The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-01
Foreign Items.

-~Isabella's husband employs his time
in making wooden toys for his wife's chill
dren.
Prince Napoleon has an income from
his Swiss estate Of $50, 900 francs, which he
says ho keeps Gin case of accident"
Owing to frequent accidents the
French government has prohibited the eX-
hibition of persons entering the cages of
wild animals.
German nobs in the universities sneer
nc the American students among them.
They use the pretty names of f'sprigs,
"tadpoles' and 'yermin" in speaking of
them.
1t is estimated that 1000, 900, 900 of
matches are used in Europe every day; the
manufacture employs 500, 600 workmen, and
produces $50, 900, 900 worth of goods per
year.
Hero is q peculiarly Frencby remark
in a Paris fotleion: 1.-TWO women ara
necessary to make the life Of a man com
plete; the woman he loves and the woman
who loves him"
Prince Napoleon is said TO have sold
his estate on the banks ofthc Lake Geneva
to eX-Queen Isabella, whoappoars to be in
vcsting in real estate in every country in
Europe except Spain.
Two Scotch gentlemen are at present
on the Rhine, accoutred in the real kilt and
plaid, having made a heavy wager that they
will travel all over Europe in that dress, and
not speak any language but the Gaelic.
-Burna's pow once in 81. Miohael's
Dumlries, and bearing ar. b." cut by his
hand in an idle hour, and under weary
Y.Wu.A.s.sAy Ia. I.a.. .4.N 81. - ...aG-N
As the bidding did not reach Cj the pew
was bought in.
Nearly ten per cent. of the people OF
Berlin live in basement rooms. More than
forty per cent, $50, 800 persons live In a.
972 houses which have only one room each
that can be heated, and twenty-five per
cent. more live in houses with only two
rooms each that can DO heated.
A married pair in the Palalinate were
about to make q journey by cars from Ger
mersheim 20 Durkheim, and missed tho
train; the man began 10 abuse his wife; sho
returned bis abuse with interest, which ex-
asperatod him 80 much that he pulled out
q pocket pistol and shot his wife and him
self.
John ODonnell, who hanged himself
the other day in Liverpool, left a letter TO
bis wife, saying he hoped she would meet
him in heaven, where there would be "no
Mrs. Corkhill or Mrs. Batterabe for to drink
health 10 me, wishing mo in hell, and
hbrel enough to stand a pint of beer to
ould nick TO stur the Goals"
A lady in a workhouge at Chelsea,
England, lately arrived at the age Of one
hundred years. Being asked how sho
would like TO celebrate the day, she OK
pressed a preference for a ride in n balloon.
She was accordingly taken mp in n great
balloon, aud took n lunch OF wine and bis
cults Mt an altitude Of half n mile.
Tho Holy Sepulchre. which furnished
the oRtensible pretext for the Crimean war.
is again breeding trouble, the priests of the
Latin Church declining 10 comply with the
terms Of the treaty, which guarantees TO the
Greek Church the sole possession OF the
new cnpola, which has been recently en- .
riched with n magnificent golden cross.
A rrightml case of tho immolation of a
human being in one Of those Spanish bull
fights patronized by the crown has oc-
CURED ut Jura2, in the Gard. On Sunday
last one of the bulls tossed a man. killed
him in an instant, and ran about the circus
with his cntraila twisted about his horns.
Nobody thought Of stopping the perform
anco, which went on for three hours
aiterward.
A British officer committed nm offence
in the Crimean war punishable with death,
but being influential. had that penalty
commuled TO perpetual reduction to half
pay, and to havo his sword inverted in the
scabbnrd. lie il now on duty in Halifax.
His position requires him ON public occa-
sions 10 be in close attendance upon the
Governor and this brings him conspicuous
ly forward. At the reception of the Prince
AZ tho latter with his suite stepped upon
the platform prepared for him, upon which
were standing the Governor and other dig
nitaries, Nll the officers saluted with the
sword, the single exception being this at
tendant upon the Governor, who with hia
sword by his side, was compelled TO salnts
with his hand.