The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-09
An experiment with the tslepraph

An experiment with the telegraph
which could have been made by no
other line in the world than the West
ern Union, was successfully accom-
plished Sunday night. 1t was an ex
pertinent under the direction of the
coast survey, for measuring the time
for the transmission of clock signals
through complex telegraph circuit Of
seven thousand miles, and was a bril-.
liant success in every respect. Mr.. G.
W; Dean, of the survey, telegraphs froH
salt Lake City his thanks and coDgrat-
ulations to all the gentlemen who took
part in the experiment.
AT q recent opera ball in Paris, yel-
low domino was observed bowling to
every lady in black or rose domino,
whose hand he kissed respectfully and
retired without saying word, but max
ing note in his tablet. Yellow dom
ino was one of the NEST distinguished
editors in Paris, who was engaged in
the solution of great social problem:
How many pairs of new gloves are
worn to night at this opera mask And
he found that of 356 which he had smelt
at under pretence of kissing, there were
only lS which had no aroma of benzine,
or which had not been cleaned.
Our exchanges are circulating story
telling how big "spOtted" tiger eats
little girls near New Orleans, leaving
only their shoes and curls to console
their friends. We don't doubt the fact
that there is tiger, perhaps several of
them, in New Orleans and vicinity, but
their ravages are generally confined to
fast young men, clerks and their foolish
employers. Sometimes the tiger swal-
lows n handsome store building at q
single bite, with all its contents, and
then washes the dry goods or hardware
down with good sized wine shop. The
same species of tiger has been "spot-
ted" in several other cities at different
times.
Alec Mcclure, in his recent pathetic
appeal to General Grant, said: ~ ven
ture to appeal to yOa not to give place in
the Cabinet to any one of the class of
men understood to be embraced in the
list from which it is stated you will
make your selection | mean men of
the type of Geo. H. Stuart and Mr.. Bo'
rie. beg Of you not to make the ap-
pointment from that class of men. They
have no sympathy whatever with the
active Republicans of the State. They
have no knowledge of our people, and
.he appointment of any of them and the
dispensing OF the patronage of the State
by them would cause the utter ruin of
the party in the coming canvass. l
again appeal TO yOH not to appoint man
of this class"
The editor of the Montgomery Daily
Mail writes from Louisville the follow
ing melancholy paragraph: Yesterday
! had an interview with Mr.. Prentice.
He is not tEo man he was ten years ago.
Indeed his genius is gone, and his per-
son is . mere wreck. His family is bro
ken up-wifa dead, one son killed on
the Confederate side, another settled on
a farm down the river-and the old
man, verging on three score and ten,
cooks his breakfast and dinner in his
little room on the third floor Of the
Courier building, and lives only in con-
versations about the past. This man
once welded an imperial power with
his wit aud his music. Now, the world
has whirIed past him. and he lies on the
shore a mere stranded wreck.