The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The snow on some of the Canada rail
roads y thirty-four feet deep.
Nsw York has a church called "the
Churehof the Brooklyn Covenant"
Secretary Stewards State Department
expended S4O0 last year for soap.
Australia last year sent $4,000, 900 in
gold to England.
Thereare twelve troupes of "Original
Christy Minstrels" in England.
The New Hampshire State Congress
sional election will occur on Tuesday,
March 9. o..
Miss Susan B. Anthony is in favor OF
women riding astride on velocipedes.
New York has discovered that she
contains 1.-TWO half sisters of Louis Ma
poleon."
The Archduke of Austria is said to be
in love with pretty little Vienna dress
maker.
Japan has an author who has been
writing a novel for 80 years, and has
just finished the 10th volume.
The New York Board of Health has
ordered the universal vaccination of all
uuvaccinated persons.
A school teacher in Chicago has paid
SIS for beating little girl, pupil, for
breakinp a slate pencil.
A dinner party, at which all the lady
guests wore short walking dresses, is a
late New York sensation.
A lady at Morrissiana, New York, re.
Gently vanquished a burglar, using as
her weapon kerosene lamp.
Susan Medberry is the name of Con-
necticut prodigy, four years old, who
accurately plays hundreds Of pieces on
the piano.
Belle Boyd can get no theatrical en-
gagements, it is said, on account of
very demonstrative temper in her deal
ings with managers.
Senator.elect Pratt is to have chair
made to accommodate him. He is
too much for the present style of Sena-
torial chairs.
A lovely dancer in St. Petersburg was
poisoned the other day by a devoted
lover, who put too heavy dose of can
tharides in her glass of champagne.
The Boston Post says the latest way
of violating the liquor law "down East"
is to procure samples of liquors to "test
their purity"
Three cooks all colored men-George
T. Downing, William II. Smith, and
Henry Johnson, aspire to the steward
ship of the White Hous9.
Oliver Wendell Holmes mentions as
among the disagreeable incidents of
iourneyings, "the beds which are cities
of refuge to all the murderers of sleep"
Boston is in lamentation. The Boston
Journal mournfully says: "Philadel-
phia is oyerrun with pretty girls in
town to get the earliest glimpse at the
spring fashions"
An Englishman named Gilbert has
written new life of Lucrezia Borgia,
ILLUSTRATED by unpublished decu-
ments." 1t is probably an attempt to
make her out an injured and irreproach-
able female.
A man in Boston advertises for horse
"for a lady of dark color, good trotter,
aud of stylish action The horse must
he young, and have a long tail about
fifteen hands high"
A number of Cuban ladies, residing
in New York, have formed an associa-
ton similar to that of the Sanitary Com
mission during the rebellion, to attend
to the wants of the hospitals and raise
funds for the revolutionists.
1t is said that the women in Paris are
about to band themselves into a union
for the purpose of asserting not only
their own righto, but also those of their
husbands and brothers, just as their an
cestors did when they marched to the
palace ard assaulted Marie Antoinette.
A merchant prince of Hamburg, Mr..
Schroeder, who on account of his char
table character is called the Peabody
of Hamburg, has recently had the title
of Prussiau Baron conferred upon him,
to which the Senate of the above city
has added the grand gold medal of
honor.