Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-01-30
NUMBER a.


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An attempt is being made in France to do
mestcate the ostrich
General Hood is prosperous New Orleans
commission merchant
Aacmillan's Magazine endorses roast do,kev. .s
the most delicious of meats
The Greek Government ia makino active nra.
parations for war with Turkey.
The next House of Representatives will stand.
Republicans, 14l Democrats, 81
In St. Clair county, Alabama, 1000 acres of
good land recently sold for 81, ,OOO
Chautauque lake is said to be the highest
navigable water in the United States.
The Great Eastern is taking in cable for the
French-Amercan Telegraph company.
Bonner, of the New York Ledger, gives Prince
ton IN. j. College $40, 900 for new gymnasium.
A Bombay potentate Chimmlala Mahary, has
married girl of ten years. He paid $4,000
for his bride.
A method of sewing boots and shoes with cop
per wire, instead of the common thread, has
been patented.
Twenty-one days of hard labor was the SEN
tence on young girl, in England, for picking
sprig of lavander.
A West Virginian whipped his wife recently,
for unexampled extravaganza in eating both but
ter and molasses on her bread.
In Adams County, ILL.,, having voting popu-
lation of ten thousand, ninety-sfx divorces have
been granted within a month.
Anthony Trollope gays that the popular edu-
cation is neither so high nor so advanced in
England as in the United States.
Paul de Cassagnac, editor of the Paris Pays,
has already fought upward of sixty duels and
has been wounded in only four of them.
The last surviving revolutionary soldier is
dead again. His name was Clark, and he died
at Richmond, aged l2l years and months.
Recently, a man in Montgomery, Alabama, in
biting oyster, found his mouth full of pearls.
Over forty, some larger than pea, were within
the one shell.
A Tennessee woman has just married the man
from whom she. was divorced eight years ago,
having besides, had considerable matrimonial
experience meantime.
calculation shows that the consumption OF
cigars is equal to twenty for every man, woman
and child in the United States and of tobacco,
pound and quarter.
| benevolent citizen of Brunswick, Germany.
lends blankets to the poor from October to May,
Each article is stamped, and for six years the
system has worked without abuse.
Miss Emily Faithful is one of the prominent
women's right speakers of Great Britain. In
her last address, in the Hanover Square rooms,
she said that out or 1000, 900 women of England
Z, 800 900 were unmarried.
A matter of-fact philosopher asserts that
love is to domestic life what butter is to bread
it possesses little nourishment in itself, but
gives substantials grand relish, without which
they would be hard to swallow"
man in Toronto, Canada who has been
deaf and dumb for twenty-four years, caused by
scarlet and typus fever when five years of age,
suddenly recovered the full use of his senses Of
hearing and speech few days since.
In several mines in Cornwall, England. there
are galleries which extend under the sea, where
the sound of the waves is clearly heard when
the is agitated, rolling the pebbles and bowl
ders over the bottom of the ocean.
The Italian Government has introduced a bill
abolishing the privilege hitherto enjoyed by the
clergy of exemption from the conscriptiou. The
bill is regarded as indication of the policy
the government intends to adopt towards Rome.
After near half centnrys struggle with law
yers and courts Mrs. General Gaines finds herself
compelled to appeal to Congress for the impeaeh-
ment of Judge, whom she charges with at
tempts to extort money from her as the price of
justice.
The demi-monde of Paris recently had grand
ball The invitations we're printed on white
satin, the envelopes were scented and the let
ters were gilt. Nobemen and millouaires at
tended, and one of the nymphs wore $500. 900
worth of jewels.
An Italian named Muratori has invented a
kind of felt, made of vegetable substances, which
is tough enough to resist rifle ball. He pro-
poses to dress soldiers in it for battle and Napo.
leon ILL., thinks of employing it, instead of iron,
for the armor of ships.
Queen Isabella has firaly gone to housekeen.
ing in Paris. In her destitution she is Obliged
to put up with $3.50, 900 house on the Boule-
yard du Roi de Rome. She had previously con-
tracted for two houses in the Champs Elysees,
and paid $4,000 forfeit.
California contains 33,775 more square miles
than Great Britain, Ireland, and all the adjacent
islands under the British flag. Were it as
densely Inhabited as the British home terrific
ries, we should have more than thirty-fve mill.
ions of people in this State alone.
In Louisville, Kentucky, hearing an alarm of
fire, frantic mother rushed to a front window
in the second story and threw her baby there
from. A maa passing on the street caught the
infant on the fly" The mother then became
deranged. Only the chimney was on fire.
Recently four swells entered the "rerrapiu."
in Toronto, and, after having partaken heartily
Of good dinner, etc., three Of the party went
out, while one remained to settle the bill. as tbs
waiter supposed. He refused, however. to nav
for other than his own dinner, and the threat
ening presence of policeman did not alter h;s
purpose.
Though Eagland is very unwilling to admit
mat there is any saving religion in the world but
the Church Of England, she toIerates seven Jews
and twelve Quakers in the present House of Par
Lament Of course she considers them all
ooomed TO eternal perdition, but while they re-
= man aoooe their future home their voices may
be OF use in mundane matters.
mississippi editor, having given notice that
ne would inform, free of charge, enterprising
young men how to make fortune without cap
itsi, replies to several anxious inquiries:
Every one of you pull of your coats, leave of
your army skies, quit whiskey, 60 to work, make
. crop OF corn, cotton, peas, and potatoes, house
them up, then marry an enterprising girl"