Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-02-26
Miscellaneous Items.

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! The total loses by FIRE in the United States
during the year amount to $40, ,6S4, 900.
The peculiar favor noticed 10 some kinds of
cigars are due, it is said, to prussic acid.
In three weeks 230, 900 frogs were sent to
Paris. They cost 81 francs per thousand.
New York paper says that four-ffths of the
clergymen of that city own and drive fast horses.
| Vermont dog chased deer for thirty hours,
and they both dropped dead at last, not ten feet
apart.
Earrings representing butterflies, toads, snails
and different kinds of birds, are again becoming
fashionable.
They have calico balls in Vermont, and the
chief attractions are gold dollars hid away in
hot potatoes.
A jealous husband in Memphis broke his wife's
nose, because he thought her beauty attracted
too much attention.
In Sweden the public home licenses for the
sale of liquors are put up at auction and sold to
the highest bidder.
Tennessee girl, in order to make sure
thing of it, allowed two young men TO take out a
license TO marry her.
Barney Williams and wife received ten thou
sand dollars for playing "The Emerald Ring"
one week, in Boston.
Fifteen million dollars worth of ladies boots
and shoes were manufactured and sold at Lynn
Massachusetts,, last year.
1t is said in Berlin that King William |, since
! 1880, paid So, 600, 900 hush money to deserted
and indignant mistresses.
A perfectly petrifed corpse, having the ap-
pearance of a cast in marble, was removed from
Portland (Maine) cemetery recently.
Work is proceeding at the Hoosac tunnel at
the rate of more than half mile year. The
tnnnai will he 6nis he'd IL is said in 1872
The Richmond State Journal looks upon an
early reunion of West Virginia and Virginia AS
not improbable and is ready to cry speed the day.
One of the Salt Lake saints has for three of
his wives grandmother, mother, and daughter
in this way avoiding the uDpleasantness of a
mother-in-aw.
! There's difficulty in of the Richmond
churches, because the brethren with moustaches
drink from the bowl at the love feast, and the
ladies won't drink after.
school in which girls are to be learned
trades in the latest demand of phianthropisls,
and one of the most sensible. Give the girls II
trade it won't hurt them.
1t is said that there is man in Brazil
named Jose Morero-who is one hundred and
thrty-6ve years old, and that he has lived at
that unconscionably long time on scraped cheese,
wine and sugar
ut Juan uhNe lHNeHteu new blpUd-
bet, composed of thirty eight characters. School
books have been printed in it, and the News
thinks the new system will become universal
among the latter-day saints.
Dr. Bernsie, of Paris, beaches the ruddy
noses of topers 10y means of electricity. He has
recently restored lady of the highest rank to
happiness, changing her nose, blooming rose,
into a delicate lily, and this case is causing
great sensation in the scientific word.
Golden syrup is now made of starch and sui
phuric acid. Various wines well simulated
by using the juice of beets instead of grapes.
Beet brandy is an excellent deception, though it
may be equally wholesome. A great demand
for peanuts has sprung up under improved
plan of converting them into coffee.
The young ladies of Erie, Pennsylvania, are
determined to have share in the pleasures of
outdoor sports, generally appropriated by the
other SEX and they have not only become pro-
hcient in croquet, but they have organized
boat club, and contemplate many pleasant
pulls over the beautiful bay at that place.
girl of thirteen, in buffalo, forged her
fathers name on orders for nearly $500 worth
of fancy goods at various stores. Among other
articles, she thus procured large quantities of
beads, which she industriously worked into
baskets and sold or gave away. The girl was
arrested at her fathers house and is 10 Jail.
The old King of Prussia, and his son, the
Crown Prince, are said to be in love with the
same danseuse of the Berlin corps de ballet and
the long absence of the Crown Prince from the
Prussian capital is said TO be principally caused
by the jealousy of his father, who keeps him
travelling all the time in order to keep him away
from his love.
compositor in the office of the Louisville
Journal made typographical blunder which
will probably cost the proprietors of the paper
about $4,000 reporter said certain Mrs.
Evans was keeping boarding house, and the
compositor made it "bawdy house" Mrs
Evans thinks the joke is worth So 900, and has
sued the paper for that amount.
The latest sensation in the East is the " Shoe
Fly,' plantation song, in which the singers
jump up and down in "A very spasmodic manner
Ii Is an original negro melody and was picked
up from some g contrabands" " shortly after the
war, by troupe of itinerant minstreIs. 1t is
now sung IN the theaters, minstrel halls and
parlors, and is whistled by boys in the street
hummed by business men iu their Offices and is
played by nearly every brass baud and orchestra
A Russian Princess has fallen in love with one
of the Italian actors in st. Petersburg and wants
to marry him. But her family having positively
declared that, in such an event they would dis
own her, the young lady has applied to the
Emperor, and prayed for his interference But
the Emperor, instead of complying with this re-
quest, has notified the Director of Police to send
the young Italian his passport, with the COM
msnd to leave St. Petersburg within thirty-six
hours. tn.e4 YFf 4
A man BY the rame of Zeke Eads, in Green
county, New York, is strangely deformed., He
is without ears, and never had any. He gathers
sounds through the medium of his mouth, and
can hear anything said to him in an ordinary
conversation Equally as strange, his hair is
BLACK, with white spots nearly as large as the
palm of mans hand interpreted through it.
de is about foriy-6 years OF age, and the happy
possessor of thirteen living children. His occu-
patton is that of chairmakqr
Under the head of Divorce Extraordinary,
the Weston (MissourD Landmark of the 10th of
September omittng the names of the parties,
gives the following Is We had just learned that
an oid gentleman aged ninety-four years, aud his