The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-10-07

ELEVEN female clerks are employed in
the Boston post Office.
New JERSEY elamors for rain. She must
wait till her turn comes.
THEY sell pumpkin pies upon the street
stands in Detroit.
CALIFORNIA has recently imported 5000
chestnut trees from Japan.
The census Of Niagara Falls shows a
slight falling off in population.
Two eolored teachers are teaching in the
public schools Of Terfe Haute, Ind.
TEE defeated candidates in Kansas City
smile frequently.
The asylum for aged and INDECENT wc-
men, at Augusta, is now Heing prepared.
SIX languages derived from the Latin
are now spoken, The most important Is
the French.
The business of the Dead-letter Office is
on the increase.
The Sea Island cotton introduced into
Texas takes kindly.
In several towns of Maine apples are
offered at ten cents q bushel ut the or
caards. -
ENGLISH journals boast that their navy
is stronger now than it has ever been.
The silk mills are very busy, and the
demand for fall goods IS unprecedented.
THE yellow fever in New Orleans appears
too late in the season to create much alarm.
LIvERPooI. has discovered that the
''defences Of the Mersey are perfectly
useless.
Nor contented with regatta and tub
race, the Norfolk people are TO have
goose race.
TIE American Baptists are about to es-
tablish school Of theology at Hamburg,
Germany.
TIE population of Cleveland is 1885.
an increase of -, 56S since 1860. That Of
Boston is 25S,924.
A GERMAN paper in New York is publish
ing The official lists of the killed in the
recent battles.
WAKE county, N. c., wants a county
treasurer who can give bond Of SGD OOO.
The one elected can't do it.
-THERE is so much blue-stockingism in
North Carolina that some of the papers are
printed in blue INK.
MORE than $50, 600 worth of the Q. S.
bonds stolen from the Boylston Bank have
been purchased by the Treasury Depart
ment.
A cENsUs-rAKER in Jefferson township,
Ohio, has discovered lady 123 years OF
age She was an eyewitness of Braddoek's
defeat.
ONE HUNDRED white families are about
TO be turned adrift in Harry county, ). u,
for failure to pay taxes.
AMONG the new books in London the
tito of one asks: ''What shall My Son
Be 2" Well, be quiet, for o1e thing.
A LARGE number of free colored people,
who left Louisiana and settled In Mexico
about twelve years ago, have returned.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says il there is
anything about lying that Spanlards do
not know, it is hardly worth knowing.
The three edge tool companies at West
WaterVille, manufacture annually l6,OOO
doz of seythes and also 5000 doz. axes
TIE wise men are considering the quss-
tiou, 'HOw it feels to be under fire. The
verdict will probably be that 1t feels hot.
THERE is bird in the islands of the In
dian Ocean which has upon its head a
beautiful tuft of feathers shaped like
spoon. 1t is called the queens pigeon.
The letters D. D., placed after the name
of BOstouian. are said to indicate that he
resides in the Dorchester District.
Hon. NATHAN F. DIXON, for ten years
representative in Congress from Rhode
Island, publishes q letter declining
denomination.
The Stamford Wooden Factory Company
are erecting another factory at West Stam-
ford, Connecticut.
i CoAI. boats are lying three abreast for q
space of seven miles along the river about
JeffersonviIle, Indiana, waiting tor sn op-
portunity to get over the falls.
The oasis Of Ell Dakleh, in the desert OF
Egypt is % miles long and Is miles wide.
Delicious fruits grow there, and there are
several villages, besides some ruins or
towns and temples.
i IT takes seven volumes of the Congress
sional Globe to contain the debates OF last
session volumes more than were ever
required before.
THE Delaware and Hudson Canal, OF
New York, is dried mp, and 900 boats and
is. 900 men are thrown out OF employ ment
: by the sudden close of navigation
TIE State Board of Public Charities
have, ascertained that theIe are 8, 600 cases
of idiocy and insanity in the State OF Hi
J nois.
TIE population of Paris, according to
cepsus taken in 1868, amounted to 2 l5O,-
9IG souls, of whom 2,02S, 736 were born IN
France.
SEVERAL. of the Fall River mills improved
tbe ensnansion occasioned by the strike by
an Introduction of new and greatly I'M
proved machinery.
THE Mckay Iron and Locomotive WORKS,
at Jersey City, employ two hundred ana
fifty workmen, and complete locomotives se
the rate of one q week.
TIE smoke from the burning woods IN
Canada has rendered navigation on Lake
( Ontario difficult and dangerous, partlcu-
$ lArly at night
CHA1oNs is en- open town-that IS, not
fortiied-with G promenade planted Win
3. GOO elm trees. 1t is great ses5 OF me
. champagne wine trade There . cne mer-
! chant there who holds 1000, OOO bottles as
his ordinary stock. His galleries, e1csVa--
sd in the chalk rocks. are six miles long.
and are traversed with tramweys through
which loaded wagons are driven.
SoME startling statistics OF ineonStlon
in the United States have been colnpilso
r by St Louis physician. Taxing 0UV men,
|, il ia found that 122 never drink splrits at
3 all: 100 drink moderately, but not to "a "a
v toxication; so are occasional drinkers "a
4 periodically, called ''spIeeing;" and are
n habitual drunkards. There is l confirmed
/ linebriate in every 50 of drinking men -
K Counting on 700 women, 600 never tast'
e alcoholics of any kind; 80 taste wine 90
n cnsionslIy; II taste ardent spirits; 50 ale ol
,r beer constantly; IA drink ardent splrls
le periodically; and three are habltuai lno0ri
(, ates.
y THE PuREsr AND SwEErzsT CoD LIVER VI
T, in the world is Hazard CasHelPs, made o
is the sea shore, from fresh, selected myers
a by CASWEII, HAZARD y Co., New 1o5L h
,D have once taken il prefer Il to all 0taerI
Physicians have decided it Superior 70 any an 9