Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-19
Miscellaneous Items.


The Russian Gar, who has been very hard
drinker, is said TO have become a teetotaller.
/ The first passenger over the Pacific road "
/ is reported at every hotel between Chicago and
Boston.
New York city contains 6a2 oo9 German and
/ Irish, tie former being about 10000 more than
the latter.
I Two romantic girls in London recently sought
death in company By stabbing themselves with
-their scissors.
| native at sitka recently ate ten pounds of
butter at one meal and lived. He finished with
a castor oil cocktail.
1t has recently been ascertained that the de-
throned Duke Of Nassau owned most of the
stock CT the Hiesbaden gambling hell.
\ meeting of $4,000 0rangemen was held at
Dublin on the eTering OF the Sd instant to pro-
test against the Giseatablishment of the Irish
! church tyranny.
Three hundred duels were fought last year in
Paris. The police were informed of about one
third OF them before they were fought, but re-
fused to interfere.
\ marriage license was issued in indianapolis,
the other day, TO young couple who have al
ready been cIce married and divorced and who
are still under age.
| One of the sw.ndles in Gotham is to advertise
q . splendid steel engraving OF Andrew Jackson
! only one dollar aaG on receipt Of the money,
forward tive cent postage stamp.
The remains Of Adah Isaacs Nenen were re-
Gently disnterred at Pele la CAase, and buried
Mt Mont Pa-nasse, where n splendid Egyptian
obe'isk has been erected to her memory.
Tie second German expedition to the North
Pole is to sail the 7t4 OF June. Il Will consist
Of the steamers Gerata4ia end HdEsa, which are
TO carry supplies for a two years' yoyage.
The bank " at Monaco has suffered severely
Of late. Scarcely had the Russian Princess
Suwarog carried Of the sum Of 41T ,000f, when q
Dutch gambler Eon in two days, l20 boot.
Ii Chicago, TIE other day, there was 4 contest
between butchers, 10 see which could cut mp and
dress a bullock of acreage size in the shortest
time. The worl, was done in 4.4o minutes.
\ recent trial in England has decided the ques-
ton that 4 minor is not obliged to keep & mar
riage promise, Justice Z;ellor maintaining that
"a wife was net a necessity for an infant"
An Episcopal clergyman of Indiana has been
found guilty, by the proper jrdicatory of that
church, OF the offence of witnessing the = Black
Crock, aud his Bishop has reprimanded him
accordingly.
The old Webster mansion, on Summer street,
Boston, is to be torn down and gigantic block
erected in il place. \ statue OF the ''Grcat Ex-
. pONtNtI W III De l1tsCtu III Il ulCuc II tuC IIOHl
ot the new building.
/ Mississippi justice of the peace married a
couple in 1875, divorced them in 1860, married
the u.al to another Wcman in 1851, ditto the
wotnan 10 another man in lo62, and last week
remarriee the orig ginal couple.
Emil Rittershaus o Bartman, Prussia q we'll
known German poet, vii, come to the United
States next fall 70 lecture the poets OF the di-
, fereIt ages. Mr. R.ttcrshaUs sent pcem 10 the
Chicago S@ngerlcst last summer.
Isaac Pltman, Of Bath, England, the inventor
of photography, has published G complete odi-
ton of the Bible II photographic characters
This is by IA. the most extensive work ever pro-
duced in any system of shorthand.
\. H. Stephens is gradually recovering from
his severe illness, aaGIow walks about his room
supported by chairs lie hopes in the course of
few weeks to resume his lators on the second
volume of his Var Det5ecs TIE States
1t is fact rot generally known perhaps that
Washington dreH: hia last breath in the last hour
Of the last day of the last week in the last month
of the year, and ia the last year of the century.
lie died on Saturday night, Il clock, Dcccaa-
beg 3lst, 1899.
! man in Cairo Illinois, has invented spring
to be attached to the feet- by means OF which a
person is relieved Of the labor of walking. TO q
great extent. lie claims his Invention will ena-
bic man to walk tc.. miles an hour with ease
If 50 the day of ve.o-;pcies has passed
The Princess Of Wales, during her visit to
Constants ople, oYerturnel one Of the most rigid
barriers Of Oriental life and asserted the right
! of her seX 10 tla very highest social recognition
that MahoalldGn manners can give to it. By OBJ
tanning :, ace 70. ,oraslf and three other ladies
1t The table Of the Sultan.
In C.acinnet;, :. year ago, Martin Stillen lost
ten grecnAacl SlCo bills. Recently he dscoy-
cred his ;tle gi:l pIlf1. The strips Of said Ills
out Of her do'!, iato which she had placed the
money, after cutting It up, for tAe purpose OF
giving her doll enlortoiqt Enough Of the
scraps were recovered tc made $500
1t will be matter CT surprise 10 most people
I to know that the Nogmous at the present dav.
are said TO number one hundred and twenty
thousand souls. Utah is diyi ,eG iato about
twenty counties, ard although S.: Lake city is
,he great central city, the PEOPLE are scattered
over u territory Of eishty miles square.
! There is n tribulation among the American
residents in London. y young lady with wealth
and ambition was wooed and won by a Siciliap
Count. The trousscau was ordered carriages
built bearing coat Of arms, and hc wedding ap-
preached. But alas tie Coun:-who proved to
be countere;t-decamped se4ving the young
American lady dissolved in tears, and the car
riages and other superRuities for sale.
According TO The results of some recent deep
sea sounding3, It is announced that the bottom
of The sea, at great depths, is covered by con-
tinuous mass, e&tcuding over miles in extent of
what may be considered one single animal
1t is thought to form tae loves. stage CT animal
! life on the globe, aud is supposed 10 derive its
nourishueut directly from the mineral world, as
in the case oF plants. The new animal has been
babtized by the euph0nious name Of Bathybius
4 sprig of English nobility, the youngest son
Of the Duke Argyll, it Is reported has been placed
ii London tea-house, in order to learn how to
become British merchant. The Duke, it is
stated, has adopted this course in consequence
Of the great pressure FOR positions under the
government, and the small number of vacancies
Ia the present heaGlong for Office in the
( United States, the conduct both of the father
and of the son is worthy of earnest considera-
ticn. The Duke of Argyll is at the head Of the
India department, and possesses abundant
power to push his son into lucrative office in
India, or he might make use of his extensive
I political and high social connection to take
care of Collin Campbell, boy of sixteen, but
he prefers 10 teach the youth that an active life
of business IS preferable TO the uncertainty of q
public otfice.
We NEED VARIErY.-Monotony is destructive
Tho $40 has uafbirc- hut oil tho 1a.o,, +to