Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05

rb.re are now over six hundred
H.st tha White sulphur.
BliSs is still pressing his $4,000
H., pr. Bliss bill is evidently worse
u bis bite
r,a Assessments on Virginia, office
5srs now foot up IA per cent, with
coming, - ~
,br huge GainSborough hats 60
offshion they are replaced as to Of
H.ivrueSs in theatres by fans of gigan-
sne.
me Garfield mansion in Washington
|, h. purchased by the Ohio Republi-
Association, 10 be used as Ohio
siquarters' $50 .
rb;rty-three feet and six inches is the
IN ofthc largest refracting telescope
Z he world. 1t is just completed and
,y be seen at Vienna.
Nssrly ten million American news
rsrs entered England last year. The
&rsIish people are beginning to appre-
4 ,,r n,ws and to find out where to look
-n
Dining ears on the Chicago and
! t,-tbwestrrn railroad have had con-
irrorsly printed across their bills Of
>: No orders filed from the wine
while passing through Iowa."
4 The Irish problem seems more in
t'rb,e than ever, With a disaffected
! ,ion and q diSaffected police it is a
k,ber serious question whether the
.yrrmrut will findany way of assert
! its authority.
American compOsitors are not the
r'v ones who make mistakes. The
onion Telegraph reports Mr.. Glad
4 ne IS saying that he had "set at the
/, Of the Game bird of birmingham"
stead of Gameliel, of Birmingham.
The uniform practice in the Govern
.snt is to grant TO employees with
[gngal salaries a months absence
|i;l pay. That is, for one-twelfth of
b. millions paid in salaries no service
rendered. The law says that there
HhaI be q years service for a years
|ay.
Enough Is already known to prove
tat the new railroad mileage built dur
tg the past month will far exceed the
lrse,t amount ever before laid. down in
single month. In round numbers,
lfy miles of track We're laid every
Dsking day Of August, or five miles
yry working hour.
Gen. Wolseley sends word that he
IN not need the third army s0.p1' 49,
rlv a few thousand men 10 fill up the
rg, As the British have all along in
,,ri that their loss in killed and
FUNDED has been trifling, the average
.4ler is at a loss 10 see just where the
gapo" come in.
Concerning the death of his wife,
frederick Douglass recently wrote to
4ri in the West: "The main pillar
tmy house has fallen. Four and forty
esrs have passed away since our union.
.it cannot hold much for me, now
hat she has gone. Still feel that the
.sSon taught by this death, as by all
1ch, i silence, resignation, humility,
nd hope. Weare all strangers and So
,ururrs."
In the way Of dinners in high life the
flowing will pass in a crowd: Lately
d aesthetic London invitation to dim
er concluded with the words: Il have
5. ed four minds to meet YOU Thanks
splied the uncultured one, Il am
Efully sorry not to come, but have
READY accepted an invitation to dine
nth four stOmachs the same night. 1"
md, of course, the stomachs got the
ct of the beef and the argument, as
,ual.
When Cetewayo was photographed
D London, it was hard work to impress
pom him the necessity of remaining
ill during the focusing and arranging
accessories; and in a pleasant way,
'hCn his likeness had been taken, he
laced the artist in the chair from which
e himself had just been released and
'ayed to the attendants to operate up
n him, as some sort of retribution for
he duress, short as it was, that he had
Uttered in his own person.
Some of the New England summer
eSOrts on the seacoast have sort OI
laster-Of. ceremonies whose function II
TO facilitate entertainments Ofall sorts,
b promote friendly relations between
lsitors, organize dances and picnicS, OF
that not. A visitor relates in the BoS'
on Advertiser that, arriving at one oi
hese hotels one night, he was promptly
ccostHd by this afiable hlnctionary
'ho asked: "Shan | introduce you
II, to porch girl or dancing girl?'
Twenty-six Russian cavalry Officers
re declared TO have paid a thousand
oublcs each for a dinner fortnight
90 at Warsaw. They had determined
o have dinner worthy Of those Ro'
nan Emperors who preferred luxuries
'ut Of season regardless of cost, and
hey are said to have succeeded fairly
yell in their attempt. For some eight
lours they sat at the table consuming
Hat after plate. One of their courses
Vas ragCu. of African turtle, and an
'ther stewed nightingales. Each man
a'u wreath of roses around his head
.1nng the entertainment.
HE story of the Philadelphia physi'
IAN who buried his dead dog beside she