The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-11-19
IMnth in eittle.
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The exterior of the Detroit opera-house
is now complete.
"A single ostrich yields 500 worth of
feathers annually.
London has a Mormon church with one
thousand members.
Tho Black n Baltic sons will be united
by rail before January.
Eighteen inches of snow now covers the
summit Of Mt. Washington.
1t is stated that Con. George II. Thomas
voted this year for tho first time in his life.
Twenty-Five London clowns in costume
recently played n cricket match with eleven
oricketers, and were beaten.
A thread chompany at Holyoke, Mass,
employs three hundred hands and manufac-
lures three thousand dozen apOols of cotton
every day.
Tho Fall Mall Gazette says that MI. Wal
lacks theatre is i~ncomparably letter in all ar
rangements forltho public than any house in
London.
Tho Singer Sewing-M Machine Company is
buildind a factory ut bouth Bend, Ind, where
1000 hands viii be employed in tho manufac
ture ofcases alone.
Idol worship is firmly established in Port
land, Oregon. There il a temple thoro be-
longing 10 tho Chinese with craven images
and all tho other accompanimonts OF IL real
hoathon temple.
"A now town has boon laid out by tho Un-
ion Pacific Railroad Company at tho mouth
Of tho Weber, and IL Is intended TO make il
tho largest city between Omaha and Sacro-
mento. The namo has not yot been given IL.
Many of the postage stamps that havo
recently arrived in Paris on letters from Spain
had the Queon'B head punched out Of thom,
40 that Hor Most Catholic Majesty will soon
DO out OF print as well "a out Of place.
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sont to Birmingham from southampton to DO
used in the manufacture Of lucifor matches.
II IN of course the p%hosphoric acid which tho
guano contains which il valued.
In tho course Of excavation along tho
banks of tho Thor, tho workmon havo
brought to light some enormous blocks Of
rare marble, aud have also discovered q new
quarry in a state of perfect preservation.
brigham Young is issuing currency in
Utah, generally resembling tho national
g~roonback. There is said to be n good Zeal
Of II in circulation, and tho Mormon prosi-
don't finds his banking operations very prof
table.
A certain little damsel, having boon ag-
gravatcd beyond endurance by her big broth
or, pumped down upon hor knees aud cried:
so Lordl bless my brother Tom. Ho lies,
no steals, he swcarHi an boys doi Us uIRLs
DON'T. Anon"
A novel race took place at Fort Wayne,
llNllhllhs lhhI Nbtht bflNtiu n running hDIht,
Rcd Bay, and the foOt-raccr, Adams; tho
horse TO run four hundred and forty yards to
tho mans two hundred aud twenty, TO start
at tho dropping Of a hat. Adams won easily,
beating the horse about sixty yards.
1t Is reported that the old Bank Of North
Carolina is about TO 90 into bankruptcy.
Should this be the case, tho state Of North
Carolina will loso 100000 of it's Literary
Fund, and the University Of North Carolina
Sl25, OOO. Other funds, tho property of
widows, orphans and charities, win also DO
lost.
A German in New Albany, Indiana, has
what he calls q dumping clock in his win
dow. On its top Is a fat and jolly-looling
Tcuton, who holds IA fork ia his hand. By
an ingcniuH continuance tho fork, A. the end
Qf each minute, dips into n dish ~ofdumplings,
and carries one Of thom To the mouth Of the
Tcuton, who swallows IL with a choking CUR
gle and . queer motion at his glass cyos.
1t Is reported that tho Grand Trunk rail.
road il 10 sell it, line east Of Quebec, 10 the
IutoroulOniRl railway 80 as to form q Govern.
mental line from Halifax to Quebec, som
100 miles of which are still to DO built
Twouty millions Of dollars have boen raised
In Canadian dobcnturCs on favorable forms,
in England, the Imperial Government guar.
antecing $40, 600, 900 of four por cents.
On looking over the list Of expenses Of
thcSpanish government, tho now authorities
find many charges that can DO dropped with
great advantage. SOmo of the pensions will
be summarily Uut on. Ono for instance re.
cOivos 5000 u year simply because lao IL q
descendant OF a nurse of n former Duke Oi
Parma. Others have inherited an annuity
from the crown because several generations
ago Am ancestor held \ stirrup for tho king
to mount, or held open the queens carriage
door.
"A st. Petersburg paper announces thai
there AFRO no fowCr than 900 ladies in thai
city engaged in tho rcmunorativo art of for.
tuno tOlling. The highest circles Of society
furnish the ]votarics 10 those pIiestossos, who
also deal in Asiatic perfumes, and allow gon'
tlemon 10 stroll from the idlost of curiosltict
into their little temple. Taking tho whole
number of inhabitants into account, which
would allow one prophecies to oyory 500
people. st. Petersburg surely cannot com.
plain OF being kept in tho dark about coming
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