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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

show what wonderful feats can be per-
formed there. Mr.. HENRY JAMES has
quite succeeded in Misunderstanding
himself to write novels In which Euro
peans and Americans are mixed up
strangely together, and play Fantastic
tricks before high Heaven" he makes
most Of the latter ill-mannered fools OF
vulgar adventures, people who talk in
q dialect composed largely of slang, and
shock everybody by their bad manners
and questionable morals. And there
are plenty of fools to follow his exam
pie. Most of the novels sold at the
stands were written by foreign authors,
and their exceeding cheapness gives
them a large circulation. Compare
lively few American novels can stem
this tide of cheap foreign reprints and
secure firm foothold before the read
ing public.
Still a number of good American
novels have been written within year
or two. Mrs. BURNETT's Through
One Administration" is story of no
little power. "Dr. Claudius" is essenti-
ally an American story; and so is
ToURGEE'S "Hot Plowshares." BIsH-
OPS blouse of a Merchant Prince" is
a story of New York life, and "The Led
Horse Claim, "by Mrs. HALLoCK FooTE,
is a striking story oflife in the Colorado
mines. "The Reverend Idol" is thor
oughly American, and the "Colone's
Daughter" is a capital story of army
life on the Western frontier. The fact
that these and other clever American
novels made no great stir is owing to
the immense circulation of cheap re-
prints of the best works of the most
powerful and most popular writer's Of
Europe.
1t is true that no great American
novel has been written for several years.
Great novelists do not come at call.
Like great poets and orators and historic
ans they have a habit of not coming
when ordered to appear, but coming at
unexpected times, almos by stealth, as
it were, and taking the world by sur
prise. Nobody knew that COOPER was
the "coming man" until he was here.
Hawthorne captured the the public
when it was off its guard. Mrs. STOVES
Uncle Toms Cabin" was stroke OF
lighting flashing out of the clouded sky,
and the first people knew Of its coming
was after it had struck. COOPER had
the materials and the intellect to use
them. HAWTHORNE had the condi-
tions and creative genius. Mrs. STOWE
was charged with the electricity that
saturated the air of a great historic
epoch, and immortal work seems to
have been written by a pen of fire. And
other nOvelists OF equal power will
doubtless put in their appearance here
in due time.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
An INTERVENING QUESTION SET.
TIED.

Courts are often accused of being the
servile followers of precedent. This
charge is sometimes carried so far as to
intimate that facts, evidence, and pleas
are thrown away if by any chance they
belong TO recent times. The persons who
make this accusation also insist that in
view of this state of affairs Coarts are
rendered useless, as, ifprecedent .s to be
thus slavishly followed, il can be done
without the Intervention of anybody.
But this charge is unjust. The Courts
are continually settling new questions
where instead of following presidents,
they must make them.
A case decided in New York Court
the other day is in point, A man sued
for the value ola pair Of trousers torn
by another mans dog. No particulars
OF the assault are given in the Court re-
port, the facls being undispoted. The
whole issue turned upon the value of
the trousers. This would, Of course, be
a simple problem if the garment had
Just come from the tailor-shop. The
original cost was ~, but they had been
worn a year, in which fact lay the diff.
Guilty. An expert tailor, called as a wit
ness, gave it as his opinion that
the trousers had been worth $3.50 to
their owner, and the jury rendered a
ye rdict in accordance with this value
The deterioration of of trousers by wear
is thus fixed judieially at 5Sl per cent.
per annum and another precedent is
sent laundering down the ages.
This is an interesting decision, on
many grounds. 1t gives answer to the
charge that courts are boHnd to preced-
ents and shows that they can make as
well a. follow them. Then it can but
lie Of interest to the dude aud to the
man whose wife trades his winter cloth
ing away for plaster-of-Paris cast Of
VENUs,or DANIEL WEBSTER, or CUPID.
1t will also be of interest to the young
men who have long been subject to at
tacks from the bulldogs owned by the
fathers of all the pretty young girls in
a given neighborhood. The truth is
that this is one of the most interesting
and important decisions rendered for
manly day and should be given sui
table prominence in the forthcoming
numbers of the law journals.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
ARCIIt EXPLORATIONS.

