The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-30
Miscellaneous.
DETROIT has ladies base ball clubs.

DETROIT has ladies base ball clubs.
HARRISBURG has an erapty treasury.
PHALANxEs of female lecturers ard.now
forming.
A JERSEY baby has died of painted Candy.
Two Texan women are missing twenty
two acres of cotton.
LENT discoursea are not always borrow
cd sermons; sometimes they are stolen.
A wONAN's rcgimonti is said to bo forDanc
Tor the city militia, in an eastern city.
THE Penobscot river is lower than at any
period for forty years.
SaUP is likely TO run out of the saucepan
when there Is O leek in it.
FoETY thousand women are eraployed as
outdoor iuSorers in England.
THE male population of Iewa Is foriv
thousand IN excess of the female.
A srATIsIICIAN estimates the number of
dogs III this country at 6,000,0OO,
TWENTY ONE million dollars are annually
invested IN beer in the United States.
INDIA has nearly 100, 900, 900 females and
only about 80. 600 are being educated.
The postmaster of Boston is making
trial OF young ladies' as delivery clerks in
bis Office.
IT takes $1,000 per day and $50 en-
ployes to run" the Sherman House, in
Chicago.
Don't be despOndant IN autumn because
the leaves turn; they will return next
spring.
PARADOX as if may seem, people who are
inclined to be fat are generally least in
clined 10 be so.
The Georgia negroes are becoming ex-
pert garroters, but practice as yet only on
ladies.
A CINCINNATI firm has built a safe weigh
ing half million of pounds for New Or
leans.
THE population of Terre Haute, Ind, is
about Is. 300-a gain OF 100 per cent in
the last ten years.
An irate blacksmith drove an axe into
another mans heart for not returning a
borrowed shirt
The beer drunk in the United States in /
one year costs the drinkers twenty one .
millions.
SINCE the recent fires in Chicago iron
roof will be put upon many of tho costly
buildings now erecting.
RoNDOUr On. " young ladies' are organ
izing society for the encouragement of
young men who desire to marry.
Two gardeners in Terre Hante, indiana, |,
have sold three hundred and eighty-0ue
thousand cucumbers from a fiye-acre patch.
A CUCUMBER over four feet long and
beet fifty-One inches in circumference are h
among the products of VormoGt this sea-
son.
DOMESTIC peace is assured in Dahomy /
ly the dread every wife feels lest her hus-
Dand may give her to the king as a soldier.
A LADY at Saratoga appeared at one of
he hops wearing necklace of sapphires
md diamonds which was valued ut S10,-
700.
AN Ohio girl has laid by the sum Of SIX
hundred dollars, all gained 10y making corn
musk door mats at ten cents each
Moths may be kept out of furs and
vOOlcn clothes by wrapping the fabric in
,alicO. Moths cannot eat through calico.
n QOlNCA NlhlhOlSJ lnbu passed ! SlU ,
Confederate note on a banker OF that city,
md was arrested and lodged in Jail for it.
CAN an importer be said to fulfil his obli-
,UtiOns to his country when more gold is
made 10 cover all his duties to the gov
The buckwheat crop in many parts Of
he state of Michigan will be an entire
allure. having been blasted, the cause be- :
IS the dry weather.
ISE planters are beginning TO cut their I
obacco in some parts of the lower eoun- !
les of Kentucky. The crop is reported as ,
'eing generally very fine. !
4 MAN in Lawrence, Kansas, budded a
berry tree in bis garden last August
1867, which has grown in yea- SO feet
md Z inches