The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-28
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Garibaldi, like Beeeher, is writing a
novel.
Toronto has just got its first female
physician.
Rosa Bonheur denies that she believes
she is goat.
Cattle by the hundreds in Canada are
dying of starvation.
The coachmen and footmen of Paris
threaten to ''strike."
Miss Sylvan Hardy, of Winton, Me-,
is sylph of $50 pounds weight.
The Prussian government bought
300, 900 uniforms in Ireland recently.
The largest income in Vermont is by
l. Barnes, of Burlington, 1900.
The Connecticut Republicans are
squirting lovingly toward an eight hour
law.
1t is estimated that Il bridge could be
built from Calais to France for $50,
900.
the tax on its patience imposed by Rad
ical extremists.
In Paris one gets fair dinner for
twenty cents and for twenty-five cents
fares luxuriously.
A woman died in Birmingham, Eng
land, who had scarcely been sober for
thirty-five years.
A saloon keeper in Portland extracts
the alcohol from the apples he uses in
making pies. ..
illinois has stringent law against
bringing into that State seed of the
Canadian thistle. atss..,..Es<
A London Court is occupied with q
will case whose issues involve the dis
posal of s3,O00,o0O.
The child of noted courtezan of FL
mira has inherited $50, 900 from repent
ant father.
The little Japanese acrobat "All
Right" is vastly in fashion in New York
WIN arlStOCratlc chlluren.
Lafayette, Ind. is excited over boy
pianist who plays Beethoven's most diff
ticult compositions at sight.
Mr.. Seward, it is stated, used $4,000
of the secret service fund in defending
Fenians in Canada.
The President has declined to inter-
ferc, as requested, in the arming of the
militia of Tennessee.
A shrewd female swindler got S2500
in Hartford by pretending to be Miss
Bull, owner of large estates there.
Chief Justice Little, ofNebraska, died
last Tuesday at Clinton, H., of con-
sumption. His age was %.
Bennington, VT, has 4 lawsuit grow
ing out of n divine kicking one of his
congregation out of his house.
The Worcester Palladium announces
a new college degree, that of d. c. B.
r., doctor of college boat rowing.
Tilton is such consnmmate humbug
that he has actually hnmbugged him
self into belief in his own genius.
1t is asserted that an eminent Radi-
ical politician received 500, 900 cash for
aiding the sale Of railroad franchise.
The Mr.. Brown, in Ohio, who did not
taste food for sixty days, is now in
creasng in shadow, and using his knife
and fork.
The common council Of New York
city has appropriated $4,000 to defray
the expense of celebrating. the 4th of
July.
Hay is now selling in Boston at forty
eight dollars per ton, being about the
highest price ever known in that city.
Summers speech on the Russian trea-
ty was Il three honr one. II will Occu-
py several columns of small type.
No slave can now he sold in Cuba for
more than $780, The twelve hundred
dollar Niger, sar," aristocracy is abol-
ished.
There was qnite frost in Columbus,
on Thursday night, and some damage
is reported to the country round abOnt.
1t is said that the Paris Exposition is
three times more expensive, cheerful
and wonderful than that of London in
1862. .r~ v..T TtTE
Recent English papers give accounts
of very hot weather, and record several
deaths from sun-stroke. The heat is
described as tropical.
The Pacific Railroad engineers, who
were reported massacred, in the Black
Hills, by Indians, have all turned up
safe.
New York has 10000 children under
twelve and over five years Of age who
are deprived of the advantages Of COM
mon school education. E D 81
In tue heart of a white oak log at Sal
isbury, n. H., was found the other day
a full-grown owl, well preserved, and
deeply imbedded in the wood. ,ro,ry,
A large party Of Eastern capitalists
and railroad men are at the West, in
specting the Pacific railroad and the
country through which it passes.
Phillip Rearden imLibed alcohol from
a barrel through a straw, on one of the
Boston wharves, Saturday, until he be-
came SO drunk that he died.
1t is reported that the United States
mau-of-war Ashuelot, has bombarded
the town in the Island of Formossa, the
inhabitants Of which murdered the ship /
wrecked crew Of the Rover.
At the New York Union League Club,
Thursday evening, resolution cen
suring Horace Greeley was voted down.
The bailing Of JEFF. Davis was con- /
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