Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-08-28
NUMBER "a.
Miscellaneous Items.


A fool is going to ride velocipede on a rope
over Niagara.
Vesuvus is throwing up something new, beau
tiful diamond-like crystals of SALT
A walnut tree, eight feet across, petri6ed into
soapstone was lately discovered l75 feet deep in
an Illinois coal mine.
Father Secch has discovered celestial con-
fagration. He has turned the spectroscope to
the variable star r. in Gemini, and he has found
it all ablaze.
An Iowa town gets ahead of all other places in
the world by having shower of gravel, the peb-
bles ranging from the size of pigeonshot to that
of hens egg.
Tea culture is r1aking good progress in Ten
nessee. The journals speak confidently of the
success of the plant and the quality of the tea
already produced.
An old gentleman of seventy, living in an in
land town of Massachusetts,, who had been deaf
for many years, awoke the other morning with
his hearing completely restored.
A Frenchman writes that Queen Victoria is
1" a little, dumpy, red-faced old lady, having in
her eye dull sort of gleam which makes one
unvoluntarily think of a lunatic asylum"
Excursion tickets around the world, ria Pacific
railroad, to be sold in New York in short
time, at about 81 500. What would our fathers
have thought of excursion tickets around the
world
A divorce case is now pending in Grafton
county, New Hampshire in which the parties
have been married forty-four years, and had hf-
teen children, of whom twelve are now living
and of age.
The Palmer (Mass.) Journal says that for lack
of male help the farmers wives and daughters in
that section have turned out in numbers to make
hay And thousands of able bodied men loafing
in every city
One of the best mechanics in the rake factory
at Mount Holly, Vermont, is a blind man named
Warren. He can adjust the most complicated
machinery, and perform any kind of labor re-
quired in the establishment.
| man and his wife, named Conyngham, living
near Floyd, Iowa, were instantly killed by light
ming while in bed sleeping. Their corpses were
perfectly black from the effects of the stroke.
The mans mother was rendered insane by the
same shock.
woman of Nouziers, France, who had been
troubled for some time with an incurable disease,
recently built up heap of straw and faggots, on
the top of which she seated herself, and then set
fire to it. When discovered the body was per-
fectly calcined
The fire in the Gold Hill mines is supposed to
be still burning. However, it is kept in its orig
| inal bounds by being well fenced in but there
being vast quantity of wood in the section
mines which are on fire, it is conjectured it will
take mouth for the fire to die out.
few days since party of ladies at Stratford,
Connecticut, essayed bath at the beach While
frolicking amid the waters, boat load of men
came sailing by, and one of the maids, becoming
frightened, made for the shore. throwing her
skirt up over her head, like unto the pursued
ostrich
section of the New Albany and Chicago rail-
road was the only ground for miles that
above water during recent freshet, and the
consequence was that the prairie snakes hocked
to it in immense numbers. The road for miles
was lined with snakes of every size, color and
description, from the Insignificant garter to the
largest black snakes and racers.