Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-18
PERSONAL.
Dow & 81 Years old.

Neal DOW IS % years OH.
Senator Edmunds is angling in Maine.
Frederick Douglass has gone to Europe.
President Cleveland is steadily gaining in
weight.
Henry Watterson is to start homeward on
Oct %.
Chief Justice Waite is back from his long
Alaskan trip.
Senator and Mrs. Logan a v returned to
their home in Illinois.
It took Gen. Miles just twenty-one weeks
to tucker Geronimo out.
Michael Dayitt intends to visit California
before returning to England.
Senators Hampton, Vest and Kenna are
persistent and successful anglers.
Valentine Baker Pasha, who has been visit
ing in England, has returned to Egypt.
Remenyi, the violinist, is charming the Ra-
iahs Of India with his wonderful playing.
Senator Eyarts has recovered almost en-
tirely from the effects of his recent accident.
William r. Morrison, of free trade fame,
has returned to Washington from his Illinois
home.
Senator Logan made twelve speeches in one
day while looking at the natural beauties OF
Oregon.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett contradictS the re-
port that Mr.. Edwin Booth was to marry
his eldest daughter.
\ correspondent says that since the election
Mr.. Gladstone has been gaining in weight and
looks Stouter and stronger.
Gen. Francis a. Walker has gone to Cali
fornia again for three weeks, on business con-
nected with educational affairs.
Henry NJ. Stanley will undoubtedly be the
most popular foreign lecturer who will visit
these shores during the coming season.
Charles Townsend, of the Smithsonian
institution, is going to British Honduras to
study he Natural history Of that country.
Congressman Grape is entertaining JuShu
RinicI Euki. the japanese minister to this
country, at his home in New Bedford, Mass.
Minister COX will arrive here during the
second week / October. Whether he eX-
poets to return to ~COnStantinople Is not
stated.
Miles Ross is reported as saying that he
wouldn't 20 TO congress again If a certificate
Of election AMI $4,000 were offered him on a
platter.
The Earlof / ouSdale, whose scandalOuS con-
duct has given him an international reputa-
ton, is the patron Of fOrty-One livings Of the
English church.
Another old public functi6nary" has been
diScOvcred-the Hon. Alex. H. II. Stuart, Of
Virginia. an octogenarian, who was a MEM
Der Of Filmore's cabinet.
Rev. George D. Barnes, the mountain evan
gCliSt of Kentucky, says that H. has made
his trip around the world with his wife, son
and two daughters entirely on faith.
John C.. Emo is not happy in exile. The
doors Of tue leading families at Quebec are
closed against him. He would like to com
promise with his New York creditors.
The hat size OF Mr.. Gladstone isT%, Lord
J. Russell. ~; John Bright, ~; Lord Sci
borne. ~: the Prince of Wales, :. The
Scotch head is larger than the English.
The king of Portugal hates the French re-
public 50 much that he will not cross the
French territory to visit his friends and rela-
tiveS in Germany, but goes thither by water.
1t il said that Professor Chevreul, the CEN
t~enarian Savant, never used wine or tobacco.
but drank coffee and tea and a large amount
of milk and took a cold bath every day in the
year.
Professor Richard A. Proctor says that
earthquakes show the earth to he still in its
infancy and that tens of thousands Of years
will pass before the beginning Of the end is
seen.
Mr.. Edmund Russell, the American ''trus-
tee of beauty" gives this advice: Never
stand under a light. 1t brings out lines and
makes even the young look carewOrn and
lined
Whitelaw Reid and his father-in-law, d. q.
Mills, have been surveying the Owens river
valley, in California, near Reno, with n view
to taking up 10000 acres of land for a wine
and grape growing colony.
The late Archbishop of Canterbury once
demonstrated with u celebrated Parse for
worShiping the sun. "Ah. your grace" was
the reply, you should see it Once"-a pretty
good hit at English fog-and prejudice.
Mr.. Whistler, the London artist, habitually
wears in one eye glass without a rim. AS
this glass is likely at any time to fall on the
pavement and break, Mr.. Whistler carries
around a supply Of spare glasses in his vest
pocket.
A Connecticut man just returned from
England says that his best friends would
hardly recognize Ex-Governor, now Consul
General, Tom Waller. He has had his hand
some, bushy and wayy hair cut down almost
TO a fighting clip.
Every day at l o'clock $3OO,OOO,OOO sit
around a little mahogany table in an upper
room in the Western Union building and eat
q plain but substantial lunch, says The New
York Sun. The millions belong TO Jay
Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage and ex-
Governor Alonzo b. Cornell. All were
country boys and wore shoes only Oh Sun
day."
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Parker, of the City
Temple church, London, who has been en-
pertaining Mr.. BceCher, writes to The Ad-
vance, You must live with Mr.. Beecher to
understand him. Before he came to be my
guest | had viewed him with the wonder
which may be bestowed upon a pianist, now
that we have lived together, | accord him the
affection which is due TO the tenderest manli-