The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-05
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New Zealand wants to be divi dcd.
Austria contains 72S monasteries and
29S converts.
Indiana has thirty-two Incorporated
cities.
America has 10000 miles of telegraph
lines; Europe, 10000.
One hundred and seventy persons lost
their lives on the lakes last year.
Nearly six hundred thousand children
in Indiana so to school.
Civilized man drinks S20O,OOO,OOO
worth of champagne every year.
A London lady having given birth to
three children, has received f3 from
the Queen.
There We're '2600 horses slaughtered
last year to supply Berlin with horse
flesh.
Nearly ten thousand persons in Chill
are physically or mentally helpless.
rIintors can hordly DC classed with
workingmen. They more resemble the
"bourgeois" type.
One distillery in New York is charged
with defrauding the rcvenue of ten
thousand dollars per day.
The fathers of Generals Mcclellan,
Grant, Sherman, Sedgwick and Mans
field were borne in Connecticut.
There are now wanting only eight
hundred and fifty miles of wire to con-
meet New York with Pekin.
New Zealand is blessed place i'll the
ma tier of taxation. The average tax
for every man, woman and child is about
forty dollars.
A Washington correspondent says the
Postoflice Department is still briskly at
work increasing the irregularities of the
mails.
The Presidents message was tele-
graphcd to the San Francisco journals,
and published in that city on the even
ing of its delivery to Congress.
The Illinois Central railroad has paid
into the treasury of that State S22l,-
514.05, being seven per cent. of the gross
earnings of the road for the past six
months.
The effect of Russian vapor bath
caused a man in New York to dash
through a window and run through
several streets in an entirely nude state.
He said lie couldn't help it.
The railroads of this country employ
two hundred thousand men, and at least
depend for their support upon the rail-
road interest.
The Brooklyn Evangelical Alliance,
whose aim is to blend all the "ortho-
dox" churches in effort, has put forth All
eight-page weekly, called the Church
Union, the first number of which is just
out.
Professor Greene, of Rhode Island,
has effectually rebutted Mr.. Bancroft's
imputations upon the conduct of Maj.
Gen. Greene in the Revolutionary war,
and fairly convicted the historian of ig-
norance or prejudice.
The receipts of cattle at the Union
Stock Yards in Chicago for the year
1850 were 3G2,604 head; shipments.
262,l5O. Receipts of live hogs. $50, ,s6i;
shipments, 4s2,775. Receipts of sheep,
2O9;737; shipments, 75,447.
1t is announced that petitions are be-
ing circulated among various invalid
soldiers Of the late war, praying Con-
gress to extend relief to them at their
homes, rather than at military asylums,
where they are separated from their
families and subjected to discipline,
which is distasteful.
A judgement of Sir James Wild, in
the Divorce Court, constitutes new le-
gal precedent. 1t is now decided that
when a man is divorced from wealthy
wife on the ground of her infidelity, a
part OF her money may De given 10 neT
injured husband and to the issue of the
marriage.
1t is stated that of nine daily news
papers published in Boston in 1913, but
three are now in existence and ont of
twenty-eight magazines then published,
but three, the Missionary Herald, the
Christian EraRiner and North american
Rerie,c, are now published. Bat twelve
ont of thirty-fve weekly papers pub
lished at that time are printed at pres
ent.
The Californians are an excellent
people, fgay and dashy, sans souci, but
too go-aheaditive to rival courtiers or
crabs in the desirable accomplishment
of walking backwards. At presenta-
ton of the bellies and beauties of the
land of the Golden Gate to her Majesty,
Queen Emma, more than one accident
occurred from heels catching in crino-
line in the efforts of the fair ones to re-
tire gracefully backwards, according to
the requirements of court etiquette.