Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-05
rAora IN Few WORDS.

Soup Creek, 10 Mcdowell Co., WA,
Is a remarkable sire m. The creek
passes hamlet called Vivian, and
about mile below returns, runs around
a tract Of laad about half mile wide
and then passes under itself. THIS
freak is caused by the ley Of the land,
which sinks spiraliy.
The custom OF throwing shoe after
q bride comes from the Jewish custom
of handing shoe to purchaser after
the completion Of a contract ruth, ",
y. Parents also gave a shoe to the
husband on a daughters marriage TO
signify the yielding up Of their author
ity.
The Shah Of Persia has five sons and
thirteen daughters. His three married
sons have twenty-one children. The
! Persian official year book mentions In
the royal family three brothers and two
sisters Of the Shah, while the uneles,
great uncles and the cousins number
40.
1t Is seldom that wood which has
grown more than 1000 years before the
Christian era is used In the cOnstruc-
ton of present-day residence, and
yet this really happened recently In
! Edinburgh, where manteDiece was
fashioned from wood said to be 5000
years old.
Eyeglasses are worn by fftY-four
members of Yale's senior class, twenty
! five of whom have been forced TO adopt
them since entering the college. Their
! faYorite glass. the seniors in their an
nual class book admit, is the beer
glass.
Vinegar will not split rocks. so Han
nibal could not thus have made his way
through the Alps. Nor will it desolve
pearls, so that the story OF Cleopatra
drinking pearls melted in vinegar
must have been a fiction.
A Boston gentleman recently KILLED a
blacksLake about four and half feet
long, from the stomach of which he
took another snake abont fifteen inches
in length that had been swallowed by
the larger reptile.
In England 10000 bicycles are
turned out annually. In France,
where they used TO laugh at the wheel
men, there are now 100000 prophet
airy wheelmen, and perhaps as many
more who hire wheels.
The first horse cars in New York
were run along the Bowery In 1893
Now there are nineteen street railroads
in. that city, using 1000 cars and 10000
horses, and carrying 225, 900, 900 passen-
gers yearly.
On the far northwestern waters Of
Puget Sound there are so many dead
trees always floating that none but
screw steamers or stern wheelers can
navigate. A side wheeler would sooner
or later strike log, perhaps weighing
many tons, which would knock her
| paddles to .splinters.
A mission priest recently returned to
TIE city OF Mexico from an Indian vii
lage, only two days journey, and re-
ports having discovered an Indian
temple with seven large Aztec idols,
to which the people prayed publicly.
There are forty-seven Chinese temples
ia the United States valued at S62, 600,
claiming 100000 worshippers. Forty
of these temples are In California, fouf
In New York, two In Idaho aud one In
| Oregon.
Impartial writer's say that the gold
contained In the medals, vessels,
chains and other objects preserved in
the Vatican would make more gold
coins than the whole Of the present
European circulation.
| Al 20 he
British throne marrying an English
woman is so rare an event that it seems
worth nothing. There are only TWO
instances since the conquest.
Prof. Barnard has been engaged fol
the past two years In photographing
the Milky Way, and expects that he
will complete his task at the end OF
three more years.
Bean leaves bruised and applied will
afford instant relief and arrest Ivy
poison. A decoction Of dried bean
beaves is quite as satisfactory.
OF Sir Walter SCOTS novels three
are assigned to the sixteenth century,
seven to the seventeenth century and
thirteen to the eighteenth.
Large, long, pearly teeth belong to
sentimental, imaginative people; small,
short, yellow teeth to those OF an I'M
poetical turn Of mind.
A western geologist says that Kansas
can raise wheat for another 1000
years before exhansting the necessary
properties Of the soil.
A New York policeman has resigned
because the commissioners wanted him
to sacrifice about six inches OF his
| mustache.
Fifty.six years ago the block on
which the Chicago postothce now
stands was sold at auction for s505. 1t
, IS now worth $4,000, 600.
Condors have been killed in Peru
with wings Of forty feet spread.
Very full cheeks indicate great d.
| gestive powers.
Enough diamonds to load two large
coal trains and having total weight
! Of so, 900, 600 carats and valuation Of
! $3.50, 900, 600 have been taken out OF the
Cape diamond fields since their discov-
cry In 1867.