The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-31
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There are 5000 street sweepers in Par
is.
A bridal pair in Detroit weighs $50
/ pounds.
A gang Of women robbers has just
been suppressed in Paris. -f
The recent carnival at Rome was the
dullest Hpon record.
Philadelphia is thirty miles in cir
cumferenee.
Some New York gentlemen propose to
erect a new theatre in Albany.
The New York Academy of Music
flights up at cost of 800 night.
John Smith has eleven hundred name
sakesiu the New York City Directory.
Impeachment will cost at the rate of
one hundred millions per anuum.
Iowa prints its laws in Swedish, as
well as half dozen other languages.
It's proposed to bridge the Delaware
river between Camden and Philadel-
phia. .H
A French woman in Nashua, n. a.,
has given birth to FIVE children within
twenty-five months.
Lmberger cheese has been decided to
be nuisance in Pittsburgh, and 4 gro
Ger fined for keeping it in his cellar.
A monkey in GAINESVILLE, O., has been
demonstrating his knship to the human
race by having the measles.
Peter Blair, of Minouk, Ill, had his
measure taken for a coffin and a grave
on Friday, and then hung himself,
The Washington monument has reach
ed height of la feet, at cost of S24O,-
600, and is to be further elevated 374
feet.
Trichins has appeared at Hampton,
H., and 5000 of the worms were found
in one cubic inch ofmusele.
Marshall, Mo-, sent out l9 hunters,
Thursday morning, and they returned
at night with 773 head of ducks, turkeys
and geese.
Hand organs and bluebirds are uni
versally considered the fererunners of
spring; but in Erie, Pa, cows in the
park are regarded as harbingers.
The Muscatine Qowa) Journal says
the principal amusements of the deni-
Gems of that city at present are hunting,
boating and holding down dry goods
boxes Oh the streets.
Hartford is called the City of Stub
tailed Churches" There are more un
finished church spires there than in any
place of its size in the country.
II. W. Leach left Guthrie, Iowa, last
week in such hurry that he took an
other mans wife and left his own. He
will be Intensely disgusted when he dis
covers this exchange of packages.
Plantations are selling dirt cheap il
South Carolina. Recently some tracts
of good land in Pickens District were
knocked off at sheriff's sale, at from
lOc to 4Oc per acre.
a physician in Germany announces a
case where child was born with small
pox, the mother herself not being ai-'
fes,rd at all. She had accidentally
come into communication with a severe
case of smallpox about six weeks be-
fore the birth of the infant.
A nan in Morrisania, n. Y, sued a
Trades Union because his son was dis
charged from employment on account
of its members refusing to work in the
same shop with him, and gained his
case.
a few nights ago Chicago had seven
large warehouses, all in a row, entered
by burglars and robbed, feat which
the Chicago papers think unequalled as
yet by the burglars of any rival city on
the globe.
California farms average nearly 100
acres each, while in Massachusetts the
average is but 81 acres. New York has
the largest number of farms, $4,000,
her total being less than 5000.
The Northern Indiana says A few
weeks ago we announced TO the readers
of the Indiana that we were happy to
state that Andy johnson Nd but lit
| tie more than year TO serve. We are
now still happier to say that We believe
we lied on that occasion.
Two physicians are attending rheu-
matte patient in Bloomington, Ind, and
the local paper asserts that DR.. Miller's
side of the man is getting along very
well, but the other side in charge of DR..
| Turner, has not been heard from.
The scarcity of water in New Eng
land rivers is wildly illustrated by the
condition of the Housatonic, in Massa-
chusetts. According te the Pittstield
Eaqle, q man recently walked under the
ice with a rod and line, fshed the dis
tance of half mile or so, and came ont
dry shod, with about two bushels OF
suckers.
Steam towing is hereafter to be tried
upon the New York canals. A canaI
company has been formed in Syracuse
to build steam tug, and apply i. to q
nsw plan for towing on the Erie canal
T The tug is to tow canal boats in trains
1t is claimed that the new method viii
l-educe by one-half the cost of freight
ing and the length Of time between
Buffalo and New York.
I A German farmer named Schwate
living near Fremont, Kansas, under.
took 10 elbow out" the barrel of his ger
the other day. He pushed back the
hammer with his toe, put his nuzzis
10 the mouth of the barrel, and was
about 10 turn on the wind, when his
toe slipped from the hammer. The CUR
got in the first blow, then. and took the
tep of Schwate's head eff.
In Evansville, Indiana, on Sunday,
negro named Hopkins went to the house
of Jack Robinson, for whom he had