Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Over 1900 different kinds of buttons
have been found in pictures Of mediae-
val clothing
Southeastern Europe now has mill
ions Of people who are far less adj
vanced than the Japanese.
The fastest flowing river in the world
is the Sutlej, in British India, with a
descent of 10000 feet in $50 miles.
The Plymouth brethren, now having
their annual gathering at Plainfield, n.
j.. are worshipping without creed.
Letters patent have just been issued
covering the manufacture of yeast foam
from Rocky mountain sage brush.
The frog industry is growing. A
statistican enumerates "fifty-seven
frog farms now in successful opera
ton in various sections Of the coun-
try,
Four small skunl1s, "as gentle as kit
tens" have taken up their abode under
a drug store in the town of Wisner,
Me. and no one has seen fit to dispos-
sess them.
All plants. even in tropical countries,
require a period Of rest. Some repose
in the rainy, others in the dry, and 9TH
ers again in the cold or in the hot sea-
son.
Pineapple gardens planted two years
ago at st. Petersburg, Fla, have proved
so successful that the acreage given to
them has been considerably increased.
An Anderson, Ind. man stole a load
NJ corn in order to secure money
enough to buy a marriage license. He
Is now in Jail and the wedding has been
indefinitely postponed.
ST lanes church yard Pentonville,
in which were buried Joe Grimaldi, the
clown. and Tom Dibdin. the nautical
song writer. has been turned into a
public playground.
Boston is so we'll pleased with the
borseless fire engine which was recent
" added to her fire-fighting equipment
that the fire commission has placed the
order for a similar engine.
All the doctors in the new hospital
for women in London are women.
There are HSe surgeons among them
and out of ninety major operations
there is a record of but two deaths
In making up their profit and loss ac-
count it is said that Partisan ware
houses have to allow for thefts, and
that this item is the most important
one with some of the larger houses.
The various confederate veteran
camps in New Orleans have combined
to establish an intelligence bureau for
securing employment for confederate
veterans and their sons and daughters.
The city of Baltimore's gross debt
is $35. 000. 900 and the net debt $1,000
Geo. estimating the water works and
other available assets at $4,000. 600.
The value of all its taxable property is
$3.50, 500, 900.
Amateur theatricals short-sleeved
dresses and swimming baths are forbid
den to the women of Dulmen. in West
phalia, by authority of their parish
priest. because they are dangerous to
morals.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
ruled that the services of an editor or
Of a reporter are of a professional ma
ture and are therefore not covered by
the statute relative to preferred labor
claims
Seven Of its small and obsolete steam
ers have, been sold by the Norddeuts-
cher LLOYD to another Bremen steam
ship company for 100000 marks. This
sum means over $50 a ton, high price
for old steamships.
Winning race horses are generally
bays. chestnuts or browns. and for ev-
cry one hundred bays among them there
are City chestnuts and thirty browns.
There is no record of an important
raee being won by piebald.
fine Japanese government now issues
sTsry day three weather charts, which
include observations in China and the
Lin-Kiu islands, enabling captains to
ascertain the movements Of storms sew
eral days in advance