Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-13
ODDS n ENDS.
s,;ll has 100000 slaves.

Brazil siill hss 100000 slaves.
Backward as the season is, the air Of
South Florida is taking n q odor Of orsnge
blooms.
Although spring is here Florida strawber-
ries still sell in the eastern cities at $3.50
q quart
Secretary Lamar has called for the resig-
nations Of all the chiefs Of bureau in his de-
partment.
The salary list Of the Louisville baseball
club will this yssr exceed $4,000. Italian
orera singers are now IN eclipse.
At tie Cabiret meeting, held on Friday,
II is asserted the civil service law, Its full
scope and limitations was freely discussed.
The ballotipg for Mr.. Garland's old seat
in the Senate will begin On the 18th instant.
Congressman Dunn is still the leading can
did1te.
New York takes q census five years after
each National census. Mr.. North, man
ssirg editor Of the Utica Herald, Is to super
wise the count OF this year.
The Washington reporters say the entire
/ Georgia DELE CATION recommends a coiored
Democrat of Georgia as Minister to Liberia
Who is the man?
The term Of the postmaster of New York
I City expires March q, and the manner IN
which The President will fill the place is re-
gardtd with interest.
Ike Boston Record is q surprising sue
cess in the newspaper world. 1t has 90
GO circulation, although only six months
cd. 1t is chiefly devoted to the exposure
Of sOcial events.
The appropriation of 100000 for the
PEDESTAL OF the Bartholdi statue was stricken
cut OF the deficiency biIlin conference. The
New York members, except Mr.. Cox and
Senator Miller, took little interest in the
item.
Colonel Ten Hsrdemsn has many rivals
in his race for the agricultural bureau. Ex-
Cougressman Muldron, of Mississippi, Aiken,
Of South Carolina, and Farrell, OF New Jer-
ssy. ell want it, and so does Mr.. Robert
Beverly, OF Virginia.
The inaugural ball proper brought in
$4,000, and the contributions and receipts
for pIiyile yes carried the total up to $685.
us. The expenses will fall below $4,000,
ard the balsnce will be returned to the sub
scribtrs, who will not, however, receive their
money back in full
Bishop Linus Parker, Of the Methodist
church, south, Who died at New Orleans
last Tbursdsy, was born in New York in
1899. but vent to New Orleans when he
wss sixteen years old. He Began preaching
at the sge of nineteen. He was chosen
bisbop in 1882. He leaves a widow and
three children.
The new version Of the Old Testament,
now nearly ready, was begun in October,
1872. Acommittee of American scholars
selected from each denomination, led By
Dr. Philip Sehaf, eooperated in the work.
Ibe aGUplion nj the new Bible in the course
Il q generation is considered probable. 1t
stands at at ally rate q better chance than
.te St. James version did when it was
issued.
Baltimore is to have a "kirmes." the pro-
cecds TO 90 10 one of her charitable institu-
tiors. A kirmes is an entertainment illus
rrative Of national dances, and at the Balti-
more kirmes six nsiionalities will be repre-,
,enteG-the Tyrol, Holland, Hungary,
France in the days OF Louis HVI., Spain
ard Sweden. 1t is to be a great society
event and the ladies' in charge Of each dance
are preparing rich costumes.
John B. Ford, the Baltimore and Wash
iDgton manager, says: Il have managed
oil the Booths, and | regard Wilkes as the
greatest of them all. He had more phys
zeal beauty and intellectual power than any
Of them. As Raphael, in the Marble
Heart he was the greatest ever seen, and
his Richard Ill" has never been ap-
preached. Yet, you remember, | speak Of
him as a young man, just beginning his ca
reer as an actor when he died. | would
have paid him $50, 900 a year as a certainty
for his work. He had made with me more
Than that sum-"