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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
CURRENT CURIOS.

A iur7 in Orange county, n. T., recently
awarded damages Of $500 for broken beer
wagon, $4,000 for a broken rib, and $40
for negros life.
The foreign kilograms of tina London
Times (including long letter from khar-
toum) cost on single day in October SlO,-
600.
Massachusetts has population OF over
100000 men above twenty one years OF age,
vet at the recent presidential election only
292, 200 votes we're cast in the entire State,
or less. than GO per cent of what would be
called for BY universal suffrage.
In the public schools fGreece the four
Gospels OF the New Testament are used as
a reader By the children of the most ad.
vapced classes of the primary department,
and the new minister of education proposes
10 extend their use into the higher schools:
2 tunnel measuring 5000 feet long and
constructed at least nine centuries before
the Christian era, has Just been discovered
bv the Governor OF the Island of Samos,
Fierodotus mentions this tunnel which
served for providing the old seaport with
drinking water. 1t is completely preserved,
and contains water tubes Of about ten inches
in diameter, each one provided with lateral
aperture for cleansing purposes. The tun-
mel is not quite straight.
A valuable diamond ring was missed by
lady of Hammondsport, n. y, last week,
and search for it high and low proved
fruitless. Finally it was learned that the
baby had been seen playing with it. The
little fodder was next brought forward for
IT'S testimony, and said she had put it on
kitty's foot" Itproved, too, that the kitten
was a strange one, had trotted away with
he Jewel and has not been heard from
since
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
SMOKE THESE IN YOUR PIPE.

Tobacco occupies place between the
loppy and Indian hemp.
Cigar smoke leaves a more lasting odor
in cloth than pipe smoke,
Tobacco is powerful narcotic, but differs
materially from opium or hasheesh.
To keep a cigar lighted one must not
talk too much. This is one reason why
women do not smoke.
Cigarettes are seldom made wholly of TO-
hacco. The cheaper grades are made Of
opium and sawdust.
Poets are nearly all smokers. This doesn't
necessarily indicate there is anything wrong
with tobacco however.
Pope Urban VIII. issued bull against
The use Of tobacco in churches, and urged
tie priesthood TO abstain from it entirely.
1t is injurious for man to smoke who
always borrowSa cigar and match. The
Injury is confined principally to his friends.
Sir Walter Raleigh once asked Queen
Elizabeth to smoke his pipe. She tried
cnce, and only once. 1t is signiicen'
fact that inside of a year She ordered hi,
head TO be cut off
Amurath ". OF Turkey made the ofense
Of smoking punishable By death. As near.
" all the officials OF the land smoked he
was furnished an excuse for chopping their
leads off, which was much cheaper than
hiring an assassin TO put them out of the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07

spending several months with relatives
here 49,,
Two weIl-known young viii be marned
in ST Xavier's Church after advent
Miss Ella Moore and Miss hose Wheeler,
of New Martinsville. have been the CUES"
of Mrs. Ault on Green street
Miss Garfield, of Moundsville. Is visiting
friends in the city.
Miss Richards, of Belpre, very pretty
Young lady, is visiting her sister, Ars Al
Leonard, on Sixth street.
]. NJ. Berger, whose family have been re
siding in our city for some time, has re-
turned from Minnesota, where he has been
in business, and will make this city his
home.
The contest for the valuable gold watch
given by the ladies Of ST. Asviers Cnufcn'
q, their grand Fair and Festival. last week.
has been decided in favor Of Miss Maggie
Stafford, who banded in the sum Of sos
vbil. her opponent Miss Annie Cunning
ham. handed in $IS0.75. Both young Ia
dies deserve, much commentator for the
faithful manner they worked, having IN
view the good object for which they lsboFed.
The funeral of the late Paul Farros. who
died on Monday Of typhoid malaria, took
place from his father residence on "ednes-
day morning. The body was inferred In
Holiday s cemetery.
Mrs. Charles Helms, of Newark, Ohio.
attended the funeral Of her brother, Paul
Farrow.
Mrs. Waite Rathbone, Of Kansas City, is
the guest of her sister. Mrs. Hugh DIS, on
Fourth street
Officer Mehen left Thursday for Ohio to
be present at an important trial now In pro-
gress,
S. III. Piersol was the winner Of that bar
rel of -four that was ratified BY the ladies OF
ST. Xayiers church at their fair and festival
last week.
The ever genial NJ J. Flagel thinks very
soon of marrying. and marrying Parkers'
burg girl, at that.
Mr.. lIlsley of Philadelphia, and Mr. Chas.
Pratt Of New York, who are stockholders IN
the o. r. r. r., were the guests OF Nelson
Chancellor this week.
A chosen few were the recipients this
week OF unique invitations to n social dance
at the Gibbons Hall; the affair proved to
be of those never 10 be forgotten ones, fall
Of life and pleasure, and many thanks are
due Mrs. A. Gibbons, under whose kind lead
ership the affair was conduc;e
The very sudden death of Mrs. Sarah G.
Hockaday on Monday last at daybreak was
a severe shock 10 her many friends who
were intensely panied TO hear OF it.. Mrs.
Hockaday has made her home with her sis
ter, Mrs. Judge J. J. Jackson, for many
years. Her death was most terribly de-
plorable to her most estimable daughter,
Miss Pauline. Universal sympathy is extend
ed, for her loss none other can feel or realize.
Mr.. Fennesy, tea merchant OF Pitts
burg. was here last week to visit his sister.
who is one of the Sisters AZ the Visitation
Convent, and also to visit many acquain-
tances. -,
Our new depot is being put up rapidly,
ard it will be mighty fine structure when
completed
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
FRILLs AND FLOUSCES,

