The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-29
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.

Missouri girls are always sweet-they ar
No. -lasses. -r.f 80
PEACH trees are Louisville are beginnin
| to blossom.
Iowf has 41O,1 children to enjoy tn
school fund. --..+ss1 -
A FRENcHMAN wants to lease Pompeii 70
hotel and theatre.
The most popular church in London ha
| ten minute sermons a.--;.-.....- t. -
A PROTESTANT weekly paper appeared il
| Oordova. Spain, Jan. 1.
The procuring of divorce is calIeC
court-ing after marriage.
THE next great astronomical congress vii
take place in 1871 at Stuttgart. &
7 The number of deaths in Chicago dur
ing the month Of March was 535.
The milk inspector of Boston says thC
milk sold there Is thin. but healthy. =
FARMERs in Wyoming plow with tame
buffaIoes.
A LITTLE girl in Sheboygan Co. cut of
her fingers in straw cutter. !.
TIE bell was recently stolen from the
steeple of a Kentucky church.
Two companies of Federal soldiers are tc
be stationed at Jacksonville, Ala.
Nor single death has occurred at Bow.
doin College for over twenty-five years.
Four colored girls are employed in the
Government Printing Office.
The Astor House, New York, viii be
turned into. stores when the present lease
expires.
AN Arizona miner lately fell down a
shaft 125 feet deep, nnd was only slightly
bruised.
THERE is to be great prize show of the
gladiolis flower in London, on the 18th OF
August next.
The saloon keepers in Cape Giradeau,
No., have all been indicted for keeping
open on Sunday. = :
A BEARDED woman died the other day at
Toulouse, France, aged 1O4 years. She had
beard two feet long. 80 .-...--. =
The South Rend Gnd.) Register says
that eggs are scarcer In that city than hon.
est men are in Chicago. -.F .-e
A PRACTICAL paradox Spring freshets
carrying away the dams without diminish
ing the hard swearing. E
The late blondes of a New York theatre
now appear with hair dyed black and faces
bronzed to an olive tinge. t @
A JERsEYMAN, in reply to the charge that
women can do no fighting in time of war,
says his wife does nothing else.
TIE lake tunnel at Cleveland has reached
a point 40 feet from shore, and work is
progressing at the rate of ten feet per day.
SOME of the cheapest brands of tea are
said to be partly made up Of cast-steel i'll
ings.
An excursion of ministers from Boston
to San Francisco is proposed for August
next. .l--r
A NEW daily paper. with ]. Russell
Young as editor, is to be started in New
York in May. .-s a....4- ----
A sCEocIAIsTREss in HsDlin county,
Iowa, WAS oHs,ed The other .:ay ior Kissing
the big ,->ys. ---- r-z -' z
The Office Of DR.. Douglas, at Appleton
was entered on the Sd, and robbed of in
struments with $500. s--s. fs-e
The house of Mr.. Tibbetts, at Lima,
Co., was burned down on Fri
day last. Loss 81, 900.
THE Grand Rapids Reporter says that
Spring fights have commenced and HelPs
in full bloom up there. t -..+
In the five largest savings banks in Bos~
ton there are nearly S28, 600, 900, belonging
to 122, 946 deposito-s.
The oldest theatre in this country is sup
posed to be the Walnut of Philadelphia,
which was built in 1900.
The highest steeple In Dayton, Ohio, is
that of the First Presbyterian Church,
which is 239 feet high from the street
Boston takes 2O,94S gallons of milk
day, and 7,646. .020 annually There are
$50 cows within the city limits. -.--
A TRAVELLER writes home from Paris:
''The word have stood most in need of
since my arrival here is the French for
damn"
The tax levied upon tobacco raised in
Virginia last year, and consumed by the
people of the United States, amounted to
$50, 200, ,OO0I '.-.a T.
A FEW days ago little girl in Ithaca,
Just before she died, exclaimed: ''Papa,
take hold of my hand and help me across.
Her father died two months ago. "a
NINE soldiers of the war of 1912 are
mentioned as still living in Rails county,
all Of them over seyenty-fye
years of age.
The guests at frst-class hotel were re-
Gently startled at seeing "miee pie
among the items of dessert on the bill of
fare. --aF5-t.o - ,o E..
UPwARD of $4,000 natives persisted in
the Island of Zanzibar and on the main
land, from cholera, In the space Of six
weeks.
"MAPLE sugar, you know" says the
Star, sis made by grinding
up maple trees and squeezing out the juice
in cheese press" -eF i.G2s
TIE whereabouts Of John Smith are now
definitely ascertained. He has been sent
to the Illinois penitentiary for five years
for sneak thieving. ..L ..r
How naturally ''Our victories" assume
large proportions in type, and those Of the
other fellows hide away in sly coroners OF
the newspaper Ex. .-.
IT is stated that every farm Of $50 acres
in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with l, 555,-
600 tons of coal, or nine times more fuel
than if the surface were covered with heavy
timber lL F
The Globe Inn, Dumfries, Scotland, once
by Robert Burns, and which
contains the chair he used, was recently
offered for sale for e7O0, but there were no
bidders.
ACCORDING to the Register Generals re-
turn for 1869, the city Of Lsndon occupies
a, 997 acres, or 122 square miles, and has
q population of 3,170,554. The number
Of houses is 406, 507.
The town of Lyndon, Washtenaw coun-
ty, Michigan, has been settled for more
than thirty-two years, and yet it has neith-
er church, hotel, store, postofaee, grocery,
nor mail of any kind.
ELEPHANT beetles" afflict Utah in the
vicinity of Salt Lake, covering the earth,
and marvellous stories are told of their seiz-
ing upon dead oxen and devouring them in
20 minutes.
a COLUMBUS, Ky, man named Vail, shock
ed the citizens of that place, last week, by
selling at auction the wearing apparel and
other property Of his lately deceased wife,
himself acting as the auctioneer.
EATON RAPIDS is one of the faYorite water
ing places of Michigan. It has three mag
netic mine:al springs, the water of which is
so highly charged that common jackniie
drawn q few times across the iron heading
to the tube will pick up an eight-penny nail.
Pitchers and pals, after standing some
time with this water in them, become cor
roded on the inside as with iron rust.
1t IS Yell-known fact that the Emperor
of Russia has repeatedly had terrible at
tacks of delirlum tremens. During these
attacks he is always tortured by the belief
L. nm, 1ara1 his gofbar NInho1oa opd