The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

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1t cost man $50 for assaulting re-
porter in Cincinnati.
Italy is still in the throes Of politl
cal and social revolution.
A Bloomington, ILL.,, lady mourns
the decease of her cat, aged thirty-four
years. ti6!L{ fiI.j Hiy0
A murderer in the Troy Jail was re-
Gently married to a young lady Of that
city.
The music of wealthy church in
New York costs more than the minis
ter's salary. ;i.'6 LN-9 f.IN.;
The jobbing trade of st. Paul has
more thsn doubled during the past two
years.
@iAfi unmarried man in sConneeticut
adyertises for $50 blonde.
Nine out of every ten changes in the
weather come from the west.
The Philadelphians are afraid that
the President will veto the League
Island bill, in view of the treatment.h he
received there last summer.
There have been in the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States,
eighty-two bishops, Of whom forty
three survive. e.. s- <. rsrD
A Boston editor thinks it very hard
to sit up all night for kilograms, and
then receive q dispatch announcing
the burning of a barn somewhere In
Minnesota. r.. ~
By the new military system of Aus
tria, the reorganized army will number
1 800 900 men-sOO, 900 of whom will be
on the active list.
A man has proposed to the municipal
authorities of Paris to remove the trees
which now line the streets of that city,
and supply their places with painted
tin trees.
The school boys of Moscow and st.
Petersburg have sent letters of thanks
to NJ. de Bismark for simplifying the
study Of German geography, which was
formerly most difficult.
A French journal says: "a remarkable
and perhaps almost nnrivalled coinci-
dence is recorded in the civil registry of
Bar -sur-Aube. In 1866 there were in
scribed there LOG births, LOG deaths, and
LOG marriages. -
A great fuss is being made at Wash
ington over the election of Chaplains by
the next Congress, and the ladies of the
capital have entered the contest and are
making vigorous fight for their favor
ite preachers.
ANewburyport school teacher, about
to marry a widower with number of
children, sent in her resignation to the
committee, because she had engaged,
for an indefinite period of time, as an
assistant in a private family"
Not long ago, when the Emperor was
i'll, some one asked the Prince Napoleon
what would take place if the Emperor
should die:. The Prince replied: "The
Empress and the Imperial Prince will
be kicked out Of France, and the re-
public establishedn'
A Hanoverian counsellor lately conf
mitted suicide by loading pistol with
stout wad, filling the barrel with water,
and placing the weapon against his
head. When the explosion occurred it
blew out his brains.
A sharp old gentlemen out west got a
seat beside his wife in crowded car,
by requesting the young man who sat
by her to "please watch that woman
while he went into another car, as she
had fits"
A German iron master will send to
the Paris Exhibition house made en-
tirely of iron at q. cost of 5000. 1t can
be taken to pieces, and is easily heated,
for the walls are hollow, and may be
connected with a furnace or a hot wa
ter chamber.
A Republican paper says The
course of Con ltess is misguided and
they will have to take the back-track,
particularly in their robbing schemes
and plunder. Under the cry of im-
peaching the President, they cover up
their r6bberies Of the people"
The area of the valley of the Missis-
sippi is l ,2OO, 900 square miles, while
that of the Amazon is more than 2, 500
600 square miles, and is equal to the
whole area of the United States, except
Oregon and Washington Territory.
The boy in Chicago who shot his
uncle has been reader Of novels from
his infancy. His uncle was scolding
him, when he struck attitude similar to
that of the hero of q hundred cuts,
drew a pistol, and firing, melodramati-
cally exclaimed, as he lodged a ball in
his uncle's face: "Hold your jaw, old
fellow lrs .H,Tt.
1t is curious fact in medical history,
that during the prevalence of cholera
in Moscow, different plans of treatment
we're tried in the various large hospi-
tails, but n one hospital it was agreed
to employ no treatment whateyeS The
per centage of mortality waA exactly
the same in all the hospitals, including
that in which no medicine was given.
The Gold Hill (Nevada) Ne'cs says
there has not been time in the history
of Nevada when there was the same
number of persons in Virginia and Gold
Hill who had nothing to do at the pres
ont time. Some a.e in search of EN-
ployment, while others are in search of
the secret vein that supports = man
without work. The whole country is
overrun by the latter kind Of persons.
A contemporary alludins to the numer-
ous cases of suicide, aad numbering of
children by mothers, in the northwest,
sensibly says: "When the fathers in
that country determine to tar and feath-
or every fanatical lecturer they catch
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