The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-29
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Miscellaneous Items.

/ AsMAIL Indiana town has ono schoC
house and eight base bah clubs.
/ PETRo1IG, Canada, produces 4, 500 bbl.
OF petroleum each week. i.i-5 s9'r
CA1HoRN1A is preparing to ship apples
pears, and other fruits to China. ~
WHERE does Shakespeare give an in
stance of the cure of consumption Whei
the Duke of Gloster stops King Henry
coffin. 100000 .....''...... 49,
TIE largest proprietor Of ''thTee-oar
monte" games of the New York races Get
himself up as a clergyman, md achieves
wonderful success as a"capper."4s iy
ONE Of VIM. Psnn's silver spoons, Will
has name engraved upoR IL, ha3 been fouCt
near Re edyille, Mifiin county, Pa, b.
workmeH who were digging cellar.
q, A NEW YoRK lady received among he
wedding presents three sewing machines
six large family Bibles, and ten ice pitch
ers. A Boston lady had twenty-one pair.
OF silver salt-eellars among her bridal pres
ents.7 'A5 90 -s-94 i-.H ell hi-it
Az, eagle was lately shot near Auburn, H.
Z, which measured twelve feet from tipt6
tip of his outspread wings When dis
covered he was perehed on fence intent
lly watching a small boy picking straw.
berries.
A MARBLE quarry has Just been opened
near Williamsport, Pa, which aff0rtls q
fine grained stone as black as ebony,i and
capable of taking very high polish. II
is said that this quarry is the only one OF
the kind known to exist. '.i
A BOY in Allegheny. Pa, lost his speech
on the Fourth Of July by the explosion OF
a hre-craeker, which had been accidentally
thrown into his mouth st.s..--f :.
A NEBRAsKA tITY bride demonstrated her
woman's rights by locking the door of the
epithalamial chamber and refusing to ad-
NIT the bridegroom until he had handed
her S5Oo cash. -sg5--llas g,lira .-s-.-..
Flour, and more particularly dried seorn
Hour, isalmostas injurious as metallic dust,
affecting the constitution much in the same
way. Bakers and millers are a short lived
class of men, seldom attaining more than
forty years. 31lu. 8H3 fo Ttft
OK THE VIM. Connolly farm, eight miles
south of Bowling Green, Ind, is an apple
tree, which is ten feet in circumference,
being about three feet four inches in diam
eter. 1t is twenty-nine years ola, and
stands in large walnut stump, mostly
sound yet -e--lss--j 2.rr
TWENTY applications for divorce a week
is the average in Vigo county, Ind.,. which
has 10000 Inhabitants. If they we're al
successful, it would require less than ten
years to furnish a divorce to every man,
woman and child in the county. .',;. - .5.-
A BosToN paper gives the lament Of an
''attic poet" for the want of cir and rain
in '1ong days." which closes thus pa
thetically: 'ish-' @s
''And il 1 don't obtain them soon
30 A funeral there viii be;
The hacks will with my friends be filed.
But the corpse it will be me-" a
AN old lady, by the name of Snyder, Iiv-
inf at Lees Y Roads, Ohio, one of thaold
pioneers OF the West, is hale and heariy,
walks one mile without tiring, and has
reached the extreme age of los years. She
uses no spectacles for reading.
james GoHDoN BENNErT's health does not
improve.s He is still confined to his rooms
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,i andl.it is feared
that he will never be able for active work
again. Visitors are sending their cards to
him constantly, but he admits only few.
An erring Indiana hen was recently
found in the back part of hardware store,
where the misguided, fowl had struggled
for three weeks, trying to hatch out half
dozen white porcelain door-knObs. She
was very much reduced.
THERE is a woman in Indiana who don't
do things by halves, but by fourths. On
the '4Lh" she was married teiher fourth
husband, at four o'clock in the Fourth St
Church, had four bridesmaids, left four
hours later, and will do O four-weeks bridal
trip. $500 %
A VERDANr waiter on Pullman excur-
sion car, the other day, attempted to fill
the water tank through the ventilatOr at
the top of the car. The occupants of the
car were Unexpectedly treated to 2 shower
bath, to the great de!riment of linen and
broadcloth.
TIE Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin is trying to make Vanderbilt of
himself, having purchased all the railroads
IN his domains. But they must be rather
one-horse railroads, as the whole Grand
Duchy isn't much larger than Milwaukee
county, and the cars haven't killed man
for twent-four years. -.--... ..--..
The last year that Davy Crockett was in
Congress political Jolhfication was held,
professedly in honor of the birthday. OF
Jefferson. Davy met several of the COM
pany going home from the festival, and
thus graphically described their condition:
They were so drunk that III be d-d If
either Of them could hit the ground With
his hat tree times throwing" .---.--
ANOTHER English workhouse manage
ment is in trouble. A lad named John
PAIRING, in a s'reformhtoryF establishment
at Pleasington, was guilty of an ofense
against the rules in soilnIg his clothes
The governor of this institution directed
an elder lad to punish john PAIRING by
s'dueking." Tho boy was ducked so ef-
fectually that he was drowned; and the
serene verdict of the, CerOners jury was
Hdeath by misadyenture. -.
A YOUNG man who carried collection
plate, in service, before starting took from
his pocket afive-cent piece, as he suppOs-
ed, put it on the plate, and then passed it
round among the congregation, which in
cluded many young girls. The girls, as
they looked at the plate, all seemed aston
ished and amused, and the young man,
taking a glance at the plate, found that in
stead of nickel fiye-cent piece he had a
conversation loZenge, with the words twill
YOU mdrTN ntE ICQ lellcISs
everybody right in the face.
A STORY is told Of Dr.. Storrs and Henry
Ward Beecher. On some public occasion
DR.. Storrs was TO preach in Plymouth,
Church. After the celebrities had got iato
the pulpit, Mr.. .Beecher said "a: Brother
Storrs, directly under whore you viii stand
to preach is a baptistry of tho most approx,
ed patteEn. 1t was built by a jealous Bap-
list, and is Just the Orthodox length and
depth. The platform Is seontF0hed by g
spring near my foOtl Thereis ut this time
about three feet Of water an the tank. When
a bruther preaehes for me, and is very long
and very dry, I touch. the spring and let
him N" fi 80 2iEi5HE14 cal % g.
~ = - sIIEL GO 10 no tG-
agrgaai Personal Notes. ,f,.s,-
h A Mas. BARasKs, while driving into Rock
port, Ind, for a. diKorce, was thrown nom
her wagon and the next morning she didn't
need ore. Her husband paid fOrthe fu-
neral, but inscribed on the tombstone
Mrs. 7-@1 70 bucdEffacs sgsax. i
SrHpHEN GURRY Q vell-to-do farmer OF
Sullivan county, New York, has inst cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. lie has six
sons living, one being ex-Chief 1nstiee Cur
~, of California, aged 40, AMI another, Rev,
Daniel Curry editor of the Christian Adj
voeste, aged 60. -. 80 = 3
| Ia Beverly, Mass, stands a shoemaker's
shop, 200 years old, owned and occupied
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