The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-17
5,MEWS.PARAGRAPHS.

7 Chillicothe papers estimate the ponu-
IatiOn Of their town at over 12,GO0.
Eugenie, il is said, now encourages
high tortoise shellicombs.
r. T. Blrnum, Is now travelling
through the country delivering lee
taree. s9 .-cal al. g. F--i.1 :
The Central Pacific Railroad has
reached a p.int 1913 miles east of sacra-
racnto.
The Vermont Legislature is discuss
ing laws compelling children to attend
S'sooi' y .cG .s.EaE 1oiz!5cEz :
Died sweet potatoes are The latest
aIemination that is 'jast as good as
cofeeP .-Ir gta3I
Chicago has invented "trotting matt
nee" as the fashionable na;nefor horse
race. ....... ~. ...- .....
The first day that the Law allowed
cunning, over 1000 ducks were killed
onthe Susquehauna alone.
A Canadian woman has been feed
fifty dollars for smuggling dozen pair
ofwoolen stockings In;o Dstroit.
They have "Grecian Bend Saloon
in Cleveland. Breakfast bill: Sour
apples, cucumbe,s aud Jersey lightning.
Stockton, California has an artesian
well thousand feet deep, which dis
charges 360,0e0 GALLONS, of hot water
daily.
There win b, fonr eclipses during
1859, two Of the sun and two of the
moon. 0ue of the latter will be visible
here, January 27th.
Twenty one days' hard labor was the
sentence Of an English l4borer who
pulled q carrot from field, to eat when
he was hungry.
Two old BACHELORS Of Indianapolis
made novel bet on the election. The
Loser was either to marry within six
weeks or forfeit 500. , 4
The Spanish journals sta;e that
QHeen Isabelle, during the thirty i've
years OF her reign, received So 500, 900
in gold for her personal expenses.
General Grant will have control Of
fifty-three thousand ofli3es and ofii:ers,
whose annual compensation amounts to-
thirty millions of dOllaTs. t.
British India is threatened with
famine as destructive as the late t,rri-
BILE famine in Orissa. The lice crop has
been destroyed b. deluSe on the coas
and By drought ia the intelior. Z =
The nambcr of letters passing
through the British Postolliec since the
by rail commenced has
increased from 75,0JO,000 to 705, 900 900;
and in this country from 4),GJ0,OJ0 to
4O0,000,000. - ii
The editor Of Western Democratic
paper says: ITO the many inquisitive
friends who want to know how far we
are going up Salt Riv"r, wa make this
general reply, 'Iuba Dam"
The velocipede is about to become an
article of female vehicular amusement,
snd knowledge of this fact has in
spired some shrewd artists and caterers
with tho design of preparing such ne
ther garments as will permit ladies to
mOunt the wooden stceds without the
danger Of blushing.
Tho number Of cAillreD who attend
school in lh} UHitcd States is about
1000, go, and tho number of female
teachers IS about 100000. The pupils !
H5o 2JO00.000 books, which cost 5lo,- |
15), ,0UO. .r. s.- .~.
II has been discovered that Benjamin
Franklin published the first Methodist
book in this country, in l14j. 1t was
Wesley. sermon upon Free Grace, and !
Franklin printed many editions of it.
IF The Capitol at Washington were
sold for its total cost" said Jacobin
"thc ayails would only run
The clerks Of tie governmt MT four
That is, under the Radical
dynasty, the people are compelle! year
Iy to pay three times the cost OF the
National Capitol for clerk hire. I'm.
happ!ly, il is too true.
A Paris fIshion-writer tells Of new
kind Of heal-dress; garland Of l1wers
30 contrived that, as the heat Of the
dancing room increases, the petals grad
uaily open anI finally fall in the hair,
disclosing a diamoEd or ruby heart in
each. Thus the crushed flowers after
dance will bo replaced before the close
Of the bali by second head dress.
An old Qlaker lady has recently been
travelling in Missouri, and on her return
home was asked by her friends what
she thought Of the cooking: "Well,
thee can have one instance. ! stayed at
q friends house, and in the morning
had a skillet to wash in. / had not more
than made my toilet when the servant
came for the skillet; soon after, on look
ing out of the window, where i had
full view of the kitchen, l saw the cook |
scald out the skillet and then fry some
pork, then she used it TO warm some po.
tatoes, and theG boiled some coffee in it.
1t appeared to be very usefnl utensil
for all purposes. On retiring to bed
that night, 10, and behold, there was the
sl,illst under the bed y