Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-16
OVER CIGARS AND COFFEE.
A Q~uartstts of Tales of Everyday
Life
Related Within Hearing of a Reporter
Each One SOlemnly Declared to Be
Founded On Fact.

Yesterday afternoon while q reporter
was seated at a public dinner table, ndesv'
ing, in his modest way, to get as much OF
the good things in the way Of a meal
spread before him al the instance Of q
gentleman whom he had b~efriended, as he
conveniently could without exciting an
undue amount of attention from others
present, a party Of four gentlemen entered
the apartment sacred to Epicurus and
took seats OF the same table. The mem.
bers of the party were evidently on the
best of terms with themselves and each
other, and the conversation at once be.
came general. Nothing of particular in
terest occurred until the meal had ended,
when, the dining room being empty OF all
save the persons at the table mentioned,
the four gentlemen
CALLED o CIGARS,
and while the newspaper man slipped his
coffee aud looked over an out OF town
paper, the conversation on the other side
of the board turned on strange incidents OF
every day life. One OF the party, with
eyeglasses and the general air of a com.
mercial man home from q trip. said:
II have a yoang married friend whose
life in harness has seemed an elysian
existence for the year that he has been in
that state, and not until the other night
have I known q single thorn in his path of
married happiness. He struck that thorn,
no wever, and things looked stormy for a
time. 1t seems that lis young wife has
been confined to her bed for the
past three weeks, and up to the
timetof this unfortunate circumstance
sheswss qHtteill% On fhs evening of which
.Tspesk M B Twill call him for convsn-
fence sake
~4ccoSP4NIED The sERykET GIRL
to her home, not thinking, Of course, that
he Wss doing anything to which his wife
might object, bat, as after events proved,
he was mistaken. A lady friend who had
seen him on the street with the girl called
upon Mrs. B. that evening aud naturally
mentioned the circumstance to her. She
immediately became seized with q violent
fit of jealousy and distrust, which, in her
delicate state, caused visions OF infdelity
on the part of her husband to float before
her in all their darKened colors.
"She restrained herself until her friend
had left and then arose from bed, dressed
and proceeded Immediately to the home of
a lady friend, to whom che con6ded the
story and bitter distress it caused her, and
with tears streaming from her eyes she
asked the advice of her friend.
THE RESULT
of the confidence was rather unexpected
and astonishing. The lady friend, who may
be called Mira. R., as real names in such q
matter are ungsiuly to handle, Immediately
became as Jealous of her husband, and be-
gan to suspect him of being untrue; so
they both fell into each others arms and
sobbed in womsn's heartrending manner
for some time, which would have undouht.
edly spoiled the Jolly game of billiards the
husbands were INDUCING i n at that moment
bad the innocent men been aware OF such
A TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
But, of course, they could not peer into
their separate closets at that moment and
see the CHASTITY skeletons which were grin
ming and growing there, go they kept on
playing.
But W return " the wives. After they
had recovered from their crying spell, they
became furious, and DOMINIC outdoor gar
ments they started out upon a search for
their unfsithful spouses.
"As i'll luck would have it, they ran
across Mr. R. coming from a part Of the
city in which Mrs R. thought he had no
right to be, and-well, l leave you to
imagine the scene. Mr.. R. that night
slept upon a sofa in a cold room at his
house, while Mrs. b shared his usual
couch with his wife. Mr.. B. slept at home
by himself, after passing through
a scene similar to the one his
friend had. But the next morning after
the Jealous wives had slept ~soundlY, they
felt in a more reasonable frame of mind.
and what with explanations and promises,
everything was again set sailing lovely,
aud the skeletons faded away. This story
illustrated what trouble a small and appa-
rentlY insignificant circumstance some
times creates; and boys, when you get mar
ried you cannot be too careful of your &C.
TONS
The small mau of the party blew Q cloud
of blue smoke into the air and said;
NJ heard
GOOD THING
to day myself. A frisnd of mine told me
Of two or three Island men who were Joint
owners Of O rooS.er which on several oc.
casions had HlLown fighting qualities Of no
mean oFIer. After having whipped every.
thirg wearing feathers on the Garden
Spot, the boys concluded to take their
bird out to Fulton and pit him against
something with a record. This was
done, and due notice having been
given q chosen party repaired to the build
ing in our classic suburb where chicken
fighting is allowed TO reign supreme, and
having armed their bird with a fne pair of
gaffs, they set him down on the sswdust.
A crack fowl was produced and bets were
being freely offered by the Seventh ward
ers and as eagerly taken, when their chick
caught sight Of the other party to the
difficulty.
ONE GLANCE WAS. ENOUGH.
IT,. J,lond HID sp-aod h;s u,p1o Aau