The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-05-13
WHOLE NO. 19l.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.

A NORWEGIAN boy named Louis SaelsteC
was drowned near Fan Claire last week.
A CoBwEB wedding was celebrated IL
| Iowa the other day. Mr.. Joseph Cobb wal
united IN marriage to Miss Kate Webb.
PIERRE BoNAPAKrE's head is described n,
so fiat that you could set out small cold
supper ON the top of it.
THE railway bridge lately erected ovel
the Dneiper, near Kisw, is the largest work
of the kind in Europe, being 3,5O3 feet in
length.
The Russian Emperor, in a recent ukase,
says he ''deigns to permit" the Russian
language to be used in the churches OF
Poland
A SAVINGS bank at NeWburvport. Mass.
has on deposit over three million dollars,
and recently declared selni-annual divi-
dend of 81 per cent
LIVERPOOL engineers are discussing the
possibility of cutting Ireland in two by a
canal from Galway to Dublin, distance OF
200 miles over level country.
PRUSSIA wants the Pope to appoint a
NunciO at Berlin, and England still offers
Malta as a retreat for the Holy Father in
the event of his expulsion from Rome.
An Iowa editor gave ont that he would
print all poetry sent to him, UeEbatinl,
which, he says, had the effect to lessen the
amount of dogerel sent to him for publiea-
ton.
A YOUNG ladies' club is reported to have
been organized, with real clubhouse in
Fifth avenue, n. Y, real cigars and cham
pagne cocktails, and real initiation fee of
$500.
The water in the Mississippi, abreast OF
Galena, on Monday, was six feet higher
than ever before known at this time of the
year, and seven inches above the June rise
OF 1859. $40 --.-..
CINCINNATI BARRIERS have to undergo the
trying ordeal of a breath inspection every
morning, and if there is the least indica-
ton OF ''fusil' present, they are compelled
20 stop work. $500.
A GRAMMARIAN's thought-What a con-
trast there sometimes is between the ad-
jective and its adverb Reflect, for ex-
ample, ON the wide difference that exists
between the man who is constant in love
and the man who is constantly in love
THE Troy On. W Times says: "The lit
tie spot of land in the river known as
Whale Island, has entirely disappeared,
only one little stick like struggling arm
appearing above the water. We remember
when it.was a good sized eornfeld."
THERE is a man in North BroOkfeld,
Mass, who was born with only Que ear.
He has no auricular orifce on one side of
his head, and only q rudimentary external
ear, about an inch long near the Jaw, where
the front part of the ear is located.
I'm ~ 4
writer's in the Atlantic Monthly will here
after be attached to their articles. This
has virtually been done for long time, but
a great many readers will welcome the ac-
tual adoption of very sensible idea.
A BOY, aged IA, committed suicide in
Baltimore on the 24th inst. by hanging
himself He was seen about half an hour
before the fatal act, and exhibited no indi.
cations that such deed was contemplated.
On Thursday his morbid curiosity led him
to visit the bodies of the victims of the
late tragedy, and the bloody spectacle prey
ed on HIS mind and considerably depressed
his spirits, which is the only cause that
can be assigned for the commission Of the
deed. ~
The cutting of the Isthmus of Corinth is
to be undertaken by Nj. Plat, engineer og
the Servian railways, and by III. Chollet, of
Paris. Nj. Behie, member of the French
Senate, and the Marquis de Pieue, Deputy
Governor of the Bank of France, are inter-
ested in the enterprise, in aid of which the
Greek Chambers have granted a concession
of SO years, and the right of constructing
railways uniting Corinth and Athens with
the Turkish lines.
A CERTAIN amount of opposition is o
hlNg, 70. 4
the wind, and not with the wind; even a
head wind is better than none. No man
ever worked his passage anywhere in a
calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore,
because of opposition; opC osition Is what
be wants and must have to be good for
anything. Hardship is the native soil of
manhood and self-relianee.
An EARNEST Christian writer calculates
that the conversion of the world is not nee
essarily a distant event Estimating the
population of the earth at one billion, and
all Christian people Mt ten millions, and
suppOSing that each Christian has faith and
zeal enough to save one soul year, and
that the progress of doubling the number
of conversions goes ON annually, in seven
years the work will be accomplished.
The Church Journal thinks it would be
well if Professionals would initiate the Ro-
manists in their zeal and punetuality in at
tending upon public worship. The reason
assigned why Protestants are so Indifferent
is that few are taught that public worship
is duty of essential obligation. Many
think, and are even Taught by popular
preachers, that even church membership is
no necessary part of religion.
GREAT BRITAIN and Portugal have for
many years been disputing the possession
of the little island of Bolama, off the west
coast of Central Africa, and worth about
halt million of dollars. A year or more
ago they entered into a treaty, and agreed
to leave the matter to the President of the
United States for settlement. Both sides
put in their facts and arguments. Presi-
dent Grant took up the question, through
the State Department, and has inst decided
in favor of Portugal.
On FIFTH street, New York, there is a
small church of Christian Israelites, who
have maintained regular worship for more
than twenty years. They believe that the
twelve tribes of Israel now scattered on the
earth are to be gathered together and
brought to embrace Christianity as the first
step toward the evangeization of the race.
Their dress is like that ofthe QHakers, and
their services are in the English and Ger
man.
A sINGUIAR EVENT has Just occurred at
KOethen, in the prineipality of Anhalt.
A middle aged man entered the gaming
rooms and sat down at the table. After a
time he gained 1000 ducats The croupier
passed the money over to him and asked If
he wished to continue, but as no answer
was returned one of the assistants touched
him on the shoulder. The individual still
remained immovable, for it turned out that
he was dsad! The man in charge of the
table then raked up the gold, saying that it
belonged to the bank, as no engagement
could have been entered into with corpse.
The heirs of the deceased are not convinc-
ed of the sOundness of this reasoning, and
they have commenced an action for the re-
cOvery of the sum.
THERE is a woman Virginian who is said
to have lived for years without eating. A
Richmond letter to the Petersburg Cour-
ier says: II hear again from the lady who
lives without eating. About this time last
year / gave you some account of her.
am assured by her friends and relations
that she eats nothing at all, and that she
appears TO be kept alive by her daily ap-
plicatiOn OF oil to her breast. NV inform
ants are intelligent and respectable people.
not likely to be imposed on, nor haven't