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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
where do whales winter

Just where all the arctic whales winter
has long been n mooted question. They
are found all along the coast Of Califor-
MIA during some OF the winter months.
But their breeding grounds there are the
lower ATTITUDES, as at Magdalena bay and
in the shallow bays Of the lower Mexican
coast. 1t is probable that some go down
as far as the Central American coast.
All the right whales seen along the coast
do not enter the Arctic, although IL would
seem that the greater number do. Many
are found in the summer season in the
OkIotsk sea and along the coast Of
Siberia. The right whale seeks ont his
summer feeding grounds in high ATTITUDES
and seeks ont breeding grounds in low
ATTITUDES. This annual migration and
return is counted on with the greatest
certainty. AS many whales come out of
the Arctic in autumn as enter in the
spring. These facts govern the operations
OF the whaling feet. Hence, after the
Arctic whaling season is over many ships
discharge and refit at once and go down
the coast preparatory to later cruise in
high ATTITUDES. At several points along
the coast in this state there are shore sta
tons where a considerable number Of
whales are caught as they 60 up and
down the coast.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A to Wearing Whiskers,

Two fallacies are in vogue regarding
the whisker question. One is that thin
faced man should support side whiSkers
to widen his face; the other that o round
faced fat man should favor long chin
whiskers to lengthcn his face. Both are
adopted on the counter action and antidOte
principle, but are wrong as wrong can
be. A man with sharp ch exposed is
thin and appears thin in spite Of his
Burnsides. And a moon shaped man
gives himself a humorous and clownish
appearance by wearing lJnc, sharp tuft
on his chin. The principle of conformity
should be observed or a wholesale change
made. A thin man, for instance. should
not wear chin whiskeTS, no whislcrs at.
all or a beard. He no more looks we'll
with side whiskers and apeaked chin than
he would to stuff his chest and not his
cheeks and calves. To look well he must
be uniformly and consistently thin, or he
may modify it by q complete beard 4
fat man should be smooth faced or wear
universal whiskers pretty closely cropped
She well proportional and moderately
fun faced man may vary the style and
quantity of his whiSkers with impunity so
far as the thin or broad appearance is con-
cerned. A very short beard gives an
animal look; livery large it indicates van
ity or crankinesS. Graphic.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A Perishable CarC1.

Mr.. William Parsons, the lecturer, was
one day passenger On a big sleigh away
up in Michigan. On the road they met
another sleigh not nearly so big as their
own. The little sleigh kind of kept to the
middle Of the drifted road, and the driver
of the big sleigh kind of turned clear out
ana kind of turned his sleigh clear over
and plunged his six or seven passengers
up to their necks or heels in tho chilly
drifts, just as they happened to be shot in
head first or feet foremost. Loud was
their wrath. They wanted to mob their
cowardly driver. "Why didn't you make
that little fellow turn outs why didn't
you upset him'" why didn't you run
over him." they demanded. Gould of
done il" said the driver, cropping about
in the snow for stray valises, but l kind
o. hated to spoil his load" What was
he hauling" demanded the lecturer.
Dynamite for the Mines" said the
driver. They accepted his apology with
out division, and the work of excavating
for the buried Troy, the entombed dress
suit and The Heroes of the Homeric
Age" went on in silence.-Burdette in
BrOOSlyn Eagle
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
SHEEPISH DOGS.
Grows we'll fix EN- said one of the BAN

"Boys we'll fix 'em, said one OF the ban-
berry brothers
During the day they built the sheep pen
much higher so that no dog could jump out
of it. Then they made slanting bridge on
the outside, so that a dog could walk up it
and jump over into the sheep pen. But no
dog alive could jump up that wall to get out
again, and the rails were so close together
that even pup could not crawl through,
They put their live sheep into close she'd and
left the dead ones lying in the old pen. The
trap was Just the kind that the pioneer farm
eIs used to set to capture wolves.
In the morning, rs truly rs the world, there
were twenty-thrce dogs in the pen. Some of
them were very aristoCratic, blooded dogs,
belonging to the wcathicst people Of the
neighborhood These heightened dogs looked
as sinking and ashamed rs possible. Their
owners looked no less 50 when they came to
claim their pets. You see them leading tho
guilty animals away, the very fellows they
had declared to be so good and honest. The
Bamberry boys charged every owner s. be-
fore he got his dog, and thus they received
money enough to pay damages Some of
the beasts never were claimed and these were
shot All day people around about came to
look at the dog show and everybody who
didn't have a dog in it had good long
laugh Ii was sight to see.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
It's Usefulness Ended.

