The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-07
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Perfumed tootbpicks are the latest
novelty.
Lawrence, Mass, it is reported, en-
ploys $4,000 factory girls.
In Detroit all the police court fines are
devoted to the public library.
Eighteen inches of snow now cover
the summit of Mount Washington, Now
Hampshire.
Queen IsabeIla's partisans are flock
ing into France, laden with meney and
jewels.
They had a fair in Marshall county,
Iowa. recently, at which feature was
foot-race by three girls. o. '.
If revenue officer engages actively
in politics, in England, he is fined and
dismissed from office.
Three girls joined hands and jumped
off London bridge recently, commit
ting suicide in company.
The Australian colonies have 100000
horses, 1900, 900 cattle, 35,5OO, 900 sheep,
100000 pigs and 2,5oO,OOO acres of cul-
tivated land.
Paris ladies go out sporting with dog
and gun. One was caught the other
day without a license and fined.
Mrs. Polly Kent, a sprightly Massa-
chusetts dame, of eighty-one years, re-
Gently walked fifteen miles in five hours
and half.
A lady of fortune near Paris has COM
mitted suicide. She had boil on her
nose, and was afraid of being disfgured.
If a human being could make as much
noise in proportion to size as locust,
he would be heard to sing from Chicago
to New York.
An amateur balloonist, of st. Louis,
says the descent is mot worse than be-
ing thrown out of our buggy by run
away horse"
Over ten thousand dollars were ex-
pended in keeping alive the John AL
len prayer meetings, at New York, and
now Water street is worse than ever be-
fore.
The entire cost of the Fire Depart
ment of St. Louis for the first six
months was $4,000. The cost of tue
Chicago department for the same Pc
riod was S300,OOO.
The Philadelphia Age says that over
1000 new buildings, estimated to have
cost S4O,OOO,OOO, were put up in that
city during the months from January l
to October l.
The pluck of an expected bridegroom
failed him before the ceremony, in Rich
mond, the other day, and he sent note
to his waiting bride to that effect. Her
brothers then soused him in duck
pond.
INSANITY AGAIN.-Because of his
mental condition." E. B. 'Olmstead, the
defaulting disbursing clerk of the Post
office Department., will not be tried at
present, and probably never will be.
A mother in Rochester roasted her
little girl's hand for stealing candy, to
impress her with the tortures of the
damned. The mother will learn more
of it than she has ever taught her
child.
The women of Germany are to have
a Convention at Stuttgart this month,
not to demand suffrage, but-to discuss
the best way of managing babies. Del
gates will doubtless he admitted from
America, and it is TO be hoped they will
attend.
II is stated that each slave rescued on
the coast of Africa by the English fleet
has cost the government not less than
a quarter of a million of dollars. Only
nine persons were rescued from slave
traders in three years up to 1867.
Rev. d. DR. Boynton. of Waukegan,
Illinois, has received a legacy of $780,
600 from q deceased gentleman of Chi
cago. 1t was to have been the portion
of lady to whom Mr.. Boynton was
engaged to be married, and who died
not losg since.
A man and his wife who live in ten
ement house in Springfield, Mass, have
not spoken to each other for several
wears. 1t is merely to see who will hold
out longest. When the man wants to
say anything to his wife he addresses
his remarks to their little son, who also
acts as the medium through which the
wife communicates with her husband,
Colonel Benton was bitter opponent
of the bill for substituting the Collins
line of steamers, which was finally We
toed by President Pierce. AS the secre-
tary Of the latter announced the veto
to the House, of which Benton was
then a member, Old Bullion started up
and took him by both hands, exclaim-
ing: Tell the President thank him,
sir. Tell him l thank him heartily
And, sir, tell him that if | were PrCsi-
dent of the UHited States, I'll be damn
ed to h if | wouldn't keep blank We
toes at my side to check these Infamous
corruptions of Congress"
Tha portlond press tells of a boy