The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Paris smoked 800, 600 cigars last year
Claret is made in Oregon Of the Soup
pernong grape.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
pays q rent of S96, $40 year.
Salt Lake City is now within feu
days of Chicago, by stage and railroad
The millers of New York City are Il
organize labor union.
I A lost city like Pompeii has been dis
covered near Chaleo, Mexico.
/ The University of Virginia gives in
struction in Sanscrit, Hebrew and
Anglo-Saxon.
The Spiritualists of New York art
said to be rapidly increasing in num'
bers.
A New York septuagenarian made
over sixty calls New Years day on foot.
A Lyonese velooipedist offers to bet
any amount that he will beat the fast
est trotter in race.
A Broadway store in New York maiFte
a speciality of renting wedding pres
ents.
Twenty boys under fifteen years OF
age were arrested in Worcester, Mass,
last week for petty larceny,
A Harrisburg genius proposes to melt
the snow on the street railway tracks
by ajet of steam.
The artesian we'll near st. Louis has
reached tht depth of nearly three-quar-
ters of a mile, and the boring is still
progressing.
In New York, it is suggested that the
rewards offered for the capture Of mur-
derers be deducted from the pay of the
policemen on whose beats the murders
occur.
The Saratoga Board of Education
years ago abolished whipping in the
schools. 1t does not work well, and
Row, by resolution, the rattan is re-
stored.
A benevolent citizen of Brunswick,
Germany, lends blankets to the poor
from October to May. Each article is
stamped, and for six years the system
has worked without abuse.
The lawsuit recently on trial in Bath,
Maine, to set aside will on the ground
that it had been dictated by Esprit
ualism--an insane delusion," has been
decided, the will having been sus-
| tained.
In Paris, fifteen years ago, brilliant
young pianist, Mile Hersilie Rouy, sud
denly disappeared aud could nowhere
be found. She has just escaped from q
lunatic asylsm, where she has been shut
up under q different name, all these
wears, and proposes to make it lively
for her prosecutors.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tioH of st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
Church, Wilmington, Delaware, have
been debating the question, Should
the whipping post he abolished ~ and
have decided it in the negative.
A method of sewing boots and shoes
with copper wire instead of the cem-
mon thread has been patented, the ad-
vantage being that At u very small in
increase III expense the strength and
durability of the work are much i'm
proved.
The aggregate loss by fire in the Uni
ted States during the year 1868, in all
cases where the damage was S25 900 and
upward, was S3l,757 900, which is less
than that of any year since 1865. The
total loss by fire in this country during
the last thirteen years is placed at $780,
605,000.
GAINESVILLE, in February, 1912, exper-
fenced the shock of an earthquake, as
appears from the following in letter
from Duncan Macarthur to William
Creighton, Jr., of Chillicothe, and da-
ted GAINESVILLE, February 7, 1912: "The
last shock of the earthquake was terri
BILE, but no damage done here. | hope
none has been done in Ross"
Two prize-fghters recently fought
sixteen rounds in saloon ut Bryan, Ne
braska. Music preceded and followed
the fight, at the close of which there
was dance. The ladies of the corps de
ballet attached to the saloon occupied
seats on the music stand during the
fight, and enjoyed the entertainment
exceedingly. Civilization advances.
The burning of the forests in Eastern
Oregon. this season, caused the death
of many thousand sheep. Hundreds of
them in passing over kthe .charred
districts had their feet so burned that
the drivers were obliged to shoot them.
The bears and wolves feasted on NUT
ton. Deer and elk collected along the
mountain streams in surprising num-
bers, and were at the mercy OF panthers,
wolves and hunters.
Every Mormon (or "Saint") in Salt
Lake City who keeps a store is required,
by order Of Brigham Young, to have q
sign which ether MormonS nay recog-
nize. This sign is an arch over an "all-
seing" eye, with the words Holiness to
tn eLord." All Mormons are command.
ed to trade at such stores only, but
many of them prefer to save money by
trading with outsiders. These stores
are known among she irreverent Gen
tiles as "bulPs eye shops"
Not the Person.
Yesterday evening rather seedy
looking individual appeared at the CEN