The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-11
m1scELLANEous ITEMS,

MISCELLANEOUS IEEMSs
1900, 600 tons of rain fell in April.
/ There are but 8 Revolutionary yeter-
ans now living. III
I Head Centre Stephens was to visit
Garibaldi before leaving Europe.
River freighting to and from st. Louis
was scarcely ever SO dull as now. ~
a Al London writertis ably maintaining
that 1.-The earthW and alEe the ceLestlal
| bodies are hollow.
A submarine tunnel, 26 miles long.
between Dover, England, and Calais,
France, is seriously contemplated by
Frenchmep. i4F-a UtFF.l - T
al pitab1e miser at Beardstowni lllt-
nois, worth Sl5, 900, recently hung him
self, from fear that he would sometime
starve to death.
Some, of the hotels at Niagara Falls
! have already opened. and all are pre-
pairing for great rush of visitors DUR
ing the summer. 1teEI LII
Mathematical Commodore" Maury
| figures up that the South lostseyen Dill
| lions of. dollars by the war-and Maury
helped to do it. ID flis7-s 5Iig.
p A. Conservative editor says: "There
are no rebels now.D or course not.
Chame1eon-lkes they have all turned
into Conservatives. seFot ~
JEFF. Davis is said to be anxious for
his trial. The people are more destr-
GUS for, his hanging.
A rebel editor says he sees light
ahead. IF he Keeps on the way he mas
been going, he'll see fire ahead.
1t is now against the law in Wiscon-
sin. for minors TO enter billiard or liquor
saloons.
The King of the Sandwich Islands is
a connoissenr in music. He is charm
ed with Madame Anna Bishop.
Aftemus Ward is at home in Water.
ford, Maine, and sails for Liverpool
June 2, to lecture to the English on the
Mormons. saelt=-1a
The last wonder of Paris is the equip
age of n late seamstreSs of New York,
which in .ihagnificenee snrpasses that
of the empress itself. yae
Dan Voorhees,, recently ousted from
| Congress, says No, i thank You, to his
democratic supporters in the seventh
Indiana district; who iwant to re-elect
him. 5s7fs5,te sl-sTlvf7 TT.
Louisville, KY, is so troubled with
rats that the city government propose
offering npremiumiof one cent foreyery
head of rat brought to the city treasu-
rer.
The house in New York where the
emptied ofits families and privies, and
is to, be thoroughly washed with a
steam fire engine.
A new Photographic toy is having a
Egreat sale in London. Some blank bits
Of paper are sold and, following instruc-
tions, the purchaser finds handsome
portraits Immediately developed.
Acorrespondent A writes that, if we de-
sire it, he viii ''send us something to
n. 1tNak RkNfRk NHgE,
want. Suppose you commence now
with a'good roasting piece of beef and a
BARREL of flour.
A new "head ddirectress" has appeared
in the Fenian world, Johannah O'Shea
by name, and has issued stirring
proclamation declaring that the "crisis
has been reached" Will some one
please point it out2 .-i..g-.. '8g,
There are not Stevenses enough in
this country. Thaddeus and Alexan-
der viii do pretty we'll IN their places,
but the mysterious Head Centre is to
be with us aSo. He will be over in
about two weeks. Then we shall all
be happy. sia7 an 7s' a. ..''i
!, Miss Adah Menken is described as
Isuperbly dressed inttwo.a acts of Mazep-
| pa, and not much dressed in the third
actr. .1fla p sffi iiE9 1Efa os,,I-s1. 1isslIf
lzaEx=Pfesident Pierce was ontirmed a
mem ber. Of St. Paul g Episcopal Church,
by Bishop Chase, at Concord, N. H.,
last Sunday.
A scoundrel named Nicholson was
sent to gaoI in Manchester, England,
recently, for knocking a depraved girl
down and kicking her repeatedly, be-
cause Hshe2 would mot Ego with him
round a cornef.o
The total number of letters delivered
| in the United Kingdom in 1854 was
67e, ,Os4, 800. In 1861 it was calculated
that every inhabitants of the British
Isles received % letters! ~
| A French professor has discovered
| that the earth does not move SO fast as
/ it did 2, 600 years ago. The learned
Imam computes that in one thousane six
hundred millions, of years hencs twill
/ come to a stand-still.