Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-31
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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The old Capitol building at Troy wa
.o,d ct auction on Wednesday for $1,000.
Indian tea exports have risen from
% 6,4 900 pounds, to 56,46S,OOO in the last
Eve years.
The Italian iron trade is in difficulties
Int its cotton manufacture is steadily eI'
psnding
Il is said that 100000 of British capi.
tsl was sent into Wyoming and Texas last
year.
II costs Turkey fifteen millions of dollars
annually to support the Sultan and his
harem.
A flash OF lightning, according to Sir
Charles Wheatstoue, lasts less than q mil
lionth OF a second.
Fosters are upin Chinatown, San Fran
cisco, offering bounties TOR Chinese recuits
for the Tonquin war.
Captain Webb's first exploit in the water
was to save the life Of younger member
Of his family. His last was TO fling away
his own.
The Panama Canal viii pay GolombiA's
Government $4,000 year for police
force OF 800 men, stationed along the line
Of the canal.
The Seneca Indians, whose reservation is
n New York State, are civilized enough to
have had election frauds. Investigation
shows that few Indians sold their votes
or ten snd twenty cents to the yictOrs.
Isst year Arizona produced over Il, 7,OO),. (.
~ pounds Of copper. Thus far during the
present yesr the increase has been IS per
ent. and new furnaces are going up.
trizona'S output will probably be at least
5WOUOO pounds for 1S>3.
Isdies persist in using tricycles in Lon
lon streets, even Piccadilly, where they
re often seen plodding along wearily or
topping from sheer fatigue, but quite uu-
s;urbed by the publicity Of their appear
nee O. 10y the thought Of tine distraction
pedestrians which they are making.
\ family in Craftsbury, VT, is terribly
o. .',d. The father has a cancer on his
or, A.sL. Jwo daughters are rapidly run
ius ugwn with consumption; a son, on
b, u, rns .aluily has largely depended for
up .,o7r, in very poor health probably in
OusEu. ptiuu, and the mother, worn out
ith .aO~r and anxiety, is raving CT. zy.
These are the echoes OF family circle in
pr 1gtield Mass, according to the Repub.
can OF tina, city: Mary, you little brat"
anne harsh,y from the window of clean
2Okiug house yesterday, come here and
Op that racket or I'll pound you black
nd blue all over"-then the same voice in
lriil soprano, II will sing Of my Re-
eemer."
There has just been pIowed up in an In
ana field an interesting souvenir Of the
mous hard cider" campaign of 1910 in
nat State in the shape Of one Of ths
medals that were then worn by the sup
orters of Harrison. Ii bears on one side
repre- s,Lts,iOn Of log cabin, and bar
i OF cider placed under an adjoining
ee. On the reverse side are the inscrip-
Ons: The Peoples Choice. the Hero Of
ppeCanOe-MsjOr General W. II. Hsrri-
n born February - l792."
a aeW Invention by an Austrian named
chs is being brought to the notice Of
anuiacturers in this country. Ii is a
[ocess for placing upon copper or other
etsl rolls lie signs 70 be printed upon any
M o' woven fabric, such as cotton, wool
b, > K and felt goods. BY this process
be n u,t delicate tracery of the lace work
ay be produced on furniture coverings
nj window haugings. Photographs, en-
aysu-s and other pictures may be exact
reproduced and duplicated to an uuiim.
ed extent on copper, steel and other met
rafidIy and cheaply.
4 spanish gentleman who emigrated to
meri.A seventy years ago, returned re-
nt,v 10 Srain in a steamer of his own, and
-ou.h hi with him the whole Of his family,
hirh Gu :stcd Of IL persons, sOnsin law
nd !augl. ter, in Law not included. This
markab'e gentleman had been married
lree times. HIS first wife had eleven
nild-yn At seven births, his second wife
sd nineteen children at thirteen births;
IS third ". fe had seven children At six
rths. The Youngest Of these thirty seven
hilGrsn i now nineteen, and the eldest is
wn,y. This story is translated from the
a, 90 Essiette.