The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25

own his child lying Ia It's cradle, scsldmg
1t to death. -,
/ There is. only one woman in. the town
of Lost frail California, and her husbAud
cant sleep nights because so many mn
stand IN front Of the house ana CRATE their
teeth.
Foreign window glass is fast dis
pacing the domestic article in the Boston
market. Vessels constantly arrive there
from Antwerp laden with window glass
alone.
Harvard college has given Il, ,5S3 de-
grees, not including those OF this year. It's
AlumGl at present are s, 1851 more tn III
Yale. -5- ..-I
AGA Clifford, notorious courtesan, of
s.. Louis, has sued several fast young nis-u
OF that city for various wine bills and Dor.
Towed money.
The Utah Gentiles assert that no sin
eere female advocate of polygamy eaa-Le
found IN Utah who is not old enough to be-
a grandmother. --7 -e ,--- s--
The Northern Indiana college buill-
ing, with eight acres of ground, has been
sold at sheFf's sale for SS, 625. The cost
of the building and grounds was over S2O.-
The manufacture of alcohol from rem.
deer moss which was set on foot in 1877.
by Prot Sternberg, of Stockholm, is now
| carried on TO a considerable extent IN Swe-
den and Norway.
The inundation of the Nile has this
year taken the proportions of food. It
was never known to be so high, sad has
caUaed damage to the extent of nearly $40
J00O 600.
"A Chicago paper says: "'The gas bills
just rendered by the gas companies are
rom 80 TO 100 per cent. higher than usual
and consumers are Indignantly complain
ing all over the city.
An Exchange says: SIT is singular
what mistakes people labor under. Many
a girl thinks she sings swcetly who only
sereeches, and half the ugly dandies think
they are killingly."
"A Pennsylvania mill has rolled out 4.
finely polished sheet of iron, three feet
long and twelve inches wide, and weighing
out three and half ounces. It is thinn r
than ordinary writing paper. -
--Over 250,OOO freight and cattle cas-
passed over Albany bridge, going both
ways, during the year 1869, which would
make, II placed together, a train more than
l5OO miles long.
Deer are so plentiful in the neighbor-
hood of Brookhaven, Mississippi, that
SpOrtsmen do not take the trouble to kill
them. One ran through the streets of the
town reeeRtly.
There are now living in Baltimore
county, Md, five brothers. the youngest of
whom is Is and the Oldest 81, who served
in the same company in the war of 1872.
and have never received a pension.
"A railroad watchman in Ohio fell
asleep on the track the other night, with
his lantern in his hand. The lightning
express came along, tossed him upon the
eOweatcher, and carried him to the next
station with only broken leg.
"A jeweler in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
received few days since heavy gold Fidg
from the Catholic priest in that city, with
he Injunction: ''This belongs to you; take
1t and ask no questions" Some girl has
got lighter conscience. ...-.-...
-Charestown, Mass, furnishes fuu
soup to ~ families bill of fave offers beet
soup on Mondays, Thursdays and Satur-
days; mutton soup on Sundays and We'd
nesdays; and fish chowder on Tuesdays
and FIidays-always accompanied wi b
bread. .
= A successful school is in operation in
London for teaching deaf and dumb chit
dren to speak. Although the inability 10
control the voice by the ear produces Il
harsh and disagreeable toIe, the pupils
learn TO artieulate distinctly, and to under
stand what is said to them by watchingths
movements of the speakers lips.
Il would not give much for your re-
ligionunless 1t can be seen. Lamps do noe
talk, but do shine. "A lighthouse sounsts
40 drum, it beats 10 gong. and yet, f,r
over the waters its friendly spark is seen
by the mariner. So let your actions shine
out your religion. Let the main sernOn
of your life be illustrated by your conduct,
and it shall not fail to be illustrious-
The Norwich Conn Advertiser gives
m account Of queer donation party" to
= clergyman in North StoningtOn, the Rev.
David Avery. They gave him about S150
IN money &c, and then, (says the Adver-
Jiscr,) ''a number remained to an unsea-
SOnably late hour, indulging in levity, and
theft, by which ''the house ofprayer was
made den of thieves" Rather a novel
way of helping the pastor.
in a Book About Words" by G. F.
Graham, the author gives an explanation
OF the phrase, mine tailors make a man"
IN the Olden time the strokes of the pass
ing bell were called 'stellers," and as nine
strokes indicated the death of man, while
rhree announced that of child, and SIX
hat of a woman, the words mine telleTs"
we're easily perverted into nine talors.
An Illinois undertaken sent the follow
ing entertaining note to a sick man:
DEAR Sm;-Having positive proof that
You are rapidly approaching deaths gate,
have therefore Thoughts it not imprudens
TO call your attention to the enclosed adj
vertisement of my abundant stock ofready
made cOfins, and desire to make the sug-
gestioR that you signify to your friends
wish for the purchase of your burial out
it at my establishments.