Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-12-25
Miscellaneous Items.

Delaware allows colored people to marry with
out license.
Paris is to have, in January, dry good store
with twelve hundred statesmen.
seventy-fve year old goose is living in Mary
land. The original old mother goose, no doubt
An Iowa paper tells how an absurd Washing
ton county hen tried vainly to incubate rattle
| snake.
The Haytien currency has deprecated till
pork is quoted at $50, 900 per barrel in that
country
| Bengal is nice place to live in. 1t has
seventy-six public holidays annually, besides
Sundays.
Angelina Honeysuckle Thstledown is the
name of a beautiful young lady of Providence,
Rhode Island.
During the month of November there were
coined in gold, at the San Francisco branch
mint, 81, ,535 900.
A borsethief in Arkansas was captured one
day, and tried, convicted and sentenced to the
pententiary the next.
Philadelphia, has an estimated population of
3S5, 600 souls, which makes it the fourth city as
regard size, in the civilized world.
The Charleston Ne,rs says the twelve cotton
States will this year show more true prosperity
than any other section of the world
A Nashville serenading party travelled ten
miles to fiddle two hours in front of house
before it discovered to be empty.
The Massachusetts State Democratic commit
tee found, it is stated sixty towns in which they
could not raise solitary representative.
The latest scientific discovery is that a tea
spoonful of white sugar contains, 81 900, 900
insects 1t don't, however, affect the price of
sugar
The village of Ceres is situated in two States
and two counties. part in Allegheny county,
New York and part in Mexican county, Pennsyl-
vania.
the penitantiary farm, tina. they have TO be
driven from it at the muzzle of the pistol when
their time has expired
Ladies will be admitted in future to medical
lectures at the University of Edinborough. This
is one of the greatest victories as yet achieved
by woman S rights in Great Britain
Lucy Stone says that the cradle is woman's
ballot box" Some women vote early and often,
and not few subject to the charge of illegal
voting by depositing two ballots at once.
Another lady has ascended to the heights of
ofice-Miss Julia C. Addington, whom the in
dependent voters of Mitchell county, Iowa, have
elected to rule over them as Superintendent of
common schools.
Ostrich's brains are a novel delicacy, and
rather expensive eating. The Sultan, however
does not mind the latter circumstance, for the
ostrichs' brains served at the dinner given to
Eugene cost $500, ,oOO
A woman one hundred and five years old,
named Mrs. Tobe, lives in New eileen, Maine,
and retains her mental powers all unmpaired.
She lived seventy-two years with her husband
who died few years ago.
Vermont contains no town six miles SQUARE
with more than 6,Ooo Inhabitants it has no
house that is not within half a-mile of school,
and not more than 100 native born citizens over
II years of age who cannot read and write.
The Governor Generalship of India is the great
est prize in the gift of the British crown being
f25, 900 year with allowances the most
liberal scale. 1t is calculated that the Governor
General can always take with ease Gl0,0 a
year out of his salary.
The number of Mormons in Utah is estimated
at $50, 600 souls, of whom 80, 600 pay fittings
to the church. Five merchants are known to
pay $1,000 each in tthes. The government
has not succeeded in getting much out of the
Mormons. The Assessor has executed the reve-
nue. law in favor of Brigham Young. The pres
ent officer has, it is said, commenced with de-
termination to collect the government dues from
that peculiar people.
1t is perdicted that the world will come to an
end next year. This calamity is to result from a
column of magnetic light from the sun, striking
the earth, when exhibition of gigantic tele-
graphing may be looked for. Should the earth
which we enhabit be smashed mp in the encoun-
ter, our citizens will witness grand sight to be
seen but once in a lifetime. Let us then con-
gratulate ourselves upon living in the nineteenth
century, even if it does send US to the - demni-
ton bow-wows."