Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-04
CHAT OF THE town.
SOME OF THE THINGS FOLKS ARE TALKING
ABOUT.
Miscellaneous Matters Of Public Interest Picked Up
by Reporters as They Stroll About in
Quest Of News.

taking hold of the Sixteenth Street
Cemetery in some manner and beauti-
flying 1t as public park" said Senator
n. b. Scott. at could be made hand
some place at very moderate cost, and
that, too, without destroying its ceme-
terry feature. Let all the bodies be
gathered together and marked by a
suitable monument, and walks laid out,
the present trees and shrubbery
trimmed up and others planted, and it
would not be long until it would be
handsome locality instead OF an eye
sore"
There is young fellow, well-known
around town sporting resorts, who has
very funny habit Heis one of those
young fellows who would be ga dead
sport" If 1t were not for the financial
limitations that surround him. He al
ways carries pack Of cards in his
pocket. All good gamblers are possessed
OF superstition, and this would-be
gambler has possessed himself Of one,
as it costs nothing. His superstition is
that if he would have fortune smile
on him he mIst follow the dictates OF
the ace OF hearts. What the tickle ace
would have him do he learns by what
he calls the "I-will-and / won't"
scheme. Whenever he is prompted to
do anything, whether it be to take a
drink, smoke cigar, or go to bed, he
settles the question by the ace of
| hearts. Running across this queer
| specimen at public bar the other
night an acquaintance asked him to
take a drink. Out came the pack OF
cards. He gave them shuttle. Then
he began counting them off, face up, in
| two packs. As he put a card on one
pack he said, II will" As he put one
on the other pack he said, 81 won't He
| sighed deeply whom the ace Of hearts
came up on the II won't" pack in an
swer to the invitation to drink. He
was equal to the emergency, however,
for, turning to the acquaintance, he
said:
Sorry I must decline that invitation.
Ask me again and l may have better
| luck"
ooh come off" said the acquaintance,
impatiently. Have a drlnk?"
Once more the cards were Shuflled,
and the l will, won't" process gone
through with, Tickle fortune smiled
on her faithful son. Thanks" he an
swered. "a little whisky, please"
There are any number OF ways Of
treating cholera in various countries"
said Health Officer Spragg. 81 was
talking yesterday with gentleman
who had been through one of the worst
epidemics of the disease in Russia. He
said they used to keep barrels of hot
water handy, and as soon as symptoms
OF the disease were manifested, the pa
tient was stripped Off and soused into a
hot bath, and then taken out and rubbed
vigorously by two or three men. They
brought the resumption of the capillary
| circulation, which stops, and then rem
| edies were applied internally. They
never thought of sending the patient to
| a hospital. A great thing is to check
the diarrhea, and for this preparations
OF morphia and opium are largely used.
Administered as they used TO be, they
were very apt to create nausea, but
now they can be administered hypoder-
mically and gotten into the circulation
at once, with a beneficial effect"
. A nice little young man who prides
himself on his natsy attire, and who al:
WAYS conforms to the ideas OF the ultra
fashionable youth, played good joke
on himself last week. He received a
package about five inches long and half
an inch thick at the office. where he does
his work. or course he could not think
Of carrying that bundle up to his quar-
tiers. 1t would not be consistent with
his dignity, you know. So out he goes
to the postoffice, addresses the package
to his abode, being careful to write
ESQUIRE after his name, and put eigh-
teen cents worth Of stamps upon 1t
and mailed it to himself, reflect
ing that this was the cheaper
way: a messenger boy would be more
expensive. The next morning he came
down to the office, after forgetting to
take his usual morning mail
from the box ia the house where he
| lives. AS he is young man with a
number Of feminine admirers, OF course
he had to have his mail, and he rings
for messenger boy and sends him after
the expected biletdOux. An hour and
q half passes and the messenger boy
comes back to the young mans office,
slaps the sef-same package that the
youth had mailed to himself, on the
desk. and says $50 cents, Mister,
please" The youths face is picture
Of blank despair. There is the package
back again to the starting point, and
not even a single billetdoux with it. He
pays the messenger boy the half dollar
and the boy goes out whiStling "Com-
rades." "I guess" said the youth,
THAT I'll hire an eXpreSsman TO take
| that package up next time"
"We are getting our gas pumping
machinery in shape very rapidly" said
Captain Bachelor, OF the Natural Gas
Company OF West Virginia, "and we
will be enabled to give Wheeling a
hotter supply during the coming cold
months than ever before. The pumping
station will be located about fifteen
miles from Wheeling, and we will be
enabled to send into town gas from ali
the wells, whereas with the old method
of depending upon the gas pressure TO
force fuel into the mains, the gas from
the big wells forced that from the
weaker wells back into the earth and
thew counted for nothing. Now each
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