Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-11-19
FACT AND FANCY.
An Notwithstanding bar.

"A man ever ready to scrape an acquaintance
the barber
The acrobats Of every houschod-the pitcher
and tumbler
They have now invented mittrailleusc that
goes by steam.
The national debt of Great Britain averages
$l33 to every inhabitaut Of the country.
Ladies business suits" are the latest thing
out. They are worn principally by females.
Forty-one pairs Of twins has been discovered
in Wake county, Virginia, all under one year Of
age.
The Goyernor-C General of Canada it is stated,
gets $4,000 year and - all he make be-
sides"
Halifax (Nass.) seems not to be a thriving
place. 1t is eighteen years since the last new
house was built.
female prisoner ut the Allen county lind
Jail, has persstently refused to either talk or
eat for nearly two weeks.
Vallejo merchants have commenced import
ms goods direct from the East, thereby placing
themselves independent Of San Francisco.
man lately jumped Off the Clifton suspcn-
sion bridge in England, n hight Of 250 feet, in
emulation of Sam Patch, and, like him, came to
grief.
All plants grow stronger and ripen better
when the air circulates freely around them, and
the sun is not prevented from an immediate in
fluence.
cute young wife says when l want
nice snug day all to myself, tell George dear
mother is coming, and then sec nothing moro
of him until one in the morning"
" Mr.. Smithcrs, how can yon sleep so The
sun has been up these two hours" D." Well,
what if he has ~ said Smithers. " He goes to
bed at dark, while am up till after midnight"
The following is given as the new mode Of
parsing down East; 81 court. Court is
verb, active, indicative mood, present tense
and agrees with al the girls in the neighbor
hood.
A Lafayette Tndiana) paper says that the
lanes and alleys of that city are in such a sad
state of filth that the Street Commissioner has
TO wear clothes-p on his nose when going his
rounds.
"The Friendly Sons Of Saint Patrick " is the
name Of Irish Society started in San
Francisco on the evening Of October 2Gth, of
which Senator Casserly is President and Thos.
N. Cazneau Secretary.
A lady in Birmingham complains that the first
year of her married life, her husband called her
"my dear; the second year, " Mrs. A.; and
the third year, - old sorrcl top" which was too
much for her TO bear.
Smith (who had forgetfully left his pocket
book on the piano, last night )" Have you found
anything this morning, AngelinaY 4" Oh, yes,
dear thanks-and I've ordered new piano
stool, some lace curtains, aAd-such love Of a
bonnet -
A Canadian clergyman, who had become tired
of his wife, had her incarcerated in madhousc
by fraud and deception 1t is stated that he
. gave her liquor till she had the delirum tremcns,
when he made the doctors believe the woman
was crazy.
In cleaning house, Mrs. G. Nichols of Concord,
New Hampshire, came across package contain
ing pound or two Of guupowder. Under the
impression that it lampblack she threw il
into the stoyc aud it was all burned before the
mistake could be rcctiied.
Judge Hardy gives it as his opinion that Mas
by is not humorst The Democrat who colld
any humor in Nasby's writing has never yet
been found. They embody too much sober
truth, and bear too heavily on the Democratic
party for Democrats to see their humor.
There is a man in Buffalo who has registered
vow never to make {" humane society " Of
himself again. He took of his coat and leaned
into the canal TO save lady from drowning
when pickpocket stole $ 10 from his coat, and
the rescued one was mad because he pulled her
ehgnon off in getting her out.
Henry Ward Beecher says: < The utter igno-
rance of financial and political economy among
our Congressman is appalling" The Nevada
Gdzefe dissents. 1t thinks that the number of
men who have gone to.C0ngress from this Coast
=
that they have some financial genius.
During political meeting in Dublin, man
in the gallery became obnoxious, and the mob
were on the point Of pitching him down to the
pit. The musicians seemed bound to prevent
the speakers voice from being heard, and as he
saw the commoton in the gallery he screamed
" Hold on, boys don't waste man Just kill Il
fiddler or two with him"
clergyman was preparing his discourse for
Sunday. StOpDiDO occasionally q review what hp
had written, and erase that which he disap-
proved he was accosted by his little son who
had numbered i've summers:
Father, does God tell you what to preach ?''
Certainly, my child"
Then what makes you scratch it out?"
The balloon flights made by the Parisans and
their outside adherents, have suggested, to ac-
tive minds in other parts Of the world, expert
ments of various kinds in the line of aerial nav
igation. The practicabilty of sending messages
by means of gigantic japanese kites has been
asserted. These kites can. be arranged so as to
carry person, il is said, and can be steered
and guided in e. air as a ship can upon the
water.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has been sitting for
her portrait to a correspondent with a Byronic
choler turned down southwark: 50 Amid the
orange blossoms, where the mOcking bird carols
his sweet hymn, where all nature is a picture
OF beauty and Of love, the old gnome sits like
the giantess Of Doubling Castle, picking the
bones of the Southern dead and her insatiate
greed still unsatisGed, digs her inky taons into
the grave Of Albion's sweetest poet, and tattoos
the long-burred bones Of the King of Verse"
bank check for $500, which has had a curl
Gus history, was sent to the Treasury Depart
ment, at Washington, recently. It was taken
from the body of a murdered Texan cattle drov-
er, several years ago, by Indians, who, in conse-
quence of the variety of colors in the rich en-
cravings, attached some special importance to
it, and cut the paper into several pieces, divid-
IN them among the tribe. A Peace Commits