Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
MATTERS BRIEFLY TOLD.

A Small clocks are attached 10 the prinu-
>Dsl lamp posts in Amsterdam.
1 A recent investigation into the character
N the mule finds that he is full Of bray
Sado.
Rerlin is about as big city as Philadel-
ehis, but its PsuPer poor costs:twice as
.nuch.
The people of Bristol, n. H., have en-
bowed sleighing this season for li2 days
Finding with April l..
A Nevada Indian has just been awarded
|sl5 900 damages from the Southern Pacihc
road for the loss OF foot.
About one soldier in every five on the
frontier becomes deserter, and nearly one
.rnan in six in the army as a whole.
Two men in England were put into
.nrison for SIX months with hard labor for
The offence of poisoning a fish pond with
Dime.
The United Stats has l5,02i saw mills,
NTH GS7 in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.
,bn l>Sl these mills cut 80. .9o9, 600 feet 9i
1umber.
In the year 1880 there were only eight
krsane asylums in the United States. Now
ahere are over 90, SO of which are sup
\ for,ed wholly or in part by State aid.
There are six telephone factories in the
tni;ed States, all doing prosperous Ousi-
les. In one alone orders have been re.
.keiyed iOr 1, 900 instruments in six weeks
] me.
i New York exports thousands Of baby car
fases 20 Europe, and American manufac-
4,.rerS make carriages for the future
srowDed heads, now peacefully trundled
sloag like any other babies.
There are native MexicanS who still wor-
u Up Montezuma as a god who pray every
D IN; Tor his return to rule over them and
"a every morning for the coming OF his
a den chariot in the East.
I Uncnbach's opera o; La Perichole" is
npusd alter La Pericl Ia, beautiful danse-
nse Of Lima, who fas, mated the natives in
D. last century, and my of the episodes
a The opera are taken m her life.
The splendid new pi.- at Nice, which
6ad been erected by Eag,.sh architects, has
Been entirely destroyed by fire. 1t ex.
ended out to sea over 30 yards, and was
expected to become the tavOrite promenade
in the place.
OF the =, 80 immigrants who arrived in
this country during March, l4,759, or more
Than one-third, were from Germany. Not
many years ago one-half Of the immigrants
fron Europe came from Ireland; now only
about II per cent
The Casino in New York displays on its
tower at night an illuminated harp nine
feel high and seven feet wide. 1t is made
.ofred, white and green glass, and stands
80 feet above the ground, so that it can be
setn for more than mile in every direc-
tor.
Chicago has twenty miles OF cable rail-
rcsd, with III cars, and the steam engines
dothe work Of !, ,979 horses. The running
TING between the court house and city lin
its, distance Of four miles, is twenty-five
minutes less than when horses were used.
There are in the limits Of New York city
1880 buildings occupied wholly or in part
As dwelling houses. There are ZOO fam.
lies, with an average of sixteen persons to
q dwelling. About 32,O9O families own the
house they live in, leaving l5SOOo tamil
iesin rented homes.
ATuin jeweIer has made boat, form
ed from a single pearl, with a sail of beat
en- gold studded with diamonds. The pin
naclc light at its PROV is a ruby, and an
emfgald serves as a rudder. It's stand is a
sleh OF ivory. The whole weighs less thaa
.hsE sn ounce, and the price is 5000.
TIE Italian Duke of Salyiati has issued a
publ address to all Italian Catholics, Urg-
ing them to organize a pilgrimage to Rome
for ne xt autumn. The Duke says: I'VE
. sRe he Pope a demonstration which shall
ccn ensate him for so much suffering aud
no. 10 him that the true Italy IS with
Inn.
~ Of The recent Mississippi cyclones
c1E. .! up a mule and fence rail at the
sane time. In the descent the mule was
ahesI. but before he could get up, in case
hewau;ed to, the rail pierced him through
ana through and went two feet into the
srourd. The REGISTER does not vOuch for
it, and perhaps nobody else will.
A Frenchman has recently gone deeply
dosn into statistics in regard to matches,
Hb figures show thatan Englishman burns
eiEht matches day, Swede nine, Ger
man eleven, and a FrenChman fifteen. The
nunnher of matches consumed in Europe
eysry year amounts to two thousand mil
lions Nobody is likely to dispute these
igor.
Ftcd Bean, young Iowa farmer, desired
nVifc, but did not take fancy to the girls
Of b. ue.ghborhood, He aspired to some
thin different, and wrote to an Indian
agent n Dakota, inquiring whether a rea.
sonab Y good looking Squaw could be ob-
tame. An exchange Of letters and photo
grapLs enSued, and he is soon to be mar
Tied 10 he daughter of Sioux chief
ATeNas society item: The beautiful
and accomplished Miss T,yhigh was 50 uu-
fozkuuate at the bali last evening as to be
bitten on her plump, snowy shoulder by a
yicious mosquito. The Young lady imme-
disttIy tainted, but was resuScitated and is
noF doing we'll. The mosquito was cap.
tufsd by four OF the young gentlemen
/, pf&eur, taken oaiside and decapitated
va meat axe"
Loud paper says that nobody ex.
ccpt an intimate friend knows where Mr.
f<rne. lives in London. When he takes
nob from the House Of Commons he in
yAnaby drives to Charing Cross, and on
isNiIs the conveyance walks TOW ard the
ss1ani. Mr.. Kelly shares with Mr.. Par
nel the secret OF his abode. They live
n&ther in the same rooms, it is believed,
inpne ut the side streets OIL the strand.
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