The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
New York swells dye their mustaches

New York swells dye their mustachel
yellow.
London wants to restore the whip
ping post for thieves.
Blue satin bills of fare, with golt
fringe, are new aids to digestion.
Postmaster Kelly, of New York, kal
424 soldier clerks in his Office.
Paris has taken cebsus of its cat
and finds that it has 7OO, ,S24.
San Francisco is trying to invent
earthquake proof houses.
Brigham Young objects to the nse o.
opera glasses at his theatre.
Marshall O.. Roberts has $500, ,00(
worth of pictures in his gallery.
The Imperial locomotives in France
are ofpolished brass; and so is imperi.
alism itself.
The armies of Europe are composed
of 2, ,557, ,426 in active service and 67l,-
o3o reserves.
Many are enlisting in the army in
India to escape from the famine which
is surely impending.
A Mississippi paper says that the
crops that have not failed this season
are pumpkins and boy babies.
pl, l;-o.oo. - Uor,oo,t for Rva
years have numbered one to every
twenty marriages.
Sherman thinks Morton is crazy on
finance, and Morton knows Sherman is.
Both are near the Republican throne.
All the Congressman elect from Indi-
ana, including Julian and VOORHEES,,
have received their certificates Of
election.
Mr.. Alden Goldsmith, of New York,
has sold his celebrated trotting mare
Goldsmith Maid for $40, 900.
Jay Gould was probably made re-
ceiver of the Erie railway on the great
legal principle that the receiver is as
bad as the thief.
In one of the cantons of Switzerland,
an edict has been isssed forbidding any
youth under eighteen years of age to
smoke, under severe penalty.
One actress in Paris wears $50, 1000
worth of diamonds. Another has Just
bought house worth S3OO,O Beauty
here is as good as an over-issue of Erie.
The costumes of the ladies who prom
made Broadway now surpass those of
he theatre in gorgeousness. Such bril-
fancy in celors was never before wit
lessed on the arena of fashion.
Kansas rejected female suffrage at the
ate election, and adopted negro suf-
rage. That is the true Radical idea,
according to Senator Wilson-settling
he "more important" question first.
A gold medal is offered to every pri-
rate in the New York militia who
erves the entire term of his elistment
without absence from parade, drill and
company meetings.
Mr. HAYWARD. yo"ns bankNr Of
'ana, Illinois, reported to be the larg-
st land-holder in the United States,
vas married last week. He owns one
lice of 60, 900 acres in Nebraska.
A few nights since T. f. Timmons, a
while passing Il bridge
lear West Jefferson, Ohio, was thrown
rom his horse by cord thrown across
he bridge, and robbed of $500 by two
The Rev. w. r. Bently calls for aid
y extending the means of grace to 200
allen women and 5000 young men who
ire OH the downward road in Omaha.
f they were only negroes, new, they
night have bureau for their benefit.
The French Prince Imperial has taken
20 velocipedes. At Bordeaux quite a
Derby day" came off for velocipedes.
Five girls, dressed as pages des Hugue-
,ots, contested the prize of a gold watch.
Mr.. Disraeli said some time ago, in
with great social topic,
we all eat quite enough, and some of
IS drink a great deal too much; but
his | will venture to assert, that no
nan can be too well housed"
The New York Spirit Of the Times says
he terms of surrender offered to Gener-
Il Johnson by General Sherman, and
or which General Sherman was so
assailed, were dictated by
President Lincoln with the concurrence
If General Grant!
The New York WOrld says: "No one
seems to know what to do with the In
lians. Give 'em the ballot. 1t will
elevate, educate, enlighten, purify.
What's skin-even red skinf Ekal
rights, you know. Citizen Camanche-
oil Leni-Lenape-and Blackfoot brother
In reply to request to describe the
gulf stream, an applicant for a teachers
position in one of our cities wrote: "The
gulf stream is braRch of the Atlantic
ocean, and fire and smoke issue from it,
aud is situated east of Florida.
The Bath (Maine) Times says the cars
have been running to and fro from
Bath for over twenty-five years; yet
there is a lady, who has always resided
within four miles of the depot, and al
ways in good health, who has never
seen a railroad.
A contemporary notices, as a grave
omission in the new American edition
of Hoyle, that it contains no mention
of the little games" by which Radi-
calism contrives to steal about two hun
dred and fifty millions a year, in addi-
tion to the legitimate expenses of the
A wealthy gentleman in Providence,
who has made speciality of collecting
political csricatures, has a full collec-
tion, going back as far as the hard cider
1t is said to be the richest
of the kind extant, as he has been Of
fered repeatedly several thousand dol
lars for it.