Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-11-06
Miscellaneous Items.


During the last forty years the German immi-
grafton to this country has been 1885, ,044.
An arrangement is being concluded between
England and France to exterminate the Chinese
pirates.
Atmount Ararat this year, ITO, 900 Moham-
medan pilgrims assembled for the annual journey
to Mecca.
Quant-ell, the Kansas ruffian, who was sup
posed to have been killed few years ago, claims
to be alive.
Nineteen bills for divorce have been filed for
| the October special term of the Circuit court of
Livingston county, Illinois.
Over thousand Persian lorettes have gone to
Alexandria, Cairo and Suez, to be present at the
Inauguration of the Suez canal.
1t has been practically proved that wherever
the sunfower is extensively grown on low lands,
marsh fever is almost unknown.
L. W. Barry; said TO be the oldest printer on
| the American continent, is a candidate for door
keeper OF the Tennessee house of representatives.
Next Christmas eve is set for the marriage of
some 500 cousins in New Hampshire. After that
dale the intermarriage of first cousins is prohb-
tied there.
At recent fair in Boston &c, 900 persons were
weighed, and their average weight 1873
pounds. The heaviest man balanced the scales
at 370} pounds.
citizen of Dimington, Maine, lost gold
chain in 1897, and supposed it was stolen from
him. few weeks since he found it while plow
ing piece of land.
st. Louis German went and bought a twenty
dollar gun to kill himself with, and his relations
are mad that he didn't think to borrow and
thus save the expense.
| A letter from Brussels announces that NJ
Landuran has invented an apparatus by which
he is able to extract fire damp any other
vicious air from mines.
The effort for the abolition of trousers as an
article of male attire, and the substitution there
fore Of knee-breeches and knickerbockers in
gaining strength in England.
Rev. Thomas Noble, of London, is attracting
considerable attention in that city partly be-
cause he is a powerful preacher, and partly be-
bause he is smaller than Tom Thumb.
| The Rev. DR.. Pinnev, who has visited Africa,
in recent lecture expressed it as his belief that
Africa would some time other be the most
thickly populated country in the world.
The Boston authorities propose to close the
public schools on stormy days. certain num-
Der of strokes the fre-alarm bell will an
nounce to all school children that they can stay
at home and play.
An Englishman was recently caught and al
most cudgeled to death in Spain. The people
thought him wizard who carried of little chill
dren, to eat their flesh and their fat to grease
the telegraph wires.
In l767 Italian statistics show out of 10, ,456
marriages there were 81 l59 considerably more
:han oue-haf the whole number, in which
neither the bride nor the bridegroom could
either read or write
The Gar has abolished the hereditary success
sion of the Russian parish priests Heretofore
the sons of the Russian parish priests were
PEELED to become priests whether they were
fitted FOR the profession or not.
A Montreal paper says that Sir Francis Hincks
recently declared that d" the Fenian organization
is now an essential part of the electoral ma
chinery of the United States" and will yet give
the Canadians 81 more trouble than they think"
young gymnast, who was killed at Cherry
Valley, Illinois, recently, by falling from
double trapeze, had promised his father to quit
the business as soon as his engagement WAS
finished, OF which that at Cherry Valley was the
last night.
Not long ago the workrnen in great powder
factory in England were stopped and searched
just as they were entering the works. Fifty
eight of them found to have in their pos
session tobacco, pipes and matches, ard were
Immediately discharged.
The Graud Cyclops kindly announces to the
Tennesseeans that the mission of the Ku-klux
Man is eHueu (Wltu election, OF course,
and hence.orth any demons that look like 'em
are frauds, and to be fred at without fear of
killing anybody that does not deserve it.
An Indiana town was lately frightened bv burg
lars. Twenty-Five men armed 10 the teeth at
last cornered the depredators, as they supposed,
and guarded'a house closely for two hours, no
one daring to enter Finally, they mustered up
courage, searched the house and found-two
cats
Speaking of the Congressional library at Wash
| ington, correspondent says: "Not per cent
OF Congressman are readers in the sense of
ardent lovers of full scholarship not above 20
per cent. read anything but novels. The library,
SO far as Congress is concerned is a repository
Oh novels for their wives and daughters.
correspondent of Portland paper saws there
is man iu Porter, Maine, who during the war
was SO much opposed to giving aid and comfort
10 the country while struggling to perpetuate it's
existence, that he left off drinking LIQUOR, Ia
haolt he had indulged in to great extent,) be-
cause the governmsnt derived revenue from it,
and he has since maintained sober life.
The total number OF graves of soldiers who
dled IN defense OF the American Union, now re-
corded IN the printed forms published by the
Quartermaster's department, amounts to about
1893, 900. There yet remains to be printed the
records of about 10000 graves, making an
aggregate of 5000 of which the names of
100000 occupants will probably never be known
The fifth annual convention of the French
Canadians in the United States has lust been
held in Detroit This resolution among others
was adopted: I" We admit no alternative for
the interests of our country and ourselves. but
the annexation of Canada to the United States -
and they formally constituted themselves ga
general commission tor the annexation of Canada
to the States"
| One of our enslaved and down-troddeu sisters
is reported AS having recently proclaimed that
there was no greater loss of time than for
women to be, day after day, nursing puuy.
half-starved, sickly children" The New York
| World requests permission respectfully to sug-
gest the probability that, if sufficient time were
expended in nursing, children would never be
balf-starved and seldom puny and sickly?
repusive looking hermit, sort of Middle
age asceiic, lives in log hut at the head of
Atean pond, on Moose river, Maine, six miles
from his nearest neighbor, an Irishman. He is
sn Engshman named Lockyere, eighty y-seven
years old, and has lived in this seclusion nine
teen years, cultvating little patch of ground,
and catching fish and game. His only compan-
ions are six cats, with whom he lives on terms
of intimacy like Alexander Selkirk. Some dis
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