Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR.. Do LEWIS is sixty years old an |
weighs 300 rounds. His hair and beard
are snow white.
Mas. A. T. STEWART is the second largest
United States bonaholder, having Sin,0ou.-
TO invested.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL, Of Milwaukee, is
called the richest man OF the Western
States. He is worth SO, 100000.
DR. BREHM, the distinguished German
naturalist, intends to visit America next
January and give a series OF fifty lectures.
ALLEN LoGAN'S bequest OF $1,000 to the
Protestant Orphans Asylum OF Milwaukee
was declined, because the testatOr left his
wife and daughter penniless.
Tos GcmILrRgS is received in England as
americas revenge for Oscar Wild. 1t
Int quite severe enough, but it is the best
We car do this year.
HAER.ET BEECHER STOWE will summer al
cd Orchard Beach. The Canadian weather
prophet, Henry G. Vennor, will also make
hat his resting place.
"REMINISCENCES OF the fallen McGeoch be.
ing in order, the fact is recalled that he
used to sell milk in Milwaukee. This ex.
plains bis aversion to wstered lard. The
horror with which a Milwaukee milkman
looks upon water has become historical.
TIE tallest princess in the world is the
Crown Princess OF Denmark. She is 6 feet
> inches high. She is very fond OF dancing,
but has often to forgo the pleasure because,
being keenly sensible of ridicule, she does
not wish to have an inadequate partner.
An Atlanta paper appeals to Gen. Robert
ToOmbs, ii he intends to retire from public
life, to make a Fourth OF July speech in
that city as a farewell. But Toombs does
not think We have much OF a Fourth Of
July lett in this country. There isn't very
much Toombs left, either.
BEATRICE Dr RoTHSCHILD, whose marriage
took place last week, is nineteen years old,
and is considered the most beautiful bru.
nette in Paris. Maurice Ephrussi, her
husband, is one OF four brothers whose
wealth rivals that OF the Rothschilds.
The son OF ex. Senator Herman. OF New
York, who was with General Sherman's
son at Georgetown College, and, like him,
chose to enter the Catholic priesthood, has
after four years study decided that the
priesthood is not his vocation, and has re-
turned to his parents.
MRS. MACGKY is again obliged TO deny the
reported engagement of her daughter to a
royal prince Of one OF the effete monarchies
OF Europe. ~ mean" she says, Ito give
my daughter to an honest man." She has
gone to Germany to look for one. The
crop has long been exhausted in the United
States.
The original habitat OF the black bass
ranged FROM Virginia to Florida, and from
Csnads and the Red River OF the North to
Louisiana and east Mexico; it embraces the
whole Of North America south OF the Brit
ish possessions and east OF the Rocky noun
tsins, except the waters flowing into the
Atlantic in New England and the Middle
States.
THE consumption Of ice in New York in
hot weather and at present low prices is
averaged BY dealers to be from 5000 to
$500 tons a day and with a supply of $780,
Coo tons on the Hudson, there is little fear
Of al ice famine. But there is a prospect
that unless the extreme. low prices create 8
grestsr demand for ice than is expected,
there will be from 10000 to 100000 tons
Of ice carried ever into next year.
FERDINAND SCHUMACHER, the Prohibition