The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-12
HERE AND THERE.

Colfax is about to purchase o baby
carriage.
The number of Mormons who practice
poligamy is said not to exceed 1000.
The merchants of Bangor, Me-, hava
agreed not to patronize runners this
year.
Charles Dickens will spend the spring
at Cannes, at the villa of his friend,
Paul Feval.
The Military Governor of Poland was
knocked down and cowhided, at War
saw, last month.
Mr.. John T. Butler of Charlotte, N. c.,
has in his possession q mad stone, for
which he has refused $4,000.
Stephen Foley, of Boston, jealoAs OF
his wifc, on Monday attacked her with
hatchet, but her chignon saved her life.
The current expenses of the Mexican
Government are more than double its
income.
"John," said a hen-pecked husband,
II wish it was the fashion to trade wives
as it is to trade horses" "Why so!"
"Pd cheat somebody before night"
The Agricultural Congress lately held
| in Berlin adopted an important resolu-
tion in regard to international protec-
ton of the forests.
The New England school authorities
are all agreed that logging is essentiai
to theproper rearing ofpupils- !
Two thousand persons, on an average,
are annually maimod or injured in the
streets of London by horses or vehicles;
about 8 per cent. fatally.
A Troy merchant has placed ON the
door of his safe card, saying to the
burglars: "Don't waste your powder;
the key is in the drawer"
The debt of the United States amounts
to s65 per head of population, that OF
France to 500, that of Holland to $107,
aud that of England to Sl34.
The coffin at recent New Hampshire
funeral was drawn to the grave on Q
hand sled, and the mourners followed
on snowshoes.
Thirty years ago q keg containing
butter was let down. into Pennsylva-
MIA well to cool. 1t was taken out re-
Gently and the butter found sweet.
George Washington has at length
been caught in a lie. 1t was on the
witness stand in Georgia. Benjamin
Franklin was sent to Jail ut the same
time. Where are wei
The inhabitants of Dalmatia do not
like to be interviewed. A Vienna
journal sent q reporter among them to
report the progress Of the war, but they
cut one of his ears off and baniShed
him.
When man tells Horace Greedy he
is "no gentleman" Horace replies,
"Who the devil said ] was 7" That
conundrum gets the man the worst
kind.
A speculator from Indianapolis re-
Gently took a wagon load Of stomach
bitters through the State Of Arkansas
and returned with an empty wagon and
1000 sheep as the results.
A Colorado romance: Seven miners,
exploring the mountains, fonnd an
enormous chunk Of gold. They fought
for its possession till all were killed but
one. It was too heavy for him to carry
off so he sat down beside it and starved
TO death.
In Stuttgart number of gentlemen
have formed o club for the, purpose OF
Introducing military mode OF salutatloH,
instead of the one now in use, and
which is mostly injurious to the head
and the hat.
A New Jersey ex-lover has brought
suit to recover his ove.letters. 1t
opens up curious question in law as to
whether the ownership of letter re-
sides with its writer or recipient.
The worst sold man in the country is
said to live in Rochester. For seven
teen years he has been regularly wind
ing his clock every night before retir-
| ing, and TO his utter astonishment, last
week, he discovered that it was an
eight day clock. .....
All Frisco went on an excursion, q
few Sundays ago, to San Quentin to see
man 90 to seain tub drawn by geese.
The craft was taken into the bay long
distance and launched, when the fowls
dived, tipped oat the crew aud left him
TO swim ashoreI sss' -
Cynton, Ohio, has a paper, the editor
of which has been on 1T for fiity-fve
years, during which time there has been
scarcely a day that he has not been in
his sa1ctum. We suppose he is so poor
by this time he can't get out of the busi
ness even if he wants to.