Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-01

CoNoCnc1foH-lB hatdre, Caasoe ftesenu0a aad
se.2A New York: q. P. Putnsmis Sons; Wheeling:
Staat0a & Davenport
While this book does not present any
thing especially new, yet il contains about
all that IS known concerning this dread
disease. and gives some excellent advice in
regard to eating. dressing, &c. The author
has presented this matter in q manner so
simple. clear and forcible as to make it very
attractive and interesting reading. It con-
tains much valuable information, is written
in an entertaining way, and is q book that
we would recommend to all Of our readers
who take an interest in this subject
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TiM DISTRIBUTIONS or Products; or, the Mechsn-
ism and the Metaphysics OF Exchange. by Edward
Atkinson, sos pages Sl21 New h9rk: 1. I: rtt-
mans SoHs; Wheeling: Stanton & Davenport.
This book is made up of three essays emit
tied, "What Makes the Rate of Wages
What is . Bank?' and The Railway, the
Farmer, and the Public" The subjects
treated Of in the above essays are ones
which possess great interest to the large
majority of our people, especially at the
present time, when re have so much strife
and contention between the labOrer aud
capitalist. From a hasty perusal, we were
80 favorably impressed. that we intend to
give it q more careful reading.
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LITERARY NOTES.
The alleged royal descent of Oliver Crom'
well, over which Carlyle moralized, will be
the subject of an article BY Mr.. Walter Rye,
~denouncing it as a fabrication, in the forth
coming number Of the London Genealogist.
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A biographical sketch Of John Howard
PAYNE, written by Charles II. Brainard, has
Just been Published in Washington in hand.
some iOFm. Among other illustrations 1t
contains a fac simile OF Home, Sweet
Home" as originally written.
Harper & Brothers will publish at an
early day The Writings and Speeches OF
Samuel j. Tilden," edited By John BigeloW.
A number Of important letters are to be In
cluded in the work. Mr.. Bigelow is said to
be engaged upon a biography of Mr.. Tilden.
The first edition OF the Febrdary Cen
tury," (IS0,000 copies) was sold within a
week of the day Of issue. A new edition
Of 10000 is ON the press making a total OF
200, 600, with the prospect Of still further
demand A fifth edition of the November
Century" was issued on Monday.
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Number seventeen in Pullman's "Ques.
tons OF the Day Series" which will be pub
Gshed Immediately, is THE Spanish Treaty
opposed 10 Tariff Reform" the same being
the report recently made BY the Committee
of Enquiry appointed by the New York
Free Trade Club for that purpose.
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Among the forthcoming novels will be
"Kamehameha the Great; his Birth, Loves
and .C~onquests,' a historical romance OF the
Island of Hawaii The book is fro IL the
pen of DR.. C. n. Newell, a Boston physician,
who resided for many years in Hawaii, and
Is said 10 be based upon actual facts.
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A Dumfries journal has brought to light
the following epitaph by Robert Burns, which
it says has not heretofore been published:
Beneath these sOds lies drunken Rhodes,
Wha ue'er was kennel to drink cauld watc',
Like clack O. mill the whisky gill
Inspired his tongue " endless rlaltcg.'
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A new magazine called La Revue Con-
temporaine, makes its appearance in Paris
this month. Among its contributors are
lola, de Banville, Catulls, Mendes, and one
or two English writers. The first number
will contain an article on Edgar A. Poe by
NJ. Emile Hennequin.
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A retired business man OF Chicago,
named Bergholtz, has published a volume
containing the Lords Prayer in lS9 differ
ent languages, ancient and modern. The
characters Of the language are used in
nearly every instance. Mr.. Bergholtz was
engaged in the preparation of the work for
about four years. 1t cost him, in money,
the sum Of $4,000.
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Ii is announced in England, by authority,
that Mr.. Van Lawns Characters of La
Bruyere, the larger part Of the edition of
which was recently burned, will not be re.
printed. Only a few copies had been sold
in London at the time OF the fire, and the
value of these has now considerably ad-
vanced. The copies intended for this couu-
try were shipped before the fire.
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"a Brief History of MOrmonism," by
Mrs. Ellen f. Dickinson, with an introduc-
ton by the late Thurlow Weed, will shortly
be published. The Rev. Joseph Cook speaks
of the authoresS as a relative Of Solomon
Spaulding, from whose stolen manuscript
the Book of Mormon was constructed, and
says that the work will essentially aid in
eradicating a great mischief and delusion,
and that it contains much original matter
gathered from family papers and elsewhere,
the publication and presentation Of which
annPars of high importance.