High, full shoulders are the rule for dressy
wraps.
FaVn is lovely color in velvet or velve-
teen.
The reviled hustle is steadily growing in
size.
Children's garments retain the pulled No
here front
Roses sre worn on the side of the corsage,
rather than on the front, and are arranged
high on the shoulder.
A new wooden lace, colored or ecru
cream and white, run with gold thread, is
one Of the latest fancies coming from Paris.
Very broad galoens for trimming cloth
dresses, are shown in mohait and tiasel and
nohair woven closely in basket designs.
Ruby jet is used in England for orna,
ments and dress trimmings, such as buckles
and clasps. 1t has replaced Rhinestone or
naments.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
suo,i1p RECEIVE ATTENTION.

There are a number Of things which
should receive attention at the hands of the
present Congress, and one of the most ur'
gent is the Congressional library.
The condition Of this great collection Of
books is disgraceful Crowded together in
a building, the limited capacity of which
renders any attempt at systematic arrange
meut useless, exposed daily to the danger
ordestruetion by fire, inaccessible to the
people; and rapidly deteriOrating for want Of
proper care, our National library will soon be
irreparsbly injured unless something IS
done to place it in more fitting quarters.
A new building is imperatively demanded,
and Congress should provide one at once.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
REnrcr1oN IN TIE pRIoE OF IRON.

News comes from the Lehigh valley iron
centre Of Pennsylvania that the iron pro-
ducers there have agreed to make such a
cut in the price Of iron as shall make it un-
profitable in the future for Southern pro-
ducers to ship their output North. a re-
duction Of one dollar per ton will be order
ed at once and a further cut will, it is an
nounced follow in the near future.
The introduction Of low-priced Southern
iron into the North is unfortunate. The
price Of iron here now, taking the price Of
coal into consideration, is as low as
during the great panic, and, when affairs
are at their worst, this Southern product
threatens to swamp the market altogether.
How far the contest will go will depend on
the moderation Of the parties. The South
ern furnaces have all the modern appli-
snces, a free smelling ore, an excellent
quality OF coke. and cheap labor, and are
generally well fixed for battle with their
Northern competitors.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
SLAVE SELLING IN TANGiER.
Traffic In Holman Beings Carried on Openly
in the A fricanCity-A Pretty Slave Girls
Fate.

