The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-07-16
Brruities.
Miscellaneous Items.

II is said that over 10000 was sunk on
the Northern Monthly.
-Uhland's Poems have gone through fifty
two editions in Germany.
Mrs. Frank Leslie wants a large slice OF
alimony AZ well as q divorce.
A Boston rat built himself a costly nest
recently, using s2, G0J worth Of bills.
The Long Island fruit crop has suffered
the worst blight known in years.
When coin is largely alleged, can il be
considered to have a metallic basc2
A man has just died in Paris, leaving q
fortune Of 100000 in postage stamps.
Arsenic for the complexion killed a young
woman in New Jersey the other day.
The peach crop upon the eastern shore oi
Maryland is an utter and entire failure.
The late Matthew yassar's will gives
1921, 900 more TO Yassar Female College.
The Connecticut Legislature has ap.
propriated 5000 for the propagation of fish.
The fashionable color for ladies' bathing
costumes ut the seaside will DO scarlet aud
blue.
A gentleman is to build n 100000 church
at YOnkcrs, as n memorial Of his deceased
wife.
A man il under arrest for bigamy at Gin.
c%innati, who IL proved to have married eight
wives.
-southcrners in largo numbers are going
to the Pacific coast for a permanent rest
dencc.
Not one person in fifty reads the ncws.
papers in Athens. Alas for dcgcnoralcd
Greeccl
-Coolie cmigrants, to the number of 0.92s,
have been received in the British West Indies
the past year.
The lobster fishermen, at Englishmcn's
River, Me-, have already put up 10000 thif
season.
A sentimental bard Wishes to know "what
~ a home without u mothury' a mutherlcss
home, we suppose.
The ladies in Geneva, o., made o raid
upon aud 'clCaned out the whisky shops
there last week.
Bavaria has forbidden the cxportaiiuu ol
horses. France and Prussia had latoly made
large purchases there.
'No man IL perfect il q common aphor-
ism. We duny IT. We have known many
who were perfect fools.
California expects tu have a Eurplus ul
800, 900 tons, or over eleven million bushels nl
wheat this season for export.
Grand Rapids, Mich, has a banking capt
tai, including surplus funds, Of S59O,O0O.
against . 1000 four years age
-Arecent horse race in Russia. according
to a local report. wan "wuu by the priests
horse, ridden 10y the racristan."
The Cummissary ear of the Pcndlctou cs-
cort train, from Cincinnati, carried 10 barrels
Of whisky aud 100 kegAof lager.
Providence, IL. j., has lately enlarged It's
territory 10y anncXing about nine square
miles from the town Of Cranatuu.
A muscular baggagc-mau rayH lac wish,s
the railways would carry elephants, uo lac
could smash their trunEs ior Them.
Kansas raises better crops than ever be-
fore, and will be obliged to feed one hundred
thousand moro inhabitants next winter than
last.
In iggng 4 wen at Antelope, $50 mil,u
west Of Omaha, Nebraska, human buucr were
lately found GS feet below the surface at the
earth.
Il il said that the reason why Mr.. Seward
N 80 attracted 10 the North Pole iH, that lac
has been taking u great deal Of non modiciu.
ally lately.
A grand angling match is announced IN
Haits. The system h To- bU that IL WlippIu".
or ny Wishing, aud the prize In 81 O0u, given 10y
a Russian prince.
why do You make such wry faccny"
asked Il man of a tiplcr 81 don't know WaB
the answer, 'unleBs it's because | drink ~
much rye whisky"
An cX-city official in Troy corrected his
wife with an axe handle for breach Of cti-
quotto in helping herself to butter at the tea
'hblt WIZ W bNh hllllts
Tho Marietta (Ga.) journal saws that har-
yobtiuB of wheat In nearly over Ia that hor-
ton, The yield IN about an average. Oats,
corn, aud cotton promise we'll.
A man could carry on his back forty years
ago the sSuuthcrn mail from New York city
To Jersey city; now 1t requires eighty four
horse teams To do that service.
It took two mon four hours to break into
a safe, IN Bryan, Ohio, when their labor was
aaNluN.lLl NNaNI NItVIt 4tNal .a-l. RNlH.I Inl
been deposited for security within,
The newspapers of Germany are publish
ing matrimonial advertisements inserted 10y
Communications ia all parta Of the United
States, which elicit plenty Of replies.
Carleton" writes to the Boston journal
that tho strait between the Red Soa aud the
indian Ocean Is Bab-el-mHu-drp, and not Bah
el-man-daI as the biographies have II.
Tho Arkansas census for 1867, which has
now been completed, places the value IT the
real property of the state at ;i3, 23i, $50, aud
the personal property at 80, lG3, 1j2. Total
value, 500, 6lO,77l.
The Parisians are becoming moro aud
more addicted to the use of abEyulhe, which
Of all drinks is at first the least %pulutablc, vet
the most fascinating IN It's continued iuilu-
once, and the most fearful in It's results.
Cereal crops in Spain aud Southern France
will be tWu-thirds below the average, owing Ia
the long continued drought. The Spanish
people are signing petitions to the govern
ment for Il supply ni water.
An unfortunate cat escaping from a
basket in which il had beon confined, caused
great Consideration amongst tho passcngcrA
ON Il train Of cars Tor Albany, the other day,
finally causing the earn 10 be brought to a
stand-st
A Russian journal mentions q cWiOu in,
yeniiun applicable to letter boxes, by which
any person dopOsiting one on moro letters 10,
ceiycs through Il small opening q receipt bear
ing the date of deposit.
Counterfeit Spanish 90 gold pieces lisa,
bollas) are said 10 be in actiyo circulation IN
Canada. They are made of platinum, cover,
cd with gold Of the color Of 800 tine Uho limo
ness Of the genuine pieccs).
The Topeka, Kansas, Record has heard
lately Of a curious freak of nature. Scyut
pounds of rusty bacon, furnished to the In
dians, swollrd TO ! 300 pounds by the time Tia,
vouchers were mado up for the Government
10 pay for il.
In 81. Charles CO., Mo-, lately, a quarre
arose between two hives of bees owned 10y Mr.
W. II. Nurdeman. The immatoB of seven
other hives became involved, and the batil,
lasted till sunset, the ground being covered
with tho dead aud dying,
Tho class Of 1868 at Yale College gradu
ates lOS men. During it's our years 1t la,
numbered lbS, INC freshman class prOmlNrt
to be remarkably large, nearly 300. Th,
secret society, known m tho Spade unl
Grave, is dying Of unpopularity.
The Niagara Falls GaHotte Says "W,
notice "A rapid increase in the number of yisi
tors at our hotels within a few days, Amuul
the number are II good many Southernors
who are gradually renewing then lormer Gus
tom of spending much of the summit here.
Tho Heidelburg students Missed, Tia,
other day, Il reactiunary professor, for speak
lnB IN disparaBing terms of tho United Staten
and pointing to the Impeachment of presi
dent johnson az IA sure symptom of the nn
pending downfall Of the North American
Republic.
some of tho German railroad cOmpanici
employ good looking and respectable younl
ladies at their ticket and freight Offices, ant