The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

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KANSAS has discovered an eligible match
for the Cardiff Giant, in the person of q
petrifed woman.
A GENTLEMAN who had passed the age of
80 was married to a fascinating Washing
ton widow on Wednesday.
for her subject this winter, s'Women who
work VS.. Women who talk"
NIcARAeUG has q whole lake of mineral
water, which not only cures cutaneous dis
eases. but takes away all appetite for L.
quor.
IT is proposed to establish at Long
Branch, next year, q hotel on an exclusive
y Jewish basis.
An Indiana girl won a wager of $50 the
other day by walking Is miles inside of five
hours.
The State debt of New Hampshire will
be reduced some s400, 600 before the close
of the present year.
THERE ars 5, 416 cotton, wooden, and 9TH
manufactures in the United Kingdom of
Great Britain,
The fourth annual State convention of
the young mems Christian Association is in
session at St Jobnsbury. Vermont.
IT is evident that the ghost which Ham
let saw was rat Of his father, for was not
the spirit apparent 70 him?
A WORD of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain It is a seed which, even when drop
ped by chance. springs up in flower.
E. SIcKLEs, of Omaha, has been appoint
ed Superintendent of the Union Pacific
railroad, in place of Col Hammond.
SIaSoR SELLA. the Italian minister of I'm.
ance, has RENTED to the Pope so, 900
crowns, the amount Of his allowance for
the current month.
The latest slang for expressing the fact
that man dresses mp to the fashion is
borrowed from the Technology of billiards
-''putting on English" is the proper
phrase.
CHIEF ENGINEER KING, of the Bureau of
Steam Engineering, has returned to Wash
ington from an inspection of the navy
Yards. He reports the work on the impro-
vement of vessels as proceeding satisfactor-
lily.
FAME is ike shaved pig with a creased
tail, and it is only after it has slipped
through the hands of some thousands, that
some fellow, by good luck, holds on to it.
FRE-Gur bronze is a very favorite ma
terial for fancy articles nowadays. We
saw library set of this studded with tur-
quoises, which was remarkably pretty.
IT is stated "down East, as one of the
curious incidents of the drought, that
many farmers drove their cattle across
river beds to find springs that had not
dried mp.
In England, in one newspaper, 40
Church preferments are offered for sale.
The dis-establishment of the Irish Church
is said to have had bad effect on the
market for them
FIFTY conyicts, from the Virginia peni-
tentiary, are to be employed in repairing
the damage done BY the recent freshet to
the James river and Kanawha canal.
MILE. Cz1ISE MoNTE1AND, of Fisk's
opera house, is announced by the Worlds
foreign correspondent ss one of 1, 400 fall
en- women recently expelled from Paris by
the perfect of police.
THE Boston dip" has asserted itself
the dance of the season. Waltz and galop
are obsolete. and all the spoons" of New
York society are being transformed into
clippers"
RECENTLY, at q condagration in an Iowa
town. a company of ladies hauled hook
and ladder truck to the fra, and were fore
most in every effort to extinguish the
! flames
A neighboring city is to have SVEN
story hotel. The highest price will be
charged for the highest rooms, as they
will be more quiet and airy than those be-
low, and accessible per elevator.
LADIES who wear seal-skin coats and
caps should remember that portemonnaies
Of corresponding material are en- regle.
Seal-skin match boxes and cigar cases are
also becoming fashionable
TIE Gloucester (Massachusettsl Adver-
tiser says that "there is decided increase
in spiritual manifestations" on our
streets; but they are far from being the
''spirits of just men made perfect
REMEDIES for red nose are now in or
der. Among others q contemporary says
that the true remedy for red nose is tenn
perance and the free use of handker-
chief The organ can't be red when it's
blew.
A NEW use has been found for wood
which has served as the bowsprits OF ves-
sells that have voysged long and far, and
become thoroughly seasoned. 1t Is used
for the carved statues of Saints and Apos-
ties on the columns supporting the domes
of churches.
A MEMPHIS youth who found the key
hole of his house door mislaid or stolen, the
other morning, undertook to climb to his
room on the spout. Half way up the spout
went down, and he hung by his hands tc
shutter till his shouts brought assistance.
We have seen cigar cases, pocket books,
and the like, made with watches set in the
sides. We are assured that these time
pieces will go, but considering that the
price of the whole affair is never more
than twenty dollars, we rather doubt The
assertion
FANNY FERN makes answer to paragraph
which has been going the rounds, to the
effect that she would conclude her literary
labors this year, thus: "The above an
announcement is wholly gratuitous. Being
a woman, have no intention Of stopping
till get through"
Hartford, Conn, has had a terrible WIS.,
itatien of the marriage mania. No less
than twelve large weddings took place
there last week, three of them occurring on
single block We shall have to spell the
name of this city Hartford hereafter.
The champion hopper Of the period has
turned up at Albany. BE has only one leg,
but shows so much expertness in the use of
it that he.challenges the world to produce
a man who can out-hop him. Last week
he hoped mile in front of the Capitol, to
the admiration of large crowd
A PARTY of English sportsmen hsve just
concluded highly interesting labor. They
bought and examined 1873 Holsters, and
discovered (probsbly to settle the question
foreyerl that in the male the blunt tooth
claw is always on the left side, and the
sharply serrated claw on the right, while IN
the female this is reversed
The Providence Press says that one of
the census enumerators in that city put
down in his list, twins, opposite the names
of two children, and against the first he
designated Providence as the birthplace
The thick-headed men in Washington sent
the list back to have the deficiency account
ed TOR. What they wanted to know was
where that other twin was born.
AT recent choral festival in Glasgow