The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-13
Gleanin9s.
Miscellaneous Items.

DISQUALIFICATION" 800
The last new thing in ladies' fashions is
patent e~yelashes.
All the Boston daiies make money, their
profits being from $4,000 to over $4,000 a
year.
Only one paper in Montreal, Canada, is
profitable, and II makes less than $4,000 a
year.
The Belgian Government has prohibited
the manufacture, storage, or use OF nitro
glycerine.
The Chicago Times, though a very well
managed paper, does not make more than
go, 900 a year.
Gov. Patton says that Alabama will raise
AGO. 900 bales of cotton this year. This will be
worth $40, 900, 900.
Nearly all the property on the west side
Of High street, Holyoke, Mass, IL advertised
to be sold for sewer taxes.
A large number of dead shad were re-
Gently picked mp on the Connecticut shoals
at Cromwell, Connecticut, killed by the hot
weather.
Mr.. A. J. Streeter recently drove a pair
OF horses from ~. Paul, Mimi, to Hartford,
Conn, in seven weeks. Tho distance il
about fifteen hundred miles.
A jew and a Catholic were recently mar
ried i'm Liege, Belgium, by n Protestant clor-
gyman, the parties having in vain applied to
rabbi and priest to unite them.
A new association entitled ''The New
England Express Company" viii soon begin
operations on the lines of the principal rail-
ways Of the northern states.
A ten-acro field Of wheat near Platte
City, Mo-, belonging TO Mr.. white, recently
harvested, yielded five hundred aud eighty
three bushels aud twenty-five pounds Of
wheat.
An eccentric Partisan advertised that he
was gouty, Of violent temper, and terribly
quarrclaome, but that he would settle t20,OOO
- ..l. IL
received forty-six applications, and il now
married.
The Brown scholarships in BOwdoin col
lego of $50 each, have been awarded this year
70 b. A. Fogg, G. r.. Gilman and O.. T.. Clark,
all Of Portland. After 1915 the scholarships
will be worth S75 annually.
The Connecticut Legislature has appro-
priated 20 1000 for the soldiers monument to
be placed la the Evergreen Cemetery at New
Haven, in honor of the one hundred aud six
stranger soldiers buried there.
The Swiss have at last begun to make
practical use Of the glaciers. Near Martigny
small cubes Of crystal clearness are cut from
the leo, packed IN boxes, and sent Of by fast
trains To the large cities of France, whore
they arrive with trifing waste.
Both bituminOus aud anthracite coal
have been fOund in the Rocky Mount ins,
on the line of the Pacific Railroad, close 10
the track. The best coal field ~ near Ben
ton, IN the vicinity Of the crossing of the
North Platte.
Grapes are bought by the California wine
maker delivered at his press, clean, for sew
onty cents per hundred pounds; and 1t il
stated that in one thousand pounds scarcely
one pound Of unripo or rOtted berries has to
be cut cut from the punches.
-~Hippophagy has failed in Paris. The
government was willing, the sdrdHS urged
tue people to cat ana set this example, the
storCkorpors added horse-ilosh totheir stock,
but customers were lacking, and there are
Indications that the movement will be aban-
doncd.
There aro more Methodists in Ohio than
in any other state, more Baptists Ia Georgia,
moro PTcsbytoriaus IA Pennsylvania, more
! CuugroguttOnallsts III Massachusetts,, more
Protestant Episcopalans IN New York, and
ton mes more Unitarlans in Massachusetts,,
than IN any other state.
The Wayorly Magazine, the Boston
weekly that ma dc Moses A. Dow so rich, Ia
one Of tho worst and trashiest productions
over published in tho country. IL il made
( up of unpaid-fOr articles of young people in
clincd to cheap sentiment and bad English.
The stalk of the hop vine, after the hops
arc gathered, makes an excellent fibre for
coarse cloth and cordage. 1t requires TO be
7 stepped in water till there il a sign of loose
ming; then dried and beaten till the woody
centre scpnrntcs from the centre hbre, which
comes on easily ia long threads.
The California fruit crop was mover finer in
quality, or larger in quantity and variety than
It Is this summer. Many largo growers in
tend 10 pay more attention To- drying ana
packing Tor export this year. Ruling prices
arc moro reasonable 10 consumers, yet sut-
hcieutly profitable to producers, and the me
thods Of forwarding TO market show some
Improvement.
Two more beautiful f]roscocs have been
discovered at Pompeii, IN the yestibulo OF a
hDuse la the Via Stabiana, in an excellent
! tat. - ,,V...pNuti.u, ThlV upn gunnpaFl IA
be portraits Of the master aud mistress OF
the house. The woman II seated and evil
IDENTITY preparing 10 write. The f~rcscOes have
boon removed to the museum at Naples.
An Northern Europe Is languishing un-
der the unexampled heat OF the present sum
mer. During tho discussion in the French
Chamber ON July 20, the heat was such that
the door had to be- sprinkled with vinegar,
aud ia spite VI this p~recaution, Genera
Aeshn, 81 years of age, who was decorated
on tiic field of Waterloo, tainted, and was car
rlCd away.
Captain Plumacher, of Switzerland, has
purchased forty thousand acres OF land in the
vicinity Of TullahOma and McMinnyille, IN
Tennessee. Tho fret inhtalment of immi'
grants designing to establish themselves up
on the tract, passed through Lynchburg, on
Friday. on their way to their new homes,
They are men 81 means, and will make excel
Iont citizens. They will engage in the plant
ing Of vineyards, and in stock raising on an
extensive scale.
The japanese have discovered that a few
seconds previous 10 an earthquake the mag
net temporarily loses its power. They have
ingeniOnsly constructed a light frame, sup
porting a horse shoe magnet, beneath which
Is a cup Of bell metal; to the armature is at.
tached a weight, so that upon the magnet
becoming paralyzed the weight drops, and
striking the cup, gives the alarm. Every
one in the house then seeks the open air fol
safety.
The Scilian Railway Company not LONE
since bought in Catania, for the purposes o.
it's business, a house two stories high, Tor
merly belonging to the Jesuits. The work
mon in demolishing part OF the building, DIS
length by three-quarters of a metre II
breadth. Mithin this space lay three humaI
skeletons, stall covered with some fragment
OF cloth too much decayed to show whethe.
they had formed part Of a priests cassock o