The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-08
preuitits.
Miscellaneous Items.

i-Boston has a wooden building which was
erected in 17O9.
"A Boston cigar dealer says he sells 800
cigars daily to women.
-Harper's Bazaar is a very great success,
Over fifty thousand copies are printed weekly.
General Worthington, of Chillicothe, o.,
has raised a cart-load Of figs the present
season.
1t is estimated that there will DO 90. OOC
miles of completed railroad in this country
by the end Of 1870.
-Velocipedes are interfering much with
the profits of suburban railways and omni-
bus lines near London.
Never in the history of Baltimore has
there been more rapid progress in building
than during the present year.
A Troy exchange SAYS that the wife of a
teamster employed in the Clinton foundry,
named Kelly, gave birth, a few days since, TO
four infants-al boys.
The cry of ''yivc Orsinii" which occurs
in Wagner's new opera of "Rienzi," has TO be
changed for something quite unhistoric for
representation in Paris.
"A Frenchman who proposed to open a
restaurant on Madison Avenue, New York,
has been bought of by a wealthy and FASH
ionablo resident Of that vicinity.
Who wrote the mOst-Dickens, Warren,
or Bulwer2 Warren wrote "Nuw and Men. y
Bulwor wrote might and Morning, - Dickens
wrote a the Year Hound"
The London Tomahawk spells Minnie
Hauck's nam Hawk, ~ and claims to be her
cousin Tommy. Why not trace her relation.
ship to Minne-ha-ha-uck2
Tho New Albany Glass Works have COM
monced operations and are manufacturing
large quantities Of bottles. Thoy arc the
only glass works in Indiana.
Fourteen silver bars, valued nt $40. 600
each, were received In st. Louis on the Goth
ult., from the st. Louis and Montana Mining
Co., the result cf single clearing up.
The fruit crop, particularly apples, is 30
abundant in Northern berkshire, Mass, that
the trees in many OF tho orchards are
breaking down with the immense weight OF
their fruit.
San Luis park, the southernmost of the
three great mountain basins of Colorado,
contains a population of $4,000 Mexican In-
dams. They are mostly Catholics, and speak
Spanish.
The Lisbon gold mines in New Hamp-
shire are worked seventy-Ono feet below tie
surface, the vein bong twelve feet wide.
Four days crushing recently amounted to
S20t.
Not satisfied with the rate of speed at
tanned by the velocipedes, the French have
invented O locomotive with four wheels,
which Is said 10 be safer, swifter, and less IA
tiguing to tho rider than any road vehicle
known.
-Rioo, the great staple Of South Carolina,
tho culture Of which was once confined 10 the
river swamp lands, Is now grown ON tho up
lands. Tho seed OF the swamp rice il used.
and the grain raisod compares favornbly with
that from the old rice fields.
"A tooth, weighing between three and
four pounds, was taken from n coal bank
near Harador's mill, IN Adams county, Iowa.
II Is a double tooth, and evidently came
from the extreme back part Of the Jaw OF
some animal years ago extinct.
Tho Louvre was commenced by Francis
l., in l5il; tho Tuilories by Catherine de
Medicis, in 1854. The Tuilerios were united
to the Louvre by Napoleon Ill, from 1852 to
1857. The orange trees, OF which there are
several hundred in the garden of the fuller
les, were placed there by Francis l., aud arc
now nearly $50 years old. They arc noble
tire s,und still in q fine state of preservation.
They are carefully removed to the dollhouse
upon the first approach ofcold weather.