The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-23
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Half the people of Belgium have nc
education whatever.
General Cole gave one of his lawyers
$4,000 as retaining fee. La fE
! { A Staten Island factory turns out
ton of "chewing gum" daily.
Bull Run Russell has been defeated
in his race for Parliament.
Tammany coutemplates A. Oakley
Hall or Abraham Lawrence, for Mayor
Henriques, Vice President of the New
York Open Stock Board, gets q salary
of $4,000 q year. --'- s'-
Aman in Hartford carries An um
brella that was bought in 1S47, and ha'
never been stolen but once. a...-
General Sutter, the discoyerer of golt
lin California, keeps himself mostly il
Washington.
Jackson Haines and a German Mad
emoiselle dance the can can on skates a.
Berlin.
The champion wrestler of the Nine
teenth Ward Of New York is handsome
girl of 81.
Fully two thousand ''dead- d-heads'
helped to give Anna Dickinson large
audience, in Nav York, the other even
ing. & III SD
Euro pean physicians, lis said, have
successfully used electricity to restore
persons who have taken an overdose OF
laudanum or opium.
/ A weekly paper speaks OF q play
which has been Invested of all exuber'
ances which are not evolved by pure
publicity" 90.
Josh Billings says he has "seen some
awful bad throte diseases completely
cured in days by simply jining tenn
perance society"
Getting drunk once week has been
decided to be "habitual intoxication,'
in Chicago. What, then, asks coteu-
porary, is getting drunk every dayr
The Quartermaster General, in his re-
port is averse to furnishing the Indians
with fire arms. He thinks the bow and
arrow sufficient for all purposes of the
chase.
San Antonio is the paradise of carpet
baggers. The Herald says that when q
carpet Dagger is freshly imported into
the city, Mayor Thielepape at once puts
him on the police until he can get some
thing else to do.
The Bridgeport Comm Standard pro-
poses that inasmuch as there are several
applicants for Government positions,
the applicant who will do his work the
cheapest shall have the place sought
for.
The rival Governors of Florida are
continuing their war with unabated
vigor. Governor Reed has obtained a
bran new State seal, aud both he and
Governor Gleason have appointed new
Attorney Generals.
The attempt to collect debt Of
twenty cents, in Red Rock, Iowa, the
other day, resulted in the debtor being
wounded in four places, and the credl-
tor having his head gashed.. 90
A Philadelphia thief entered cellar
on Thursday night, by cutting hole in
the door with an anger and chisel, but
he ate so voraciously of the provisions
he there found that he could not
squeeze through the same orifice, and
was nabbed by policeman, who kindly
pulled him out and then gave him tree
lodgings.
The office hunters raid upon Presi-
dent Grant brings to mind Mr.. Lin
coins complaint under a similar affiic-
tion. 81 am like a landlord" said he,
"who is so busy renting rooms at one
end of the building, that he has no time
to attend to the fire that Is raging at
the other end.
Already is careless farming wearing
out the rich lands of California.
Though one-fourth more acreage was
cultivated with wheat this year than
last, the crop is probably no larger,
simply because of the falling Oft in the
Weld in the old and heavy wheat coun-
ties. The new land gave much greater
crops than the old.
In the Detroit River there is an island
which is chrstened Mamma Judy" 1t
is used by fishermen, whe are greatly
annoyed by vessels passing close to the
island, and thus interfering with their
fishing arrangements. To prevent this
the fishermen have secured small piece
of artillery and planted it where it
commands their grounds" notifying
the captains of vessels that if they do
not keep q respectable distance from
Mamma Judy" they may expect to
hear unpleasant sounds.
After charging President johnson
with about all the sins enumerated in
the decalogue for the past three years,
the New York Tribune has ow come out
in his defense on one important point:
"yenality," it says, "is not among his
faults. We knew him in Congress
where men are pretty accurately
weighed and measured; he has since
filled almost every important station,
made many bitter enemies, and waged
deadly war against men abler and
stronger than himself; yet ne has never
been even charged with filling his own
pockets at the public cost"
1t is impolite to ask a lady her age
AS matter of courtesy, if she is forty
you are to say you think her about
twenty; if from forty to fifty-fve, say
about thirty-fve. Ladies regard them
selves complimented when they are
thought to be much younger than i:
the case. Miss Gamboge," says Blk
EN- ts that interesting but rapidly ad.
vancing lady of forty.four, 81 declare
you are locking quite charming-a reg
ular twenty-one in bloom and spirits
You can't be a day over that figure. il
I'm a Judge" Miss Gamboge lets off q
shower of smiles and says, "Now, Mr.
Rlixem Won do saw such insiuuatiup