Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-04
MATTERS BRIEFLY TOLD.

4,;r,een families in the United States.
Oscar TAYLOR. of Merriweather, Ga, won't
take sI.Coo for Confederate half dollar
An entire suite OF bedroom furniture
made OF glass is the freak Of Spanish
srandee.
An Eastern editor says that the new
chinese paper looks like map OF Deia-
# ware peach orchard.
Il A man offered SO, 600 for license to sell
iGuors at wholesale in Westfeld, Mass, Tor
I'VE years. but the authorities refused.
Cayenne pepper is an excellent tonic for
,ansries. Hang a ret-pePPer pod IN the
rage, allowing them to help themselves
An Iowa editor being asked by a cores
pondent il hogs paid, has looked over his
subscription list and decided that they do
rot.
The land upon which Cincinnati now
.,ands was purchased by J. c. Symmes
ninety years ago for ninety-seven cents per
4 acre.
A ;restle bridge scros Lake POntchar-
,rain. On the New Orleans and North
II western railroad will be twenty one miles
4 .yus.
one Of the latest Parisian schemes is
,.rre. between that city and ROuen, to be
over seyeuty-three miles long and cost So
4 .-Hrtp.
The novels of Miss Evans, Mrs. South
No..L aud Mrs. Holmes have been Danish
rt from the Cleveland public library rs be-
20 too trashy.
A lady who spent 100000 OF her own
..oaey during the war in aiding wounded
.o.uiers is now living in great poverty in
Asbyjl,e. &C.
Three factories in the United States con-
,,g.e nearly two million eggs a year in
r.a, .ng a peculiar kind Of paper used by
photographers.
Portable houses are coming into vogue
- England. especially at the sea shore.
The same kind Of houses would be handy
Tor New Workers.
1t is said in Boston that the Methodist
i T,iscopal Bishop Bowman believes that ne
holds spiritual communication with his
deceased daughter.
The number OF persons killed by lorna
does in this country in ISL was Is; in
4 lSS2. &6,; and up to date this year the NUM-
4 Der is estimated at go.
James Gordon Bennett estimates the
4 value of the New York Herald at $4,000
4 uOo, and says it IS paying 6 per cent. per
snuum interest on that amount.
j Gypsies really do steal children outside
OF fiction. \ Boston small boy was car
ried on by q strolling band and kept ten
days before his parents found HIM.
Emersou's Conduct OF Life "Behav-
4 tor. "Cu'.ure" and Beauty are proposed
4 10y Boston educators as Winters work in
= morality department TO be established in
Il the public schools.
The co.ored church al Austin, Ark. be-
ing half full of water one sunday during
4 the recent Hoods, the preacher mounted
the ROOF and preached to congregation
assembled in skihs.
The city Of Ely Camb-dgeshire, Eng
M land. is the only one in Euslaud which
Il does not return a member of Parliament,
u and did not even before the first reform
bill. Itspopuation is about 4uno.
Horse flesh is sold in some parts Of Lon
don as beef II has the peculiarly rosy
appearance which people ike, and it must
be proved to be unfit for the food Of man
before its sale can be legally forbidden.
The false jewelry trade in Paris has re-
4 reIyed a great impetus from the coming
coronation festivities at Moscow. one lady
attached to tie Prussiau court having re-
gently made purchases 10 the extent Of
slice
Tie boreIs Of an artisan well in SaE
Eerna.Uiuo, Cal nave encountered at the
depth OF 3>r feet a tree which stands per-
peudjcu.a-ly Great pieces OF the wool,
which appears 10 ne sycamore. are brought
~ in the pipes.
Joseph W Sweet wa, not the man 10
maae display OF his wealth. lie was rAtel
III the tax book Of Providence rs owning
:.',u i" real estate and S.Q.utU in personal
l-upat,y. Eu. on his death he is found TO
!aey lei; nearly hall million.
rp.gs;yau murdered his wife and buried
be. in Minnesota, and his story that she
lad e,oped WAS so implicitly believed that
ru suspicion o; his crime arose. But after
year Of -emorse he committed suicide
i,ry1- q .j,l. written confession.
u-y coke will absorb - per cent OF its
ve'.a, IN water. information which Horace
: Allyn thought worth giving the Ameri.
car. Gas If..t Association for the iufor-
ra,iou Of those who believed in disrosiu-
@. water uader TIE name of coke"
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