The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-12-11
alnth III 2itue.
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
tucky.
storm.
The poetofioe clerks in Cleveland, Ohio,
are all females.
Some disturbances, headed by students.
have occurred at Athens, Greece.
Coal has been found under the founda-
ton OF the new Illinois statehouse.
-Sight-scers are already engaging rooms
In Washington for Inauguration week.
Ripe strawberries were gathered ON the
James river, Va, a. late as the 18th of No.
vember
"A book has been made in Hartford which
weighs s~eventy-nve pounds, and contains
Loss pages.
Many are onlisting in the army in India
to escape from the famiRe which is surely
impending.
An Ohio farmer has raised forty bushels
OF a new variety OF corn In two years, from
four kernels.
Hallway travelling is said to be more slow
and uncomfortable IN Italy than anywhere
else IN the world.
Fifty thousand dollars in counterfeit
currency was lately found by a Philadelphia
garbage picker.
1t took two freight cars packed full to
carry to Washington the records of the mus
tering Office at Columbus, Ohio.
-lu Kansas 20, 600 acres Of land have boeu
purchased for a colony Of SVCdes, who are
coming over IA the spring.
Florence has increased in population
from lly,SOJ to Ia, 2SU since the Italian capt
tai Was removed thithef from Turn.
Tho $1,000 diamond pin stolen from Con-
greasm,n Schumacher, ia Now York, has been
returned by tho thief, and "nO questions
asked.'
Tho Jews in Warsaw have a theatre In
which all the plays are founded IN Old Tee
tsmcnt s%tUr,s, and all the parts arc taken
BY males.
A New York journal has the following
cutious notice: WANTED, u nurse to take
charge Of a basket of children eft at this
Office a short TIM ago.
Cholera Of the true Asiatic typo has
broken out In Bombay, but 1t Ia thought that
sufficient measures have been adopted to
check the spread Of the epidemic.
A family left Buffalo for a week, recently,
thcir house remaining IN charge Of o servant
girl. Who gave a succession Of balls, at
which she appeared In her mistress dresses
aud jewclry.
~ wag seeing q friend bow to an extreme
) cJrpuicut man inquired who he was. That
sir, Is Smith, the great corporation contract.
On 'Ah, Indeed; NJ Looks liEt a corpora
ton cXpandcr ~
Paris IL sail to have n feline population
OF 700, S2i. This would seem to sLowl that the
harmless cat enters less cxtcnsiSel into
the daily food of the inhabitants than hns
commonly been supposed.
"A kerosene lamp exploded ut the house
Of T.. j. Leslie, in Sing $ ny. on SATURDAY,
burning to death Mrs. Leslie aud her two
children, one u boy of about three years and
the other a baby OF nine months Of age.
"A wealthy gentleman in Providence, who
I lAa .a..N. O.. .U...fuNNH II .ANN.MtH- =. IA.
cdricatures, has q full collection, going back
as far % the hard cider campaign. II Is said
10 be the richest OF the kind extant, as hc
has boon offered repeatedly several Thousand
dollars for 1t.
} The New Orleans Republican has passed
into tho hands Of q stock company with a
large capital, and will hereafter be edited Inv
cx-Gov Michael Hahn. The tenor of his
salutatOIy l. SAID to be rather conservative
aud independent.
1t has hccn found that students at Cam
bridge, England, University are 40 deficient
in English grammar and spelling, that an OK.
animation in these elementary branches has
been added TO the tests 10 be applied before
a student can receive his degree.
"A man named Asa Kimball jumped from
the third story window OF a gambling
huuso in Cambridge, Mass. last Sunday
night, to escape from the police, who were
making n raid on the premises, and was 40
Dall4 llJuItu tlal Nc ulNd On luChuhy morn
ing.
An attorney, about 10 furnish a hill of
costs, was requested by his client, a baker,
''to make il as light az he could. - "Ahv
replied the attorney, chats what Won may
say to your foreman, but it's not the way !
make my bread"
A cargo of coolies Ia reported to have ar
rived recently at Galveston, Texas. These
unfortunate Chinese laborCTs, IL is said, were
consigned aB merchandise, with The ordIGary
bill Of lading, and were TO be sold NJ auction
to pay freight and charges. Two-tlirda Of
the coolies were females. Ord. . b.
"A man went mp in q balloon n fow DAYS
since from n park in San francisco before he
was ready for the trip. While making his
preparations, the balloon got loose from it,
fastenings and durtcd up to u considerable
height and collapsed. The ambitious RrOnEut
slid hastily dow arOpo which WAS dangling
from the basket, thereby saving his life at the
cost Of some severe bruises.
AT one time q woman could scarcely wall;
through the streets Of san Francisco without
having every one pause 10 gaze on her, aud Il
child was 30 rare that once in q theatre In
the same city, where a woman had taken her
infant, when il began to cry, Just ns tho or
cheBtgG commenced to play, a. man in the
pit cried out, "StOp these fiddies, and let the
baby cry. / haven't heard such n sound for
ten years The audience Gpplauded thus
sentiment. the orchestra stopped, and tho
baby continued it's performance amid I'M
bounded enthusiasm.