The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-17
Miscellaneous Items.

The %favorite weapon of California
Cinnamon is an iron bar covered with can
vas.
Among the curious bequests Of the
late Jabez .. Woodman, of Portland, Me-,
WAS his half of a picture 10 his wife. which
was originally presented to them both by q
friend.
The sales of cigar stamps in New York
city for one month amount 10 500, 600. or
over 81, 200, 00n per annum: yet IL is esti-
mate that this is not half the amount that
should be paid. .llIV
"A Georgia %financier, who declined two
years ago to buy a plantation of 2, 500 acres
offered at So per acre, is now reckoning up
his losses, the plantation having Just been
sold for SIT per acre.
Two brothers, named Chahin are on
exhibition at Cincinnati. The Oldest, %
years OF age, il 81 feet high, and weigh 230
lbs; tho youngest, 30 years old, is % inches
high, and weighs % lbs.
-Oo-operation in purchases of food has
recently been tried by the men employed in
tho Congressional printing office in Wash
ington. One hundred barrels of Kentucky
white wheat family lour nave been bought
and delivered at S750 per barr |.
-Acolored lawyer in South Carolina hav-
ing horsewhipped q white member OF the
State Government for insulting his wife,
the Legislature appointed an Investigating
Committee. The Committee report that
'the logginR was thoroughly and hand
somely done"
"A bear was recently killed in Wolfe
county, Ky, which weighed seven hundred
pounds, and some popularity about his
feet, recognized by old hunters as having
been noticed IN y bears track twenty-three
years ago, determined his age at nearly q
quarter of . century.
AN officer started from Utica for the
insane asylum at B~inghamton, with a case
OF delirum tremens ia charge. AT Syracuse
they both got nicely drunk, the patient
slipped away, and the officer, arriving at
the asylum, presented his papers, and was
locked up as regular inmate.
"A Peoria, ILL.,, policeman, the other
day, noticing q person that looked suspici-
ously %corpulent, arrested him on suspicion
of his having stolen goods about him. Tell
ing him to disrobe, the man complied, and
in the next ten minutes pulled Of four
coats, two vests, four pairs Of pants. and
eleven shirts.
"A young man who had como into pos
session Of n large property by the death of
his brother was asked how he was getting
along. "0hl' said he. II am having a
dreadful time; what with getting out letters.
Of administration, and attending a probate
court, and settling claims, / sometimes
wish he hadn't diedI"
In Waltham, VT, last week,a girl eight
years Of age, finding her dress in flames,
with remarkable presence Of mind smoth-
cred the fire, and cut off her burning apron
with a pair Of scissors, while her little
hands were being burned to blisters, and
not only saved her own life, but that Of the
baby also, by keeping away from it until
the fire was put ont. {.
"A new comic journal called Punch and
Judy has just been started in London.
Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the proprie-
tors of the original Punch, applied for an
injunction to stop the publication of the
new periodical on the ground that 1t was a
colorado imitation Of their property, hut
the application was refused. There are,
therefore, now, besides other comic papers,
q Punch, q Judy, and q Punch and Judy
"A Russian writer condemns the pro-
posed introduction Of the principle ofshoIt
service in the Russian army. Under the
old system he thinks that the soldier forgot
himself, his friends, his home, and his re-
ligion, and made the army his sole delight
and hope, but this writer fears that il the
soldiers are allowed to nave any thoughts
beyond the army they will come to regard
themselves as merely guests in the regi-
ment, and that discipline will thereby suie-
ly suffer.