Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-24


naris." The BOY was gone quite awhile.
Some thought he had gone home to
Alexandria to get something. BY and by
he came back and brought everything
except Mr.. Walkers beverage. He
could not get that. The chemist down
stairs did not have it.
What did you ask for?" queried Mr..
Walker.
why, l asked for what you told me
to ask for" said the boy, as he fell over
a china cuspidor and then scratched his
back against a welcome wardrobe. 81
told him you wanted pound of arus."
Possibly il you bad asked for half
pound" said Mr.. Walker, ''you would
have got it. / almost wish now that
had said half pound. 1t would have
been enough"
So the boy went back to see il he
could get half pound Of arus.
We notice in our travels recently the
decline of the buffalo overcoat in the
northwest. 1t was at one time as much
a characteristic of the Northwest as the
sunbennet is of the South. Below
Mason Dixon's Justly celebrated line the
sunbonnet is remarkably prevalent.
Quite generally it is made OF black ma
terlal. The black sunbonnet Is one OF
the saddest things know Of. Espe-
cially is this true if it has lost its verte-
bra. One can stand the vertebrated
sunbonnet, but not the other kind. In
fact, it cannot stand itself.
The fipnap sunbonnet, made OF Grape
or black calico and belonging to the ra-
data or molusk family, would cast
gloom over hanging and take away
its cheerful aspect, The enervated sun
bonnet made Of large black pancake
that soured before it could "raise" IS
sad sight. When have been tempted
in my youth to sneak up into the fra
grant recesses of a freshly starched
white sunbonnet and linger there for
an instant, | do not think could have
done so if it had been one OF the black
and nervously Frustrated variety. IL
seems so now at least.
The buffalo overcoat, however, is
passing away. Two years ago noticed
in st. Paul and Minneapolis only seven
or eight of them, and they we're almost
entirely bald. With the determination
of the buffalo judge that the buffalo
overcoat will become more and more
difficult to obtain. l have reasoned this
out during the past winter besides doing
nv other work. Thought comes easily
to me. am getting accustomed to 1t
now, so that it does not produce ner-
yous shock any more. l am getting so
like it.
The soldier overcoat has passed away,
and soon the buffalo overcoat will go.
The old gentleman wearing large gray
shawl and a gimlet cane, carved out by
a convict in the State penitentiary, is
also fading away.
Yesterday one Of these gentlemen got
on the train outside Of Cincinnati, with
a large black workbasket capable OF
holding about a half bushel. When
we got to Hamilton he slipped out at
the rear platform and opened basket,
erecting large and melodious cat
therefrom,
It was a tall, gaunt cat of the Theo-
dore Thomas variety, and he had wild
expression OF countenance like John j.
ingalls, when powerful electric light
strikes his spectacles just right.
The cat lit out down the track like a
long. black pencil mark, and I'll bet my
West Shore dividends for this year that
he was in Cincinnati two trains ahead
of the old man in the gray shawl.
The following letter was shown me by
a physician friend of mine in Ohio. He
sends il 20 me to show that women do
not have a monopoly on the postscript
business.
1892.
Shelby ohio march eight Doctor - sir
/ got one of your pamphlets on the treetis OF
inhailing medisins up the nose and was too
see Mrs. baker who Is sufferer from your
treetis & thru them am INFUSED TO write
Won and ask of you your lowist terms on
treetis for we are not abel 70 pay mucn as
we have bin yaying out & paying Tor
sickness & still no better so l tnot would
write you and give you my symptoms neao
ache pain in chest bronlcle tuoes aiecteo
shortnes of breath with good eel OF hawk
inc and nervousness once in while site
fesver and also chiliness now please let Us
no in next mail what you think you can do
for me and the least you can do 1t for d.
rect to Shelby rishlane Co Ohio
BENJAMIN KRIPEs.
ps am bilious and have bin all the time
have 70 take medicine all the time Il e my
,cife and not nae that 10 sick B. KKIPEs.
Isn't that just like a man, to 20 on
that way all through the letter without
stopping for breath, feed, water or
semicolons, and then lay the whole bus
mess Of on his wife9