Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-29
RANDOM COMMENT.


Governor Stone has historical library
of 2,oGo volumes devoted entirely to Penn
sylvania.
When Senator Ross, of Vermont, began
to practice lew he had so few bD>ks that
! he arranged to take care of the library of
local judge in order to have the use of
that collection.
The following is a sign. on BARRIERS
shop: "Tonsorial Artist, Physiognomical
Hair Dresser, Facial Operator, Uranium
Manipulation, and Capillary Abridger.
Shaves and Hair Cut with Ambidextrous
Facility"
DR.. Seward Webb and c. Oliver Iselin
both subscribeOto clipping bureaus-the
former on Everything about horses" the
latter to get all the news and comments
concerning cup races.
Mark Twain has an intense dislike for
clothes IF 1 could he said recently.
I'D live in pajamas." He does wear them
to breakfast, receives his friends while
wearing them, and works in them. His
favorite mood of writing is TO lie fiat on
his stomach, with pipe in his mouth.
At the Roxbury Latin School commence
ment Governor Woicott, of Massachusetts,
delivered the address, in the course OF
which he said Believe in the country
which your fathers founded, keep your
ideals high, and do not be pessimistic Of
the country's future"
The solidified alcohol which a Berlin
firm has been sending out in tin con-
tainer, intended to serve as pocket lamp
and stove, is reported to consist essential
ly of 81 per cent. of alcohol, 20 of soap and
Is of water. A similar product is readily
made by dissolying scraped tallow soap in
warm alcohol.
One of the curiosities of the Bank OF
England is to be seen in the printing
room. A man sits al desk and every
three seconds machine delivers to him
two complete e5 notes. If he sits there six
hours he receives over 0,G00, and in 800
days over 92o, 100000.
A Congressman tells the story that, be-
ing selected to deliver a eulogy on de-
ceased colleague whom he had not known,
he consulted Mr.. Reed, then the Speaker,
upon what to say. Say anything except
the truth, was the reply. It's custom
ary.'
In Washington a project is on foot to
establish in America a national prize of
of Rome Such prize is intended to give
meritorious young Americans an oppor-
tunity to perfect themselves in the Paris
schools of beaux arts and bellies lettres.
The Washington committee is asking the
Paris Academy for its cooperation in the
project
Arthur w. Bonnell, of Brooklyn, whose
son had been struck with an umbrella by
1Il coIy
himself to spank the offending youngster,
the latter's parents having refused to adj
minister the chastisement themselves. Bon
nell was thereupon sued for damages by
the father of the spanked boy, and the
jury decided that he must pay $1,075.
In the suit recently brought by Rudyard
Kipling against Ebert Hubbard, pub
Usher of the Philistine the novelist made
affidavit to the fact that ''for fourteen
years he had been engaged in the business
of writing ballads, sketches stories, ETC.,
and that by much hard work during this
time he had devised and perfected a style
that made his work distinct"
For the process of color photography of
a Russian student of art camera taking
three negatives at once is issued. The
shades Of blue produce the strongest eff
fects upon the first plate; the reds, on the
second and the yellows on the third From
these are accurately printed three positives
on transparent films. The films are then
placed together, one about the other, and
the result is claimed to be perfect picture
in the colors of nature.
What promises to be the first permanent
installation of the Marconi apparatus on
this side of the Atlantic is that which is
to be used by the government Of Trinidad
the southermost of the Windward Islands,
in communicating with its dependency To-
bago, some twenty or twenty-five miles
away. Sir William Preece, formerly at
the head of the British Geographic service,
has been invited to arrange the matter.
Very recently, says the Boston Tran
script, it has been discovered that there
is connected with the brain small gland,
called the infundible gland, which ap-
parently supplies a chemical substance to
the brain, there to be diffused through the
brain cavities. 1t is thought that this
substance is indispensable to the health of
the brain, and there is promise that the
study of this gland, in animals and man,
will enable physicians to understand and
treat certain diseases of the brain which
are now very obscure.
Speaking of exhibition mermaids, cor
respondent of the London Telegraph says:
1T may not be generally known that ia
pan exports these shams in assorted sizes,
in glass cases, at so much foot-run. They
are made of the body of fish and the
dried head of a monkey, so skllfully united
that it is difficult to detect where one be-
gins and the other ends OF late the mar
ket for mermaids has been fiat; at one time
they were fairly common in the curiosity
Shops