The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-04
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SENATOR HOWE is said to be very |
much like oeo.margsrine, because he is
the "machlne" butter.
GENERAL SHERMAN says damned Is
q good word when appropriately used
and he thinks he may have used it him
self sometime.
A MAN in Bogota claims to be l0o
years old. Lots of people say that this
claim is well founded and that they
know all about it.
THE idea of having life sized figure
of an angel, is good. 1t will entirely pat
at rest all disputed points in regard to
the dress and style OF heavenly inhabit'
ants.
ONE OF tho prettiest girls at the White
Sulphur Springs last summer was MISS
Laura Dennis, the sister of Senator
Dennis of Maryland. She has recently
died OF paralysis,
The total amount OF corn exported
from the port of New Orleans thus tar
this season, since September l, foots up
8,4O2, $50 bushels, against 979,425 bushels
for the same period last year.
A SMART Pittsburgh woman, who
keeps q waiter.girl saloon, has begun to
evade the law just passed to prohibit the
employment of employment Of females
to sell liquor. She has taken all her
girls into partnership and has no en-
ployes.
IT turns out that Howe's hostility to
Schurz did not manifest itself under this
administration until the Secretary, after
begging, coaxing, and threatening from
Howe, declined to retain the pension
agent at Madison, who was friend of
Howe and one of his workers, and
appointed instead the best man.
A FEVER of curiosity was excited in
Paris q few weeks ago by the blank walls
throughout the city being adorned with
placards bearing no inscription except
q huge interrogation point. A few days
after events showed that this was an in
genious mode of bringing to the notice
of the public a new paper called La
Question.
THERE is a man in Virginia who is
lOS years old. He remembers John q.
Fremont.-DanbHry Ne1oS.
Mr.. LEIGHToN's picture for the Royal
Academy this year is OF the angel min
isteriug to Elijah in the Wilderness.
The figures are oflife size.-PhiLadetPLta
Times.
THERE is fair prospect now that
the odious bankrupt law will be repealed
1t can rot be done too soon TO satisfy the
honest people of the country.-BoStoa
Herald
A SEEKER after an office OF Washing.
ton wants TO know "whether there are
any vacuums at PRESENT." We think
most of the places are full of them
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
ONE OF Mr.. Hayes admiring female
friends writes of him as the "frst gentle.
man in America" He is the first gen.
tleman in this section of Americs to &C
cept Presidency to which he was not
elected Washington Post.
The line
"Twaddle like bum on some late spree"
in our poem of last Saturday, should
have read:
Twitter like a bird on some lone spray.
Utica Observer.
CONGRESSMAN Shsllenberger, OF the
Twenty-fourth district, will not have
much trouble to get denomination.
Beaver supports him and Washington
county does not seem inclined to bring
out candidate at all.-PhiJadeiPhid
Times.
WE trust for the honor Of the
country, while in the Holy Land Gen.
Grant didn't get on any OF his "Crusades."
That's all well enough at home, you
know, where we know him, but in the
Land of Solomon-oh, Jerussleml
wouldn't it be awful
GOVERNOR Holiday, of Virginia, is
on West Virginia tour, and has been
serensded several times. He is as elo-
quent there about the purity and
honesty of Commonwealth as he is at
home, tor the young State owes her
mother $4,000 O0.-Ph,iadciphiO Times.
"ON Sunday, while the Baptist con-
gregation were holding service in Union
Hall, some sneak thief stole from one OF
the dressing rooms box OF cigars and a
case of soda water that had been left
over from the ball of the Dauntless Base
ball Club of the previous evening. Los
Augeles (CoLl Herald.
The delegation from West Virginia is
likely to remain unchanged IN the next
Congress. The West Virginia papers
speak of Colonel Ben Wilson and Hon.
b. +. Martin ss almost certain OF re-
nomination. The Senators hold over,
and Hon. John Edward Kenna, from
the Kanawha District, has no risk OF
being disturbed WASHINGTON Rs5LlcGn.
A man in New York Stste-in the
butter region, probably-sGdresses q
memorial to Congress urging that hon.
oraole body to build steam-rams as a
means of preserving the peace. He
says "steam-rsms will remove the nee
essity of keeping up seaport Notifications
and training men TO fight" If a nation
talks war just mention rams to it and
peace will continue. Let's have the
rams, by al means.-BOston Globe.