Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-10-15
FACT AND FANCY.

Pressed for time-Egyptian mummies.
Too much of good thing-a fat woman.
"green grocer r" is described as one who
trusts.
Which side of a horse to take in mounting
The outside
If man is given to liquor, see that liquor is
not given to him.
The more honesty has, the less he af-
fects the airs of saint.
The theatre of war is about the only one where
back seats are desirable.
General Beauregard is reported as in France
with a Generals command.
An enraged man tears his hair but an enraged
woman tears her husbands.
Thieves don't have a very quiet life of it, not
witbstanding they take things so easy.
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect
in proportion as we know how they made.
If postage on papers is reduced to one cent
there will be two sent where there is one sent
now.
A widower was recently rejected by damsel,
who declared " she did not want warmed-oyer
man."
Schenectady Justice of the Peace decides
that " verbal contract IS not good without a
stamp"
Somebody has discovered that in forty years
a snuf-taker devotes twenty-four months to
blowing his
A Elmira complains of her late hus-
bands coldness, because he called her % old sor-
rel top " with his latest breath.
While but one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE births
occurred in San Francisco in September there
were two hundred and sixty-four deaths.
The Chicago Board of Education has adopted
rule prohibiting the teachers from receiving
presents from their pupils on pain Of dismissal
from service.
To take the stain OF any fruit from any fabric,
put the garment in vessel, pour boiling water
over it and let it stand till cool, then wash out,
and the stain is gone.
A prominent Canadian gentleman writes to an
English paper predicting that Canada will be
independent or annexed to the United States
within the next six years
A Pittsburg contractor, of large means, under
took to blow up his wife with a barrel of gun
powder. He failed, and she now blows him up
twice day by way of revenge.
bill has been introduced into the Georgia
Legislature providing for change in the State
Constitution, so as to allow woman suffrage
The fate of the measure is doubtful.
The boy at Wilmington, Delaware, who put
lighted fre-cracker into the Lung-hoe of a bar
rel of Kerosene just to see it fzz. has not come
down yet, and this thing occurred on the Fourth
of July.
at Harrisburg weighs 35, 900 pounds cost S92,-
900, and is the largest in the United States
The company soon expect to make 25, 900 tons
of steel rails Gmonth.
noncommssoned Prussian officer who was
detailed to stay at the depot of his regiment
made three applications to be detailed for active
duty, all of which being unsuccessful, he shot
himself in IA it OF despair.
A sotier belonging to light cavalry regi-
hp of suit 4
to ms sweet heart at parting: MINI, mine if
the French ever get here, You may know that
and all my comrades all dead +
A country paper encourages the young by the
example of youth who formerly lived IN
howell yet with only his two hands and IA crow.
bar, entered jewelry store, and now he is living
in large stone residence in Sing Sing"
Chinese seals of white porcelain continue to
be found in Ireland. They are exactly similar
in design 10 those still in use ia China, in the
province of Foochow The inscriptions on them
also, are, for the most part, proverbs still cur
rent in China
Recently in Berlin, $50 couples appeared dur
ing one Sunday to be married in church without
previous publication Of the bans, in consequence
of the rapid mobilization Of the army. How
many of these newly-made wives may not, to-
day, be widows?
AID Annapolis man had cold feet, and so bis
gentle wife lit fire under the bed to warm
them. 1t was perfect success he never com
planned of cold feet again. And now she is mar
ried to the agent of the company in which the
building was insured.
1t is said that when we pour milk into a cup
of tea the albumen of the milk and the tannin of
the tea instantly unite and form leather or min
ute flakes of the very same compound which is
produced in the texture of the tanned hide and
which makes it leather as distinguished BILE from
the original skin In the course of year, tea
drinker of average habits will mbbe leather
enough 10 make pair of shoes. if it could be
put into proper shape for the purpose.
4 man with four wives was brought before
Hans Swarihart, Mohawk Justice for commit
ment on charge Of bigamy. " Four wives Dat
vas N most hinocious crime Discharge him at
yonss."
Why?' protested the prosecutor " why dis
charge him when the proof is positive? Will
the Court exniu?'
Yes, ecksbpains OFF he Ifs nit four
wives he got punishment enough | Ifs NIT
one, and got too much punishment already "
half-breed girl about nine years old named
Elba Cameron, recently died at farm house
near St. 10, Missouri from the bite of a rattle
snake received five years before. The bite did
not have any immediate effect until the full OF
the moon fooH ing, when she fell into convul.
sions which lasted few minutes and then
passed off She enjoyed apparent health anti
the next full moon, when she had another fit
and this has been the history of her case ever
since, until recently, when her fits came out ot
the regular time and continued until she died
GREELEYs HAND WRTTNG.-A writer says
Greeley does not always write legibly. Two
type-setters are employed in the Tribune office
and paid dollar thousand for decipherng his