The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-03-12
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There arc $50 American p ipils
nj tho German Univ, rsitlcs; and
over 1000 moro ut German bonr-
d ng SC, T..
Chicago shipped 7S bushels oI
wheat ~ 1888. The amount shipped
- 1868 was 10000. 600 bushels.
The Boston Post asks. III Mas
anchusrtis is not to havo place m
the next Cabinet, what ia the use Of
having Cabinet"
II o highest luud in Vern o VI is
1880 feet above ocean iovcl. boz
Fifty thousand different books
have boon written about America.
Forty ivc Amorican artists and
scelpturs are residing in R,me.
North Carolinu down TO 1866 bad
prodn' ed 50 80o,0 in gold. "
In a town il Hancock comfy,
Me., the ladieN have formed "Sldc.
walk Socicty.' ..i .. ..,alt l.'
The recently taken censna Of
Missouri shows l'tal population
Of l,2s3.SO 10 1860 il was 1892,
6l2. -
A hoy in England playfully
snapped an empty pistol at his
grandmother. and the old ladir fell
dead, slaiu by imagination. r
Pound parties, are tho lotesl
Boston notion. Those invited arc
expected 10 contribute one pound
ut least oi something To cat.
Richmond has 'mathematical
Blind Tom, II years old. undducu.
ted, yetn solver of problems who
works with remarkable rapIdity.
Williamsburg, n. Y, It 10 sald,
contains among iIs population one
hundred Mormon families some
of the saints having as many as
eleven wives. ......
Gen Butler, IN q late spoecL,
SAYS Lorenzo Ad Interim Thomas,
for tho Inst two years, has scrv, d
as inspector of gray, -ySrds' at
1.-TWO cents mile
Tho bullet that killed Nelson, at
Trantlgar IS in the possession Of
Queen Victoria. 1t is set in pre-
clous stoncs, and enclosed in gold.
on ease shaped like a walnut.
Buying butter IN Indianapolis IS
sud to le IL lottery. Tho farmers
enclose rocks Ia tho lumrs, and
when onu purchases he has to guess
how mrch grant their IL within.
Boston asks for 81 279, ,23i to cur
rs on her city government next
year. This is nearly IL million and
a half more than last year, and 10
per cent, advance in the taxes ia
proposed. aiu a- ed
A "vRgrant in tho workhouse"
writes letter to n New York papor,
criticIsing sermon enlogistIu of
Washington, in which ho shows
classical knowledge not often found
ia such places. -
A man has just beon condemned
at Vienna TO three months impris.
onment for offensive language n
gaInst the Empress Maria Theresa,
who diol 1880. A journal asks
what sort OF satisfaction the august
d,coased can have received rom
tho punishmont. .
A Missouri editor speaks thus Of
one Ct his brethren OF the press
Tho poor, old, dilapidated piece of
flesh and bones who hangs himself
out every week IN the jackson Stan
dard and who, by common consent
was eonsldered the jaclSass Of tho
Editorial Union, has ratified his old
skeleton at us, ui...u. ,l
In pegging boots by steam, TWEEN
ty cases, or 2i0 pairs of boots, are
usual days work. Ono man in
Hopkinton, Macs, it is saId, has
pegged eighty threo cases, 1882
boots in two days, lie onced peg
gcd iorty.Oight boots, twice round,
in fourteen minutes and did one
boot, ina trial Of speed, in thirteen
seconds aum lu .b. %
s4 .Il i 100 100 q. i...t. f.r. ID
A New fashion in stationery has
been introduced from Paris. wher6
It has teeL used several years-a
letter sheet Of fine paper which
G'lIs so as to form ITS own onVel-
ope, The convenience Of this com.
bined wrapper ard page recalls
tho days of our grandmolherS when