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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
FLOODS AND pRouaHTs.

Not only have Aoods occurred along
the tributaries Of the Ohio during the pssI
week. but ell through the south and east
There is something rather remarkable
about the frequency Of foods within the
past few years. Nearly everybody in this
section can recall several disastrous rises
40 the tributaries Of the Potomac and Ohio.
This frequency calls for serious thought as
to its causes
AS the sun shines the same, the earth re-
wolves the same and tie elevation remains
the same, ss Tar ss sll practical purposes
are concerned, we viii have to look for the
cause elsewhere. The most reasonable ex.
PLANTATION is in the destruction of our for
es.s. The hills are fast becoming denuded
If their forest covering and the bare rocky
soil is unable to absorb and hold the mois-
ture. The rains run of as soon as they fan
crd the snow thsVs out al at once and
passes of to swell the streams.
Also, there is little doubt that the same
cause has much to do with our drOughts
that have been so frequent in the past few
years. A few dry summer days are sufi.
cient to suck up the moisture from bare,
iorestless hills. and nothing remains to
cause or attract rain. We can men
lion several regions in Asia and Africa
that nan has iransformsdin;o deserts simp-
" BY destroying the forests. As revsT-
sion Of this, We see the yearly rainfall Of
the west increased several inches BY tie
Of trees.
Droughts and foods are serious facts
md the causes should be regarded IS Sc
ious questions for our people to ponder
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

TIE present Cabinet is one Of heavy
weights. The President weighs over 800
pounds. Mr.. MANNING, st the time OF his
attack, weighed 325. Mr.. GARLAND and
Mr.. LAMAR are both large men, weighing
over 200 pounds each. Messrs. BAYARD
and ESDIcorr, though tall, ere rather
spare. They each tip the scale at about
200, while Messrs. WHITNEY and Villas
will each mark about IT'S pounds.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

MR. GLADsrOSE's home rule scheme
seems very distssteful to the majority OF the
members Of his Cabinet. With so much
oppogtion. he will find it very difficult, II
not impossible to carry out his Plana
The disagreement may cause further
changes in the Cabinet and make ne"
Marty affiliations.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

SAYS the Philadelphia Times: "lf the
Democratic candidate for Governor Was tC
be chosen within the mex! thirty days
TERgNcE Y. PCwDERLY, q man unthoush'
Of six weeks ego, would pretty certainly Be
nominated By exclamation"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

JAY GouLDs son says that his father has
lott three pounds in weight since the rail-
road strike began and that each pound was
worth a million to him. JAY GOULD's car
csss comes pretty high.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

"Oh! to be 10 England now that APrifs
there" sarg the poet BROWNING. APril i'
here now, but coed many people along
the Ohio are beginning to wish they were
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
Proposals For Fire Brick.

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED At He
office OF the Board of Public Works OF Wheel
iug, W. Va, uut Saturday. April 40, 1856, at IL
O'Clock m, for furnishing Five Hundred lhous-
and (5COOGO) or more Hard Burned Fire Brick,
suIs Bile Tor paving purposes Bricks TO be delivered
In amounts as needed, but the whole number TO be
delivered on or before the first day Cf September
1856.
Bond for the faithful performance OF the contract
will be required from the successful bidder ia the
penal sum Of I've thousand $4,000.
The name OF the lety 10 be offered In the bond
must accompany the proposal surety must be u
citizen Of West Virginia. The Board reserves the
right to reject any or all proposals.
All proposals must be addressed TO the Board oil
Public Works OF the Guy OF Wheeling, and eu
dorsed "Propo,als for Fire Brick
By order OF the Board OF Public Works.
b. A. GALLIdAN, Clerk.
Wheeling, March &c, 1886. mI27h
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

IT sppsars that the Cincinnati Demo
Gratis got left in the municipal election
They will have to pull up better than that
next time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

Tax Statue OF Liberty is soon to oe
placed upon its pedestal and then liberty
can enhghten the world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

THE coming food in the Ohio will ssFvs
to remind the Oldest Inhabitants that the
one that occurred when they were boys
heat ii.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
TssE REGISTER.

West SirSinisnS SOjOurntng IN
washington can always find the
DAILY HEGiST$E ou the eoun-
Ser of Iepley a. Einster, news
dealers, 7IS Fifteenth street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

OVER nine thousand bills have already
been introduced into tie FOrty,ninth Con-
sress. Perhaps about one in hundred OF
these has become Law.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

A NOTED Michigan baseball player has
iast committed suicide. The path Oh g'OFS
leads but to the grave
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
United States MarshaTs Sale.

