Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-12-03
Wsskly Grinity 9uurnal.
FACT AND FANCY.

new born baby.
OF the ten oi-cloth factories in the United
States, five are in Maine.
1t is proposed to regulate ali the clocks in
Wall street by electricity.
When would Paris most resemble a pea p
When it was being sheled.
. Mechanical ingenuity man 5
ear to find where the sound goes to.
Delmonico says that champagne is going mp
in Europe nearly as fast as it is going down here
Boston is making twice as much whisky as
before the passage of the State law prohibiting it,
The man who, by mistake, took a drink from
Al bottle of muciage, says he has felt " stuck
up" ever since.
When Paris was found to be too tight place
for the bank Of France, the bank was taken to
another-Toulouse.
A South Bend Indiana, recently recov-
cred from an accidental dose Of arenic, by swal-
lowing tobacco Juice.
"Death with Heshless knuckles, rapned at
the door of Mrs. J. n. BIS soul, begins an obit-
uary in a Fort Scott paper.
Merchants that advertise once iu three months
forget that most folks cannot remember any
thing longer than about seven days.
Mahommedans say that one hour Of justice is
worth seventy hours Of prayer. One act Of char.
ity is worth century OF eloquence.
A nervous burglar in Michigan was prevented
from ransacking lady's trunk the other night
by coming into sudden contact with an artificial
snake.
When man and a woman made one, the
question is which one. Sometimes there is II
long struggle between them before the matter
is settled.
The knife factory at New Britain, Connecticut,
recently filled order for 900 dozen knives,
all the work, from the forging to the shipping,
being done in eight working days
Paris, Maine, manufactures yearly $1,000
wheelbarrows, which are sent all over the coun-
try. They are sold at $32 per dozen, made
OF ash, and used mostly on railroads.
AS a last resort, it is said that Victor Hugo
will be placed upon the walls Of Paris, and di-
rected to read his last romance to the besiegers
This will be cruel, but will be effective.
Postmaster sends in his return thus "I
hereby certify that the four going count is as
near rite as no how to make it. If there is
ny mistake it is not dun on Purpose"
A Vermonter has grown beard more than
two yards long, and there is immense competition
among the proprelors Of various hair inyigorat-
ors as to who shall procure him for exhibition.
A little ten-year old Miss told her mother the
other day that she was never going to marry,
but meant TO be widow, because widows dress
ed in such nice black and always looked SO hap
py
Among the amendments to the reconstructed
State Constitution of Louisiana to be submitted
TO the popular vote this Fall, is one to disfran-
chise dcftulters, and another to limit the State
debt to $25 O00, 900.
woman has been engaged at Nashua, n. H.,
for some time past in selling several hundred
dollars worth of m0lasses and water Il yalua-
BILE chemical mixture for the removal Of warts,
pimples, corns and molcs.
A couple Of young men in Burlington, Iowa,
have invented machine that makes 100, 600
match-spints minute. 1t only occupies space
of about eight inches in width, and two and
a-half feet in length and weighs about sixty
pounds
A SchenectadiNn threw kiss to his daughter
in the street. young married lady near by
thought it was meant for her, and returned it.
Her husband happened along just then, saw it,
and thrashed the Original kiss-thrower. Hence
an assault and battery suit.
Two young lawyers of Philadelphia, who had
been savagely impertnent toward each other at
the Court of Sessions in that city few days ago
subsequently fought duel with cowhides, un-
til their flces were disfgurcd beyond recognition
by their respective Office boys.
A citizen who deserves well of his country,
has large family, to which additions are con
stantly making A few days since, one of his
boys was thus interrogated "J0hn how many
know" answered the boy ~ hain't been home
since morning"
1t is well known that some colors do not
" take well " in photographs. Blue, purple, vi
olet, pink and margenta will come out very
light. Dark shades of brown, drab, green, ma
room and plain black goods, without gloss, will
take a rich drab color. So also, scarlet, cher
ry, crimson and dark orange
A good old deacon in the country recently vis-
tied the " Notch - in the White Mountains for
the first time. Looking around and admiring
the beauty and grandeur of the scenery, he ex-
claimed, with uplifted hands and upturued eyes
A" No wonder the Lord rested on the seventh day
after making such place as this"
George Cole, aged sixty, who lives in Green
county, New York, recently visited Troy. lIC
had never seen policeman, and did not know
what n bunch of celery was. He said he haC
heard of steam cars and railways, but had never
before seen either. The editor Of the Troy Pres,
calls Mr.. Cole " the last Rip Van Wrinkle"
There is a little railroad near Bayou Sara
Louisiana, that runs to Woodville on II very un
certain schedule. stranger came in the Other
day and enqured how often the steam cars made
trips to the country. The party nterrogated
said tri-weekly." "What do you mean by
tri-weekly|' The answer was it goes up one
week and tries to come down the next"
Chicago has a hotel with patent neat ndica-
tor running from every room to the Office, so that
the clerk can tell at a glance how hot it is in
any room in the house. They bad woman S
rights meeting in one of the parlors the other
day, when all Of sudden the Indicator said
"red hot, and a fireman had a hose in that par
lOr in twenty-eght seconds, and put EN- out
corporal connected with company of sol
diers camped out in Wyoming recently took i
into his head l. " have little fun with thu
boys" Accordingly he crept out of camp
short distance, set uD war WhOOD and attpmDt
ed to pass himself off for irst-class Indian
The joke was complete success. The corpora
failed to answer to his at the next roll call
A highly respectable man of Lawrence, Massa
chusetts, has developed a singular kind of insan
ity. which causes an almost irresistable desire I,