Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-10
CHAT BY THE WAY.

temporary paralysis Of discretion.
The Bank of England, in settlements
involving fractions ola penny, always
reckons such fractions in its own favor.
1t has thus accumulated the astonishing
sum of SIT, $50. The London Eeono-
mist cities this as an example of the
power of accumulation ofsmall amounts
and praises the wisdom of the English
Government Ia establishing the postal
savings bank, in which deposits Of one
penny are received. During the year
1881 the deposits in this institution were
81, 1000. Something was heard
during the session of Congress ola gov
eminent depository on similar plan
for the benefit of people ofsmall means
in this country, but the members were
too busy abstracting money from the
government Treasury to pay much at
tention to it, and it was eventually lost
sight Of
AMERICA has a pretty bad reputa-
ton in the matter of railroad accidents,
some of them utterly without excuse,
but that mash-up of an
excursion train in Germany, last
Monday, beats anything of the kin d on
record on this side of the Atlantic.
To the dispsssionate observer, it would
seem that if "Ireland opportunity 80
often talked of by the orators of smypa-
thing agitation lin America-the OPP
portunity to strive for political separa-
ton from the British empire-is to be
found in the present age, it might be
sought with some hope Ofsuccess at this
moment. The Irish patriots should
whet their shillalahs and take the field
ere il is too late.
LOVE has again triumphed. Emory
Thomas sent to Mary Brown, at Jack
son Mich, silk for a dress as present.
He wished to marry her, and she was
not unwilling to become Mrs. Thomas,
but when she learned that the silk was
part of the proceeds of burglary, she
became the principal witness against the
wooer, and he was sent to prison for
seven years. After thinking the matter
over, however, Mary concluded that she
had been too harsh, and she hied herself
to her lovers cell and plead for forgiv-
ness. He consented to overlook her
| conduct, and few days ago the prison
chaplain joined them in wedlock.
KANSAS is planting thirty thousand
acres of trees per year. This is wise.
The farmer who owns ten acres of wal
nut or oak timber twenty years hence
will have bonanza.
The sale of ice cut from water unfit
for drinking purposes has been prohibit
ed in Detroit. Our City Council should
pass a similar ordinance. Some of the
ice cut from Wheeling creek, within the
city limits, is terrible stuff, often con-
tanning oil, slaughter house refuse, and
filth of the worst description. But then,
perhaps, it is foolish to expect anything
of real value at the hands of our NUM-
cipal lawmakers.
IT is suggested that sha wing paper
will be cheap tmlS s-u. III" Concord
Summer Shoot of Philosophy is to pub
lish its first volume ofrepOrts, including
the transcendental papers read at the
last meeting. We fairly yearn for that
book.
GILBERT and Sullivan should give
the society snob blast in their next
musical production, and it is more than
likely they will, too, since Gilbert has
been blackballed in London swell
club. The wealthy son Of a retired but
ter merchant had been informed that
the distinguished artist in comic opera
worked for living, and was therefore
not respectable. On receiving this hor-
rifying intelligence the wealthy son was
temporarily overcome, but rallied in
time to vote black.
THE old alchemists usd to sit up nights
wasting the hours in vain attempts to
convert the baser metals intOfgold, but
their success was never very startling.
A Camden, n. j., man, working on the
sameprincipsl exchanging onesubstance
into another, has set up a large factory
and is converting all the stray cOcOanut
shell he can lay his hands on into pepper.
That is, the product looks like pepper,
smells like pepper, and tastes something
like pepper, but even with these evidence
of genuineness before them, some I'M
charitable mortals refuse to believe in
the transformation.
SINCE President Arthur's recent visit
to Newport, q terrible suspicion has
been whispered about that eminently
respectable resort. Men speak of it
with bated breath, and children
cover and shrink when it is mentioned
in their presence; it is talked of in
whispers over tea tables, and stealthily
discussed at church sociables by the
horror-strickeu female portion of the
community. But things of this kind
are bound to come out. They may be
hushed up temporarily, but the evidence
of the crime is too deep and dsmning to
be suppressed. The President powders
his nose.
A PERSISTENT, but misguided Portland
man has crippled three different people
in the last week in the vain endeavOr to
kill a cat. At this rate by the time the
nine lives of that feline have
BEEN sacrificed the town will be depop-
! ulated.
IT is about time for the granger to
commence circulating yarns about the
corn husks being thicker than usual,
denoting the near approach ofAu extra
hard winter. 1t would be interesting to
know what corn busks have TO do with