Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-24
Miscellaneous Items.

Protestant churches are being established in
many of the chief towns in Turkey.
! A poisonous worm infests tomato vines in Illi-
nois. Several deaths have ensued from its bite.
| One dollar is the price which fearless youth
in Missouri asks for biting off rattlesnake's $
head.
| young lady of Logan county, Kentucky, ad-
vertses for 1" sealed proposals for her hand and
| heart"
Reese Hughes, of Fredonia, New York, has a
horse forty-six years old, which Is still doing
daily duty in harness.
| The Dutch propose to drain the Zuyder Zee,
and thus add fifty million dollars worth of land
| to their submarine kingdom
| A Missouri grasshopper attacked little girl a
| few days since, and so nearly destroyed her ear
| that surgeon had to be called in.
| Extremes meet IN Chicago, where now a wife
has sued to obtain possession of her husband
who has been carried off by brother.
| A couple of "dead broke Australian miners
have found the biggest nugget in the world
weighing two hundred and ten pounds
| Louis Napoleon is having villa built on the
Palatine Hill, at Rome, on the spot where are
found remains of the Palace of the Caesars.
The Belgian chemists, who invented a process
for making Flemish butter out Of beef tallow, now
manufacture champagne at shilling bottle.
Anna Smith, who is nineteen years DID, and
living in Mills county, Iowa, works a lGO-acre
farm on her own account and to her own profit.
A lady in New York is making an Intellectual
! attempt to whiten her complexion by drinking
pale brandy. Her nose bushes at the expert
ment.
A miserly ragpicker has just died in New
Orleans, leaving immense fortune to a grand
daughter whom he had placed in the orphan
asylum.
1t is said that A. T. Stewar. & Co. are cradu-
ally introducing saleswomen into their establish
ment, and intend, in time, to employ only women
as selling clerks
The latest circus trick in Paris is for man to
leap from height of eighty feet, being fastened
by strong elastic cord and to bound back again
to the place from which he started.
An ivory tusk six feet three inches long and
%! inches in circumference recently ex-
humed in Montana; it was found buried in the
sand, twenty-five feet below the surface.
In dredging our Little river at Michigan City,
lately, there was taken up a quantity of muskets
thrown into it my Knights of the Golden Circle,
during the war, to prevent their capture.
Prince Uchtomski, belonging to one of the
Oldest families of Moscow, and formerly posses
"
just been sent to Siberia for life, for theft and
swindling.
An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago recently
preached communion sermon the duty OF
receiving the bread with hands crossed, and of
carrying it to the lips without touching any with
the fingers.
"A Gloucester man emptied his pipe into
wooden spittoon filled with sawdust the other
night, and in the morning found the whole ap-
paratus consumed in the cellar, having burned
through the floor.
A negro doctor, in George, prescribed for a
rheumatic old woman that she should bury all
her husbands money under stone in the gar
den. She did so, and though the rheumatism
didn't vanish, the money did.
There is man in Ohio who is one hundred
and six years old, whose eldest child is eighty
years old, and whose youngest is six months old
and still mewling in its nurses arms The man
who becomes father at the age of one hundred
and six years. is a Patriarch of the Patriarchs
Charles Bishop, Wholesale merchant at New
New Haven, Conn, died very suddenly recently
A few months before his death he tod his wife
that he never felt better in his life, and but a
few days before his death he allowed q $50. 600
life insurance policy to expire on account of his
long continued good health.
man in Holyoke armed two Of his neipbbors
with malet and club 10 hunt a burglar the
other night. They went around the house in
opposite directions, and met in the darkness be-
hind it, proceeded to pound and whack each
other in a fashion that would have been terribly
effective If either had been the burglar.
A few days since (says the Hannibal Covr;sr
young widow purchased a shirt in Il Hannibal
clothing store, and gave directions to have il
nandeu 10 young man who would call for If
The young man soon appeared, and donned the
garment In the store. He then hunted up the
widow and the two went before the Recorder
and straightway were made one flesh
In France, when prisoner is sentenced TO
death, be is taken to a very strongly built cell
and has to put on straight jacket. guard
remains with him night and day, and highly
stimniatng food is given to him. Owing to the
iioeral allowance of wine given to to the men
shortly before they are sent to the eullotine.
most OF them are drunk when they are executed.
| The proprietors OF plate glass works in Mass
achusetts town are experimenting for nse in "a.
oie tops, mantels, etc, with new article resem
nnnS porcelain, made from cryolte, a mineral
ietched from Greenland, whose name the man.
uiactured articles will take. They are also turn
! Ing glass tor the novel use of moulding boards
LOT piows Tor certain Western prairie lands whose
SOIL Is very destructive to iron
In Steenfe.de, Hanover few weeks aro
h.e-!ear-oiu chlid got possession of knife. with
which II managed to inflict deep cash in its
! neck The mother, who was alone in the house
took her needle and thread and sewed the wound
together. The physician, who lived at great
distance, came soon after, but declared that he
could do, and, indeed, that the wound needed
nothing more, and if the mother had not done
as she had, her child would have bled to death
in few minutes. The little one will recover.
| young man named Joseph Wagner, living in
Charleston, West Virginia, professed to have
the power OF fcharming snakes. Having captured
a rattlesnake, be was giving some friends an ex-
hibiton of this power. After fondling the
snake for a time in his arms he threw it on the
ground and switched it until it writhed with
rage. lie then took the reptile up in his arms
again, and saying, I" Are you mad Kiss me
and make up" be put its head in his mouth.
The snake bit his tongue, and he died in about
an hour afterward. In fifteen minutes after be.
ing bitten his skin assumed the spotted color of
the snake.
curious discovery has just been made a:
Pompeii, the Italian city, which was buried un-
der a deluge of boiling lava from Mount vesu.
vius long ago. In house in the course of ex.
cavation, an oven was found, closed with an
iron door, on opening which batch of eighty
-, II i-nt tup