The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-10
CURRENT ITEMS.

There is four feet of snow in Kansas.
Chicago auction sales for 1S61-Sl, 400,
81.
London has thirty-two licensed play
houses.
Gold is at fifteen per cent premium in
Italy.
A soprano singer in London is paid
S2U,0O0 q month.
Olive Logan is to appear as u humor-
Gus lecturer.
New York spends 100000 a day on
sleigh-riding.
The cold weather i'll Louisiana is
freezing the bananas.
Whisky is $500 barrel at Santa re.
Maggie Mitchell has paid $1,000 for a
new play.
Sir Morton Peto is to resign from Par
lament.
The first London edition Ga very large
one) of the Queens new book was sold
out in twenty-four hours.
Every daily paper in New York is
stock concern except the Herald, Express
and Mail.
Tho color now fashionable in Paris,
"Meutana Red is brilliant shade
like ruby.
The one hundred and fourteen cigar
makers of Cleveland made i525,0OO CT
gars last year.
Oneen Victoria says that every third
woman in Cork is a beauty.
Upwards of ten thousand men are to
be employed upoL the Central Pacific
Railroad the coming summer.
Eishtl hundr Il Americans were i'll
Rome on Christmas day.
Fitz Greene Halleck used to say, that
women never do anything wrong, eH-
cent when they have their own way.
Lands are given away along the line
of he Florida railroad to induce emf
grafton.
1t is proposed to uniform the letter
carriers of New York in dark blue, with
cap and red facingS.
A Young woman in BinCor took arsen-
&c for Lcr complexion, and succeeded III
making of herself beautiful corpse.
The latest abolition doctrine-the alb
clifton of the United States Supreme
Court.-N. J. Leader.
An athlete in Chattanooga has car
ried two barrels, one under each arm,
upwards of two hundred feet.
Wooden cornices are uswerable for \
large part of the late great fire in Chi
eago.
Greedy privately says that Grant
stands no chance at Chicago. Boston
Post.
Theusand-dollar Confederate specie
bonds are still used rs newspaper wrap
pers in the South.
A st. Louis INSURANCE company was
driven into bankruptcy by the presenta.
ton of a claim for twenty-six dollars.
Four hundred and ten novels were
published in England last year-almost
q book and half per day.
The ten dollars per diem, proposed as
the salary of New York legislators, is
called a very modest price for the wear
and tear of conscience inseparable from
that position.
Michael Sanderson, '"the Unknown
Bow" challenges OBaldwin, the Irish
Giant. to fight him for $4,000, within
two hundred miles Of Cleveland, during
the month of May.
French chemists are reported TO have
discovered a way of increasing the
lighting power of gas sixty-fold, by
uniting In the flame small cylinder OF
magnesia.
The Prince of Wales is said to be
greatly in debt. His Cornwall mines do
not supply "tin" enough for his extrava-
gance.
Napoleon has been SO free with the
decoration of the Legion of Honor that
one ont of every $50 Frenchmen now
wears it.
The Springfield Republican says there
are indications that some of the men,
bars of the New York State Constitu-
tional Convention will survive to wit
ness the conn letion of its labors, and
possibly a vote of the people on the
question of the new institution. We
don't see the indications"