The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Facts and Figures.


NORTH CAROLINA wants protective tariff
on peanuts.
AMERICA sends oysters to England by
every steamer.
FERNS constitute one-sixth of the fora
of South America.
A LARGE colony of Danish emigrants has
recently sailed from Copenhagen for Gal
weston, Texas
LAST month was the most windy Febru-
ary that has been experienced in the Gulf
of Mexico for many years.
The University of Vienna has decided to
open its medical lectures and confer med
ical diplomas on women.
A CNcIENATI paper says: There should
be an inspector of back hair in this city.
Its hard to tell which, is switch.
IT is reported that about 200 families
from Michigan are going to remove in the
spring to Newton county, Missouri.
THE Conneaut, Ohio, school board pro-
hibits teachers and scholars from attend
ing social parties, private or public.
A WESTERN critic said of an eastern lec-
turer that his words were ''as far apart as
the stations on the Pacific railway"
In some places the sea is five and quar-
ter miles in depth, as indicated by sound
ings. In other places no bottom can be
reached.
The Massachusetts legislature has re-
fused to contract for portrait of Abraham
Lincoln for the use of the Commonwealth.
TIE Now York Evening Post says that
since the blondes were driven from Chicago
they claim that theirs is a chased exhibi-
ton.
The wheat crop of Michigan is said to
look rather bad-much of it being killed
by the exposure consequent upon snow
less winter.
IT Is estimated that the cost of the pub
lie schools to the city of Boston the coming
year will be one million four hundred thou
sand dollars.
A FAT woman's ball came off in the Bow
cry, New York on Sunday night last. Two
women present weigh respectively 81
and 331 pounds.
A YOUNG colored woman was fatally stab
bed in a Brooklyn church recently by an
other Miss Of her color. Jealousy was the
supposed cause.
SHIRLEY DARE" says Salisbury is the
handsomest man in Congress, but his in
tolerable voice takes all the poetry out of
his countenance.
Miss Kate Elder, aged Is years and three
months, was recently married, in Adams
county, Ind, to Mr.. James Biddle, aged
81 years and five months.
AN aspirant after the vacant position of
executions in London rests his claims upon
the circumstance that he ''has had much
experience in killing pigs"
A ST. LOUIS paper says wheat is suffer-
ing throughout Missouri for want of rain
1t is believed that if March continues dry,
there will be ageneral failure.
A GAME of chess was recently played by
the telegraph operators of Aspinwall and
Panama. After an animated contest, the
Aspinwal champions were victorious.
THE Duchy of Cornwall accounts, pub
lished lately, show that the Prince of Wales
received Tor his personal use, from this
source, e63, 5S7 As. during the past year.
a GRoCERY-MAN in Charleston made be
lieve a suicide IN his store, and when the
people rushed in, he mounted the counter
and began telling how cheap he sold green
tea
The town of Knights Ferry, California,
has hen which has adopted litter of
puppies. She treats them, so far they will
allow her to, exactly like brood OF chick
ems.
PROVIDENCE, R. L wants to know what
it is coming to, when hardly day passes
but a woman is picked up in the streets so
drunk that she cannot walk to the station
house
ONE of the distinguished features of the
fashionable season in London are mono
gram buttons for gentlemen's suits, made
OF black vulcanite, with monogram in gold.
They are made for both coat and vest, and
cost So the set.
The Lexington (Ky) Gazette says
''The corn crop was more or less injured
by the early frosts, which caused prema-
ture ripeness, and, adding the great amount
of wet weather which has followed, has so
injured the germ that great difficulty will
be met with in procuring seed for the next
planting.
JUDGE at Sauk Rapids, Mimi, is
keeper Of q provision and grain store, and
holds his court there, amid quarters of
beef, bins of grain, and sacks of -four
strewn about the floor. frequently he is
obliged to leave the bench to wait on Gus
TONERS the lawyers meanwhile eating pea
nuts and cracking jokes.
A VERMONT paper asserts that little
daughter of John keenan,, of Bennington,
was recently carried down under the ice for
about five rods, went over a seven foot dam,
and passed through an underground race
way for a distance of Is rods to another
dam, and was then rescued alive, but in a
very exhausted condition.
THE sale of medical diplomas is the rag
ing scandal in Philadelphia. The Evening
Star of Wednesday says: 'The sale Of
medical diplomas, like th}t of West Point
cadetships, is likely to bring the parties
implicated in these most discreditable
transactions into trouble, and it is to be
hoped that such will be the case"
SINCE the story has been told Of how
Judge Breckinridge married girl whom
he saw jump over a rail-fence with pail
on her head, all the girls in Orange county,
New York, are said to spend their time in
watching the road, and whenever they see
a carriage approaching with a man. in it,
they seize their pals and go for a fence.
A MINER in Michigan met an untimely
death not lcng ago, and one of his friends
| interested himself in obtaining subscrip-
JlOuS IOE the D6E6dN6u WIDOW. ne cOueCLeQ
some $500, and then, thinking it might be
a good thing for him to marry the three
days widow, proposed, was accepted,
and they were made one that same even-
| ing.
MAT. M was queer genius. A neigh
Dor found him at work one day at an enor-
nous wood-pile. saving away for dear life
with an intolerably dull saw. ''Why don't
you sharpen your saw Mat" asked the
neighbor. Looking up with an inimitably
droll expression, 81 should think I had
work enough to do to saw up this wood
pile, without stopping to sharpen saws"
"DAN." said little four-year old, "givs
me sixpence to buy a monkey"
"We've got one monkey in the house
now" replied his brother.
"Who is it, DAMP" asked the little fel-
low.
"You, was the reply.
"Then give me sixpence to buy the
monkey some nuts.
The brother could not resist.
BARON NATHANIEL RoTHsCHuD, q distiu-
guished member of the famous family of
wealthy bankers, died in Paris on February
18th. He was the third son of Baron
Nathan Meyer Rothschild, and was born In
1912, and in 1912 married his cousin, Char