Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-06
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
OF the Parsees there are only 100000 in
The world, and $1,000 are in Bombay.
Utica, n. Y, has several cases of milk
poisoning, sold to haYe originated from
adulteration.
: A late report is to the effect that it has
become the thing for London girls of ten
to learn dressmaking.
Pink.eye prevails to an alarming extent
in parts of Oswego county, \. Y, and
horses are dying rapidly.
Canadian member of Parliament de-
ivered the Fourth of July address at Ma
lone, n. y. 1t was in French.
The Yicksburg Herald has ascertained
that each OF the Mississippi representatives
in Congress has received s56,556 during the
last ten years.
One million two hundred and forty-one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six
persons visited the different departments
Of the British Museum last year.
In Goshen, New York, tramp asked for
his breakfast and was set chopping wood
to pay for his meal He was given an axe
worth s. to do his work, with which he de-
camped.
A fine specimen OF Southern lumber vii
appear at the Louisville exhibition from
Alabama in a cypress board three inches
thick, seventeen feet long and four feet
eight and half inches wide.
Nebraska has increased its population
1,4S6 per cent in twenty years, and its tax.
able property 1912 per cent. Its per cent
OF illlteracy is less than any other State or
Territory in the Union.
There is a place in Ceylon called the
worlds end. You stand On the end of q
plateau, and look over a precipice 5000
ieet in height. If you tumble you tum-
be about mile. One step will do the
business.
An action against an English railroad
company for in juries sustained by a youRg
woman ended in verdict of $1,000 dam
ages, whereupon counsel for the company
moved for new trial on the ground that
The beauty of the plaintiff had unduly al
fected the minds of the jury.
Aaron Glover, Sumpter county, Ga,
negro, does not perspire like any other
man. The left side of his face will trickle
like a stream, while the right is as dry as
bone. Then his body is just the reverse
the light side seems continual stream
while the left is as dry as a piece of iron
lying before the fire. Aaron enjoys most
excellent health.
A Norwich, Conn, family saw some
country friends coming to return days
visit and hastily pulled down the blinds,
locked the doors and fed to the kitchen to
escape the infiction. Nothing daunted,
the former baited his old mare on the side
walk. and put his women folks on the
steIs 10 await their friends return. Then
the malicious neighbors took them in ana
kept them till the family showed up.
The "darned net craze" alllicts large
rart Of the feminine world. 1t is coarse
lace work wrought on lace netting with
darning or knitting cotton, though much
of it is done in linen floss, especially in
the West, and it can be made as fine as the
most part, the numbers eight and ten are
the cotton used, the lace netting being
bought by the yard and OF a size of mesh
10 suit the cotton.
The Virginia Military Institute, at Lex
linton Va, has turned out l,2l1 graduates,
of whom 200 were killed in battle, l7j have
become professors, 125 mining and civil en-
ytneers, l2O merchants, 81 farmers and
planters, 50 physicians, 80 clergymen and
10 bankers. The institute is supported by
the State and is conducted upon the same
principles as West Point and is the pride
OF Virginia. Stonewall Jackson was one OF
The professors.
Small boys will cary all sorts of things
in their pockets, and sometimes the result
is disastrous. Joseph Wutzburger, OF New
.Sork, a six,year.old boy. carried piece OF
lime in his pocket, probably to use as
chalk. 1t rested in the pocket opposite the
lower part of the lads abdomen, and a
blister appeared at that part of the body,
whereupou physician was called in. The
lime produced blood poisoning, which re-
suited in death.
From Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont the crop returns are most encouras-
ing. 1t is yet too early to estimate decisive
" the yield OF anything but hay, which is
the chief product. New Hampshire makes
the most favorable returns, Maine comes
next and in Vermont the crop is an aver
ase one. The indications for cereals are
-. favorable and il the weather clerk indul
pes i'm no eccentricities before the harvest
the WELD will be fully up to the average.
Three marriage ceremonies, all performed
at once, are about to be celebrated at the
Grand Ducal Court. The Grand Duke
Louis ", whose wife-the Princess Alice
of England-died five years ago, is said tc
he about TO marry his sister-in-law, the
Voupr Princess B,atrice, the charming
Young girl for whom, il romance is true
The son of Napoleon Ill went to seek death
in Zululand. At the same moment that h'
himself is going to marry the aunt Of his
children, the Grand Duke will give his two
eldest daughters-the he first to Prince Louis
nf Rattenburg, and the second to the heredi
tary Prince OF Baden.