Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-22

the weapons for killing sparrows.
farmer near Knoxville, Tenn, has net
ted sl65 from an acre Of Concord grapes.
Human footprints thrty inches in
length have been found in solid rock on
Kirby's Creek, Alabama.
A coIored girl in Harrison county, Ky,
AGED ouly Is years, gave birtc to a child
recently. Both mother and child have
since died.
A citizen of Columbia, Tenn, aged Il
wears, has been married fifty years; his
father died at IS, his mother died at 81,
his grandfather died at 80.
There is said to be living in Fairfield
county, South Carolina, a colored woman
who is Il9 years old, and can see to sew
and make a neat patch quilt
A monster whale, measuring over eighty
/ feet in length, stranded at North Beach
hOregon, recently, and is an object OF great
curiosity to the many visitors.
A United States mailbag dropped into
Keuka lake, in New York, the other day
and sunk in twenty-five feet Of water. An
expert swimmer dove an recovered it.
A Cincinnati spOOk medium has heard
from Mr.. Guiteau. He reports that he has
not been feeling we'll lately. and has suf.
fered much from the heat this summer.
Eleven days after girl babe had been
bern to a painters wife in Hazelton, Pa,
she resumed her household duties for
day and then added bog to the family.
A gold idol weighing thirty-two and one
half pounds was recently excayated in Cal
istlahuacs State, Mexico, by some Indians.
The idol was composed of a group OF tig-
ures, but it was brOkenup by the Indians
snd divided among them.
4 Reno saloonkeeper kept bottle OF
pitch.pine SplinterS soaked in spirits OF
turpentine for the use of customers who
tell the barkeeper to hang it up; but the
beverage became so popular in Reno that it
was considered too good for that class Of
customers.
Western North Carolina is certainly
st section for fruit. In Watauga county
is an srpls tree fifty years old which has on
} II gb,lt fifty bushels of iine apples, and
Issuiu, lar,e branches, which give rise to
thirty Two branchets is seven and half
feet in diameter ana covers twenty-niue
yards.
The brontossurus is one Of the animals
now extinct shiCh once inhabited America.
II is probable that We have no occasion to
lie sorry that he is extinct. He was about
fifty feet long. and must have looked ike a
snake mounted on four legs set under the
middle third of the body. He had small
hesd ard large tail, and weighed about
twenty tons.
To protect the body from mosquitoes dlr-
iIg the night take a sponge bath OF salt
ard wster. or vinegar and water, and do
not d,y the skin entirely. Better than
a this, iua>nuch as il benefits the skin, is 10
wash in lemon water. The acid is dis.
tasteful TO the mosquito, and he wanGers
oil to sweeter fields. The bath is also
cooling. and of great benefit.
The Columbus Ga. Enquirer calls at
tention to the marvellous growth OF the
South. Thirty year ago, in the heydey OF
The slavery regime, the total value OF
Southern crops Of cotton, tobacco, rice,
hay. hemp and sugar cane was SiSS 6J5.IG>.
The census report of l>>D shows that
Southern agricultural products were that
wear valued a; 500. 100000. Furthermore,
TIE South is becoming rival Of the North
in cotton and other manufactures.
\ SUI crintendent of a thread manufac-
tory in Msssa husetts explained to a yisi-
tor the good things done by the company
for the 1900 operatives. He showed the
neat cottsges, the pretty gardens, the Ii
brsry, the drawing class, the music room,
end the picnic grove. Having done this,
he gave the reason why the company took
80 much trouble to promote the happiness
and self respect Of 600 human beings.
He said: They feel pride in their be-
IongiDgs, an interest in Us, and make bet
ter thread
A stately ani handsome man registered
at California watering place as an En-
glish lord With him were his wife and
two daughters. They took the best rooms
in the hotel, ordered extra dehcacies in
food ard the finest wines, and in every
way common to such resorts spent money
without stint. II was soon discovered that
their claim 10 aristocracy was fraudulent
and they departed as soon as the exposure
caused a cessation OF social eNal;a,ion.
But they Pald all their bills, gave the
menials generous fees and betrayed no
other reason for the deception than i de
sire to he liOniZed.
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