The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-09
GENERAL NOTES.

thlel there recently slolc the iuie'"'
Grape from door.
WE are to have sure enough live
Emperor at the Centennial. lie Is Dom
Pedro ii, Emperor OF Brazil.
The Jesuits are urging the speedy can
onization of Christopher Columbus,
which was suggested ut the Ecumehica'
Council of 1870.
TIE public generally feel very CRATE
full to Vice President Wilson's phySicl-
ans for advising his patient not to lec-
ture.
OK the 23d of October monument is
TO he erected in Richmond to the memory
of John r. Thompson, Virginla's most
gifted poet.
A GEORGIA judge instructed jury Il
few days ago that an officer who shoots
a prisoner when he is trying to arrest
for petty offence is guilty of murder.
THE REV. Mr.. REvELs, of Africa, for
merly barber, and late United States
Senator, is Just now engaged in giving
close shave to sinners in Mississippi.
IL Wyoming Territory there is bar
room to every 1S0 inhabitants, If that
is the result of giving women the right
to vote, female suffrage won't do much
in the way of reform.
OxEGeorge 5. Weeks, who is to sing
at Messrs. Moody and Sankey's revival
services, was, for many years, a negro
minstrel and sang under the name OF
Frank Leslie.
THE Province of Tucuman, in South
America, intends to astonish the world
at the great exhibition in Philadelphia,
next year, with Il giant potato weighing
fifteen pounds.
JOHN MoRRISsYS boasted reform
doesn't pan out worth cent. He gives
up gambling. 1t is time; but then he is
irving to get a seat in the New York
Senate. We fear that John is incOrri@i-
ble; but the old saying Is true: Its
hard to teach an old dog new tricks"
Latcr-There IS some hope for him, how
ever. He has declined.
THE California AgricuiturjSt says that
there was two million beehives IN the
United States, each hive yielding little
over twenty-five pounds Of honey year
The average price at winch honey is sold
is estimated at twenty five cents pound,
from which it appears that bees, after
paying their own board present us with
"A revenue of about SS,O00,00O Il year.
GOLD is valued at $lj4 per cubic inch.
At this rate Il cubic foot of the precious
metal, containing l,72S cubic inches, will
be worth about S252,2SS. The entire
quantity of gold now known to be in cx-
istence is valued At 1000 millions OF dol
lars. so that if il were welded into one
uass il could be contained In cube the
side of which would not measure over
twenty-three feet.
The following description of novel
walking match to come of soon, We clip
from the Baltimore S'm: In reply to Il
recent card from Miss Annie llindlc,
dated Cumberland, Md, September 81,
challenging Harry Brooks, "champion
pedestrian of the world, to walk match
of endurance for from 81 600 to $1,000 a
side, and the championship of the world,
the match to take place in Washington
city. Mr.. Brooks, in nm answer dated 30
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, Baltimore Octo-
ber ), accepts the challenge, and gallant
v offers to give her five miles IN every
fifty, or one mile in ten.
NEAR Knoxville, Tennessee, the other
day, some boys wanted to get up a
criminal trial in play, ending in hang
ing. Johnny Webb was to be the Grimm
al and, to prevent any accident, it was
distinctly understood that he was to
,queal when he wanted to be let down.
The clothes line was noosed around his
neck and run over limb, and he was
boistcd into the air. He kicked Il good
deal. and clutchcd at the rope above his
head. but didn't squeal So the boys
thought he was only acting out, and kept
him suspended. Just then n man came
along and Johnny was revived with great
difficulty.
THAT silver change in place of irac-
tional currency talk is still kept up. 1t
is now announced that the Director of
the Philadelphia Mint is preparing to
coin ten, twenty and fifty cent silver
coins. and issue them in redemption Of
fractional currency There is now in
circulation $40. ,575 of fractional cur
rcncv; $l2. 100000 are in ten cent notes,
81 800 600 in fifteen cent notes, $1,000
600 in five cent notes. SlO,OOOOO0 in
TWENTY-FIVE cent notes, and Sl5,oOo,OOO
in fifty cent notes. Hence 1t Will require
l2OO6O,OOO dimes to retire the notes
of that denomination, and Two
years will be required to coin
them alone, unless the coinage
of all other pieces be suspended. 1t Will
take 100000 quarters to replace the
Twenty-Five cent notes, and 3O,Ooo,OUO
half dollars to replace the fifty cents. 1t
Is believed. however, that at least SS,Ooo,-
600 of the fractional currency has been
worn out IN circulation, and will never
be presented for redemption.
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