The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-09

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SOME of the omnibus routes in London
are IA miles long.
REPENTED penitence wearies the soul.
Madame de Stael.
The "lS,u" has been known to shine
with borrowed rays.
A NEW railroad is projected from Ithaca
to Cayauga, New York.
The 994 trades-unions in this country
have 126, us members.
THERE has been q German daily paper
started in Toledo, Ohio.
MAzEPPA is being converted into an
opera by is composer.
A CYNICAL old bachelor says that matri-
mony is the root of all evil.
The buckwheat crop in Southern New
York is unusually promising.
They are forming sold maids societies"
IN several counties out in Ohio.
The Prussians are said to be troubled
with the (''Mizzeries' ')-Mezieres.
GAN Ohio murderer declined to be inter
viewed, unless he was paid.
The Prussians are taking Metz-otinto
view of Napolon and his army.
PUNCH thinks that just now the ''pipe of
peace" is ''contraband of war"
A PROPOSITION is on foot to change the
name of Cincinnati to Hamburg.
The Cafe Napoleon in Berlin changed its
name as soon as the war broke out
FRENCH agility in leaping bitches is as
| cribed to the national diet on frogs.
Who doesn't envy tho people in Wall
| yrh n hou co kLaE -
can't carry it!
PARTING is sweet Pain," as the curly
headed fop said when he tried to part his
hair in the middle.
WANTED, by every soldier in the Prus-
sian army, ''The Life of Louis Napoleon
with or without cuts.
GEN. SPINNER is called "the man that
writes name on the greenbaeks that looks
like string of eels."
a JERSEY editor, commenting on the title
of new book, ''Only Girl, asks, "Well,
what did they want, twins?"
IF postage on papers is reduced to one
cent there will be two sent where there is
one sent now.
The returns from the Boston public baths
show that there were nearly a million
bathers IN July.
MAJ. POWELL is about to enter upon an
other expedition to explore the great canon
of the Colorado.
Two hundred bales of silk recently pass
ed through Omaha, shipped direct from
China to London.
THE Petersburg (Va) Index reports that
the sumac trade in that section is becom-
ing quite important.
Down East for weeks past many of the
mills have been running by steam, owing
to the scarcity of water.
The friends Of the Pound Gap Railroad,
IN Southwest Virginia, are making earnest
efforts to build the road.
A MAN being dissatisfied with the bill of
an expressman, was allowed to express his
feelings without charge.
IT is currently reported that several Of
the Robertson county (Ky.) distilleries will
! resume operations shortly.
GALVESTON, Texas, is ambitious for q
public library, and would like dictionary
and spelling book to begin with.
The city of Cohoes, n. Y, which was
granted city charter about year ago,
now has population of $4,000.
TIE people OF Denver, Colorado, T. ak of
| forming vigilance committee to rid them
| selves of the thieves and assassins.
THE Hartford Post says there is o porter
in one of the hotels in that city who can
read '' Homes Iliad in the Greek"
A CORRESPONDENT says the people who
spend the most money at the watering
places are the old men with young wives.
| IT is said that four presidentsof the Uni
| ted States never visited New England
Madison, Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan.
NAns, whose points have been dipped in
grease, can be driven easily into hard wood
which would otherwise bend or break them.
ST. OATHARrE, Canada, has girl eight
years of age who weighs 12S pounds, and
takes four-mile promenade before break
fast
The latest thieving trick in New York is
to approach q street car and snatch through
the windows hats from the passengers
heads.
| An incendiary attempt was made last
week in the New York Journal of Com
merce ONCE, but the rre was soon extin-
guished.
/ TIE first steamer ever seen on the Stan.
ton river, In Virginia, was launched at Ro-
anoke station on Friday. 1t is called the
| Charlotte.
THE census taler of Monroe county Miss
issippi, has found sixty pairs of twins less
than twelve months old, and one township
yet to hear from.
IT is maintained, as an evidence of Nor.
mon progress, that the Deseret News has
been printed from types cast in Salt Lake,
and upon paper made in the same city.
The examinations for admission to col
/ leges this season have revealed the fact
that large number of lads of sixteen OF
seventeen years are deficient in spelling.
COOPER and She rIoan TWO horse thieves
have been found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary from Halifax county, Virginia,
one for eighteen and the other for ter
years.
TIE Yirginians are making good bust
ness of gathering and drying sumash fol
drug houses. Petersburg received, in ont
day last week, 100000 pounds ready to b.
sent of.
A New YORK tailor was started, the 9th
er day, by the return of bill which he ha(
sent to magazine editor, with notice
that the manuscript was respectfully de
elined."
AT one of the watering places the scene
witnessed at the 'feeding hour" are salt
to be sgood as play-and one correspon
dent goes so far as to call the dinner 80
great gastronomieal circus"
ANY one who is under the delusiOR tha
sit is only the first step that COSTS" woul
do wellto examine the building account
Of the New City Hall.
WY is the figure nine like peacocH
1t is nothing without its tail.
A COLUMBUS, o., paper tells Of biav
{ girI who pawned not only her boots bu
her stoekinos. and went home barefOoteC