The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-20
VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
The Paris bellies now paint theil
| ears.
One. fourth of the Mont Gents tun'
mel Is yet incomplete.
General LongstreeL is said to be Il
relative of Mrs. Grant.
-Four ladies are candidates fol
School Directors in Maiden, Mass.
-"On to Washington" is now the cry
Ofthe Grand Army of office seekers.
Hong Kong, with $4,000 inhabi-
tants, hiss Il trade OF OO,OOO, 900 an
nually.
Paris contains thirty-two Bourbon
princes and princesses anxious for
thrones.
1t is said that 81 200, 900 was recent
lv offered and refused for the New
York Times.
Massachusetts has a ''Deep Bot
tom" tribe of Indians, of whom but one
Is left.
Texas has got up a gold excitement
by discovering the preciOns metal Mt
FL Paso.
Land speculation, according to the
Chicago Tribune, is ION tho rampage
III that city.
The big circus "posters" and other
play bills of America, are unknown III
Europe.
Tho Montreal water works having
broken down, the city has to be sup
piled by water carts.
The trustees of the Illinois State
University have declined to admit wo-
men AS students.
Connecticut rejoices in family at
Waterbury. OF nineteen brothers and
one sister.
Fifteen members at Washington as
nire TO be called the "handsOmest man
in the Housed" Schenck is not one OF
them.
Wives are valuable in Kentucky.
A Louisville man advertises to pay $500
for the return of his.
Charleston, S. c., is Boosting because
IA large sash and blind factory has been
established there.
-Madagascar's Prince Imperial is
sowing his wild oats in Paris. under
prctence OF getting an education.
The largest income in Louisville is
returned by John Bull, q patent medi'
cine manufacturer, $l4O, 225.
Minnesota has passed a law prohibit
ting absolutely the shooting of Quails
in that State until after 1879.
"A tanned raven, by giving timely
alarm, recently prevented the burning
of the town of POnt Anthem, France.
One of the greatest feats yet done
with the velOcipede. is journey OF l23
miles in ~ hours. This ~Ns in France.
The Boston Transcript expresses
surprise that Gen. Grant should want
another Fish in hia Cabinet when he
had Adolph i'll alrendy.
-"Miss o." says reporter, was
OF at
ball" She is also II prominent figure mt
billiard balls.
The Appleton wis. Post says that
salt mixed with IL little butter sells
readily there at thirty.Gve cents q
pound.
The report is renewed from Eng
land that the London Times intends to
reduce it's price from thrcepenca To two"
pence copy.
-Loitercrs at railway stations are
hereafter to he punished i'll Massachu-
setIs, ifn bill pending in the LeEiSlH-
turo passes.
"A telegraphic message was recently
sent from London, and reply received
from California in less than seven and
IL half hours.
-Waldeck, Il German town, has CIV
en- public notice that no license to mar
ry will hereafter he granted TO any ha-
bitual drunkard.
"A man, after having been connected
with % different newspapers, has at
last sought refuge in IL clerkship in the
Ohio Legislature.
The New York Citizen says, New
way to make n fortune-jOin the Alba
ny lobby, and find "a railroad agent to
hire you to go home"
The settlers in Arizona are snid 10
| threaten war of determination against
tho Indians, beginning with those on
Government reservations.
AT a recent funeral at Weldon, N
| c., 81 cOlOreu woman claimed the rope
with which the coffin WAS being low
cred as u stolen clothes line.
At IL recent family reunion in
! Salem, ten heads OF families, brothers
and sisters, met. all OF whom had LOST
but five teeth, or half tooth apiece.
The British steamer Santiago, ply
ing between Chilli and Liverpool, was
recently wrecked in the Straits OF Ma
gellan, three lives being lost.
"A drunken fellow in Iowa tried tC
force himself into n house; kicked the
PANEL out of a door. and had his foot
chopped off by woman with an axe
Bismarck is quoted as asking Ma
poleon to join him in protecting con-
|
OF English and American produce"
Victor Hugo, who sets himself VI
as general regulator of men anC
things throughout the world, published
81 of his spasmodic manifeStocs las
year.
The tariff and tax upon materia
entering into the construction of yes
sells in the State of Maine this year, 1t !!
said, will amount to moro than thu
whole State tax.
An Iowa church has paid off {
mortgage by making general contri.
button of grain, stock, dry goods anC
boots and shoes, and then selling the
lot at auction.
"A Boston paper estimates that thu
United States contains 100000 horses
valued at 80, &C, O0O, 900. Five-eights o
the whole number are valued at 500
each, or under.
Concord, N: H.. presents thu
'champion accldentalist" in mar
who has already broken one arm, ont
leg, four ribs, his collar bone, and los
the sight OF one eye, by accidents.
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