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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03
4 Deluded journal.

The MtclttJcnccr Of yesterday was In
some manner led to believe that City
Engineer Hoge'S surveys, 10y which he
fixed the height OF the river at 4i.9l
feet, were wrong, and far some occult
reason made the statement that he had
proceeded, in aScertaining the height
above no feet. upon some data other
than the river marks.
The whole thing was ridiculous.
| When Mr.. Hoge ran his lines for the
river marks up to4O feet, he also ran lines
for about 100 bench marks, by which
| the grades Of city streets are established,
these bench marks being located in all
parts OF the city, and all being based on
the zero of the 4O-ioot river marks. In
aScertaining the height of the flood he
took three several bench marks;
two east OF the river and one
on the Island. For instance, the Island
mark was 1907 feet above low water,
and represented that depth on the
marks at the wharf. There was just
5.S4 feet OF water on that bench mark,
making 44.9l feet. And so with all the
/ others
The article In the hltGlligCHcer was
wrong all the way through, and in spots
was laughable, notably about the Bell
aire and Steubcnville bridges.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03

L. \ Coon sells Dry Goods the cheapest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03

plcte. set up........ .. ...... .-..-.-. l'ayp
frnfL Do ~
Ruiiline. 6oN50 feet. eighteen feet high SOC
Total cost OF material Tor pant, and
labor in place for operation ......... NO,lVV
This is for the best of everything,
complete in place, covering double
capacity engines and boilers, margin
of forty lamps. etc. 10 is probable that
when come 10 make careful measure
ment Of distances, etc, there can be a
big saving on this. You might, for in
stance, cut down the mileage OF wire,
the engines might be procured for
~i2. 600. aud SO on. Then, when people
come 20 put iu bids, they will naturally
cut these prices, which | may repeat
are the extreme outside hgureS on
everything. The dynamOs, for instance,
are figured at the highest price ever
paid. As 90 lamps, you want SiL-
gle iourteen-honr lamps, aS being
the best. there is no need OF a
double lamp, if the current is all right.
/ think the material figured on would
cost SIO. OOO less than this estimate, the
difference being the cost Of placing in
position. etc. Ii you purchase the ma
terial. after getting bids, aud turn it
over % me. will Superinteud setting II
up for per cent; or, you make your
selections, J will advance the money,
pay for labor. set itup in running order,
etc. for IS per cent; or, / will make
the plans aud specifications, and you
|can goon or not, as Won NAV elect, for
$3.50"
Aftera prolonged discussion Of the
matter the Commission adopted reSs-
luton directing Mr.. Seeley to make the
plans and specifications complete, with
working details. etc, he 10 receive $3.50
for the same II the bids are not satiSfac-
tory 20 Council and the matter IS aoan-
doned. but II Council goes on and builds
the plant Mr.. Seeiey is not TO receive
the $3.50. but 20 be paid Per cent. for
,uperntcudiug. Mir. Seelcy will enter
upon this work to-day. aud the Speciil-
cauous will probably be ready in 4
week
The question VI site came mp, aud
Nr. Seeley said he had made an exam
/ nation Of thu vacant piece oi ground on
/ tle south side pi Nineteenth street, Just
Ae-t oi the largest gas holder, aud in
bis opinion 10 would not be iudiciouS to
locate the plant nj that point. The plot
MAS not quite large enough, thr tonnda-
tou would he very costly. and in his
opinion 60 would Dee running risk 70
locate such "a plant 50 close to such Il
LARGE quantity Of gas. A chance spark
from the dynamOS. or a flash of light
ming running i'm on the wires might blow
INN the whole thing. 4 location near
tbe water works power house had
pean suggested, and he had Wis
itei the spot bgt he could not
recommend ilat, Is IL would De diaicult
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03

READ the list of people who received
their dry goods and carpets for nothing
in big ad. STONE y THOMAS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03
The Iinsly Echo.