Fate,
L,eds Mercury.
Sunday, l learned, was the day on which
these human chat,les we're generally dis.
posed OF, so on the first Sunday after my
arrival in Tangier went for walk. and
presently found myself in the crowded little
market. Just ahead OF my conductor was
tall, turbaned Arab, with fine face and
long gray beard, whom recognized as one
of the auctioneers who patrol the High
street of Tangier carrying pieces Of calico
horse trappings knives, or other articles on
their arms and crying the price at which
they are offered to the public. He was
moving stolidly about among the crowd OF
market people, who were all too busy to
spare so much as glance at him. Ny guide
pointed to him. VOLTA" he cried. But
where is the slave?' demanded. VOLTA,
monsieur, viola" he repeated, pointing
again TO the auctioneer and then saw
walking YEARLY behind him, pausing when
he paused, moving on when he advanced,
looking with eyes Of pathetic apathy upon
the busy throng around her, girl, a child
of IA years or thereabouts, with uncovered
face, clad in single scanty garment of
white cotton. She was black, but not un.
comely, and she had evidently been care
fully prepared in the bath for the ordeal Of
the morning There she stood, alone in
the crowd, triendless, detected, travel-worn,
hardly to be distinguished in outward ap.
pearance from the other girls around her,
and yet deprived Of the first Of all the rights
which our human nature claims for itself
a slave without even the commonest Of the
privileges Of humanity The little girl
looked up with dull curiosity visible on
her features when she observed my Euro.
pesn dress. Then she looked away with the
same sad face Of hopele,s detection. |
asked her price; ''S5j," (f7) was the ans
wer. Seven pounds as the price for this lit
tie bit of humanity She had been brought
from the Soudan. The auctioneer told me
she had been captured there by slave
dealer, who carried her to Mogador and
passed her on 10 another dealer, by whom
she had been taken to Tangier. She was
pagan, absolutely ignorant, but she was
healthy, she was active, she was cookbook.
ing, she was-but no, my pen refuses to
chronicle the list Of various qualities a.
they were plibly enumerated By the sales
man. He might have been talking Of
horse or a sheep; nay, he would hardly have
talked so coarsely Of either Of those animals
as be did Of this iellow-creature Of mine.
Presently he turned away disappointed,
finding that no bid was forthcoming from
me. ] followed him at q little distance
along the narrow, winding street. The girl
vas ever treadiug closely on his footsteps.
Suddenly woman beckoned him TO a door.
BE entered it, still followed by the girl, and
when. few minutes afterward, he emerged.
be was alone. Through my conductor |
learned that he had sold the girl to the
woman OF the house for Is.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
sIAXIMs OF THE MoDERNs.

Never strike light when it is down
San Francisco Post.
A felon on the finger is worse than two in
jail.-Boston Times.
The dog with the most feas is the friend
liest.-Wilmington Sar.
Never look u gift gun in the muzzle 1t
should be honored in the breach.
Love laughs at locksmiths" So does
the cashier--Burlington Hswkeye.
The heels of human jsckasses are not as
soft as their brains.-W hitehall Times.
Some anchors cast to the windward are
only cast in the eye.-Boston Transcript.
Advice may influence mise man. but a
lick suficeth for foOl-Whitehall Times.
It's better to be afther having wan woman
on yer hands than two in yer hair.-Jingo.
If yez attimpt ter git fat on a wishbone,
yer kin soon tell how many ribs We have
Pats Proverb.
a bud in the hand is worth two on the
bush, said the thief who robbed a flower
garden.-Boston Star.
Before thou laughest az thy neighbours
dirty chin see that thine own vest is pulled
GOwn.-San Francisco Newsletter.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
THE LATEST DYNAMITE SCARE.

There has been . curious story running
through the foreign press lately to the effect
that Fenian or dynamite council has been
for a good while back in session at village
in the borderland of the Pyrenees. twill
be remembered that about four mouths ago
there was a report that several prominent
Fenians had suddenly quilted Paris, it was
supposed to escape the vigilance of the de-
tectiyes. They were tracked to Madrid,
however, but in a week or a fortnight they
disappeared in manner which completely
baffled the officers. The theory was that
they had made their way to this country;
but recently the French authorities received
information from an English tourist which
Id to the discovery that a company Of pc,
li,ical conspiators have been for some time
r,ietly ensconced in the district of Pau. 1t
is said that the marie of the commune is OF
Irish descent and that through his inAu-
ence and by other means the two parish
geusd'armes whose duty it was to report the
presence and movements Of strange or sus-
picious individuals were induced to keep
silence The group are, or were, when word
of their discovery was sent to Paris, TO-
gsther, but as the detectives Immediately
made for the place, it is likely their coming
dispersed them. There is much conjecture
as to the arrangements made and the ex-
plOits decided on at the conference.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
nonsEIs OF GAsrnosoMY.

