Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-11
PITHY PICKINGS.

On May 16, 1874, a reservoir in Mill
river. near Haydensville, Mass. burst
and more tina $50 people were drown
ed Among them was Mrs. jerome E..
Hillman. The husband escaped al
most by a miracle. After the catas-
trophe Mr.. Hllman was never the
same man. Gradually melancholia
seized him, and q few days ago, on his
siXtieth birthday, while in this ccndl-
ton, he committed suicide.
The Maine statutes provide that the
school books in towns shall not be
changed oftener than once in five
years. AS The changes We're made in
most places Immediately after the law
was passed five years ago, many scores
of Maine towns are open to conviction
on the school book question. Agents
are as thick rs spatJer.
The Aitken Bible, copy of which
has just been sold in Boston for $500
was the first Bible in the English Ian
guage ever printed in America. The
imprint is as follows: Printed and
sold b. r. Aitken. at Pope's Head,
three doors above the cOffee-hOuse in
Market street, MDCCLNXXIL
The demand for horse meat has
grown to such an extent in Germany
that it is beginning to be difficult TO
supply it,. Horses for butchering now
cost from $40 10 $50, where formerly
they could have been purchased Tor
one-tenth Of that amount.
Misses Mollie Stanley and Ruth Ora
ven are the heroines Of Barlow, Fla.
Recently they killed and brought to
town an alligator measuring 10 feet I
inches in length. 1t was killed in
Lake Hancock. where the ladies were
fishing.
The number Of youthful rulers in
Europe is without parallel The pres
ent car is -. Emperor William is SO,
the Queen of Holland 15, the King Of
Spain an infant, the King Of Servia
q, and Prince Ferdinand OF Bulga-
ria SO.
In all probability the champion SER
want of the world was Elizabeth Nier-
erbe. q German woman, who died re-
Gently at the age OF ninety-three. II IS
claimed she was q domestic in one
household for seyenty-nine years.
Bibles bring good prices down in
Texas sometimes. One was found up
on the body of 0ol. VIM. B. Travis af-
ter the fall of the Alamo, and the other
day the Texas Legislature appropri-
ated $1,000 10 pay for it.
A number Of theatres have come 10
an agreement with each other 10 re-
strict largely the issue Of free passes,
otherwise known as deadhead tickets.
II is said that dew will not form on
some cOlorS While . yellow board
Will be covered with dew, a red or
black one beside il Will be perfectly
dry.
a company organized to build an
electric railroad, with underground
conduit, on Indiana avenue Chicago,
is in corporated with S5,000,000 cap
ital.
They are trying TO invent a phono-
graphic desk on which a speaker can
record his own OratiOns. This is to be
tested in the German Reichstag.
The College OF Physicians and Sur
geOns has received from the Wander
bit family and from Mr.. Sloan since
1851 gifts amounting to S2,270,OOG.
The latest statistics show that in
Switzerland the proportion Of divorce
to marriage is to -. in France l in
-. and in England in 511.
Fired by its cargo OF wet lime, the
Rockland (NIe) schooner, Alfred Keen,
was wrecked on Trinity ledge, y. 5,
and her mate drowned.
Without the express consent Of his
wife. no married Austrian subject can
procure a passport for journeying be-
yond the frontier
Stephen II. Foss, Of Pennington, VI,
has violin made by Stainer, the Ty-
rolese manufacturer. about 1850.
c. 3. Cory. CT Boston, recently killed
@ crocodile at Cord Sound. Fla, meas
uring thirteen feet six inches.
A new name Tor typewriter stun is
suEgc sted-'m anuprint' fair ana
l0gue TO manuscript.
New York. which contains about 900
Russians. viii soon have a Russian
church
Twenty per cent. Of the pupils in
British schools are said 10 be near
sighted.