The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-14
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England after more proselytes.
Ono hundred pounds of water in the
Dead Sea contain forty-five pounds of
salt.
The past winter has beer one of the
severest ever known, both III this and
other countries, i.a...
The New York S. +. T, P. o. C. T. A.
procured 16 convictions last month, and
$635 in fines. v"r 80
The capital of Wisconsin is to be re- |
moved from Madison, and will probably
be established at Milwaukee.
The Richmond Wing is of opinion that
grape culture and vino manufacture
will become. at no distant day, leading
interest in Virginia.
Thurlow Weed has quit smoking and
Commodore Vanderbilt has not. The
example of the Commodore has most
followers 'r71 o. 49,
Lord Brougham, according to an Eng
lish paper, has net had better health in,
every respect during the last eighteen
months than he is enjoying now.
In some parts of England red behring's
were sent thrsugh the postoffice as val
entines, so numerously as to cause their
being thrown out as nuisance by the
officials. KS,
The Helena (Montana) Herald says
the yield of gold in that Territory, in
1867. was 500, 600, 900 instead of s12, OO0,-
900, as reported by the Government
Commissioners.
A teacher, of an Episcopal school in
Hartford advised his boys to sacrifice
something daring Lent. They retired,
deliberated, and decided to sacrifice
hash!
Turkish baths have been introduced
into the insane asylums of Ireland,
with great benefit to the patients. The
effect of bath is very soothing.
In a graveyard near Paris is this in
scription upon monument: p" Here re-
pose in peace, after sixty years of mar
ried life, Mr.. and Mis-"
The attempt to use the camel for mil
itary purposes in the southern part OF
the United States has finally been aban-
doned, after a costly experiment Of hf-
teen years.
A Mississippi editor says the people
of Jackson have to burn tar in that
portion of the city near the Convention
to keep the air pure and prevent sick
ness.
Jacob Fl. Ella, of Dover, N. H., q mem
Der of Congress, has four sons, named
as follows: Frederick Douglass, Parker
Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips, and Charles
Sumner.
One Of the members Of the Lower
Houselof the Legislature of Massachu-
sets keeps private stenegrapher to
report for his special edilicatiQn the
prayers ofthe Chaplain.
Alta recent sheriff's sale at Coffeevillo,
Miss., four hundred and sixty acres of
good timbered land, within three miles
of the Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road brought only s9l. 3D..
Every column of a newspaper con-
tains from five to twenty thousand dis
tinct pieces of metal, the misplaeing of
a single one of which would cause a
blunder or typographical error. With
this curious fact before you, don't you
wonder at the general accuracy of
newspapersf .,v.v.vrq
The Frontier Inder says that the rail-
road town al Fort Sanders is to be call
ed Laramie, and starts with twelve ho-
tells, fifty drinking saloons, twenty-five
wholesale and retail out-ftting houses,
three commission houses, four livery
stables, two drug stores, one hundred
residences, tEo printing offices, six sur
geons and physicians, and 1900 gentle
men,"
The United States Mint, in Philadel-
phia, is now engaged in coming, for
private parties, considerable quantities
of coloradosilver. A single mass from
the Ell Carmen Mining Association was
recently converted into dollar pieces.
The silver is of wonderful purity, easily
worked, aud equal to the finest virgin
ore from Mexico.
Asingular and fatal accident recent
ly occurred on the premises of the LIE
Grand Lockwood, in Norwalk, Conn.
A large bed Of mortar had been mixed,
which had become frozen hard on the
surface, and the workmen had dug into
tho bed TO obtain mortar that had
not been frozen. On Friday morning a
workman named Stevens went for NOR
tar as usual, when the bed cayed in and
buried him up. He was soon dug out'
bat life was extinct.