The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.
Red silk parasols are said to be COM
ing into fashion.

Red silk parasols are said to be COM
ing into fashion.
The large cities Of the country appear
to be more healthy than usual this
summer.
A Southern lady is said to have been
poisoned by chewing green sewing silk.
Newark manufactured $5,500,000
worth of patent leather last year.
The census has developed a family
in Wood county, Ohio, in which there
are eighteen children, among them four
pairs Of twins.
One Of the English magazines has an
article "On champagne considered as
social force"
Widowers never die of grief. Just
let them alone and they'll soon revive.
A man in Michigan was recently
struck on the head BY lightning shaft
but was not hurt.
Tonsberg. a Norwegian city, cele-
brated its one thousandth anniversary
on the ODD Of June.
At Clarenont. n. H., recently, the
lightning scattered box ofmatches over
the floor without setting one of them on
fire.
The royal family OF England do not
cost that country as much q year as
New York has paid Of late to a few
chairmakers and plasterers.
A Washington policeman finds it
necessary to announce in a newspaper
card that he is not in the habit of ar
resting children in arms.
The Chicago Tribune think the best
way to solve the Mormon question is to
an mex Utah to Nevada. Utah has too
many wives, Nevada too few.
The 14,OO0 heather Chinese in San
Francisco don't make much noise in
the world, but they own $4,000 in
cal estate and Sl,lS3,000 in personal
property.
A Western contemporary longs to
become flash Of lightning, in order
that it may utterly srnihilate people
who speak Of cable dispatch as a
"cablegram."
Chief Justice Chase is said to have
recently purchased five acres Of land
on the Heights of Narraganset, R. l.,
intending to erect a summer residence
there.
Nearly two hundred members OF the
Patch family. which years ago leaped
into fame, had reunion in Hamilton,
Mass, on Thursday last.
The Louisville Courier.Journal asks
why George Francis Train talks OF
spending four days in smashing Prussia,
when he can bore her to death in half
that time.
A bare-headed oare.footed little boy
astonisbed worsbipping congregation
in a Massachusetts, town, on a recent
Sunday, by rushing into church and ex-
claiming, Where's my papa? The
pigs are OUT
A charcoal man and his wife, who
belonged to the Commune, escaped the
vigilance OF the police by the happy
device of thorough washing. The
disguise was too perfect, unluckily, for
they have been looking for each other
ever since.
A picture OF AFTER the War" now
popular in Paris, represents gentleman
carrying a sack OF money in one hand
and can Of petroleum in the other.
He has secured his own fortune, and is
going to destroy his neighbor's.
An Indiana man claims to have
succeeded in playing thorough con-
fidence game upon the potato bugs.
He planted a grain Of corn in each
potato hill, and as the corn came up
first the bugs thought it was corn-feld
and started tor other quarters.
The mackerel fishing is described by
Canadian papers as very good this
season, and large schools are abundant
in places where heretofore they have
been scarce. They are also found
closer in shore than usual.
~ say, Jones that's shocking bad
hat of YOURS. Why do you wear such
a hideous thing" Because, my dear
fellah, Mrs. Jones declares she will not
90 out of the house with me till / get
a better one"
An Illinois farmer has told his rat
story. He was going out to his corn
crib the other morning, he Gays, when
he saw a large rat, with head erect, car
rying a full sized ear Of corn in his
mouth. while at the same time his tail
was wrapped around another large ear
which he was dragging behind him.