The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-13
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are the latest Chicago improvements.
The censns shows that the greatest
/; humber of British subjects are pagans.
7 4 soathern paper speaks OF one of its
contemporaries as a "free nigger nose
rag"
A wooden leg saved u man from
the hydrophobia in indianapolis the
other day.
). Philadelphia is growing at the rate Of
fifteen hundred buildings i'll six months.
Mile. Fiae:tc, who can kick your hat
oft six times runni&g. is writing her
memoirs for Paris.
Poor people in Louisiana are planting
rice i'll the woods, to save The trOIble
aud expense of clearing.
Inquiries continue to be raised rs to
the whereabouts of that Lincoln dollar
subscription fund. 1903
The latest story is that Wilkes Booth
is now the captain of pirate vessel
and the terror of the China seas.
The Prince of Wales has been created
by the Queen Knight Of the NEST an
cieut Order of the Thistle. .
In Milwaukee they kill about fifty
dogs day and have a capital of from
5000 TO 10000 to work ou.
Somebody put Il drunken man on The
track of the Rome, Georgia, railroad, and
4 train split him open from one end 10
the other.
lsmail Pasha made gift To the Em-
press, of the tree and the ground sur
rounding it under which, as tradition
says, the Virgin rested during the flight
into Egypt.
+. Darcy McGee attempted TO address
Il public meeting at Montreal last Fri
day evening. but was prevented by Il
crowd who hurled rotten eggs, stones
and other missiles ut him.
Speaking of the great emigration
from Ireland of late years. MIR. Shaw
Lefevrc. in recent lecture III England.
sai,, that there were more PERSONS of pure
Irish blood in America than III Ireland
itself.
| The income from the tax Oh dogs III
Indiana this year wall amount to nearly
$4,000. This is applied to reinburs-
ing sheep owners for sheep killed by
dogs, and the surplus is devoted 20 the |
school fund.
4 paiy of horses backed off a precipice
at St. Anthony's Falls tho other day, |
making u clean fall of eighty feet.
They arose, shook off the gravel, and
resumed their days work rs if nothing |
had happened.
A French doctor practices new
method If introducing medicines in the !
animal economy, viz: by the noStrils.
He has done so with morphine, which,
it seems. introduced in that way, will
cure violent headaches.
The Baston Post says: a lady passed
through hisCity yesterlayfor the noun
tains withs ixtecn trunks, four poOdles,
three maid servants. an lriSLman and a
husband. The latter appeared to be the
least important part ot the interesting
group.
Whilo a clerk at Boston was drawing
some bcazinc vaTnish, Saturday, and at
the same time chewing u match, the lat
ter was by some means ig!.ited, and be-
in, elected from his ljI's, fell into the
.iaii. causing al cXploSi":: and setting
the bu.iG.Eg ON fire.
Brooks Locke, of Epping, n. H., went
into Norris factory the other day to !
"riud an axe. Five minutes afterward !
the workmen found the young man en-
tangled in the machinery, which had
literally torn him limb from limb, moth
ing remaining perfect except his mead
A Detroit paper recalls local history
to prove that women voted in that city
in 1904 1t was not women, howeveF-I
it was property that voted. One oi the
estates Tat voted was that of woman
/ who vas dead; her vote-Or rather that
! Cf her property-was cast by her law
/ yer, one William Scott.
Some fifty ladies in the vicinity OF
Trading Post, Linn county, Kansas,
have adopted short skirts, which fall
about to tie knee Their neither ex-
tremities are encased in panIs OF the
same material, many Cf them cut very
! like the unmentionahles of the stcIner
sex, while some are gathered at the
ankle, in genuine Turkish style.
4 year or so ago . ruffian in New
York in a playful moment cut his mis-
tress's throat from ear TO ear, and she
died in great agony. He was arrested,
tried. condemned, and will soon be,
hung. The beautiful condition of his
mind appears in the announcement that
he will "meet his fate in the spirit OF
true Christian"
The Nashville (Tenu.l GG-ette says:
"a gentleman from Franklin informs
us that the militia of that place last
week compelled white man to pay
fifteen dollars to q colore1 eInploye
who had violated his contract 10y ieav- |
ing his work to attend political meet |
IlQHS@ IulS IN WI nat Nrt NdbltaiN Noh
guaranteeing TO each State 4 republican
form Of government.
A Jerseyman who removed TO the
prairies of Illinois, last June, took
along dog who was not willing e:ni- |
grant, but being tied to the tail board
had to 20. The morning after his srTi- I
val the dog was missing, and in due
time the ex-Jerseyman received newsi
from his old home to the effect that the
missing dog had resumed possession OF
the doorstep Of the old Jersey home |
Just fourteen days from his departur,
from Illinois.
\ WheH counterfeit is presented at the
Bank of England, the gold is instantly
paid for it. If it comes from some
known person he Is only asked where he !.
! got it. If from stranger the cashier |
I signals to his detective, always in wait |
ling, and the officer follows secretly.