The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-30
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


gauge church."
The Oregonian fuseloleaginous inVi-
tation, "Let's disinfect."
A New Workers. relatives spent $4,000
for his funeral the other day.
i Governor Clafin is talked of as Bout
wells successor in Congress.
The Little Rock papers speak of Leo
Hudson's acting as "artless."
One of the Chicago papers quotes
from "a rancid Copperhead sheet of this
city"
Seven of Mr.. Gladstone's Ministers
are Oxford men, and four graduated at
Cambridge.
The Newburyport Herald says: "Beans
were never designed for the human
stomach"
Over 5000 Jesuit priests are constant
" employed on missions throughout the
world.
General Prentiss, of Illinois, whe was
CAPTURED at Shiloh, wants to be Minister
to Brazil.
Mr.. Robertson and Mr.. Watts Phillips
have each three plays running at as
many London theatres.
The belle of Staten Island-whoever
she may be-is to be married, April IA,
to an ex-rebel General.
President Grant and family will oc-
cupy Lester Wallack's cottage at Long
Branch next summer.
Young men are at a premium. The
newly nominated President at Harvard
College is only thirty-six.
Greenlanders, it is said, would drink
sulphuric acid and cayenne pepper, and
think it very good gin.
A census has been taken at Washing
ton of the "handsomest man in the
House" There are fifteen of him.
A number of Democratic papers in
Ohio are advocating the nomination of
Henry S. Niles, of Urbana, for Attorney
General.
Victor Hugo has the largest head
among living French authors, and writes
as much twaddle to the square yard as
any of them.
Maria Taglioni, the celebrated ballet
girl, who married few years ago an
Austrian nobleman of high rank, has
appealed for divorce. She objects to
her husbands habit of getting drunk,
and horsewhippiDg her in that condi-
ton.
Queen Isabella's son, the Prince of
Austria, has been dismissed from college
because he could not read and write his
own language with sufficient fluency to
follow even the course of studies in the
lowest class of the college.
The St. Louis Republican observes:
can enthusiastic lady correspondent,
writing from the Capital, speaks ofl
General Logan's compIeIion as'
liant olive. For PHYS sake, and for
the sake of the lady of that name, do
not let him come to be known as Olive
Logan"
Mr.. Bancroft Davis, just appointed
Assistant Secretary of State, is the old
est son of the late John Davis, of Mas
sachusetts, and nephew of Mr.. Ban
croft. He was Secretary of Legation at |
London while the late Abbott Lawrence |
was Minister to England.
The cause which has brought Mrs,
Stoves Florida plantation into the !
market is said to be the insecure tenure
by which that lady holds it. 1t was
confscated during the war, bought for
a song, and now the heirs Of the orig |
inal owners are demanding their prop
erty in the courts.
The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Republican says, cit is a some
what strange result of Stewards Cab
met difficulty that the great importer
has returned to New York breathing out |
denunciations, not against the Senate, as
one would naturally expect, but against
the Executive"
At a Sunday school concert in Wor-
cester, Mass, last week, little boy
stood up to say his piece, and forgetting
the words of the text hesitated a mo-
ment; then, with all the assurance pos. !
sible, said, BLESSED are the shoemak- |
ers."
Two ladies in Lancaster, Mass, lately |
started out with petitions, one for sig
natures asking the Legislature to give
women the privilege of voting; the |
other praying the Legislature to allow
women to remain in their present sphere. |
The latter ran ahead twenty-six to one. |
At recent annual dinner given to
the press correspondents in Washington |
one Of the features of the occasion were
two beautiful vases placed on the table,
which contained little cluster Of bush |
es. By touching spring, two artificial |
birds began to sing and fill the air with |
melody.
Girard College is in a quandary. The
will of its founder requires that gradu-
ates shall be bound out to learn suit
able trade, but SO few apprentices are
wanted now that the college is over
flowing with boys who have gone
through the whole course and can't be
disposed of.
Experiments show that paint on sur
faces exposed to the sun will be much
more durable if applied in autumn or
spring, than if put on in hot weather
In cold weather it dries slowly, forms a
hard glossy coat, tough like grass, while
if applied in warm weather the oil |
strikes into the wood, leaving the paint
so dry that it is rapidly beaten off by
rains.
OF the Spanish triumvirs, Marshal
SerraHo, affects republican simplicity in
his mode of life; he has refused TO have
a guard of honor stationed in front of
his palace, and displays the utmost affa-
bility in his intercourse with his peo-
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