The latest Arctic exploring expedi-
ton, which Is now well on It's way to
Greenland under Prof NoRDENsKJoLD,
is, perhaps, the most fanciful enter
prise of the kind ever undertaken.
Other explorers have gone to seek new
pathways through the northern seas, or
to discover new lands or determine the
course of ocean currents and take OBJ
servations that might be turned to
practical account in various ways. All
of them had more or less Of what men
call foolhardiness in their composition.
but Prof. ENTHUSIASTICALLY new ven-
ture seems almost to belong to the do
main of romance, rather than of
reasoning, calculating science. With 3
little Swedish steamer and a crew Of
twenty-four Scandinavians he proposes
to undertake trip to AuleitsivikGord,
near Disco island, on the west coast of
Greenland. Landing here he will EN-
deayor with ten men TO pierce the lofty
chain of ice mountains that skirt tue
coast and penetrate far enough into the
interior to prove or disprove favorite
theory he has held since 1870. Nearly
the entire known coast Of Greenland is
bordered by rim Of mountains, gem
orally supposed to be practically impass-
able. They are sheathed il everlasting
ice, and from their rugged sides the gia-
ciers move eeaselessly downward to the
sea, sending adrift fleets of great ice
bergs and RATS of grinding foes. At
some points the heights are less pre-
cipitous than others, but the range is
continuous, and at few points more
than forty miles from the waters edge.
Prof. NORDENsKJoLD has long had
theory that within the circle of this
mountain rim or border tn lre lies an area
of comparatively mild climate where
vegetation flourishes, the and Arctic
summer brings some cheer and warmth.
He proposes in this trip to find out
whether he is right or not. If he re-
turns safe from this venture he proposes
to ship again and sail around to the
southeast coast, where another inland
expedition will be organized to search
for traces of the old Morse colonies
which were founded in Greenland 500
years before COLUMBUS reached the
mainland of America. These colonies
continued to thrive as late as the be-
ginning of the fifteenth century and
are supposed to have numbered 10000
souls. Communication with Europe
was lost for 100 years and then the ex-
plerers who rediscovered Greenland
found no inhabitants but Esquimaux.
The very location of the former colo
mics was lost. The general belief is
that the colonies dwelt somewhere on
the southeast coast, but NoRDESSK-
JoLD holds that they were east Of Cape
Farewell. He proposes il possible to
answer this question also. NoRDENsK.
JoLD is an enthusiast in his belief and
where it not for his great experience
and acknowledged ability he would De
looked upon as dreamer. His present
enterprise involves comparatively little
perilous navigation, but his effort to
cross the mountains will be very dang
erous. And to what end?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
ASAMERIcAN NOVEL WANTED.

A correspondent OF the Boston Liter
arg World begs to know why We can
not have an American novel. He is
weary of stories whose plots are laid in
Europe and which are peopled with
foreign characters. And he evidently
thinks something ought to be done
about it.
If anything could be done about it
The ground of complaint would be re-
moved forthwith. But there Is FASH
ion in literature IS there is in dress, in
manners, in music, in architecture.
And Just now it is the fashion Of novel
lists to take their readers Oh q sort OF
Cooks tour" through Europe, aud
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

COLONEL Tom OCHILTREE, of Texas,
has made his debut in London as all
apostle of reform, and Is teaching the
benighted Briton how to behave Linn
self in public. Colonel Ton was deeply
grieved by the manner in which the
average benighted BRITuS poked his
cane or um brella in the faces Of passen-
gers when getting into the omnibus, aud
so he decided to begin his missionary
labors by cleaning out" the first
man who should poke him. The OF
portupity soon came. A benighted
BRIToN jabbed his umbrella against
Colonel TOMS cheek, To the detriment
Of the umbrella, and the Texan colonel
promptly knocked the b. b. galley-west
and crooked out of the omnibus and
into the middle Of the street. TLen
the colonel picked up his proselyte aud
explained that he Was inaugurating.a re-
form in British manners, aud intended
. 70 enlist the services Of some cattle
men from Texas and go about doing
good and punching the heads ofpeopIe
who esrry canes in reckless style. Ii is
to be hoped that this new missionary
movement may meet with encourage
me mt ard success. England has kindly
epdeavored to reform American art
and morals by sending us OscAs WILDE
and the salvation army, ana America
gratefully reciprocates BY sending her
ColopeI Tom OCHIITREEan some meu
from Texas to reform British street
etiquette.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

