The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-22

IL Is clalmeu tnat the DeSt OF paper
can he made from the okra plant.
Hundreds Of the young aristocracy OF
France enlisted for the defense of the
Pope. ~
They are exhibiting an eel in London
that weighs thirty-six pounds.
Louisiana has q wax myrtle tree,
which yields eight pounds of tallow a
day.
Liverpool streets are kept level and
hard by steam rollers, running in the
night.
The only colored man elected to the
Massachusetts, Legislature is a Boston
barber.
They teach 1900 freedmen nightly,
in the night schools of Florida.
They can accommodate 1000 negro
children in the schools of Washington.
Several new statues are going up on
Boston Common and Public Garden.
Story's Edward Everett" will be the
first to be put in position.
There is trouble among the Shakers
at Canterbury, N. H., their ruling elder,
Robert Sheppard, having joined the
"world's people"
The property left by "Artemus Ward"
falls inside of $17 900. He was thought
to be worth $4,000 to $4,000, and un-
satisfactory management is hinted at.
Accounts from Madras state that a
small grub, called the "borer," has been
doing great mischief in the coffee dis
trict; on one plantation 100000 trees
have been destroyed. ....
Napoleon has given Lambert, the
French traveller, $4,000 francs toward
paying the expenses of trip to the
North Pole; he wants $4,000 more.
By the laying of the cable under the
Rhine, all the fortresses along the river
are placed in direct telegraphic COM
munication with Berlin.
The Cnirerse, Of Paris, says that the
American Consul in Rome fought in the
battle of NGrola by the side of the Papal
troops, and was slightly wounded.
w. NJ. Pritehard married his fifth
wife in La Pate, Md, last week, though
he has only reached his Saith year.
Quebec papers complain of the care
less way in which gunpowdcr is carried
through the streets of that town.
Public opinion in England is irritated
about the sum which must come out OF
somebody's pocket for the Abyssinian
expedition.
A deer was shot the other day in New
Jersey, not far from Vinelands, by an
old gentleman of sixty-four.
A man in New Britain, Conn.,, raised
from one vino this year, seventy pump
kins, weighing 472 pounds.
The bayonet cactus in Nevada prom
ises to furnish valuable material for
paper manufacture.
A Dublin barber has invented a ma
chine for cutting hair. 1t is q terrible
affair, with revolving knives.
A suicide in San Fra ncisto left nate
saying that he poisoned himself because
the world was too small for him.
There is a want felt in the New Eng
land States for able sensation preach
ers. There is a scarcity of the same
sort in heaven.
The Virginia papers complain that
Governor Pierpoint is pardoning all the
criminals out of the psnitentiary.
Among the favorite crops raised at
the South now are gunboats. They
raise them from the river beds, where
the war planted them.
In the manufacture of steel pens ut
Birmingham $500 persons are employed.
The yearly product is over 725, 900, ,00C
pens, consuming about 5000 tons OF
steel.
1t is said that one out of every three
young women in Kentucky elopes fol
the sake of romance. 1t has long been
the romantic fashion of the State, and
ordinary weddings without q sensation
are considered unworthy Of a girl OF
spirit.
The Oregon papers state that over
1O0,O 900 sheep have been driven to Cal,
ifornia the present season, and the Ore
gonians have got the gold for them,
Such an increase of eur productive in
dustry and wealth is better than gold.
A few nights ago, as the family Of
William ]. Dickinson, of Fredericks-
burg, Va, were about retiring for the
night, they detected the smell of smoke,
and found smoke coming out of rat
hole. Cutting away the wood work, a
rats nest was found on FIRE, and piece
of the match FROM which the mischief
originated was unconsumed.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
has Just been ordered by the Court to
pay $500 to Mr.. Cook, of Putnam coun-
ty, Illinois, for putting him off the train
in 1863, because he had no ticket and
refused to pay an extra charge OF fifteen
cents ON the ground that he endeayored
to purchase o ticket before the train
started, but the office was not open.
Weston is not the first great pedes-
triau. About the year 179S, Washing.
ton Morton, of New York city, youngest
brother of Major Morton, of the same
place, also q brother of Mrs. Josiah
Quincy, of Boston, walked from New
York to Philadelphia, Pa, in one day,
and won Q wager. He was accom-.
panied BY > few friends on horseback