The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-31
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Cough is On his last lccturins tour.
The Sultan is reforming hisprisou sys-
ten.
A Granddaughter Of George III. lives
at Long Branch.
There is a sweet orange season in Flo
rida.
The sitkaus are rapidly learning to
swear in English.
Mr. MilJurn, the blind preacher, Was in
Chicago last Sunday.
Mario has failed to excite s.. Peters
burg TO the paying pitch.
BiShep Selwyn, of LicLfie!d, has jost
been conSecrated with great puinp.
The Grand Rapids Democrat rcpomin-
ates McCleIiaE and PcudIetDu for l@0S.
Ina II,ilgen is the name Of new
Swedish singer whose admirers think
her better than Jenny Lind.
The English painter Watts has just
done dySpeptic deincarion Of Death
or the Pale Horse
There il o chance for new Office in
Alaska--keoper Of the seals.
The weather is very warm ia New Or
leans and in ST. Augustine.
The Hartford insurance companies
have lately divided SSop0U0.
The trustees OF Bcrcher's church IN
sisted upon being deadhcaded to Dick
Gus readings.
England pays ElOl q year f'r each
of its soldiers, France so and. Prussia
only $50,
Somebody ought TO send the Queen Of
Spain a tract Of something. Sac is be-
having awfully
Northampton, Mass, has introduced
musical instruction into the higher
grades of its public schools.
The Church Of s.. Peter, AZ Frankfort,
Germany, has tower four hrmdred aud
sixty feet high.
1t is said that the clothes of a. T.
Stewart, the merchant prince, cost $500
year.
Porcelain capable of being blown,
pressed or rolled like glass is made in a
Philadelphia factory,
George ". Smalley, the London GER
respondent of the New York Tribune,
receives u yearly salary Of 5000 in
gold.
The East Florida Banner says t at in
that section all tie fences baye been de-
strOyed by fire.
Khancinjinga is not the highest noun
tain in the known world; but Gaaisau-
kar, in Tibet, s.
4 skating tournament is % be held ut
Allegheny City, Pa, next month. \
hurdle race and $1,000 in prizes are
among the features.
Mr.. George A. Trenholm is said to be
the only rich man in South Carolina
who was rich at the outbreak of the
war.
Lady Herbert, who was in the West
Indies at the time of the tornado, has
gone back to England and made Il maya
zine story out of it.
Mr.. William Gilmore SImms, the nov
elist and verse-writrr, is living in South
Carolina in very destitute circumstances.
He is near 50 years old.
A postmaster died III Maine the other
day who was appointed by Andrew
Jackson, and had been in office ever
since.
The last new feat Tor a circus acrobat
consists in turning double somerset
over sixteen muskets with bayouets, the
guns being fred at the moment of the
leap.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., not hav-
ing succeeded as yachtist or rs a jour
nalist, has concluded to run planta-
ton in South Carolina.
Sparta, Wis, is TO be supplied with
water through eartheuware pipes from
an artesian well.
The amount of snow in TIE Tyrol this
winter has never been eQualed in the
memsry of man.
There is serious ircuble of some kind
in the Cars family, it is said, but none
of the Russian papers dare tell what it
is.
Ia Munich two meu lately drank 4
Bavariau beer match. The winner alb
sorbed one hundred and ninety-fve
glasses in an hour.
The Swedish neasants have been ex-