Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-17

and Cripple Greek region Saturday
morning.
It will cost a quarter of a million dol
lars, and six months OF time to repair
the Oregon, but she will probably be a
better ship than ever when the work is
done.
Senator Thomas C. Platt announces
that he is going to retire from politics
at the end of his Senatorial term. Per-
haps he'll have to.
A South Carolina Court has decided
that the contract imprisonment system
is legal This is distinct step back
ward.
Yesterdays edition of the Sunday
Register was a good deal of good
thing.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
This country last year consumed fifty
pounds of paper for every inhabitant.
Some of the visitors in the city yes
terday were both drunk and disorderly.
Pittsburg is also arranging for a
great celebration of the Glorious
Fourth.
If the present June wedding pace
keeps up there won't be many eligible
girls left by the end of summer.
lhe strawberry crop is certainly wor-
thy of our most distinguished consider
alton, despite the frequent and copious
rains.
All Boston attempted to go to the
circus, last Friday, and as a result
thouands were shut out, to the cores
ponding disappointment of the only
really cultured people in the country.
A Chicago woman who has been in
prison for eight months, refuses to
by the officials. What's public insti-
tuition for if it isn't to keep people in?
They are now using electricity in
some New York restaurants to render
tough seeaks tender. This leads the
way to an increase in the supply of
spring chickens, and 10 old hen will
hereafter be safe.
Lady Ito departing servant)-What
shall say in your reference ?
Servant-Just that l stood for six
months with you, mum; thatll do for
me.-London Tit-Bits.
Robert Gordon Butler of the New
York Sun, has in the Home Magazine
for June, an ingenious calculation of
the cost Of the nineteenth century wars.
He figures out total Of SIT 1922, 900 900,
or Sc second for 100 years, or $13 a
head of the worlds present population.
And all for-what?
Says Senator Depew: But with all
of my admiration for Senator Hanna,
l want it distinctly understood that
New York is going to elect the next
President. We've got our old friends
were going to do 1T, and do it hand
somely.'' Yes, yes! And there's Depew
to be looked after, too.
The Russian girl who wishes to study
at one of the universities in her native
land must, according to the etiquette
of these institutions, do so as a mar
ried woman. Accordingly she goes
through the civil form of marriage with
one of the male students, though she
may never see him again The mar
rage is dissolved as soon as the girl
finishes her course.
A New York correspondent of the
Evening Post of that city says he wrote
to one hotel up town in Buffalo for
rates for a single room, double room
and bath, European plan, and received
the reply that the price would be "$14
to $40 per day, according to location -
When you 90 to Buffalo do one or two
things: Take your roll with you, or
hunt UP lodging house and eat at a
"doughnut joint.
The Philadelphia Records remarks:
I'VE do not observe any demur on the
part of very high tariff organs conse-
quent upon the refusal of President
Mckinley to be candidate for third
term. Mr.. Mckinley seems disposed to
be a Moses to his party. Having led it
into the protective wilderness far
enough to see the error of his ways, he
now seeks to lead it out But there
are zealots who want to stay in the
wilderness indefinitely"
GHOST OF DREAMS.
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