The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

Montreal claims to be growing 2O,UVu
Il year.
The London Times cleared s3,O0V,oOO
last year.
Hoop skirts are now restricted 10
street wear in Paris.
Louisville has trotting mule when
has made mile n2:2l.
The Appletons have offered DICKENS
81. 900 for his next novel!
Brigham Young's saints are building"
fort.
Wales has had another "ria-' with his
mamma.
Francis Hart, who has been tried for
murder in Baltimore, was convicted OF
manslaughter.
Anna Dickinson, it is said, prefers
Colfax for President. Mr.. c. is Wild
over.
There are three editors in tue Iowa
House of Representatives, and table,
inst issued, sets them down as having
no religion.
Mayor Shurtlefl, OF Boston, is sort OF
a home body. He has not slept outside
of the limits of his city for over 81
years.
One of Elmira's base ball clubs is
about 10 Cako the hanrfit Of the bank
rupt act, from the excess of last years
expenses.
> French scientific antiquariaa has
published work in which he attempts
10 prove that Solomons Temple was
furnished with lightning rods.
The London Times advertises: ITO
invalid, hard worked, and young cler-
gymen, six hundred manuscript ser
mons" for sale.
Hartford, Connecticut, is to have an
illuminated clock on her State House
which will cost $1,000. That usually
quiet city will have "bis time"
The little town of Smyrna, Delaware,
is reported 30 contain seventy-eight
drinking establishments, which is about
one to every fifteen of its inhabitants.
Jesse u. Fell declines Congressional
nomination in Illinois, for the reason,
doubtless, that ofdefeated his opponents
b might make joke of his name.
1t is found that the late cold snap has
seriously injured the peach orchards in
the fruit region along the eastern shore
of Lake Michigan.
The view from Bunker Hill is now al
most wholly shut in by the erection OF
high buildings. Ii is necessary to as
cend the monument for lookout.
Some French chemists have discover
ed way of increasing the lightning
power of gas sixty fold viz: by putting
in the flame a small cylinder of magne'
STA.
MasqueradeS, which were unknown
to- any city in the country but New Or,
leans, few years ago, arc very popular
and frequent now in every State in the
Union.
Haight N Chambers circus stock was
sold in Houston, Texas, on the 9th inst.
including tents, saddles, horses and
and tho unreliable mule, for something
over $1,000.
The Springfield Republican hints at
huggiug and kissing among male and
female members of Lodge of Good
Tomplars. This is embracing the tenn
peranoe cause ardently.
A man describing a church in Mime
sofa, writes to friend " Ne velvet
cushions in our pews. We don't go in
for style. The fattest person has the
sOftest seat
Balzec says women at fOrty-dye often
have new and stronger affections than
ever before, and that their lovs is deeper
and more disinterested than when they
are young.
A Philadelphia paper is publishing,
serially, yuma, or the Discovery of
Ouinquina, a Peruvian Romance" A
suggestive title for sequel would be,
Cora, or the cumulated consequences
of castor OIL"
As au extraordinary instance OF te'
cundity, it is stated by the Bucks coun-
ty IntelligeRcer that Linford Tomlinson,
of Byberry, has COW which mas given
birth TO seven calves within twelve
months, three the first time and four the
last.
Weddings, though generally costly at
fairs, are quite profitable entertainments
for clergymen who have a good run of
business. It is announced that some of
the fashionable clersymen in New York
receive three Thousand dollars year
for marriage fees.