The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

Minnesota.
Kansas reserves 5000, 900 acres for a
school fund.
There 100000 gaslights in Philadel-
phia.
April is the fIyOrito month for sui
cides in Paris.
A man in Pittsfeld, Mass, turns out
a ton of collar paper daily.
A twelve-hour prayer meeting was
receutly held in Baltimore.
Stewards new store on Broadway
will contain IA acres of flooring.
Victor Emanuel is apoplectic, and
has been bled two hundred times.
President johnson has vetoed sixteen
acts of the Rump Congress
Human bones are ground up for fer
tilizing by Nashville concern.
Kissing is not allowed at the Oxford
Female Seminary in Ohio.
Nine farms ont of ten in Texas are
going to ruin for want of labor.
Only two executions have occurred
in Vermont within forty years
Motto for the War Department.
Have we n Bourbon among usf
Small bills are scarce-at the bank.
Little bills are plenty--at the groceTs.
Many New Haven Radicals voted
their ticket with the picture of Grant
torn of.
1t is said that Senator Yates would
rather see Andrew Johnson sue
ceeded by Ben Zine than Ben Wade.
Madame de Stael and the Duchess dc
Bern were both good billiard players, so
too was Lola MOntcz.
A married lady named Teale, residing
in Concord street, Brooklyn, has be-
come entirely helpless from the effects
of tight lacing.
The London papers did not publish
Lord Cardigan's will in full. Among
the legaccs not mentioned are several
very heavy ones to his faVo1te mis-
tIesses.
Seine Frenchman remarks that ora
tory is the art of saying everything
without being put in tho Bastile, in .
country where you are forbidden to say
anything.
At Logausport. Ind, a few days ago,
two confidence men, Northrop and
Lether, quarreled over the spois, when
the former drew pistol and shot the
latter dead.
A German lady in Iowa has become
so seriously affected with home sickness
for her native land that she has desert
ed her husband and children in order to
return.
The funniest incident that has lately
TRANSFERRED is the case of doting
mother, who, being satisfied that her
child merited floggiug, first had him
placed under the influence of chl0rO-
form.
The telegraph cable across the Ohio
river five miles above Louisville, was so
melted by the lightning Tuesday morn
ing as to utterly destroy it. new ca
bic will have TO be laid down at cost
of about five thopsand dollars.
In New York, tho Legislature has
passed bill empowering railroad con-
ductors to make arrests; and giving
them the authority ofspecial policemen,
the better to preserve order on their
railway trains.
Eugenie sneezed twice while entering
n recent court ball, and the Paris papers
ferociously rebuke the servants for leav-
lug window open somewhere. Per
haps her Majesty had imprudently han-
died damp teaspoons.
A little girl, fourteen years of age, in
Petersburg, Virginia, recently commit
ted to memory and repeated the whole
book of Proverbs and 293 verses of the
Psalms. There ought 10 be Society
fer the prevention of cruelty to child
rem.
Fifteen or twenty little fellows, four
or Ave years old, had funeral process
sion, sermon and all, at Corning, New
York, last week, over the body OF a de-
funct rat. The Rev. Mr.. Niles, boy
preached the sermon, and an editors
son took notes and reported the ceremo-
MES.
Signor Forelli, of Florence, has made
an elaborate status of Shakespeare, in
which he is represented as young
butcher, with his sleeves tucked up, and
a knife in his baud, standing, with, an
animated air, beside sheep or some
animal, that he has slaughtered. The
unhappy artist has heard that Shake
speare vas bound apprentice to butch
sr in his youth, according to some bog
raphies.