The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-12
IIntb in RittIe.a
Miscellaneous items.

Vermont is The richest state, per capita,
in the Union.
louisville has seO9,O 600 invested in
sohool-houses.
Tennessee owes 500, 264, 244. IS, and
has only s29, 900. in its treasury.
"Slippery Sam" is the not very dignifed
title given TO the Bishop Of Oxford.
1t is computed that the English
languaue is understood by 100, 0OO, 900 peo-
pie.
A new Illuminating mixture consists of
two parts rape-seed oil and one Of petroleum
oil.
The result of the great fire in the Dis
NAL Swamp is o lake from three to ten feet
deep.
"A late FIRE i'm New Hampshire caused a
%neighboring row Of apple trees to bud and
blossom.
DIR. Cooley, Of Kansas City, recently
performed the operation of removing the
entire collar bone.
-Forty-two murders were committed in
Pans from the LIST of January to the 18th Of
September, 1869.
AT the Boston Mechanics Fair, 4.77S,-
200 pounds of humanity we're weighed
The average was 1888 pounds.
The recent census of Atlanta, Georgia,
shows the population of the city proper to
be 20, l66, of whom 10, 1874 are colored.
One hundred head of horses were sto-
len by Indians from the ranches and sta
tons along Canon creek, Montana, in three
days.
-Four women were elected members OF
the School Committed in tho town Of East
ford, Windham county, Conn, at the re-
cent election.
"A sleeping car on tho Oswego andSyra-
ouse Railroad ran off nm embankmenb on
the Goth ult. Several were slightly, but
none fatally, injured.
An enthusiastic Free Trade meeting
was held at Detroit on Friday evening last
Mt which Prof. Perry made n telling speech.
Free Trade League was organized.
"A paper at Elko, on the Pacific Rail-
road, speaks of the apathy Of the highway
robbers, no outrage having been perpe-
trated by themin the last three days.
Deputy Sheriff Major James Fitzwil-
liams, Of Evansville, Ind, was shot thro'
the heart in n saloon. by one of the police
men Of the city. Ghe murder caused great
excitement. s.
An alligator was captured in the river
at Alton, ILL.,, last week. IL was "a feet
long, and weighed l75 pounds. It was
covered with thick Illuminated scales, and
was very repulsiye and formidable looking.
Tho castor bean. from which the oil IL
made, is becoming an important industry
in Perry county, Cal. One prominent deal
er received Mt his warehouse 1000 bushels
in n day, paying S3.1S per bushel. It
yields moro bushels TO the acre than wheat.
In 1910 only eleven newspapers were
published in N. H., one of them being the
New Hampshire Patriot. Five are still in
existence and hourishing. The number
now published is t~hirty-six, or reckoning
dailies apart from the weeklies in connec-
ton with which they are issued, forty-three."
-Pittsburg, N. H., il much excited over
the prospect Of finding gold in its borders.
The town has been regarded as in the gold
bearing stratum, and the assistant geologist
OF the state survey encourages the belief in
the existence OF the precious metal i'm the
tract mentioned.
The 'rainy season" of California is
shown by statistics TO be n slight shower in
comparison with the recent flood Mt the
east. The winter of 1861 $50 was very
rainy in California, but the fall for the
whole season was only four times that
of two days in New York u week or two
ago.
"A furiously written epistlo was found
posted on the window Of the San Francisco
Bank Of California n few mornings since.
II stated that the writer was ut tho head of
700 men sworn TO "masicree every China
man and Chinnwoman in the city Of San
frisco a 10 miles Round Il bout" IL they
didn't leave within fifty days.
A lecturer in New York said: Tyran-
ny of capital was the cause of Ireland's
wrongs, Of the Revolutionary war, of our
late rebellion, and was also the cause of
the decentralization of society. To remedy
these evils the speaker advised the work
ingmen to unite for mutual protection, and
elect none to office but those who labor
either with the head or the hand.
After the recent food In Hartford, CT,
n large pumpkin field in that city presented
a singular appearance. The freshet cover
cd the field with six feet OF water, and the
pumpkins, anchored by their stems, were
bobbing up and down. The surface oftwo
acres of water was completely covered with
them.
The King of Italy's -four predecessors
all abdicated in favor of their successors,
namely: Victor Amadeas l. in 1870, Charles
Emmanuel III. in 1902, Victor Emmanuel
/. in 1881, and Charles Albert in 1919; and
it is rumored that this traditional policy
will also be adopted by the Re Gallantuomo
in favor of Prince Humbert.
If DR.. Livingstone has really discover
cd that one of the sources Of the Nile rises
ton degrees south Of the equator, that river
becomes the longest in the world. The
distance from such a southern latitude 10
Cairo is about equal, in an air line, to the
distance from tho mouths of tho Mississip-
pi TO Sitka, in Alaska, or to Upernavik, in
Greenland, or from the Isthmus of Pana-
ma to the mouth of the st, Lawrence Riy-
or.
AT the New Albany Qnd.) Rolling Mill
two bars Of railroad iron have been made,
Que of which is So feet 8 inches long, and
the other GO feet. The usual length Of a
bar of railroad iron il 81 feet, and IL re-
quires six mon 10 work the rolls aud handle
the lovers, tongs, &c. In the rolling of the
GO feet lars it requires as many men as can
well get around IL TO put it through the
process of manufacture.
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