Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-23
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The heated term seems to have got back
from its vacation.
The seashOrs landlords no longer fear q
financial collapse.
The Ruhalo public schools have used the
Fsne text books for twenty years.
Sweden has given the degree of Doctor of
PLilo,orhy to the daughter Of an army OIL
GER.
Extensive gold and silver deposits have
Ueen discovered on the northern end Of
YancOUvers Island.
Il is claimed that the first street letter
boxes ever used in this country w're put
up in Boston in 1858.
The new crematory in the Campo Yer
rano AZ Rome, the fourth in the world az
present. burned its first body recently.
Queen Victoria has asked Tennyson to
write poem on John Brown, her deceased
servant. and Sir William Leighton to paint
his portrait.
Yellow Jack is so late, even if it is true
that the scourge has appeared at New Or
leans, that no devastating epidemic is to be
apprehended this year.
A lejge of plumbsgo has been discovered
near tie head waters of the Santa Ana
River, Arizona; also a large deposit OF
borsx in the same locality.
An organized band OF barn burners is be-
lieved to be operating in Southern Indiana.
The farmers are much excited. Barns are
burned almost every night.
The divorced Senator Fair, now abroad,
Is down for another marriage. The bride
is to be The daughter Of Professor Dare,
London expert in telegraphy.
Every telegraph operator who sends 500
average messages a day-and this is q fair
day 5 work-makes 100000 motions, each
requiring distinct, intelligent violation.
King Altonso's journey through Spain
has been shrewdly planned, and the aP-
plause he receives is likely to be useful in
restoring public confidence, although much
of it may be perfunctory.
Although 625 babes were born in New
York last week, there were fifty more
deaths ,han births, and the sanitary con-
dilion Of the city must be improved if the
population is TO increase as rapidly as
heretofore.
Ar cd woman took a seat in Grand
Raj ids church, at the time Of the usual
evening service, and went to sleep. About
midnigh, She awoke, locked in and alone.
Her cri,s made frighttul echoes, and she
was uesr.y dead with terror when released.
The cigar is driving out the pipe in Ger
many. During the past year there were
consume d in the German Customs Union
5.051lir 100 cigars Of the weight Of 81 ,5G5
tons. and the value of 2i9, Z59O 900 marks,
sgainst 1910 tons Of tobacco, Of the value
OF 422l, 100 marks.
Utice,s ransacked house for hours in
vain at Lake View, Canada, without finding
the murderer whom they sought, The
man was ell the while lying under a heap
of soiled linen in the middle of the kitchen
floor, and when he thought that his pur-
suers had departed he emerged in their
presence.
The sark'ng Of Hue, should the city be
taken by the French troops, would be
almost as remarkable an event as that Of
the taking Of Delhi by the British during
the Indian mutiny. There is gold enough
IN the royal treasury at Hue to pay the
entire EXPENSES of the war against Tonquin
and AuHam.
Mayor stevens Of Cincinnati is described
as deyotrg two hours each day to office
seekers. They are admitted to him one at
q time through wicket gate. Behind him
sits an expert politician, seemingly WORK
ing induStriously at a desk, but really to
prompt Lis Honor as to the worthinessand
cons, qu,ure Of the callers, which is done
by Syly passing slips Of paper.
The Grrugo and Greassr is the unique |
name of newspaper started in Manzano,
\. NJ, which has reached the second num- |
Der and boasts that it is "the oldest and |
best papr in Valencia county. 1t is !
printed entirely in italics which saves |
world Of trouble in a practical way. 1t |
howls 10 he people not to send in their |
subscriptions and money so fast, as it keeps |
the eiito- up tOo late nights counting the |
luCre
Dancing Is very popular in Italy, but it |
is cOnduc',d differently to what it IS in |
this country. The first thing the men and |
women do is 20 take their shoes and stock |
ings of, il they happen to have any on.
A man does not 90 up to q girl and ask if |
she will dance, but he fixes his eye upon |
her from a distance and mods. She nods /
in return, and then both kick Off their |
shoes and advance toward each other and |
begin to dance.
There is a free railroad in Oakland, Cal. |
The city is across the bay from San Fran |
cisco. with a population Of 5000. The |
Central Pacific Company needed a way Iii. |
rectly through it, and the principal street |
afforded The best route; but the people |
were reluctant to have the thoroughfare |
spoiled, and only consented with the pro. |
viso that TO fare should be taken for rides |
within the corporate limits. There are !
several stations on this peculiar section of !
the line an the residents use the trains !
freely.
During his tour from ocean 10 ocean from
which Theodore Thomas returned to New !
York, last night, he doubtless read many
amusing criticisms of his concerts. But
none could have been more amusing than
that of The Keokuk Daily Gate City on the
music festival held there. The three
pieces 81 The head OF the programme were
Nsgne!. ) "Eannhauser oyerature, the
sndante from Beethoven Fifth Symphony.
and Be-li'z's adaptation Of weber's "Iuyi. |
tatiOn to the Dance" Under the last
piece was printed in parenthes,s: "Adlpted
for orchestra BY Hector Berlioz" The
critic evidently thought the parenthesis