Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-10
BRIEFLY TOLD.


out 200 gross per day.
A Jackson county, Ga, negro claims to
be the father of forty-two children.
1t is SAID that Iowa City capitalists have
lost s25OOO0 by investments in options.
There are thirteen saloons in Lexington,
Mo. population 5,OOOl asd the city license
is $500 year.
A Buffalo minister said in his sermon on
Sunday that Buffalo was the drunkenest
city in the nation.
1t is estimated that the melon crop this
year in Georgia will reach 800, 900 melons,
and sell for 81, 10000.
A calculation made at the Postoffce De-
partment shows only one registered letter
in every 1900 is lost.
A boy says in his composition that "On.
ions are the vegetables that make YOU sick
when you don't eat them yourself"
1t is stated that one ruby found in Rabun
county, Ga, is worth over 5000, and is
the largest ever found on the American
continent.
OF 4 4SS9,729 Prussian children, 2,723,9ll
30 to Evangelical, and !, ,405, ,9S9 to Catholic
schools, making a total of 4,l29,9 in
Christian schools.
The New Hampshire Methodist C0nfer
ence has this year 1879 members, a de-
crease Of l2l, 1919 probationers, decrease
of los. The conference debt is S74 ,S63, an
increase of 81, I,4l4; pastors salaries, S7i,-
0lS, of which SIS, SIS has been paid. There
are 13J churches in the conference.
\ writer in the Providence Journal
clearly proves that s. J. Tilden, Jay Gould
and Cyrus w. Field owe their misfortunes
and prj sent wretchedness to the fact that
they kept their stock and let trains run on
Sundav, when William +. Dodge sold out
n: the tcp figures for the same reason.
Prohibition In Maine does not quite pro-
hiNit for the Portland Press says the liquor
deputies of Portland made thirty sAizu-s4
last week, capturing large amount OF
LIQUOR of various kinds. Nine persons
were brought before the Court during the
week, charged with being engaged in the
jQuOr business.
The salon" contains this year works Of
arts OF seventy-eight Israelites-forty eight
painters, fourteen designers, nine sculp-
tors, one architect and six engrayers. OF
them fcrty.nine are French, seven Alsaci-
ans, twenty-one foreigners, among whom
is numbered G. d. Maduro Peixotto, son OF
the United States Consul at Lyons.
Judge Smell, at Washington, has fined a
man Sl0 for running down a bicycle. He
said that in the eyes Of the law bicycle
is q car-isge, having in common with other
carriages equal rights to the streets and
highways, protected by the same laws, and
their riders are amenable to the same road
laws governing the drivers OF other We
S;c,es."
The Douglasville Ga. Star says that there
is in its county a family OF three members,
who, "ope day last week, sat down to a lin.
nerat which there was one kind OF meat,
one OF bread, butter, syrup, six of vege-
tables snd a dessert There was plenty of
everything and some left. This entire
dinner iust cost the head of the family six
cents.
1t having been determined to revive the
Lady COdiva procession this year through
the streets of the ancient city OF Coventry,
steps are being taken Tor carrying out the
project. The Mayor has agreed to grant
the use Of the ancient arnor in st. Mary
Hall and it is intended that the peagan
shall surpass in magnidcence those oi
former times.
When circus was in Portland, Me-, re-
Gently, twelve lumbermen started from q
logging camp in New Hampshire TO visit
the show, accompanied by the wives OF two
Of their number, both with infants in their
arms. They had to walk seven miles to
take a railroad train that started at 5:SU
AN, and they rode lO2 miles TO reach
Portland.
Some time ago the Albany Board oi
Public Instruction published Il catalogue
wherein the female teachers were spoken
of as Maggie, Mamie, Sadie, "Tillie,
etc. A correspondent asked why the men
were not called Jack, Tom" "Dick, y
etc. The publication of that communica'
tiou i'll an Albany paper brought about
change for the better.
At the same time that the princely
Rothschiid was marrying his daughter in
Paris, another Rothschild, tailor by trade,
was marrying a Jewess in hamble circum
stances like himself, consequently one ot
the rabbis had to absent himself from the
Grand celebration at the Rue de Ia Nictorie
to attend the Ptain celebration at the Rue
oe Nazareth.
The Munich Academy of Art counts at
present 4GS immstriculated students
namely, 30 Germans Including l29 Ba
yariansl. 90 OAustro-Hungarians, "a Ameri
cans. : Russians, 10 Poles, Italians,
Englishmeu, Swedes, 10 NOrwegians,
Turks, l East Indian, 1 Greeks, French
man, l Spaniard, - Swiss Dutchman,
schleswic Holsteiners, . Roumanians.
A Chicago hotel has introduced device
as protection against swindlers. Each
guest is supplied with Pasteboard card
onvhich the number of his room is mark
ed. Another card is given him, with his
own name written on it. The first card
must be presented to obtain the key OF hi;
room and the second one 10 enable him tc
use the elevator, and both are returned
when he PAYS his bill.