The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-11-20

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fortunately the eye ball was unin.
jured and the little fellow will not
likely lose his sight. The bullet
has not yet been recovered. 1t
was deplorable affair, and is only
another awful lesson of parents
allowing their children to play with
firearms.
The largest piece of plate glass
insthe world has just been made
bg the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co,
az their Elwood factory. lite l46
by 221 inches.
lHollis Roush, a 14,year.old lad
of MoFgantownship, near Gallipo-
lis, ended his mortal career last
Sunday by the etryohnine route.
You can get old fast enough with
out worrying about whether your
wife's rich uncle is going to out her
out Of his will because he knows
you voted a different ticket from
him.
The war between Turkey and
France has blown over, but moth
ing can avert the war between the
United States and turkey which
will oplminete two weeks from
next Thursday, on Thanksgiving
Day.
Whether it is dignified for man
to carry brown paper bundle in
the street depends a lot on whether
it is his wife's or pretty woman's
he is walking with.
Let US at least hope that the
turkeys that will be killed on the
18th are not as old as most of the
Thanksgiving jokes that are again
going the rounds.
For removal of grease spots from
paper or parchment place blotting
paper upon the spots and press
them with hot hatiron.
Some people are 30 enterprising
they dou,tlhave to go to the devils;
he c0mes 5sthem.
There is nothing a man grumbles
about so much as the way his wife's
tongue wags, but he is so moon
sistent that he-never thinks of mar.
rying tongue-tied woman.
There is a canal 16 miles long be-
tween Worsle1 and st. Helena in
the north of England which runs
underground all the way. Goal is
transported on it.
The intelligent turkey is now
going through a term of fasting in
order that he may not form one of
party intent on feasting.
The x. & M. bridge across the
Ohio river, at this place, is fast
becoming a new one so far as wood
work is concerned. The gang of
men doing tho work are busters,
boss and all,
The German Empress has the
finest pearl necklace in existence.
It contains three world-famous
necklaces. One of them formerly
belonged to the ex.queen of Ma
pies, and another adorned the i'm
age of the virgin at Atakah. The
entire necklace is worth 100000.
General Butler once explained
why it was necessary to put such
snowy clothing on most of the
troops: because SNOWY uniform
attracts Mary Ann, the nursemaid,
who makes Tommy Atkins join the
army. In plain uniforms, you
would find recruiting harder job
than ever"
The ecclesiastical authorities di-
vide the history of man into six
ages: (1) from Adam to Noah; ~
from Noah to Abraham; (8) from
Abraham to Davie; az from David
to the Babylonish oaptivityI (5)
from the captivity of Judah to the
birth of Christ; (6) from the birth
of Christ to the end of the world
And new the court of inquiry in
the Sohley case is compelled to
read more than 1000 pages of type
written manuscript, besides lot
of dispatches and log books, in
order to find out what the public
knew was true, even before the
trial began.
Turkeys are going to be a plenty
this year, SO say the farmers.