The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-24
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
The coughing hoss" is the Indial
name for locomotive.
New York alone makes twenty tw,
kinds of tonic bitters.
Tie Chinese are said rarely to be
eomeinsane- They drink tea.
In the country they blow a hornbe
foro dinner-in towu they take one
after dinner.
r-tso7 There were life insurance compan
z-at les in China three thousand years ago
In areeent test for rapidity offring
the hasscpot rife gave twenty rounds
in one; minute and forty-two seconds.
ooaoI19SsplentifuI are figs in California
aeoJ thissseasoni thatit Whl not pay t. gath
oTu9 er agd send them to the market
-soGlhn The Altoona Sun says that a child
was born in that city weighing twenty
-tbFee-Peands.
A Long Branch letter writer says
esD thatJim Fisk isa great deal hand
Oh soner than Mrs GFanthra -
5ooIa queen Victoria on wednesday hast,
reviewed the royal yacht squadron at
.-Southampten. -
General MCC felian began active du-
sjGsi Ties as Chief Engineer of the Depart
sment Of Docks at New York. som
days since.
The yishofs at Niagara Falls, this
summeF generally. refuse to employ
,Fl< hackman at nh,
SilLi DoOId Il TJEtTstk
~ neIAtu,au who Chains to be- brother
liz ::Si the king of Sweden, is fooling
around Chicago seese
Mrs. Hannah Hawley, of Boston,
aged pinetyeiSh has just been baptiz-
ed. end now looks eagerly forward to
sai along EfeIof Christian usefulness.
49a1su OIL III Gtst5Ts TiHa
,slsydA man in Elizabeth New Jersey. is
feeding his COW on juniper berries, in
foolish attempt to produce gin and
E!iiT ed1 IHs ,gaE43stUngnG l'c
aIJi3rH is runoored in Chicago that the
II Hon. Lyman Trumbull, has been ten
dered The position Of Secretary ofState
e'p5Fhy President Grant. t,,soI -
.I5UJIgtE Toi .'Hg Il
- hassepet rifles to the number of
$4,000 werf Psde for the Government
by q London house, in the early part
kIysft6x present ysar.T1 OH -
~, n Al buffalo. races hayo ended this
Ii year The expectation that some
odf hefseWOdd beat DextersItifhe failed
hrsujity. 1879 esd BIZ"
Mrs, Robert 04is Owen is author
ity for Gle assertion that more than
I1sdAalf tbs work of the world is done by
evs1r 9 9Pgffrns crit Isi1t bns o7rs
yIeyo Mea;StheR essdquarters oftbe French
81 armYEof the Rhine, is ITO miles from
81 Paris.o Troops can therefore reach it
. from the capital by railroad, in about
two hours.
<s5eI 1t is said that within a circuit ofone
Sc hundred and twenty-five miles around
White Sulpher Springs of West Vir-
ginia, there Is more iron ore than in
the whole of Great Britain
.~uaets.-sFS YN-sGNs1s@' +
A letter from Rome, on, the 9Th;
C'7says The Pope declares, In case of hos
tile, OCCUPATION of any portion of thet
Pontifcaf territory, he will leave The
Papa1 dominions: He will probably
go 10 Malta. y
The free use of lemonade is recon-
amended III feSers, especially of a bill
ious character. And it is especially
urged in scarlet fever, for which it is
said to be almost a specific.
i2ogAt EiF~
The original Declarations of indie
pendenee, now in, the Patent Gfice,
{ at Washington, Bnearly Hlegiblefrom
4tyfheS fading of the ink with which it
Sotwas written "A fac smile is in Phila-
s. delphia, zA1I
They have Gagged a burgler at the
=, GSyracuse jail. who did business. He
- kept an account book, and gave each
IMAM credit for the articles stolen. He
2 informed the officer that his was the
system of double entry-once into the
l.ieaie and then into his books.
Aac;A tse5cvegse tt.=' - Vtf=tN
-Beek5tbe Favorite Island murder
er, in his confession before being haug-
ed, stated that he not only killed Mr..
aldfMEli Goode, but that he also
murdered bis partner, who aided him
q IN the murder, and threw bis body in
the river. He also acknowledged to
having outraged Mrs-Geode before