The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-04
GENERAL NOTES.

set the fashion of female drummers.
CHRoMos have been put to new uses.
A religious body in Chicago presents one
to everybody who attends IFS services.
ON single plantation of Georgia, a
crop of 10000 sweet potatoes has been
raised this year.
STEEL is almost everywhere replacing
iron, as the result of making it directly
from carburetcd iron by the Bessemer
process.
/ JOHN MoRRISsEY has sold out his cele-
/ brated New York club house, and having
acquired Nh immense fortune Is going TO
commence life as reformed gambler.
/ Our Of 100000 pounds of cheese
which England consumes, over and above
her own production the United States
furnishes G0,OOOOOO.
A PETITION is to be presented to the
Baltimore City Council to place public
school teachers who have served faith
fully for thirty years upon the retired
list, and give them II pension tor lite.
THE life of Captain Webb, who swan
across the British Channel, is reported in
danger. The feat was hard one, and it
may turn ont that his fame was dearly
won nj the expense Of his life.
THEY say that the large influx of Mon
go,iar inmioration into the United States
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li"' rr''u,''u VI, ',sy'',' ~ .'t' ~! fI',t
lHuiLI,aI 10 many Pso,rSI'o,'' =! -, ot' ="
tue PIys'y'"ls n"e : ,o"'u ''o t''''0" ~
regard II Is contagious
AT Jerseyville, Illinois, man named
Bates has not shaved since Lincolns
first election, and says he Will not do 50
Hht,, % '"J re- ToI"r tsS-i i,S arn~rJacr is prcttv
Io,, ,tis true but it will not be very
IorS before he has an opportunity to re.
l,ye himself Of it now.
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we are told, SAY that ). fusseI Jones j.
the man whom the President has IN his
mind aS the successor Of De!ano. 1t II
Is Grant I,lhu , @ tI'a! T zones Is III, tn tnen !;
most dqsLnably cramped for ROOM
Courier-Joiumal.
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ment Of Agriculture states that the corn
cr,r is larper than anv previous one not
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o'aIT 'Vi"seS' 60, -. ,, go, e,,,,.. g.,
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GEN. GRANT please re"d 'he 'o'o"'"s
extract from John Quincy Adams diary:
"Mr. Raimbert brought presents OF por-
ce!oin for my wife, for Charles and
al'o'''s, io' ~! sUr, ,ybicb Sound
,,,."' ',',,' r,o,,.s,'T,. r. ndIn, from .bn first
H. hnrone o.nYbIir mon. never to ne.
CON, for myself or INV family giit while
| held y nublic office. boston. Post.
r.. ,.',,;,,. oe trrs,ol ,,ino. from, ,ys-
Il r '''''''.' - w,
ter freezing therein, nave NJ ISst maze
,b.ir connlaints heard. and successful
,,,,a-;,,on,. bors boop made ot Newark,
~ 'I'e' T'.1. , m'i,L rnwI,. n,,crtad NON.
troozin,, nine which will cost no more
,han ,6.i ordinarily used. The new
n;"o !. Of vnIcanized iron insulated
IN IN several thicknesses of paper
and one thickness of felt, with casing
of zinc lin,d with paper. Where hot
woter is to be used plaster of Paris may
be used instead of paper. 1t is also
claimed that vulcanized iron is impervi-
ous to the salts and and acids which pre-
vail in water, sometimes seriously affect
inc, lead pipes.