The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-04
CURRENT NOTES.

| hlnHoSoth HAS u uoS elab hao ooon
taught to sing.
Florida planters are experimenting
with short cotton.
Flowers are in bloam lin the Capitol
Grounds at Washington.
A woman in Hudson, New York, has
been arrested $50 times.
The procuring of divorce is called
counting after marriage.
AFrench gentleman has recently pro-
claimed himself King of Patagonia.
The Susquehanna raftsmen have
formed a union called "The Rock
Dodgers Association"
A New Yorker committed suicide be-
cause his wife failed to support him in
proper style. --.
The spring style of bonnets is de.
scribed as something like sun flower
on the peak of hay.stack."
The city of Elizabeth, New Jersey,
has hen that recently hatched seven
teen chickens from fifteen eggs.
ABoston clergyman, last Sunday an
nounced that the "whole New Testa-
ment" was his text.
A Chicago woman has procured a di-
vorce because her husband would not
let her join ballet troupe.
The Cologne Gazette has the largest
circulation of the newspapers OF the
Nsrth German Confederation.
The Savannah fishermen have this
season shipped $4,000 white shad, most
of them to the North.
A Providence man advertises a st.
Bernard Newfoundland dog fer sale,
warranted genuine.
Basil Duke and Simon Bolivar Buck
ner have declined the office of Chief OF
Police of Louisvillo, at a salary of three
thousand dollars.
In a letter to friend in Wisconsin,
General c. G.. Washburn positively de-
clines to be q candidate for reelection
to Congress.
A Nevada Judge the other day fiued
DSlus tN'
the benefit of the Court.
A Columbus, Ga, paper rejoices at
the occurrence of foot race in that
city, because it ''sent ripple athwart
the sea of general slaSnatlon."
A Florida man, last week, killed four
teen feet of alligator, done up in one
original package weighing eight hun
dred pounds.
The Richmond Enquirer deprecates
lhe fact that since the war the facility
and also the practice of obtaining di-
vorces has greatly increased in Vir-
ginia.
The Southern States are cultivating
Chinese grass to be used as a substitute
for silk. A machine and process for its
preparation have already been patent
ed.
A herd of $4,000 buffaloes are now
only short distance west of Laramie
City, and stray animals are frequently
seen by passengers on the Union Pacific
railway.
One of the passengers OH the wrecked
steamer Golden City has sued the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for $4,000
damages, for the privations he endured
The Italian Minister of War has or
dered the dismissal on Unlimited fur
Tough of thirty Thousand soldiers. The
state of the public finances renders such
q reduction necessary.
The voters in Whittemere's district
are laborng under the impression that
the cadetships are species of canal
boat when everybody else knows they
are men-ot-war.
The announcement of BostOn's second
musical jubilee is now said to have
been premature, and the mourners go
about the streets disconsOlate.
After hurrahing over the condition Of
the English navy, the Toronto Leader
tells tho Americans that it depends en-
tirely upon themselves whether they
| will have fish, DO fish or war.
They have counterfeit horse-car
tickets in Boston. In Brooklyn some
persons split the genuine tickets in two
and give half to the conductor when
they feel like riding at small expense.
II is proposed to erect suitable mon
nneut to Luther at Eisleben, the town
where bo was born. 1t will probably
be COMPLETED before tho 10th of Novem-
ber, 1888, the four hundredth ami
versary Of his birth.
The newest style for dressing the hair
is called "the Cleopatra" The hair Is
brushed high of the forehead and braid
ed low in the neck, surmounted by a
large imitation snake, which is coiled
around the head.
A Chicago lady has written q long
letter to the Journal of that city, elo.
ouently advocating the use of face
powder. She says she would as soon
think of being ashamed of her tooth
brush as of her powder box.
The people of Ottawa have filed two
columns of q local paper with eonun-
drums, called out by the offer of sill
YER watch, five dollar bill and pho
tocrauh album as prizes for the three
best ones. They were terribly duii
reading.
The present Earl of Derby Is disposing
of his fathers stud, just as the late Earl
Sisnosed of his fathers menagerie. Inc
mares Repulse and Inspiration brought
1000, and 660 guineas respectively.
Thirty horses were sold for 4S4l guineas.
A recent French writer asserts that
when Eve plucked the apple she gave
half of il to Adam. 1t Is gratifying 10
be assured in this the day of the ssser-
tioa of woman's rights, that Adam got
his fall share, and was not put off with
a choice between bite and the core, as
is now the custom with children nc
school.
A New Hampshire boy, who had been
absent on an eighteen months voyage,
and had, as they say up there, grown
considerable met his father on the
cars, but was not rssog nizsa. After !, q
h;as ,Gas reme. 7Ts7r1rkipg fhst his face
seemed familiar. T6e,s yoanE man
laughed, and the fash6k s1acuiated,
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