Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-11-27
miscellaneous Items.


sunk in the Delaware river, below Fort Muffin,
in III. has Just been raised in good state of
preservation.
1t is said that fully one-ffth of the men COM
posing the government troops now stationed In
the South are ex-Confederate soldiers. They
live socially and kindly with their Northern
brothers-in-arms.
The continual changes of ownership in Vir-
ginia farming lands are worthy of notice. Large
sales are made to northern and eastern men, the
original owners being either unable to work
their land or unwilling to remain in their native
State under the new condition OF things.
Young Lockwood, who was ruined by the
Wall street gold robbery, was to have been
marrd in grand style, with great magnificence,
but recalled the seven hundred invitations and
was married privately, to one of the handsomest
and most accomplished ladies of New York, who
stood true to him, Notwithstanding his downfall.
At Woodruff, Michigan, a few days ago, Aaron
Harrington, cleaning out a we'll, was standing in
a crouching position, when a large mass of earth
fell upon him, crushing and breaking his spinal
column near the neck. There is no power of
motion and no sensation in his body or limbs,
and be cannot digest his food so that he must
die of starvation and exhaustion.
The great lakes of Afria, with The Nile flowing
from them, it is announced, are laid down in old
maps. A correspondent of the London Telegraph
writes that be has seen in one of the large halls
of tie Doge's palace at Venice, manuscript
terrestrial globe of about four feet in diameter,
and of apparently great age, on which were
distinctly shown the two lakes in question and
the course OF the Nile.
Tunnels are now being constructed under the
Thames with much greater ease and at less
pense than the work with which the names of
Brunei is associated. The first tunnel requires
lat.1a h,,tt tho Il,
commenced is advancing at the rate of nine feet
every "a hours, so that, as it is about 800 feet,
it will take only five months. 1t runs from
Tower hill to Tooley street.
In aluding to the departure of Father Hya-
cinthe for America, Figaro says that he belongs to
an unfrocked family. Father Hvacinthe himself
was first Sulpician, then a Dominican and af-
terwards Carmelite his brother commenced
life as Dominican, and laid aside his habit for
professorship at the Sorbonne his sister, who
was also Carmelite, left her convent, and now
resides on the boulevard de Neuilly.
Henry Sanders, aged sixteen, and Hannah
Sanders, his wife, aged fourteen years, passed
through Kansas City, Missouri, recently. They
were from De kalb county, Illinois, and on their
way to settle farm in Bates county, in Mis-
souri, The youthful husband said his father-n-
law lad fitted him out with team and FIVE hum
dred dollars in cash, and that he was his way
buying farm.
Accounts from Egypt hold out doleful pros
pect for the visitors their way there just now
who happen not to be invited by the Viceroy.
All the guests of his highness will have nothing
to do but to enjoy themselves-their board,
lodging, carriages, camels, donkeys, etc.-every-
thing, in short-wll be provided Tor them but
those who go out on their own hook will do well
to ponder on this portentious announcement in the
Gaulois: ''At present the price of beefsteaks at
Cairo is fifteen francs pound ~
A genuine Staner violin was recently sold at
Vienna for $40 forms. The history of that vio-
lin is quite interesting. Count Won Trautmans
dorf, celebrated parsonage at the court of the
Emperor Charles the Seventh, bought it of Jacob
Staner, paying 35 gold pieces down on it, and
agreeing to pay him, during the term of his nat
ural life, 20 frances month, to pay his ex-
penses for good dinner daily, and to furnish
him every year mbrodered coat, tons
of beer and 10 kegs of fruit Staner lived for
l6 years. so that the violin cost the Count abont
% 900 frances.
lesson for the sedentary and for lazy young
men is taught by the feat, just now performed
in England by the veteran pedestrian Mountjoy.
He is over sixty years of age, and yet he under
took to travel l50 miles by foot in three days.
He started from the Bellevue hotel, Clapham
common. On the first day he traversed so miles
occupied II hours in the so miles journey, and
on the third he finished the750 miles, and per-
formed so miles in l3 hours, and at seven
o'clock he came to the winning goal and ac-
complshed his feat.
In Fayette, Missouri, is young man named
Fjelus, entirely ignorant of letters or figures,
who can, inside of three minutes, solve any
mathematical circulation given. The number of
flax seeds necessary to reach to the sun, allow
ing six grains of fax seed to one grain of wheat,
and thirteen grains of wheat to the inch An
swer AGO, 497, 600, 900 900, was answered in
two minutes. Another problem What would
$4,000 amount to in 10 years, compoundng in
erest at 10 per cent? He worked it out in three
minutes absolutely correct. What would a
horse bring, there being 80 nails in his shoes.
allowing cents for the frst for the second. Q.
81, 81, and so on? required 80 distinct multi
plcations, yet he did it in three minutes.
The cafes in st. Marks square, Venice, where
Eugenie took her curacao, are never shut m
There are no locks to our DOORS no shutters to
the windows. Some of them have been open
since the days of the first Napoleon, having been
closed only twice in all that time-once in ls48.
and second time in 1885, when they were
cleaned out by the police. The cafes are the
centres of Venetian life. They are the drawing
rooms of the gentry and arstocracy-the parIors
and club rooms of the people. People receive
visits and transact business at the cafes as if
they were at home. Ladies and school girls 90
there. Whole families sit down to coffee, and
turn the piazza into drawing room, the band
playing there at certain hours, and the whole
beau monde of Venice passes through.
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ROMANCE OF THE EAsr.-Not long ago beau.