Oysters are not at all scarce, as It was
predicted they would be, nor is there any ap-
parent inferioriiy ofqiiahty
Forced peaches and California grapes and
pears now makethe pyramid in the centre
Of the table at fashionable dinner parties
A great deal of tedHapin is served Ia
MARYLAND that in Baltimore epicurean cir
cles would be repudiated as very mean
imitation"
Rabbits are increasing in gastronomic
favor, If one may credit the marketmen, who
add that rabbit meat will compare with
chicken.
One of the Thanksgiving turkeys at
New York family dinner OF which twenty
six relatives partook weighed no less than
thirty-six pounds
As celery is known to be beneficial for
nervousness, it is now claimed by those pro-
Tossing a fair trial that cranberres assist IN
curing indigestion.
From November 18th to January 18th is
said BY the Philadelphia Caterer to be the
proper time for canyss-back ducks, which,
the paper adds, are much better without
washing.
The formal opening Of the new West
Hotel, Minneapolis, was the occasion OF
ten course dinner last week, the cost OF
which was SIS head The menu would
have interested Lucullus considerably.
Reed-bir mackerel, which comes in kits
to the fancy grocers, is fat, white and sweet
and very palstsble for breakfast, with
bit Of roll and coffee, you know"
A new wrinkle was introduced at the last
dinner of the Clover Club, at the bijou
Hotel Bellevue, Philadelphia, which was the
serving of different kinds of shelled nuts
after each course. The idea is creditable to
the gastronomic ingenuity of the proprietor
Of the hotel.
At Mr.. Johu B. brakes twenty-ninth an
nual game dinner, held last week at the
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, there were
forty-one varieties of game served in every
conceivable way and style Bear meat, an
telope, hare, deer, elk, buffalo steak, SOUR
rel and opossum were included IN the list.
and the birds" embraced four kinds of
duck, prairie chicken, grouse, quail, wood
cock, partridge, snipe, marsh and reed birds
and pheasants.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD.

The liberation by the shareholders of the
city of Pelotas, in Southern Brazil, OF all
the slaves FIVE thousand in number, within
the corporation limits, Is another step for
ward in the great march toward universal
liberty. The emancipation is made on the
condition that the freedmen devote five
years of time service" to their former mas
ters-terms which the slaves have accepted
as being entirely satisfactory.
Unconditional and immediate freedom is
what should have been accorded, but free
dom on any terms is better than slavery.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07

II Is triumph OF American ingenuity aud ma.
made to supply the people with good ume-teePias
watch al the lowest price ever known. The eas Of
the watch Is OF white metal, very handsome, AZ
looks like ,ilrer, bat Is better than silver bccaas
will not t.rnph. With each wsich 10 seuta
book giving full instructions. No one need levitt
out q watch. Those having costly ones should as
have . Waterbury to carry While engaged at rOus.
worI or in travelling one thousand oiihe>e WI,chc
are made every day, and the demand for thrm IN.
quertiy exceeds the supply. The ustch .s P,riet
timt keeper, nd sells readily for %. AmoEsh
sood points We name the following:
simple, because IL Is composed Of less thsv one
half the usual number Of parts, which are
ranged As to be easily cleaned or repaired.
Accurate, because u will run twenty -four houp
and keep tils sal to tie better grades OF watches
Cheap, because IL will wear for years. and d
offered at prize within the reach Of everybody.
Remember, the WATERBURY WATCH 1, Dol
q toy, but . RE.L WATCH, having less than one
hall the number Of parts 10 be found In any Other
going watch In the world.
4 watch which differs from all others In that
the entire movement revolving in the case cnc'
every hour, and thus regulates adjust, Itself 10
varying positions.
A Watch having = long thin main spring nearly
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
BARrHOLOPS STATUE,