TEITED STATES DI-TaICT COURT, North
l err District Of Florida.
R. 81 billiard, libellant.
vs..
Steamer Chesapeake, Der boats. In Admiralty.
tackle. apparel, engines and
furniture.
By virtue OF a writ OF venditioni eIponas to me
directed and delivered will sell before the United
STATE Court room building, 10 the city OF Jack
sonville, wi,hin the said Northern District OF
Florida, on tuesday, the 10th day OF April, A. ID.
1886, the following property, VIZ: The Steamer
chesapeake her boats, tackle, apparel, engines and
furniture Terms cash. Purchasers TO pay Tor
titles. VIC BIRD, U. 5. Marshal,
mrlCh Northern District OF Florida.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07

GrS. H,zSy, the weather proshet, must
he in or he would net so neglect the
weather
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
GRAND OPENING
Of
CA R PET S
AND RUGS
Stone 6 THOMAS

We take pleasure in inform
ing Our friends and the public
that we now can show as beau,
tiful assortment of Carpets as
ever has been shown in this
city, having taken more than
ordinary pains to select the
choicest patterns from all of
the leading manufacturers.
We would be pleased to show
our stock to any enc contem'
plating purchasing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
PROPOSALS FOR CURBlEs

DR0POSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
L once OF the Bad OF Public Works OF the city
OF wheeling, until Saturday April lCth 1885, at u
o'clock m, Tor furntssin and setting new and re-
s,ttng Old euroing for the season Of lSS6 Success
full bidder viii Do required 10 give bond. With ap-
proved security, in the penal sum OF S. CO. eon
diiioned for the faithful performances Of the cen
tract.
The Board reserves the right to reject any or all
BIDS.
Copy 81 specifications may be tad upon spplica-
ton az tha oehee Of the Board
THE BOARD OF POBLIC WORKS.
WHERLISe, April 8, 1855. apsI
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
Laundry Removed

WYE HAVE REMOVED OUR FAMOUS
w Laundry from tae room sdioining the Pnb-
lie Libsry to Joseph YouuSs old stand, no. 1420
Market Street, whess we VIII be pleased to re-
IN nrit-clSSs style, ehe2o prices aHd promptnes,.
We have telephone connection and also delivery
wagon. BAKER Bros,
aP2a 1870 Market Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-07
nEw ADVERTISEMENTS.

uyAETED-IAfMEDI A RESPECT
w able girl 10 assist in household. lnqeire Al
110l Main atreet, near Eleventh street. ape
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
Ants 0s Medicine.

A curious use is made of ants by the
Indians in Brazil, who employ them to
dress wounds, causing them to bite the
edges together, and then cutting off
the head; the jaws will not relax, but
hold the wound together until healed
They were formerly used as a cruel in
strument of torture by South African
tribes, who tied their victim to a tree,
smeared his body with grease, and
placed an ants nest at his feet. The
Arabs placed an ant in the hand of a
newly born babe, that the virtues of
the insect may pass into the infant.
N~aturalists also sometimes make use
Of these industrious scavengers.
When they require a perfect specimen
of the smaller vertebrates, they place
the body in a box, bore q few holes in
it, and bury it near an ants nest; in
a few days a perfect and most delic-
iously whitened skeleton will be found
in the box.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
The Hasassesas psslse.

The human pulse has rather a wide
range, but the general average may be
put about as follows: At birth, 40;
at two years, 100; at from sixteen to
nineteen years, 80; at manhood, rs;
old age, so. There are, however,
great variations consistent with health.
Napoleon's pulse is said to have been
only A in the minute. A case is also
related of a healthy mar of 81 whose
pulse was seldom over 8 during the last
two years of his life and sometimes
not more than 26. Another man of
81 enjoyed good health and spirits
with a pulse of 29, and there is also
on record the curious instance of a
man whose pulse in health was never
more than Is, and to be consistent in
his inconsistency, when he had fever
his pulse fell to forty, instead of rising
as is usual.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
me Tigers Apathet.c sctsans.

