The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-19
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Opera is re-established in Madrid.
The Mormons are organizing societies
for silk culture.
n A.sunburst. .adorns the flag of the Gu
ban insurgents. E-s8s tsa
A Swiss chemist makes brandy from
Prussia intends to fortify her chief
railway stations.
! Gutta. percha houses arc suggested for
earthquake countries.
Gas has Just been introduced into the
city of Mexico.
Tom Thumb is growing taller, and
losing his stock in trade consequently.
The potato crop in the interior Of
Pennsylvanis is said to be excellent
Spain has III seaports, 675 miles of
railroad and 81 miles of canal.
The Art Journal says that pianos
should be tuned at least once month
Five girls, all under fifteen, are nndef
arrest in st. Louis for burglary
The London police won't let children
trundle hoops through the streets of
that city.
In Vermont on election day the snow
was up to the wagon hubs on some of
the hill roads.
| M;ob;oon farnar boo buabad I00
bushels of corn in eight hours, and won
s25 premium.
Three hundred and seventeen build
ings were erected in st. Paul, Minneso-
ia, this year, at cost of 81 ,OO5 ,05O.
1t is predicted that in ten years the
Neosho valley, Kansas, will contain 3
million inhabitants.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth
of property was given at New York
wedding last week.
1t may be interesting to the ladies
that Mrs. Grant proposes to do her fall
shopping in New York this week.
New York society has refused to no.
tce Fifth Avenue lady because for
merly her husband kept stand in Full
| ton market.
A Buffalo paper concludes that Chris
tians may dance, for if they are Chris
tians it won't hurt them-provided they
dance well and enjoy it,
Italy derives q revenue of 81, 400, 900
from lotteries, and her unfortunate peo-
pie are therefore swindled out of Sc vera
times that amount.
Mary McElroy and her sister, two do
nestle servants in Lee, Mass, have just
received intelligence that wealthy old |
relative HAS died and left them $4,000. |
The New York San suggests that if
Mr.. Greeley should be sent to the Court |
of st. James, among other achievements
he would Introduce new court cos
tune"
A dispatch to the Booton JOHrHdI
says: Congress will be asked to ap-
proprate So, 100000 for the commence
of the navy-yard establishment on
League Island, below Philadelphia.
There is q movement on foot among
politicians on both sides to remove Su-
perintendent Kennedy Of the New York
police force, on the ground of various
acts of tyranny and oppression in office.
Among the specimens of natural his
tory from all parts of the world, packed
in alcohol" which are daily received at
the Smithsonian Institute, the profess
sors were surprised last week to find o
couple of very young babies, "in good
state of preservation"
The Chicago papers complain of q
great waste of water in that city. 1t is
splashed over the pavement even more
than in Philadelphia, and they are
afraid that the heavy drain will ex-
haust the pond from which the supply
is drawn.
The number of convicts banished from
Russia to Siberia annually average
about IA 600, including many women
and children. The distance is nearly !
1000 miles, and the journey is generally
perforated on foot. One.fifth of the ex
lies die on the way.
The discussions now going on about
railway safety bring to mind PuncNs
prescription for preventing railway &C
cidents. 1t was as follows: Tie q
director of the company in front of
every locomotive drawing a passenger |
train. If collisions should happen un-
der this plan, the directors of the col |
liding locomotives would be personally |
liable"
l. is understood that the President
now declines to nominate an officer for
promotion to the vacancy left by Brig
adler General Hooker on his retirement.
The reason assigned for this is the GER
tainty that Congress, at its next session,
will make a considerable reduction in
the army, and as the President favors
the proposed reduction, it is more than
probable that the vacancy will not be
filled.
A Workingman's College has recently
been established in England. The lee
lures to be delivered at this institution
embrace information suitable for ele-
mentary and advanced classes in Eng.
lish, French, German, Latin and Greek
grammar and literature, English COM
position and history, Bible history,
arithmetic. algebra, geometry, trigon-
ometry, bookkeeping. botany, music
and drawing.
A singular divorce case in high life
has recently been commenced in Al
bany. 1t appears that about q year
ago dispute arose between the loving
couple regarding the hanging of q pic