YIcTOE HrGo, in company with a large
number Of the American residents of Paris,
has paid visit Of inspection to the great
statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,
and the poets expressions of admiration
must have been most satisfactory to the
artist who designed and constructed the
figure.
There have been . number Of visits Of
Inspection to the embryotic pedestal in New
York hsrbOr, but we have failed to catch
any words of admiration from the inquisi-
tive pilgrims.
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period, the colored initial serving the same
purpose. Ii was not until the sixteenth
century that printers began to sdopt an &C
knowledged system of graduated points.
~.
In discussing the amazing success o
"Called Back" the London Spectator says
that the popular notion of a decay IN the
taste for romance is unfounded; that the
cultivated grow-ups hunger tor fairy tales
30 that they are clever enough to be larry
tales TO them-iust as much as children doi
that men. not children, pay for Jules Verne
stories, with their magic machinery OF
pseudoscience; and that twelve adults have
read Msyne Reds better books for one boy
who ever took them in hand. Men OF hity
are enchanted with romance, that Is, nara
tive released BY some device from the I'M
poyerishing limits OF the possible, yet not SO
released as 10 be. like an unconditional day
dream, ridiculous and unsstisfying, and are
only too glad of any excuse, like the neces-
sity for supplying children, to hide from
themselves the 'frivolousness OF their
tastes They can confess their reading
then and discuss it though they always
choose to say, while recalling every incident,
that they only glanced at" say, Twenty
thousand Leagues Under the Sea, lust to
Sc what it was like.
-
Mr.. Charles E. Hogg, of Point Pleasant,
Mason county, has in the press Of Jones \
Co., Cincinnati for issue about the first OF
April next, what gives promise Of being one
of the foremost literary productions of the
new wear. The volume is entitled The
Great Men of the Frginiss." and sum-
marizes in the best possible manner the
lives and public services Of about two
hundred and fifty of the most famous citi-
zens of the Old Dominion from Captain
John Smith to Hon. Il. NJ. Mathews, late
Governor OF West Virginia. This long
Period is divided into three parts-"Colo.
NAL and Ante-Revolutionary," National, y
and The Civil War and Subsequent" and
under these heads are grouped the illustri-
GUS men belonging to the respective periods.
Among the biographical sketches of dis
iinguished West yirginians there will appear
a life of the late Hon. J. Hanson Good, Of
this city. The work will be profusely illus
trated with portraits on wood and steel, and
advance sheets indicate good taste and SUI
superior workmanship throughout.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
nNr CENrrnSrAGE-

The demand of the free delivery cities for
q reduction Of local letter postage to one
cent should be granted. Last year these
cities returned profit of over million aud
a quarter of dollars on local mail matter,
and there seems but little doubt that with
the proposed reduction the letter carrier
Offices would be selfsustsining in less than
a year from the date Of its Inauguration
a large increase in the number Of drop let
tiers being certain to follow.
Let the Department take another step IN
the direction of an universal one cent rate
on letters.
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PARKERsBURG /.
People and the Parts They are Playing In
Society.
SpociaT 70 IA Regislr.

People ana me farts They are flaylng IN
Society.
Special 70 IA Re9iar.
PARxERsBURG, December 6.-B. c. Nc
Cullougb, w1deawake tourist Of Gallipo-
lie, Ohio. is among us to-day making sales
for Cincinnati firm.
John Haley. of Cincinnati, is home, after
an absence Of a year.
Miss Jennie White. who was the gay and
pleasing visitor of Miss Lou Stephenson.
bss reformed to her home in Virginia.
Mss Maria Smith Leaves for her home
in Louisville next Sunday morning. Miss
Smith was summoned here by TIE death Of
her uncle. Mr. Mark Smith, who died on
the 22d uli.
Mrs. N. Norton ard children have ~
turned to ihtir home IN Cumberland, after
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
TRANSACTIONS FROM HEINE.
King Harold Harfagar.

King Harold Harfagar.
There sits King harold Hsrfsgar,
Far under the OCEAN flowing,
Bcside bis lovely water fay!
The years they are coming and going.
Banned and inthralled by the wItch's spell,
He is neither sing nor dying;
Two hundred yezrs she holds him charmed.
In ble,t perdliion lying.
His bead 10 piliowed upon the lap
Of his lovely bride; he Is raising
his CTer-y e7rningeys. 10 her own,
Nor can get bis I'LL OF grazing.
HIS COLDER hair turns silTer-gray,
His cheek bones In ghastIy token
Are IeeriEg forth from his yellow face,
His bedy j. yithere1 and broken.
Many time from bis dream OF love
he VIII suddenly start and paken.
for above him roar the biiIovs Wild.
And his cTySaI castle T. shaken.
Many time be hezrs In the wind
The Sornsus shouting rsadly;
BE lift bis arms With eager HASTE,
But amen be drops them sally.
Many . time be seems 10 hear
Above hun the sailors singing
In pralse Of King Harold HArfsgar.
1nunphai ballads ringing.
X pg Harold sTosns and sobs and ueep.,
Prom BIZ hszrt Of hearts thereafter;
swiftly The vaisr lay stoopr down,
And kisses with Iip- Of Laughter.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07

SACRAMENTO, CAL, licenses faro and stud
poker games, and Mayor BROWN, in a re-
cent communication to Council, reports
the system as working admirably, and says
gambling has greatly diminished, there be-
ing only six faro games and twenty-five
stud poker lay,Outs in the city" Only"
tweuty-eight gambling bells in city smaller
than Wheeling! Only" is good.