Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-02-05
Miscellaneous Items.

in Arkansas.
Agassiz says that the moon rays are gradually
/ losing their heat.
| The London Times says Indian cotton can no
longer displace American cotton.
Western girl likes to make bread because
it cleans her hands so beautifully.
The bar-room invitation at Ycksburg is
q nominate your family disturbance"
The priest who replaced Pere Hyacinthe in
Paris is a failure he draws no money.
A PENNSYLVANIA restauranteur is under arrest
for making his - free soup " Of dog meat.
The King of Sweden is going to deliver a
number of public lectures in his kingdom.
Blue coats and brass buttons, having swung
round the entire circle, are again in style.
Macon, Georgia, taxes street drummers $4oO
per annum. This amounts to prohibition.
A hilarious darkey has been arrested in Louis
vile for singing " Shoe Fly in the street.
Mrs Lincoln has left Frankfort and gone to
speculate on the margin of fair Zurcks waters.
At Fall River, Massachusetts, the cotton mills
manufacture 1000 miles Of cotton cloth yearly.
An Englishman proposes to preserve fresh
meat for expectation by dipping it in luid india
rubber.
General Joe Hooker's health has improved so
that he is now able to be seen walking down
Broadway.
King Louis of Bavaria intends to marry his
mstress--a young actress of great beauty and
little talent.
1t is reported that John Bright, the English
Liberal is investing money in cotton mills in
this country.
The emigration of Sweeds to this country is so
great that last year the population of Sweden
actually decreased.
Alas for womans rights in New Jersey. Two
Trenton women have been fined $40 each for
being common scolds.
The smallest of the seven Misses Collins, of
Claiborne county, Tennessee, weighs two hun
dred and forty pounds.
A London mercantile house has prohibited its
clerks from wearing moustaches, aud certain
London girls are indignant
The Boston Chiec of Police reports that two
hundred liquor shops were run the past year in
spite Of the prohibitory law.
The richest colored man of Pennsylvania is
Stephen Smith, of Philadelphia, lumber mer-
chant. lie is worth 100000
Business men in Kansas think themselves
strong and active enough to Z" jerk " buffalo
beef into the markets Of Europe.
A Memphis bride deserted her husband the
morning after her marriage, because he refused
to send the breakfast up to her room.
The British postotlice department made $2a,-
900, 900 net last year, while ours went behind
$5,OO0,o0O. No franking in England.
bill is before the Tennessee Legislature
exempting capital employed in manufactures
from taxation for the space 0: ten years.
Twin brothers, seventeen years of age, have
just been sent to the Massachusetts State prison
for five years, for burglary in Springfield.
A Kansas City clergyman stopped his sermon
the other Sunday, and came out in front of the
church to marry an unfortunate couple on horse
back.
While the authorities of two towns in Maine
were disputing which should support pauper
family, the children belonging to it starved to
death.
There are only ffty-two weeks in year, but
there will be ffty-three Saturdays during the
present year, Saturday being the first and last
days of the year.
Mr. Clifford, Clerk of the Massachusetts, Senate,
has been elected for the thirteenth time in sue
cession, and Mr.. Robinson, Clerk of the House,
for the ninth time.
correspondent says that there was one thing
about the recent Franch ball in New York sug-
gestiye of Paradise: They were all naked and
were not ashamed p
General II. Bredan-of sharpshooter fame-is
now in st. Petershurgh, manufacturing his
breech-oading rife, which has been adopted by
the Russian government.
The New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Courier states that Whtclaw Reid the managing
editor of the New York Tribune, is engaged to
marry Miss Anna Dickinson.
Francis Robinson, of Blaclington, Connecticut,
was bitten by mad dog thirty years ago, and
about once n month ever since has bad fits, dur
ing which he barks like dog and froths at the
mouth.
Mrs Rose Madder is lecturing in Ohio in OPP
position to woman's suffrage, as calculated to
destroy her conservative power" She argues
that the more woman takes upon herself the
man quality, the less she governs man.
An Iowa editor acknowledges the receipt of
Congressional documents in advance of the mail
The way it occurred was this A wolf chased
the mail carrier about four miles They want
the government TO put on that route Il number
Of able-bOdied wolves to facilitate matters.
A few nights ago, at leighton, Alabama a
band Of masked men rode to the door of their
residence and called out Granville Pillow aud
William Pillow, ncphews of General Pillow, shot
and killed both of them, and escaped, leaving no
clue.
ITair-cloth skirts, to take the place of hoops,
have recently been imported There is fouuce
"iouuu ih' potlom ih IouHu pIhlts on All except
the front breadth, and the upper part of the back
has rolls Of the material, for Il quarter Of yard
in imitation of the hustle.
1t may interest our lady readers to know that
on the evening of her recent confinement the
Princess of Wales dined in company with the
Prince at halt-past clock, wrote a letter at
halfpast IL, and hour later the infant was
born and "mother and child were doing as
well as could be expected"
woman reporter who ascertains facts in re-
gard to sewing women, tells the New York Star
of young woman who was making g chimises -
for II Broadway dollar store at five cents piece
She could make :wo day by dint of hard work.
Three women in Brooklyn made up Balmoral
skirts seven cents each, and together earn forty
cents day.
Mr.. Gaton has produced rather remarka-
BILE work on Heredif1rU Eeuius He has calcu-