The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

"Long pines"-A baseball club OF
six-footers.
Japanese scissors are made like sheep
shears.
A beet sugar factory, 200 feet long, is
going up at Aurora, LII.
Some one who processes to know, says
the Aston estate is now worth Sl44, OOO,-
O0O.
Eleven architects in Chicago have
building contracts for this season
amounting to $500, 600.
A Cincinnati seamstress has just been
paid 16 cents for making four pairs of
pantaloons.
Russian tea is yellow and delicious,
being made, it is asserted, of the bios
SONS of the plant instead of the leaf.
Last year, Davenport, Iowa, destroyed
100000 bushels Of grain III making 3i,-
900 barrels of beer.
A Cincinnati court has decided that
the relationship between stcp-daughter
and step-father ceases on the death of
the wife and mother.
A member of the British House Of
Commons, it is reported, recently walk
ed to his seat with wreath of red tape
on his brow.
David Berlin, Radical city official
in st. Louis, has been prosecuted for
open and shameless adultery, by the
wife he deserted ten years ago.
A clergyman in Illinois, on alternate
Sundays, preached in churches one hun
dred and sixty miles apart. He travels
from one village to the other on horse
back.
A man in New Hampshire crawled a
quarter of mile in satisfaction of an
election bet. Fools are evidently not
yet extinct.
In the Insane Hospital of Indiana,
there are forty seven woman who have
been made lunatics through the brutal
conduct of drunken husbands.
The students of Dartmouth College
are reported to have broken into the
chapel and destroyed the organ, in re-
venge for tue expulsion Of some of their
classmates.
The astrologer in whom Eugenie puts
confidence predicts 4 war between
France and America, in consequence of
which her husband will lose his I'm
perial head.
Mr.. George Kane, of Halifax, recent
'ly sold his wife TO man named Nor
bury for six dollars Nova Scotia cur
rency, and she ran away from the latter
husband.
James NJ. Grant, of Bridgeport, OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife, last
week, and she knewnothiDg of the fact
until its publication in the paper. That
is Chicagoan facility.
The New York Nail thinks it feath
or in the American editorial cap, that
though wine was as free as water at the
Dickens banquet, not one of the two
huuulOu OuiVoiS PASoSh' S"' VA u''fN'
Oue-sixtiI of the population of San
Francisco are out of employment, and
all accounts from California are dis
couraging in the extreme to those who
intend tn emigrate there.
Sprague's cotton mill, at Augusta,
Maine, has manufactured, in tao year
ending April LIST, 2,4s5, 7sS yards of mus
lin, and has used ll7S bales Of cotton.
The mill has 5000 spiudles in operation.
A gentleman in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, who recently advertised
small store to let, had ten applicants
for it, eight of whom wanted it for Il
groggery. The eight found they were
not wanted.
A Decatur (Ill.) lady advertiscs for
husband, who must be handsome, we'll
of, temperate, anti-tebacso, and go to
church regularly. The lady is twenty
seven, fair and good-looking, aud has
money. lHt+ I....
During the last twelve months more
than three hundred cases of whooping
cough have visited the Hartford gas
house, to inhale its odors, expert
encipg great beneftsand frequent cures
Policeman Oakss, of Boston, has just
received letter, with two golden dol
lars, sent by his daughter in Havana,
60 his wife in Boston, fifteen years ago.
Roth wife and Iauphter are now dead.
The latest hymenial fashion dispenses
with groomsmen, and the edict is for
the groom to appear in full promenade
suit, frock coat, light trowsers and col
ored scarf. The fashion is not favorably
received among the gentlemen.