Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-09
ODD HAPPENINGS.

A stove Ill 1870, VII X, a.,
was recently sold for 81 900.
A silver dime was found in the yelk
ofan egg recently broken at the Plank
linton House, Milwaukee.
A queer present at hog killing was
handsome package Of candies TO each
worker I'D visitor. Gideon Boggs of
Port Elizabeth, n. j., was the host.
The only bequest in the will of Morris
+. Jones, of Lancaster county, Pa, gave
to Mary f.. Whiteside his daughter
Della, to do with her as she pleases.
"Just for fun" a scOundrel at Rich
mOnd, Va, gave boy pint of whisky
to drink The boy died, and his muir
derer has been sentenced to twelve
years imprisonment.
An eight-day clock that had been
given to the wife of Douglas Ottinger,
of Erie, Pa, as a wedding present by
her husband, stopped at the very mo-
ment of her death, and cannot be started
again.
Charles Clewen, of Catawissa, Pa,
upon cleaning up the old granery on
the premises lately occupied by his de-
ceased father, found 500 in old gold
and silver coin in barrel of screenings.
A California paper says: "In pass
ing over the CLASSY surface of Truckee
rIver, which is now frozen to the bot
tom, whole schools OF trout are seen
firmly fixed just where the cold wave
struck them"
A well-to-dO farmer, living near Read.
ing, Pa, created q sensation by bring
ing his three young aud handsome
daughters into court as the plaintiffs in
three separate actions for breach of
promise of marriage.
The eldest son of Farmer Saunders, of
Richardson county, Nebraska, cut out
the tongue of his younger brother be-
cause he threatened to tell their father
of some offence that the elder brother
had committed.
Although the Tennessee penitentiary
at Chattanooga has been occupied for
more than half a century, and many
prisoners have been sent to it under life
sentence, no person is now imprisoned
there who was there in 1870.
A man in Warren county, KY,
climbed tree to shake down an OpOS-
sum that his dogs had freed. The limb
proved rotten, and Smith. came down
so rapidly that the dogs did not dis
cover their error until they had nearly
killed him.
In certain part Of Texas, many miles
from the coast, lie the remains of ship,
high and dry in the prairie grass. She
is of Spanish build, and is supposed to
have been driven inland by tidal
wave.
\ Lexington, Ky, doctor hangs out
| The following sign: "Dr. TOoleS, scien-
! tltic carver of toes and limbs; specialist
/ and expert in removing rheumatism;
| cOrns and cramps extracted according
! TO nature
7 y man living near Lake Louise, III
/ Manitoba, picked up an armful of sticks
and carrying them home, threw them
under the stove. In few minutes two
of the sticks began crawling away, hav-
ing developed into goOd-sized moccas-
sin snakes.
Tennyson is in Jail in Baltimore,
charged with assault and battery;
Charley Ross stole old junk in Peters
burg, Va, and went to prison; John
Quincy Adams was shot in bar-room
at DeadwoOd; Benjamin F. Butler stole
an overcOat in East st. Louis; George
Washington Fremont (cOlored) has
lust been admitted to the bar of Prince
William county, Va; Martha Wash
ngton and her daughter Mary were
arrested in Savannah for obtaining
sewing machine on false pretences.
Diamond Dyes are so perfect and 50
beautiful that it is pleasure TO use them
Equally sood for dark or light colors