The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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Philadelphia has eleven skating parks.
: In Italy twenty monuments to Ros.
SIM are projected.
Iowa is said to have cattle disease
of virulent type.
There is a cab strike at present at
Toronto, Canada.
The London police will not allow any
more masqueradei.
Calcutta has exported $4,000, 900
worth OF opium within year.
San Francisco and New Orleans are
both enjoying strawberries.
Kamehameha ", King of the Sand
wich Islands, is said to be very black
. and very fat.
The New York Tribune heads its rail
way accident column RAILROAD Man
slaughter.
! A "silver palace" sleeping car has
been burned in New York city, at rail-
way depot. .....
Spain is said to have more generals
to-day than the United States had at
the height of the war.
The present population of st. Louis is
Al ,071; increase in four years, SO, ,25l.
There are two hundred and seventy
hotels in New Hampshire.
The thermometer at Keene, Maine, on
Sunday morning, indicated sixteen de-
grees below zero.
Hops have been bad speculation to
parties engaged in raising them in Yer
mont this season.
At Montgomery, Alabama, Ladies'
Police Protection Club" has been or.
ganized.
A poor woman in New York, who had
lost all her money by playing policy"
committed suicide on Wednesday.
A runaway couple from New York
were married on Christmas day, on q
train on one of the railways leading
from that city.
The minister of the Netherlands, Mr..
Adian Mazel, was married on Thursday,
in New York, to Miss McRae, Balti-
more lady.
There are II 900 applicants fer the few
hundred places at the disposal of the
incoming Mayor of New York.
Sam Houston's grave in Texas is said
to have no tombstone upon it, and it is
proposed to erect a monument.
A man has been arrested in Cincin-
natl for offering for sale set of false
teeth which he found on the wreck of
the steamer United States.
Daniel Pratt, "the great American
traveller" has joined the ranks of the
women suffrage party.
A French Judge is grieved by the
discovery that lie has cut off the heads OF
six men for 4 murder committed by only
five.
Mrs. Lincoln, now i'll at Frankfort, is
announced to be mentally as well as
physically diseased.
John Morrissey is reported to have
made $3.50, 900 by the rise il the Central,
Vanderbilt having taken Morrissey into
his secret.
A man in Bath, n. Y, attacked his
wife with knife, threatening to kill
her, because she had been baptized
against his wishes.
Miss Emily Faithful, one of the
prominent wOmen's right speakers of
Great Britain, says that out of 6,OOO,OOO
women of England, 2,5OO,OOO are un-
married.
The Emperor of Russia has forbidden
the papers to make mention of any at
tempts upon his life, should any such
attempts ever be made.
One of the finest sights in New Eng
land town on Sunday morning is to see
the Inhabitants, in n procession from
the bakery, going home With their
baked beans.
Mrs. Grundy decides that it is no lon
ger "genteel" for young lady to ac-
cept an invitation for DelmOnico's at
the conclusion of theatrical perform
auce.
A man became insane in England the
Other day, while in the act of being
married. Uncharitable bachelors say
that there is nothing surprising in this,
although insanity generally precedes
matrimony, its moro violent symptoms
appearing some time after the ceremony.
A Bridgeport Sunday school teacher
questioned his class last week, in regard
to the origin of Christmas, with the
following result: "Where was Christ
born ?" "At Bethlehem" "Where's
Bethlehem p "In Judca." "Who first
knew that Christ was borni" His
mother I"
Queen Olga, of Greece, walks the
streets of Athens with her baby in her
arms, stops and talks with all the moth-
ers she meets and praises their babies as
prettier than hers. She acts very much
like an American candidate for office,
seeking the good will of his constitu-
entS.
a gentleman being asked by clergy
man why he did not attend the evening
prayer meetings, said he could not leave
the children. "What! have you no
servantsi" eyes," he replied, "we
have two servants who keep the house
and board us, but we are allowed few
privileges"
One of the best presentation speeches
ever made is said to be the following,
addressed by one of the workmen in a