Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-09
WATERS BRIEFLY TOLD.

6lraN berries IN Atlanta are twenty cents
quart.
Florida built nearly 25O miles of rail
way last year.
The aggregate value OF the new revenue
stamps will foot up to about 100000.
"Jim' Fisk, the London Spectator says,
is''the only perfectly vulgar man Of gen.
zus Il can recall.
The spruce trees OF ArooStock county in
Maine are dying, and chewing gum is like
" 10 rise in price.
A Western blind man has patented fire
eseape Tor hotels. 1t is especially adapted
for rescaing inyalidS.
TIL richest gold mine in the world is in
TTar>yaal, South Africa. A ton of ore
giyeS in some cases 1000 ounces of
metal
There is a fashion in canes, and the mode
OF carrying them. which varies with dudes
and snobs about as often as the style of
spring bonnets.
"Hey' Rube is a slang of circus men
to call all hands to the rescue when threat.
ened by a mob. Il is only used when the
dancer is imminent.
Tie largest man in the British service is
lieutenant Switzerland of the 5th Regi-
ment He is six feet four inches high, and
FeigAts about 564 pounds.
Cuinine at an auction sale last week
brpught 81 81 an ounce for foreign and
q o. for American. This leaves a living
proEt Of 500 per cent. to the druggist at
the usual price of quinine pills.
Some trsmps made free with an unoccu-
pied house in Minnesota slept in the COM
foftabls beds, used the cooking utensils
md the store, and for a week enjoyed life
Den they l,arned that they were in a small
pest house.
PariS, for >, 600 inhabitants, has TWEEN
tq-three theatres, six music halls and three
oifcuses. Nienna, for .2O4 900 inhabitants,
has seven theatres, one circus and six mu-
Dic halls. Berlin, with 10000 iuhabit-
ants has thirteen theatres, one circus and
dfe usic halls,
y, the meeting of the Salvation Army in
Exeter England fortnight ago, General
tco.h reported 1, l9l corps and an income Of
zEl poo. At the close of the meeting it
N1s announced that AlU OOO had been col
ltcted during the day, including some gifts
pi u % each.
4 pear orchard. in Thomas county, Geor-
"a was sold five years ago for $3.50 1t was
nsG; ,o,d for 81 500 the 500 having been
zscp ped from cuttings in the meantime.
Anonth aiterwarl s. 800 was offered for
il b. ROW il could not be bought for
81. .rn.
a n'aU in hester Conn. io9nd one of
the oil George Washington buttons while
dige near a factory few days sgo. The
buttOm is OF copper, a little larger than an
cld|ia,a:oned cent and bears in the centre
the letters &c. w" with God B,ess.our
Pres tent" around tae outer edge. It is a
vslua ,e relic
ApropOS Of the saying Oi Oliver Wendell
Hob, You m sat almost say Sdiv,ui's
bcds thought, another remarks. it cannot
be saiL of many OF our actors, but, worse
Thar that. some Of heir heads never think
either. and aS Tor the regulation star actress,
nyo" cannot say her body thought, it
win not be dru:ri i IS much thought
Ebor,
AZ Indian was accused of killing deer
connS close time in Maine. He exhibited
teAe Try treaties from the general Gov.
sinneut and f.om Massachusetts, permitting
lrdianS 10 hunt and fish. The accnse5
R'esned Tor hi exemption from the law,
10 manifested 50 much Of the traditional
tio4rence OF his race tea he was ACQUITTED,
&ne letter sent from Bay City, Mich.
pearng on the envelope the sender's blsi.
ness gard as dealer in nitro glycerine dv.
n2mte, giant powder, and other hi,b ax.
piosises, got the receiver in England into
serions trouble, the authorities re,rirjn-,
Clear proof that the Michigan man was not
. PrOvider "t revolutionary material 10
1rishmen.
Johnsons Island, in Lake Erie. was the
pnacipA, military prison for rebel Oil ,srs
during the war, nearly three hundred of
Hnon were barred there. The graves ara
neEttcted, the headboards are fallen or
gone and the lettering among those re-
M4ning we'll nigh ohlterated A move
meat is on foot to place the ground in pre-
sentsb,e condition.
4<esnera'ed IL the night by cats, Du-
pp<iqe man went ont on his back porch,
tF',ag h-ovy club to let fly at them,
--<b' :, IN toe long tail 0f his night shirt,
r'>f f. himself down the steps, and broke
- :hs following duy a mau in
am@ ci;y. while absent mindedly
.u- 4 ;rer, SAVED oil the limb that h.
.'r -, a"d wss h,'t kinsd 5y th.