Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-09-03
Weekly Grinity yuurnal.
FACT AND FANCY.

What grows bigger the more you contract itT
Debt.
The man who tore his coat thinks rents are
increasing,
California produces 3 1000, 900 pounds of quick
silver annually;
The English poor are like carpets-they are
held down by tax.
fellow who pawned his watch, said he raised
money with a lever.
The young folks grow most when in love. 1t
increases their signs wonderfully.
'My dear Maria will you share my lot for
lifeY'-" How many acres in your lot, SIR"
The most exclusive circle-the Arctic circle,
which no one has succeeded in getting into.
Blessed are they that are ignorant, :or they
are happy in thinking they know everything.
In marriage the heart of widow is like a fur
nished apartment, where one is apt to find some
thing left there by former lodger.
Mrs. Gorge Francis Train has just arrived at
Newport with formidable retnue of servants,
" nine horses and seven carriages"
An exchange expresses the opinion that it was
shameful for Napoleon to leave Eugene and go
TO Nancy, seeking another engagement.
II is said that National Bank will be estab-
lished in San Francisco, and the question is agi-
tated of starting one in Sacramento city.
Mrs. Morton, an English vocalist, has recov-
cred $50, 600 from railroad company in England
for damage done to her voice by collision.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, it takes the deacons all
day Monday to paste together the mutiaed cur
rency put in the collection plate Sunday,
The register at the Big Tree hotel, in Gala
veras county, shows that upward Of two thou
sand persons have visited the grove the preseut
summer.
The assertion, so frequently made, that it is
INN tn tha 0h IF ic oIt
gether erroneous, for who is there that cannot
stop minute?
DR.. Hall says sponge beds are healthy. We
know man who has sponged beds and even
sponged his meals for five years, and he isn't so
very beal;hy-except at meal times
He who prevent moments anger may
suppress many days sorrow. Speak of mems
virtues ii they were your own, and of their
vices as if you were liable to their punishment.
"Yon can do anything if you only have pa
thence, said old uncle, who had made a for
tune, to a nephew who had nearly spent one ;
" Water can be carried in seive if you only
wait till it freezes"
Johnny Steele, the once notorious oil prince
now driving team at 81 a day, recently received
n dispatch from New York. that there are $20,-
00O standing to his credit which he had depos-
tied some years ago and forgotten.
The French wars under Napoleon have cost
the nation as follows: The Crimean war ST.
700 million, and 80, 900 men the Austrian war,
$500 million, and 60 900 men the Chinese and
Mexican wars, 5000 million, and So, 600 men.
A large number of ponds and lakes, varying
in size from one to acres in extent have
suddenly appeared in Saratoga county New
York;, and are causing great damage and an
poyance. No reason be assigned for the
phenomenon.
Compositors in the New York Tribune office
are fined ten cents for each profaue word uttered
the premises, the money so gathered being
given 10 the poor. A hand lost nearly n
weeks wages one night over bit of Greeley s
manuscript.
The census of Chicago shows population OF
little 306, 900 while that of San Francisco,
from present appearances, is not likely to ex-
coed 100000 and perhaps not that. Chicago
now leads all of the cities west of New York
and Philadelphia, in population.
If we apply ourselves seriously to wisdom we
shall never live without pleasure, but learn to
be pleased with everything. We shall be pleased
with wealth so far it makes beneficial to
others-with poverty for not having much to
for, and with obscurity for being unenvied
The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order
of Good Templars of California will convene in
Sacramento city the 9th day of September
next. There will be about two hundred repre-
sentatves in attendance, representing two hun
QTFu Lodges, ana Il membership OI over elgDt
thousand.
A company has been organized in New Orleans
for application Of condensed air as motive
power tor street railways. The cylinders are to
be of paper and placed on the top of the cars.
trial has been made with this method, and q
car with tweny-eight passengers was driven
three miles and a-half in seven and a-quarter
minutes.
An Indiana maiden eloped with Aer lover at
midnight After going few squares, the youth
left her the street corner, while he should
search for livery stable During his absence,
along came lover No 2, who, on learning the
circumstances, proposed to Miss Indiana, was
accepted, and the couple started for Louis
Vile, leaving lover No l TO mourn on his return
the Inconsistency OF woman
kind-hearted wife once waited on physi.
clan 10 request him to prescribe for her hus
bands eyes, which were sore. Let him wash
them every morning with brandy" said the doc
tor few weeks after the doctor CHANGED tC
meet the wife. Z" Well, has your husband fol
lowed my advice % He has done everything
in his power TO do it, doctor, but he never coulC
get the brandy higher than his mouth"
The North Scituate sachusetts) stage over
turned lately, having three persons inside, non,
of whom were injured An old lady who doe.
not come TO town often, and who seemed To
think that it was all in the play, put her head
out the window, after the coach had upset, anG
called TO the driver, saying that " she guessed
she would get out and walk up the hill, if the
pesky thing was going % ride so unsteady"
The Rondout Courier gets the following. story
from IA telegraph operator in that village A
member Of the Masonic Order telegraphed to a
companion down the river somewhere, " Make
room for ten Royal Arch Masons Coming to
day" When the companions arrived they
found pen had been built for their aceommo
darion, the telegram at its destination reading
Make room for ten RAMS. Coming to-day.
new fish story. A Goldfish lately caught oil
Portsmouth II Ior was found 20 contain a pin
champagne botN in an entire state. portion
of the entrals Of the fish were growing abou