The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

The Empire State has over 1000 per-
manently insane persons.
Sentinels are still engaged in guard
ing Mr.. Stewards residence.
A gentleman on 3 Philadelphia train
was robbed Of $1,000 and diamond
2ih.
1t is estimated that thick shoes have
improved the health of women % per
cent.
The Gridiron is the name of anew
comic paper soon to be started in Lon
don.
There is waterfall in California two
thousand feet high. 1t is not made OF
hair.
There are twelve daily newspapers
in the city of San Francisco.
Another crisis is impending in Peru,
and revolution is again raising its an
archial front.
In Buenos Ayres the value of paper
dollar has been fixed at one-twenty-
fifth of gold dollar.
A man in Philadelphia put his moth
er, aged 70, into the street, to be taken
care of by the police.
The young mother whose first boy
was born to her this month, thinks it
has been q remarkable sunny month.
An unpleasantly disposed gentleman
in Brookfield, Mo-, murdered his wife,
his two children and then himself.
April Goth will be celebrated by the
Odd fellows throughout the country, as
q day of special Thanksgiving.
In Partisan ballets the dancers are
costumed to represent larks. Often
times. too, they 60 on them.
There is no government in the world
whose credit stands 80 high in the Eu-
ropean market as that of Chill.
New York bellies are reviving the
fashion Of wearing bits of black court
plaster upon the face near the dimples.
A legal inquiry in Milwaukee is, "has
a barber mechanics lien on the face
of his customer for the labor per
formed"
Fifteen dollars is the charge in New
York fol stuffed pet lap dogs which have
de parted this life.
The manager of the financial depart
ment of lealing New York dry goods
house gets salary of twenty-five thon-
sand dollars.
The gold diggers are very busy near
Belfast, Me. A local paper advises them
to turn their attention to clans as q
better investment.
A lady in Brooklyn followed her hus-
band to ballroom and fired two shots
mt him. He had taken woman not his
wife to the dance
A correspondent regards the floods as
Providential in view of the increased
the prohibitory law.
The tide of German emigration to
the United States is likely to become n
complete torrent" as the Spring season
advances.
Oil has been struck in Ray county,
Missouri.
The st. Louis Petroleum company
have well pumping out 100 barrels
per day.
The board of fire insurance companies
in New York have voted q rise in the
rates ofinsurance of twenty and twenty
five per cent.
Rev. Michael McCarron, Archdeacon
of the Catholic Diocese of New York,
died in that city on Saturday.
Nys, of Nevada, says that Blaisdell,
the Representative from that State,
tapers the wrong way, wearing number
ten boots and number five hat.
At Dundee the other day, al orange,
on being opened, was found to contain
a smaller and perfect orange, with yel-
low rind, etc, in its center.
With true Yankee thrift, mutilated
and worn ont currency is bleached and
manufactured into envelopes for the
use of the Treasury department.
Mr.. Bright, in one of his late speeches,
said that one-half Of Scotland is owned
by twelve persons, and one-half OF
England by one hundred and fifty.
Illinois is to have new State House,
which will cost s3,OOO,OOO. This will
secure the capital at Springfield for a
long time.
Chicago at present contains hundreds
of houses marked "For Rent" and the
newspapers of that city say that rents
are declining.
Adviccs from England state that four
regiments are to be withdrawn from
Canada on the opening of navigation.
EIopements are so common at Spring
field that there Is talk of establishing
"a home for deserted husbands"
Father Gavazzi, who created 30 de-
cided o sensation in New York, some ten
years since, by his violent Trades against
Romanism, announces q series OF lee
lures in Venice.
Peruvian surgeon in San Francisco
warrants to young ladies the tiniest
and most graceful foot by means Of the
amputation Of the little toe Of each
foot.
The Wisconsin State Horticultural So
ciety has recognized the necessity of re-
pleuishing our forests by offering pre-
mium of one hundred dollars for the
best ten acres of cultivated forest trees,
and fifty dollars for the best five acres.
The Queen Of Spain has made fami,
ly party of e1iles, by ostracising her
nearest, if not dearest, relatives, such as
the only sister of the Queen, her sisters
husband. the Duke de Montpensier, and