Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-03
CURBsrONE CUkRR1CY.
Various Matters Of Gossip Picked mp
About Town.


About Town.
Il was only q harmless little Chinese
cigarette roller and lay innocently on the
Governors desk, sntirsly unconscious of the
notoriety 1t was to receive. In came an
equally innocent reporter Of the truly good
Intelligencer. and saw this harmless cigar
cite roller. What an Inte.ligencer report
er doesn't know Is not worth knowing, and
this one knew it all. He can read Chinese
huently and he instantly saw what this
little cigarette roller was, and yesterday
morning Governor Jackson was surprised
to read in the columns of that delectable
psper that he had received an invitation to
a reception at the Chinese Consulate. No!
he has rot decided to sttend." But il an
invitation were issued from some first class
l l. b, Gle in3titution that reporter would
rs ~ tly decide to go. His head is on ice,
now but he has not missed il yet.
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NJ il carriers are now taking daily exer-
else to strengthen themselves for the task
Of carrying and delivering ton of sweet
ness, in the shape Of valentines. They
will be trotting about through mud and
slush loaded with arms and bags full OF
of love. They will scatter missiles of ado
ration through the city as thick as leaves
in the mountains. The postman's ring
will never sound so sweet; his whistle will
be the whisperiDgs OF enraptured hearts.
He will go to bed abusing Cupid.
There are no leap yesr valentines, bat
there should be. They are the same old
thing and the funny ones are the popular
ones. AS usual they will illustrate all
sorts OF phases in ife-mother.in-iaSs
'ce6ed with bandboxes and packages In
scrihed I've come to stay six months
love-; musicians, fishermen, doctors, law
yers and all sorts of people in funny tig
aIes, appropriately inscribed.
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Wheeling is not Hades by very large
majority, but like that NEUROLOGICAL place
of winter resort it is paved with good in
,entfons. This has no allusion to Chapline
street, but only refers to some of the once
bright dreams that are now only dust in
coffin lid. For instance, there was that
Young Mems Improvement Association, all
cspped and prlmed TO yank young men
from the paths OF sin and start them Oh
The first round of the golden stairs. What
has become of it2 Echo peers anSiously
into the inner sanctpm of the postoftice,
then into law Office on Chapline street,
and finally comes sweeping back from
Morgsutowp with wild answer: "Where?'
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There was a syndicate TO build an in
cline plane on ChspIine Hill Where is it?
It had agrard scheme to convert the hill
top into a park and coin money while
fTurding pleasure. 1t WAS to buy up the
and on the plateau and lay out an addition
to Wheeling back there. 4 street Car line
Sss to run nlopg, and future jewellers were
10 back in those sumptuous, ETHEREAL re-
lions and call the names OF the projectors
Blessed. Where has this scheme vanish ID?
Ask the party 10 march upon Mexico dul
see II they will whisper reply.
Once upon time there was TO be a beer
garden and general hill top resort on the
summit Of Wheeling hill. The dweller in
he smoke-begrimmed region below was to
have q delightfully."- cool and attractive ps-
!lIiOn 10 which he could escape in the
fitting airs OF the summer time and gaze
Town upon Wheeling through the smoke
dsrkly. This, too, has gone glimmering
Gone 10 meet the park project, the cable
street csr lire, the high service reservoir,
and Thousand other glittering prospective
good things which viii !. never be realized
&C." wants to know il there is any
charge for publishing piece of epic poem
,he encloses. There is not, but lack Of
.p:cs will prevent it this week. 1t is a
wild, wierd, heshly thing, in which she
tells tom" she will forgive him, though
be is false. tom" ought to be published
up for being false, as q warning to other
ne would return TO the heart that loves
him still, though upon it he has set the
iron heel OF indifference. It's a sad case
c. and your poetry will be tluug full al
TENS" head next week. In the mean
tin lure him back with tstfy.
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Bring on chorus from clmic opera or
the ballet from pantomime If you want
to see the MASKING" power OF Wheeling's
best young men displayed 10 the utmost.
With Patterson's company were several
very attractive girls, and more bears oil
and pomatum we're never used by the boys
than on those two nights. Unfortunately,
the stage door is not good place for the
boys, SO they 60 10 the hotels ana watch
the girls come in, aud 10 the depot TO watch
them embark. 1t is also a misfortune that
zone of them stay so short a time as the
rivsiry between the boys is too fierce and
ieadly. But when the Siddons gang stayed
nere a week then how the boys did revel
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On one occasion, during that week, the
writer went to a restaurant about O'Clock
in the morning, for his usual lunch. While
there, in trooped four of Siddou's fairest
blondes, escorted by four Of Wheeling's
softest dudes. They had supper and some
beer and gay time. Two OF the blOods
came 10 the reporter and piteously sought
his clemency, saying il would ruin them
4 it should be known. Yes, it should
uin them and anv others who have as
little sense or p.i ciple.
This, however, is but sample OF the
sights seen on the streets, by newspaper
men, when all the rest OF the city is asleep.
Never are the streets vacant, and seldom
can they be found when one or two women
cannot be seen pranciDg gaily along. They
are returning from balls, but must first
stop, get an early y A. M supper and have
fun in restaurant. Many are very young.
10 their mothers know they are out?
Remember the Famous Hatters and
Furni>hers. 1l42 Main street, is selling
goods less than they can be made for.