Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-18
BRIEFLY TOLD.

I' webster Springs has been a we'll
90 RET but it is secret no longer.
= ont OF the bag &C last. The REG-
has procured from the Secretary OF
y ,,,rs gsrhering, at great expense, a full
-. .of ,he proceedings, and they will be
/, siV IN ext nso in to.morrow's edition
,s,e copy by all means.
,.,rr 5 c,usuucting eleven new war ves-
,,o,ssr new planet has just been dis
srs',t.
Vanderbilt has had Maud S. phot)-
Es7h'@,
.,siou st saratoga
1 yr we will shortly identify himself
,b Chicago journalism.
=. $ said there will be an immense
10. oysters this season.
rszas desperadoes have been carrying
eipgs with high hand recently.
The extra session of the Pennsylvania
legislature has cost s2O7, 900 to date.
Tburlow Weed estimated his purchase Of
...s,s during the 81 years OF his life at So.
90
The conyicts working in chain gangs in
he Alabama coal mines die at the fearful
,s,e OF eighty seven per 1000 in a month.
Capt. Henry Mann, of Maine, has the
rrder 'aw bone of Francisco Pizarro, the
r,rsu.-or Of Peru. He took it from a
r-gsoca,hedral vault.
The Inventor Of the celebrated Chassepot
I'm 5 - hotel keeper at Nice. He has re-
rs.y,f ,r.I los francs from the French gov.
,-,meu, as an artilleriSt.
psm nd mine shares have fallen very
seriously in value in South Africa because
tie biggest mine has caved in so that it will
Ike three years TO dig it out.
An iaaurnyiAllcommittee has been form
s5 q Berlin for procuring the holding in
ia; cry in the year lS>5 Of an exhibition
4 AZ, ..5ustries in Germany and Austria.
A rar,y OF tourists. among whom were
several ,aiies, enjoyed a July sleigh ride
,a be- >..pss Of Mt Hand, Washington
.e,r.tOry. They were 1850 feet above the
sa ,ev...
They are agitatins the divorce question
z France, and the stony is told that a
,ouns divorced woman married again and
ould that her second husband had hired
.rr ar,r.sa valet.
Lieu. .enant Sutherland, of the Fifty.
;A,h Regiment, is the largest man in the
},.tish service. He is eight feet four
rches high, ana weighs about three hun
led and sixty-tour pounds.
The Rev. D. John o. Fiske, who has
reached 40 sermons, attended 1900 tu.
erals and otticiated at 500 marriages, babe
l-eweu TO his congregation in the Winter
,rte: church, st Bath, Ne, on Sunday.
ie has been pastor Of the church for forty
ears.
The New York State library building at
.bany, which, with its fixtures, cost about
100 in 1853, has Just been sold for $50.
has to cOmedown at once, because it
anls in front of the new SIS, 100000 Capt.
Il. The old Capitol, which has cut such q
-ure in New York politics and legislation
already neaIly demolished aud scattered.
The original manuscript edition Of the
0ecalogue, for which Mr.. Shapiro wants
be British Museum 70 pay him 5000, ,o)O
III. be apt to make life something OF bur
en- 10 some learned scholars in case it is
cceptei as authentic. The variations in
hraseology from the accepted version are
rough 10 found quite number of new
sCts.
\ farmer near Montgomery, Nabams,
.as been playing an Old trick, called by
he papers a freak Of nature. The Ad-
er,iser says: Robert Graham has grown
rom n ordinary seed the strangest look
rg watermelon that ever held cholera. 1t
: large. round, and looks sick, containing
u is surface a perfect map of the Eastern
nd Western HemiSpheres, oceans, lakes,
cas-, etc. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
rl other countries on the other side, and
D our country the United States is as
,.ainly mapped as it is in the school books.
ir. e. says he raised it just like the rest
4 the patch. but watched its growth with
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