Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-05

gold is also used for tying the spokeS;
the handle bar is gold, frosted with a
sapphire set in the centre; ivory grips
are tipped with gold; the upper ball
cup is studded with gems; saddle and
tool bag are Of specially tanned leather;
the lamp is Ornamented with gold and
gems that can flash IN the light, and
the pedals are Of solid silver.
How much. Mr. Tiffany
This wheel is made for a lady whose
name I cannot give YOU, but doubtless
her identity Will soon ranspire: yet /
can have you another one built for say
$500"
Which leaves us wondering is the
wheel To- go to Countess Castellane, or
to our Vanderbilt duchess, or to the wife
Of some lucky Spectator who, in the
Christmas week, went short of stocks,
covered, charged to long, and sold at
the first reaction. like a wise gambler?
Dinner giving. ball giving, musical
ConversaZiOnes, where music permits
soft s0ttO-voce flirtat;Cns without risk Of
being overheard, and operate parties
have already inaugurated the social New
Year. Afternoon teas are being varied
with readings and Rotations from both
professionals and amateurs while hos
tesse among the nOveau richness do
not scrUple 20 tell YOU that the tea you
drink costs S. a pound. as brought from
Northern China all the way across
Siberia 10 St. Petersburg. Not Cey-
lOn?' YOU may mutter; when YOU will
be told that "Ceylon and India tea is
used now only by the middle classes"
Thus YOU may wei imagine that New
Year "sassiety" does not feel disposed
to expose on library tables a copy Of tho
novel Of Hard Times.
FASHIONABLE DINING MODES.
A new ukase by the Four Hundred
and the PaUiarchs-One ball by them al
ready launched, at which the memory Of
McAllister. the founder. was toasted
is. that a dinner party must never, eX-
Cept for some very especial occasion. eX-
coed sixteen covers nor for fewer than
eight Extravaganza for dinners also
comes i'm with the New Year; with ducks
a Ia Cleveland at S. a pair, and one
small terrapiu for the same price; while
good oranges for desert are sixty
cents per dozen-all because the Flor
ida crop failed. SJopl there is one
ec0nOmy-the proceeds from another
ukase that allows the wines of California
20 become a fashionable rage. But, in
deed. club men agree that California
sherries. t06ays, clarets and ports are
pala,able t.pples; while California
brandy makes an admirable chase
cafe. But 81 Dorado champagne yet
holds the flavor Of the soil and Of the
grape skin.
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Few passengers on the elevated rail
way fitting behind Trinity Church are
aware that they can catch a glimpse
from the window Of the tomb of that
Lord Stirling who was so famous during
the Colonial war. Or that the passenger
is hurrying by the grave Of Alexander
Hamilton, whose memory as T. lawy0r
was revived in the pages Of 4, Syers
monthly for December. btIed the
"Greenbag" Also the g., OF Chan
ceilOr Livingston, Rob FFulton, and
"dOn -g.ve-up-rhe-Sh eng Lawrence. The
same passenger hiYi lSs behind st. Pauls
Churchyard is pFsing the grave Of the
General Non-q5mery who carried re-
volut.Onarv. work into Canada; and of
the Tnopfas Adds Emmett who was an
Irish yatriOt Of twenty years later. and
brother Of the martyred Robert. It is
we'll that Trinity Church has been rich
enough to keep intact its graves, be-
cause all other churches that had burial
yards in the city, in any part, long ago
traficked in bonedust.
NEW BOOK.
Mention of the cemetery reminds Of
The Vacant Chair" That is the title
Of a volume Of poems which attracted
great attention during boOk-buying hol-
iday time. The pOet-authOr is Henry
Stevenson Washburn. Many OF the
verses are tenderly patriotic. and suit
abe 10 these days, when the shade Of
Monroe, the pen of Cleveland. and the
Websterian voice Of Senator Lodge in
viJss us TO sacrifices on the altar of
National Honor. Mr. Washburn-name
revered in Maine, and at the West, and
still in Paris-writes mellifluOus metre.
sweetly simple. without artifce and
with enrichments Of the most common
themes. A new and acceptable Amerl-
can poet is a New Year present for hOli-
DAYS worth dwelling up0n.
Another holiday book that Will live
longer than 1896 IS an issue by the Mae
milan publishing firm, of a biography
Of the late eX-president Of our Column
b.a College arnard-whOse ashes as
the bard put it. "smel sweet and just"
New York prides itself upon it's ancient
Kings College. now Columbia. for its
University and its free public college.
I'm comparison confer little credit on the
metropolis. Barnard did very much to-
ward developing and rejuvenating the
college ia its old age, and he was great
feature I'm literary and social circles.
His successor is a millionaire politician.
who gives too much Of his time towards
partisan reform
A BIG CITY NO SPOT FOR COLLEGE
LIFE.
But. after an. a great city is not so
wei situated for university life as is
more or less quietly rural place like
New Haven. WilliamSOwn or Prince
ton. and I should never advise a youth
TO attend college in this city, where
there cannot be that delightful college
life which carries its aroma into an
after years. Barnard's biography pre-
sents excellent emulatiOns for the stu
dent I'm any part Of the country
THE Pulse OF SENSATION.
The war cry mot that of the Saliva
..on. bus Of Sa,an's army that so iron
ic3lly challenged "the peace on earth
and eooi viii toward men of Christ
mas time. has entirely subsidized The
counter cry Of Happy New Year eXtin-