Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-05
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Boston women, it is predicted, wili take
indy to Lady Habberton's divided
La ~ |. \

Conclusion that they might as we'll be
farmers.
About 10000 cocoanut trees have been
planted on the keys near Key West in the
last two years.
Bismarck neuralgia" "Knickerbocker
gout" ana the Vanderbilt cough" are
fashionable affections.
Selma, Ala, has oversiIty artesian wells
and the water from no two Of them is ex-
actly alike.
A Buchanan Mich. school-mistress pun
ishes refractory children by making them
stand in an empty barrel
The New Orleans Picsyune AYERS that if
the teeth are good the mouth may be worn
open with the poke bonnet.
According to the Banner.Lacon, $685.
ST6S4 worth of real estate has changed
hands in Marion county, Fla, since Janu-
aryl.
Four Alderney cows are kept at one OF
the Saratoga hotels for children, and fam
lies make contracts for so many quarts
per day,
his proposed to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary OF the discovery OF gold
in Colorado next September, and it seems
to meet with general approval.
Il is expected that the journey from
Paris 70 Constantinople will soon be made
in seYeuty-fye hours. A through train
with forty-two beS now runs twice a
week.
New York aldermen have prohibited
The sac OF toy pistols to minors. \ %
Calibre pistol, carrying ball, passes for
toy pistol. About 5000 boys Of that city
hsye them in their pockets.
Some time in July the NienneSS sports
mea Will oOngregate in the Prater with
dogs snd horsemen to hunt some thirty
ksDgsrOos which have been brought from
N;c;oy;s expressly for the occasion.
A man named Knight, at Missoula. Da-
S5,s, -ed eft revolver few days ago,
ogde: 20 scare two men who were quar-
re.iag aud killed soldier named Ma
hon nd slightly wounding another by
s:anjss-
Poultry in the Gulf Hammock Of Flori-
ds are early taught to 'roost high A
paper there mentions hen that made
her nest in q tree twenty-four feet
from the ground, laid Matched, and is do
ing well.
The Austin, Texas, Newsdealers have
agreed to discontinue. the sale OF the New
York Police Gazette, as its circulation was
detrimental to the morals Of hundreds
OF students at the local universities and
schools.
Boston g;-ls in 50 jerseys, scarlet skirts,
and rough-and.ready straw hats-sixty
cents Untrimmei-are already playing ten
mis- on the Isle Of Shoals beach, and having
abundance of wholesome recreation" . Ia
Eme
The total number of books in tue Chicago
library .'ice l was 94Go6, being an increase
OF 94lC volumes in the year; So6j OF these
were acquired by purchase, and 1851 by
gift The number OF pamphlets added to
the collection was lt52.
Cucumbers, according to NJ. Deiee, later.
er OF the New York club, should be peeled
and put 20 soak in ice-salt water at least an
poison, and the salt renders them brittle
and easier to be digested.
Obituary notice from the Kansas City
Journs, " 'Ninetoed Annie, parsonage
well known in the upper circles Of Hells
Hat Acre society, fell into the Missouri
river last evening and was drowned. She
was a daughter of the late lamented Scar
laced Maggie and cousin OF 'One-eared
Ssrl' and 'Ginger-cake joe
A young man Of Macon, Ga, while camp
insout with party of friends, was heard
TO eKclaim in his sleep: For Heavens
sake. s,ar,d aside, That picture will kill
you" IL was afterwards sscertained that
MS sweetheart, At about the same time,
narrowly escaped death By a falling pic
ture under which she was standing.
he State Board of Equalization has just
completed the total valuation OF the state
e. New Hampshire, on which the public
taxes WI Il be based for the next four years.
The ya!uatiou is fixed at S22T,9ll5i5, as
against SaO6, ,959, ,Ol7 for the last four years,
and increase Of 2O,959,526. The amount
deposited in savings banks is $is, 7s6, 5000.
An increase since 1879 Of S13, ,524, OS4.5O.
r-'~-h postnortem examination OF the body
OF Jonathsu Chesley, of NOrthwood Centre,
MIS- blacksmith who died suddenly
last week. showed that his stomach had
been eaten through by the common bott
3 grub worm which attacks horses. 1t is
supposed that he swallowed the eggs OF the
bott.fy which had been deposited on the
legs OF the horses that he shOd, and they
hstched IN his stomach.
The Iadian army, TO which the military
world is greatly indebted for its valuable
exnariepCe with the heliostat, or sun tele-
graph, IS now trying experiments with
nigeons as a means Of communication, and
a service of these birds has been established
in connection with the intelligence branch
of the aster-General department
Moreover. the birds have been placed Under
the charge of 4 lieutenant colonel OF the
khird sixhs snd consequently can CLAIM
the honor Of forming distinct regiment
of her Majesty'S Indian Forces.
A msn who was cutting turf on MonJoy
Hill, Portland, Maine, few days ago
turned I'D with his spade metal bar which
except for glistening point where the
spade struck it, looked like iron Ihe sus.
picious glsam caught his eye and induced
him to carry the bar to an assayer' who
preuounced it fine gold, and estimated ITS
value at IS, 40. The discoverer conjectUrss
that the ingot was buried in the early days
of the colony, either 10y some o!fs;Ai to
,,-svspt its capture or By soma freebooter
who hsd helped to plunder Spanish trea'
sure ship.
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