The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-10-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

TIE coast cities of Texas are in the en-
joyment of good health.
In Maryland, after October 20, you may
catch partridges in traps-f you can
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, has two jug fac
tories and one temperance society.
An Ell, eleven inches long, was recent
" found enclosed in an oyster, ct Potts
vile, Pa.
''The question is. What are the Prus-
SLAMS about?'-M z. Tunes
Paris, of course.
CLAUS are proverbially happy at high
water, and fresh-et oysters are always
agreeable.
IT Is not to be supposed that printer
must necessarily be initiated, because he
calls for copy.
A GHOST has been seen near Frederisks-
burg, Va, in the day time, dressed IN fed
eral uniform.
The citizens of Reading, Pa. have made
arrangements for q series OF lectures dur
ing the coming winter.
WrrH the general stagnation of business
Paris is now receiving lesson which less
ems the receipts.
Or course the besieged Parisians are like
common tea and coffee pots, when they are
block'd in.
POSTAGE on newspapers in Great Brit
ain is to be reduced from two cents to one
cent.
Our of the total area of Great Britain,
80, 336, 900 acres, or 53 per cent, are under
cultivation.
TIE balloon that went from Paris to
Tours showed no signs of fatigue, though
it was good deal blown
COREY, Pa, overfows with JOY, for her
new GAS works are completed, and all her
streets were lighted up last week.
A BIG black bear was caught in the Dis
NAL Swamp in Virginia, q Jew days since,
and token to Norfolk for sale.
The Baptists of Virginia have seven
hundred and eighty-seven church organizs-
tions, and the Campbelites seventy-tnree.
A GRAND tournament and ball will take
place at the Danville IVA fair. The sue
cessful knigh6 will get $500 horse.
CArARRuA1 fever is prevalent in Wilcox
county, Alabama. Though of dangerous
type, it has not yet proved fatal.
YALE and Harvard boating crews are re-
minded that the trial between the hare
and the tortoise is the first shell race on
record.
MIS-. GENERAL HOUSTON is dead. The
surviving members of the family of the
father of Texas reside in Georgetown, in
that state.
QUITE superfuous is the advice of moth
ers to children: Don't eat too fast" No
body eats too fast; quite the contrary,
Madame.
MURDERS have become SO numerous IN
Chicago that Cook county has agreed to
pay $3.50 reward for every arrest and con-
viction.
"I SEE the villain in your face" said a
Western Judge to an Irish prisoner. "May
il please your worship" replied the pris-
oner, s'that must be q personal reflection.
A SINGLE oat in Scotland produced ten
stalks, which contained nine hundred
grains, or an average of ninety grains to the
stalk.
NArURAI1srs are discussing the question
what bird is the most skillful architect.
We say, swallows. There are expensive
saloons in this city built entirely by swal-
lows.
TIE Ccurier-Journal proposes the estsb-
lIishment of ga Beggar Bureau" at Wash
lipgton. 1t is a smart paper, but it always
has an axe of its own to grind, in just this
way.
BcsroN must be elegant, or nothing.
Her yery horse-thieves share her love OF
literary lore, and the latest EQUESTRIAN alb
souatulator sustains the aesthetic appella-
ton of Clarence Percy Mortimer.
The mechanics and vorkjng-men oi
Murphysboro, Ill. intend starting CO.
operative store. The miners Of the same
town have obtained an advance of thirty
, cents per ton since the LIST of September
! WHAT has Mex an Buchanan got against
the people of Michigan, that he persists II
fcisting himself upon long suffering pub
J lie. Now he is announced to appear Ii
; Central Michigan, and emigration has al
: ready commenced. Many of the inhabit
ants have taken to the woods.-CleUeldRC
Leader.
IT may be important to remind authors
!, publishers, and others interested, OF the
exceedingly favorable provision Of the re
! vised copyright law which secures tn'
: work or article copyrighted for the tern
! ! of twenty-eight years, with the prlvlleg'
! of a renewal for the further term of four
|. teen years, making forty-two years In all
Two RAscAIs immured in the Ludlow
street iail in New York could not afford Z
2 remain idle, and therefore employed thei
: time in manufacturing counterfeit money
r and we're detected while in the act OF sell
5 ing It to outsiders
AN underground route through Bait
5 more is now the subject of discussion
, among TIE roads ceutering In that city
0 The entire sum required to be raised Is es
; timated at 81 5S3, 900 represented by bonds
: e and $500, 900 by stock.
4 THERE is not single Confederate pris
q ouer in the custody of the United state
o anywhere. at this time" So says Adjutan
s General Townsend, in response to On Il
: a1iry as to whether there are any Con
|. federate prisoners in the Dry Tortugas.
"How do YOU like the character Of s.
3 PanI ?" asked person of his landledy dun
inc a conversation about the Apostles
! ssAh. he WAS a good old soul, for he ono
q said. Won know, that We must eat what
set before us, and ask no questions 10
conscience sake. 1 always thought
D. should like him for boarder.
e OK THE BREADTH OF SPECTRAL BANDS
1t Iippich has given, in Poggendorhs Al
st naien, an explanation of the broadenln
/ and other variations of the spectral hnt
E, of luminous gases, which he sscribes
= changes in temperature. The law ,
m claims TO have discovered is that the ratl
re of the difference Of the wave-lengths whic
8, correspond to the borders OF any spectr'
"a band to the mean waye-lengths Of sue
as band is constant in the same gas, but !
$, different gases the ratio is directly as Il
4. 4 souare roots of absolute temperature, an
= inversely as the square roots Of their del
or sites.
=, A FASHIONABLE young lady, of rather
y tenuated figure, while in the hands OF n
dressmaker, became alarmed at the sp
oy ciousness apportioned to her bodice, al
se declared thst she could never wear 1t, al
b. the silk had been wrongly cut. "PardI
nd me. MademoiseIle, replied the nsodIsl
N 1.-THE design is quite correct; the htnng
IS exactly as it should be- 1 have made 20
IN dress; now must bring you up to 1t !
"a "a An immense thirty-hve ton gun is
,ra course of construction at the Royal An
nal, Woolwich, England. 1t Is made
tirelv on the Frazer principle, ana VIII