Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-01
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The freslueus
rhiskers.
~. 5sv populstion of Cornhill, London,
;. .a.,imstsd At S.gJ7; the night is 2iS.
uD Conway has discovered that Shakes
rs,re's widow married second husoanu'
:, twepty.nine months the population
fPsI,in has increased eighty thousand.
The semi.auuual dividends payable in
Rostou in June will amount to &'O97' 'l6l.
The iswelry presented to the Duchess OF
CO. On her recent marriage is valued st
$99oO
After the great discoveries OF gold in ISL
Che annual yield of gold averaged $Is"
OO0OlO. .....--.
With bonded debt Of over SS'OooOoo.
louisville has voted to e1pend 81 'oOo'OOo'
oa its streets.
There is a colored church in New YORK
r,;tv whose leading members have proper
ty valued at 100000.
The venerable Marx Hopkins, ex'Presi-
dent Of Williams College, IS very III ana
his family fear the worst.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has offered to
COMPROMISE her claim against New Or
leans for the sum of $i,5l7,oOo.
The balance of trade in favor OF the
United States for the first four months OF
the current year is S5i6'l, ,l9o.
The Duke of Edinburgh had 10000 to
Ge..ay his expenses as special envoy to the
coronation OF his brother.in-law.
AMr. POSSIBLE, a ColOred man, who died
5 short time ago in the East, left for
tune Of $4,000. He made his money as
barber.
Somebody is about to start a Protestant
newspaper in Snain. Now is the time for
Philip IL. to come out OF his tomb if he IS
coming at all.
Mr.. Rice, of Brooklyn, decided all his
property to his wife, she bequeathed it to
her daughter and Mr.. Rice has had to so
to the poor house.
The mortality of Berlin for lSS2 was
50. a remarkable small rate as compared
with former years; from 1915 to 1851 it
varied from - to 27.2.
The area OF Russia in Europe is nearly
thirty times that Of the State OF New York,
and the Russian army has to defend sn
empire OF eight million square miles.
II is said that the income Of Senator Jos.
F. Brown, Of Georgia is $1,000 day, and
that it is exceeded by the income OF no
other Southeruer. II comes mainly from
iron and coal.
There is prejudice in Indiana against
BENJAMIN Hawkins because his ideas OF
paternal discipline led him to torture his
children, and he has been driven success
lively ont of five towns by mobs.
The Cleveland. Akron and Columbus
railroad now counts its time from to 2i
o'clock. Thus 7. N. IS II and ID 2. N. IS
~. The plan avoids possibility Of coafu-
sion between forenoon and afternoon.
The tunnel which is to pierce the Elbe,
in order to connect tie city OF Hamburg
with the island port OF Steinweider, will be
little more than half mile in extreme
length, and owing to the nature OF the bed
e; the Elbe, its cost will be nearly $40, OOO,-
tnD
The salvation Army now, it is stated,
numbers ~ corps, with 1900 900 members,
whilst the income amounts to El2l,O9O.
The rental expenses last year were E2l, 900,
and the value of the property acquired
4I5OsUO bat the mortgages amount to
$4,000
The members Of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union Of Cayahoga county,O.,
have resolved to do away with the use OF
gloves until prohibition amendment shall
have been adopted, and to devote the money
that would be thus used to the furtherance
Of the ceuse.
II is said that American securieties hav-
ing par value of 100000 have been re-
turned from Europe during the past month.
The consequence is shown in the advance
OF sterling demand bills, which has nearly
reached the poirt where the export Of gold
becomes profitable.
Senator Fair and mis- two sons are in New
York, on their way to Europe. Just before
the troubled millionaire left San Francisco
arrpoyter asked where he was going. ''0h,
any place to get out of this id town" re-
piled the Senator, People know too much
about me and mine here
C!1pp X Davies, wholesale jewellers, of
Ch.csIo put detective on the track of
their twenty five clerks, and found that
the Yecula,or to a large extent was the
most truSted Of the lot. He was on the
eve Of marriage to beautiful girl Of good
Position.
Lord Beaconsfelds fancy for primroses
Is sad 20 be due to the circumstance that
old Mrs. Williams OF Torquay, who left
him ! o,o0u, always had punches put in
h.s -ugm, aud he made point of coming
down 10 dinner with one Of them in his
bUt'cahole
\ Turin ieweller has made tiny boat
o;med OF \ single pearl, which shape it
ssSrmes in swell and concsvity. Its sail
Is OF beaten gold, studded with diamonds,
aGd the binuacle light at its PROV is a per-
iec' r"7y. An emerald is its rudder, and
lis stand IS u slab of ivory. 1t weighs less
iGan half an ounce. 1t price is 5000.
4 London PSper says that Mr.. Jay Gould
WI. save some II 500 a week by shutting
UP a.s town house and taking to the high
seas where his expenses will be about
@Il' Cay. As he is worth some twelve
ni."ons, it is difficult to see why be should
De so pleased at the notion of an economy
so soTeaiiyely small"