The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-22
Foreign Items.

There is only one four-cylinder press
in Germany.
Russia now keeps up IN army of 1,
4G7, 900 men.
"A Polish sect commit assassination to
propitiate the Deity.
Much of the ice now sold in London
actually arrived there in 1866.
In 1867 the number Of arrests for
habitual drunkenness, in London, was lOO,-
$50.
Half n million books were sold at tho
late trade sale in New York, and 10000 of
them were Byron's.
A French expedition is TO go to the
Mediterranean to observe the metcoric
showers in November.
An old blind organist, who had lived
in n London w%orkhouse 7S years, died lately
Mt the ago of 80. lie could repeat all the
Psalms.
A London publisher roposcs to re-
print in one or more volumes all that has
been published in England and America on
the Byron controversy.
It il said that there il n man in Brazil
named Jose Moreira who is 1856 years old,
and that he has lived all that unconscious
bly, long time on scmped cheese, wine aud
sugar.
An English druggist suggests that ev-
cry label of ''poison" should have affixed a
short statement Of the commonest and
most accessible antidotes for the contents,
if taken accidentally.
A Jersey lady in her hundredth year,
recently visited the Amsterdam Exhibition,
accompanied by her grandson, who waf
/ ls..r.1F N aVu,IErNInW Ela fnurKanlan a
sewing machine, and threaded n needle
without the aid of spectacles.
The model farm of tho Crown PRICE
of Prussia cost him, last year, s~eventy-twC
thousand Prussian dollars. The income
was four thousand five hundred and two
dollars. The Prince has since then aban.
doned tho farm and sold IL 10 one Of hi.
ueighbors.
At the Lyons University. last month
n Mile. Caroline Sibert, Of Vienna. on-thC
Rhine, took u Bachelor of Arts degree
Out of n list of twenty-five candidates thii
young lady came ont first in French nnt
Latin composition, and second in Latin
translation.
-"Aw," exclaimed n Cockney TO n West
ern traveller in England, 'speaking-aw o
the law of p~rimogoniture, ave you the hen
NAlA III hAANNAAhA A'AAtAh hhNa ~
American, looking ut his interrogation will
curiosity, "No, sir we have the cocktail
in America, and n very popular drink 1t is
too"
A Vienna paper says: ''Bisma:k's dis
case, as the French papers said some tint
ago, is simply dilirium tremens. He can
not hold q pen in the morning, and he hn
10 take strong stimulnnts in order 10 over
come his nervousness. lie can never max
n speech in Parliament without preyiousl!
taking strong doses Of brandy
The Indian papers state that the Ma
haraiah Of Travancoro is about to perform
the ceremony of Thooloparum. The pro
cess consists of His Highness being place,
IN one scale with an equal weight of gol'
in the other. Tho gold thus obtained
afterwards distributed among the Brah
Minis according TO each ones privilege, an,
IL is only after the ceremony that His High
ness Is supposed to be sanotiied.
M. Theirs collection of engraving
has been lately estimated ut the enormou
: sun of 800, 000f. His mother-in-law, Nine
Dosnc, assisted him in discovering thepre
! cious curiosities which arc now in his pos
session, and which form one of the fines
cabinets in Europe. This taste, d. rest,
was a dominant passion during the Orlear
list monarchy, and shared by the prince
of that house, whose patronage of art CAV
I an impulse 10 It's productions which Of lat
I years has been much wanting.