The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-13
MlaoeIInneons Iioms.

birth.
Motto for a rejected suitorZHe wood,
md abe wouldn't He oooed, but she
couldnb Lt n
Illinois has 400 newspapers published
within the state. OF these, OF arc publish.
ed in Chicago.
1t is q singular fact that the Yale salu-
tatorian Of this year was the son Of the
sOlutAtorian in 1919, fifty years ago.
"A pauper recently left n Massachusetts
almshouso because sho could not have.
sirloin steak and green tea served up at
midnighk Dfffl W 10 VII
THE American Farm Book mentions
q horse hat died Mt sixty-seven years Of
age, and another that was quite coltish in
bis forty-ffth year.
Tho collection Of bones on the battle
Fields Of Virginia, 10 be used as fertilizers,
is now prosecuted az o regular business by
the people.
"A hen In Newport has hid ON egg
which upon n side has an accurate dial
Of a clock, the ontiro twelve figures being
very plainly defined. rrn
Professor Castle, of Upper Alton, has
invented an interest table" and has sold
the pntent for tho same TO Charles II. Mills,
OF st. Louis, for the sum Of $4,000.
"A m~nstodon's tooth, three inches long
and over an inch square Mt the crown, has
been dug up in Corning N. Y. One FIVE
inches long was found noar the same place
q few years ago.
In the now Office of tho Eric Railroad
Company in New York tho safe alone cost
$50, 600, Ia seven stories high, and would
mako quito n comfortable little residence
fora small family.
% -Cassopolis, Mich, has q vigorous old
man, in tho person OF Mr.. David Histed,
now 20 years of age, who cut one acre of
wheat with a cradle In ono hour and forty
three minutes.
The surviving yale College graduates
Of tho last century arc Hon. r.. Bacon. Uti-
CO N. y, olass of170l; It. Bishop, class of
1897, and the Rev. Chas. Goodrich, Penn
Town, Pa, class of 1898.
The sea serpant was soon on the eve
ming of July 1th, of Cape Ann. Ho was
from GO TO so feet in length, lifting himself
up out of tho water q good length, and
took things very coolly.
John Yam, Of webbor's Falls, Ark,
plowed out a keg Of 5000 Spanish dollars
recently, the keg having tho rottod appear
0nce Of long burial, while tho coins have rs
sweet n ring M ever.
The Supreme Court Of North Carolina
has just decided that intormarriage between
n member Of the colored rac5 and n member
of the white race is unlawful, and therefore
void according TO the laws Of the State.
"A lady whose watch had u~naccountably
stopped, carried il TO q Stamford ieweller
who discovered that an cnterprising bod
bug had found it's way into tho interior and
become 'mixed up" with the delicate ma
chincry.
-Four companies of the San Francisco
military nave beon mustered out of the
service for d~isobCdienco to orders in refus-
ing TO march in the Fourth of July process
sion, in which cOlored men were allowed
TO take part
The daughter Of John G.. Clark, OF
Now York, who my~steriously disappeared
six weeks ago, and for whom a reward OF
$4,000 was offered, has been discovered
In Ireland, whore she had gone with on
actor.
Tho business portion of the town of
Milton, in Florida, at tho head of Pensaco-
Ia Bay, was entirely destroyed by fire a
fow days ago. Very little of the destroyed
property was insured. Tho county records
were all lost
Tho Now York Tribune Is responsible
for tho almost incredible story that Max
| Maretzok, tho world renowned hero of n
hundred operate companies, is now dill
gently and prohtably e~nployodin tho man
ufaoturo Of brick
-Reports'ha have been received from the
General Land Office, showing the compile
ton OF tho survey of twenty additional
townships lying between Saline and Salo-
mon Forks on the Kansas River, embrac-
ing an aggregate area OF AGO. 600 acres.
jennie Juno sums up nm article on
tho woman question in these words: ''The
modern wife, who demands everything
but gives nothing in return, is n libel
upon ~womanhood, and has n claim upon
nothing but liberation or contempt"
Mr.. O'Connor, Superintendent of tho
Nowsboys' Lodging House in Park place,
Now York, proposes IN excursion and Pic
mic for tho five or ton hundred newsboya
and bootblacks that gather from week TO
week at his home, provided the benevolent
public will furnish tho means. ....r.
Said Lord John Russell TO Mr.. Hume,
| uL " hOClnl NlllltTs nhl uO YOU COIlhlltI
tho object of Legislation 2" 1.-THE greatest
good to the greatest number" '.What do
you consider the greatest number p son
tinued his lordship. Number one" was
the commoner's prompt reply.
"A boy while angling in the canal at Gin
c~innAti, q few days since, got what he
thought a very promising bite. He eau
tiously drew in his limo, whom no found on
tho hook a small tin box, which he opened
and found 10 contain $50 in silver, $40 in
greonbNcks, and two gold rings, worth $40
each.
Tho Sacramento Union Of July II,
says: ~. II. Brown, freight agent of tho
Central Pacific Railroad, in this city, yes
to-day received a package inclosing q rose
pluokod in Central Park, June "a, attached
10 which was o slip bearing the sentence;
New York sends fO1er TO San Francisco
The Seymour, Ind, Times tells of q
curious case wherein bed clothing infected
seventeen years ago, recently communicate
cd smallpox to O family. The bed clothing
had been plastored up in a wall, and tho
wall being recently opened, the family in
cautiously handled the infected clothing.
Tho famous 'haunted houBe"in Water,
town, Mass, of which q highly sensational
account, with illustrations, was given in O
magazine q year OF 10 ago, has been trans
formed into o quiet, pleasant home, a gen.
tleman who was not afraid Of GHOSTS
having purchased It at q bargain and i'm
proved Its surroundings.
"A COW belonging TO Mr.. George Amos,
near Independence, jackson county, Mo-,
was killed on the 10th inst by lightning.
This makes ten head OF stock Mr.. Ames
has lost in the last three months-two
COWS. by lightning, n horse stolen, five
sheep killed by the fallingof q large tree,
and two mules from disease.