The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-08-06
Breuitirs.
Miscellaneous Items.

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There are 5000 visitors at Cape Island,
-ogdensburg is to build a 500, 600 water
works. r
There were l 200 guests at Congress Hall,
Saratoga, last Friday.
The London Daily Telegraph is printed
at the rate Of eighty thousand copies an hour.
The N. Y. Herald claims TO have cleared
s160, 900 during the first half Of the present
year.
"A new opera house at Auburn, N. Y.
with seats for l 200 persons, will be completed
by the end Of October.
This last commencement was the first for
many years in which Yale College has con-
forred the degree Of D.. ID.
The orange crop in Florida is unusually
promising, and has been generally engaged
at go a thousand. Other tropical fruits are
growing finely.
The Erie Railway Company has obtained
a loan Of 81, 900, 900 in London at 105. The
money will be used in equipping the road
with steel rails.
The Batesville ark Times reports the
caterpilars so numerous in that region that
an Industrious man with a shovel could fiji a
wagon with them in ten minutes.
Shares of the Suez Canal arc cngcrly
bought up in France. The profits of tic on
terpriso this year exceed by one hundred and.
twenty-five per cent. those of 1867.
The number of emigrants arrived At New
York during the year ending july p. was
125, 5i9. In the same time in 1867 the number
was 1A,3S6-a decrease the present year Of
1877.
"A colony Of Germans have purchased %
600 acres Of land i'm Carroll county, Iowa, for
immediate settlement. The tract is a portion
Of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad
grant.
The patent on Hoes rotary presses OK
prod on Saturday. An application tur it, eX-
tension for seven years was not acted upon
by Congress-, owing TO the lateness Of the
time at which 1t was introduced.
Somebody has discovered a way Of maxi
ing toads earn then own living; they will
take care OF vine patches. Lay boards be-
tween the rows, to shelter thom in day-timp.
and they will make a carnival Of the bugs in
tlO night.
The authorized milk inspector Of Cincin-
natl, after q tour Of inspection, furnishes the
names Of o. mill,mon who had pure milk. gS
who had milk and water, Of 8 who had pure
and skinned mill, and Of four who had wa
tered, skimmeda and pure milk.
"A petition signed by four hundred aides
has boen presented to the Russian Minister
Of Public Instruction praying that the pro-
fessors at tho University might give special
lectures for ladies, so as TO satisfy their lopit.
innate desire for higher instruction.
Upward Of fifteen million dollars have
boon voluntarily contributed 10 American
colleges, theological schools, libraries aud
other educational institutions within the past
five years. The colleges have received more
han One-half Of the amount
There Is a dog in New Albany of the
black and tan species, which Is a curiosity.
He weighs fifteen ounces, aud IL most pcr-
fectly formed. He Is active and sprightly.
aud can worry q rat rs large n himself. lie
slecpsin his masters hat every night.
People who have to open mineral water
bottles should be careful, when urging out the
cork, 10 hold tho neck Of the bottle away
from them. A man in pittsburg, recently,
had his eye put out by tho cork from one OF
these bottles. Cases OF a similar character
have been reported from time 10 time.
A writer in Harpor's Magazine for An
gust, speaking of the editorials of tho Lon
don Telegraph, says that they care appa.
rently written under tho stimulus of a re-
ward OF a gold medal for tho person who
shall commence tho iarthest away from his
subject, take tho longest time in reaching It,
and employ tho greatest number Of words in
expressing his ideas.'
An eight-hour-a-dny man, in going homo
the other evening for his supper, found his
wife sitting In her best clothes on the front
stoOp, reading a volume of travels. How IL
this 2 lie exclaimed; where's my supper
II don't know, " replied the wife, III began to
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Long Branch has twenty hotela. Ave
miles Of bathing shore, twenty-five miles OF
drives, 5000 guests and 10000 expected, one
hundred new cottages and an indefinite num-
beri In contemplation, two railroads and two
more talked OF, one hundred doshing oquipa-
ges, and is an incorporated city, with gas
and good order oyerywhery.
On Saturday last William Lane, a plas-
terer Of Holhdaysburg, Penn, was killed by
a man named Thomas II. Pagan, in a tight
in o hotel. Whisky was the cause Of the al
fray. Pagan was arrested and lodged in jail.
Lane was an elderly man aud poor, He leaves
II small family. His siull was crushed IN by
a blow from Pagan, and he died instantly,
Alfred Osgood, of Eewburyport, has n
rooster that has Matched and ia rearing a
brood Of chickens. The bird was associated
with a hen, and badly henpecked. After the
hen had been sitting q few days, some weeks
since, she loft the nest aud drove the male 20
her place, where he continued to perform her
duties until all the chickens appeared, and
then took the sole charge Of them.
"A person in New Orleans has invented an
apparatus for prOpelllng street cars with com-
pressed air, which is seid to be perfectly prRc-
tcable. A patent has been secured and a
company has been formed. Such an inyen-
ton, fully in operation, by dispensing with a
vast number of horses, would cheaper the
expense Of operating street roads, and work
results that could scarcely have a parallel.
"A correspondent Of the Scientific Amori-
can commends onions as q specific against
epidemics-not as an e~sculont, but sliced aud
kept in a sick room, where they will absorb
any atmospheric poison. They should be re-
placed by fresh ones every hour. II Is no.
ticed that in tho room Of n smallpox patient,
they blister and decomposo with great
rapidity, but will prevent the spread Of the
disease.
AN English jury recently found a tailor
guilty OF a petty theft, and he was sentenced
to three months imprisonment with hard
labor. II has since t%ranspired that, 80 far
from finding the prisoner guilty, the jury
were unanimous In the beliof that no was in
%nocont, and the foreman WAS charged with
the delivery Of a verdict accordingly, but
that when he stood up to reply TO the formal
questions OF the clerk of the court, the un-
fortunate man lost his presence of mind, and
delivered n verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
was consigned TO Jail IN the presence of the
jury, who were too frightened TO interfere.
Personal Items.
"A. T. Stewart has bought a 100000 villa
at Newport.