The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-24

The mitten that never fits-the one
you get from lady.
When do oarsmen resemble Indian
"r:,"-s Whan thav feather their
sculls.
A pumpkin pie, nine feet in diameter,
was exhibited at a recent fair in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire.
Kansas City, Missouri, has papula-
ton of twenty-eight thousand. 1t had
five thousand five years ago.
According to the Tribune, New York
CITY consumes between three and four
tons of hair, at cost of S2,000,O00 per
annum for its wigs and chignons.
Since the abolition of negro suffrage
in the Island of Jamaica the sugar
crop has largely increased, and coffee
shows an Improvement of fifty per cent.
From statistics recently published it
is established that while i'll 1885 there
was only one madman to $500 souls in
France, there is now one to every four
hundred.
Maryland farmers are discontiuuing
the planting of peach trees and are
turning their attention to strawberries
and potatoes, both of which are far more
profitable.
A young woman in Texas, having
adopted the habit of carrying pistol
for seIfdefence, first shot one of her
fingers off and then killed one of her
friends.
A man being asked, as he lay summing
himself in the grass, what was the
height of his ambition, replied, "To
marry rich widow with a bad cough"
Providence, with population of Co.
600, has taxable property amonntingito
So, ,726, 900 and a tax thisyear of 81, ,ll2,-
712. SiXty-one persons pay city tax
of more than $4,000, thirty-one over
$4,000. seventeen over $4,000 and eleven
over $4,000. All these poor fellows want
an increase of the tariff on manufac-
tures. an I are ready to swear they will
be ruined if they don't get it.
The remains of William Garvin, one
of the victims Of the steamboat disaster
near Florence, were recovered on Thurs
dav. and taken to his late home at
Louisville. He had been in Cincinnati
attending the meeting of the National
Board of Trade. Near the remains, on
the wreck, Mr.. Garvin's Bible was found
partly burned. The first legible words
in the remaining portion of the book
were the following, from the second
chapter of Joel: "Blow ye the trumpet
in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain. Let all the inhabitants OF
the land tremble; for the day of the
Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand"
"a fire devoureth before them; ans
behind them a flame burneth; the land
is as as the Garden of Eden before them
and behind them a desolate wilderness;
yea, and nothing shall escape them
There was ''little unpleasantnes" in
the lobby of the Ontario Parliament,
1
one day last week. The Mayor OF 10
ronto accosted a member named Cum
berlaud, denounced him for opposing
the Ministry, and shook his fist in his
face. A sparring match ensued, but no.
body was hurt. There are complaints
in Canada that the Imperial and Do
miuion authorities do not treat tAe
Liestenant-governor of the sub,provin-
ces with proper respect. The Home
Government refuses to allow the Onta-
rio Lieutenant a military guard; and
shocking to relate-Lord Monck, not
Inng AGO. actually refused an invitation
70 dinner with the LieuteDant-governor
of Quebec. A letter-writer very prop.
erIT ar saws, "this sort of thing should not
be fostered;" and hopes "a significant
lesson will yet be taught the Peopie pr
who thus lacerate the feelings OF the
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