Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-04
PERSONS AND I
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.


No doubt she itrted-all girls do;
But then, you know, shS didnt mean II;
To me In all things she was true,
A blind man even could have seen IL.
But thornS are oIndn near every rose,
And after some few months we parted,
A tear-drop glistened on her nose.
And | for days was bToken-hearted.
A score of years have passed away
Since then; I lately heard about her.
Her hair had turned a tribe gray,
Her figure grown a great deal stouter.
And ] since then have married twice,
My heart no longer reaches toward hers,
For she has been q widow thrice
And lately's gone TO taking ooarders
Ma. MooDY, the Evangelist, will begin Q
revival meeting in Boston next Sunday
evening.
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN has become
the American manager OF one of the Oldest
insurance companies. 1t takes a tirst.class
General to manage an insurance company
nowadays.
TILDES and Thurman, pledged to an ideal
cabinet composed Of Bayard, Hancock,
Pendleton, Hendricks, and Jere Black, is
now suggested in some quarters as the
Democratic ticket for soup.
DESPITE the present good feeling between
Germany and Russia, Bismarck thinks its
worth his while to erect a Ratification
covering Berlin. which shall be capable Of
sheltering $4,000 men,
HoS. WV. H. ENGLISH, OF Indiana, late
Democratic candidate for Vice President,
declares that he is out Of active politics
and will stay out, never intending undo
any circumstances, to be S candidate for
any Office.
A COLLECTOR wrote to General Sherman
for his autograph and a lock of his hair,
and receiving in reply: The man who
has been writing my autographs has been
discharged, and as my orderly is bald I
cannot comply with either Of your re-
quests"
SEVEN of the Judges Of the United
States Supreme Court are worth SIS 10000
while Judges Miller and Harlan have moth
ing but their salaries. Of this fifteen mil.
lions and odd Judge B~lstchford is credited
with $l3, OOO, coo and Judge Bradley with
100000.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has so far recovered
from his late bronchial attacks as to be able
to visit the city of New Orleans. He is
described by one of the journals there as a
ssparlSs ars v1vacsous m 2 sfscuftfes are as
clear as they were forty years ago.
CHIEF Moses and his band, who were
brought to Washington by the War De-
partment, got gloriously drunk the other
Price, who is a great temperance worker, is
of opinion that the War Department fur
nished the money to pay for the drinks.
Mrs. FRANCIS HODGsoN BURNETT must be
thing outside of her books. On being
asked how to write a book she replied:
lyon must have pen, ink and paper. Use
the first with brains, the second with
imagination, and the third with generosi-
ty."
Hon. ]. PROCyeR KNOTT, Democratic can
dldate for Governor of Kentucky, has ar
ranged to meet Col. Morrow, his Republs-
can opponent, in joint debate at a large
number of appointments. The Louisville
Courier Journal says the Democrats will
furnish nearly all the hearers at these de-
bates.
The litigation between the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the Central Rail-
road Company of New Jersey has been
made profoundly interesting to persons
having occasion to go to Long Branch by
the exposure of the unsafe condition of the
piliDg and bridges over which the cars are
run at high speed.