The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-07

pers.
Modesty in woman is like color on her
cheek-decidedly becoming, If not put
on.
A company of 100 recruits for the Pom.
tlfical Zouaves have left Quebec for
Rome.
The Wall street difficulties are said to
have caused many checks to the faro
banks. A-- - i.a-
Thirty.six million pounds of black tea
have been shipped to Great Britain this
season.
The workingmen's nomination OF
Chamberlin is a complete Waverly
novel.
The lisping Misses of Canada pro-
nounce the Princes name very natural
ly. All thir.
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop went to
New York to see Mr.. Peabody off in the
Scotia.
Mrs. George II. Pendleton has been
her husbands amanuensis during his i'll
ness.
Cranberries are so abundant in Wis
consin that they are selling at two dol
lars bushel.
Love, gin and jealousy made TRACE
dy for Newark. Names are Of no cOnse.
quence.
The Hon. John Bigelow has retired
from the chief editorial chair of the
New York Times.
Lovers observe! Before man enters
the abode of mstrimony, he should ring
the belle.
This week the Parepa-Rosa troupe be-
gins season of a fortnight's duration
in Philadelphia.
Tahhs Gnss ia the name of the colored
man who edits the arkansas Freeman, at
Little Rock.
The HoOsac Mountain has been tun-
neled 9339 feet, and there are 1858 feet
to be bored.
Maurice Strakosch has engaged AL
boni, Vieuxtenps, and troupe for a
provincial tour in France.
More than S95, 100000 worth of boots
aud shoes will be manufactured in Mas
sachusetts the present year.
The Pacific Railroad is an egg-cellent
thing for Sacramento. 1t took 10, 900
dozen there one day last week.
hro,;o axnIorara tho Lollo, ,rbo ,ro,,
enade the avenue each afternoon in
search of nice young man.
If you don't believe that there are
49S, ,9Sl feathers on the wing of butter
fly you can count them and see.
A Kentucky boy is tongueleSs, but
manages TO eat. He can arLlculate some
words very well, and is bright.
Steps are being taken to erect monu.
ment to Robert Bruce, at Banncckburn,
the scene of his famous victory.
Professor Angel, of Bates College,
has gone to Europe, where lie will spend
a year in the study of languages.
A horse was killed in Augusta, Ca,
the other day, by the accidental dis
charge of pistol in the pocket of its
rider.
LA Poudre de Perlimpinpiu" is the
title of fairy spectacle just brought
out at the Paris Chatelet with great
success.
A new work by DR.. Orestes A. Brown
son IS nearly ready for publication. II
i entitled The Church and Liberal
ism
Instead of saying that a man is
tight" in Chicago. the reporters say
that he is victim of bacchanalian
lmmOderation."
"Mrs. Potiphar" is the New York Re-
publican candidate for Secret airy. The
party thus gracefully recognizes wo-
mans rights.
Minnesota is overrun by beggars,
mostly from Europe, whs cannot even
ask aims in English, but make known
their wants by pantomime.
Eighteen ladies are announced as
public lecturers this year, but nobody
has dared to state the number of those
who will give private lectures.
The Viceroy Of Egypt has commits
stoned young composer to write "The
Suez Galop," which will in future be the
national hymn" Of Egypt!
A negro preacher in Louisville repri.
manded two of his female parishioners
in church, and they reprimanded him
with cowhide after church.
What death would you prefer to
die 7" said person to another. 81 don't
exactly know; Ishould like to try seven
or eight before deciding the point"
In a graveyard at Lacon. Illinois, is a
headstone upon which is cut the image
Of pet dog, and underneath it is
the text: "Of such is the kingdom of
heaven
A lady fell in Detroitthe other day in
an attack of vertigo, and was yearly
strangled by her artificial teeth fall
ing into her throat before the cause was
discovered aud removed.
Marfori has returned to his old posi-.
tion as intendant for the ex-Queen OF
Spain. He was dismissed at first, not
because his royal mistress was disssti :
fed with him, b ut for political reasons
The Bath (M5.) Times says the Hon.
George F. Patteb, who died in that city
on Sunday, was probably the richest
man in the city, and one of the wea lthi.
est in the State. He was born in Tops
ham in 17S7, and was the eldest Of
eleven children. In early life he work.
ed at boat building in his native city,
and in 1910 removed TO Bath, and en-.
gagged in ship building with his brother,
Captain John Patten, and during their
prosecution of that branch of industry,
they built more than fifty ships and
steamers,