The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
A. Robin is expected in town.

In Iowa one night last week three
brothers married three sisters.
II There are over 500, 900 volumes in the
New England college libraries.
; The smallest elephant in Europe
drinks five gallons of ale day.
Every fifteenth Chinaman loses his
eyesight. Rice and constant shaving
are said to be the cause.
Dickens is an object of hatred on the
part of printers, his copy is so bad.
A case of honesty in conductor on
one of the New York street cars is re-
ported.
There is q revival of religion among
the convicts in the Kansas penitentlary.
The average money value of every
European emigrant reaching this cenn-
try is $1,000.
In the forty years from 1920 to 1860,
we took from Europe 4,5l2,l71 emil
grants.
Barnum is literally distributing sea-
son tickets to his museum, in his Con-
gressional district.
An engine at the Cincinnati water
works pumps million gallons per hour.
The patent Office is the only self-sus-
tanning branch of the Government.
The social clubs in New York are de-
nouuced as "hidden nests of iniquity
and depravity."
A Jewess in Cincinnati was smother
ed to death while attempting to save
her goods from fire.
In Sandusky they put new boilers on
the stocks and build the steamboat
around them.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention will be held at Providence
on the 14th of March next.
Pickles are forbidden by Connecticut
temperance society as encouraging
taste for something stronger.
During the Exposition no woman IS
to be allowed to enter alone any OF
the late supper houses in Paris.
1t is decided that State Courts have
no power to discharge enlisted soldiers
Oh writs of habeas corpus.
Hudson, the ex-railway king, has es-
caped from chancery court with for
tune. The only instance on record.
The editor of the Senaca Falls Courier
has been shown piece of linen cloth
which is upwards of 5000 years DID,
A woman in Wisconsin was severely
injured by drinking lye which was Of
fered her by some one who playfully
represented that it was beer.
A French dictionar y-maker, when he
came to the word "Rebellion," closed
its definition with the reference, "see
Ireland"
Mr.. Webb says he has been offered
three millions of dollars for the Dunder-
burg, but Congress will not let him sell
it. Bad for the country.
Miss Beulah st. Elmo Evans has gone
to Central America to collect materials
for one dollar and fifty-cent-sational
novel.
Frederick Douglass was on Friday
admitted within the bar of the House
of the Michigan Legislature, intro
duced by the Speaker and received with
applause.
The founder of the city of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, in 1886, writes to paper in that
city that although he is sixty-threc
years of age he has never seen rail-
road or telegraph.
At recent wedding in New York the
brides presents, consisting of silver,
iewelry, India shawls, and laces were
estimated to have cost one hundred
thousand dollars.
They are lively in Connecticut. The
Hartford Time, of Thursday says, "the
Democracy are joyous to-day in the
First Congressional District. Roll up
the sleeves, boys, and so in! You are
going to Win.
Ms. Jaques Burkhardt, well known as
the lifelong companion of Professor
Agassiz, died in Boston on Wednesday,
from the effects of malady incurred
from exposure during the late Brazilian
expedition.
Aman in Stone Creek Township, Ohio,
received such blow from his wife a
few days ago, that he fell senseless to
the floor. Another woman in the same
place, quarreling with her husband,
crammed q hot potato down his throat.
The iron ram Dunderberg went down
the bay from New York city as far as
Quarantine, Friday afternoon, to try
her steering gear and her facility of
turping quickly. The trial proved high.
| ly satisfactory. During a portion OF
the time she made twelve miles an
hour.
A writer asserts that the one magnifi-
cent specimen Of the silver ore of Idaho
at the Paris Exposition will of itself,
when shown to the working multitudes,
set in motion westward, across the At
lantic. from ten to twenty thousand EN-
igrants yearly.
The United States steamer Shenan-
doah, Capt. ]. R. Goldsborough COM
manding, visited Calcutta in December.
This is the first United States vessel
which has visited that port in twenty
five years, and she was enthusiastically
received by the civil and military au-
thorities.
The Imperial Rerier, in an article on
"whist,"' gives some hints which may be
useful even to many careful players:
with many players You can tell to q
certainty whether the card about to be
led is winner or loser; and not only
that, but whether, if winner, it is the
precursor of other winners. The wrist
and the fingers are often the sole reveal
.-. +boraof A man who touches three