The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-02
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Paris.
England is "minority-ridden."
Real estate in New York is remarka
bly, brisk.
The revolutionary mutterings grow
loud in Peru.
New York has new water-color So
ciety.
A female beauty insurance company
is projected in New York.
The report that BootL has hired ,
church to play Hamlet is not correct.
Dundee, Scotland, has 100000 in
gold invested in steam whaling vessels
Parepa has been engaged for New
York church choir.
Two hundred AIethdist ministers were
showed in on q Kansas train few weeks
since.
The Sprague Mills in Augusta will
run 100000 spindles, more than all
Lowell.
A railroad engineer on New York
road saved several persons from fright,
full death.
The Paris washerwomen are charging
franc shirt, all on account of the
Exposition.
Anewspaper is like wife, because
everybody ought to to have one of his
own.
An infant with a $1,000 note pinned
to its dress was recently left IN a Lon
don railway station.
Sumner does not consider the Militia.
~ Bill fnality. His idea of "finality"
is despotism.
Springfield has had six cases of tri-
china spira!is-a whole family was all
attacked and one person died.
Sumner is ambitious to prescribe the
length of Orthodox coat tails and the
style Of collar man shall wear.
Ananias William James Andrew Jack.
son Jones is registered colored voter
in Washington. He ought to vote.
The Springfield Republican says Gen
eral Butler is bottling himself up polit'
ically as tight as he did in his military
career.
New Jersey is legislating against the
ham sandwich and spoiled egg boys who
visit the passenger cars in that State.
A fashionable young man in San
Francisco, who had lived on his wife,
shot himself in despair at the smallness
of his capital.
A correspondent says that "women
are at the bottom of all the chicanery
and wire-pulling which dissracss our
national capital"
The library, left him by his uncle,
Charles +. Browne wills "to the best
boy in the school of his native village,
Waterford, Me-"
The prospects of good crops of wheat
and peaches in tho neighborhood OF
Mansfield, Ohio, are said to be unusually
good.
At Eau Claire, Wis, a piece of Lake
Superior quartz, weighing seven ounces,
was smelted and found to contain five
ounces of silver.
1t is equivocally stated that the
Princess of Wales attack of rheumatism
was the result of exposure while in
dulging in her favorite amusement OF
sketching.
A correspondent says the English de-
partment of the Paris Exhibition will
be "ugly, disorderly and untasteful."
The French will smile maliciously.
Mr.. Andrew Laird, mountaineer of
Barnet, VT, shot, dressed and ate one
hundred and fifty-six gray squirrels du-
ring the summer of 1866.
Among the curiosities at sol diers'
fair, at Lawrence, was box of "hard-
tack" marked "19th Army Corps"
which has been to the war and back.
We learn that the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad Company is now in posses
sion of the Columbus and Indiana Cen
tral Railroad, having recently purchas-
ed it. &c. -tt.
They ore talking Of building public
hall for amusements, meetings, &c, in
Marietta, with seats for thousand per-
sons, and a stage thirty-eight by twen-
ty.tive feet.
A number of tho cotton mills in New
England have determined ;" suspend
operations for thirty days from the 1st
Of April, on account of the resolutions
of their workpeople to strike unless the
hours Of labor are reduced.
Two-story cars are growing in favor
on the European railways. The lower
story has compartments on the English
style, and the upper is in the American
plan. The whole height Of the car is
about fourteen feet.
A French photographer has succeeded
in printing photographs on copper and
steel. His method is still imperfect,
and it is said that all depends upon the
proper degree of polish given to the
metal, and upon peculiar way of coat
ing it with bitumen.
In Philadelphia as lady with q
small child in her arms was getting out
of one of the passenger cars, the con-
ductor pulled the strap before she had
time to get off the platform, and the
platform guard catching in the lady's
crinoline she was dragged twenty feet
on the track.
The Indian delegations in Washing,
ton were to have had war dance for
their own amusement in the Seventh
street Park, Wednesday evening, but
Secretary Browning interfered and pre-
vented it on the ground that the red
men would probably consume too much
"fire water" and engage in free fight
George Boyer, q child seven years old,
was waylaid while going home from
| church, last Sunday, in Buffalo, by q
pair of youthful scoundrels named