The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-08
SPLINTERS.


Four of the Avondale widows have
remarked.
Covipgtop, Ky has a young lady who
smokes six cigars day.
A Tesnesse jury has though it worth
$40 to call man Ku Klux in that State.
The Ohio Legislature has passed q
bill to provide Subjects" for medical
students.
There are over five thousand register.
ed women OF the town in the city OF
Berlin, Prussia.
The doorkeeper of q theatre in Chi,
cago is SO strict in his duties that ne
has failed to recognize his own father
at the door.
1t turns ont that the Iowa paper that
flies Grants name for a second term is
owned by the postmaster.
Since the last of February, 81 ,250, 600
in currency have been paid out OF the
Treasury on account OF pensions.
There are in the United States six
hundred aud fifty-niue Young Mems
Christian Associations, with over 100
900 members.
A prostitute at Christiana, III Norway,
shot, the other day, a wealthy young
man who refused to pay her for her
caTesses.
More than hundred books, new and
old ,on the woman question, are for sale
in q single book store in Boston.
Cincinnati is spending SIS, 900 in the
erection of temporary building for
the approaching national SaengerfeSt.
A disease, something similar to and
partaking of scarlet fever has broken
out in Hampstead, Long Island. 1t
kills those whom it attacks in q very
few hours.
An Illinois paper reports that the
Democrats of Decatur, in that State,
have nominated an intelligent and pop
ular gentleman of color, who is named
White, for Mayor.
Immense coal fields have been recent
~ discovered in the barren country In
Kansas, beyond the Republican, not
more than fifty miles from Hebron, Ne
braska.
A Jewish club house has been built
and dedicated in Chicago. There was
grand dance and banquet, and a speech
by the President in which he predicted
the speedy union of the Jewish and
Unitarian Churches.
Several drinking saloons and retail
stores on Broadway, New York have
hung ouV signs announcing the resump-
tion of specie payment, and are giving
silver change on purchases made III
greenbacks.
A minstrel troupe organized in 1ndi
annapolis, Indiana on Monday, played
Tuesday night, "busted" Wednesday
morning, and Thursday afternoon the
leader went to saving wood at four
shilliugs cord.
Illinois has young lady of seven
teen bearing the name Of Flora Mills.
She Is a burg laUe SIS; and as u reward Tor
opening up "a new field of labor for wo'
men, is to enjoy five years visit to the
Penltentiary.
Tha Woman's Suffrage bill passed by
the Montana Legislature, submitting
the question to the vote of the adult
male and female citizens of the State at
the fall election, has been signed by
Governor Austin, and is now a law.
This is the last joke about "little
RLody" A person travelling from
Taunton to Hartford, the other day,
over the Fishkill road, hearing the con-
ductor sing out "Willimantic," asked,
in surprise: "Mr. Conductor, have you
called out the names of all the stations
we've passed. "Yes, sir" was the
reply. "Well, then," rejoined the trav-
eler, 81 must have been asleep; didn't
hear you call Rhode Island"
The Baltic Sea, as far as the eye can
reach from the pilots tower at Swine
munde, was at the last accounts covered
with a smooth surface of thick ice,
forming an extensive skating field.
Swinemunde is maritime to wn Of Pom
erania in Prussia, and is situated on the
island of Usedom on the Swine, the
outlet to the Baltic of the extensive
lsgoons of the river Oder. Swinemunde
is the outport Of Stettin, from which 1t
is thirty.six miles distant.
The sale of ice on the Isthmus of
Panama is monopoly, for which the
Boston Ice Company has just contracted
to pay to the Columbian Government
two hundred and seventy five dollars
month for the term of three years. The
use of ice has become absolutely neces-
sary on the Isthmus, and the right to
supply this luxury was sold by the
Government at auction, and the preml-
um was raised from two hundred dol.
lars month under the previous con.
tract to two hundred and seyenty-tiye
dollars.
A New York correspondent tells this:
A young Englishman, while riding in
an omnl bus for the first time, was nom
plussed at not finding a conductor to
whom he could pay the fare. His as
constituent was increased by respec
table looking lady handing him ten
cents. He looked at the stamps, then
at her, aud handing it back, said, with
a polite bow, "Pm very much obliged to
you, madam, for your kindness, but
really, Pm not in want or need of char
ity just now"
Mr.. Brooks method of conducting war
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