Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-10
News Items.


\ chicken in Bourbon county, KY,
has fourteen toes.
An Illinois COW, weighing 1,27O
pounds, brought Sl25 in KeOkuk Iowa.
The Abyssinian war cost England
nearly 100000.
1--WE, the great American people,"
use daily l 200, 900 postage stamps.
Rhode Island legislatures receive
only 81 Per day and pIckings.
st. Paul's (N1inn.) population is
about 10000.
Without the suburbs Brussels has a
population of 165,OO0.
New Workers annually smoke 4OO,-
0O0,0 cigars.
4 bankrupt Boston merchant has
lately received 81 900 from a former
clerk whom he had befriended.
Senator Sherman dwells in modest
plainly furnished twenty-five feet
| front house, in Washington.
Daniel d. Pratt, Senator elect from
Indiana, is a man of great weight
nearly 400 pounds.
The grave of William Penn, in a
village churchyard near London, is
nameless and unmarked.
The Levant Times predicts that
Senator Nye, of Nevada, will be the
next Minister to ConstantinOple.
Lord Monk has been appointed
Chairman of the Franeo-American
Cable Company.
The bill eonfiscating the property
of the King of Hanover has passed
the House of Deputies, in Berlin.
Ex-Governor Piekens, of South
Carolina, died in Edgefeld, s., c., ON
Monday.
ENJOYS from President Bali are in
Washington to propose the transfer of
San Domingo to the United States.
A citizen of New Bedford, Mass,
weakened himself nearly to death by
hieeoughing necessarily for week.
Paraguayan Lopez may be termed
solid man, since he weighs five hun
dred pounds and is only five feet five
inches high.
George Alfred Townsend has dis
| covered that Mrs. General Grant
wears No II shoe.
MantOn Marble is now exclusive
owner of the New York World. For
one-fourth of the stock he paid $780,
900, exclusive of real estate.
At public banquet in Paris, on the
u ire
Minister, expressed ardent sympathy
with Greece.
The arrival of the new fire engine
in Cheyenne City, Wyoming, was
celebrated by a ball that rolled S4OO
into the eOmpany's treasury.
The result of a revival at Oskaloosa.
Iowa, was the addition o. 1856 con-
Terts in the Simpson NJ. Z. Church,
and thirty to the First NJ. Z. Church.
An Australian horse recently made
the fastest time on record for the
distanee-ten miles in % minutes and
50 seconds.
4 blooming matron of sixteen, in
Dubois County, Indiana, is already
the mother of TWO boys, aged respec-
lively two and one years.
y Portland mechanic has made a
fine cambria needle, which can be un-
screwed, and which eOntains,i in hOl-
low within, another smaller needle.
The United States Minister at
Athens, in speech at banquet, on
the 18th inst, assured Greece Of
Americas cordial sympathy in her
troubles with Turkey.
At areeent ball at the French Court
the guests consumed 10000 ices, ], 500
glasses of punch, 5000 of sherbet, 400
or 500 chickens, 500 bottles of cham
pague and 1,500 bottles IF Bordeaux.
Agentle husband of Greensboro, VT,
cracked his wife's neck by playfully
shaking her. She became paralyZed
and was confined to her bed several
days. He values the discovery.
Morris, whose poems have a classic
grace and n flowing rhyme, is a dec
orator in Bloomsbury, England, and
sings of Greece while he designs chair
legs.
A petition is being signed in the
County of Cork, Ireland, in favor of
applying the Irish Ecclesiastical
revenues to The payment of the poor
rates.
Charles Dickens says he can always
Judge of the character of hotel or
restaurant by an inspection of the cas-
tor. The mustard pot and oil cruet
are infaliable tests.
NJ. Cheyalier, French eronaut, is
arranging in New York for balloon
voyage to Europe. Heintends 10 start
in April or May, and may alight in
mid ocean if he attempts the aerial
feat.
a rural expectant bridegroom, who
was having a license filed out, in Du-
buque, Iowa, on Thursday, suddenly
forgot his intended's name, and had
to retreat to her woodland reeluse to
have his memory refreshed.
English papers differ in their views
of the Alabama claims treaty. The
Mercantile Gazette thinks everything
is Welded to America, and nothing
reserved to Great Britain; while the
Times thinks it an honorable basis Of
settlement.
Gen. Rawling recently dined with
q man VINO paFtOON OF wine rather
freely, and became talkative. Finally
the latter said, speaking of somebody
''Oh, that mine enemy would write a
book" your enemy" said Raw
lings, pointing to the bottle, "dont
write books"
The breaking out of the hostility
between tile Spanish and Cuban fac
tiOns in Havanna has caused a reign
of terror in that city. There is little
security within the city walls.
Cubans from the hOuse-tOps fire upon
the volunteers and soldiers in the
streets; then the latter enter the
houses and massacre the inmates