AS a matter of fact, the tiger is not
a specially ferocious animal. As the
greatest authority on Indian natural
history says, it is a harmless. timid an
nimal. It feeds on animals that are
prodigiously injurious to crops, and
there are on record in India the COM
plants of villagers on the increase of
deer and wild pigs in consequence of
the destruction of tigers in their neigh
borhood. When it gets too feeble to
catch wild animals it begins to eat
tame ones, or, easier victims still, the
men or women who are in charge of
the cattle. 1t then becomes, as a
~eman-eater,.' acriminal against hui
manity, and death cannot oyertake it
too soon. But it is only those who
know the Hindoo thoroughly who can
credit the amazing apathy of these
men, even when in imminent danger.
solong as it's not actually yisable they
refase to take p~recaution against peril.
and I remember dusing the Afghan
war assisting to thrash some lazy fol-
lowers in order to arouse them to a
proper sense of the necessity of saving
their lives. They had squatted down
to smoke by the roadside in the Khy-
her pass, though they knew the enc
my was lurking IN the rocks above
them, and in the jungle behind them;
though they had with their W eyes
seen the corpses Of camp followers "
ing where they had been murdered,
when they sat down to smoke. In the
very same way, the herdsnlan comes
loaing along in the twilight, singing
a song Of the country as he goes(t TO let.
the tiger know that he is coming prob
ably and suddenly out Of the sugar
canes flashes the tiger, and there is an
end Of that herdsman. But the. next
man will probably do the very same
thing. He viii take another road, or
course, on his way home, but he will
lag behind his cattle and sing to him
self in the same ridiculous way, and
out from underneath the tree springs
the same old tiger. Indeed, it is one OF
the problems of Indian administration
how to keep the natives from suicide
They prefer to have half the village.
down with the small pox, and then to
carry q dead chicken round the strick-
en- HAMILTON The, end Of a pole, than to
be v~aecinated. They prefer to lose a
prodigionsnumber Of their acquaintan-
ees BIZ droWnings than % protect theft
wells They prefer 10 have tens Of
thousands al men and women bitten Ia
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

EETE%ElE= EE#&E%L -&E &%" &E@ -&&
What is defeat +? Nothing but edu-
cation; nothing but The first step 70
something better.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do
those things living which are desired
to be done when dying. j.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which
the least shadow intercepts, while adj
yersity is often as the rain of spring.
Do that which is right. The respect
of mankind will follow; or, if it does
not, you will be able to do without it.
A wise man ought to hope for the
best, be prepared for the worst, and
bear with equanimity whatever may
happen.
A man has no more right to say an
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
right to say a rude thing to another
than to knock him down.
Great is he who enjoys his earthen-
ware as if it were plate, and not less
great is the man to whom all his plate
is no more than earthenware.
OF all the actions of a mans life, his
marriage does least concern other peo-
pie, yet of all the actions of our lives
it is most meddled with by other
peoDIe.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
$500 sNHs - A8#tFN& 5NefF5A75 N -
SCRAPS.

@S84ENS2$8A &E&&x %&#@9
Distilled water II the daylight is Of
d blue color, Bygaslfght the color is
green.
II the past forty years s4o,oeo,o0o
has been spent IN building and restor-
ing churches II Wales.
According to Dr. II. Cradle, the pro-
geny Of one Of the microscopic beings
known il uasteria maE. with plenty of
food, amount n ayerla0ooyaeo Hitlin
tWenty-feurhours
Experiments deteFnining The
height and velocity Of clouds BY
means d photography have been made
atsKeW, England, under the direction
Of Captain Abney
NJ. Pasteur believes the cholera il
produced by minute organisms Of
some kind, but the germs have not yet
been discovered. He has recommend
ed GheAETeneh Governments1p send
Especial mission g Egypt to study
tehe generation Of this dread disease.
Sir Henry Thompson, the London
surgeon, recognizes ii fish 4 combine
ton M ali the elements Of food that
the human body requires in almost.
every phase of life, more especially by
those VINO follow sedentary employ
Iaent, 70 women he considers fish to
III vi invaluahle artioIe of diet, but he
scouts a complete allaey the notion.
that ~dsh-eatug increases tbs brain
power. only ian ash had %
th W. mans body
Into prap relaLionsW with tha work ha
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
the toes and thumbs, and die therefrom,
than let enough light into ahut to see
the difference between fire-Wood and
cnhraS.
Modern Locust Plaques.


