The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-05-06
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.

in Boston, a5 .aiHfG-j tGl Ei ~ p
BEAyERs are reported in large quantities
in Mississippi.
THERE is good sleighing yet in some parts
of New England. 1m5s r5- -t 2
WEST POINT cadets call the modern dress
coats ''steel pens"
THREE thousand vagraht goats roam the
streets of savannah. orqsT Of f yr-s -
Tartar emetic pie detected lunch thief
in Vermont school.
THE fire department of Columbus, Ga, /,
embraces 135 negroes. Oh. s-..--...
IT Is stated there is not a postofice in
Sunhower county, Miss.
The Kansas City EMo. News says peach
buds are ''kilt intirely."
NEARLY 700 Philadelphia girls were mar
ried to foreigners last year, 'f
TIE base ball fever bids fair to be more
of an epidemic than in 1867 s... ..
New OE1EANs has had over 400 deaths
from small pox the past winter.
A TALENTED hen in Maine has Matched
out three chickens from one egg.
CHICAGO has 200 drinking saloons open
on Sundays, with 10000 visitors. Amoral
city trulyl 81. -...-r
A WABASH catfish weighing over 100
pounds was on exhibition at Terre Haute
on Monday. q .-se.. ...r O. r. fg
CORNISH miners, according to DR.. Bar
ham, die of consumption between the ages
of 35 and 80. sadt =
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad paid over S50O,OOO IN March for
wood and ties. FE
THERE are over 1000 applications for
consulships on file in the state department
at Washington iii'''
KANGAROO skins are the latest things in
French gloves, and kangaroo outlets in
French restaurants.
The native churches in the Sandwich Is
lands gave, last year, nearly $50, 900 in gold
for Christian objects.
SIX strong-mlndedl ladies in Philadelphia
have created q sensation by walking down
Chestnut street a Ia Bloomer.
THERE are 10000 volumes, of rich, rare
and racy sensational literature slowed in
the vaults of the patent Office.
CANES with whistles are at the present
time very fashionable In Paris. The whist
les are used for calling haekmen.
CNcrNNAIIa and Cleveland newspapers are
agitatiRg the reduction of the fare on the
street railroads from six to five cents.
Her Britannia Majesty's colonial troops
are permitted to wear their boards, while
those intended for home service must be
clean shaven.
A TEXAS man, who lately committed sui
eide by taking poison, left q note request
ing that knife be buried with him, $50
that, if he care to, he could cut his way
out" r-r,.t...- -..tf b.
A SAN Francisco reporter says: 'There
were three murders the other day, but
there was nothing novel or original about
the modes of death. So we don't give parti-
culars.
The Paris police say that at the present
time there are In that city more penniless
Americans and American dead-beats than
there were even during the great Exposi-
ton of 1867. .' ...s t--. d
THE scene of the new play written by
Alexandra Dumas for Lydia Thompson is
laid partly in SoHth America, and partly in
Paris, and the period is during the regency
in France in the 18th century.
THE hottest day in Calcutta, India, dur
ing 1869, was the 9Th Of April, when the
reached 101 degrees in the
shade; the coolest was the 30th Of Decem-
ber, when it fell to 81 degrees.
D WESTERN Texas is said to be fast becom-
ing a timber country. Within the last ten
years the whole face Of the country has
changed, and young forests are now grow
ing in what was formerly a naked prairie.
A AMIDDLETowN, Conn, man was so an
moved at seeing several men at work with
their teams near the church on Sunday that
he called one of the grand jurors to enter a
complaint; but, alasl he found him tapping
his boots. .a'+ ..-
The Indianapolis journal says: Inquir-
ing yesterday of an old darkey, who was
fishing in White river, ''What luck?" he re-
Piled: "De fish is like de Dimocrats arter
US niggers' votes. Dey wants all de bait,
but won't hang on to de hook. -'"
WASHINGTON correspondents say that the
Russian legation, pursuant TO instructions
from st. Petersburg, are making great prep
a-ations for the reception OF the young
Archduke Alexis, who Is expected to make
a visit to the United States early in the
summer. s-f a
A MISSIONARY in India lately preached on
the subject of faith, illustrated by the story
of Abraham and Isaac, with such magnetic
eloquence that one of his native hearers i'm
mediately went home AMI slaughtered his
son and offered him to ''the big God" as a
sacrifice. ...f s-l q.
THEpE is much sickness among the con-
viets of the Michigan State prison, at Jack
son. The disease is a remlttent fever OF a
low type, and there are seventy now under
treatment. Four eonvicts died of the dis
ease last week, three of whom were life
prisoners,
ONE of the oldest defenses on record has
lust been made at Hamburg by man who
had murdered his wife from motives ofjeal-
eusy. According to his own account he had
not murdered her, but chad killed her IN q
fair and honorable duel, as he had placed
q pistol in her hand and told her to shoot
at him. ..... -..-
NJ. VrvIEN De SAINT-MARTIN, IN his geo
graphical almanac for 1869, estimates the
number of yellow people in the world al
5S4, 600, 900; whites, 80,000. 600; blacks,
13O, 600, 600; Malays, 25, 600, 900; other races,
80, 600, 900; and aboriginal Americans ai
Il, 900, ,OO0. This latter figure is well cal
culated to appal General Sheridan, not tc
speak of Gen. Grants quaker plenipoten'
tiaries.
SILK growing was prosecuted IN South
Carolina before the revolution, and for
time hourished. The mother of the cele-
brated Pinckneys carried some silk, pro
ducsd on her plantation, to England, where
it was woven into tissues. Gowns were
made of it, and presented to the mother o.
young George I'LL, and to the elegant Ear
of Chesterfield. But the advent OF cottor
raising destroyed the business completely
PROFESSOR CARPENTER, in his recent lee
lures before the Royal Institution, state:
the general results of the recent explora
tions of the deep sea by dredging to be: 1
That there is certainly no limit to the deptt
at which even highly organized animal llf'
| may exist; 2, That the distribution OF hV
ing creatures under the sea is affected IA
more by temperature than by pressure, bu
even where the climate is steadily httl'
below the freezing point at the bottom
there is rich abundance of varied life; 3
That vast number of animal forms, hith
erto Supposed to have become extinct Il
remote geological periods, are still pre-
served in the sea depths: and 4, That
very large number of new types have beel
! discovered. with every indication that thes
are merely an earnest ofeoming discoveries
and that "the treasury of the deep is mex
4 boustihle I" .. H