Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-18
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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recent lectures in New York.
Recent discoveries prove that the art OF
wood engraving originated among the
Arabs about the ninth century.
Roller skating Kinks in Chicago are now
called academies.
The dismembered body OF Gustsye
Schrauen, who went over the Horseshoe
Falls. Niagara, in his skitf few days ago,
has been gathered together and buried.
James Russell Lowell has accepted the
presidency OF the American Copyright
League.
Boston dudes import shoes from Eng
land at cost Of S25 per pair.
TIE fire department of New York City
is to be supplied with salt water.
4 buried city presumably Roman, has
been discovered near Nantes, France. The
theatre hsd seating capacity for 1000
persons.
Five cases of smallpox have been dis
covered in one house IN New York.
Tue Bishops Of London, in q recent dis
course, denounced the ballet as imDodest
and demorsiziUg.
Two deaths have been caused in Eng
land This season By the game Of foot bail,
and quite number Of broken limbs are
reported.
Business men of Cleveland axe discuss
ing the pIaclicability of piping natural
gas TO that cltY from Pennsylvania.
A Virginia girl who advertised in a
Dakota paper for a husband has received
ll9 letters in reply.
The richest man in the world is China
man named Han Jus, who lives in Car
ton. Ee psys taxes upon an estate OF
$3.50, 000 600 and is estimated 10 be worth
81, 4OO,OOO,O0O.
A man in Buffalo proposes to chain q
Bible 10 each telephone in the country, so
that while waiting for replies persons will
have something to read Of nature 10
repress profanity,
The soft white feathers Oh the wedding
gown o. a lady recently married in Paris
we're tipped with silver and sprinR!sd with
diamond dust.
There ore four railroads i'll Maine OF
only feet gauge, the ordinary narrow
gauge beiRg 3 feet,
The Young Mems Christian Association
Of Reading, Pa will erect buildins TO
cost $4,000.
Three Lowell Mass, girls Of good tami-
lies have been sent to the State Industrial
School for drunkenness and larceny.
The las, gsstronomi2 novelty in Paris is
roast monkey, which is said to resemble a
cross between hsrs and pheasant.
Norway has over fifty fish hstcheries
yet produces less than tenth OF what the
United States does with ten.
The Mormons are sending missionaries
to the Sandwich Islsnds and already have
congregation Of 1000 converts in Oahu.
Between 500 and 700 mines have been
sunk in New England that did not pan out
A place where old Roman coins are
manufactured has been discovered in Con-
necticut.
A company has been chartered ia New
York for the purpose OF prospecting for
gold in Alaska.
There is q morsuO.iy in Shenandoah
county, Va, which is half monkey and
half calf.
A murderer has escaped conviction in
the Ware, ga, Supervisor Court, because
the Indictment charged him with shooting
his victim IN the right shoulder, whereas
the wound was really inflicted in the left.
1t is proposed to have Worlds Fair in
Chicago in 1882 IN Commemoration of the
four hundredth anniversary Of the landing
Of Columbus in America.
There is an old lady living at Alspsths,
Ga, who Was soalps3 By sn Indian during
The Seminole var 10 years SGD.
King Alfonso is not expected TO hive
long. !
Boston smokers are exercised because Of
he discovery that an old ordinance against
smoking on the streets has never been re-
peslsd.
The utmost velocity Of the irigate bird |
s 100 miles an hour, but they sometimes |
sosr along ST the rate Of 200 miles.
The wife and son of ex-Secretsry Lin
,oln are both in very poor health
In the German universities there are
DOW l51 professors between eighty and
,inety, Of whom l22 continue TO give lee
.ureS.
Miss l.. NJ. Wilson, Superintendent Of
Public Schools at Des Moines, lows, has
inder her charge eight buildings, eighty
sachers and sSont four thousand pupils
aer salary is 8, 500 q year.
A man in Jacksonville, Ini., VINO has
,een experimenting with cotton for several
ears, claims to have originated plant
hat can be successfully grown in the
Northern States.
The waters of Utah on account of their
peculiar qualities are likely 10 attract as
much attention from scientists as polygsmy
ecsiyes from morslists and the officers oil
he Law.
An iron pier 3, l66 feet in length Is being
'uilt st BostoS, It viii be the longest in
be world.
The French Association ct recent
Meeting, after long discussion, EXPIRE ssd
be almost unanimous opinion that there
an 20 logger be q doubt OF the existence
{ an ancestral form Of man in the tertiary
eriod.
Santa Barbara has q squash weighing
p pounds
The King Of DslrOmey has 1850 wives.
he missionaries srs alter him.
Springfield, Ohio has o one-r on I'd baby.
| dime museum has offered the youpTster
70 week to exhibit himself
Women In CoDgolsnd knot & olt ihs'r
ont tesih IS Soop as they get nsris5.