The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-11-12
Miscellaneous Items,

-poe's works have been published In Aus.
ITALIA.
The Louisiana sugar this year is of ex-
cellent quality.
Alcohol lie said TO be a sure cure for
mushroom poison.
London has a Mormon church with one
thousand members.
The Black and Baltic seas will be united
by rail before January.
King William Of Prussia has given a
chateau TO the Zouaye Jacob.
~-Kangaroos have become very numerous
and injurious in South Australia
Colorado Jewett is about TO innict his
renewed presence on this unhappy land.
The portraits of Napoleon and Eugene
have been publicly destroyed in the streets
of Madrid.
4 man in Scotland who had been ordered
leeches for an injury, took them boiled with
his Cruel.
-weedsport, N. y, is irving to popularize
the ''mush and milk sociable" as a means OF
raising church funds.
1t is said that Napoleon is inclined to per-
init the Marsellaise tc resume its old place Us
the national air of France.
The artesian well at Sc. Louis is now g.
| 375 feet deep. Tit drills are still Ina a lime
stone stratum, and there is no water.
The champion drinker Of lager beer In
Cleveland has accomplished 100 glasses In
one day, and invites any one to beat II.
Fifty years ago not a pound OF fine wool
was grown i'm the United States, in Great
Britain, or in any other country except
Spain.
A cotton batting factory, which turns
ont about four hundred pounds Of batting
per day, has just boon started at Toledo,
ohio.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that Mr.. Wal
lacks theatre is in%comparably better in all al
engagements iortthe public than any house in
London.
The Island of Jersey is the great garden
Of England for early potatoes, and the crop
is 80 profitable that an acre OF carly potatoes
is worth eight hundred dollars.
-Rouher, the French Minister, has found
time enough mid his multifarious public du-
ties to write q comedy In Ave acts, which
has lately been offered TO the Theatre Fran
Gals.
When the Gear visited Warsaw, theatre
cal performances were given in his honor,
but the people could not be induced to at
tend, aud the whole performance was a fail
ure,
Count Adelsvaerd, one Of the wealthiest
nOblemen Of Sweden, Is said to have refused
an offer Of seventy million dollars, made to
him by an English company, for his copper
mine OF Atrudaberg.
A highly imaginative Philadelphia re-
porter saw the moon shining 80 brightly the
other night that he could trace the move.
ments Of a base ball club playing a match on
the surface of that lovely satellite.
Not long ago a woman was accidentally
locked up IN the vault Of a village church in
Sweden and remained there undiscovered
for eleven days. Great care was afterwards
taken of her and she has recovered
Pearl fishing in the province Of olonetz
] DaawmHa hoo IuNgNaH IarA a.aaaa I'LL w-..l
success, and some fine specimens have beer
sent TO the Emperor by the peasants. They
were first explored during the reign Of Cath,
crime III.
An English paper relates that two drunk
en- men fell into the water at Havre a shOrI
time since and narrowly escaped drowning
Tho custom house officers rescued them both
when one of them tried to persuade his de,
~liyerers TO dive again and get his hat.
Gen. Fairchild, now Governor of Wiscon
sin, who received in battle q wound which
left him an empty sleeve, recent Y presented
TO @ n. Stan1arJ, of Burlington, VT, who haI
an empty right sleeve for the same reason
a half dozen pairs Of odd dress gloves.
The new Episcopal diocese to be set Of
from Western New York 10 proposed to b.
called the Diocese Of Syracuse, fiom til,
principal city. st. Paul's Church of that cit,
Is offered as a cathedral church, and q stronl
desire is expressed that Bishop Coke vii
elect TO take that as his See.
"A Denver dispatch says:-Mr. We're, tn
/, commissioner sent by the Emperor Napoleoi
r to examine the Colorado mines, has organ
I lied u French company, with 500, 900 capita
to build a tram-way from the coal beds, /
: view Of furnishing cheap fuel for smeltin
c works. He also agrees to construct ga
works there within ninety days.
When DR.. McCosh closed his speech q
Princeton College last Tuesday, the boys re
Il spOnded will three cheers, the usual tigC
e and a rocket" The rocket is a thorough
1 Princeton institution, and is given with
A f-z-z-z-boom-a-hl TIL first eXclaml
> ton is supposed to initiate the flight OF
: rocket in the air, the second the explosion
and the third the admiring EXPLANATIONS {
c the enthusiastic spectators as they witnes
b the burst OF colored fro.
II DIR. Y, a fashionable physician {
Paris, whose love of fees is AZ proyerbial 9
q the clinging affection of his patients for nj
poleons dor, recently paid a visit to the Dr
q de K. The Due gave him a napoleon
Dr. y prefers two; so, going out he droI
ID ped the one on the floor. The Due helped
y look for it. The doctor picked it up, but col
tinued the search. 81 thought you'd got 1t
e said the Due; what are you searching e
y now?" "Oh, " replied the doctor, I'm IooI
IS ing for the otherl'