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

apiece when taken at Wholesale rates.
The largest average daily consumption oil
coal known on a transatlantic steamer is
about 500 tons. There are faster ships that
use only half that quantity.
The Columbia Democrats Club, of Wash
inSton, has adopted q uniform consisting OF
dark. sseeLRray ~oyercoat, with silk fsciugs,
gloves high hat aud cane, to be worn in the
inaugural procession.
A cattle raiser Of Churchill county, Ne
ySda, began business twenty years ago with
a Durham COW, Cor which be paid $500. He
has sold descendants from her tor $4,000.
and has $lO,O00 worth Of the same stock
left.
The persons Injured Or killed By railroads
in Massachusetts, in 1884 were 4j7. Ot
these rs were passengers, 81 were EN-
plOyeS and l6l were tresPaSsers. On grade
crossings g we're killed.
An ~egg-eSsing match at Peterboro, Can,
a short time since, one man ate 81 eggs and
the other 30. The eggs were raw and tax
en- from = basket in a grocery store. The
basket wal emptied and the winner said he
could eat q dozen more.
The best paid and least worked employees
Of the goyernment are the fortunate indiVi-
duals who hold positions under the Senate
and House Of Representatives They work
nine months out Of the tweaty-four, and get
paid for the twenty-four.
The total number Of persons applying for
diet a Boston South End kitchen during
the year was lO,9IS, and TO these were
giYeu l2,325 quarts OF milk. ll,232 eggs,
3,4l5 piuts Of beet tea, IS2 pints Of mutton
broth and 432 portions Of rice pudding.
The College and Clinical Record reports
DR.. BartholOW as saying that few American
stomachs are equal TO a digestion oil ost-
meal. 1T is true he said, that the
Scotch manage to eat much Of il, but there
is no nation so subject to indigestion as
they
The variety OF grasses is something won.
derfuL These plants oRtrank in import
ance al other plants cOmOined, since they
include all the cereals on which mankind
depends for bread. II is said that there
are over SIX thousand kinds of grass, which
is about one sixth of all the towering plants
that grow.
The use of the magnet for the cure OF dis
eases was known 10 the aucie0tS. II was
known to Aetiu4 who lived as early as the
wear 500. He says: I'VE are assured that
those who are troubled with the govt in
their hands or their feet or with commissions,
lind relief when they holds magnet"
A recent calculation shows that = man
weighing 100 pound, aud running q mile in
six minutes, performs work about equal to
that of q haifhorse engine, while a walker
sustaining FIVE miles al hour for q long time
does work equal 10 that OF u quarter horse
engine and consumes only O~ue-twentieth OF
the weight Of food or fuel.
In October last, less than three months
ago, Mr.. Harrington, of Tavsres, Florida,
planted a quantity Of orange seeds in the
garden. The seeds came up and grew fine
IL, until they are now from ten inches to a
foot in height. Three Of the little trees are
in blossom now, the blossom on each being
At the eRd Of the top.
Mr.. Cleyeland's resignation as Governor
OF New York was humorOusly m~isconstrued
by an old backwoodsman, at Little Rock,
Ark. Said he: Thar, | knowed it.
knowed they would skeer him outen it at
last. Amt been 'lected NOR n a month an
now be haster gin up. Fust thing you know
old Ton Hendricks will fling up his head
an Quit"
The United States census for 1890 shows
that in those States where less than thirty
per cent. of the people we're engaged in
farming, the annual farm product averaged
81. IS per head; from thirty to fifty per
cent, S3.9+; from fifty to seventy per cent,
$2.6l; seventy per cent. and over, SLIGO.
Farms amidst plenty Of manufacturers pay
best; those away from manufacturers pas
least.
Dean Norton and a party Of friends were
walking up Elk street, Albany Ny. the other
afternoon, Whena Young woman with achild
met them and begged for help. Hr. Nor,
ton asked her some questions which elected
q sorrowful tale. and she said: "Oh, sir,
you are rich and happy and | should be
perfectly happy if could only have s. for
the children at home Mr.. Norton said
well, if s. can make any human being
perfectly happy here it is" The woman,
Selling it, replied "Ah, | wish | had said
ten
Since West Virginia and Iowa have de-
cided hereafter 10 hold their elections in
November, there remain but ten States out
of the thirty-eight which still cling to other
seasons. These are equally divided between
the two sections. In the North, Rhode
Island holds her State election in April,
Oregon in June. Vermont and Maine in
September, and Ohio in October. In the
South. Louisiana elects State officers in
April, Alabama aud Kentucky in August,
Arkansas in September and Georgia in Oc-
tober.
There is considerable inferior celery put
upon this market and q great deal Of il
used. There is the so called straight growth
celery, which although inferior in quality,
is tolerably palatable. 1t is much more
easily cleaned for market than the small,
thickly sprouted, but finer grade celery Of
the Boston gardens. 1t Is said that in the
New York market the straight growth,
cheaper celery is the more used, while Bos
ton purchasers have become accustomed to
the Olucl anu VIII uaNC II VI uOuC.
A California electrician, Prot. n. S,
Keith, has invented an electrical storage
battery. similar in working power, but sim,
pier in form, to that OF Faure, and a com,
rany has inst been formed o. San Francisco
capitalists for putting it into practical use,
1t is proposed TO employit for electric light
ing, and also to run motors and street rail,
roads. Prof. Keith claims for his invention
that fully 20 per cent of the power general
ed can be used in moving passengers in an
ordinary street car, while with the cable
system only - per cent Is available. Al
most no change is necessary to apply cleo,
tricity to cars previously drawn by horses.
One of the San Francisco systems Of street
cars is about to be run by the new electric
Keith motors and storage batteries.
Tho CAtalpa.
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