The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-04
CURRENT ITEMS.


Liverpool has a surplus income of
S200, 900.
Bombay has an Italian Opera Com
pany.
Maine has railroad on the BRAIN"
The Minnesota Legislature recently
visited circus.
The city of New York contains l,7as
law firms.
A dish-washing machine is the latest
invention.
Greeley started the New York Tribune
on borrowed capital of 81 900.
Exhibition prices in Paris will be as
large as the Exposition itself.
Ohio pays n greater whisky and oil
tax than any State in the Union.
1t is asserted that fruit eaters rarely
become drunkards.
India is going to have uniform sys-
tenn of copper currency. .-
Since the "great snow storm" London
is afflicted with the bronchitis.
English prepared coffee is adulterated
with burnt sugar.
| Queen Vic. is actually preparing q
book of her own composition for the
press.
A girl in Antwerp tried to drown her
self because she was refused piece of
gingerbread.
A number of fools are digging for
"buried treasure Oh the beach near
Belfast, Me.
A Frenchman in New York blew his
brains out while tortured with religious
doubt.
An Italian millionaire leaves fl $780,
600. Fifty years ago he was common
laborer.
Whisky fell ten cents a gallon ut
Chicago at the news of Yates's signing
the pledge. a.. fr
In some of the villages of Prussia one
third of the population will leave for
America in the Spring.
There are two thousand more beggars
in London now than there were a year
ago.
Two American travellers were recent
ly robbed and murdered ut Grand Cairo,
in Egypt.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell will soon
address the New Jersey and Ohio Legis-
latures in behalf of woman suffrage.
Two gentlemen of Chicago came near
fighting duel, because one of them
paid the fare of the others wife on
street car.
Since January I'd there has been fall
of sl9, ,237 900 in the value of eleven of
tho fashionable stocks dealt in at the
New York stock board.
A duke in England is entitled to six
chaplaips, o marquis to FIVE, viscount
to four, and Baron to three.
Partisan journal admits that there
is more genuine gallantry towards wo-
men in the United States than in all the
world besides.
An establishment in Brandon, VT,
uses 1900 cords Of wood, employs sixty
hands, and manufactures 81 ,0O0,O 900 pill
boxes annually. ...
In the English army, ont Of III ,43o
men recently examined, 2l,7Oo can
neither read nor write, 2s,000 can read
only, and 10000 can do both.
Down in Rhode Island and Provi-
dence Plantations poor man is taxed
one dollar for his vote, and two dollars
if he fails to vote one year and tries it
the next. -. D>..--- 'it 'a
Four places are proposed for the Ma
val Academy-Annopolis, where it now
is: New York, where it was originally;
GARDENERS Island, and New London.
Three inches of red snow was seen re-
Gently in tho Grisons, Switzerland. This
phenomena is not unfrequent; and is
caused by microscopic fungus in the
snow.
The Lowell (Mass.) manufacturing
corporations have generally given no.
tice of reduction of ten OF fifteen per
cent. in the wages a. the close of the
present month. jlg -1'.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington has received supply of
vegetable seeds and cereals from Europe,
and is rapidly preparing them for dis
tribution. 80 .-,,.,tt
Awoman in Wisconsin buried as her
husband coffin filled with log Of
wood and then attempted to collect
S, 900 insurance money, bnt the bogus
"corpse" was discovered
The Navajo Indians, about 1909 in
number, are held as prisoners of war,
and have hitherto been under the care
of the War Department, and have cost
the government over $l,5oo, 600 a year.
Bolts has inst recovered horse that
was stolen from him early in the war.
His loss is the beasts gain. If Bolts
was disconsolste without the horse, how
happy was the horse to be free. from
Botts.-rN!Y. World. i.ss7pl iasasFsa
t. |. There are 100000 proprietors 81
vineyards in France, 1,000 varieties Of
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