Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-28
PARAGRAPHS.


Mile. Rhea has Just returned to this
country from Paris and brings TAR lot OF
new frocks" with her.
On her recent visit to place her daughter
In school at Pennington, Conn, to avoid
publicity Mrs. Garfield registered as Mrs.
brown, and in future visits to Washington
after next November Mrs. Logan can ap-
pear privately as Mrs. Blue.
There used to be politician of some note
in Virginia known as Extra Billy Smith.
The porky person from Cincinnati who is
making such ridiculous failure Of editing
the Blaine campaign dodger will probably
be known in history, if known at all, as
Extra Halstead.
John Ruskinn has broken out with the
Johnsonian statement that the modern ten
dency to city life is an infectious insanity
for Capitalization which collects al the VI
cious elements of any countrss life into one
mephitic cancer in Its centre. AT latest
accounts Ruskin was as well as could be eS-
pected.
ASt. John campaign item, according to
the Waterbury American: I'm barrel OF
whisky there are one murder, sixteen bro
ken legs, two broken necks, twenty-four bro
ken arms a gross Of black eyes, eighteen
moonlight trips to Canada on cashier s
train, and support for one dozen divorce
lawyers.
A charity society in Philadelphia reports
that in six months 1875 cases of desertions
BY men OF their families have come under
its care. Intemperance was the active
cause in ll2 Of these. The estimate is that
this species of cowardice is prscticed IN
Philadelphia to the extent Of 600 or 700 In
stances year.
A New York city paper notes "a new
thing in window ornaments as observable
up town in some of the fashionable houses.
Beehives have taken the place of costly
plants, and the drowsy hum Of the insects
about the pretty straw hives is novelty.
How this will strike the passer by when 1t
becomes general, remains to be seen.
The Chicagocse spread themselves at
such rate last season on opera, Irving and
so on, that it gives them the horrors to
think of another. One Of their organs OF
public opinion shudderingly says: They
are coming. Irving, Terry, Theo, Grau and
lot of other stars and impressarios are on
their way to America. The American dol
lar will have to roost high.
Pail Eudel, the French exposer sof art
frauds, assures amateurs that it is no shame
10 them if they are now and then taken in
for there is no cabinet of curioslties without
its false pieces. The provincial museums
of France, and even those Of the capital
contain them. The grand cabinet Of med
ais of the National Library holds certain
number Of notorious frauds.
From the Black Forest of Germany come
most Of the fine agates. The smaller stones
are made into beads for necklaces, and
numbers are useless becaused badly pierced
or Clipped. 4 knave bought a quantity Of
these modern beads, and is selling them
again as antique. In Vienna they are Ro
man, in London they are Celtic, and IN
Nantes they are Gallo-Roman.
A familiar figure at Saratoga is cripple
Marion Foster. She is poverty-stricker
! Cincinnati painter, whom Fanny Daven
port, the actress, discovered and brought
| away for treatment She is still physically
helpless, and gets about by means Of q
wheeled couch, but her iJrtunes seem tc
have greatly mended, for she boards in a
fashionable house and is propelled by ne
gro servant. Her income is derived from
the artistic work of her own hands. One
night robber bold broke into her room
and she hero,cally drove him forth By shoot
ing at him with a revolver.
. The versnds squstter is an interesting
character at Saratoga. She boards on some
back street having spent so much OF her
summer fund for wardrobe that the re-
mainder will not permit her to pay IS a day
tor board and lodgings. Therefore she
makes an elaborate toilet on cheap premises
aud then goes 20 dear ones to exhibit it
The hotel keepers know her very we'll, and
have rule under which she could be ex'
cluded, but thew do not enforce it in her
case because she is ornamental to have
about. her behavior is circumspect and she
! is delightfully."- cool and harmless in her as
sumption of the prerogatives ola full guest