Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-25

: for their Sundays dinner, and in the
market hall at Paris some of their
booty met with rapid sale. The facts
were publicly placarded. however, and
no fatal results have been reported.
The above reminds one of the incl
dent that occurred to prominent sur
geon lately. He had removed one Of
the mans kidneys. Desiring to make
an examination of it at leisure, he
wrapped it in paper and put it in his
coat-tail pocket. Going home in the
evening his pocket was picked in the
crowd. Did it make the thief's sup
per?
Of less fearful augury is the report
that a student of another Paris medi-
cal institution set about hundred IN
oculated rats free. who have now iu-
tested the Latin Quarter, and may
contribute to a partial extinction Of
the innumerable vermin that form an
incessant plague in those classical en-
virons.
FELINE AND BOVINE RABIES.
The Paris Pasteur Institutes latest
report contains the remarkable state
ment that fully 10 per cent of the pa
tients treated there owe their wounds
to the bites of cats affected with rabies.
These injuries are considered to pre-
sent a greater degree Of danger than
the bites of mad dogs, not because
there is any difference in the virus, but
for the reason that, in the first place,
the teeth of cats being more pointed
than those of dogs, inflicted a deeper
wound. and, secondly, a man dog usu-
ally fastens his fangs into the arm,
hand or leg, wnue q cat lnVarldDly
iumps for the face of the person 1t al
tacks Since the nerve centers are lar
more EXPOSED in the latter, the virus
enters into the circulation more rapid
" through facial wounds than else
where in the body.
Il is rather curious that the returns
Of the Paris institute for the last year
also show that 1 per cent Of the patti
ents who underwent treatment there
had been bitten by mad COWS.
A GAsTRONOMIC CALAMITY.
From Paris comes the news that
France. and through her the whole civ
ilized world. is threatened with ire
narable calamity, from a gastronomic
noint of view. Cheese, as IS well
known. has of late, like omnivorous
mankind itself, been under the ban OF
degeneracy. Sweitzer and Limburger'
and other odorus delicacies of their
kind have undoubtedly lost much OF
their original flavor, mostly, perhaps
because of their being artificially fore
cd to ripen. especially in this coun-
fry And now Roquefort cheese Is
said to be menaced with extinction
The milk of the sheep that browsed on
the tbvme-clad banks Of the Larnac
and Of the Aveyron has long since
ceased to suffice for the market
FIocks have accordingly been fed IN
grassy pastures that offered a larger
quantity Of sheep milk, but of very
inferior aroma. Worse still COW
milk has been mingled with that OF
the eve. while the cheese, artifcialiy
matured. underwent speedy deteriora-
ton. Cheese mongers look askance al
what is called Roquefort, and the con-
SINNER fears for his stomach, with the
result that an industry once worth
ZEN millions is at q standstill, the
Dingley tariff promising to gre II
the coup de grace.
JACOBITE RELICS.
The sale of Jacobite relics at Cullo
den House. near Inverness, Scotland
recently. attracted a large and repre-
sentative gathering Of Highlanders ant
connoisseurs. Interest was shown IL
the sale of the bedstead which Prince
Charles Edward slept on the three
nights preceding the battle OF CuIlo
den. It was sold for $3.50. Some thir
ty cannon balls and bullets from tn
battlefield ran from So up To $25 each
For an old carved oak washstand
towel rail and center table, the Earl o
Moray gave $3.50. Prince Charlie
walking stick went for $500, the buye
being Queen Victoria, whose nam
was loudly cheered. The stick was lef
by Prince Charles against the the BET
AT Culloden Castle on the night befcr
the battle. As a handle it has tw'
heads representing Folly and Wisdom
A letter, signed and sealed by Prime
Charles Edward, granting a commits
sion to William Macintosh as lieu
tenant in Cluny Macplc:S0n'c regi
ment, fetched S475.
A BORN QUEEN.
Prof. Max Mueller, who in the Cos
mopolis publishes the most interesting
"reminiscences Of his life. relates in on
OF these: i was mucn strGcz by tn