"Bill," said a country editor to his COM
bined foreman, compositor, office boy and
reporter; "Bill, take down that piece on the
standing galley which begins, Last night a
scene of brilliant gayety' We won't use it
any more"
"Why noti The face amt worn off Of all
the letters yet"
Il know that; but George Gould says mar
riage is serious business, and wo must re-
spect the opinion of millionaire, you know.
It'd Bits.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
IIXPRtCEDIkTEO ATTRACTION
U OVER HALF l MILLION t!li;G,
Louisiana State Lottery Conpa1n.

incorporated IN Is;s for . ycAr ny the DfsS
tirc for Educational and Charitable pgT,s'
with capital Of ~ Oh D-tn Which fl-T'
fInd OF over S.ODb has since been s,lI~l
by All overwhelming psrpIlsi vote " i'sHfl.s
was male a part Ui the prsyUi @sts toaEa
don adopted December ~. A u ~
The only Lottery ever voted nn and sBlFsf
ny the people of any state.
IL never scales or pystpnu's.
It's Grand Single Number DrauiaE'
take place monthly, aud the -smi sE1s
Drawings regularly every slN months Jun o..
December
A splendid opportunity To win i1ngn' .s
Grand Drawing Class 4. ~ the AraiSu1 %
Music, New Orleans, Tuesday, JansaU
n, Isse-2OOth Monthly Dfagias
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
BROTHERLY LOVE.

The Rabbi Judah. so the scribcs relate,
Sat with his brethren once in a warm debate
About those things which each considered best
To bring TO earth immunity and rest
Then said the one requested 10 begin:
"liest comes from wealth, II there be pear
within"
The second said: 1t springs from honest fame
And having all men magnify your name"
The third said: Rest is being truly great.
Coupled With power 10 rule some mighty state"
The fourth said: Such rest as We presage
Men only reach in the EXTREMIST age.
When wealth and power and fame unite to go
To children aud unto their children flow"
The fifth said: "ul these various thing vain,
Rest comes 10 those who all the Law ln.iotaih.'
Then said RAbbi Judah. grave and old.
The tallcst OF the group with him enrolled:
you all speak wisely. but no rest 10 deep
To HIM who the traditions fan To keep
Now spoke fair haired boy " from the glass;
A boy OF twelve who heard these words repass.
And DROPPED the lilies frotu his Slender hands:
NAY, father, none aiBong you UNDERESTIMATE
True rest he only finds who eyermcre
Looks not behind. bot 10 ths things hetorvi
Who, scorning fame and power and hoIns AMI
peH,
Loveth his brother a. be loves himself"
The Mc9oiah-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
BEHAVIOR.
What Constitutes Good Breedlng-Ths
Choice OF Bridal Gifts.

What Constitutes Good Breeding-Ths
Choice OF Bridal Gifts.
The sending of bridal gifts requires dis
erection and knowledge Of some points in
volved. A card should always 60 with the
gift. for if tho presents are displayed the card
is laid on the gift 20 which it belongs, or
placed with others on n card basket.
In making choice Of gifts it must be re-
membered that there are some gentleman
may not send To a bride There can be no
catalogue of such things, Int good sense will
suggest whether any article is appropriate or
not For instance, would n pair Of ivory
backed hair brushes he appropriate! Most
assuredly NOT. Indeed, it would be hardly
appropriate FOR n man To send any article Of
wearing apparel, or anything that rAay be
used with the toilet, though perhaps therh
might, in some cases. he exceptions 10 this
rule, considering the articles and the init
macy Of the Gender.
Unless You are on terms OF intimacy, or q
relative, gifts should be chosen rather for
their ornamental than their useful qualities
A vase or n picture is far more in taste from
a comparative stranger than would lie table
article or piece of jewelry. These are ap-
propriate for relatives.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A Crime By Telephone.

