The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-04-30
Breuities.
Miscellaneous Items.

Fashionable invitations to dinner in Paris
contain the bin Of fare.
Judy calls the Oxford crew "the noblest
Row-men Of them ALL"
During laat year ton thousand ploueha
were Manufactured In Des Moines, Iowa, for
use In the state, and twice az many will be
made there this year. ilcUe
1t is found that fishes can live under wa
ter upon which there is a pressure OF four
hundred ~atmospheres, thus rendering II prob
able that the greatest depths Of the sea NAV
be inhabitable
In twenty-fouf State prisons in the Uni
ted States there were In 1867 an aggregate Of
1885 prisoners. These cost the States tho
round sum of 81 ,566, $50, and their earnings
amountod 70 " ,009i ESQ.
"A "double- ender" locomotive has been
invented. II has no tender, but carries a
water tank over the boiler, and coal in a box
In the rear Of the furnace. Il has tracks and
COW catchefs az either end, and runs with
equal facility with either end foremost.
"A wealthy gentleman inthe Seventh Ward
of New York died OF the glanders ON
Tuesday. He caught the disease from a IA.
vorite horso. This ~ the fourth case OF death
OF a human being from CHAMBERS since the or
ganiZation Of the Now York Board Of Health.
An individual from Boston, in a az Of re-
morse, recently returned, ANONYMOUSLY, two
$500 United StatdH bonds To the Treasury as
a contribution 20 ailay the pAnga of con-
science. Secretary Boutwoll sold the bonds
for Si,t75 and credited conscience with that
amount.
Ruby Valley, In Nevada, Ia 80 called ON
account OF the Immense number Of rubies
ound in the sands Of the mountain streams
flowing through IL, These gbme, though
very beautiful and perfect, are too smalito
be merchantable, the largest only being the
size Of a pin-head,
"A man in Paris has opened an ofice for
advising inexperienced yonng men in regard
10 sO-called afthirs of hon0rs He teaches
them for hfty francs how p insult their ad!
yersarios In the most Renteol manner, and !
how TO resent a%fronts 80 az to render a duel
inevitable. He instructH them also m All
matters regarding duels end challenges.
during a recent rain storm al Laconia.
N. H., several persons noticed n great num-
Der offsh on the snow beside the road. When
first noticed they were alive aud lively. They
were about one and one fourth inches long,
and OF very uniform size, and there were
hundreds Of thom. How they came where
they were IS the question.
Upon the argument OF a case OF breach
OF marriage promise at Lebanon, N. Y, last
week, whom II was allegedthatthe defendant
wanted to marry his deceased yifo's sister In
unseemly haste, one Of the counsel said,
nv Noiu Ddhtu pONaNOeB OF the mineral were
fried for the marriage FEAST" And tho man
who thus improved upon Hamlet got a YER
dict Of 1890 Tor his client.
"A lady guest at a Paducah hotel was ter
ribly frightened the other evening, by a negro
dropping through the ceiling into her apart.
ment. The landlord had been informed that
thieves were secreted in the house, and sent
one Of the negro walters TO search the garnet.
The darkoy made q mlsstep, and, tho plas-
tering giving way, was precipitated into the
lady's room.
-Huntornasa, n young German milkman,
was discovered in the Third Precinct, New
York, Tuesday morning, watering his milk
at q hydrant. An officer accosted him. when
he said SIT was all right. The officers all
knew him, and said nothing" He was ar
rested, and, after a severe reprimand from
Judge Bowling, was fined fifty dollars, the
Judge being sorry that he could not impris-
on him also.
Heart disease being prevalent among
English soldiers, an investigation into its
causes has been had, and the result arrived
at that II IL due to the mechanical obstruc-
lions TO the proper flow OF tho blood through
the arteries leading from the heart caused
by the restrictions OF tho clothing and ac-
coutrements. Alterations in the dress arc,
therefore, advised.