The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-26
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Game is unusually abundant at the
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7 Only 10000 puncheons Of rum left
Jamaica this year. ssgssE7 ..-sr
Linen weddings are the latest and
cheapest novelty. sfr fa... .--
Bismarck has recovered from his last
case of reported illness. - % -
Napier received sl4 ,s25 for ak months
service in Abyssinia. -r
The window glass of o broadway dry
goods store cost $50, 600.
Boston claims to have woven the 6rst
flannel in America, ninety years ago.
A. "s1OO, 600 fee" has lateIy been given
D. new York lawyer in an important
ease. ...,.
There are twenty-nine cases of small.
fpox in one CinciRnati hospital
"The Pennsylvania Dutch is the
title of George Alfred TowHsend's lee
ture. -aa.' '"
| A New Yorker stepped on dogs tail,
was bitten by the animal, and had the
owner fined forty dollars for the bite.
Titian's Venus, in Florence, is falling
to pieces. The slightest touch or shake
removes the precious coloring.
In the canton of Oberwald, Switzer-
land, thcre is q law prohibiting per-
sons under l8 from smoking.
Mr.. Brigham young is now the one
seventy fifth part of widower. He
has just lost one of his wives.
There is three -cornered fight for
the may orally in Boston-two Republi-
cans and one Democrat being in the
field.
Some friends of Miss Alice Cary have
made her present of $1,000. Themoney
was conveyed through Mr.. Greeley.
A Boston widow lady, about to change
her name, intends to dress on the aus
picious occasion in Lavender satin at
Sl4 yard"
Collector of Customs Coke, of Phila-
delphia, is likely to be suspended, for
refusing to obey his superiors.
Our readers will remember the "Ful-
ton ferry disaster" in New York. The
Corouer's jury returned verdict of no
one to blame.
1t is said that liquor ammonia, dilu-
ted SO it can be swallowed, freely ad-
m;nistered, forms complete antidote
for bites of poisonous snakes.
There is invested in the iron business
at Chicago $l5,OO0,OOO of capital, en-
ploying $1,000 workmen, and creating
an annual product of S25, 100000.
An entire Cleveland family, except
the father, have been sent to the lunatic
asylum. The father is remarkably
healthy and vigorous, both in mind and
body.
August Belmont has lately paid $4,000
gereaus of two nude sleeping children.
Critics call the flesh painting wonder
full.
Parepa was sick at Salt Lake City,
and her Eastern engagements will be
delayed accordingly. The overland
staging was too much for her, and also
for the horses.
Paris is crowded with strangers,
among whom the young American ladies
attract great attention. They are said
| to be the handsomest who promenade
the Champs Elysees.
They have Saturday liquor law"
in Canada, requiring all taverns to close
from seven o'clock on Saturday night
till eight o'clock on Monday morning.
The New York papers are anxious
that the "Society for the Prevention of
Gambling" in that city, just now, turn
its attention to Wall street.
A Washington couple, wishing to con-
vey the dead body of their child to Bal
timore, evaded the express charges by
dressing it in it's usual clothing, and
taking it between them on the cars.
The New England Women's Medical
College in Boston is becsmisg resort
for intelligent young women. Delega'
tions from the female seminaries in the
neighborhood frequently attend the
| lectures.
The Independent, after eulogizing the
private life of Thad. Stevens, and prais
ing certain unpleasant parts of Anna
Dickinson's book, now comes to the
rescue of the character of Mary Magda-
lene.
A gentleman at Taunton, Mass, kept
mammoth pear in drawer some
weeks, and on taking it out recently
found that it had been excavated and
filled with q mouse's nest, in which
were five diminutive mice, about the
size of peanuts, of pink color.
A petition is in circulation in Lon
don to request Parliament to enact q
law which shall give authority to the
Judges to sentence street thieves to the
whipping post. The lash, it is said, is
the only thing they dread.
A young German, of Milwaukee, shot
himself on Saturday, because an ex-
pected remittance from "Fatherland''
did not come. The remittance came on
Monday, in time to meet the expense of
his funeral.
Oliver Dyer is authority for the as
sertion that 100000 people below Twen-
tieth street, in New York, live in cell
lars. He has obtained the actual
figures of the liquor shops-524S
There are 1873 billiard saloons in the
city, and 10000 destitute and orphan
children.
Horace Gage, of Plymouth, Washing
ton county, Ohio, while returning from
a hunting excursion last week, shot al
q dog that attacked him, missed the