A prominent young unmarried physician
In West Nashville Is said to DO ON the war
path, or words 10 that effect, a. regards O
certain fend who broke into his slumbers o
few nights since. II was about 2 O'Clock
In the morning, and Fery cold, when, In his
dreams, be thought he was In Baltimore on
Sunday morning, while the bells were ring
ing with all their might from every one Of the
hundred steeples 50 near together. Bot grad
ually the City Of Many Churches faded away,
and he came TO the CONSCIOUSNESS that the tele-
phone had been rafting for about five
minutes. Jumping from his bed, with the
eager expectation always attendant on Q
sudden can, the doctor rushed, with bare feet,
over the cold floor and shivering yelled out,
SHello"
Hello, doctori Have you got any instru-
ments, or are you prepared 70 dress tho
wounds Of man who has been cut all TO
pieces with hatchetF'
'oh, yesl oh, yes" quickly responded he
physician, as visions Of his fayorfts practice
came to his mind, @whers Is the,"-
@All right doctor, am much obliged II
! come across a man cut to pieces by hatchse
between now and daylight, I'LL let you know
The doctor hasn't found the 6end who
telephoned him, neither has be found man
cut up by Ratchet. American
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A., Account Of the Explosion.

- An Account OF tho Exphoos
IT,. Simmons was summoned to TESTIFY
concerning the explosion OF the boiler OF
sNowr said a lawyer, representing parties
who had brought suit for damages, staDe
,rbat Won know concerning the case
aWaIJ sab. il wuzer Thursday erbout ~
.r,cloclk. mout er bin Friday at 9er'clock-
SThat makes no difference
Gyas sab: didn't low it did. Wall, Wen
saw II wuzer Thursday. wuzer standn In
NV hack yard when dar came er mighty
isnloshpn. I looked ober toward de mill,
Ala an, s.ed Aunt Rose, whut cooked fur de
mill hans, er gwine way up in de ar.
turned r,cund ter my darter Cindy, an
sCindy,' says 1, look yander at ole Aunt
Rose gwine way up in de ar. sue =,
mighty ole pussen to be gwine up 50 hisn, an
/ wonder how she think she gwineer git down
widout cripplin' her ole SET, when she's dun
got de rheumatic anyhow. Cindy' she
flowed dat de L.awd would provide fur de Ole
critter. an, den l says, says l., Eff He do,
Cindy HI, got ter do il mighty peart, fur de
ole critter is comm down. an jes' erbout dat
time de TO, ole critter struck de groun' Ike
She xuz in earnest, sho' nuff. Me an Clndy
we mt out an run ober dar, an says l, wy,
Aunt Rose, whut make yer go ciimbin' way
up wander like er boyf But bless yer life, dc
good ole 1ul couldn't talk, an jes' erbout dat
time 'bip' suthin' struck de groun' side me,
an lookin' roun' / seed ole Abner's son Phil,
ez black er child eI eber hbed, stretched out
Bless yer, didn't see him when he went up,
| an il wuz er mighty sprize ter me, 50 i says,
Look heah, boy, whit yer come sprinn or
body dis way furi W'y'n't yer hep dis po
ole lady come down stead er hansin' 'roun,
up dar till arter she'd dun struck dc groun'
De ole boy gwine ter git yer one o des days,
but he didn't make no ply, fur de po' black
chile wuz dun dead. Dis is all | knows er'
bout de erfair, an amt gwinter answer
ernuder question. Lemme git outen heah. "
--ArkanSaw Traveller.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A Tlinmnh Of journalism.

We begin the publication of The RocCay
Mountain Cyclone with SOME phew diphtcul-
ties in the way. The type phounders phron.
whom we bought our output phor this print
ing Ophice phaiied to supply us with any
ephs or Gays, and it will be phour or phive
week bephore we can get any. The miStaque
was not phound out till a day or two ago.
We have ordered the missing letters, and will
have to get along without them till they
come. We don't lique the look ov this va
riety ov spelling any better than our readers
but mistax will happen in the best regulated
phamilieS, and Jpn the ph's and c's and ks
and q's hold out we shall ceep Sound the C
hard The Cyclone whirling aphter a phashion
till the sorts arrive. II is no joque to us-it's
a serious aphair. Mountain Cyclone
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
Asking One to Repeat.