terday. 1t Is bright little semi-month-
/ Is folio, neatly printed and containing
much matter Of interest to the scholars
and friends of the school. The pCblica-
/ tion'iS under the auspices Of the piucky
students. who have selected the follow
/ ing gentlemen TO ill the responsible po-
sitions on the editorial and reportorial
staff,
! Editor ..................Ge George w. LETTERS
Assistant Editor. ........ VIM. II. GrocOte
/ First Reporter ........... Charles q. Hall
/ Second reporter. .......... Leo IL. Brllles
| Third Reporter. ......... Hermann ArOenZ
The Sautatory informs the public In
a modest and pleasant way Of the pur-
| pose of the journalistic venture, and IL
hopes that whatever criticism there be
| il may be favorable. The REGISTER
vouchSafes that for the boys at the out
set.
The REGISTER reproduces below Il
couple Of bright scintillatons from the
current issue which is good proof that
the staff has 4 nose for bright and
newSy items, which are the life of u
newspaper.
There was considerable excitement on
Market street last week II was damp and
foggy, but people thought the sun was
shining brightly, but it was only Benjamin
Catch with his new corporal stripes on his
arm. We congratulate Ben on his promo
ton.
Last month Mr.. Brise was seen ''punch-
ing the bag in the Y. NJ Z. A. gymna-
stun. When asked why he was training so
hard, he remarked that he was getting up
sole 50 as to be able TO handle the new
sword he received on his promotion to End
lieutenancy The Echo congrstulates him
on his promotion, and ventures TO express
the hope that he mas develop his muscle
enough 10 perform his duties.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03

ASK your grocer for Family FavorItc
Soap, and you will get two bars for =
cents. 1t is the hest soap IN this mar
ket.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03
REAL ESTATE MARIE
ID eeds OF Transfer Left for Record Yester
day

day
The following transfers OF real estate
were left for record at Clerk Hook:
Office yesterday:
Deed made December 10, 1890, by Lo
rena Yahrling and husband, OF Portage
county, Ohio, to Louis Elias, for the un'
divided one-fourth OF the west half OF
lots Nos and q in square No. Il, IN
South Wheeling. Consideration. -.
Deed made June 80, 1890, by Thomas
A. Little aud wife and others to Elmyra
Little, for lot No. -, in square No. -,
In Zane's addition. on Chaplinc street.
Consideration, 81.
Deed made December 10, 1890, by Lo-
rcna Yahrling aud husband, Of Portage
county, Ohio, to Henrietta Elias. fol
the undivided one-fourth Of the east halt
OF lots Nos. 3 and in square No 81, il
South Wheeling. Consideration, -.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-03
ROUTINE BUSINESS
LARGELY DISCUSSED BY rae BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS,
At Yesterdays Regular SsssiOn-hr. G. SehamOIa
Elected Ssasr Of Weights and Meas
n,.s-Tks Details.

The Board of County Commissioners
met IN regular monthly session yeSter-
day morning, and transacted routine
business. the only exception from that
order being the election Of seaIer oil
Weights and Measures in the person oi
Conrad schambra, his only competitor
being Robert Ellingham.
The standing committees SuDmitteu
0llIs pa ~, "a Lii 81 343 L
Sour1 h"uS' ~ 1879 81
Finance .......--... -ssssf''+- 20 =.
Roads aud bridges ........-... i'''' '
poor house and farm ,,o,-oo
Contingent poor fluid zee; AL! W ,.o =.
Poor house and farm fund. I'll ID l'to' d
-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

