The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-08
SPLINTERs.

In Montgomery county, Iowa, potdtooS
are selling at 12i cents per bushel.
The publisher of new paper started
at Chelsea began by Offering the people
free lunch. Such a mighty crowd as
sembled that they came near eating up
his press.
John Moore, of Silver Lake, Ill, told
his wife he was going berrying, and,
once away, wrote he should never re-
turn. Mrs. Moore Immediately up and
died of broken heart.
Low-necked shirts are pronounced the
latest "style" for nice young men. Just
imagine a sweet youth with his hair
parted in the middle, brass headed
cane-and low-necked shirt.
1t is said that in France there are at
least fifty actors and actresses who pre-
tend to be children of the great Rachel.
If Rachel is weeping for her children,
she will have to shed fright smart"
tears.
There are fifty fire engine stations in
London, with 10 engines, of which %
are worked by steam. The. personnel OF
the establishment includes about $50
men, and the annual cost is nearly $780,
900.
The mills of the gods grind slowly,
but justice though tardy, always comes:
and this is the reason why baggage
man at Cleveland got hole in him
while smashing up trunk in which
there was revolver.
A Kentucky sheriff belived so strongly
in moral suasion that he took prison
or into his family, that the poor fellow
might not be lonesome, and the young
man and the sheriff's wife are now far,
far away.
A little boy, in giving an account to
his brother of the Garden of Eden, said:
"The Lord made gardner and put him
in the garden to take care of it, and to
see that nobody hurt nything or pasted
bills on the trees"
Waltham engaged Josh Billings to
lecture, and subsequently the course
was abandoned. On being notified of
the fact, Josh wrote: "a town so noted
for making watches as Walthan ought
not to fail to come to time!
New Jersey takes the lead in canning
tomatoes. One firm in Camden will use
Is, 900 baskets of the vegetable this sea-
son, and other firms in Burlington,
Vineland, Bridgeton and other places
will use about 100000 baskets.
Baby propellers-which are pushed
instead of drawn-are condemned by
medical authorities. The child always
desires to see the face of its attendant,
and is especially uncomfortable in the
street amid strange faces if it cannot.
The Buffalo Express says Prince Ar
thur, who has been there, is ga SLIM
breasted youth of nineteen, with dainty
side whiskers, with very light hair,
parted three inches above his left ear
and with the royal nose and shelving
forehead of the Georges"
The Portland, Me-, dry-dock, the
largest but one in the country, is capa-
pie of receiving any vessel afloat except
the Great Eastern, being 425Vfeet long,
100 feet wide in the middle, S5 feet at
the gate, and 45 feet at the bottom, aud
u feet deep.
Rev. Barnes Sears, agent of the Pea.
body Fund, says that it was the falling
off of income and its discouraging effects
that induced Mr.. Peabody to increase
his gift to the South. He adds that
that portion of the plan which secures
the vigorous cooperation of the South
ern people, brought him to this decision.
A Bridgeport lad, on Saturday, by
some MEANS got stone in his ear, and
no amount of coaxing could keep
him still enough to have an opera
| ti0n performed to remove the same.
The parents refused to consent to the
administering of Ghloroform, and the
boy, at last accounts, was still carrying
the stone in his head.
There is to be a barn, stable-or
rather palace for beasts-some twenty
miles from San Francisco, which cost
the owner about SO, 900! It is finished
with the most costly woods of the coun-
try, inlaid and interlaced; and instead
of brass and iron, silver has been as
freely used as in our most extensive
dwelling houses.
Those knives which swell the long
list of Presidential perquisites are han.
died with ivory, bladed with silver
plated steel, riveted with silver, in
scribed Ulysses, packed in birds eye
maple, velvet aud satin, and duly for
warded to Washington. We will men
tion the makers name and the office he
gets for just $3.50 per line editorial
matter.
"She died" said Polly, "and was never
seen again. For she was buried in the
ground where the trees grow" "The
cold ground" said the child, shudder-
ing again. mo, the warm ground" re-
turned Polly, "where the ugly little seed
are turned into beautiful flowers, and
whore good people are turned into an.
gels and fly away to heaven.
The Boston Transcript remarks: "If
all the denuuciations of the gold gam
blers could be turned into Kisses, kicks
and whip cords, the rascally tribes
would find themselves hooted, project
ed, and scourged round the world and
out of all respectable and honest circles.
The scorn and indignation are tempest
in their universally and ferceness."
The fire fiend" of the Dismal Swamp,
| Virginia, has driven from their woody
coverts herds of wild animals, forcing
them to take refuge even within the
populated precincts of Portsmouth.
Wednesday morning early full-grown,
healthy-looking bruin was discovered
quietly feeding on South street, by the
night watch, and it is said that num-
bers of black bears are roaming at will
on the outskirts of the city.
For a lucid explanation of recent
crush" at Yale, the following from the
New Haven Register is very good: "Some
were knocked down, clothes torn, hats
smashed, mingled with yells and shout
ing of the most hideous kind. The
Freshmen were driven to the gate, when
they ran, losing hats, coats, and other
trophies, in the shape of sore toes, torn
clothes, etc. The usual prayer meetings
of the college began Sunday, and were
we'll attended. The Freshmen held
their first one, and most were there, and
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