The conventional methods OF asking one to
repeat what has been said and not heard
seem to vary with the times. The eminently
polite method of saying, II beg your pardon
has crept into use during the last ten ycara
This means that you beg the speakers pardon
for not having attended. But if the speaker
has spoken so indistinctly that no ordinary
listener could catch the words, the speaker
and not the listener should make the apology
The polite world has always been troubled
to frame proper method Of asking for a
repetition, without being successful
"Whatf7 is too short and harsh. "Howi' is
execrable The best method is To adopt the
conventional method of the times, which at
least has the merit Of enabling one to as
simulate and not be conspicuous for differing
from othars
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
Withdrawing Backwards.

In retiring from room after visiting ladies,
the most common practice among well bred
people seems TO be to retire with the face
towards the persons in the room until reach
ing the door. But this is quite inconvenient
when the distance is long A painful sight is
to see bashful man try 10 back out OF room
and smash some delicate and valuable article
in doing so, from not having eyes in the back
Of his head A hostess would infinitely prefer
to have guest turn his back for a part Of the
way to having her bric-a-brac demolished.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
HOW THE BAMBERRY BOYS TRAPPED
SHEEP KILLING DOGS.

Johnny Rice's Market Garden-A Per
Full of Nice, Gentle, Honest Dogs,
Whose Owners Were Astonished as Well
~ Ashamed.
Mr.. ]. T. Trowbridge tells in the last st.
Nicholas good story, which he says is true,
about how some clever boys caught lot OF
sheep killing dogs.
The boys made good deal Of money out
of their flock, and it was source OF great
pleasure to them besides. But the third year
the dogs got to killing their sheep. They
knew it must be their neighbors dogs, but
when they mentioned the subject to dog
owners, every man was up in arms at once.
His dog was just the incest, sweetest, honesteSt
creature in the world He'd no more Kill
sheep than he'd fly.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
THE DOG SHOW.

So they got no satisfaction. AT length tne
br,Ites one night jumped over the bars into
their sheep pen, and tore the Threats and
tiIIed some of the most valuable of their
flock. This was too much. The boys almost
shed tears at sight Of the pretty, mangled
lambs lying dead.
At length one of them said: "Boys, we'll
Ak EN-
There is something strange about the way
dogs attack locks. a sheep killing rage
eeems to possess them, just as If they were
Cog crazy. While the spell lasts, they 60
about neighborhood in packs, like wolves,
and fall on one flock after another, seiZing the
defenseless sheep, throwing them down, tear
ing open their threats, and sucking their
blood. a dog is only a civilized wolf any
how
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
The Worlds Rain FAN.

It is estimated that each year from 4,-
600 to 35, 600 cubic miles of rain falls upon
the surface OF the globe. What becomes
Of it, The rivers seldom carry OF one
half, except in regions Of close grained
rocks; the rest disappears by evaporation,
BY the absorption of the earth, and by
being taken up by plants, animals and
mineral oxidation. In most parts Of tenn
perate ATTITUDES the removal by rivers is
from a third to two fifths Of what falls;
in warm ATTITUDES the amount is less, and
may be under one tenth. The Mississippi
carries away one fourth Of the rainfall Of
its drainage area; the Missouri three
twentieths; the Ohio one fourth; the
rivers of England and Wales nine-six-
teenths. Brooklyn Eagle.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
Oecupasiou of Women.

Sir T. Spencer Wells, in his inaugural aa-
dress before the sanitary congress recently
held in New York, said in reference to the
occupation of women: Il think women capa
BILE of a great deal more than they have been
to do in times past II oyerworS
sometimes leads to disease, it IS morally more
wholesome to work into it than to lounge into
il And if some medical practitioners have
observed cases where mental overstrain mas
led 10 disease of mind or body, cannot deny
that also have at long intervals seen some
such cases. But for every such example
feel quite sure that l have seen at least
twenty where evils equally to be deplored are
caused in young women by want of mental
occupation, by deficient exercise, too luxuri-
Gus living, and too much amusement or eH-
citement. Science News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
A Wise Sentinel.

