Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-03
BRIEFLY TOLD.

VHorse flesh pie is & well known dish in
Aris. Those who partake OF it say it is {
palstsble dish.
The Kansas Ci.y Journal says that within
five terms, covering fifteen months, ST
Louis courts have granted 900 divorces.
r. 1t has been whispered that the immens.
&tock OF liver pads left over in this fail
2Sand, have been worked up in lawn ten
nis shoes. Y
- Cigarettes containing choice TOBACCO, fra
grsntly scented and impregnsfed with
opium, are in the market 1t is said that
III sonren buy them.
Hon. Daniel Pearce, Of Central Falls, +.
M is ninety years old, has been married
eEty-eight years and has been justice OF
the peace ftty-two years.
The Baroness Burdette-C Bartlett
colds S2O,OOOOOO in the United States
funds, and the Duke OF Sutherland and
\ Sir Thomas Brassy 100000 each.
=. kuopg new designs on note paper are
fat little chickens grouped in one corner;
then there are kitt,as playing with balls,
; md cats climbing fences.
A man at Marion, Mich. becoming vexed
At an OK he was driving, aimed blow at it
s.y1sith his foot, and hit the Jaw bone of the
einimsl with such force as 10 break his leg.
: The Prince Of Wales recently gave fish
dinner OF soles, mullets, salmon, perch,
land white bait. An aspiration of the
Il Princes name would give Us the biggest
ihsh of all.
v Champagne cake is something new and is
'jaid TO have been invented for the watering
s.Splsce season. No one knows Of what it is
knade. but the taste of champagne is un-
4 fnistakaOle.
;. They tell of Brooklyn statesman who,
A ordering Charlotte russo, blew the froth of
itIe top Of it, and then, when asked to ex-
pISin why he did so, said he thought it 3
4 .ew kind OF beer.
A sea,Ssrpent or something has been
seen in the Platte River near Silver Creek.
NEBRASKA 1t is described as long as tele-
rs,rayh pole, as large around as a barrel,
AsId walking on eight legs.
\ package went through the express Of
,S->&~e in Corning the other day addressed to
= AS.iss Fanny Connolly, the Zulu Giantess,
with Nathan & Co.'S show" II is we'll
\ <, own that Connolly is a common name
amCng the Zulus.
The biggest of the big trees Of California
must dofrits plumeS to a monarch OF the
Australian woods, if the report is true that
ssJuretrical specimen Of the Eucalyptus
smygdalina 43O feet high was lately discov'
cred in Victoria.
Queen Victoria has subscribed $50, and
Rtbe Prince OF Wales twenty-five guineas to
the iund now being raised by the Scottish
Meteorological Society for the establish
Av,Ist of a meteorological observatory on
Me top Of Ben Nevis.
W The United States engineer in charge oi
the levee work being done by the Ma
4 nal Government from the mouth OF the
a aNbite river 10 warrenton, Miss, find:
That a portion OF the damage done to leves'
is caused by their being used as roadwsys
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in th'
cultivation of the oyster, No less thai
$4,000 acres are said 10 be devoted to th'
raising of that delicious crustacean. Th
business is also large. Thirty steamer
and many sailing vessels are engaged II
the traffic.
EN-. Clifford and &. W. Peckham hay
been making investigations of the temper
ature Of Wisconsin lakes. They found
bottom temperature at eighty feet OF forty
two degrees Fahrenheit through the sun
mer. and thirty-two degrees or lower, dul
ing the winter.
The Elko New Independent mention
that James Dewar, while riding on th
Hunter ranch, lately, was pursued by
stallion, which overlook him and, thoug
stoutly sssailed. dragged him from the saC
die, shook him as terrier would rat an
N then galloped away. He is not dangerou
ly injured.
The Hartford Conn Times says that
has been found that worm-eaten and Partl
decsyed logs make the best sounding
boards for pianos, and within few yea
firms have sent SCENTS through Connect
"A cut to find fallen and partly decayed ches
xynut toes. and such timber has been sold
y ,ood prices after the owners had consi
! ed it entirely useless.
Mr.. Ernest Hart, the editor OF the Bri
ish Medical Journal, who has just retur,
cd from tour of inspection in ponega
Ireland, reports a melancholy condi!io
nj affairs. He found in Donegal li0t
srsops subsisting upon the aims Of Il
= \ n tests derived from the American fund
NfGney are living on a pennyworth ot Ii
a tisn meal day.
Young lady in Denisop Texas. G
q "Wednesday, received note rom your
(nosn she was unacquainted with, couche
improper language, requesting an inte
IN She made the appointment, sr
~ A be made his appearance she drew
sp,<sNNer and snapped it at him twic
mere was no explosion, and the "masheI
Z sscsped.
- The New York Society for Improyir
Aorkipgmen's Homes, has opened restal
MT where a man can dine we'll for twent.
eAht cents. He can begin with soup-dI
! csnts. Then he can have fish cakeS-iy
q cents. Roast meat at ten cents may folloV
with vegetables at three cents, and for iT
-csnts more the festive reveller may col
clude with pie or pudding.
!, The gardens at Aswarby Park, Lincoln
II shire the seat of Sir 7. Whichcote, hsy
k&lons been famous for the excellence {
f,beir mushrooms. At the present tim
,here is to be seen at Aswsrby bed thirt
/. fsst long, three feet wide and three feet i
height. which is growing succession
EIushrooms, and from which cutting
sixty pounds weight was made last wees
" .,asr soo the wife Of DIR. G.. Ward Q