Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-20
NOVELS IN NUTSHElLS.
Five yestS-Pocket ROmRnces- i'm which
all the Characters arc Real.


Among the passengers on the Sound
steamer Narragansett at the time Oh the
wreck two years ago John G. Reilly,
young CincinnatiOn. Reilly's escape was
narrow, for he was in the water three
hours and had become almost helpless
from exhaustion, when some boatmen
picked him from his spar. he lost all
the personal effects that were with him,
including u portfolio, which he priced
highly because il was full of sketches
made i'm various parts of New England.
Several months after his return to Gin
cinnati the young man was surprised
and quite as much delighted to received
at the hands of 4 brother, who lives IN
Louisville, the sea-stained but other
wise uninjurcd sketch-boOk. 1t had
been picked up on the Sound shore by u
yonng woman of NOank, who ut first
had thought to keep the pretty pictures,
but who had decided to send them To
the only address written upon the
portfolio, because they might b. the
means of indicating the fate Of an
known passenger. These circustanceS
were so charmingly set forth i'll such
dainty hand and with such sympathetic
words that Reilly right away wrote to
the Young woman most earnest eX-
prrSsiOn of thanks. OF cOurSehe offered
10 send the pictures to her, and by the
time she had replied that she would
like to have them friendly cOrrcspon-
denCe was well under way. The cX-
change of portraits, the postal intro
ductiOn to mutual friends in Cincinnati
and New York, the gradual strengthen
ing of sentences on the one part and
growth of shyneSS on the other lndi-
Gated plainly to Dan Cupid that such in
deed was the case. But the romance
deepCns. About year ago the fair las
of Noank seemed to have cut the silver
thread. Reilly passed Il year in deSpon-
dencc. Last week one OfhiS friends APP
preached him with al explanation.
The lover had given the friend a letter
to mail TO NOank, and the friend had
lust discovered it in cast-away coat OF
last winter. The mystery thus removed
correspondence was resumed and at last
accounts Reilly was packing his satchel
for an important journey TO the East.
In Houston county, Georgia, not
longer ago than the time elapseS be-
tween the taking of North Carolina
drink and South Carolina dram, a COM
pany Of Young folks met tOenjOy game
of whist. There was occasion for one
of 1.-THE young women to remark that she
would never marry man so like Oscar
Wilde that he should fall to the aesthetic
depth of wearing his hair Il Ia horse tail.
Her inteplOctutOr bantered the fair
Georgian to marry him and, rs much to
his surprise ~ to that of the company,
she accepted the offer. Theparty of the
first part was rather elated than crest
fallen, however, because the party of
ofthe second part happened to be as
wise ms she was witty and as rich in
purse as she rare in in personal attrac-
lions. Cards were abandoned, q courier
was sent with quick heels for license,
n Judge was summoned as witness, a
clergyman was hauled from his study,
and, with a quickneSs that almost took
the brides breath away, she found her
self a wife. AS the betrothal took
placed at ten O'Clock and the marriage
at eleven, one hour only was consumed.
In this romantic way Miss Maybel!e
Clarke, daughter of Judge Clarke, OF
Americas, was welded to Henry j,
Sanclin, Il worthy and well-to-do
merchant ofHoustOn county.
Many guests met at the Threekeld
mansion, in Kansas City, on the even
ing of the 18th instant, to witness the
marriage of Theodore Medsker to Miss
Dora Threekeld. At the hour appointed
the bridegroom was missing. Search
was made high and low. The guests
was seemed to enjoy the trouble was
Charles +. Smiley, who thoroughly
earned his beaming name upon that oc-
casiOn. 1t furthermore appears that the
bride was not at all fretted by Medsker,s
absence, for the reason that the match
was of her mothers making and against
her own desire. mthe interval between
the departure and return of those who
had gone to find the groom Smiley got
i'm his argument and his work. The
drawback WAS the license, but that
difficulty was surmounted by the legal
blotting out of Medsker's and the inSer-
ton ofSmiley's name. So it happened
that Miss Threekeld became Mrs. Smii-
ey and that, after all, the company took
the cake.
1t is not necessary in Old-fashioned
communities like that at Snow Hill,
MARYLAND, for the parents of bride to
issue invitations. Sometimes the form
is followed, but more frequently gossip
does the bugling, the bell-ringer gives
the immediate summon and the
preacher publicly cracks the hymeneal
whip. One evening last week gossip
and the bell-ringer caused large con-
preratiou to assemble in the Presby-
terrain Church at Snow Hill to witness
q MARRIAGE R,It neither bride nor
groom put in an appearance. Nor was
the preacher at hand. Ihe congregation
fidgeted around for half hour. wnen
it became known that gossip, beil-rinSer
and people had been deceived: The
wedding will take place one year hence;
The witnesses were Just S65 day.ahead OF
time.
A Club of unfortunate Lovers"
has been formed in Herne, England,
and already fourteen members have
been enrolled. The chairman is bache-
Tor whose rebuffs have been so frequent
that he dares not now visit any family
i'm the town lest he may be obliged to
mass the evening face TO face with the
maker of one of his many mittenS.
The meetings are social and no illusions
are made ever to the rascally little dart
finger and small god of woes.
Elmira Free Press to o. Wilde-What
do Won think, my son, ofthe expression,
"Git up and git%' Can 1t be retained
as homely beauty and unpohshed ana
therefore acceptable saxon, or must IL
be swept aside as coarse vulgarity: