and called,
Birdie! Bird-icn a-gain and again,
and tried every way we knew to get
them to come in. But just then it be-
gan To snow real hard, and the lit tie
birds flew down TO Il little, low ever
green, and Away into the center of it,
where the snow could MT fall on them.
But the best thing is to come yet.
Lulu thought of it. Just when we said
the poor lit-tlo birds would have a real
dull Christ-mas-day, Lulu shouted out:
"Oh, | know We IL make them Is
Christ-mas-trec of their own, and take
it out and give it to them there in the
evergreen.
And then Lulu got Mamma to cut
off little bough from our Christmas
tree, and she stood it up in 4 paper box,
and packed the box all around with
pretty blue paper, so that the bough
would stand up straight all by itself.
And then she hung the little tree all
over with bread-crumbs, and, the first
thing we knew, there it was, II perfect
little Snow-birds' Christ-mas-tree!
Then Lulu and Roy put on their pret-
ty, new red caps, and their warm coats,
and they took that little Christmas.
tree out into the yard, and up to the
evergreen where the birds were, and
they pushed the limbs away, and set
the lit-tlo box and the little tree in q
CORNER of the evergreen, where it
stood up straight. And-if you I'll be-
lievc it-thosc birds never flew away
at all, but looked just as if they ex-
pect-ed it all along! And Lulu and
Roy went few steps away, and turned
around, and stood perfectly still, and
in q minute all four of those little
birds flew down, and helped themselves
from their pretty little Christmas
tree, and were just as happy over it
as we were over ours. Lulu and Roy
stood out there in the snow and watched
them ever so long, And we could see
them from the window, too.
We hope the same little birds will
come back this year, and if they do,
we re going to give them another
Christ-mas-trce. Would MT youP-
Mabel Jones, in 81. Nicholas.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
THREE NOTED WOMEN.
Now AbIdeth These Three, Susan and
Ann and Lotta; But the Greatest OF
These is
CourerJnurnal.

Now AbIdeth These Three, Susan and
Ann and Lolita; But the Greatest OF
CourerJournal.
Miss Susan b. Anthony, who is sixty
two years of age, is hale and vigorous,
and capable of doing any amount of
work. She will soon 90 to Boston to
see about the $4,000 willcd to her by n
wealthy lady of the Hub, lately de-
ceased. She then visits Washington at
the opening of congress to look after
Legislation in favor of women. Her
History of Women'S Work." consist
ing of 1000 pages is now completed.
Anna Dickinson has withdrawn from
the stage, and is living with her sister
and aged mother at Honesdalc, Pa.
"Shc and her family" says friendly
writer in the Philadelphia Press, "are
poor, but proud as ever. Anna has
been importuned by her friends to re-
turn to the rostrum, but she will not
listen TO anything of the kind. The
temperance people are especially anX-
ious to enlist her services. Her disas-
trous theatrical venture took her last
doNar She looks carewOrn and some
what sad. Her large expressive eyes
are as eloquent as ever, but it is i'm
possible not to feel, after glance at
her face, that disappointment has en-
bittered her life. She has counted much
on the success of her Hamlet, and
studied hard to make it such, but IL
nalIy retired from the field, broken in
health and fnencially ruined, What
she will do next is mystery"
Lolita makes money as an actress
rapidly and easily, but sometimes loses
it IN investments. She is out $4,000
on the speculative purchase of a play.
About the time that mclod:ama was in
great demand in this country she
learned, while visiting in London, that
Charles Readc was at work with a
dramatst on play in which an eX-
plOsion in a coal mine was to be the
feature. She thought that the Ameri-
can right would be good thing to buy,
and gladly embraced the opportunity
of paying SIC, 900 for il before it had
been named or half-written. COnsc-
qucntly she is the owner for this coun-
try of love and Money which made
so bad failure at the Adelphi Theatre,
London, last week that even the boys
in the pit made fun of it She is some
what cOnSoled, however, by the fact
that no manager in this country would
now touch the bctt melodrama that
could be written, so that the untimcli-
= 4
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

New orleans Picaynnc.
At certain professors" artificial
leg, arm, nose and eyebrow factory
yesterday n number of young women
were working at small tables, each
table covered with little instruments
and things, the likes of which l had
never seen before. At one table two
girls were threading needles with fine
silky hair, and sewing them in little
squares on thin, transparent gauze.
"These girls" said the professor,
"are making some of those beautiful
arched eyebrows you may sometimes
see in ball rooms. These sewed on the
net are the less expensive kind, and
are only used on special occasions. The
real brow is very expensive, and can
only be made by person of great
skill" begged him to explain the
operation of giving person eyebrows
who was born without them, and lead
ing me into an elegantly furnished
parlor, in which was a large dentists
chair, he continued:
"The patient sits here. In this
cushion 10 my leiJ are slucK score OF
so of those needles you saw being
threaded. Each stitch only leaving
two strands of hair, to facilitate the
operation number of needles must be
at hand. As each thread of hair is
drawn through the skin over the eye
it is cut so that when the first stage of
the operation is over it leaves the hair
bristling out an inch or so, presenting
a ragged, porcupine appearance. Now
comes tho artistic work. The brow
must be arched and cut down with the
utmost delicacy and a number Of hours
is required to do it."
alt must be very painful and tedi-
GUS ?" tcW
They don't say that it is picnic
excursion,'' laughed the. professor ;
"but eyebrows, small as they are, are
very important in the make up Of the
face. You have no idea how odd one
looks when utterly denuded OF hair
over the eyes. The process / have
| described is painful, but II makes good
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
BESIDE A FAIRY FIRE.

