The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-02
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There are 5000 seotchmen in Lon
don.
Mormon emissaries are proselytizing
in Georgia.
Street Ballad Singing is said to be re-
viving in New York.
Fossil oysters have been found in the
Egyptian Pyramids.
England derives a revenue of $780,
900 for licences of dogs.
Spain, with an army of 100000 men,
has $40 Generals.
Queen Victoria has more than thirty
tons of silver and gold plate.
Synonymous terms in Washington
Gastric Fever; Delirium Tremens.
Mark Twain realized. s1So5 in gold
from his first lecture in San Francisco.
A "patent vaccinator" has been in
vented, to render incubation painless
and certain.
A small family in Macon, Georgia,
consists of father, mother and twenty
two children.
The valxe of the tobacco crop of
Bracken, Kentucky, for the year 1867,
was S3,5O2, 2,195.
The World suggestively inquiries
whether the term "a traitors dosm"
means being bailed by Greeley.
General Breckinridge's colored ser
want is making Conservative speeches
in Virginia.
Rev. John NJ. ChivingtOn, of Indian
massacre notoriety, has married the
widow of his son Thomas.
w. H. Russell, once q Colorado mil
lionaire, has gone into bankruptcy.
Liabilities Sl,25O,0O0, with no assets.
The Cincinnati Common CougCil has
reduced the horse car fare in that city
to FIVE cents.
A neat thing in earrings comes from
Paris, in the shape of pair of cnor-
nous, hairy, spotted spiders, with a fly
caught in their feelers.
Chicago has recently completed an
other immenss grain elevator, and now
boasts of sixteen with total capacity
of over nine million bushels.
Mr.. Seth Greene is hybridizinS fish at
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington.
He has mixed shad with bass, and thus
far the experiment is successful.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that the "Visible Admixture"
law, passed by the Legislature of that
State, is unconstitutional.
A girl, named Signera Mantscaleonis,
of Naples, becoming offended at the
Rev. Stefano Pirelo, recently hired two
young men to murder him, and they
did it for S32.
Memphis is excited over the consump-
tion of two cows that had been bitten
by mad dogs. The beef has been trac-
ed into the open market, AID thence in
to the stomachs of consumers.
Hen. VIM. NJ. Evarts refuses to take
any fee for his defence of the President.
He undoubtedly deems the honor of de-
feating such cabal of conspirators sut-
ficient remuneration.
The London TomahdUk says: "There
is now so little to separate the dis
tance between London and Paris that
the recklessness of the Imperial Court
is finding its way across the channel,
and adultery is king on the boulevards.
A circus company performing at Nor
ristown, N. j., it is alleged, has abduct-
ed two young ladies from that place.
A third was to have followed, but was
prevented by her parents becoming
aware of her intentions.
A story is told of the late Lord Brough-
ham and his mother. The OLD lady's
servant invariably, when accused OF
breaking anything, replied, "Sure,
ma am, it was crackit before;" and one
day, when little Harry fell down stairs
and his mother shouted, "Oh, boy, is
your head brokeT "Na, ma, mother"
said the young genius, sit was crackit
before"
At sale Of pictures in Paris, two
amateurs obstinately disputed the pos.
session of fine picture by celebrated
Dutch painter, which represented an
ass. Each bid against the other. AT
last one of the gentlemen said, at is
of no use-I will not yield. The pic
ture once belonged to my Hncle, and i
will give anything for it." "In that
case" said his adversary, 81 will not
go on. You shall have it, as it is q
family picture"
Everybody remembers the man who
advertised himself, dozen of years ago
as retired physician whose sands Of
life have nearly run out" aud offered fol
sale an infallible prescription for con-
sumption on receipt of twelve cents in
stamps. The prescription was duly
given, Sut contained an ingredient not
procurable at drug stores generally, and
only to be obtained, price one dollar, at
the store of the advertiser in jersey
City.
Skeptics have hitherto objected to the
credibility of the Scriptural account o.
the adventures of Jonah with the whale
on the ground that the throat of the
mammal was only few inches wide
and, therefore, too narrew to admit O.
the passage of mans body. But Pro-
fessor Waterhouse Hawkins says there
is no need to assume that Jonah wa
swallowed by the whale. The head o.
the marine monster is two-thirds al
large as its entire body, and was, there
fore, sufficiently cOmmOdious to serve
Jonah as an abiding place for severa
days. ..
Buffalo had singular storm, las
Wednesday, during which FIVE houses
were struck by lighting. A woman hs(
an earring knocked violently out BY
the electric fluid. and another woman
,-oo -.-o.+rotai and oh axra livid mark