Recent events have enabled the
world to realize more easily than be-
fore the dread significance of a plague
of ~locusts. The locusts no longer re-
wives "reminiscences of Pharaoh and
the Exodus; it is a terribly real
scourge of the modern world. Europe
is now invaded, and in Russia, Spain.
and Portugal, locusts have turned into
barren deserts the most fertile prov
inces. Though their enemies are nu-
merous and hundreds of thousands are
killed by birds of prey and all sorts d
animals their Numbers do not decrease,
and until very lately little systematic
effort has been made to oppose their
advance. The island of Cyprus is no
table as being one Of the first places to
take up weapons against the foe. Said
Pacha, in 1867, showed a strong deter
mination to enforce the regulations for
the destruction of locusts, and his of1ic-
ial progress from village to village,
preaching var against the ~locusts, had
such excellent results that a few years
later it was officially announced at Con-
stantinople that the locusts in the is
land of Cyprus had been completely
destroyed. One of the measures which
proved most successful was the simple
~expedient of compelling each rate-pay-
er to collect sufficient locust eggs to gill
a large measure, which were then de-
stroyed either by being buried in deep
pits or by being burned. But notWith-
standing all precautions, a few of the
eggs escaped, and Gordon Cumming
gives an interesting account of the
new locust war in Cyprus in the Nine
tenth Century. They increased and
multiplied in so frightful a ratio that
by the summer of 1880 their vast
swarms threatened calamity to the
island" The British authorities set to
work in earnest to cope with the in
sect. The easur of locusts' eggs to
be collected by each rate-payer was re
duced in size, and instead of being
made compulsory, as is the case in
Turkey, the working of locusts' traps
was paid for. If the measure fixed by
the government was not filled, Il fine
was imposed and by this means a trade
in locusts' eggs sprang up, the search
ers who were not lucky and those who
had no taste for loeusts' egg hunting
buying their share from more fortunate
or industrious brethren. The quaint
ty collected in 1879 was about twenty
six tons; in the following year it reach
ed the enormous total of 236 tons
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16

&I% .
word, and look. and thought Of the
dead summer days. She had been
gomething of a bookWorm all her life,
andnoW flashed I'd her brain and there
burned the rebellious, passionate cry
of Othello:
My heart is turned TO stone; / strike It
And it hurts my hand!
~Hark! a footstept She must go in; how
foolish she was growing to imagine it
might be-his.
Nearer-nearer- still! sslef eould not
move. She leaned heavily against the
green post pillar. A voieet Whose
voice? The gate was flung wide, close
arms were round her ~ O.
Dark! Oh Aow dark twas grow
inr-
Five minutes later Miss Abigail
looked up in swift amazement as a tall
young figure etrodeinto the little par
lof bearinggEin his arms a slender, pink
clad burden.
"You!" she cried. II thought you
had gone TO Europe with yoar' aoitfe.
We read it in the Ihundere1;, and
"And you believed it? Good heav-
ansl Was that why nelly tainted ut
sight dlme? My father and mother
sailed for the Continent. Our initials
are the same. I told them all about
Dorothy before they left, and if she
will only consent toa harried marriage
will join them in Paris in septenr
Der. Oh, you're listening, you dear
little sinner!a What do you say-yes?
That is right! And you doGbted mel
Dolly Dollyl aren't you ashamed Of
Is 4AaS1
Yes" said Dolly, Il ami
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16

