Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-11
MATTERS BRIEFLY TOLD.

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AGeorgia farmer told II. W. Grady that
he had made profit of 800 an acre on
strawberries.
Actors and actresses are said by the Lon.
don World to be the last social craze in
England.
Oakland county, Ill, has spent SlO,OOOin
irving a man for murder three times who
vas acquitted at last.
II is not generally known that ripe
strawberries, particularly the Wild vacie-
lies, are an excellent dentifrice.
An English pilgrimage to Lourdes will
take place on the 21st Of this month. The
Duke OF Norfolk will leadit.
Atlanta is the capital Of one OF the old
thirteen colonies, yet there is not q male
voter in the city who was born in il.
New York State prisons have begun to
~un behind, the first in which contracts
have expired at the rate Of $4,000 a year.
Fifty raw eggs, two bananas and hearty
supper made an evening meal for man in
V;enna. Ill.,, who slept soundly after it.
The proposition to rent the Great Eastern
fo- Use as a floating hospital for the city of
London is under consideration by the civic
su,hor.ues Of that great metropolis.
The northern portions of the Island OF
Bo-ueo are being rapidly settled by Chinese
a.d other foreigners. The Chinese own
1900 acres of agricultural land in one
district
Tie Birmingham, not the London police,
l.sde the most Skilliul dynamite discover
les. The famous Scotland Yard detectives
are not distinguishing themselves.
Owing to competition, the price Of tick
cts from Swatow to Hong-Hong, l9) miles,
including meals, is only twenty-five cents.
Three dollars carries q passenger to Siuga-
pore snd Bangkok.
The English death.rate, between the
ages OF five and twenty-five, has fallen from
% to IS per cent. in the last thirty years
q clear increase of human happiness, If
the early years Of life are the happiest.
A hawk flew against a large plate glass
W.sdow in the Episcopal church at Oswego,
last Sunday, and broke the glass into
thousand pieces. The bird fell to the
ground aud was captured.
Rats, in numbers almost equal to those
which dined on the German Bishop, have
been devastating the crops near Espirito
SaatO. In less than four days they ate up
eighty cart loads of maize in the CRIBS of
two farmers, and, after prolonged battle,
in which all the men, women, children,
dogs and cats OF the farm took part, and in
which 1000 rats laid down their lives, an
unfortunate farmer succeeded in saving
Ionly fourteen bushels ot what maize was
still in the field.
Little by little the truth creeps out
touching John Brown. Ii is now openly
stated in England tina; her Msiesty's chief
personal henchmau died Of d. T., and that
she knew it, Lord Torrington, one Of her
Msiesty's lords in waiting, isnOw commonly
known in the London clubs as John
Brown the Second" on the ground that at
John Browns funeral her Majesty, over
come with emotion, put her hand kindly
on Lord TorringtOn's shoulder and to the
unexpeCtable disgust Of that peer, oDsery.
er: You are now my oldest personal at.
;endant'
A Londoa society Journal relates that
when one of the daughters Of the match
making Duchess of Gordon eloped it be-
came necessary to spprise her mother OF
The fact. Her daughter had run away with
young lord with whom she had been
dancing at 4 ball given 10y the Duke OF
DeyOnshire "Oh, heavens" cried the
poor mother, "on such a cold night, too,
and without her flannel petticoat' And to
think that it is all my fault, because |
auted lo ct OIL the delicaCy Of her shape
4, cat a tfe Duke OF Bedford"
The largest steamship in the world, the
Great Eastern, earned last year S65, while
S-O0O were spent ia keeping her in re-
pair. The company having this mammoth
white elephant on its hands is unable to
wind up for, besides the original mort
gaSe debt, not shilling is due 70 any
creditor. Tne directors are now consider.
ing proposal for employment which
L! at least save the cost of maintenance;
and !, is hoped, in the meantime, that the
Increased size Of the ships which are now
be.as bult is in favor OF the Great
Eastern.
An iastar ce OF the fear that comes over
The a.erage British mind at the mention Of
The word dynamite, in the light OF recent
events. is shown by the action Of a London
IO..ce officer who, when on the point of
a--es:.Cg a pecttUl,y dressed man for be-
Nay.aI IA drunken and disOrderly fash
ion on the Strand, was solemuly warned by
Tia, md vidual Of the danger incurred by
toCChjac him. "Nou had better, he said,
4 TO. interfere with mc: | have twenty
loUa,:s ot dynamite in my pockets, and I
a',. blow myself and you up if you ap-
<2roara a step resrer." The officer, after
aeti'aS assistance, transported the man to
ihs s,s'ion house with the utmost ten
rrrac~s ana there found his pockets filled
w." "nste parer.
tne average weight Of 20Oyo men and
"cmea weighed in Boston in 1854 was:
Zen iEi5 pounds; women, l24's pounds.
r. 'He recent Cincinnati Industrial Expo
uoH, the Department OF Scientific and
dHcat'Cna Appliances detailed clerk to
cord the weights OF Western men and
Women. The number weighed was pills,
Is"d the total weight was 3 or 3e6 pounds.
he men weighed numbered :, ,467, weigh
'ng il'p,lOS pounds. The women weighed
numoeTed hG5S, weighing l.g22. .I9S
bounds. The average weight Of each man
~ss t5t ~. The average weight OF each
woman was l3o.H~. The average weight of
1ii men from Ohio was l51 &S: the AVERAGE
weight OF l79 women was Is ~. The av.
erage weighto l3i men from Southern n.
Diana and Illinois was 1852 pounds. the
average weight OF l93 women was I;g55