affairs. the officers of the Church OF Jesus
Christi gather up all their sins and put
them On Christ's shoulders, and say,
.Canst thou bear any more?" He says,
,.Yea, more" Then gather up all the
sins of a hundred people in this house,
and I put them on the shoulders OF
Christ, and say, "Canst thou bear
moreo' He says, "Yea, more" And
gather I'D all the sins of this assembly,
and / put them Oh the shoulders OF the
Son of God and say, 'Canst thou bear
them?" Yea" He s3ys, ''more!
But He is departing. Clear the way
for Him, the Son of God. Open the door
aud let Him pass ont. He is carrying
our sins aud bearing them away. We
shall never see them again. He throws
them down into the a Hsm, and you hear
the long rcverberatin2 echo of their fall.
son Him the Lord hath laid the in
EQUITY of us ALL" Will you let Him take
away YOUR sins to-day? Or do you say,
81 will take charge of them myself: /
will fight my own battles; | will risk
eternity on my own account?" cicr-
gyman said in his pulpit one Sabbath,
'Before next Saturday night one of this
audience will have passed out OF life
A gentleman said to another seated next
to him: 81 don't believe it. / mean to
watch, and if it doesn't come true by
next Saturday night l shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood.' The man
seated next to him said, perhaps it will
be yourself" ''Oh, no. the other re-
piled; 81 shall live to be an old man. ;"
That night he breathed his last.
To-day the Saviour calls. All may
come. God never pushes the man off.
God never destroys anybody. The man
jumps off. 1t is Suicide-soul suicide-if
the man perishes, for the invitation is,
"Whosoeyer will, let him come" Who
soever, whatsoever whatsoever! In this
day Of merciful visitation, while many
are coming into the kingdom of God, join
the procession heavenward.
Seated among us during a service was
man who came in and said. 81 don't
know that there is any God" That was
on Friday night. l said. s'We will
kneel down and find out whether there
is any God" And in the second seat
from the pulpit we knelt. He said 81
have found Him. There is God, par
donng God. l feel Him here" He
knelt in the darkness of sin. He arose
two minutes afterward in the liberty of
the Gospel; while another sitting under
the gallery Friday night said, "My OPP
portunity is gone; last week might have
been saved, not now; the door is shut. -
And another from the very midst of the
meeting, during the week, rushed out of
the front door of the Tabernacle, saying,
81 am a lost man." "Bchold. the Lamb
of God Who taketh away the sin of the
world" 'Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation.'' sit is ap-
pointed unto all men once to die, and
after that-the Judgments
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03
SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.


will rid it of rats and mice.
Mirrors should not be hung where
the sun shines directly upon them.
WARM soap-suds will keep the bugs
off of house-plants and make them grow
very fast.
To REMOVE fnger-marks, putty-stains,
ETC., from glass, put little soda in the
water with which you wash it.
LIZ kid gloves are laid upon a damp
towel for two or three minutes, they
will so on with less chance of tearing.
D1sH-TowELs and dish-cloths should
be washed, scalded, and thoroughly
dried every day, or they soon become
musty.
To KEEP linen from turning yellow
put it away rough dry after washing
and bleaching we'll and rinsing in blue
water.
A BROOM may be kept in good condi-
ton for long time if it is washed once
q week in clean hot suds, and then hung
up to dry.
GOOD flour is not tested by it's color.
White flour may not be the best. The
test OF good flour is by the amount of
water it absorbs.
A RANGE may be kept looking bright
and nice with little trouble if it is wiped
carefully with brown paper after greasy
food has been cooked.
To CLEAN white kid shoes rub them
gently and thoroughly with perfectly
clean white flannel cloth dipped in di-
luted ammonia water and white soap.
70 REMOVE ink stains from wood, take
half a teaspoonful of oil of vitrol and
dilute it with teaspoonful of water,
and apply with feather to the damaged
spot. Let it remain for few moments
and then rub it off quickly If not sue
cessful the first time, repeat until the
ink is entirely removed.
IT is an excellent plan to keep large
box in which all odds and ends of vel
vet, ribbons, etc., are keep. Such an
omnium gatherum will prove a mine
from which bindings, bonnet trimmings
and other minor necessaries may fire.
quently be extracted at need, and thus
save many dime or 25-cent piece.
The appended recipe for tanning
skins with the wool or fur on-for use
IN sleighs or wagons, or house-rugs, or
tor other purposes-is given by City
and Country: eff the hides are not
freshly taken off, soak them in water
with little salt until they are soft as
when green. Then scrape the flesh off
with the fieshing knife, or with smooth
round edge, and with sheepskins the
wool should be washed clean with soft
soap and water and the suds thoroughly
rinsed out. For each skin take four
ounces of salt, four ounces of alum and
one ounce Of borax. Dissolve these in
one quart of hot water, and when cool
enough to bear the hand stir in suffi-
clent rye meal to make a thick paste
with ", half an ounce of Spanish whiting.
Ihls paste is to be spread over every
part OF the flesh side of the skin, which
should be folded together lengthwise.
wool side out, and left for two weeks in
an airy place. Then remove the paste.
wash and dry the skin. When not quite
dry 1T must be worked and pulled out
and scraped with knife made for the
purpose, shaped like chopping knife.
OF with a piece Of hard wood made
with sharp edge. The more the skin
Is scraped and worked as it dries the
more pliable it will be-"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

