Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-03
MATTERS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ncre than 500 Americans are reported to
sadying in Paris.
/ Omaha produces sixth of all the lead
-,si in the United States.
new gray and blue color bug is de-
,.pying the grain in California.
Four small studs, instead of one, are now
,ru iu the shirt front by bloods in Paris.
thirty women are employed in q shoe
,,,ory in Lynn, Mass, and all of them are
7orced wives
q an srgand burner only "a parts Of the
,syy of combustion, on: Of 1000 parts,
u light.
Ialy produces more silk than China and
Be two nations furnish nearly three
arths Of the worlds supply.
n Japan last year 2,22S,2 telegraph
rsSages were despatched, IS per cent of
vhich were in the native tongue.
Four hundred and fifty miles of thread
s.e made each day in American mills.
'Ebirty years ago all the thread was i'm
forted.
About 2IO, 900 head of cattle will be driv-
h. out of Texas this year, and more than
EQOOO sheep were sold out of Los Angeles
] IS! year.
The fast circus ticket,seller distributes
|IyO tickets an hour and does the work for
|hO!hing, running the risk of the "oyers" in
|Clange.
A Phoebe. Nevada, Chinaman enc day
ast week ate on a wager at one meal nine
k5wls of rice and a four and halt pound
khicken.
A Hungarian Jew sent to Vienna paper
grain Of wheat on which he had written
, words taken from TissoEs book on
k.enna.
The first baby to cross the Brooklyn
bridge was Miss Mabel Morrison, and her
sby carriage was the first vehicle to make
be journey.
Persons found in tn streets Of Minnesp-
bis after midnight mt give q satisfactory
account of themselves g accompany the
policemen to a dungeon ell.
The United States uses Is, 900 900 pounds
ci tea year.
The house in which Gambetta died, at
Mile d Array, is offered for sale.
The latest new industry reported from
alabama is a goose farm, with 500 birds.
The streets of Montgomery, Ala, are to
be lighted with twenty-three electric
lamps.
Three-fifths of the 1900 convicts in the
Texas Penitentiary are negroes and Mexi-
tans.
The French end of the channel tunnel is
moving eighteen and the English twenty
h ards day.
It is said that the Indians first discoy-
bred maple sugar. The white man had the
grit TO sand it, however.
In England, for poisoning a fish pond
with lime, two men were put in prison for
six months with hard labor.
Who was the author of "Men may come
and men may go, but I so on forever
Edith, Susan B. Anthony, we believe.
California wine production, as measured
by receipts in San Francisco, has risen
from 1854, COZ gallons in 1879 to 10000 in
1SS2.
Prof. Beal, Of tire Michigan Agricultural
Bure; u, reports that the native June grass
Of that State is identical with Kentucky
blue grass.
Prussia imposes an income tax on every
body who has S225 or more per aununa, and
has Just remitted the taxation from S,I4O,-
COO people who earn less.
An impecunious English baronet has
doand employment as clerk in the Bank
|of England, another in the oriental Bank,
and third as policeman in Ireland.
81 love that man with all my heart, ="
said Philadelphia girl, but the trouble
Is that if answer yes, everybody will say
that married for money. He is an edi-
Dor"
= Carper ters at Elktoa in saving through
} heavy eak plank found piece of para
Dol papdle, of iron and walnut, which had
been imbedded in the wood perhaps htty
,earS
Il Telegraph wires are so numerous on
some of the streets in Chicago that people
living on a fourth.hoor fat can sift their
bshes by merely throwing them against
the network.
Captain Carey, who some oYerzealous
hristocrats demanded to have court martial
ed after the young Napoleon met his death
Ia Africa, died very suddenly last month
in KurIachee.
The State of Georgia has let out to con-
tractors 1900 convicts. The lessees pay
k2O year for each man, aud ciothe ana
Aodge them, and are entitled to ten hours
hay labor from them.
The famous Baron Stultz is probably a
haioue instance Of an ennobled tailor, lie
WAS created nobleman by the Grand Duke
'pf Baden. The orphan house attached to
fhe Convent of Lichtenthal was founded
BY Stul'z,
The King of Bavaria has appointed
niece of the late Richard Wagner to be
s.Royal Professor Of the School of Music, +"
this being the first appoiment Of the kind
(which has ever been given in Germany to
D lady.
The day appointed for the coronation OF
'the Gar is the anniversary of very dark
event in Russian history-the murder in
'15OS, of the young Demetrius, of the house
.pf Rurik, by his uncle BOriz Gudunotf, who
Figures as the Richard III, Of Muscoyite
listory.
.onn .AnIIcrpIES