The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-28
CURRENT ITEMS.
England is hard up for an army.


house.
A two year old Maine colt sold for
S25 200. - I" ~ e. ga sc'it>''~
The President is reported in good
health and excellent spirits.
Two Russian Princes are buffalo!
hunting in the West.
There is q law that every house in
Antwerp must be painted once a year.
The sugar in the cellar of the sugar
house at Potland, destroyed by fire last
July, is still burning. -.s.
Seventy thousand dollars is paid
weekly to the mechanics employed in
rebuilding the ruins left by tho Port
land fire.
A feature of the French Exhibition
is to be japanese coffee-house, with
eight genuine Japanese girls, already
on their way to Paris, Us walters.
The people of Omaha, Nebraska, are
offering Ristori $1,000 night for two
nights, to 80 and play for them, and
will pay all expenses besides.
Seventy five of the handsomest girls
have been selected from the different
houses of correction at Toulon, to send
out to Cayenne as wives for the convicts
of that penal colony.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham, who was
reported among those lost on the Even
ing Star, is at present residing in San
Francisco, where she, seven years ago,
married gentleman narlied Hayes.
A majority of the delegates to the
British North American Provinces now
in London, have pronounced against
Ottawa as the capital of the Confedcra-
ton, preferring Quebec.
A microscope has lately been com
pleted in England with double the
power of any similar instrument pre-
viously constructed. Itmagnities $4,000
diameters.
During the Revolution Washington
said lie was afraid to march his little
army through Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania, because of the tories. That is
now one of the strongest radical coun-
ties in the State.
1t appeared in evidence in photo
graph case before the Circuit Court at
Washington, last Friday, that 25,COO
cartcs de visite of Gen. Robert Z. Lee
were sold in Washington Immediately
after that commanders surrender.
The population of Jamaica was, in
1861, AL, ,264 persons, the number of
females being seven per cent. in excess
of the males, and the proportion of
white to colored people being one white
to thirty-two colored. No census has
been taken since 1eG1.
A Saxon lady-the wife of a barrister
lately committed suicide, in order
tnat her husband should get her life in
surance mOno!, and f-uo hi,no.fr nuih
debt. This was certainly self-sacriiicing
devotion.
The Belfast Age says that gross of
lunches of block or split matches con-
tains about three thousand more sep
crate matches than gross of the Sawed
or "card' matches. Worth knowing,
when matches cost four or five times as
much as formerly.
The following announcement has
been fished up from Boston paper of
June 4th, 1889: 'Mr. n. p. Banks will
make his appearance on the Boston
stage this evening, as Claude Mel
notte, in the play of Lady of Lyons"
The Catholic Church in the United
States is said to have 1854 churches
and chapels, "a theological seminaries,
and ,404 academies and schools, con-
tanning 10000 pupils. The Catholic
population of the United States is esti-
mated at from 100000 to 100000.
1t is a singular coincidence that Major
General Grant, a Scotch officer in the
British army, in 177s, defeated General
Lee, in command of the American forces
in New Jersey, and was afterwards pro
moted to the rank of Lieutenant Gener-
al, and subsequently, died Every old" at
his seat at Ballendellock, Scotland, in
| 1906.
A society of smokers was formed at
Berlin, two years ago, the members of
which agreed to preserve all the points
of their cigars, instead of biting them
off and throwing them away. The
money procured by the sale of these bits
| is applied to the maintenance and edu-
catien of orphan children, md 22 are
now supported by it.
The Vicksburg Times, of the 10Th, is
responsible for the following: Some
tlatboatmen at Milliken's bend, not
long since, saw on the bank a long
black snake, lazily watching the grad
ually lengthening ridge of earth pc
culiar to the subsoil navigation of the
mole.
The little turnover emerged at the
root of tree, and the snake with one
lunge captured and swallowed him. The
observers of this sad affair thought it
it was all over with poor mole, but
nothing daunted, perhaps unaware of
his perilous condition, he kept on
scratching until he came out at the
small end of the snake, who, feeling
suddenly that he had been relieved of a
square meal, turned and swallawed
him again with the same result as be-
fore.
The Captain Of the flatboat, in every
respect a reliable gentleman, informs us
that this singular contest was continued
for eight hours, with no variation, ex-
cept that the mole, as he became better
acquainted with the route, made faster
time on his trips.
Finally, the snake, completely dis
gusted with the mole, allowed it to go
in peace, and dragging himself to a
hickory tree, butted his brains out
against its roots. On being opened, his
"innsrds," from end to end, were found
4 A.. Al, 81.