The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-06
SPLINTERS.

The Dresden Diet promises to appease
Hungry.
DR.. Hayes will lecture on the Arctic
regions this winter.
They enjoyed hail storm in Colum-
bus, Ohio, on Sunday.
Rev. Olympia Brown has accepted a
call to Bridgeport, Conn.
During last month, Collector Burgess
of Richmond, collected $255, lO2.74.
Another English Ritualist, named
Husband, has espoused Catholicism.
Gladstone is no better. His constitu-
tion, like that of England, is breaking
up.
BENZ. w. Finney, q distinguish ed mom-
Der of the Richmond bar, died on Thurs
day.
Mrs, Blake asserts that women don't
want trousers, but only their legitimate
rights. ~ ..r-
An old dentist of Richmond pulled
out fifty teeth, Monday. Fun for him,
but death to the victims.
Eugene has invented a. "toilet carr
in which she can beguile the irksome-
ness of travel by continually changing
her dress.
Philadelphiaus are enabled to resume
their everlasting swashing of the side
walks, by the reinvigoration of the wa
ter works.
A witness before the Beverly E lection
Frauds Commission, England, stated
that che had no belief in personal inno-
cence."
The young Prince Imperial is rehears
ing for Haroun al Ras child, disguised as
a citizens son. He goes about at the
country fairs with two companions.
Miss Mary Hovey has been offered
the Professorship of Horticulture in the
Kansas Agricultural College. She will
appropriately take charge of the nur-
sery.
The Je,pish Messenger says there are in
the United States $50 Synagogues, of
which thirteen have been established
during the Jewish year 5629 just closed.
Miss Susan B. Anthony disappointed
an audience of six persons at Bergen
City, on Wednesday, by failing to ap-
pear for her announced lecture.
1t is said that Adelina Patti is to re-
ceive 100000 gold for an American en-
gagement of one hundred nights, How
can she sing with such gold in her
head 7
The California pioneers have put W..
II. Seward up to snuff in gold box of
fabulous value, and have added cigar
case, the cost of which render tie snuff
box nuggetery.
Fer the representation of the new
fairy spectacle, "La Poudro de Perlimp-
inpin," just brought out at the Cbatalet
in Paris, twelve hundred persons are
employed, and of these six hundred and
fifty are women.
Senator Wilson thinks there's more
guilt than gold in Wall street transac-
tions, and proposes to bare the bulls and
bully the bears by an act forbidding
man to sell what he hasn't got, or to
buy what he can't get.
Brigham Young is convert to II. G.'s
way Of thinking, and protects Mormon
domestic industry by ferbidding his peo-
pie to "sell ponnd of grain or any
other produce to Gentiles, but keep it
to themselves" so
Governor Scott, the Ohio carpet-bag
ger, who squatted upon the Executive
Department, South Carolina, a few years
ago, has made money enough to buy
three hundred acres of land within a
mile of the capital of the State.
The Archbishop of Bamberg desires
his people to sign pledge that they will
abstain from public houses and all places,
no matter how much their names may
differ, which may be considered equiva-
lent to public houses, such as the cellars
of wine merchants and public gardens
containing restaurants.
Intelligence of absorbing interest to
the general reade- is contained in the
announcement that the Maherajah of
Travancere is about to perform the cere-
mony of ThooloparHm, which will be
followed by, an Erniagherpum, the
whole to conclude with Moorajebum.
As might be supposed, these luxuries
come very expensive, and will probably
absorb the surplus revenue of the State.
A young woman in one of the rural
towns of New Hampshire was desiroust
of teaching school in a neighboring viii
lage, and got this document from the
selectman: "This is to certify that
lamar Noyes stands on a medium with
other girls Of her age and sex, and for
what know, is as good as folks in gen
eral.r lamar got the school.
Ocean telegraph cable projects are
springing up ike mushrooms. Captain
Armstrong is now in Canada. examining
the coast for cable to be laid between
Canada and Europe. This is in addi-
ton to the North German cable project,
the ireland Nova Scotia cable project,
the West India cable project, and the
two cables-the Anglo-American and
French-already in operation. That all
of these should be profitable is impossi-
BILE for many years TO come. Ii IS only
a question which will lose the leas..
There is an old couple living at Tiv-
erton, Rhode Island, Mr.. and Mrs
Richard Smith, aged ninety-three years,
4 = ha ~. of irh