The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-12
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twins last year.
The "yacht skirt is the newest new
thing.
Matchmaking is common occurrence
in Cleveland.
Chicago talks of bridging Lake
Michigan.
Soap-stone dust is used in the adulter-
alton of pepper.
Milwaukee manufactured 81, 100000
worth of leather last year.
Statistics show that widower is twice
as likely to marry rs a widow.
Newark stands third on the list as a
manufacturing city.
A ccmetry near Pittsburg is adver
tised rs "a beautiful summer resOrt.T
A man in Plttsburg was fined s. for
counting neighbor's wife.
| A Providence washer oman is heir to
$4,000. Providential.
The peasants of England have not
more than three hundred words in their
vocabulary.
A Denver alderman was injured by
the accidental discharge of his duties.
! The Sisters of Charity" in the United
States number at the present time 93l.
Mollie Trussell was pardoned after Il
months imprisonment. The Judge was
Mollie-ticd.
The miscegenation sentiment is pro-
crossing in Maine.
Somebody styles Bennett the India
rubber man of the metropolitan press.
A man in Harmony, n. Y, put his
child in an old boiler and left il to freeze
| to death.
! Half bushel of new counterfeit pos
tai currency was picked mp in Detroit
street.
! A village in New York has petitioned
to have its name changed to 'Black
/ Crook"
Horace Greeley lately attended Il re-
ccption in Washington aud was mis-
I taken for hackman.
A masked ball was recently given
| i'm st. Petersburg in aid Of the Cretans.
| The receipts were S5l 900.
Miserable persons of both sexes i'll
New York steal to obtain prison board
and lodging.
! The Paris exposition building covers
twice as much ground as the London
| Crystal Palace.
George Eversman dropped dead while
dancing at a ball in Burlington, Iowa,
one night last week.
\ tape-wOrm removed recently from
man in Brattleboro, VT, measured 5iG
inches in length.
The wool clip of ls66 sold for about
ST., 100000, and the goods made of it
for $500, 100000.
The Jersey City papers are foamins
over n 100000 bribe" to purchase the
New Jersey Legislature.
The annual session of the Philadel-
phia NJ. +. Conference will be held at
Harrisburg, Pa, beginning Oh the 18th
of March.
A citizen of Detroit, while sitting be-
side young lady acquaintance in her
parlor, robbed her of her pocket-book.
The believers in the doctrine that
the second advent of Christ will occur
this year, are numerous and active in
Bangor.
Temperance men in Michigan have
determined to make the question of the
prohibition of the liquor traffic a polit-
cal issue.
Brigham Young has been hauling
some of the Mormon merchants over the
Goals for their extravagant prices.
Bayard Taylor delivered in Rochester
New York, on the 2lst ult., his eight
hundred and fifty-seventh LECTURE since
he entered the lecture arena.
One hundred and three corporations
were organized in Massachusetts, during
the year 1866. The whole amount OF
Incorporated capital now is slo4, ,O6s. oil
Philadelphia clergymen "cannot I'm.
ierstand why the rich man who rides in
his carriage on Sunday should go ia
heaven while the poor man who rides
in the street car should go to hell"
Ann McGlennan. had her nose bitten
of BY negro OH New Years Day, in
New York, and died on the 4th inst. un-
der the influence Of chloroform while
submitting to an operation to form
new nose.
A woman in New Albany brought suit
against one Evans for entering her
house against her wishes. He proved in
defence that he was pursued by a mob
of two women, three boys and four
dogs. and sought the castle Of the lady.
He was acquitted.
The tallest member of the L. s. Sen.
ate is Mr.. COwan, the shortest, Mr.. Da.
Wis, while fourteen of the forty-nine are
over six feet in height; the heaviest, Mr.
Van Wrinkle, the lightest. Nr. Riddle,
while twelve weigh two hundred pounds
OF more. The Senator with the largest
chest, Mr.. Pomeroy, the smallest, Mr.
Riddle, while nineteen have chests meas
uring, in circumference, forty inches or
more; with the largest heads, Aessrs
Grimes, Nesmith, Pomeroy, and Van
Winkle; the smallest, Mr.. Lane, of In
diana, while thirty have heads meas
uring, in circumference, twenty-thret
inches OF more; the Oldest, Mr. Wright,
the youngest, Mr. Sprsgue, while thir,
/ ty-one have lived for more than half a
century.
! Fire.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-The building al
: the corner of Cass and Kenzie streets
usa fesfrovad Inv fire. last night, Los