The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-20
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

come off at his home near Worcester
November "a.
Americans in Mexico have an ide;
that Grant will favor the annexation O
a portion of that country. ''a'
Three hundred and seventeen build
ings were erected in st. Paul, MiRneso
Ia, this year, at cost of 81 ,006, ,050.
"A committee of Michigan fruit grow
ers has visited the region of Cairo, Ill.
and think it the finest fruit. grewin,
country in tho Union. Zt2E- q
California proposes to hold q World
Fair in 1870, and the Pacific Railroad
agrees to carry passengers at half fare
| Tho prison choir at Sing Sing is saii
to be surpassed. by few choirs in th'
country, either within or without pris
on walls.
Lorenzo Dow defined death-bed re
peDtance to be burning cut the candle
of life in the service of the devil, anG
blowing the snuff in the face of heaven
Mrs. Hole-in-thc-Day, with little
Hole-in-the.D Day, eight months old, is al
Minneapolis, Minnesota, seeking stu
alton as domestic.
1t is said that poor German mechan
ic in New York has just invented q
sounding board which solves the long
sought problem of the prolongation Of
sound in the piano.
A Polish Jew of Vida, who was SC
unfortunate as to have his house burned
down, was fined twenty-five roubles by
the Russian magistrates for crying fire
in the Polish language.
Iowa has commenced the erection OF
a S450,000 Insane Asylum at Indepen.
dence. 1t will be $50 feet IN length
and modelled after the Pennsylvania
Hospital at Philadelphia. 80
Mrs, Mary Booth Goodrich, widow OF
S. G. Goodrich, (the widely known and
lamented Peter Parley,) died at Wood.
bury, Conn, suddenly, on Sunday, No.
vember l, in the sixty-second year OF
her age.
One of the silliest election bets was
that of q Webster, Massachusetts,, man,
who engaged to take a cow-back ride
through town if Grant was elected. lie
tried faithfully, but failed.
Secretary McCulloch says that under
no circumstances would he remain in
office after the 4th of March, and that
his only desire is to hand over the de-
partment to his successor in the best
possible condition.
All the New York theatres are being
officially inspected by the City Super
intendent of Buildings, and their facili-
ties for egress in case Of fire thoroughly
examined. Nearly all Will be ordered
to make improvements.
A London correspondent writes that
his sister had very young canary, to
which she used to repeat the words
"swcet, pretty, pretty, pretty, sweet"
One day, quite suddenly, the canary
burst out with "Tweet, wichy, wichy,
wichy, wcetw From that day he lost
his old song, and at last gave nothing
but the above words to the day of his
death.
A cigar-making machine is the latest
patented novelty. 1t is capable, with
ordinary labor, of doing the work of six
or eight hands, turning out 1000 cigars
day. 1t performs all the operations
of cutting the leaf, punching, binding,
wrapping, heading and completing, by
continuous process.
The Circuit Court of Madison, Wis
consin, has granted nonsuit in the
case of Emma Schneider, against the
Providence Life Insurance Company, of
Chicago, who sued to recover the
amount of an accident policy on the
life of her husband, the court holding
that, as the deceased lost his life while
attempting to get on the oars after they
were in motion, the defendants were
not liable to pay the amount of the
policy.
Tho Cunard and Iuman lines have
consunmatcd an arrangement with the
British Government, which insures a
regular tri-weekly mail between Eng
land and America, for term not yet
defiaitely fixed, but probably for not
less than seven years. Two of these
mails will couie to and 60 from the port
Of New York, and one will be landed
at and depart from Boston.
General Butler stated 10 reporter of
the New York Herald that the new ad-
ministration will be radical upon the
reconstruction points, but conservative
upon financial matters. AS to the Ala
bama claims, he thinks the people are
willing to wait until the precedent can
be used during some English war to
square accounts by q like chance on
British commerce.
The following lines were inscribed,
about the year III, over the door OF
one of the earliest established life insur-
ance offices in England:
Come all you jolly Britons who love your
blooming wives
| Insure large sums on youF precious llvesi
So thai your widows may 10 rich when you
yourselves are rotten,
Aud they may live in happiness when you are
quite forgotten ID.
The Yale College catalogue for 1869
is just published. There are 723 stu
dents, diyided among the different de-
partments as follows; Theological, %
law, Il; medical, 25; philosophy and the
arts, l4O. In this department, Section
l., Sheffield Scientific school has . Sc
niors, 80 juniors, 25 advanced and spC
cial students, and in Section II. there
are 5 other students. In the Academic
al Department there are ll5 seniors, III
Juniors, Ill sophomores and l76 fresh
men, probably the largest freshman
class ever under instruction in the col
lege.
In June last, a German farmer nanet