Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-03-05
NUMBER 8.
Miscellaneous Items.

| Losses by fire foot up in the United States for
the past fourteen years, $3.50, 299, 900
One hundred millions of people in the world
| speak English, or words to that effect.
In Johnson county Kansas, corn is now being
burnt as fuel, as it was ouce in times before the
war.
Rubber pens are manufactured which are said
to combine the good qualities of all other pens
in use.
! In Java, after the bride and groom are at the
altar, the law requires her to wash his feet be-
fore the ceremony can go on.
A Michigan husband agreed to leave his wife
upon payment of seven dollars. She mortgaged
her cook-stoye and paid him.
Gloucester, Massachusetts,, caught and sold
So, 900, 900 worth of fish in 1869. Five hundred
and ten vessels and 5000 men did the business.
The population of Germany now is 80 1903 900,
of which the Northern Confederation numbers
20, 494, 475, and the Southern States s,s07 ,52s.
Returning from visit the other day Ken
lucky couple found that a package of powder
had been placed in the stove oven so as to give
them grand reception.
A colored man died recently in Brazil at the
age of one hundred and fifty. lie could remem-
Der events occurring in 1890, two years before
the birth of Washington.
In Queen Victorias crown there are | 1863
brilliant diamonds, ,273 rose diamonds, and
LAT table diamonds, large ruby, and 277 pearls
"a total of ,l96 precious stones.
York, Maine was the, first city chartered in
this country. Now it is country village of
eight hundred voters. Its name was first Arga-
menticus, then the city of Georges Georgiana,
| then York.
Anna Gareschna, young girl at Keif, in Rus
sa, rescued recently seven children from burn
| ing house which none OF the fremen dared to
enter. The Emperor, upon hearing of her he
| roism, sent her thousand silver rubes, and the
Empress presented her with valuable neck
lace
John Powell of Weissport, Carbon county,
| Pennsy ylvania, hard working man, who has, all
his life, been doing odd jobs, has just ascer-
tanned that he and his brother and sister are the
lawfu heirs of an uncle who died some time ago
in Berk county, leaving property valued at
ST, ,000, 900.
The Hartford CouraRt learns that parties who
have been making examinations of the monster
bird and animal tracks in the old sandstone at
Turner's Falls, Massachusetts,, claim to have
discovered human footprints, clearly and well
defined, indented in the same strata with those
of animals and birds.
In New Zealand are found remains of a gigan-
tic feathered biped whose egg would fill mans
hat, which had two long hind legs and bill,
and everything else like u bird, but was utterly
destitute of wings, and could no more fly than
the enormous elephant for which il is named.
Tue elephantiphus was fourteen feet in hight
On the banks of the Amazon are found salt
and urari kind of poison with which the ma
tives anont their blowppe arrows. There is
something peculiar in this poison. tiny ar
| row tipped with 1t will kill an OK in twenty min
utes but it is harmless to man and all salt eat
ing animals. Salt is special antidote to the
! poison of the urari
! The Franklin New Hampshire, Union says
there is living at Osipec, in that State, a man
named Joshua kennod, who according to the
best information, is one hundred aud sixty years
old. lie served in the old French war, and
also in the Revolutionary war, and his recoec-
tions of that event vefy distinct. He has
used tobacco all his life, thinks it has injured
him, and that its use will shorten his life several
years
| gigantic plant Of the Arum species, has
recently been forwarded to England from Nicar-
aqua. This plant, which has heretofore escaped
the notice of the travelling botanists, produces
but one leaf, nearly fourteen feet in length sup
porting a stalk ten feet long. The stem of the
flower Is foot in circumference, the spath or
flower two feet long, purpleish in color, with q
powerful carrion like odor AS this remarkable
species of flower Is quite new to science, il has
not yet received name,
There is a wonderful 4" healing pool " in GRAFT
lot county, Michigan. well three and a-half
inches in diameter, sunk in search OF petroleum.,
began, at depth of two hundred feet, to spout
water so powerfully magnetic that en-knives
dipped into IL became permanently magnetized,
aud tin-cups aud glass tumblers held in the wa
ter were galvanized with coating closely re-
sembing gold. But the marvellous peculiarly
of this water is its healing power. 1t seems to
be a Veritable pool of Bethesda.