Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-09
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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Y. weighs 200 pounds.
mummy recently found wears a Bern.
bsr!r glove. such are the cycles Of style.
Texas has a we'll whose buckets defy the
law Of graviratiou. They descend empty
and ascend with no visible cause.
A letter addressed to Widow Smytb,
Richiord, VI, threw the postmaster into a
manic, there being eleven widows Of that
name in Richford.
An OLD coiored man in Cincinnati has
made himself rich in a curious way.
Whenever a man bought building lot the
dsrkry would buy a strip Of land next
door sud begin to build cabin. The rich
man would buy the darkey's ground for
ten prices.
Nearly every engineer on the New York
and New England railroad has sweetheart
or wife in New Britain, Conn. Every
train would whistle a salute TO some fair
dame. and the din grew so fearfully ear
splitting that the authorities have had it
stopped.
One loaf OF bread contains as much nu.
t-inert as a harr0l of beer, hat - SsasvOVS
ful Of beer contains no more alcohol than
has been developed by fermentation in
barrel of bread. Think Of q man drunk
on bread, And yet women and children
eat it.
Miss NJ. Williams, Of Edinburgh, Miss,
after pacing the three-year old child OF
Georre R'ocher in the shade under tree,
started oil 10 pick wild flowers. Turning
suddenly, she saw limb about % break.
She rushed back, but the limb fell, killing
10th her and the child.
John Helman, Of Lexington, Pa, stood
in the hall cleaning his ear with the butt
end Of small, stiff switch. A screen door
was oyened suddenly against him, which
thrus, the switch inside the ear, broke the
drum. caused the most intense suffering,
and made Helman q madiac.
Steam yachts grow in favor in Great
British. In lSl8 there were only thirty
steam yachts of 1852 tons; there are now
4GG, aud the aggregate tonnage 81, 800. Oue-
third Of these are of 400 tons and upward,
and ano'her third of 200 to 400 tons. Their
argrre te value is over 100000, and the
cost OF maintenance is proportionately
heavy.
The raIo Of suicide in the great cities for
every million inhabitants averages yearly
as 70 ows: Naples, 81; Rome, - Loudon,
,7:G.roa. I&5; New York, IA; Berlin, 10;
Fl,r rc-, $50; St. Petersburg, 2u6; Dres-
den, 2u, Brussels, 271; Vienna 2>7; Co
penhac ~, 500: Stockholm, &5i: Paris, l02.
New York. it will be seen, is well up in the
list, though q majority Of the suicides
here sre said TO be Ge-mens.
Par's has a kind Of Chinese system of
sewerage. In some lower cellar of every
hous, is tin can to which the pipes from
all the water.closets lead. The can is fire.
quentiy emptied without proper precau-
ton. and not often enough, since in the
vast msjority Of houses there is an odor
which may be regarded as supplying the
Necessary atmospheric conditions for the
propagation Oi every zymOtic disease.
Few persons have the knack OF becoming
frst-class short hand writers, such as can
obtain occasional employment on newspa-
rers. Experienced shorthand writers
themselves say the business is poor one
for a young man or a young woman to
adopt in the hope of making living out
of it professionally. Verbatim reporting
Is hard work-hard to get and hardly paid
for. There is not one person in fifty be-
ginning the study Of shorthand writing
who makes anything that can be called a
success out of il.
Quincy, Illinois, is r0rked with sensa-
tions. Early one morning COW of prey
got her tail caught in gate, and in her
efforts 20 free herself, tore poor man
whole front fence down. The following
night mule got tangled up in a streak of
lighting, and by the time he kicked him
self L. Sc, the stable in which he was quar-
tered looked like It had been interviewed
by agyc.uue. Subsequently there was a
collision between bicycle and a wheel
barrow. in which the bicycle and the
gallant ritter met with a most crushing ef-
feet