The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-27
Breuities.
Miscellaneous Items.


Miscellaneous Items.
Canada now has money enough TO pay off
all It's unfundod debt
THE largeBt mouthful in the world-the
Mount Hood, oregon, shows symptoms
OF new eruption.
THE trade s~ocioties of New York city
number nearly $4,000 members.
-Wood's new theatre In New York opena
on the 3ist instant with Miss Maggie
Mitchell.
The Gold line Quakers" of Chester, Pa,
are said to be so neat a people that they
whitewash their coal before they burn it.
Speaking of the newspaper discussion
concerning Che adulteration Of milk, Punch
gives his opinion that the best article on milk
is-cream.
Al the Luther Festival, at Worms, the
hallelujah chorus from the messiah" was
arranged for and performed by male voices
alone.
The London Telegraph begs the cockneys
to leave off their black clothes and wear linen
suits during the hot weather. The idea had
never occurred tothe sufferers. rIEHa
THE drought in Englandis beginning to
affect very unpleasantly the prices of garden
and dairy produce. Butter is selling higher
there than even in this land Of high prices.
The Impeachment OF President johnson
is the subject of a Drama which has been
produced in New Orleans. An actor named
Duriyage has made a hit at Horace Greeley.
Seven years ago no pickerol or black bass
were in the lake near Lakeville, Mass. AZ
that time a number Of fish Of this species
we're put into the lake. This season several
tons OF fish have been takena--
Mr.. Seth Boyden, the strawberry o%ulturist
OF Newark, believes that IN the course Of a
years he could raise Strawberries as large M
pineapples, and Of equal delicacy Will those
now grown. .f H.# 1s.|.f.IF' lu.lfH
"A novel pedestrian feat was recently per
formed in. England. A man ran. walked
wheeled barrow, trundled a hoop, and hop
ped on one leg a distance Of FIVE miles, 10
separate feats of a mile each. within one
hour, for $50, and won with two minutes tc
spare.
Al exchange announces that a girl in
Topsham, Me-, recently died because hoI
blood turned 10 sugar. But in copying the
item, another editor expresses a doubt on the
subject, for he SAYS: 1--WE know a girl who, II
sweetness were fatal, could not live a min
ute.
An Italian laborer in Verona, who had
been dismissed from employment under tho
municipality, revenged himself by a murder.
Gus attack with a pitchfork upon the Mayor
and a dozen other persons, some OF whom
were killed outright; and others m%ortally
wounded.
The grossest piece Of modern plagiarism
has just been discovered in Vienna, where All
Austrian has translated Bulwcr's Deveroaux,
put his own name in the places Of Devereaux,
and published il as a book Of personal ad.
ventures, entitled, with Macmillan in
Mexico"
An engraving has recently been made Of
ono which was executed just one hundred
years ago Ivy Paul Revere of Boston. repre-.
senting the British troops landing in that
city, Friday, September 81, l76S, for the pur.
pose Of supporting We dignity Of Britain.
and chastising We insolence 81 America"
The cred Horse Inn" in Sudbury, Mass.
celebrated in song and story as the "Wavside
Inn was struck by lightning at 9 O'Clock
last Sunday morning, The shed and con-
fonts were destroyed, but the house itself was
saved. This ancient edifce is the oldest inn
IN the state, aud has been kept in one family,
Howe, for two centuries. II is still well pro-
served.
The following is a good rule for finding
tho contrast Of any color: Cat out a circu-
lar piece OF the petal of INV flower and put n
on white paper, look at II fixcdly for q few sec
onds with one eve, thon look of the color on
% a piece OF white paper, and YOU will see a
bright ring Of another color; that ring or cir
Gle Il the right Complementary color or con-
trast to the color in the petal"
In Rogers Table Talk, :" it is said that
Fox, when a young man. W 3 n great dandy,
and that he and Lord Carlisle once travelled
from Paris 10 LYONS for the eNpfcss purpose
OF buying waiatcoats, and during the whole
journey they talked about nothing else. We
know some ladies who mako the whole
journey OF life with no other purpose but to
buy dresses and b]onnets, and-they talk Of
nothing else the whole way.
-Garibaldi has addressed the following lot
ter to NJ. Lombord Martin: envy dear LON.
bord, tell Nine. Lombord that ffelicltate her
in rejecting from her child tho hands Of
the priests. They are greater enemies TO the
human roce than the plague. The next coun-
ell will prove II once more. Ask your wife to
kiss my godchild for me. YOur book on the
campaign Of October will do much good. ]
am gratefully yours, GARIDALDI." fol
"A correspondent writes: "To see Mag.
ara, you buy eleven silk dresses for your wife
and six shirts for yourself. You thon get all
the ready money you have, borrow ali your
friends have, and make arrangements for nm.
limited credit;at two or three good, solvent
banks. You then take sixtrunks, some more
money, q nurse, a colOrcd servant, some more
money, and then, after getting some more
money, and extending your credit at one or
two more strong banks, You set out. II IL
better, if possible, just before you leave, to
mortgage your homestead and get some more
money! Z
of course, every intelligent person on this
hemisphere knows that Boston possesses a
great organ; but few can realize it's immense
size, OF great capacity TO attract dust, until
Journal of saturday: FPersons who arc
sometimes annoyed by dust upon the great
organ al the Music Hall, are probably not
aware that IL takes six or seven men nearly q
week, and involves an expense upwards Of
500, to give the instrument aSinglo thorough
busting The operation has boon gone
through with this week.
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