Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-12
NEWS GLEANINGS.

At st. Catherine S, D ntsrio, q msstodon'f
tooth foot long and SIX inches in diam
ster has been discovered.
The problem of seeing bv electricity Is
nearly solved, says Bell, the electrician.
Several OF the Western towns are suffer
ing from an epidemic of inc ndisrisn.
Three hunters in the Maine woods were
recently freed by large moose, and kept
in that predicsment for day and night
The last musical Dovehy in Milan is an
opera that is whistled though trou begin
ming TO end.
A number Of tie female pupils Of the
Dex.er NE } high School were recently
reprimanded for smoking and swearing in
public.
The champion corn bu.ksr of Kansas
can husk 100 bushels a day and put 1t IN
the crib.
The colored people of Kansas town be-
gan a "proiracted meeting in August
/. 1894, which has continued syer since with
out losing night
A Jury a: Frederick, Dako'a, after being
out "a hours, Was allowed 10 separate 10
6gbt q prairie FIRE which threatened to de-
stroy the town.
Last week st Louisville the body of Mrs
j. W. Taylor, who died six years ago, was
removed 10 new cemetery, and was found
10 be completely petriied.
There are 2G9 pupils in the Towanda
High School vQf these 78 use tobacco,
aud six occasionally indulge in beer. Near
" onshslf Of toe whole number smoke
cigarette.
The contributions to the New York
Grant memorial fund are coming in much
more rapidly since it is certain that the
Generals body will not be removed from
Riverside Park The total at the close Ct
last week wssSs96 SIP Al.
A Temperance Law ard Order League
has been formed in Lewis county.
Two Thanksgiving days have been or
dered in the Province OF Quebec. 1t is
thought that neither Of the days will be
obse--td.
The squirrels in Upper Mississippi and
Lover Arkansas have lost all fear OF man
and in several instances have attacked
hunters.
The air and fare Of Sing Sing do not
sgrs, with Ferdinand Ward.
List week the store OF f. n Smith, OF
Fsyette county, W. Va, was entered BY
burglars and the safe robbed Of about one
thousand dollars.
Last Thursday night Charles Co1ley
AMI Wash. Adkins made their escape from
the Favst,e county Jail.
Spurgeon has cut down his allowance OF
oivsgs, and says his health is much better
10 CT psaqusnce~
In Tibet the women do all the hard
UorL. leaving the men 10 do the visiting
Ten of the special delivery messengers
of Philadelphia have resigned, because the
pay is too small
An Albuquerque judge kept ajury, out
without anything to eat or place to sleep
for thirty-six hourL
United States and Mexican troops. when
in pGrsait of msrsudiDg Indians, may
cross the boundary hue, in either direction,
IN II November l, 1855.
A man who has kept account OF the
number of kisses exchanged with his wife
since their union consent to iis puolea,
ton, as follows: First year, $500; second
year, $4,000; third yeaE, 1859; fourth
year, l2O; 9th year, 2. He then Lett or
seepiDg the record.
Mexico is talking about compulsory
education aud they are liable to have
:, cling bees in their bonnets down there.
A, English doctor objected to swearing
IN the Ribls not from conscientious scru-
pJes. but on account of the risk OF intee-
ron be- some disease. The Lancet Gays
there Is something in the objection.
Nine-tsnths OF the tortBpe tellers OF the
United Sts'es sre women.
At Acwo,th, Ga, few days ago, two
persons about to enter into the bonds OF
mstriuony stood on a tombstone to be
Redded.
Thirteen bodies have been found along
the track o. Fridays cyclone, in Alabama
Several others are missing, snd forty or
6frv are dangerously wounded,
Professor Richard A. Proctor, who was
seriously i'll when no lef this country,
Erites from London that he has quite re-
gained his health.
An enterprising thief 10 BostoH picked
up Q cook stove that was stsndisg On the
pavement in front Of store and walked
oil With il without being detected.
John Watson will come into the posses.
sion Of S75, 900 So soon IS he comes out OF
the Ohio penitsntisry.
Gen. Butler has secured the services OF
several good readers, who are placed on
little platforms 10 different parts Of his
mills and read to the operatives as they
work.
A physician in Maryland put a human
sklll in tree for safe keeping during Q
temporary absence. Win he thought OF
it sgAin and went to get it be found that
q sparrow had taken possession and raised
family in it.
A jurymsn in Boston was so drunk IN
the box last week that he had to be re-
moved and the trial postponed.
An EDglishmsn with Chinese wife and
six children lately arrived from Hong
Kong. he experienced some trouble with
the authorities before his family was per
mitied to land.
California produced pesr this year that
measured III iuehes from end to end AID
la inches around the 'hiekest part.
A young wife in Kansas made .
besGtitul sponge cake fer her young bus
band The latter rsrtook of il. Toe mex
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