Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-17
Prominent PERso Ms.

just been named after her.
Mrs. LANGTRY's sister-in- law Is CON-
ing over to take care Of the "beauty."
COMMISSIONERS RAUM has gone to Ill
inois to look after his Senatorial
scheme. -- $50. ...r.-. -
REPRESENTATIVE. PROCTOR KNOTT
is suffering from congestion of the
lungs.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has selected. for
the White House Knabe concert grand
piano.
MALONE and his family have gone
into winter quarters at the Arlington,
Washington.
CHIEF ENGINEER GEO. w. MEL
WILLIE, of the late Jeanette, has been
placed on special duty.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., has
just been appointed a Judge of the Mas
sachusetts Supreme Court.
SARAH BERNHARDT snubs all Amer
leans who call ON her now because the
ladies here snubbed her.
SIR ADELINA PATTI. they call the
diva now, because she has been made a
Knight of the Order of "Kapiolani" by
King Kalaksua.
DIR. BLISS concluded that he'd better
take what he could get, so he has
walked up to the treasury like little
man and drawn his Sc, 500.
THAT tapeworm of legal rhetoric, w.
NJ. Evarts, wears a battered silk hat
rammed on his head till it curves his
ears out at right-angles.
JOHN STETsoN, Mrs. Langtry's man
ager, says ''she is headstrong; in fact, l
believe she is cracked"
GEORGE GOULD, jays son, denies
that he is infatuated with Mrs. Lang
try. If he is like his father he never
will be infatuated.
OTIs LOCKE has been appointed post
master at Tiffin, Ohio. He is brother
of "Nasby," who constantly charges
that the Democrats care for nothing ex-
cept the postoffices.
Mrs. LABOUCHERE lost fourteen hats
in New York just before she sailed.
They were found yesterday in a cellar,
where they had been placed by the thief.
RIA COMPLIMENTARY banquet is to be
given to Frederick Douglass in Wash
ington on New Years Day next, at
which ex-senator B. X. Bruce will pre-
| side.
Mr.. HENRY c. MAYOR announces
that he is the conductor of the Sanitary
Engineer. His paper is necessity to
all who would know the latest and best
methods of public and private santa
ton.
THURLOw WEED smoked for fifty
years. He gave up the use of tobacco
fifteen years ago, and has steadily failed
ever since. This may be perniciOus
doctrine, but it is history.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has just
penetrated the peninsula as far as Eas-
ton, Md. At Middletown, Del, he ate
half pie, according to the Transcript,
with all his old-time vigor.
beautiful and elegant woman, despite
her husbands cruel neglect, has been in
In1knr, rarha-n ,,,1rah oNfngNiN,N II
her.
THE Marquis of Lorne and the Prin-
cess Louise, as it is understood at OF
tawa, intend to make a tour of four or
five weeks in the United States, visiting
Los Angeles and other cities of the
Union.
GENERAL FITz LEE has returned 20
Richmond from a tour of Southern
cities and towns, where he has been de-
livering a lecture on "The Battle of
Charlottesville" The proceeds, which
go to the Southern Historical Society,
were considerable.
Tom OCHILTREE was asked about his
canvass and replied: "Why, my dis
trict comprises 81, 500 miles. stumped
it horseback, muleback, assback and
afoot, and here am landed, full
tiedged M. c. of the FOrty-eighth Con-
gress, ready for any jobbery or thieving
on foot"
Mr.. ARTHUR is sharp enough. He
asked a correspondent if he knew who
had an alleged abstract of his message
for sale, because, said he, II haven't
quite finished my message yet, and
thought if could purchase complete
copy In advance it might help me out
on some points which hayn't yet set
| tied to my satisfaction"
MILLIONAIRE LELAND SANFoRD's
wife is reported to have the finest dia.
monds in New York, except Mrs. John
Jacob Astor's. AT q recent wedding
she wore a magnificent necklace of
diamonds, while below it, extending
from shoulder to shoulder, was a row
of splendid gems, four inches deep, and
as if this were not enough to make a
decided sensation, the lady's ears, head,
arms and dress were ablaze with Jewels.
a CHINESE coin 5000 years old has
been found by gold miners digging
shaft in British Columbia. This would
seem to indicate that some rascally
Cinnamon have been working the claim
at night. At least, so the miners think.
| No wOuder He Resigned.
Wayne County Advocate.