surgeon who says he can transplant
heart from one mans breast to another's,
should bear in mind the wise old Indian
recipe for cooking hare. In these
days of increasing wealth and deepen
ing poverty the learned doctor will first
lave to find the heart
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

AN intoxicated Atlanta, Ca, negro
went to church, and because the
preacher did not happen to suit him,
threw him down and sat on him. The
negro was arrested and held, not on a
charge of assault, but on a charge of
having brought liquor into a house of
worship, though all the liquor about
him was in his stomach.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

A BLACKSMITH near Philadelphia,
says The Inquirer of that city, has
Dominique hen that makes its nest in
the soft coal at one end of his forge.
Every day about 10 o'clock the hen
walks into the shop, mounts the forge
and scratches q hollow place in the
coal six inches from the fire. No matter
how hard he blows the fire, the hen
will not move until she has laid her
egg. Several times her feathers were
scorched, but she held her place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

In Germany it is found the average
age of professional and tradesmen are as
follows: Speculative sciences, II years;
beautiful sciences. 100 years; abstruse
sciences, 70.2 years; public affairs, 6s. 10
years; natural sciences, 6s.7 years; fine
arts, GIG years; school teachers, gar
deners and butchers. Sc years; trades
men. 56 years; lawyers and fnanciers,
81 years; doctors 50 years; bakers, 81
years; shoemakers, AZ years; smithies,
46 years; tailors, As years; stone break
ers, printers, ETC., 40 years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The area of London at present is
somewhat indefinitely marked. The
police have Jurisdiction over about 72O
square miles; the postal districts cover
1922 square miles. The present popula-
ton is not far from 100000 1900, 900
of whom are foreigners from every
quarter of the globe. There are about
5000 miles of streets in the city proper.
There are said to be more Jews in Lon
don than in all Palestine, and more
Roman Catholics than there is in Rome.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The Rev. Robert Mcintyre says that
profanity is peculiarly an American
SIM" In all that goes to make great
and glorious nation we have been for
sometime plunging ahead of all con-
temporaries, and now that we have
snatched first place from the gifted and
versatile army in Flanders it is safe to
say our place in history is assured.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03
His Hobby.

An insurance agent in Rocheste,
never uses IL letter stamp of the current
series. He bought up great lot Of The
Stamps OF is39 and 1861, and he uses
these on his letters and goes about
ieehng . 1t he is making it hot some.
now for % postal department.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The secret of the most successful
barber in New York is that he shows
his customers how they should wear
their boards and mustaches in order to
suit the outlines of their faces. A
pointed beard lengthens round face,
and round one takes the gaunt look
from long and thin vissage. Men who
value beauty go to greater trouble for
good barbering, and even haunt the
wharf where the French steamers tie
up in order to getservice that is as fresh
from Paris as possible.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The four most common causes of
boiler explosions are external corrosion,
oyerheating, overpressure and weak
ness of fue. The four least common
causes are absence of safety valve, bad
material, weak manhole and deposit.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The chaplain at Wandsworth Prison
has come to the conclusion that crime
and offenses rise and fall with the Their
mometer. A rise in the temperature,
he says, has tendency to diminish
human recitude. Even the conduct of
children, we are told, is affected by
high temperature.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