Paying the blind

Every year, by actor tne iegisiaeulo
of New York, a sun of twenty thous-
and dollars is distributed among the
destitute blind of 1e city. of New
York, numberingSabout five hundred
persons. Those who are able to walk
are lead to the office Of Mr.. Blake, SUI
perintendent of the department of out
door poor, each bearing his doctors
certificate and his departmental ticket,
proving his identity and his need.
About four hundred Of them gathered
the other morning to receive their
share, which amounted to thirty-eight
dollars for each.
Among the unfortunate crowd there
are cripples, deaf and dumb, aged peo-
pie, children, Cinnamon, negroes, Ger
mans, Irish. and even a Turk with a
red fez and a flowing white beard, all
members of the sad brother
hood of the blind. The su-
perintendent knows many of them by
sight, and has a pleasant word for all.
Many insist on shaking hands with
him, and blessings in all languages fall
upon his head. The New York HeTalI
adds an amusing incident or two of a
most touching scene
An old man, with weather-beaten
features, and the sign 81 am blind" on
his breast, waited with a smile on his
face, while a pretty little girl with soft
dark eyes, wiped his forehead with a
handkerchief. A single Chinaman,
John Anderson, received his ticket and
informed the superintendent that he
felt "vely WELL" but had to "hully up
and gettee home to pay lent" Mrs.
Shea, a handsome young woman, X
planned a bruised eye by saying she was
trying to see whether her eye or the
mantlepieee was the hardest.
1t was surprising to see how quickly
tiiC D1Iliu IieIt tHu AolllcL iCtoSHIHSd
each other in the crowd. Some had
guides, while others trusted to their
own acute sense to carry them through
all right In no case would the super
intendent pay money to anyone but
the person for whom it is intended,
and where word was received that a
blind person could not come to the hall
the money was sent by a trusted mes
senger.
A few blind people who did not
properly come within the class for
whom the donation was intended nois-
lily demanded why they did not receive
postal cards. An outburst of anger
was alWayssayoided by the diplomatic
official, who promised to consider the
cases and send word of his decision A
stout able-bodied soldier made d ear
nest appeal for ~thirty-eight dollars, but
Mr.. Blake was very firm in his FAsfusal.
"You get seyenty-two doE7ars a
month pension he said, s'and this
money is for destitute people"
ttBut you are giving money to Mr..
Nugent, who owns four lots Of
ground"
81 n am r. Let me look at the
book. Ali No, sir, Nugent does not
get a penny this year. I hope for the
sake of your reputation that the blind
people will always warn me of impos-
tiers, for there are many worthy people
who are left out in the cold"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
A Chance for EXPANSION.

A commercial traveller dropped off
the train in a small western village,
and upon getting into the bus, was
driven about three miles to the hotel.
Us this town incorporated ?" he
finally inquired of the hotel runner
who was the only other occupant of
the bus.
NO"
why don't you incorporate? If
you did you would have a town bigger
than New York."-siJfTtiings.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16
sU" q NsH9a .t@3 ~TE5" > |T-..E- ~ :.
Eject of Lightning on Trees.

EUecS or Mglfn5ng ora Trees.
The Geneva correspondent of the
London Times writes: The frequency
of thunderstofms in Switzerland this
summer we have on an average two a
week has afforded Professor COLLATION.
ofsGenerat-4a greatauthority on cleo.
trieity ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oppor-
tunity of continuing his observations
enfhe effachsof lightning entrees and
vegetation generally. He has .aseer-
tanned that Whenglightning strikes a
tree it leaves very Few marks Of its
passage On the upper part and middle
Of the trunk, a REGULARITY which he
aseribes tUthe fact Of those parts being
more impregnated with sugar-ag1 sod
condactorLthan The lower part. AS
the electric fluid descends to- the neigh
sbofhood Of the heavier breaches, where
there is less saeclrarine matter, it tears
open the bark and in many Instances
shivers the tree. It d no uncommon
thing to find the lower part of tree.
literally cut by the lightning, while the
upper portion and the higher branches
seemed to have suffered hardly at all.
Oaks, however, would appear TO present.
an exception to this rule. for they are
often found with tops quite blasted
and the passage Of the lightning lower
down marked by gouge-ike furrow,
These furreWsonhetimes go complete
IL round the tree like d screw, the rea-
son OF which, says Professor Colladen
IS that the lightning follows the cells
Of which the bark is composed length
wise, and in certain sorts of wood these
cells are disposed spirally. a curious
effect oflightning on vines is that it.
Invariably strikes a great many vine,
stocks AT the same time over u space.
for themost part circular, from eight
metres TO twenty-five metres in
diameter, and containing, therefore
several hundred vines. The plants
most affected are those IN thecentre of
the circle, and the number of burned
anlyalIoWed leaves diminish In proper
ticn to theirsdistanee from that point.
Ia July two Yfneyardstfn this canton
were struck BY lightning, and the first
idea Of their propriafo onaeeing their
sfarriveled wines Was thata stir more
dreaded to-, ~phyIfoxera, had been-at
work; but when theprofessor was cali
ed in, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES them as
ia the true cause Of Tie mischief, and,
iinproof of hisadiagnosis, pointed out
that the ground IN the centre of the
circle was strewn with torn leaves and
freshlu-bralxe1atM
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-16

The doctors disagree. The now IA
NOUS fossil footprints found last year
at Carson, Nevada, and supposed to
have been made by prehistoric human
giants, are regarded by Professor O. G.
Marsh as probable tracks of a large
sloth. It is stated, however. that DIR.
Hardness still insists that the impress
sions were left by q species of man,
and that he finds his theory strength
ened ny fresh discoveries Of tracks
even more clearly defined than those
first uncovered