Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-05
PERHAPS YOU DON'T KNOW.

The fashionable pocketbook now is
very small.
Only one Sunday paper is published
ia the city OF London, the Referee.
The scheme for duplicate of the
Eiifel tower in London has been aban-
doncd.
The Kansas Legislature has rs farm
ers and but three lean, lank, lonesome
lawyers.
The latest fad in gentlemen's silk hats
is black jet buckle in the bow OF the
band.
Scotch newspapers contain the adver-
tisementS OF several castles for sale or
TO rent.
An untimely frost has ruined the win
ter crop of Strawberries in Southern
California.
Previous TO the time Of Elizabeth the
only article to assist in eating was the
jackknife.
The French five and ten centime
pieces are hereafter to be coined with
holes in them like Chinese currency.
The grip has closed the High Shoals
factory, near Athens, Ga. Between
fifty and sixty operators are in bed with
the ailment.
Johnny Moddox, seven years old, OF
Pontiac, Mic, while feeding the chick
ems, filled his mouth with corn and
choked to death.
The law forbidding the marriage OF
first cousins in Missouri, compelled
Moberly couple to go all the way to Mil
waukee to be spliced.
The large steam pillow that was started
up in Chino, Cal, lately will run night
aud day, and will pillow sixty acres every
twenty-four hours.
According 10 an official report recent
| ly published the number of students at
the twenty universities OF Germany
amounts to 2s,7ll; Berlin come first,
with 5,597.
The average number of flowers known
as the lily OF the valley used in New
York alone is 1000, 600 winter, or, at
the rate of five cents a spray, about
$50, 900 worth.
During the forty-nine years OF his ire
the Prince Of Wales has drawn $40, 800
600 from the public treasury OF Great
Britain. and his debts, 1t is said, now
amount TO about IS, 100000.
Anroe Brown claims the distinction
OF being the largest woman in Georgia.
She is A years old aud lives in Houston
County. She is feet inches in height
- ,,.ofrbc ovar SO0 DoundS
While VIII Hughes, OF Springview,
Neb.. was chopping wood underneath n
stretch OF clotheSline he struck the line
and the axe rcbounded, striking him be-
tween the eyes and inflicting a severe
wound.
A New York street vender OF little
paper-covered pamphlets was calling
ont his wares the other day, as follows:
Here v are, Here y are! Book o
Jokes. One hundred jokes, five cents.
One hundred Jokes, all comic jokes,
warranted all comic jokes"
American girls, a British medical re-
view gravely informs its readers, now
carry around with them ornamental cut
glass bottles containing quinine pills
with which they dose themselves from
time to time. II fatigued they take two
pills: II chilly, one; II hungry (as they
Generally seem to be-, four or five. We
believe that ten is the correct dose Tor
wet feet.
This sentence appeared in a story
written by Charles Egbert Craddoek
the 81. Louis girl, who at home is Mis-
MARY Murfree: "In his instant irrita
ton because of the problem OF her men
mi attitude he lifted his voice, and il
sonuded strldent above the dronin9
susurrus OF the cacida which filled thu
summer night with its drowsy mono
tone and the insistent iteration OF thu
falls"
, The trustees of a school house neal
Monticello. Ga, the other day adopted
resolutions to the effect that THAT bis
hickory near the left hand OF Ben Hill
academy IS dead, and that II it SHOULD
fall on any Of the children between
their seventh and seventeenth year
and near the small OF the back, they
would surely die; therefore that we hir'
an unbleached American TO raze tn
aforesaid hickory tree TO the ground.
"Have you ever lost anything by be
. coming Christian?" asked the clergy
man. Yes" replied the new convert
II used to get $3.50 year for singing
in the choir. but have had 10 give tina