The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29
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moi, oanaua, vas burned Wednesu n
ing. Inc papers and records were
California papers note the death of a
ncot ~ tsIrleI which crossed the plains TO
IL "o'"o ooast more than twenty years ago.
III bell that was taken at sebastopoI
80 IL posses a very
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American history .J.d itCrature.-a 4 H.
tingnished America. solar will he invited
TO fill the chair. :
-In switzerldhd'th oil is extracted from
tree beetles aud uaed for salad dressing ana
wheel grease. In France a dye is extracted
from the same insect. So
The largest number O bottles of cham
payne opened far callcrs at any private house
on New Aearb day Is said tu have been oLo
hundred and seventy.
"A distinguished h~ofticulmfist learned by
clianco that the best way 10 label a ice liz To
write With lead p{ncil on zinc. The name
cannot be sfascd at first, and it grows more
distinct aid durable with age.
One OF the literary papers" Genes down
with exceeding severity on The common use
of the word s~stap0point, and in the next
article, ilses To wSrd In exactly the manner
whelrit e4pdtmns.
-Hefe is a pretty conceit nv Cham In tho
Paris Charivari: ttMy friend be- careful
where you step. l,Ossini left a great void
when he went, and II You SHOULD happen to
fall into itl'
Not long aSo a whole edition of tho Indo-
pendanco Beige Of brussels was seized just
A. II was entering Franco, because II con-
tanned too much news about the precautions
to resist an expected popu lar outbreak in
Paris.
"A criminal was brought tothe scaiiold.
On ascending the platform lac turned ana
asked the eXecutiOncr, What day il it?"
why do you ask y ~ want 10 know"
"well, its Sunday 81 have begun tho
week carly"
"A house in Rochdale, England, IN which
were assembled ON tho 9th ult., seine 400
persons in tho capacity 81 "a sunday scbool
was blown down and 400 persons buried I'm
the ruins. Many we've bruised aud badly
hurt, but no deaths were reported.
There is said to be some disappointment
among railroad men at the defects found in
the steel rails, which many roads arc puttinty
down. They are more liable to injuiv In
winter tlaniron, aud break m frosty weather.
y now plan OF putting o steel face ON an iron
rail promises well.
Another pnze fight between Chicago
rOughs il being arranged. Jerry Donovan
challenges, aud Fred Busy &c tpts. Both
have had several ii-tic encounters. The
stake is To be $1,000 upward. and the mill IL
to come OF within six weeks after tho signing
of articles, IN Canada.
Whittier rays that in the anne "aIaud
Muller, the Muller should be- pronounced 20
M to rhyme with duller. lie adds that the
namo In n very common one In some parts Of
the mountain regions OF New England. and
that, although ~ Ii uf IIcssian origin. IL il
known untvorr0lly as Muller i'm Yankee re-
gions, where 1t abounds.
The word cleveland" was originally
spelled with an "a'-ClCayoland. Nearly a
century ago the proprietor of a newspaper.
Tue Advertiser, changed the spelling on ac-
count Of a mistake of the printers in Getting
up the heading. Tho type used was too
large, and he ordered the suptrlnus letter
"a TO be leit ont 60 aB to get the words in
the allotted space.
Tho latest style of The water vclocmede
consists Of two floating tut en- OF tin. In the
shape of cigars. They are conn, ted by two
bars OF iron which support tho wheel. This
~ moved by pedals like the fore heel of an
ordinary velOclpede. The rider on a sad
die Just behind the wheel, aud SLY drives
his machine at tho rate Of six or light knots
an hour.
"A stranger rode up to the tore of a mcr-
chant in Providence, on Saturday, and asked
Tor a loan Of SO, which he obtained on con-
luton of leaving 7" team as security. Uc
did not return to Gun hIs horse and sloieb
put a man from P.v'nckct apo red on sun
day, and took Possession of tubm nn lila
property. Tho merchant Is $40 out. IL was
a pretty sharp confidence operation.
-suttecisni is now practically abolished in
Calcutta, but Ouiy 81 wears ago HE unual sy-
orage OF bodies burned in thai NV WAS len
Thousand. The uEuacr NJ y ring was such
that the health Of the civ Nps Instantly
endangered by the %docOnpUsi Id. of half
burned bodies. Cremation II slill rractisod.
system.
Ohio has $500 miles Of railroad track.
During last year the casualties on IN tho
roads in Ohio involved loss OF HE Ia orc hun-
drod aud six persons and injury 20 ,t hum
dred and ~siXiy-four, nearly all to RI II Of
ne carelossness OF the persons iem 'es.
Inc gross earnings Of all the adj ere
nearly fifty million dollars, and ne .rn-
lhSs upwards OF fourteen million
An inveterate tobacco chewe. was ia tho
hablt OF declaring about once q month that
le would never chew alOthcr piece" but
broke Its pledge as often rs he made il. On
one. occasion, shorty tor he had 'broken
OF for good" he w n TAXI q another
chew. why. said nd, +" ,1u told me
you had gwen up tho +, but zee Won are
at II again. d" eyes, replied 81 have
gone to chewing andb u hing,
There are thirty or forty boof-packing CO.
adjustments inT"Xot T.. Scarcely any two of
them are purslinb same process for cur-
ing and packing bc.l. When any process is
discovered by which the Texas beef can be
shipped IN good condition to foreign MAJ
kets, u will constitute m immense sourcs Of
wealth. The number NJ cattle in Texas ia
estimated at 5000, 900, and the annual IN
crease Is at least /, 900, 600.
-VelOcipede building now forms an inn
portant branch oftrade In Paris. There are
not only manufactures OF these new locomo-
tiyes, but foundrics where tho iron work of
which they ara composed is cast. One of
these employs $50 wOrkmen, and finishes ~
yelocipedes per day for a coach builder OF
Lyons. A Lyonese volocipedist is willing TO
take any bet that he will beat the fastest tPot-
ter in a race.