Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-16


not. as symbol that the person max
ing it pledged himself, by his Christian
faith, to the truth OF the matter 10
which be affixed 1t.
The ROYAL crown OF Roumania Is made
| OF bronze, the metal having once done
service In the shape Of cannon. Sam
ples from sixty-two war-tested guns,
each of which was captured from some
enemy, are included in the make up OF
| this royal insignia.
Some one of curious.y mathemmat-
| ical turn has calculated that pound OF
spider's webbing unwound would os
| long enough to reach around the world,
with enough left over TO reach from
| New York to San Francisco.
Last year 1850 persons sent in claims
| for the maple sugar bounty offered oy
the government. This year $3.50 per-
! sons are entitled TO bountieS, and they
will receive in the aggregate about
$40, 600.
Many of the South Sea islanders
believe that Paradise can De Inherited
only by persons OF perfect physical
| forms. Where this belief prevails
man will die rather than submit TO am
putatlon,
A pneumatic tube connects Paris
with Berlin. Ii is used for postal ppr-
poses, aud makes it possible for let
ter mailed in Paris TO be delivered in
Berlin in thirty-fye minutes.
"Baby," cat belonging to Mrs. Ora
gin. of dorchester, Mass, is believed
to be the giant Of the domestcated
feline race. 1t is 21-2 feet long, 10
inches high and weighs 80 pounds,
Two sisters will make their appear
auce in London next year. One is
eight feet high, with hands thirty-two
inches in length, and the other is not
three feet high and weighs thirty-two
pounds.
DIR. III Pc Tai, who died week ago
In San Francisco, was the most noted
Chinese physician in this country, and
had many white patients as well as his
own countrymen in his practice.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late
Richard A. Proctor, the famous astron-
omer, and the principal assistant in his
professional work, has been appointed
curator of the Proctor Observatory at
San Diego, CAL
In accordance with an ancient family
custom, when the late Lord Petre was
buried forty-seVen widows, one for each
wear OF his lordship's life, received a
loaf OF bread and a newly minted shil-
ling.
Prince Leopold, Of Isenburg-Birstein,
who has reached Chicago in the course
OF his travels, is famed at home as
tiger slayer. One Of his several castles
in Germany is filed with hunting tro-
phies.
Some improvements in prospect at st.
Johns College, Cambridge, Eng, will
REQUIRE the demolition OF the rooms oc-
cupied by the poet Wordsworth during
his life as an undergraduate Of the col
lege. l7S7-9l.
William A. Bogus was a Georgia land
commissioner years ago caught in ras-
cality in Office. He issued fraudulent
land rights. He furnished our vernac-
ular with word for everything spur
ious and false.
A son of Gen. Zabala, leader Of the
insurgent troops that appeared to have
DO trouble I'm getting away with the
NiCaraguan regulars, is attending
school in Boston, and is, not unnaturally,
very proud of the senior Zabala's Prov
ess.
Edward c. Potter, the sculptor, has
bought fine bay horse at Springfield,
Mass, for $500, which he will use as
model ia his design for the equestrian
monument of Gen. Grant, to be erected
in FairmOunt Park, Philadelphia.
Princess Eulalie left $500 with the
manager Of the Arlington Hotel, Wash
ington, to be distributed among the SER
wants who served her and her party
while she was in that house. They re-
gard her as princess from her head
to her finger tips.
The Earl of Aberdeen, the new Gov
ernor General Of Canada, is a dark,
slender man about 46 years old, above
medium height aud intellectual looking.
He wears full dark beard, dresses
modestly and has few Of the charactes-
tics Of the typical Frenchman.
Rudyard hipling's father, j. L. Kip
ling, best known in England as the
author OF MAN and Beast in India"
has definitely resigned his appointment
at Lahore. He has been In Indifferent
health for some time past, and will
probably take up his residence perma-
nently In England.
Cardinal LedochoWsky, to whom En-
peror William, during his recent visit
to Rome, presented gold snuf-box,
was once fined, deposed and imprisoned
by Prince Bismarck. The Cardinal
was then q German Bishop and violated
one of the clerical laws framed by the
Iron Chancellor,
Ambrose Bierce, of the San Francisco
Examiner, whose short stories in the
style OF Edgar A. Poe have gained the
approval OF the critics, is 40 English
man about sixty years old. His news
paper work is of the cut-and-slash order
and the politicians OF the Pacific Coast
stand in mortal terror of him.
Mrs. Hannah Stevenson, OF Brook
field, Mass, received her friends and
ueighbors' congratulations June on
reaching her Tooth birthday. Since her
18th year she has been addicted To the
use OF tobacco, smoking 1t regularly
and also using IL in the form OF snuff.
Mrs. Stevenson is one OF the few re-
naming pensioners of the war Of 1912,
her husband having done duty in Bos-
ton as minute man during that con-
tlict.
The Largest crater.
Thirty miles from the City of Kuma-
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