Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-29
Miscellaneous Items.

Ing scarce, barrels Of cider and beer were poured
upon the flames.
Mr.. Brooks, of Fairfield, Iowa, has been
thrown into delirium by the use of Burton s
tobacco antidote.
An oysterman's association has been organ
lied at Yaquira bay, Oregon, for the better pro-
lection of the oyster beds.
Some of the railways of Europe have lately
adopted a system of low fares, and their profits
are reported to be greatly increased.
There are over nine hundred persons in the
California Insane asylum. The expense of keep
ing them is forty-fve cents day, each.
General Logan has been reelected Comman-
der and General Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Vice
Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.
will has been thrown out in New Hampshire
as fraudulent, on proof that the paper company
whose imprint it bore did not exist at the date of
the will
| At frontier ball, a half breed belle appeared
| in a hoop skirt, ornamented with fox tails, and
waist of yellow flannel, slashed with stripes of
buffalo hide.
| The highest permanent human hahitation on
the surface of the globe is the Buddhist monas-
terry of Hane, in Thibit, at the great height Of
1917 feet above the sea.
In Russia, women, having a certain amount of
property, have the right to vote, though it must
be exercised by proxy, male relative or friend
representing them at the election.
| man in Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded be-
fore Justice that he wasn't drunk-he had only
been made dizzy by watching the movements of
velocipede. He was let off on the payment of
costs.
Arsene Houssays says that the French women
of the present day are by far uglier than their
female ancestors thirty years ago, and he pre-
diets that in less than thirty years beautiful
women will be extremely rare in France.
! Miss Anna Williams, of Braddock's Field,
Pennsylvania, aged ifty-six, has been so an
moved by the devotion of boy OF seventeen
years, who is madly in love with her, that she
has been obliged to call for official protection
The servants of favorite actresses and canta-
trices in Paris do quite a lucrative business IN
selling the bouquets which their mistresses re-
oeive at the hands of their enthusiastic admirers,
to the flower girls, who sell them again in the
streets and at the public bathrooms.
Four daughters of wealthy Berlin banker
were lately married, on the same day, to four
brothers. The wedding festivities were very
simple, and the sum which would have been
spent if the wedding had been celebrated in
great style, was given to the poor.
The Presidentess of the Chicago Sorosis went
to Washington to see the Inauguration, and was
denied room at the hotel because she was un-
attended. She seated herself in the office, with
the remark that she wouldn't stir until she was
provided with room. The clerk gave it up.
The dryness of the Egyptian climate is such
that rain scarcely fell in the upper province,
and not more formerly, than five or six days
year in the Delta. But Mehemet Ali has planted
20, 900 900 trees in these districts, and the an
nual average has now increased oforty days.
Victor Emanuel, having been charged by some
xr-ith pdna tof fo
male charms" the Gazzetta dLalia in reply,
holds up this trait of his as /" a source of ma
tional strength and glory, guarantee OF popular
government and claim to popular veneration."
A negress in Maury county, Tennessee, who is
now thirty-four years of age, is the mother of
twenty-four children. She commenced at fifteen.
She has had six single children has had twins
seven times and last month had triplets. She
also had one miscarriage at four months. The
last litter was one boy and two girls.
There is in Nashville, Tennessee, a woman
aged one hundred and fourteen years, who has
outlived three husbands, all of whom served in
the Revolutionary war, and for whose services
she draws three pensions. Her name is Dinah
Ves she has four hundred descendants, and
her daughter, aged ninety, lives with her.
A curious puzzle has been whitfield out with a
penknife by man in Norwich, Connecticut. He
has taken an eight-ounce vial and set up in its
interior perfect keg about two inches long,
with four hoops in it and both heads in and he
stopped the bottle with a wooden plug which
fits perfectly tight and is keyed inside, the key
pinned and the pin toggled.
Haussmann, the great rebulder of Paris, is
believed to have amassed enormous fortune
by illegitimate and corrupt speculations. His
operations have, for a number of years past,
been exceedingly simple. Whenever a new
street was to be opened, he selected the houses
which were to be torn down for that purpose,
bought them up, and appraised himself the dam
ages which the city was to pay him for their
demolition
In Iowa the planting of trees is encouraged by
law. Every acre of forest trees planted releases
taxation for ten years on one hundred dollars
valuation, and for each acre of fruit trees plan
ted tax is exempted on fifty dollars valuation for
| five years ; the same for shade trees and hedges
| along the highways. There are now maple
forests in several counties, and sugar made,
where fifteen years since was nothing but prairie
grass and hazel shrubs.
lawsuit which was commenced in the
United States circuit court, for the northern dis
trict of New York, twenty-eight years ago, has
just been decided. The original claim was only
about S27 900, but the costs have run up the
judgment to over $50, 900. During the litigation
one generation of attorneys and counselors
have as yet found no way to return, but the
plaintiff was long-lived enough to stick il
through.
little girl at Llanfhangel-yr-ArthW Wales, is
said to have lived since the 10th of October
! 1867, without food. A committee of respectable
men was formed some time ago to inquire into
the case, and three gentleman were requested to
watch the girl. These gentlemen watched the
girl continuously from March 22d to April 5th
and they state that nothing whatever was given
to her during that time. So the story rests, in.
credible, it is true, but supported by evidence
which it is difficult to disbelieve,
Jacob Surget, ninety-seven years old, died al
New York lately and left property valued a,
$4,000, 900. He was Creole Frenchman, bu,
was born in the United States. He lived by
rule and was very abstemious, drinking nothing
but water. He used to say that he had secret
of longevity which he bought of Gypsy woman
when he was sailor, and thought he should
/ live to be hundred. For many years he spen,
his winters in Mississippi, but when the wal
broke out he came to New York, where be re-
mained until he died.
The Nahab of Bengal has just been dining