The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The latest Partisan idea is to cover
velocipedes with advertising.

The latest Partisan idea is to cover
velocipedes with advertising.
Excellent chalk deposits have been
found in Fayette county, Indiana.
Nearly five hundred clerks in New
York Have taken part in a cooperative
insurance scheme
London has 2O6 divorce cases on the
docket, but congratulates itself that
Chicago is worse.
Maple molasses Of this seasons manu-
facture has already appeared in the
Terre Haute market.
The Hartford clergy have been dis
cussing female suffrage, and by 80 to
decided it unscriptural.
The Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Soci-
ETY. is still squaring away at something
or other.
A young lady in Hastings, Mimi, has
been made insane by " Planchette," and
has been taken to an asylum.
Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, gives ev-
cry couple married by him a testament
and his photograph.
In Brigham Young's dominion, muir
derers are sentenced to be shot, the
sheriff doing the shooting.
Edwin Forrest draws badly in the
New England towns, because the folks
won't believe it is the same old trage-
dian.
One firm at Frankfort-on-the-M Main is
said to have sold seventy-five thousand
carte photographs of Mrs. Lincoln.
A generous New Highlander furnished
turkey and mince pie dinners last Sun
day, to the prisoners confined in several
New England prisons.
Twenty White Pine silver mining
companies, with an aggregate nominal
capital of 100000, have been incor.
porated in California since December
last.
The French Corps Legislatiff is to
have a press set up in the building, so
that the speeches may be printed on the
spot. 1t is an idea borrowed from Louis
Philippe.
The census of Salt Lake City, which
has been recently completed, shows a
total of $4,000 Mormons, and 5000
Gentiles, or grand total of 10000.
A man in st, Louis recently got mar
ried on Tuesday, got the chills on We'd
nesday, wrote his will on Thursday,
went mad on Friday, and died on Sat
urday.
Robert Watson, a colored waiter, re-
Gently died in New York, leavinga for
tune of $40, 900, which is claimed by two
women, each of whom swears she was
his wife.
During the late dangerous illness of
Prince Napoleon, telegraphic inquiries
his condition arrived from
all the courts of Europe, except those of
England and Russia.
a whole family was poisoned at Leb-
anon, Wisconsin, last week, by eating
pie made out of canned pie plant. Most
of the family were sick for several days,
but finally recovered.
"Died of ignorance" was the return
of a Hartford physician to the Registrar.
The case was that of child whose pa
rents did not know enough to follow
his prescription.
A Puritan divine preached to the
newly married couples of his congrega-
tion upon a part Of Psalm lxxii, :.
"And abundance of peace so long as the
moon endureth."
A young gymnast in Boston boasts
that, after practicing three years, he
can raise himself with either arm from
the "dead hang" six times in success
sion, with a fifty pound weight in the
other hand.
The following advertisement weekly
appeared in the London Athsaeum !:
Sensation writer to Let.-A literary
gentleman with river of Imagination
running to waste, and power to drive
the machinery of a sensation story,
wishes work for his pen. Address L.
Crash"
The Ashtabula Sentinel announces the
advent of the "Bell Ringers" in that
town with the following strain of elo-
quence: "The singularly liquid mel
lifuousness of these muffled bells is not
approached in its subduing, ravishing
effect upon us by any other instrument
or combination of instruments yet
known. Perhaps the music box comes
as near to it as anything in this world"
A negro arrested at Evansville, car
ried talisman to win at cards, consist
ing of rabbits foot, seven needles and
pod of red pepper. The foot, needles
and pepper are sewed up in bag. The
man takes small quantity of gin in his
mouth, and after holding it there for a
while, moistens the rabbits foot with it.
If the cards "den doesn't run right, dis
chile's fooled, suah."
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