The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-07-09
Miscellaneous Items.

The worlmen have laid down five miles
Of railroad track In on day on the Laramie
Plains.
The very latest fashionable color in
Paris IL a delicate shade OF salmon yerging
toward pink.
From thirty to forty shots per minute
can be made witt the new French gun called
the RdudgetU.
"A speaking machine, initiating the human
voice precisely, with tho exception Of the sib-
llants, IL on exhibition in Pesth. A lady
works It with keys,
1t is curions, if true, as stated by a scien-
THO paper, that people with grey eyes are
better marksmen with the rifle than persons
with eyes OF Other color.
DIR. M. l.. Butts, OF Moline, Ill, was
drowned while bathing in the Mississippi, on
Saturday last. His parents were at Pompey
Hill, Onondaga county, n. \.
E"Haussmannization, as the street im-
provements in Paris, undertaken by the Pre-
feet OF the Seine, NJ. Haussmann, are called,
has already cost the city over $50, O0O,00
francs, and the end is not yet,
An English pedestrian recently ran forty
miles in hye hours, lacking seven minutes,
without exhibiting any distress. This remark
able feat was accomplished for the very mod
crate compensation of eco.
They have Just receiyediu Portland, Me-,
the largest sweet potato ever raised on the
IAland OF Cuba, The monster weighs forty
pounds, is ~twenty-four inches long, nine
inches IN diameter, and twenty-nine inches in
circumference M
1t is announced that at the National Horse
Fair to be held at BelYidere, III, on the
coming Fourth, o ioot-race for a purse of 500
viii be made by Mr. Plan, aged l0l years and
weighing ITO pounds, and Mr.. Capin, aged SO
years and weighing $50 pounds.
A squad Of rebel Ku-Kluxes went 10 the
] nnnaR nj m aN=EnlItaV nV tln IfnaaW avVVau
named Nathan Dawson, in Woodburn, Simp-
son county, Kentucky a few nights ago, and
called him ont and shot him. They also in
flicted dangerous wounds upon his wife.
The New Haven papers publish the de-
cree in the Judd divorce case. Judge Gran.
grants that Of her husband, to whom also l.
given the charge and custody Of the two mi
nor children. The mother Is 70 have the priv
lege OF visiting them al reasonable hours, at
least four times a year, for the present.
Recently at Leipsie the Young musical
phenomenon who was born without arms,
played ON his violin an andante of Beriot's,
and q Romance sans Paroles" Of Meyerheer'a
He holds the bow with the two first toes OF
his left foot, and operates on the strings with
theright toes. The instrument of this extra
ordinary performer Is plnced on a little bench
in front OF him.
Seven thousand dollars worth Of iewelry
pNiLhblhb W luu buIDHGhh Hollhcnlll, Was
lately lost in the street in Paris, and were
found by a seyeqnt-de-uiAe, who deposited
them at the police headquarters. In France
police agents are not allowed TO receive hny
recompense for such acts, but Lady noths-
child has written TO the Project, begging to
be allowed to give the lucky finder an equiv
alent reward. f.tIi.Irtf ..E
-omaha seems 10 be nnder a cloud, Dis
astrous failures have recently occurred there,
and more are threatened. A correspondent
writes: Our streets look as II the place was
being deserted. Omaha can never get up the
same excitement as She did this spring! Ii
my opinion she is dead for years 10 come,
and II the truth was told by all they would
coincide with me-, Two months ago there wal
not a store 10 be rented In the place. To-day
there are sixty-one stores Tor rent. .II.I
Anew poem in the epic form has, it il
said by the Leader, been. submitted to one Of
the great London publishing firms BY an, a;
yet, unknown authory which, in high mahl
and genius, is pronounced by competent crit
les 70 surpass any similar production Of the
last quarter Of a century " This is a rather
lofty prophecy, considering that We have hat
within a very brief period swinbuIne's "Ata
lanta in Calydon,h Morris "Jason," ant
George Elot's Spanish Gypsy"