II Christmas time could only seem
AS 1t used to do lang syne;
II one could keep their dreams, awake:
IL beaded bubbles would not break
Over the ebbing wine;
If one could hear in fancy now
The reindeer on the roof
And know the merry nearing clank
Beside stocking long and lank
Woulds top for our behOof;
If one could tiptoe out of bed
With such lightsOme heart,
To find some jolly, kindly saint,
In memory of legend quaint,
Once more had done his part;
II one could hang stocking now
Beside some fairy fire,
Creeping like childhood off at night,
And like II finding, with the light,
Each darling wish, each dear desire:
To find the silver star of Hope,
For us to wear away;
Hearts that we covct for our own,
The promised white and mystic stone,
The lamp to guide us in the way;
The cloak that Charity bestows'
The glad youth that is gone
A letter from the shining shore,
From happy ones gone on before,
To help us struggle on
All then we'd hang our stockings up,
As well as Lou. and Ben;
And II they were not full at iirst,
So full the gaping stitches burst,
We'd hang them up again.
-Ethe Llrlt,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
Christmas HumOr.

The muss that children are anxious to
get into-Christmus.
As the Christmas tree is bent, so is
the youthful heart made glad.
Christmas is the anniversary of dys-
pepsia's fowlest conspiracy against
comfort.
Hose more despised by little children
than the man who takes no stockin'
Santa Claus?
Tho man who takes unto himself
wife on Christmas eve will be sure to
have well-flled stockings.
SIS Kriss kingle alive, papN!n
The small boy said.
"Ah yes, and 'kicklng.'n
Said the family's head
Christmas is rapidly coming this way,
and the young man with a No. foot
will, as usual, be presented with pair
of No. 6 slippers.
Listen to the sleigh bells Jingle!
See the merry snow-lakes minglc!
How 1t makes our life-blood tmglc!
Aroyal welcome to old Kriss Cringlc!
If you really desire to perpetrate q
practical joke upon your printer this
year Just send him the amount of your
subscription on Christmas.
What time the holidays roll round,
The bad boy, still in frocks,
Led by the ear, to his ma draws near,
And getteth his Christmas box.
Mamma said the little one "do
you know what you are going to give
me for Christmas?n "Why, yes"
said the mother, 'of course | know"
"Well, for mercy's sake, don't tell
me" responded the puss with great
vehemence.
She tripped DER the slushy crossing,
And the wind, that fercely blew,
An inch or so of her ankle
Exposed to the public view.
The officer on the next corner
Was heard distinctly to say,
"Thats the incest thing In a stocking
have seen this Christmas day."
''sing aye the merrymistletoc,
The merry, merry mistletoe,
The merry, merry mistletoe,
The mistletoe bougb."
On Christmas morning the plaster-of-
paris image man finds his harvest.
The tailor has sewed, and the plaster
of-paris man comes around to reap. At
least it seams sew. Your husband, il
you are married woman, probably
has warm ulster with fish-horn
buttons on the back. You are aware
that broomstick is one of the most
warming things in the world, and your
aesthetic tastes argue, what's the use of
the ulster to himp You, therefore,
make a trade. You get a plaster-of
paris cat in seven colors, and make
home beautiful, even II the hgad Of the
family does tear bis hair. : ="
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

