The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

Strawberries ara plentiful in Mont
goDery, Alabama.
George Francis Trains new hotel at
Omaha is ready for rental.
Brazil supplies almost half of the
coffee consumed in the world.
At Berlin lately a woman seventy
two years of age gave birth to child.
The Sultan is modelling the munich
palig of Constantinopls on that of
Paris.
The most luxurious house in Troy,
New York, is occupied by a reformed
sutlsr.
Young England's latest folly is hand
kerchiefs with questionable" pictares
in the corners.
Tie seeds of the gigantic trees Of
California hardly exceed in size those
of tle mustard.
st. Joseph, Mo-, has grasshoppers
larger than locusts-nearly as large as
bulfrogs-and there are legions of
them.
A rich man who has been for twenty
years in the Hartford Insane Asylum
has been in perfect mental health for
neSrly twelve years, but makes it now
his voluntary abode.
A terrier dog in Virginia recently
scratched up a deposit of family jewelry
and gold which his mistress had buried
during the war, and had been unable to
find
The appropriations of Bristol, Maine,
for public schools have been so liberal
this year that pupils have been furnish
ed with books and stationery without
any charge.
The Sherman House at Chicago,
which is to be the headquarters of Rad
cal delegates, does not admit col
ored persons. The Louisiana delega-
tion will have 90 quarter elsewhere.
Carlyle likens Walt. Whitman as a
poet to buffalo, useful in fertilizing
the soil, but mistaken in supposing that
his contributions of that sort are mat
ters which the world desires to contem-
plate closely.
A sailor, exhorting at prayer meet
ing in London chapel, said that on
dark stormy nights, while on the sea, he
had often been comforted by that bsau-
tiful passage in Scripture-"A faint
heart never won fair lady"
At certain London working mems
club, once a week, there is meeting
for the purpose of enabling aristocratS
of Liberal tendencies to meet working
men in social intercourse. The work
ing men and their wives and daughters
attend and are helped to tea and cake
by the "swells."
Queer things happen nova days; and
one of the queerest is the spectacle of
our friend Mr.. George Wilkes, on the
floor of the Senate, betting $1,000 to $50
on the conviction of Andy Johnson,
with another friend of ours, Mr.. Theo-
doIe Tilton, standing by and officiating
as stakeholder.-Ner York San.
Two gallant Peoria (Ill.) rivals met
at the house of the adored one few
nights ago, and soon got into quarrel.
They adjourned 90 convenient spot to
have it out, when both got severely
punished. Result. two black eyes, q
broken nose, and-the young lady re-
fusing to have anything further to do
with either.
A school teacher on examination in
Ravenna tributed the following in.
formation: "Ohio is bounded on the
north by Michigan and Lake Erie, on
tho south by Wis and ten, on the east
by Wisconsin, west by Ind and tennese,
Capital is Washington. Chief towns,
New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn.
Rivers, Mississippi, Amazon, Missouri.
are grain, potatoes, Fruit"
The other day Mr.. Lewis, of Warrens-
burg, No., mixed some gunpowder and
ashes to administer to al ailing COW,
but tbs ashes being too hot to hold the
powder. exploded the II pound canister
from which he was pouring it, and not
only tore the roof from the house, but
killed Mr.. Lewis and his two children;
Nodaway, Mo-, reports curious nat
ural phenomenon in that town. 1t is
spring, the liquid of which flows from
between two rocks, and looks like high-
ly colored brandy, but it tastes and
smells like pure whisky, and has the
same Intoxicating effect. The man on
whose farm it has been discovered ex-
poets to realize fortune by the well.
A correspondent of the London Times
at Athens has lately been describing
the decadence of Greece as compared
with its ancient activity and splendor.
He writes that now a cart cannot pass
along the road from Pylos to Sparta,
where carriage could travel in the
days of Homer, and that o mule now
climbs with difficulty over rocks
through which Pyrrhus led train of
elephants.
l hear a good story of colporteur,
who attempted to distribute some Span
ish Testaments among the New Mexi-
cans passing his house with trains.
They would not take the books as a gift,
so knowing their propensity for pilfer-
ing, he hit on the expedient of hiding
the Testaments in various places about
his premises, and they were always
taken when a train passed. In that
way a considerable amount of Gospel
was distributed" but probably most Of
it had still another distribution as wad-
ding to Mexican guns.-KdHsds Cores
poRdeRt.
Aunt Fanny Burrows, who died re-
Gently at Warren, r. l., in her ninety
ninth year, had vivid memory of her
long life. She was born at Groton, sin
the good cid colony times when we
were under. the King" remembered we'll
about Bunker Hill, and herself knit
stockings aud made garments for the
soldiers of the revolution. She was
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