Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-24

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Wishes he'd taken
Kitchen girl.S
The new parasols have their edges cut in
dep uiaugles instead Of the usual curves
The savings banks of New York City
have deposits of 1921, 100000
ChicsCo is not looking in the direction Oh
eltvsted railroads, but railroads under
ground.
Twenty seven hogs and two cows were
killed by one bolt of lightning at Blue
Springs, Tenn.
Frederick Gebhard, apOor but honest
and hard headed New York cigar maker,
has pe,i,ioned for the privilege Of chang
ing his name.
What ouce led to an almost fatal battle
in Washington City resulted from an edi-
tor writing Of an army officer that Cap
tain C is the lion of the town." the
atle printer changing lion" into "liar."
Thus far the South has sent TO New York
about $4,000 watermelons 1000 of which
was condemned by the Board Of Health as
dangerous and calculated to disturb the
midnight peace. The North can retaliate
on the South only by sending into that
section a carefully assorted lot Of toy Pis
tols.
In Europe nothing goes to waste. 1t is
proposed in Dresden to collect all the old
steel pens and sell them for fund to edu-
cate poor children. The steel OF pens is OF
the best and can be used in many ways.
There is already in Germany society Of
smokers which saves the tips cut from the
ends Of cigars tor similar charitable Dur.
pose.
Beware Of how you laugh. James N.
Sweeney, miner Of Eureka, New, became
sHicteG with this side shaking pastime at
q witty remark Of a little girl, when he
sudGer ~ exclaimed Boys, l believe |
have hurst blood vessel and sure
,rougl he had. Blood gushed from mis-
u cuti. amt in less than FIVE minutes he
vas dead.
S,ou. was to be hanged at Rockville,
T. d., sui dunbar a brother OF the man he
nurd, red. intended 10 see the eT .cuuon.
Just a Dunbar wss about to start, a mes
SINGER 'ayped him on the shoulder and
tr'd that his daughter had committed sui
cite. Grief over the death of her uncle
and ioy at the doom Of the assassin had
Hadj,u,I her.
Casp,r Gross. who was killed by train
in Illinois, belonged to a family singClarIy
unfortunate in unnatural deaths. His
oldest brother froze to death in Napoleon's
retreat from Moscow in lSl2, one was
drowned in the Rhine, one was gored to
death uy a bull, one dropped dead in
graveyard while attending the funeral OF
neighbor and sister was run over by
horses and killed.
CALIFORNIA; what crop for the present
wear is estimated TO he worth $'pooO,oUD.
Ore-th,-d Of this will be retained in the
State for home consumption and seed, and
the rest will be exported to foreign couu-
tries. The wheat product of the other
Pacific coas, States and Territories will be
worth go 900 900 more, making the value
OF the total wheat crop of the Pacific coast
S>nUuu au, which is more than the entire
yslue of all the precious metals mined IN
tie United States during l>>2.
Some of the linemen at the East say that
the telegraph operators are dudes and that
this is the reason the Knights Of Labor did
not assist them more enthusiastically.
"The liuemen were all right it is stated,
"because they wore jumpers and overalls,
md appeared in their shirt sleeves Occa-
siOnaly. BUt the $l5 suits, white neckties.
boiled shirts, and stoyepiPe hats OF the
operators were tlO much for many OF the
laborius men, who did not think such
things consistent with people who called
themselves laborers"
The others were sure that & certain
Portlaudcr sold beer, and they worked a
whole Cay n his cellar c,awing over drains
and sewer pipes. but found no beer. FL
rally they went at the wall. A stone
dropped out. Other stones came down un-
der the bows, revealing a partition OF
boards faced with chiprock. Back OF this
built iu'n rae wal was hiding place, but
empty. Taey ripped up the boards at one
side, and found layer OF earth where
should have been solid stone. Further
dis giuc brought ont two barrels Of beet,
from which line Of hose ran to the store
shove. In another instance they saw a
Tost, to which was nailed a board which
seemed to have formed At one time a part
U a coal bin. They twisted It or. and
found th,t i, contained faucet in the
holluN Iu-t.