eyebrows and adds one hundred per
cent to the looks of person who was
without them. 1t is, too, much better
than the blackening and cosmetics so
many people who have mere pretense
of brows comprising only few color
less hairs"
"Do your sowed-through-the-skin
eyebrows last ?"
"For years.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Montreal Star.
Thirty.six years ago there lived in
that pleasant little town down the river
called SOrcl-very little it was then-a
youth and maiden. The name of the
youth was George Beaupre, the name
of the maiden Mary Ann Pierce. They
belonged to families of moderate cir
cumstanCes. He, with the strength
and devotion of honest young man.
hood, loved this maiden and wooed
her with that carnestncSs which only
such lover can. He was given every
cncOuragcmcnt was, some say, actual
" accepted; was cOngratulating him
self, at least, on the smooth coursing of
true love, when suddenly n rival ap-
pCared, and everything for him turned
black. The rival one was Jacob Saw
age, Of the same town. Pretty soon
she and Savage were married and set
tied down in the place, and then young
Beaupre's hope died out. He tried to
work ON as before, but could not He
closed up his business, settled up his
affairs, and started to the far west,
toward which so many adventurous
spirits were about that time shaping
their course.
From that day to within Il few weeks
ago he had not set foot in this part of
Canada. He had worked hard, saved
carefully, prospercd and laid up prop
crty worth at least 100000. He had
never married. He was getting up
toward sixty years of age. Several
weeks ago he took an idea to come back
once more to see his friends, and he
started east. He searched out relatives
in SOrel and Montreal, but found few
that he remembered. He inquired for
the woman who, as girl, had so many
years before thrown him overheard for
rival They told him she was wild
owed; her husband had been dead many
years; she had been living several
years in Montreal; went TO call upon
her; met her, and then He found
her getting old, in poor circumstances,
with several children, but that made no
difference; he saw only the girl of thir-
ty-six years before. On Saturday they
were married by his Lordship Bishop
Fabrc, the wealthy bridegroom being
content with no other dignitary than
the highest in that part of the country.
He has bestowed all the happiness that
wealth and affection can upon his bride
and her children, and in short time
they will go TO his home in the Black
Hills.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Mr.. j. G. Tyler, chief clerk at tho
Union Depot Hotel, Ogden, had rheu-
matism in the muscles of the chest and
left shoulder. By applying the Great
German Remedy three days he realized
complete restoration, and he is of the
opinion that there is nothing equal to
the St. Jacobs Oil for pain. The
Great German Remedy is also q spe-
cifc for burns and sprains. Lake
(Utdh) Tribune. tt. ...
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

"As for the girls" the good man
went on, raising his voice, ''as for the
girls-as Tor"
How she did it, l do not know; but
the wonderful Little School-ma am act
uauy stopped the proceedings then and
there. So, to this day your Jack does
MT know what an average girl of tho
present day does, might, could, would,
or should find on a Christmas-trec. 81.
Nicholas.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
Grape Culture and Wine Making in Call
fOrnia,

Grape Culture and Wine Making in Cali
fornia.
New York Sun,
The extent of wine making in Cali
fornia astonishes visitors from the east.
At the vineyards of San Gabriel, the
largest in the state, 100000 gallons OF
wine and 100000 of brandy will be
made from this years crop of grapes.
The unskilled labor employed is usually
Chinese, but the experts are mostly
from the wine districts of France and
Germany, though Americans learn the
process readily. The grapes are
stemmed and squeezed by machinery.
The juice runs into watts, where it fer
ments sufficiently, and>is pumped into
butts in the cellars. There it stands
until clarified by whites of eggs, isin
glass, or gelatine, after which it is fill
tered through charcoal, and drawn of
into casks for shipment. As to the
profits of grape culture, it is calculated
that the vines will bear in the third
year after the cuttings are set out, give
a profit in the fourth, and in the fifth
yield enough to pay all expenses includ-
ing the cost of the land. There are
seven winc-producing districts in Cali
fornia, and the total vintage this year
is 100000 gallons. Some of this
will be distilled for brandy, and some
drunk at home, but the bulk will be
sent eastward, to be sold under foreign
labels.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

When you visit sr leave New York City
save Baggage, Eyrfessage and Carriage Hire,
aud stop az GRAND UNION HOTEL, oppo-
site Grand Central Depot $50 elegant rooms,
fitted up. at cost Of one million dollars, rc-
plan Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
lie hest Horse cars, stages and elevated
railroads 10 all depots. Families can live bet
Ter for less money at the Grand Union Hotel
than At nny other frst-class hotal In the qitv.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

God comes to dwell in mortal ilesh,
He comes in childhood's form;
Not with imperial pomp He comes,
Nor riding on the storm.
His mi sion is to save the world,
TocOmfort the forlorn,
Yet in no dazzling shape appears,
But as Babe is born.
The light that shines DER Bcthlehcm'S plain
Is radiant, pure and calm;
The heavenly host in softcst strain
Sing forth the joyful psalm.
They tell Of One uf highest name,
Whose wOndrous choice is made,
OF David's Son and David's Lord
Now in u mangcr laid.
May we be like that Holy Child,
And lOwly as was he,
That we Gods children may be called
His face in glory sec!
-DnOSOn Burns,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Dan,l Plank, of Brooklyn, Tioga CO., Pa,
describes Il thus 81 rode thirty miles for q
bottle of THOMAS EoLEcTRIc On, which
effected the tponderfia cure Of aerooked iimb'
in six applications; it proved worth more
than 0old IN mel
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

The official list of the deaths from
yellow fever in Pensacola, Fla. during
the recent epidemic contains 1877 names.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

Who that has ever lived anytime In the
country but must have heard Of the virtues Of
Burdock as blood purifier BuRDooK BLooy
BIrTERs cure dyspepsia, biliousness and all
disorders arising from impure blood or de-
ranged liver or kidneys. Price Sl.Oo
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

1t is, says recent writer, neither kindly
nor particularly wise for one social class. TO
augh at the views of another.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

ty-Don't wear dingy or faded things when
the ten-cent Diamond Dye will make then
good as new, They are perfect
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21

School boysi in Germany are 70 be taught
cricket and football