The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-23
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lydia Thompson has made $4,000
since she left New York.
When is a thief like o seamstress !
When she cuts and runs.
In johnson county, Kansas, corn is
now being burnt for fuel.
Solitary confinement has crazed nine
convicts in the Detroit prison.
Boston has one hundred and sixty
one periodicals, eight being dailies.
The insurance on the Great Eastern
and her cargo of cable is $500, 900.
The latest name for the Senate of the
United States is "the cave of the winds"
II is delicious to know that the Byren
controversy has been finally slowed
away.
The France says General Beauregard
has arrived in Marseilles, on railroad
business.
They had hop in New York last week
at which 81, 100000 worth Of diamonds
sparkled.
1t will take 1000 vessels to carry away
the ice packed on the Kennebeck river
this winter.
1t is stated that Brigham Young in
tends soon to send beautiful female
preachers to the East"
A New York paper speaks of "a man
with one eye named Robert Welch,
but does not tell what the other eye Is
named.
Why is President Grants administra-
ton like an Anticipated frying pan
Because it is 80 full of Dents.
The United States consumed 229, 539.-
Ola and England 103, al ,l57 tons OF coal
in the year 1869.
One Pittsburgh man has pounded an
other for looking at his wife through an
opera glass.
Signor Blitz, the magician, is now in
PRODUCING to the Philadelphilus bis sOa
Theodore, as his successor in the BLACK
art"
A cheap New York papsr has a state.
ment per cable to tho effect that Veto.
ria is going to marry the Prince OF Au-
gustenburg.
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for an exploration of Mount Ara
rat, with o view of recovering relics OF
the Ark.
"Hicp calculated tipsy husband as
he stumbled up stairs. facet" an.
swered his wife, completing the quota
ton as he fell on the landing.
The New York Herald has added a
third steam y8cht-a fine vessel called
the Herald-to its fleet for collecting
marine news in New York harOOr.
Travellers in Austria carry a small
syringe full of ointment', with sharp
point, to prick a vein, and inject their
circulation in case of snake bite.
A Cincinnati blonde caught her high
heels in a cellar window grating on the
street, the other day, aud when she was
extrIcated was two inches shorter and
had lost her style.
A servant girl in Troy, in the habit
of pilferipg her employers liquor, drank
bug poison by mistake the other day,
and, ashamed to confess her mistake,
met the fate of the bugs.
The United States has an interest in
the acquittal of Prince Bonaparte. If
he gets clear we are to have the pre-.
cious Prince for q resident among us!
A Western paper, in recommending
q candidate for office, said that during
the rebellion he received wounds enough
to kill an Ordinary" mule.
A Cincinnati confidence map paid his
board bills for several weeks by court
ing the lsndlady, but defaulted Just be-
fore the promised wedding.
A three years residence in Texas will
cure the consumption, if a man has re-
volvers enough to keep the Indians
away from his hair.
Henry 3. Stanton is the legal husband
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, though she
never mentions il. And he never lets it
get ont when he can helpit.
Gentlemen's spring hats, they say,
will be very large this year, in order to
accommodate the constantly increasing
number Of "swelled heads"
The crude oil sent abroad by Penn.
sylvania last year amounted to S25, 0O0,-
900 in value, more than half the value
Of the gold export of San Francisco.
tbs said that an unfortunate GOODNESS
has arisen between Victoria and Olive
Logan, on account of the latters allu.
sion to Prince Arthur as "a little Eng.
lish snob."
A girl who is spending the winter at
Norfolk, Connecticut, skated five miles,
on q creek, and back, recently, making
a ten mile trip, without stopping to
rest.
An Illinois dairy convention has dis
cussed the wickednsss of making cheese
on Sunday. A constitutional amend
ment is proposed making it illegal for
COWS to give milk on the Sabbath.
Rev. DR. Schenck, of Brooklyn, ad-
vises people to take an hours additional
rest on the Sabbath. The trouble is
that good many of them don't think
of it till they get into the church.
A man loved by beautiful and vir-
tuous woman, says George SaSd, carries
taliseman that renders him invulner.
able; every one feels that such ones
life has higher value than that of
others.
A Belfast, Maine, ore.keeper, an.
noyed by losfers who persisted in roost-
ing on the granite sill Of his window,
poured sulphuric acid on the stone, so
That each of the loafers left the seat of
fzis trousers there when he got up.
4 German scientist has recently Great
ed considerable sensation by the pub
LEGATION of . pamphlet, in which he
takes the ground that the zodiacal light
is rapidly concentrating and will soon