Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-08-20
FACT AND FANCY,

"What are the wild waves sayng?" "Let
us (s)pray."
1t is again asserted that Secretary Fish is
about to resign.
The assessed value of property in Washington
Territory is very nearly 0,000, ,o00
The three-spot in cards can never be depended
on for a trick it will always be tray.
We read that the Russian singers, now in the
West, have become dsgusted with America and
that the feeling is mutual.
A German musician out West drank fifty
glasses Of lager beer within hour, the other
day. The cOroner's name was Jones.
P. S. Gilmore has been interviewing the heads
of the Government al Washington regarding his
International Jubilee, to be held in Boston next
June.
The Chicago Times dissents totally from the
Ohio Democratic platform, so far it proposes
to make the repeal Of the Fifteenth Amendment
party issue
Tench Tighlman, who fortified bis house to
resist arrest, in Sacramento, has been killed by
a Deputy Sheriff, who went to arrest him and
was resisted with arms.
Bismarck has transformed the Prussia of his
youth, poor second-rate power, into the con-
trolling State of the most powerful European
confederation of modern days.
In Cincinnati an inebrated gentleman com
mitted an assault and battery upon a wooden
Indian used as a tobaccouists sign, because
he wouldn't treat to the cigars"
The California and Oregon Stage Company are
now running through Rongh and Ready, going
over the road from Fort Jones to Rough and
Ready through the Crystal Creek section.
One Loomis, of Jacksonville, Illinois, is be-
lieved to be the champion jumper in America
This is his score Single jump, 10 feet inches ;
three jumps, 40 feeti ten jumps, l30 feet.
The Jacksonville Sentinel learns that between
300 and 400 soldiers have left San Francisco for
Fort Klamath, to go after the Indians who left
the reservation and threaten TO be troublesome.
A new election has taken place in Cincinnati
since the great Bible agitation of few months
since. The result is a complete victory of those
who favor the reading of the Bible in the public
schools.
Frederick the Great says in bis history of the
Seven Years War: There is God of war;
have won battles that had already given up for
lost, and have been beaten when victory was
already within my grasp"
Advices from Naples state that five instru-
ments of music, in perfect state Of preserva-
ton, and bearing great resemblance to the
modern flute, have just been discovered at Pom
peii. The materials are silver and ivory.
The election in North Carolina resulted in the
choice of five conservative and two radical mem
bers Of Congress. The Legislature stands Sen
ate, thirty-two conservatives and eighteen radi-
calls House, seyenty-Gye conservatives and eigh-
teen radicals.
Teacher! Boy at the foot of the class, spell
admittance.n
Boy-"A-d-m-i- i-t-t-a-n-c-e
Teacher-'' Give me the defnition.n ~
Boy" Fifty cents, children half price, front
seats reserved for ladies'"
In article upon Charles Dickens, intended
TO be euogstic, the Tdblet does not hesitate to
say, in effect, that Mr.. Dickens was utterly igno-
rant of Christianity, and liz so many words that
his characters are, % at best, amiabe heathens,
whose virtues had every possible merit, except
that of being christan.'
Very destructive fires are raging in the forests
east and south Of Portland, Oregon. Farmers
are suffering much injury and buildings are be-
ing destroyed. Owing TO the extreme heat and
dryness of the atmosphere, the fires are spread
ing rapidly through the forests in many parts of
this State and Washington Territory.
Nevada editor, in discoursing upon the
common (dreadfully d" common'O practice of
kissing bride, says % We never had a bride
that we remember, but should the future
have one in store for us. and any man should
attempt that privilege, we II knock chips enough
from his nose to exempt him from the draft"
John Morrissey, Fernando Wood and others
of that ilk, have united in circular demand for
" constitutional, economical and honest Gov
ernment, general, uniform, just and constitu-
tional legislation, with reasonable taxation and
frugal expenditure" How these fellows can
joke SO in this hot weather is difficult to see"
{" What is the size of this placo2" gravely
asked New Yorker Of the conductor, just after
the brakeman had sung out o O.pe-li-ka at sta
tion in the South, where not house was visible
among the pines except rambling shell called
an eating saloon" Z" It's about as big as New
York." the ready answer, /" but it ism t
built up ye:."
Olive Logan's fearful costume has reached
louisville, and the COWier-JOurHat says " Her
toilet was execrable-absolutely shocking to the
least refined taste-her irightfuly redundant
overskirt rresstibly reminding one of the broken
wings of a raven trailing upon the ground the
whole forming a tout ensemble of which servant
of the scullery would have been ashamed
An English traveller, having passed two days
at hotel in n French coIntry town, called for
bis bill, which amounted to 10 francs lie was
astonished at the amount, and Indignantly re-
marked I" One hundred and ten francs for two
or three wretched repasts, and for two nights
spent in a bed filled with leas !" Fleas ="
exclaimedehe hotel-keeper " how could have
forgotten E4em Hand me the bill" The trav-
eler returned the bill, and the hotelkeeper added
to the total " gleas, francs !"
Faber's speaking machine is attracting atten-
tion in Germany 1t pronounces each letter dis
tinctly, and even laughs and sings. German
phoogists have heretofore DECLARED it to be
impossible to initiate the letter las pronounced
in Germany by artificial means, but this ma
chine speaks the word Mississippi very plainly.
During performance at Berlin, slip of paper
containing the words " Long Live King William
of Prussia " was handed to Mr.. FaLer and cor
recty pronounced by the machine, wbereupon
there was great deal Of applause"
At the recent conhagration in Constantinople
a woman was seen rushing through the streets
and darting into friends house at a distance
from the flames, hugging something in her arms.
g Safe safe +" she exclaimed. Thank God,
have saved my child The plate is down the
well, and that can be got at when the fire is
oYern A piercing shriek Immediately followed