The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-14
CURRENT ITEMS.

JOnD SuluCs Audtuo hSiN PN'''
under tho government during every adj
ministration from that of Washington
to that of Polk, during which he died.
Martin Van Buren, is the only man
who held the Office Of President, Vice
President, Minister to England, Gov.
ernor of bis own State, aud Member OF
both Houses of Congress.
The only instance of father and son
in the United States Senate ut the same
time is that of Henry Dodge, Senator
from Wisconsin, and his son Augustus
G.. Dodge, Senator from Iowa.
Does silver money wear ont 1t
would appear so, as the loss on silver
withdrawn from circulation by the Bri-
fish mint for one year, owing to wear,
was fifteen thousand pounds.
The Hoosac Tunnel, when completed,
will be over $1,000 feet Give milcs) long.
Only 1000 feet of the mountain has been
penetrated. Tho project has cost MasSa-
chusetts $4,000, eco already, and will re-
ouire S5,UOO, 0O0 TO finish ii.
y well-known writer says: Men firt
because it is exhilarating; women be-
cause it is natural. a moderate quanti-
" of filtration is n positive good. 1t is
only when it is carried to excess and be-
comes deceptive, that il is an evil. PeO-
pie should never flirt except with eyes
A" open.
Youatt, the famous veterinary sur
geon, who has been bitten eight or ten
times by rabid animals, says that crys-
tai of the nitrate Of silver rubbed into
the wound will positively prevent by
drOphObia in the bitten person or ami
NAL.
Housekeeping has been introduced as
regular branch of instruction in Ger
man schools. Young ladies are required
to write essays upon the probable
prices of food, the weight of fat ar lean
fowls, the method of fiIttening beeves,
aud in general upon whatever pertain
TO the econmy ofthe culinary art.
A charming floral idea was expressed
at the Church of st. Bartholomew, New
York, last Sunday by lamb, made per-
fectly in small white flowers, laid upon
bed of moss surrounded by all the
choicest flowers of the conservatory. 1t
occupied table in front uf the altaI,
the top of which was covered with flow
els.
The American missionary Judson pos
sessed valuable watch, which he be-
slowed in succession before marriage
upon each of his three wives; when lie
offered it to the third object of his atfec-
tiOns, he stated that it had the desira-
BILE property of always returning to
him bringing the beloved wearer with
ii.
The following hint which dropped
from the lips of Charles Kean shortly
before his death may be worthy of the
attention of some of our clerical friends:
"You can have no idea what we actors
suffer in hearing the noble church ser
vice murdered by bad reading. Fancy
a man beginning q prayer, % Gswd,
instead of with the short, round Saxon
o."
In the year l724, woman was burned
at the stake in Palermo, Sicily, for her
esy, in expressing her belief in certain
astronomical scientific truths, how uni
versally admitted, but which the
Church had decided to be contrary to
the Bible. In addition al annual fine
81 has been leviSd on her family, which
they have paid for one hundred and for
ty four years, or five generations. They
now ask the italian Parliament to re-
nit it.
A Bostonian has a toy barometer on
exhibition. which consists of a miniature
cottage with two doors. At one of these
stands a man clad in purple and fine
linen; while at the other appears fe-
male arfayed in like apparel. If there
are signs of rain, the man steps boldly
out of doors, while the woman shrinks
into the cottage. But If the signs are
favorable, the woman goes forth TO shop
and gossip, while the man stays at
home and tends house and baby.
1t used to be n law in one of the little
States Of Germany, hardly so large as
many q wheat patch in our Western
country, that no one should be allowed
to enter upon the territory unless he
had money, enough to enable him to
journey across it,. One day o traveller
was stopped with the usual question, to
which he replied that he had no money,
but ne had a biscuit in his pocket,-suf-
ficient to last him while he was walk
ing across the country.