from place TO place. When long con.
tinued in any gwen locality, though
that Is not Its natural source, it becomes
endemic or acclimated. Its spread is
aided by filthy streets, hot weather,
crowded cities, and retarded or prevent
ed by ventilation, sanitary precautions,
clean streets and, most Of all, by careful
vigilant quarantine regulations. 1t
must ever be borne in mind that Ia al
most every case when the disease
has visited this country it has been
brought by filthy, crowded immigrant
vessels mailing from infected ports. And
the country has suffered enough from
scourge. The three great outbreaks of
the century have ali reached Americl,
after the lapse of some little time,
and each has done an enormous
amount Of damage, besides the smaller
local epidemics which have prevailed
from time to time. The experience of
New Orleans has often been referred to
in this connection. That city, once the
most deadly of the continent, q prey to
almost annual visitatiOns Of cholera or
yellow fever, has of late year,,
owing to improved sanitary ar
rangements, become as healthy as
the average of American cities.
But sanitation cannot do every
thing; the quarantine is the only eftec-
tual preventive, and the quarantine, 1t
must be remembered, must in every
case be established by the local author
ties, for the last Congress, though it
lent . willing ear to local pleas for i'm
provements, and swelled the pension
list to enormous dimensions, seriously
crippled the National Board Of Health
by decreasing its appropriation. But
local authorities are in this country, as
in England and at Port Said, 10th to
infiict the grievous burden of q quaran-
tine upon trade, because of the protests
Of the mercantile community. But in
this is the only means Of safety. There
is no immediate cause for alarm, but
should the loathsome pestilence spread
from Port Said to Europe, rigid wall
must be built against the disease at
every port of entry on the Atlantic.
An unseen foe will buffet US all along
our two thousand miles of coast. 1t re-
quires courage, promPtness and deci-
sion to combat it, and in the conflict
private interests must yield to the pub
lie veal.
There is no disease calculated to raise
such sudden and reasonable alarm as
the genuine Asiatic cholera. Small
pox continually exists in our larger
cities without exciting alarm, because
our physicians have learned how to
cope with it; yellow fever has but a
limited sway, territorially, and fees at
the approach Of frost, but the cholera
pest from India is more dreaded than
either of these. Its course is rapid; it
transforms man of perfect health in a
few days, often in a few hours, into a
'oathsome object, the skin cold and of a
purple hue, the features pinched, the
eyes sunken, the pulse imperceptible,
the voice reduced to whisper. We do
not want to fight it in the crowded
streets of our cities in summer time; let
it knock in vain for admittance ct the
seahOard gates.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
ANTICS. OF I1sE CYCLONE,


-
EellpseAsS lsWs 0esss
kaaso Gity Tines.
Out by the sceres Of the cyclone ~
terday af>erpoOp wss . hASd ;bsaoeo
ron 81 Iowa. nkagiDg In cnnversstion
with a Times repeater, the Lows man
remarked that this was not mpc1
cyciono. He knew Of one ~ 10 lOHa
Which blew IN iron bridge . mile.
Msny LEMONS were killed. zone man."
Id ne Iowa monopoiiss OF rsal cy.
cIonsr. "Was blown dso't know bow
fsr sG When he got Up. hay . mile,
people were looking 81 him through .
spyRIass. c,.,
cut turned up to take hand In the cy.
clone controversy. 1--WE lad two o.
Clones" be ssid, "aAd one q them wss
very wonderful. II actually blew away
a cellar which hsd Just heen dug, snd
blew all the key holes ONT Of . house and
left the house standing. The next day
the owner had to pry open the doom
with crow. har. You zee oil the Key
holes bad been opposite, but were now
missing. There Was y terT1oir dfais'
snd-n
"Where did this harpen?" st@rnly de-
rnanded the Iowa man, taking oH 0
me memorandum hook.
"WiDsied," responded the Coauesat-
cut man, meckly.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

ONE of the GUITEAU jurors has gone
crazy, and several journalistic grannies
are citing it as another result OF the
murderer's curse. 1t sounds startling
at first blush to say that something bad
or something sad has already happened
to sixteen persons who figured in his
trial. But GUITEAU cursed everybody
from the President to the bootblacks,
from the Cabinet officers to the kitchen
girls, to say nothing of all intermediate
folks. The cyclones may be the result
Of il. 1t must have been that which
goes into WATTERSNN'S adjective die
tionary when he got home from New
York. The results of the fatal curse
must stop cropping out all over the
country or an intelligent and thought
full public will feel under the painful
necessity Of taking out a national ac-
cident insurance policy. This policy
should be large enough to take in every
body and everything. Then, and then
only, can the people Of this enlightened
country feel free from fear Of cold sores
and bumps aud corns and teething rs
direct results Of GUITEAU'S curse.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
Sanhas ResisteE
SUNDAY, July 3, 1855.

