Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-10-01
FACT AND FANCY.

Commissioner Wells gives the amount paid
for spirituous liquors at retail at $4S3, ,30l ,965
yearly.
A. H. Stephens is said to be.writing history
of the United States for schools. His health is
improving.
little Cincinnati baby rolled out Of an open
window to the sidewalk. 1t was instantly a
little angel.
A gentleman who has recently lost an eve,
begs to intimate that he has now q vacancy
for pupil"
The Boston fund for the benefit of the late
Captain Williams, of the Oneida, has reached
the sum Of nine thousand dollars.
The man who got wise eating sage cheese
has brother who purposes to become skllful
in the fashionable dances by dieting on hops.
"Buckskin Joe" with Al Indian scalps passed
through Elmira recently. The Al Indians who
formerly owned these scalps did rot accompany
him.
The towns along the line of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad are becoming the most extensive mar
kets for the shipment of Texas cattle to the
East
man who went fishing in a private pond
complained that he only got one bite, and that
was from dog whose master was the owner of
the pond.
The progress of virtue in England is illnstra-
ted 10y the increasing amount of conscience mon
ey annually RENTED to the Chancellor of the
EXchequer.
The London Saturday RegieU says, waving
prejudice and principle, it is inclined to hold the
profession of spy preferable to that of war cor
respondent.
George E. Crockett, of Parkham, Mass. some
years ago stocked a pond with four or five trout
and is now catching abundance of three and
four-pounders.
A young man, charged with being lazy, was
asked if he took it from his father "I think
not" was the reply " fathers got all the lazi.
ness he ever had"
Z" Blind for fifty years and the father of eight
children ~ was the playcard fastened around the
neck OF young girl who was soliciting aims in
in one of our cities.
The ladies of Newport and Watch Hill STAY
out in the air whenever there is a heavy fog. as
1t is said to bleach the complexion in most
miraculous manner.
A colored woman tore every rag of clothes
from her person in the streets Of Lexington, KY,
the other day, to get rid oc a rat that had Sc
creted itself in her under garments.
Shall cut this loin of mutton saddlewise ?"
said gentleman. mo, /" responded one of his
guests; "cut it bride wise, for then may have
chance to get bit in my mouth"
Military life didn't agree with an Italian SER
geant named Camolli who recently mustered
himself out at Gaeta by standing in front of "A
l2-Pounder and pulling the lanyard.
There is "A woman in Newark n j. who sun
ports herself and five children on half an acre
of land, by raising roots and flowers, and has
purchased two houses with the surplus profits
From thirty to forty packing houses at Balt-
more, Nd, are engaged in the oyster trade and
control an aggregate capital of $40, ,0OO, 900
They give employment to 10, 600 men, women
and boys.
The oldest man in Io Ia vis county I'll -,
cording to the census which is nearly completed
Is Michael Hieman, of the town of Wards Grove
aged one hundred and three years. He is a ma
tive of Pennsylvania.
Leavenworth, Kansas, is said to boast of a
man so tall that his likeness cannot be got into
one picture A local artist has painted his head
and shoulders, and announces that he will he
continued next week.
There are several women surgeons in the
French army, who are so anxious to gain exne
rlence in their profession that they expose them
selves to the greatest danger in rushing to the
assistance of the freshly fallen
The Boston Post says =" barrel of illumi
mating oil exploded in the cellar of a grocery in
Indiana the other day, and killed four persons,
thereby saving many lives that would probably
have been sacrificed had it been sold at retail j
Sir" said an astonished landlady to a tray
eler who had just sent his cup forward for the
seventh time. you must be very fond of cof-
tee." " Yes, Madam, | am, he replied or |
never should have drank SO much water to get
little"
French court in Algiers has decided in favor
OF the validity of the marriage of an ex-priest
ms Is IN direct opposition to the time -honored
maxim of the Catholic Church. that that holy
order once assumed, can never be voluntarily
renounced.
Dickens said that he had known vast auap
titles of nonsense talked about bad men not
looking you In the face. Don't trust that con-
versationa idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty
out of countenance any day in the week, if there
is anything to be got by it,"
Gentlemen of the jury" said a blundering
counsel, in suit about lot of hogs, g there
were just thirty-sk hogs in that drove. Please
to remember that fact--thirty six hogs lust
three times as many as there are in that Jury
box, gentlemen" That counsel didn't gain his
case
talented young African of the boot-black
persuasion, observed a neig hbor poring wisely
over newspaper, whereupon he addressed him
thus julius, what you looking at dat paper
tor You can read" go away fellah, -
cried the other Indignantly, "guess can read
is big enough for dat" " Big nuf" retorted
the other, " dat amt muffin. A cows big nuff
to kotch mice, but she can't"
A New York dispatch from Paris saws II was
told this morning by a gentleman attached to the
Court that the Empress is indignant with the
Emperor. She says be is a coward and never
should have been taken alive that as far as is
known at the Tulleries he behaved with an alb
sOlute want of dignity that he recommended
General Wimpfen to surrender and that he him
self appeared to be so afraid of his own troops
avenging their disasters on him, that he seemed
to have but one thought, to get safe away within
the Prassian lines.