Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-24
salEflY TOLD.

QcOutu, VIE, reports pailstorm WHICH
knocked the horns of . yeariing steer.
The first ice cream ever seen in St. Louis
was served at wedding sixty years ago.
A singular man of Sullivan county, N.
g.. has eloped with his mother-in-law.
There is four,legsed chicken at Chew
Aee, Ia, whice runs like any normal quad
ruped.
Two men killed a fve-yesr-old rattle
enake in street OF Gainesboro, Tenn. The
snake had kept the town in terror for
months, and its stealthy visits were as
much dreaded as thoce Of the man-eating
tiger in India,
The granite shaft that for more than half
century marked the grave Of Thomas
Jefferson hsc been given to President s. s,
LAWS, of the Missouri State University,
Who will place IL in the campus Of that in
.titution at Columbia.
Merchants at Memphis and in The sur
anding towns report more actual cash
ID for purchases this summer than for a
neration. All classes Of citizens, includ-
5sg many colored farmers ere showing the
prosperous results Of thriBsnd fH61stry.
The culture of cinchona, from the bark
OF which quinine is extracted, has recently
Sptsred upon an entirely new phaSe. In
uthe seed of the fine"t and rarest quail.
w the cinchona tree wss introduced
Ssys, and since that time the Dutch
pe developed its quininC producing prop
Ftiss with extraordinary skill.
A report thai there are no State lands
pr sale in Florida is contrsdictcd. 1t aD-
4 pears that there are from 5000. 600 to 1000,
] coo acres CT swamp l%uds subject to sale to
actual settlers. These lands have been
given TO railroads, but until the law grant
ing them has been complied with By the
companies they are sill for sale.
The inhabitants OF RUGBY, Tenn, seem
to have acquired the American power Of
invention. one Of them says that he was
!. cut in thunderstorm, wheeling brush on
- scended ball of fire. When his dazzled
eyes could see there was nothing left Of
the wheelbarrow or its load but a twisted
tire.
A horse can scarcely lift two thirds of its
'wn weight, while one small species of
June beetle can lift sixty,six times its own
weight. Forty thousand such June-beetles
\ c uld lift as much a. drauSht horse. Were
-Four strength in proportion TO this we could
|Splay with weiSht1 equal to ten times that
Of horse while an elephant could move
mountains.
! Homing pigeon flying matches are be-
coming very frequent and interesting. The
value OF the hOming pigeon was demon
strated during the Franco-Prussian war
when messages were sent out of besieged
!. Paris that could not have been sent in any
other way. The American birds are show
in records, bo;h for distance aud speed,
k}nst compare ;avor1bly with even the best
EDuteh birds.
A Jury at st. Pau; has awarded Mrs.
Crockett $500 damsges in her suit against
Asiusy company. The plaintiff, in step
ping off a car, was thrown against plat
form, breaking her arm. The curious de-
iense was that the accident was caused by
ne IsdI wearing a pull-back dress. The
wear the style of dress in fashion.
. A Charleston church steeple t@s ind - s'so
A2ddenly in commercial deIL~nu. In7 !
Eners Of few tug boSts in the harbor
karned that an in coming bark could De
sighted from its summit while yet far
of. Business prOspered with them while
3heir rivals, despite industrious cruising oil
the bar, could get no vessels. At last the
=, cret of the lookout was discovered, and
now the steepls is to rent to the highest
fdder'
i The ,t Of the Arizona settler cannot be
a hs one, If a story which hes no
k-r-A I, can be true 90 story Is that
a.er and his wife were attacked by In
sns. The settler blazed from his cabin
Iindow with rifle, and the settlers We ,
Tsmote from the cabin door with b-Oad& ,
When the battle was over, 400 dead aud
", unded Indians were heapcd within
Nxsnge of the window, ard thirty-six had
been Drained in front OF the door.
An Ohio man, aroused out Of his s.um.
bers by burglar, pursued the fellow with
fshot gun, but did not succeed in shoot
kg him. Soon the burglar came TO river
I'D plunged in, but, not being swimmer,
Me sank and vas drowned. And now the
H-and Jury has indicted the household for
; a kEdey in the first degree for not DlnS to
~ food, Ir # tie drowning man. This
sme Susy. = s'sw Of the fact that, had he
1Heart, Dot lot The burglar, nothing would
% % feen done TO him.