The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-18
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

thrown open to skaters.
| A green-room thief, at Portland
stole 500 watch from Mrs. E. L. Da-
venport. .e ,|t
Artemus Wards mother has received
from the English executors 500 in
greenbacks.
Thurlow Weeds pets are two dimin-
utive dogs. One of them accompanied
him during his late European to&r.
Robert Hoe, the printing press in
ventor, began life as a Leicestershire,
England, mechanic, and came to New
York in 1915.
There arc now 100 pupils at the Blind
Asylum in Columbus, nine more than
can well be accommodated.
William B. Astor devotes his surplus
immense revenue to the building of
houses all over the city.
Mr.. Smith, who defeated John Stuart
Mill, is London newsdealer, who sells
3d. 600 copies of the London Times.
Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculp-
tress, is executing statue of Clio for
Prince Georgia, of Prussia.
Flotow's recent marriage was hardly
on the square. He procured divorce
from his sixth wife in order to marry
her sister.
C. Burgoyne, of Franklin county,
Indiana, awoke from sound sleep
Monday morning and found his wife
dead by his side.
The Philadelphia Press announces
that "Mr. Stanton will decline to enter
General Grants Cabinet, under any cir
cumstancss."
Boston's banking capital amounts to
more than that of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont aud Rhode Island put
together.
An Anderson, Indiana, school teacher
has got into trouble by feruling num-
Der of young ladies who were in the
habit of passing notes" during school
hours.
Coleridgc said that he read "Pilgrim's
Progress" four times, once for the story,
once for the poetry, once for the philoso-
ply and once for the religion.
A man in Indiana was choked to death
by a piece of beef on Thanksgiving
Day, and his neighbors say it was q
Judgment on him for not eating turkey.
The Seuior Glass of the University Of
Michigan have undertaken to introduce
the practice of smoking at Rotations.
The attempt was not considered a sue
cess.
A California paper says that the Chi
nese are getting so numerous on the
Pacific coast that they contemplate ap-
pointing missionaries to 90 among the
Christians to convert them to the Chi
nese religion.
The inmates of the New Hampshire
State Prison are treated to q course of
popular lectures, but the privilege OF
going out before the lecture is over, in
which Boston folks indulge, is denied
them.
Burglars were driven from housein in
Charlotte, Monroe county, New York,
by little girl of nine years, whe put
on her absent fathers boots, and imi-
ta;cd his steps going down stairs.
A boy, found holding horse by the
roadside, near Ithaca, New York, re-
Gently, was asked whose animal lie had
in charge, and replied that it belonged
to IA crazy Dutchman, looking for
birds nests over yonder in the woods.
The crazy Dutchman was Agassiz.
A New York manager has been in
treaty with Mile, Sax, the great singer,
for her to visit this country, but that
very intelligent lady refuses to come
unless the manager will agree to pay
her travelling expenses and those of two
attendants, to the United States, by
land, Cpdr tclTe.)
A Buffalo detective, who has been in
pursuit of a thief who robbed Mr.. Will
liam Fargo of $500, 900 in bonds, in Jan
uary last, has returned, and reports that
he found his man, named II. Y. Clinton,
at Aspinwall, and left him locked up IN
iail. The detective also saw the stolen
bonds.
The New York Tribune comments on
the recent corner in corn AZ Chicago:
"Chicago is a fast, shrewd city. 1t is to
be hoped that some of its brakers who
sell their souls short will be able, when
the devil makes call to deliver.
They NAV not find him willing to let
them off for twenty cents buShel.'
A Paris paper gives a conversation
between a father and his little daugh-
ter: "What have you done with your
little doll '' Il have put it away to
keep for my children, when | grow up,
But what if you shouldn't have any
"Ah well, then it will do for my grand
children"
A lady recently advertised in a city
paper that she wanted a a"gentleman for
breakfast and tea," while another ad-
yertises for husband having a Roman
nose with strong religious tendencies,
and third party seeks to recover lost
wallet belonging to a gentleman made
of calf skim"
One of the most accomplished stars OF
the Australian theatrical world, Nine.
St. Denis, has committed suicide. In
some letters she wrote on the day she
took poison, she states taat the motive
for destroying herself was an unrequited
passion for a gentleman whose name
has not been made public. She was
born at Mlaines, in Belgium, her father
being a surgeon in the French army,
and her mother an English woman.
The New York Times urges the ap-
poiutment of Charles Francis Adams,
Secretary of State in Grants Cabinet
whereat the Sun says: The man who
is so Indifferent to the welfare of his