Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-06

The President is expected to visit the
White Mountains this week.
There are strong indications that
summer has Tapped over into the first
fall month.
This Is about the time of year when
wouId-be patriots put themselves in the
hands of their friends.
Gen. Wallace, the United States
minister at Constantinople, dined with
the Sultan last evening,
The Chinese survivor of the lost
Jeannette, Long Ching, is running
yashee shop in Washington.
uHubbell, Hubbell, toll and trouble"
is the Washington clerks rendering of
tbe witches chant in Macbeth"
There is no use of lotteries in this
country. Betting on base ball Is just as
GOOD recipe for keeping laboring men
poor.
Here and there a State gets warmed
I'D for few days, but there is no gen.
eral and sustained interest in politics
this year.
The English do not seem to be maxi
ing very rapid progress in the conquest
of Egypt. a lion labors at great dis
advantage in swallowing fly.
Edison has obtained over $50 different
patents, and is still applying. While
be was booming the Patent Office,
Brush was b.inging out the electric
light
The news from Sprague PaSha Is
mesger, but if he holds out as well as
Arsbi Pasha it will be some time before
Mr.. Moulton takes possession Of Can
onchet.
The truants are coming back from
their vacation. The only satisfaction
the stay-at homes have lies in the
thought that the summer prodigals are
al >un-hmned.
The boss baby farmer of Syracuse
could dwindle healthy infant down to
skin and homes in just seven days, and
by the ninth all arrangements could be
made for funeral.
As, according to the dispatches, the
nOtables have been able to recognize
Arab, it would appear that he has not
been greatly disfgured in his set-to
with General WOlseley.
A Missouri book agent piled ties
across the railroad track, ran ahead
and saved" a passenger train, and
took 10 orders from the grateful pas
sengers without change of cOunten-
ance.
The Chief Red Cloud, who was kick
ing up row the other day, has the
scalps of forty-eight white persons
hanging in his.lodge. 1t would seem
IS ifhe had lived long enough for an
Indian.
\ book Of &5Opages has been written
10 prove that sharks do not eat human
beings. The author of the work has
declined an offer of II 900 to jump into
| the harbor at Key West to settle the
dispute.
IL oil
paper at Buenos Ayres, and from the
i way he prates about honor and honesty,
nO one would imagine thatahe would
pass counterfeit bill on his own grand
mother.
Mexican hotels rarely keep registers,
have peculiar way of numbering
4 m ms, irregular hours for meals and no
fixed rates. If a guest escapes with his
life and has any money left it is all
right.
. Heavy guns were recently mounted
On the Notifications of Quebec, but
General Butler appears to have effected
apeaeeful moOring of his yacht OppO-
site that city. The Canadians are less
afraid Of the General than are "the best
elements of the Bay State.
" The New York Freeman's Journal Is
anxiOus to have O'Donovan Rosa put
into lunatic asylum. II was rival
Irish organ to which Rosa loaned
$4,000 of the Irish skirnishing fund.
However, the proposition is a good one.
Mr. Rosa apparently has all the mental
feiulrements ofa very successful lunatic.
It is about time the prohibition move
ment swept through st. Louis. A re-
hned reporter of one Of the daily papers
Of that city writes about whisky with
a fragrance like flowers and q taste like
the dreamy melody Of Memberships
music" Delirium tremens will soon
shake the snakes out of that fellows
boots.
Frank Moulton has contracted to sell
DelmonicO and Leland enough of the
oeaeh at CanoRchet to accommodate
EWO grand hotels, getting therefor as
much as he paid for the whole, thus re-
erYing for himself, elear,Of expense,
'ne whole Of the farm, the splendid
villa and twO-thrds of the beach. 1t
Vas pretty good spec. for the mutual
frend.
It's said that the largest mortgage ey-
= executed in Pennsylvania was filed
The recorders Office at Philadelphia
thursday. 1t is for Sl6O,OOO, 900, and Is
ade by the Philadelphia and Reading
AIrOad Company and Philadelphia
nd Reading Coal and Iron Company
III he Pennsylvania Company for insur-
|EHee on lives aud granting anRuities
III trustee to secure the new five per
consolidated MORTGAGE bonds