Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-15
miscellaneous Items.

The population of France in 1866 was IS, OCT, :
094.
Ex-Postmaster General Randall is living at Ell
mira, New York.
The Congressional library now contains 10, :
eos bound volumes. Fn c'i. '.i's' ..se
Queen Victoria is seven years the senior of
the Empress Eugenie.
Gold has been found in digging a we'll in Bu-
reau county, Illinois.
England reports large numbers of fox-hunting
accidents this season.
Female notaries public are becoming common
in Missouri and Iowa.
Boston expects her current expenses this year
to be upwards of 81 900, ,000
Cooper's novels, translated, are now having
an extensive reading in Greece.
NJ. 1asker, the most eloquent member of the
North-German Parliament, Is Jew.
Jenny Linds daughter, aged twelve years,
promises to have a fine musical career.
The Prince Imperial of Madagascar has been
sent by his mother to be educated in France.
The 10000 miles of railroad in the United
States give employment, it is stated, to $50, 900
men.
Victor Emmanuel shot off part of his left
forehnger during hunt in the early days of
March.
Wade Hampton has been buying one hundred
mules in Illinois, for use on his Southern plan
tations.
In 1868, England had population of 81 ,5oo,-
600; Scotland Of 3,255, 900, and Ireland of s.
900, 900.
Human nature is so constituted that all see
and judge better in the affairs of others than in
their own.
The track of the Central Pacific railroad, up to
thp IniO ic
l046 feet.
The President of one of the Washington banks
has been sentenced to two years Imprisonment
for larceny.
The Des Moines Bulletin says, as a result of
Anna Dckinson's late lecture in that place, a
lady has commenced working at the timers
trade.
In Rhode Island, man has sued a woman of
forty for seducing son, aged seventeen, into
matrimony. The boy adheres to his matronly
spouse.
The next eclipse of the sun, which takes place
in August next, will be observed by Professor
Coffin, o: the Nautical Almanac, from some point
in Alaska.
The proposed bridge over the East river at
New York is estimated to cost 81 900 900, and to
require six years for its construction. 1t will be
mile in length.
A member of the Legislature of Indiana is re-
ported to have bought plow with his '' station
cry" and silk dress for his wife with his allot
ment of "postage stamps"
A married couple in Kentucky, both of whom
are deaf mutes, have an infant child that can
hear, and which, it is thought, will be able to
articulate perfectly in due time.
A plucky girl in Jasper county, Indiana it is
said, getting Tilted, instead of taking arsenic,
took stout stick, and licked the fellow hand
somely.- He sc came too :" and married her.
An European astronomer predicts that in
August next there will be comet of such brill
liancy in the heavens and so near the earth that
we shall have our nights almost as light as day.
A bill introduced in the Louisiana Legislature
hya noted wag was pushed through " for the fun
of the thing" allowing the exclusive right of
the 1" father" of the bill to play keno in the
State of Louisiana.
The Prussian journals state that a Protestant
jubilee is to be held next autum at Berlin, to
form a counterpoise to the council TO assemble
at Rome. preparatory meeting is. to take
; place at Worms after Whitsuntide.
religious paper states that fashionable
clergyman, who recently went abroad for the
benefit of his health, was able to eat four meals
day on board the steamer on the passage out,
and cured sea-sickness with brandy and water.
"A number of emigrauts arrived at New York
during March last was 1921 and, during the
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0S9 in the same period of last year. OF those
who came in March, l,344 were bound for Hi
nois.
Two young ladies, on an average, commit sui
eide in Paris every day in consequence of disap-
pointed love, and one man in consequence OF
pecnniary embarrassments. Less suicides are
committed ON Mondays than on the other days OF
the week.
rebel soldier of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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his wife living illicity with his brother, and the
mother of an illegitimate child, recently sued the
false brother for $40, 900 damages. The jury
gave the plaintiff $4,000.
Recently eleven seamen deserted from the Brit
ish ship of war Jealous, lying in the harbor OF
San Francisco. The officers gave chase in a
boat with eight men in it, firing away at the de-
serters all the time butthe seamen got ashore
and were soon lost in the crowd -
Miss Cairnes, who shot McComas, her seducer
in Jarrettsvile, Maryland, is under arrest; and
in consideration Of the condition OF the jail, the
Sheriff procured room for her at Glenn's Hotel
Bel Air, where she remains in his custody, to
await the action of the Grand Jury.
"A speculative husband, says the Warrenburg
Missouri Standard, who went there and was di-
vorced from a worthy, poor woman, in order to
marry widow reputed to be worth $500, 1000,
found that two cyphers had been added to the
reported fortune, leaving it only $4,000.
The ladies will be interested in knowing that
me latest definition of a coque.te is a double
Acnhg, revolving, eccentric, patented fam. A
sprlhg is touched, and instanter parasol is dis
covered springing from the little affair, and the
en'lfe concern can be carried in ones pocket.
colonel Goshen, the celebrated Arabian giant,
Is nov residing at Algonquin, MeHenry County
iihnos. Inc Colonel is seven and oue-baf feet
nigh, weighs six hundred and fourteen pounds
au1' win one exception, is the largest man in
the world. He is a native of Jerusalem. and
came to America in 1860. He is very intelligent
and speaks twenty different languages. -
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