The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-05
GENERAL NOTES.

A CHINESE young lady is an applicant
for u teachers place in one Of the public
schools of San Francisco.
ONE hundred and twenty more de-
grees of Doctor of Divinity have been
conferred BY eastern colleges in the last
two months.
IN the early part of next year an ex-
hibition will be held in Belgium Of all
such apparatus and sanitary arrangements
or scientific appliances us are calculated
to preserve life.
SARToRIs intend, to take the baby to
England and with paternal pride show
him off to the old gentleman as fine
specimen of an international son and
heir.
CHICAGO cannot complain of
hard times. The business which is her
great specially is in most fourishing
condition. a single court averages nine
or ten divorce cases u day.
THEY are bound to run poor De!ano
in the ground. 1t is now beng gcner-
ally asserted that Grant is casting about
for his successor. Don't take hope,
though, too suddenly. The report will
probably be contradicted.
The friends of Hon. Sam Randall, of
Pennsylvania, claim that he is sure, on
the first ballot, of 100 out of the l7j
Democratic votes for Spcakership of the
House of Representatives of the 4Ith
Congress.
\ NOVELTY in the shape of Japanese
steamer may be looked for shorty at San
Francisco, with articles for the Centcn-
NAL Exhibition. She was expected to
leave Yokohama about July 10, and is
manned and oiiicered by japanese. Her
name is the Hiogo Maru.
WILLIAM, the Emperor of Germany,
smokes fifteen cigars q day But to offset
the expense, he sleeps on camp bcdstead.
gars: but you don't catch him sleeping
outside spring bottom. He used TO do
that bu; that time Is past.
The National Capital is well nigh
deserted His Eycellency and nearly
the entire Cabinet have abandoned it.
But lest the people should become alarm
ed precautions have been taken for the
transaction of any urgent public business
which might arise. Boss Shepherd has
been left to attend to it.
RIFLE shooting among the men has
excited the ambition of the girls. An
archery match recently took place in
New York between six girls Of Mott
Haven that State, and six frona Jersey
City, y. j. one of the New York girls
captured the principal prize, a $500 set of
chamber furniture.
WE have an Incxprcssibc scorn for
everything like agrarianism, Commun-
ism or Red Ecpublicanism. But We have
equal .corn for that systemn culsordid,
mes, and cruelty. under the eusc of
proicsscd principle Of general economy,
which would grind the brains and muscle
of the millions IT. mere griSt for the mills
of the money-kiugs.-R IthiH
TuE Iowa State R,g,stcr announces
that 'the good weather Of the week, with
its bright sun, drying winds, and h,yora-
bic harvest weather. has beer II blessing
worth a million of dollars to the State,
and that lis continuance for few days
more would more than double lis value.
Thi, news is in striking contrast to most
that is received and is thereby rendered
so much more grateful and pleasant.
ADAY or two since, three male tramps
entered housein Burlington, Iowa, near
the river, just as supper was bcirg placed
on the table, and inquired Of the woman,
who WAS alone, where the men were. She
replied that they had not yet returned
from their work. The three then dclib-
erately sat down at the table and ate up
everything they could find. The lady
was 50 astouI,hed that the Williams made
their escape before she had thought of
giving an alarm.
HERE is a sad result of cruelty TO ami
mails. \ horse ut Petersburg, Virginia,
has been driven to suicide He walked
out TO the picrhead Of wharf, looked
around as if choosing spot, and then
jumped into the river at point where the
water was deepest. Persons on the
wharf, seeing that he WAS drowning, got
A rope around him and drew him into the
shallow water, but u soon as he touched
bottom he got loose again. and wadlng
out some yards further in the stream. put
his head beneath the surface, and kept it
there until he was drowned.
IT is astonishing how many stories can
be started about man after ne dies
Not content with making Andrew John
son say that he desired to be buried like
an Indian chief, wrapped in the gaudy
colors of the United States hag, the
papers now are starting another story
cquailyas absurd, aS follows:
"When Nashville was besiegcd, and it
was proposed to abandon the place, An
drew johnson, who was Military Gov
ernor, said: i am no military man, but /
any one who talks OF surrcndering, will /
shoot
Now, that's likely yarn, amt il.
THE WEATHER.