The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-01
Facts and FigureS,

Facts and Figures.
THE Cardiff Giant will be taken to Eu
rope.
THERE are twelve thousand varieties o
roses.
The average level of Iowa above the ocea1
is 500 feet.
CHICAGO has received Magnolia tree al
the way from Mobile.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, is talking water work.
with Holly system.
IN Massachusetts it is proposed to col
lect tax bills at the polls.
A DUBUQUE author has been writing 6
drama called "The Ten Squaws."
A BAPTIST CHURCH at ST. Clair, Mich.
was destroyed by fire on the 9TH. .
Boston has been having a series of noon.
day historical lectures by DIR. Lord.
HUNTING with tame alligator as de-
coy IS an amusement in Louisiana.
THE Iowa Senate has passed bill pro-
hibiting stock from running at large.
THERE are $50, OOO, 600 unclaimed depos-
its in the savings banks of New York State
The State Auditor of Georgia reports a
loss Of two-ffths of the negro population
il nine years. .-.
TEE trustees of Oberlin College have
elected colored graduate to the mstbe-
matieal chair.
A CHICAGO street conductor mas eloped
with the wife of an engineer on the Illinois
Central Railroad. ---
SALT LAKE is constantly rising. The
surface is seven feet higher than it was
seven years ago.
A CRAwFoRDsvmLE SoRosIsTER took paste
pot and brush, and pasted the bills for Mrs.
Stanton's lecture.
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that Alaska
be turned into sort OF Van Dieman's land
for politicalrognes.
IT Is proposed that Cuban mass meetings
be held in all the large cities in this coun-
try some day in April.
A WOMAN in Chicago has just learned
that her husband Obtained divorce from
her five months ago.
They have pair of Cardiff giant rubber
shoes inSyracuse, New York, which brought
$500 at a church fair.
IT is proposed in Wall street to build
Founding Hospital for the benefit of
played-out brokers.
THE express men of New York city have
taken the initiatOry steps toward the form
alton of Protective Union.
A New YORK doctor will give 81, 600 for
authentic records of q case where any per-
son ever died of broken heart.
THE schooner Union, supposed to have
been lost on Lake Michigan, is said to be
safely frozen in at Bailey's harbOr.
COMPRESSED air-drilling has been sue
cesstully begun at the west shaft of Hoosac
tunnel, making progress Of four feet per
day.
The transactions of the gold room in
New York on the 9Th were estimated at
over one hundred and ten millions Of dol
lars.
Texas is suffering for rein. Flowing is
now rendered difficult in the hill lands,
from the psrched condition of the surface
soil
The transactions Of the New York Gold
Board on Friday last amounted to $50, ,O00,-
600, the largest days work since last Sep
tember.
A HAIR from King Theodcre's head was
among the ''objects of interest" at a late
meeting of the London Licroscopical So
ciety.
A MAN in Richmond, Va, advertises for
news OF his wife, who went out to take tea
With friend in August last, and never re-
turned.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com |
pany recently executed a mortgage for |
So, $50. 600 in gold, to Barring Brothers, of
London. r-
A MAN living near Clinton, Lenawee |
county, Mich, recently killed Al skunks in |
three days, and drew the skins to Adrian |
on hand sled.
A LARGE cotton train passed through San
Texas, on the 4th, for Monterey, |
Aexico. Each wagon was drawn by ten
mules.
A MAN in Somerset county, Del, who
bought his coffin two years ago, became dis
coursged on Thursday, feeling that he was
losing the interest on his investment, and /
with knife cut his throat His wounds /
ara not fatal