The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-24
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Frenchmen are killing whales with
poison.
Diptheria prevails in some parts Of
New Hampshire.
Won Helmont says Adam was created
without beard.
A National Convention for national
education is talked OF.
Forty years ago there'was not a sim
gle locomotive i'll Europe.
The New York dry goods clerks are
watched by detective force.
Swiss citizens are to be prevented
from joining the army of the Pope.
A new dance has been introduced
called the "Kiss Cotillion." 1t is very
popular.
A minstrel troupe is giving concerts
at the "City of the Holy Faith"
The amount of Government and other
American securities held in Europe is
$500, ,000,000
A Massachusetts, farmer is eating four
year old apples.
Everybody appears to be getting mar
ried about Denver. Some people once
too often.
A betrayed woman in Rochester, n.
v sbot tbree times at her seducer with
out hitting him.
The cost of manufacturing one pound
of cotton in New England is about II
cents.
The greatest number of Odd Fellows
are in Pennsylvania.
The Internal Revenue detectives are
playing a sharp game in Troy in bring,
ing deliuquents to justice.
They sand the streets in New Bedford
to prevent the boys from coasting.
Female teachers in Iowa receive 1874
per week for teaching the young idea
how to shoot
The growth of the Pacific States and
Territories generally during the last ten
wears has been slow.
The opening of the Amazon to com
merce gives access to about one-tourtl'
of South America.
When completed the Pacific railroad
will resemble q gigantic letter y, with
the expansion looking eastward.
The Paris Monitem officially an
nounces that hereafter the american
flag will be freed from all navigation
dues i'll French ports"
The Danish Government has offered
the United States Government the isl,
and of St. Thomas for five millions Ill
gold.
An editor in France who sold free
pass that had been given to him by a
railroad company was sentenced to thir'
teen months imprisonment.
To live comfortably in New York re,
auires an income of not much less than
ten thousand dollars per annum.-N. l.
Post.
One hundred silver bricks from Ne,
vada were carried through the principal
streets of San Francisco the other day,
1t is probable that the old measure OF
bushels will be entirely abandoned by
the 1st of April in the grain markets oi
the country. ....
The Fort Wayne, Ind, Democrat Of
last week, says that U. s. Senator Yates
of Illinois, was in that city last Thurs
day, "drunk as lord"
Colorado, if admitted, with her TWEEN
ty-seven thousand inhabitants, will
have the same control over federal legis
lation as New York, with her popula'
tion of four millions.
The wound in Mr.. Frederick Seward.
head, received at the time of the assas
sination, has only closed over within q
recent period. Trepanning was impos
sible, owing to its situation on the side
of the skull, and now the brain Mt that
point is only protected by thin armol
of flesh.
Two children named Reilly were f.
tally burned in New York on. Wednes.
day afternoon while playing with the
fire. The mother had left the room fol
q moment, when one of tine children
pulled burning stick from the stove
which set fire to the clothing of both OF
them.
A worthless youth named Louis Bru-
ner residing in Buffalo, recently at.
tempted to extort money from his
mother by swallowing some laudanum
in her presence. He got more down
than he intended, bug an immediate
emetic heightened his. life and his
mothers troubles
Two of the most active fancy goods
dealers in Boston, Mass, have tempora-
rily suspended. Other small failures
have followed. To show the stringency
of the money pressure the Post says: "a
very shrewd Bank President yesterday
remarked, in reply to query, that he
wanted two dollars security for every
dollar he lent. This may be q little
strong, but it shows the caution which
exists"
Hon. NJ. L. Dunlap, prominent hor-
ticulturist of Illinois, has surrounded
his entire farm by belts of timber, hav-
ing planted such belts for shelter, as
we'll as for the ulterior result of timber
and the happy effects produced on the
climate Of the prairies. The trees thus
planted are mixed-deciduous and ever.
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