Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-15
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Various News Itenas Concerning Fer
sons and Things in Every Quarter
Of the Globe.

OF the Globe.
Arkansas has only two cotton factories.
Tallahassee, Fla, has but one white police
man.
Mastodon bones have been found near
Tampa, Fla.
Topeka, Kan, is to have a new insane
asylum, which will cost $4,000.
There are $3.50 square miles OF water
surface and As $50 OF land in North Caro-
lima
The population of Corea is said to be
%, 367, of which ), 500, 81 are males and
1874, ESQ females.
The Mississippi River is just now wash.
ing away large quantity OF excellent
farming land near kaskaskia,
A company at Lyons, Ia, will erect
match factory that will produce 10000
matches a day and employ about sixty
men.
Purse seines have never been used in
Great Britain. The first seen there were
those exhibited in the Fisheries Exhibi-
ton.
North Carolina leads all the Southern
States in the number OF graduates at West
Point this yeVr. IL has four out Of nifty
two.
New Orleans commerce for the first five
months OF this year exceeds last years by
over sll ,0O0,o00, an increase OF nearly 3
third.
The bluefish is undoubtedly the most
popular OF all fish. During the season its
sale surpasses that OF any other tish by -
per cent.
The extent Of the vineyards attacked by
the Phylloxera in the province OF Malaga Is
stated by a Madrid paper u be upwards Of
1000 acres.
Gold basket.straw bonnets, trimed with
flame coiored lace, and fancy silver straws
and velvet intermIngled, are the newest
fancies in French millinery.
A liQuor firm in Peoria has recently re.
Ceived an order from New York firm for
1000 barrels OF whisky, which will require
- cars to transport it.
The ticket boxes used by our railroad
general agents and in all our Offices were
invented in England about 1910, and there
has been no improvements made in them
since.
4 wild turkey gobbler engaged in a fight
with rooster on Joe Couche's farm in Liv-
ingston county, Mo and became SO absorb
ed in the battle that Mr.. COuche's little
boy slipped up behind him and captured
him.
Tue uIHNHt anu JdHihtsC ~. aSs Va
dress are in high vogue among the ultra.
fashionable women, and the stars aud heads
of the pins they use To thrust through
the top knots are often studded with dia-
monds, rubes, and pearls OF rare value.
A crank went into the Sunday school at
Unity Church, Des Moines, on Sunday
morning, with his arm ornameated with
live garter snake twined about it, and seat.
ed himself in the Bible class. The people
were much put out at the introduction ot
the primitive foe Of mankind.
William Stricker, one OF the wealthiest
men in Clark county. Indiana, has decided
4 farm TO each of his six children. The
smallest farm is valued at ST.. 900 and the
largest al $4,000. He does not want his
will contested after death, and desires TO
see all OF his children satisfied before lie
dies.
The meauest dead.heading yet reported
il in Portland. Name, where the Board OF
Mayor and Aldermen have voted them.
selves admission to all places OF amuse-
ment free and have decided To wear badge
"of some appropriate design" so that their
identity may be known TO the doorkeeper,