Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-12
Miscellaneous Items.

A debating club for deaf mutes has been
started in London.
The inaugural of General Grant has been
translated in Japanese, and was printed IN the
japanese press.
A suit is set down for early trial in Tennes-
see court to test the right of magistrate SOL
emnizing a marriage to kiss the bride.
An English gentleman has bought between
3, 900 and 4, 900 acres of land in Nelson county
Virginia, on which he intends TO settle 500 Eng
lish families.
The Illinois Legislature has passed law clas-
styling drunkards with idiots and insane people
and giving their property and persons to the
charge of guardians.
| 1t is curious fact that fifteen diamonds, each
weighing one carat, can be bought for 81 500,
while one diamond weighing fifteen carats is ra-
ted at Sl2, 900 to $751; 900.
Mr. H T. Helmbold, the we'll known druggist
returns for this year income of Sl52 ,205. All
this comes from advestisng, Mr.. Helmbold's ex-
penditures for advertising average over Slo, ,O0O
a week.
Among the incidents of the late storm in ST.
Louis was the return of asportsman with five
dozen snipe, which be had found killed oy the
hail. pigeon was brought down in the city
by halstone.
Calfornians scatter their silver and gold
around with looseness which is perfectly re-
freshng to parties who transact business with
them. An Omaha bootblack now looks with
perfect contempt upon man who offers 'green-
backs " in payment for work performed Omaha
| Herald
Paper cofins have been patented in London
and it is claimed for them that they are lighter
stronger, harder and cheaper than any other
material. BY the application of this material as
a coating for ships, he undertakes to make them
shot proof. The material is perfectly alright
and waterproof.
A letter from Virginia to the New York TriJunt
says that q some of the Northern people now liv-
ing there (the vicinity of Mount Vernon) say
they have lost the romance they once had con-
cerning Washington, for they learn directly from
tradition that neighbor, he unsociabe
naughty, very exacting and quick-tempered.
Even the alkal plains may be redeemed In
Algeria it has been found by the French farmers
'' that under irrigation the more alkali the bet
ter the corn crop" The process of desert reca
nation will therefore be, first, irrigation sec
ond, planting of fruit trees corn, vines, and
other plants which shade the soil then, with
increasing moisture, other products may be in
troduced.
few days since, while a train on the Ken.
lucky Central railroad was passing through the
man attempted to kiss girl who Sat in front OF
him, when she seized his hand and bit IL large
piece out of the back of it. A moment after
ward, when the cars emerged from the dark pas.
sage, the young man was observed wrapping up
his bleeding hand, and explained to his uquir.
ing friends that the window had fallen upon it.
Iu Dennisville and other places in New Jersey
a heavy business is done in raising cedar trees
out of the marshes in which they buried
many centuries ago, and covered with peat
The wood raised from these buried forests is as
sound as if recently feled, and is mostly made
into shingles. Tree after tree, from 200 to ,O0C
years old, may be found over another in
the salt marshes on the &C Jersey fats" showing
the immense age of the lowest layers, and also
showing that this region has been gradually
sinking for thousands of years. In one case q
tree with 500 annual rings found directly
under the slump OF another in which 900 were
/ counted