Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-30
BRIEFLY TOLD.

~ mercer county, Ky.
digging for sandworms is an industry in
,a Atcn soOo'OOO are invested and which en-
pioys 1000 men in New York.
a cucumber i've feet long and large in
proportion is on exhibition at New Orleans
trophy of the producing qualities of
Grand Isle, Ia.
Asnake wrapped itself about the leg OF a
eso Doy at Lynehbure, and lsshed the
flho severely with its tail. Ii then IN
Found itself and fell OF.
mother only thirteen years old, living
Rose Wayne county y. Y, recently
fVe birth to female child weighing even
bounds. AT last reports mother a.d child
kere doing well.
The official return issued by the Board of
Trade shows that the emigration from the
4 oited Kingdom for the month of May this
year 10 places cut of Europe was 97,662,
sgainst 7O,626 in May of last rear: -
New Haven doctors are rsturning 70 the
old habit Of using gigs. Such ss have not the
oldfashiored gig use the modern two wheel
er with top. There are few ordinary car
risges and buggies in use by the profession
now than formerly.
The personal property Of the city of New
York liable to taxation amounts to over
S2OO,COO,OO0, according to the fairest esti-
mates. 1t is asserted that this great amount
is sworn down before the ssSessor and courts
of revision to less than S2,5OO,OOo.
The Ralf,dozeR hotels of the half.dozen
barons Of the Paris branch of the ROths-
just as they stand, and these are, of course,
the mere town dwelling houses without
counting the country estates and the capi-
tai employed in affairs.
A sad case of bereavement comes from
Camden, Oneida county, \. Y. 4 man
there has Just buried his sixth wife. Her
remains were inferred in the same lot with
Ler FIVE predecessors, who rest side by side.
The afflicted husband says he will never
marry again, because his burial lot is full.
1t is said that the way to lisht the canker
worm, which robs elms OF their foliage, is
10 dig up the ground under the trees in
winter, when frost, birds and hogs may get
At them. The moth tha lays the eggs in
the branches cannot fly, and anything
kept about the tree from January till May,
that will prevent her ascending, will do the
work.
4 citizen of Camden, Mo, recently found
=. IL
rying one of the eggs home put it in the
clock, usually q very reliable affair, had
stopped. Investigation showed that the
egg had hatched inside the clock case and
the pendulum had collided with the infant
sparrow. The bird, strange TO say, lived
and grew.
The number of serials on file in the Chi
csgo library is 3SS, Of which 265 are periodi-
Gals and l23 are newspapers. OF the
periodicals loo are American, 50 English,
30 German, and Il of other nationaliues.
OF the newspapers IS are dalies and -
weeklies. Eleven of the dalies and 4i Of
the weeklies are donated by their publish
ers. The amount expended for newspa-
pers and periodicals was S2l5,S2S.
An immigrant can take 100 acres for a
pre-emption claim, 1G) for 4 tree claim,
and 40 for a homestead claim--ia all, $50
acres of land. Before he can secure his
title, however, the land must be surveyed
and put into the market by the Govern
ment, with protection for the rights Of
squatterS. The settlers far outrun the sur
Veys, so that now an immigrant, to secure
good land, must become a squatter.
The long. .talked.of removal of the tortiti-
cations of Paris at length seems to ne in a
fair way to be brought about, the NUM-
oipality having appointed committee to
urge their destruction upon the general
government. The pressing need for more
and cheaper homes for poor people OF Paris
is responsible for the final success Oi this
measure. for the removal OF the iOrtitica-
tjons will give a large area to building lots.
Another colOred cadet experiment IS to
be made at WeS- Point. Of l52 persons
who applied i0r edmission to the Academy
thlrty.seven were rejected. Among these
was an Ohio man from the Oberlin Dis
trict, whose alternate, however, John H.
Alexander, a dark mulatto, passed most
creditable examination y West Point
officer thinks the latest colored cadet will
get on very well and will hare no trouble
with his white associates, because the old
feeling has largely died out" The officers
pleassnt snticipations will be strengthened
by the report that the new cadet in many
respects is very different from his prede'
cessor, the celebrated Whitaker.
E.W. Reynolds, of BarnesyiIle, Ga, who
took the undergraduate prize scholarship
;SIOO) in modern languages at the Wander,
biIt University, Nashville, Tenn, this year,
learned the alphabet in both German and
French last September. He reCited only
three times week in each language, and
read during the year 2,oOo pages of German
and 1000 pages OF French, including such
eutbors as Hans Andersen, Lessing, Goethe,
Schiller, Inland in German, and Noltaire.
Lamartine, Racine, COrneille, De Stael in
Frepcb. Most of this reading was done
privately, and of his own choice, under the
epperyisiou Of his instructor. He read
,rcb authors as those mentioned above at
siobt with ease, and, considering the time
be has studied these languages, writes both
well.
ou ruC SErOND ROlIND