VANDALs broke into the Big Four
saloon in Anderson, Ind, and turned
the faucets to number of whisky, wine,
and brandy casks, allowing about three
hundred gallons of the liquor to run
out. Near the saloon is we'll about
forty feet deep, and the contents of the
casks have found their way into the
we'll. Water pumped from it is quite
Intoxicating.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

A KANSAS woman boasts tina, ID Il
never appeared on the street . ssn,
within the same week III the 's sni
dress. Her husband is wearing . Nd d.
which he bought four years ago. 'D'
hat of the vintage 1885.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

IT is commonly believed in England
that good way to get rid of cock
reaches is to address to them written
letter, saying: ooh, reaches, you have
troubled me long enough; go now and
worry my neighbors." The letter must
be put where they most swarm, prop
erly sealed. 1t should be written
legibly and properly punctuated.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

BOYS in Germany begin to study
Latin when they are 9years old and
continue the study for nine years. They
learn great deal of Greek. too, and of
mathematics. But the general informa-
ton they acquire at school does not
compare with the American student.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

RESTAURANTS should put screens in
front of their doors. A man looks as ri
diculous when he bows to lady with
a piece of pie in his mouth, as he looks
stretched out at barber shop.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

RECENT explorations in Greenland
have developed the fact that north of
the 18th degree the land in the valleys
is covered with ice 5000 to 5000 feet
in thickness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

AN Indianapolis man swore in court
the other day that he did not know his
wife's first name, though they had lived
happily together for thirteen years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The butt end of an electric Wlf I'D !
tains more terror than the south aa e1a al
a north bound plantation mule, an vitll
man who forms an acquaintanoeo lot 4
the power is never known to 1of5'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The following advertisement appears
in German newspaper: Wanted by
a lady of quality. for adequate remunera-
ton few well-behaved and respectable
dressed children to amuse a cat in
delicate health two or three hours q
1av"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

A LADY naturalist has demonstrated
that moles are not entirely carniverous
by starving one until it ate oatmeal, on
which diet it afterward subsisted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

THERE is large lake near Hutchin-
son County, s. D., we'll filled with corn
fed fish (bull-heads). They got away
with seven acres of corn which was left
in the field, shocked but not husked
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The Western town which showed q
growth within the last ten years ex-
ceeding 1000 per cent are in order,
Spokane Falls, Tacoma. Seattle and
Kansas City, Kan. The first three
places mentioned are in the new State
of Washington.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

ENGLAND is importing butter from
New Zealand. The butter is found to
keep perfectly sweet if packed in guam
titles of fiftysi pounds and upward and
kept at temperature not greater than
Is depreas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

II has been noticed that when man
dresses up in new clothes, he will walk
Just as far to show them as woman
would.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

AN expert electrician insists that an
electric train, making 1875 miles an hour,
would require 1000 feet in which to
come to standstill.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The telephone was called into requi-
sition in Quincy. ILL.,, the other day. for
the marriage of couple. The girl at
central" must have been side tracked
during the ceremony or she would
have captured the bridegroom herself.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The father of shoemaking in this
country is said to have been one Abra-
ham Lowering, who came over in the
Mayfower, bringing with him num-
Der of pelts to be worked into footwear
for the colonists.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

THERE are now 1898 newspapers of
different classes in the United States
and Canada, a net gain of 1,613 over
last years record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The academy is the only French insti-
tuition which has come down unchanged
from the times before the Revolution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

The voting lists recently made up at
Chicago show that 900 foreign born
and "a, 600 native born males are en-
titled to exercise the right of suffrage
in that city.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03

A FULL-GRowN wild boy, aged about
sixteen years, has been captured at
Enoch's Point, Australia. His body is
said to be covered with hair four inches