Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-23
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Plthily Told

Minor Matters of Interest brieny anu
PIthily Told
AT the Grand opera House this afterno on
Wilbur Opera Company III FRA DIS'oiH
evening in "Nanon.
IT looks like green Christmas.
A CHICKEN thief has been operating late
" in the vicinity of Forty-hfth street. One
family missed eight BIRDS.
Tue Palm I. eaf Club will give'a ball at
Schenk's Hall on New Years Eve. Neu-
hardt's band will make the music.
THE South Side Turner'S will give ball
on New Years Day, commencing at TWO
o'clock p. m, and continuing until late
hour.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yesterday
10 Albert Hoeberter, native or Switzer-
land, aged SO. and Katharine Miller, a
native Of Germany, aged ~
DR.I.N. Houston, of Pleasant Valley,
Marshall county, has patient, Mrs, Max Max
well, at that place, who Is going on lO2
wears. Her son, who resides in Wood
county, is at her bedside. He is 70 years OF
age.
INSURANCE has grown to be a greater bur
den on glass factories everywhere than
taxes. They can rarely insure Tor less
than 3 per cent, and often cannot get into
the best companies at any price.-Be'Sa~c
Independent
THE Electric Light Company's wire fell
over the clock circuit yesterday, and
all the clocks thus operated from the post
Office TO Block Bros factory, about thirty
in number, were burned out. The stu
alton can not be remedied until an expert
in these matters arrives In town, and 1t is
possible that all the old clocks will have to
be replaced with new ones.
A RATHER singular and painful accident
occurred at Mosby's Rock on Monday. A
man by the name OF William Taylor was
walking through the woods on his way
home, carving an axe on his shoulder. AS
he passed along the blade caught in some
branches, and in attempting TO quickly ex-
trlcate il, il few back and cut quite Sc
we're cash in his neck. The cash was some
three inches long and three inches deep.
At first it was thought the wound would
prove fatal but now it is believed he will
recover.
"THERE is one thing about thi s coming
Christmas on which we can con graduate
ourselves remarked confectioner yes
terday. I'VE need not fear that our chill
dren will be poisoned by the sweets with
which they will gorge themselves. They
make the rest of father and mother as 1T
full as dream, but beyond the ache the lit
tie ones will not suffer. Sugar is so cheay
now that IL does not pay TO adulterate the
candies, and terra alba, glucose and other
authorizations have been relegated to the
rear or kicked clear out of the factories"
"OF ALL the grip patients the hardest to
md txrhn 81
symptoms Of the disease take the bad ad-
vice of friends and proceed TO load up with
whiskey,n said prominent North Main
street physician mot only will whiskey
fail to effect cure" he continued, "but a
person who tries it and fails as a rule puts
his system in such a state that the usual
remedies we prescribe fail to act, and we
are compelled to resort to much more Sc
we're medicine, and even then the disease
fails 10 yield TO treatment in anything like
as short time as if we had treated 1t in
its first stages
IT is, in truth, not too much to say that
the German idea of Christmas has trl-
umphed in this country What we now
enjoy, more and more every season as 1t
rolls around again, is a sort of judiCious
cross between the old-style English Christ
mas-all eating and drinking and carous-
ing-and the old style puritanical, New
England sort Of Observation-Disclosures
and severely sober, dull and ioyless. And
this change for the better is very largely,
if not entirely, due TO the German element
that has settled in this country. And as
the tree, the type Of the cold but kindly
North, with its fragrant wreath of needles
has been adopted AID found new home in
the sympathies of the American people, so,
too, have other German customs Of keeping
Christmas.