In the barrack room: Officer Of instruction
When you are on sentry duty and you see
a general coming what do you dol
Recruit-Present arms.
Officer-And if group of drunken persons
walk past, what do you thenl
Recruit-PreSent arms.
Officer-What! Why sol
Recruit-There may be general among
them. From the German.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19

We the undersigned Banks and Ransfr,
pay all Prize. drawn IN The Louisiana 'isis 10.
teries which may be- presented at ouf r'IHisr
.. u. OSGESHS. Pres. Louisiana Nal lai
}. w. kILBREGu. Prs Stat" Ntl Bsli
t.BAI.DwiN. Prs. New pliean, NGI Eali
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
An Omahaha,

Colored Citizen-Talk about de freedom OBJ
deese ere 'Merican inStootionS; dey wouldn't
low me ter vote at all
Omaha Man-But, Sam, you hadn't been
here long enough to be entitled to vote.
"Can't help dat. feel mighty bad bout it,
Jest the same"
but you knew none of the candidates
What difrcrcnc. did it make to you3"
Difference ] done had to give de states.
man his dollah back, sab. Omaha World.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
HE SEEMED TO FORGET.
Not "a phllnnihrnnIsl

At a late meeting Of a debating society In
Kansas City the question was discussed: rs
Jay Gould a Philanthropist, or Whatr
The discussion was hot one, and lasted an
hour and half, and then vote was taken
and it was decided by four majority that he
was cor what"
Gentlemen said big man who looked
into the room after the question was settled,
@allow me TO congratulate you. There's
crowd of fifty Of us out here who were wait
ing for the verdict, and il it had been Phi
lanthropist' every blamed one Of you would
have been carried home on a shutter. Wall
Street News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
How Long to Sleep.

A prolonged and severe exertion, whether
of brain or muscle, requires correspond
ingly lengthy or deep repose. The great
point is TO secure what Bichat characterized
as general sleep The Irishman who ex-
nIsinel that a short sleep did for HIM because
when he slept he paid attention tot" ut
tered a truth in his wltticism. II sleep oe
thorough, then a short spell will do more
GOOD than much longer period that is III
complete and imperfect. On general princi-
pies we may sleep all we can, unless we are
lazy, then sleep less. The active, wide
awake, energetic, go-a-head people rarely
sleeu too long.-Herald of Health
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
Gladstone as a Sportsman.

When the first photograph of the late
prime minister in his tree Telling dis
habillc came out, an American journalist
got a copy, and was hesitating to send it
across the Atlantic because he thought it
was hoax. He showed the photograph
to friend Of Mr. Gladstone, explaining
his doubts. The friend looked N it
through magn6ying glass and pointed
to the absence of the fOrefiuger of the left
hand as proof that It was genuine. Few
people know that Mr.. Gladstone was at
one time a sportsman as well rs states
man, and that the loss Of a finger was due
to an accidental explosion Of his gun
Manchester Guardian.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
Odds Fish.

"What do you think our fathers wereT
asked the lecturer. And then We left tho
hall, because the conundrum was so easy and
the subject so commonplace. Our fathers
were not very good all round swearers They
swore most wrctchedly "od cooks" and "odds
fish," "gadzooks" and "fore gad," POUNDS"
"s,leath," "byrlady," and lot of such rub
bish. Still, they may be pretty good words
to swear with. Certainly they aren't ft for
anything else Robert J. Burdette in Brook
lyn EoyIn
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The Russian Clergy rs Financiers.

The members generally of the Russian
clergy form a class apart, and are never
invited either to the castle or house of
their middle class parishioners except for
official purposes. In money matters they
are exacting. One of them, very honest
man and in intelligence above the aver
age, said recently: The year has been a
bad one for me; there were few births
and marriages. There were plenty of
nterments, but people pay more cheer
fully to be married than they do for
burialS." Sacraments are sometimes re-
fused to dying persons whose friends can
not afford to pay the usual fees.-New
York SIM
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
S.s5 NJ Arcurate rstIm.tes-

\ striking example Of the need for ac-
:urate computation in making estimates
IS given in an article by Henry Clews on
he supply and loss of petroleum within
The earth. The writer made the state
ment that enough oil had been taken out
If the earth to form lake as large as
Ontario. This statement has been denied
by professor in one of our leading west
ern colleges, through the columns of the
same paper, and he shows that this can
not be possible, as at the present enOr-
nous rate of output it would take at the
lowest estimate GO,OOc years to fill the
lake Chicago Tribune.