Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-16


it, and these letters read 'Purveyor TO
the General Public"-and the whole
neighborhood so enjoyed it that bust
ness has been great. 1t has an adden-
dunn which reads. pies, Pickles and
Peaches" He glories in the combina-
ton. I suppose he thinks the pies and
pickles are always with us, like the
much talked of poor, while the peaches
come during the summer time and sell
for considerably less than in the land
of old England, about which We all
talk.
But to return to the souvenirs. A
good many of them get smashed COM
ing oyer-I mean souvenirs, not
peaches-and good many more are
not placed on the right kind of table.
SO they suffer untold indignities. You
put your collection in one of those
rather large glass lidded tables, where
small children can look with their fin
fiers and feel with their eyes. You
want to pick up something queer,
something that nobody else has. Now,
Mrs Van Rensselaer, Cruger possesses
a something that has a real tang to it.
1t is a cradle in which was rocked the
great Napoleon and which she picked
up in one of those secondhand shops
in Paris. 1t is vouched for and is
filed every day with great masses of
flowers, so that where once the rest
less brain was quiet now there are
the perfume and beauty Of the bios
SONS, something that the Emperor OF
the French or prisoner in st. Helena
never gave thought 10.
Then in jewels you must have add,
queer rings that were made by hand
and made in such way that each had
special USE There is queer sill
yer ring, with an uncut emerald in it,
that rests in well filed brica-brac
table, and this is said to have been
worn by one of Napoleon's numerous
loves and to have been brought by
him from Egypt. Another odd ring
shows heavy band of gold, each end
terminating in such a way that there
is a space left so that the flesh shows
between. The one end is an asp, the
other tiny lotus flower carefully en-
ameled in white. That was one Of
Caesar Borgia's rings, and when you
dine with him he knew how to press
the back of that little ring so that the
asps tongue came out and there was
little scratch on your finger. To-mor-
row it grew black and your hand
swelled, while your friends talked
about cholera, and nobody dared whis-
per poison" though everybody knew.
There is another famous ring-it be-
longed to a great explorer heavy
hand of gold with cameo having the
face Of beautiful woman cut in it.
But the cameo is like a lid and lifts
up anu uh0tl ~ 10 a 'NSNNdbAS PpiSCAA
that, softened by little heat, will kill
two or three men. and this one man
took it rather than ride to the guillo-
tine in common cart
In little town near Vienna an en-
terprising American girl found and
never was satisfied until she had
bought the wedding dress OF Marie An
tionette. Like all the house of Haps-
burg, she had given here marriage
gown and wedding veil to some poor
church, where the lace might be used
as veil and the dress be cut into vest
ments. Here it was waiting its turn.
and the frock worn by the girl bride
will probably remain always a SOU
venir, a something that has a history
and one that is so delightful. Queen
Victoria counts among her treasures
the walking stick that Bonnie Prince
Charlie forgot when he started off that
morning to fight the battle Of CullO-
den. 1t was discovered afterward and
shows on its handle that it was carved
on one side the head Of Wisdom and
on the other the laughing head Of
Folly.
From all the world over we hear
that jewels were never worn to such
great extent as Tow, but nobody wants
Just a diamond band. The diamonds
must be set in some strange way and
must have been worn by some great
and good woman or some great and
bad woman. Which would you rather
have, the ring Of nun who gave her
life TO prayer or the ring Of Catherine
the Great? No, no; no explanation Is
necessary. Human nature is very
much the same all the world over. but
you know. they did have such odd
things in the days gone by. When a
worker in trinkets devoted a year to
cutting out ring OF designing a ro-
sary, then they were worth possess
ing.
That poor Empress OF Russia, poor