THE REGISTER has, by sew
eral thousand copies, q larger
circulation than any newspaper
published in the two Yirginias
or Eastern Ohio. Its advanta-
ges as an advertising medium
are therefore apparent.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

VIM. PoLLEYs, the editor OF the Wayerly
~. Y Advocate, who died suddenly few
d'ys ago, wss more than 20 years of age.
Re wss one Of the veteran journalists Of
the Southern tier, having leaned the print.
ing trade with Brick" Psmeroy and Pc
tro!sum '. Nssby."
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lIlg.

PEOPLE ought to get in the habit Of
doing their sunday marketing earlier
ON Saturdays. 1t is a little hard on
grocers and butchers to be obliged to
keep open shop until midnight Sstur-
LAY
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

Mr.. J. 3. Morgan. Joplin, Mo. 20 70: 81
find that Brown Iron Bitiers giyes entire
satisfaction 20 all who use it."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

Those who talk Of the Brooklyn
bridge as the most wonderful work of
the kind in the world should remember
that China has a little affair at Lam
gang, over an arm of the China sea,
soue five miles long Cthe Brooklyn
bridge is hardly mile), with three hun
dred arches; over the pillar of each
arch reclines lion twenty.one feet
long, made of one block of Marble.
The roadway is seventy feet wide,
generosity Of space quite in point to
cities building death-traps on bridges.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

THE syndicate of newspapers, which
had for its object the cabling and pub
fishing of Mr.. SURGEONS sermons, has
subsidized. The Chicago Inter ocean,
which was member of the syndicate
suffered by the publication of the same
sermon the same morning ,by the Tri-
b,ne of that city obtaining it from an
early edition OF the PHI iladelphia Press,
and having telegraphed to them and
so the scheme has fallen through, not
from any lack of interest in sermons,
but from a singular sort Of competition
which was only made possible by the
difference of time between Philadelphia
and Chicago. But did any one ever
suppose that there would be such a
rivalry in the matter of publishing sn
English clergyman's sermons as news
In this country; much less, that such a
rivalry should come to light in Chi
capOo
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08

matum OF being hanged when their
time is up" To Americans the most
unpleasant feature Of this
Dynamite Pet
is that 1t appears 70 have originated on
thiseur side Of the Atlantic and this fact,
besides being matter of regret, prom.
ises 10 be also cause of embarrassment
and annoyance. When one learusthat
the parties under arrest had. been
watched and followed by detectives az
they had gone from place to place In.
spsetipg the public buildings, one can.
not help fearing that like surveillance
may occasionally cover the tracks OF
those who go. about London for the.
simple purpose Of sight seeing; and
what visitor from America does not lay
himself Liable to the charge Of having
booked at the Houses OF Parliament
from WesminsteI Bridge, or Of having
| scanned eagerly the Bite Of the recent
explosion In Whitehall, az s0ne Of the
witnesses testify these dynamite COO.
spirators were seen TO do? Cases Of nm
founded suspicion have in fAst already
arisen. As q rule, however;
NE AneHiess GessLsnaa
who conducts himself with propriety
and shuDs evil associations will b. able
to perue bis pleasure either in London
or IN the provinces without hindrsnce
and with no lurking officer 70 make
bhn a.ra'd. or course, those who get
drunk and cease to exercise proper con
troll over themselves, musl take the
consequences, as our fellow.c0untry.
man, Mr. George SDythe, bad 70 do
this week at Birmingham. The srrest
Of this man made quite sensation. he
was known to fame In all the paper
the next dsy rs q great American Fe'
nisn. The following day, however, b.
had dwindled into q common drunk
and disorderlv, with police court iiuf
Of % against his name. But was u
surpr:sing frightened people pas ham
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-25

