Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-10-02
Miscellaneous Items.

An Indiana child conghed so violently that it
burst one of his eyeballs.
Eighteen United States Senators have visited
California since the completion of the Pacific
railway. ~ s'
Prince Napoleon scandalizes the people of
Havre by bathing in the most primitive Of all
possible costumes.
young woman of Memphis has followed the
advise of the -Resolutioa, proposed to a man
she liked, and married him next day.
The last story aboutthe Rothchilds, who some
time ago would not hold United States bonds, is
that they intend to invest $lO0, ,ooo, 900 in them.
A rattlesnake was killed near Marietta, Ohio,
recently, that had one hundred and ffty-two
young snakes in her. from four to six inches
long.
Jasper Q. Ely, of Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
MIA, il. s.raising brook trout. He says the curdled
milk of one COW, fed to trout for year, will in
crease their weight FIVE hundred pounds.
Within very short time FIVE young women in
Louisville, Illinois, have been seriously poisoned
by the use Of imported face powder adulterated
with lead. In each case the cosmetic caused
paralysis.
At Paris, a Russian valet out of place hung
himself in despair, and the suicide was discov-
cred by the postman, who called to deliver a let
ter to the deceased, announcing the death of his
father and the Inheritance of 900 year.
A Mrs. Parks celebrated her one hundred and
fifth birthday lately at Cleveland, Ohio She
has raised seventeen children. The last was
born when she was sixty-fve years old, and she
now enjoys good health, attends church regu-
larly, is active, has good teeth, and improved
| sight, and her hair is turning black.
The real leading spirit of Japan now is Sat
suma, the Treasurer of the Empire. He is the
richest of the native Princes or Dainois; adopts
every improvement, arms bis followers with
breech-oading rifles, has sent as many as fifty
young Japanese to be educated in various parts
of Europe, and, in word, is man of the times.
The last freak of nature is in the possession of
Adams Abbott of Troy, Vermont. 1t consists of
four kittens, all perfectly formed and all joined
together, two black and two white. As joined,
three are headed one way, while the other will
be compelled to walk backwards least three
fourhs of the time. At last accounts all were
alive.
DR.. Buckingham has an article in the Medical
and Surgical Journal, in which be recommends
strongly the of ripe fruit particularly peaches,
for ordinary diarrhea and dysentery sometimes
with, sometimes without morphia, as the pres
ence or absence of pain dictates. He says he
had just prescribed quart of peaches day for
a patient
negro dancer in an Omaha theatre, seeing
proscenum box, in front of wel-known female
resident of the city, displayed his agility by tip
ping over the glass with his toe. For the next
FIVE minutes be was obliged to continue the dis
play by lodging bottles, tumblers and similar
missiles which the enraged beauty threw at his
head.
Criminal justice in Russia presents many odd
features. The other day an editor, his publisher,
and the boy that had carried the papers around,
were prosecuted. The editor who had written
the offensive article, being a nobleman escaped
with a small fine. The publisher belonged to a
lower class, and was heavily mulcted and the
poor boy: being the of former serf, received
severe cudgelling.
The Toronto Telegraph is disgusted with the
contrast exhibited between the two shores of
Lake Superior, the Canadian and the American
One visit to Lake SUPERIOR it remarks, {" is
enough to make Canadian blush for his coun-
try. Comparing the two shores he would be
ashamed, in the presence of an American, to
confess himself a native of this country This is
the feeling of every CANADIAN who visits that
region"
A Swiss journal mentions that the neighbor-
hood of Mendrisio, in the Ticino, is infested with
plague of black caterpillars, which enter the
houses, creep into the beds and cause painful
swelling by their touch Some persons have en-
deavored to protect their dwellings by laying
train OF sulphur around, but without avail.
Thousands of these insects have been killed, but
the nurpb Der does not seem to decrease. In some
localities prayers have been offered up for the
removal of the scourge
There is in Corydon, Indiana, the en-
trance of which is oulv three squares from the
courthouse, connected with which is a sinpu-
lar phenomenon. continual current of cold
air comes out of the entrance, which will keep
fan turning if it is suspended before the hole
rtn ha hatr t1n-e
placed thermometer in the gave. In FIVE
minutes the mercury sank from nearly 90 to So
The cave has never been explored, consequently
whence the current of air comes or what causes
it remains unknown.
Great CONSERVATION prevails throughout the
wine-growing districts of France Anew disease
OF the grape has made its appearance in the
nelghborhood of Bordeaux, where it has already
caused incalcuable damage, and is now begin
ming to spread to the vineyards of Burgundy
According to paper published on the subject
by Il. Planchon, this disease is caused by the
ravages OF hitherto unknown insect. which he
calls Phlioxera vastatrix, and which all the
means usually employed in similar cases has
utterly failed to extirpate.
curiosity was lately found in coal bank
near Knoxville, Tennessee. 1t is a kettle prob
ably OF iron or some other hard substance. but
from long rusting it has become like stone It
was encased In bed of slate stone, just above
the coal bed, twenty-six feet beneath the surface
There were three of these vessels together, but
two of them were broken in getting them out of
the stone bed with which they were surrounded.
They are of cone shape, with small knob on
the cover. Itis of course impossible to say who
placed these vessels where they were found.
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