The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-25
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Vermont has 1857 pensioners.

street rows are plehtliul III Quepec'
"Architects" of their own fortune
city employees. .
A Newark butcher is in limbo for
selling horse meat.
The Jews in Cincinnati are the first in
trade and wealth in that city.
The King of Bavaria is said to be i'll,
and too much beer is the cause.
There are indications of famine in
Montana this winter.
1t is reported that New York divine
will on Sunday next preach the gospel.
A scribbler says life is too short to
drink bad whisky, OF make love to ug-
ly women.
A California clsrOvman has nreached
"a barrels of sermons.
The California end of the Pacific rail-
road will be higher than the passes of
the Alps.
A writer calculates that the time
of French citizen is worth five pence
an hour.
A chap in st. Louis came near stealing
steamboat the other day.
The Chicago Tribune says the negro
race in this country is race of harlots
and bastards.
The plea of an American in Mexico is
no passport for anything.
1t is calculated that dancing belle in
one season traverses FIVE hundred miles
of floor.
Within the last ten years a majority
of the State penitentiaries have
nearly doubled the number of their in
mates.
A large fortune, amounting to &c.
600, 900. is awaiting Michigan editor,
e1-Alderman J. w. Ingersol. of Detroit.
A boiler exploded at Memphis, blow
ing the engineer out of sight. He will
receive SIS per day frem an insurance
company until he comes down.
An Amster- dam fool has caused the
floor of one of his apartments to be laid
with Spanish dollars set on edge.
Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri, has called
for troops. The Louisville Democrat
SAYS the State is now the best one in
the Union 10 live outside of.
When Lynch received Roberts ~ re-
gret to inform you l do not think you
are to be hanged" he is reported to have
said, "No moose is good news"-N Y.
Uorld.
B. J. Roberts, the girl-fogging school
master of Cambridge, has received a
present of $3.50 from divers austere bean
eaters of Boston, who take this method
of signifying their qualification at his
exploits.
Among the many schemes for rail-
road in Broadway, New York, is one
which may be called "the polyglot plan"
for a steam passenger railroad over
ground, steam freight railroad under
ground, and a horse passenger railroad
on the ground. This many-titled and
manufactured enterprise has the ad-
vantage of an editorial leader in the
Evening Post.
A Hannibal paper tells of a gentleman
of that city who has been presented with
his third pair of twins in twelve years.
His first wife gave birth to two pair,
two girls and two boys, at intervals of
four years. They were born on the same
day of the week, the same day of the
in the same month Of the year,
at the same hour of the day, and all
exactly the same number of
pounds.
A Brownsville paper tells an amusing
story of charge made by COW upon
the Notifications of Matamoras. Some
wags of Cortina's command caught the
cow, and, dressing her up in fantastic
in raw hides, old tin pans and
sheet iron, started her off at the top Of
her speed towards the city. With a
noise like thunder she rushed madly to
the very ditch of the works, when San
tando's braves, thinking by the clatter
that brigade of cavalry were charging
the fort, fired q few shots, and deserting
their guns, fed iDgloriously to the town
plaza. 1t was several hours before they
could be led back to the fort.
"a LECTURE" AMONG HIGHwAYNEN.
mark Twain" the California humor-
ist, has been made the victim Of very
practical joke, while crossing the
rom California to Virginia
City Neyada, on lecturing tour. A
psixate ltEter,tells the story as follows:
'sThe boys 1t Virginia have perpetrated