: There was something significant in
this latter sentence, but as the speakers
teeth were cleaning did not demand
more explicit information.
When we got ready to move out the
Chinaman was locked in an empty box
car. That was the last / saw of him.
One of the train hands told me the next
morning that he was dropped alongside
the track during the night. When
asked what they were shooting ut about
midnight he replied:
"Antelopen'
Every mile or two we passed China
mans grave. They bury their dead
above ground in wooden boxes, over
which a thin layer Of dirt is thrown.
Each one was marked by head-board
covered with hieroglyphics. Some of
the graves were newly made and the
little piles of paper money, which the
dead mans friends had placed there to
pay his expenses in the other world, had
not yet blown away. On some of the
graves were bowls of rice and baked
chicken. Dead Cinnamon are always sup
piled with provisions for the long jour
ney. | remarked on the great num-
Der OF graves to the brakeman.
YES he said; sit is sickly country
for Chinamen!''
That fellows irony was incompara-
BILE
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-25
America produces about one-fourth
Of the wheat grown in the world.
Who Am I, ANYWAY"

Z v
A short time ago, says the Salt Lake
Tribune, bright looking Danish boy
stepped into lawyers office and said:
Il want you to tell me who | am, !"
laying S. bill on the desk at the same
time.
The lawyer, peeping alternately at
the boy and at the S. bill, shaking his
head, replied:
ut seems you are funny boyp''
mot funny at all. You will find it
a very serious matter.
''Well, go ahead and explain it.
about twenty years ago wealthy
Danish lady, being a widow, came over
to this country with her two daughters.
There was Norwegian and his boy.
The father married both the widows
daughters. One year after, the Nor
wegian's boy married the wealthy
widow. The result of that marriage
was another boy, and. if am sure,
am that boy. The Norwegian's boy
died. The Danish widow was widow
again, but the old Norwegian married
her too. After that the old lady died,
and one year ago the old gentleman.
too, after he had made himself the
owner of his third wife S property. Now,
when | claim that property, my sister
said: Stop, you can't be the heir at all!'
You are our late husbands grandchild.
BY her marriage with him you became
your mothers grandchild, too, and after
she died, we became your mothers and
you never can inherit the property be-
fore we are dead. That's what my
sister mothers say, butt think that cam
be right, and there must be some mis-
take in polygamy. Now, sir, please to
tell me what I am-who am II
The lawyer, thrusting his chin into
his neck, answered pathetically: You
are polygamistake''
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-25
Inherited Strength.

Prof. r. A. Proctor found at Reno,
Nevada, p man who claims to be the
strongest man in the world. His name
is Angela Cardella. He is an italian
aged thirty-eight, and stands five feet
ten inches in height, weighing 1873 pounds.
His strength was born with him, for he
has had no athletic training. He differs
from others chiefly in osseous structure.
Although not of unusual size his spinal
column is double the ordinary width and
his bones and joints are made on SINH
lar large and generous scale. He can lift
man 200 pounds with the middle finger
of his right hand. The man stood with
one foot on the floor, his arms out
stretched and his hands grasped by two
persons to balance his body Cardella
then stopped down and placed the third
finger of his right hand under the mans
foot, and, with scarcely any perceptible
effort, raised him to the height of four
feet and deposited him on a table near at
hand. Once two powerful lrishmen
waylaid Cardella with intent to thrash
him, but he seized one in each hand and
hammered them together till the life
was nearly hammered out of them. He
is of quiet and peaceful disposition,
and his strength is inherited, for he
states that his father was more power
full than himself
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-25
A Sharp Woman.

A woman dropped into commission
house on Woodbridge street to purchase
a barrel of apples for family use, but
did not mean to be bitten in the pur-
chase
care all the best ones on top?" she
cautiously asked'
''Oh, no; the contents are alike all the
way through
..Will you knock the head out Of the
other end !"
Certainly, madam and in two
minutes the feat was accomplished and
she saw the same grade of choice APP
Piles. This satisfied her that there was
no deception, and she paid over her
money. It was not until she related
the circumstance at the dinner table
that anything happened to raise a doubt
in her mind Then her husband said:
'.My dear used to buy and pack and
ship apples. The rule is q peck of nice
ones at either end Of the barrel and a
bushel and half of worm-holes in the
middle. Pass the butter. - Detroit
Free Press.