Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-07
STREET TALK.
Gossip One Hears Here and
There-some Interesting Matters Dis
cussed

Interesting Gossip One Hears Here and
There-some Interesting Matters Dis
cussed.
Talking about nerve" said we'll
known individual the other morning,
''our little neighbor, Bellaire, has an
abundance OF that article, and believe
the town has reached that period when
prosperity will soon appear. One fac
tory after another, and one capitalist
after another have forsaken the town,
yet the business people who remained
and the newspapers have kept stiff
| upper lip for four or FIVE years, hoping
| for some break In the monotonous tide
to the West. The deniZens Of Bellaire
| think the star that is &c lead the town
out OF the wilderness has appeared in
the shape OF substantial new industry.
| The Bellare Nail Works has decided to
erect works TO be use up the steel
| turned Ut at its plant. Once the tide OF
prosperity turns there will be other
plants for the employment OF labor
spring up in the town." Our neighbor
has our best wishes.
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The West Virginians who have been
appointed to look after the interests Of
this State at the Worlds Fair have
| made good progress, and the exhibit
| promises to be very creditable. The
! building that is TO be erected for West
Virginia is shapely structure and one
that will make visitors from here feel
proud when they gaze upon 1t in the
Windy City. According to reports in
public print the other States are doing
noble work, and many Of the foreign
| powers are actively engaged on their
exhibits. Japan is among the latter,
and jumped at the chance to advertise
the industries of that empire.
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The boys who toss ball for liveli-
hood are just now casting about for a
location for business for the coming
season. Some of the stellar lights have
already festhered their nests for anOth-
or year at nice salaries. Glasscock has
drawn the capital prize in this vicinity,
and he deserves it. Parson Nicholson,
of Bellaire, gets So, 500 for what he can
do in ball club this summer. Some OF
the other ball players, including Burk-
EFT, have signed at good salaries. The
lesser lights usually have plenty OF time
to make up their minds. They are not
in it just at present.
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That familiar figure, the tramp, is a
creature of legislation but he manages
to exist just the same. You can spit
upon, mock or give him the grand
bounce but he hobs up serenely little
later. American economists have al
most despaired of converting him from
his profession of idling and making
him a useful member OF society. Ger
many, however, which was formerly
the worst tramp-ridden country in the
world, has discovered a system of abat-
ing trsmps which is highly effective. A
network of tramp-relief stations has
been spread over the country and at any
one Of these tramp may for half days
work secure food and lodging. He is
refused food and lodging at private back
doors and sympathetic housewives re-
frain from feeding him dellcscies.
~
Girls! girlsl will you ever learn the
significance of the adage, people who
the blinds?" The young ladies who
make their toilets with the blinds up
are numerous, indeed, and many are the
laughs INDUCED in by male admirers
who tell Of the sights seen, TO their
friends. Every once in while one
sees crowd of humanity deeply en-
crossed in window exhibition, at
which some fair charmer is making
amusement blissfully ignorant of the
attention she is attracting. But then
the fair creatures even matters up
somewhat by catching occasional sights
through the windows OF prominent
gentlemen about town. The male por-
ton Of the public is probably as deeply
interested in the pull down the blind"
question as the opposite sex.
~.
The ancients had great advantage
over us in living before the modern grip
took on its recent new tangled adOrn-
ments. A man can love his fellow men
and have the Asiatic cholera or home
stead in Dakota, but when the grip gets
TO hobnobbing with his cOrpuscles the
! Jig is up-the milk Of human kindness
is translated into cheese that would
make hunk Of Limburger go out and
rent fertilizer factory to take its TIN
foil off in. Whenever man with the
grip tries TO smile, knot organizes
itself at the axis of his spine and plays
roulette with his backbone till he wishes
he belonged TO the invertebrate family
OF brutes. Even a kind thought will
give man with the grip headache.
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