The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The open winter permits spring to come
} in without knocking.
) ''SHoo FLY" was sung by the Southern
negroes many years ago.
ROLLER Skating Kinks are coming into
fashion in the South.
''SHoo FLY" bonnets are out. They re-
semble in form an elongated beet.
THE SAKE horn is said to take its name
from Marshal Saxe's favorits drink.
A METHODIST church has been built In
three days in Chuton county, Iowa
A CINCINNATI policeman is preparing to
change his vocation to that of an actor.
A $4,000 libel suit has been COM
menced against the San Francisco Bulletin.
Two-THIRDs of the expert pickpockets in
New York city are females under 20 years
of age.
The Thames was so blocked with ice on
the 18th of Feb. that navigation was almost
suspended
MANY prominent citizens of Chicago are
preparing to visit the Rocky Mountains
this spring,
A NEGRO woman of Lexington, KY, fifty
ears of age, has just given birth to three
| nfants
A NEGRO boy, twelve years old, recently
hung himself to an apple tree in Howard
county, Mo.
1t Is said that Mesdames Clafin and
Woodruff. of New York, have sued the
Chicago Times for libel; fer $4,000.
In breach of promise case at Nashville,
Tenn, the female exhibits two hundred
letters written her in three years by the de-
| fendant.
WINCHESTER, a truly Virginian town dur
ing the war changed hands eighty-seVen
times; sometimes as many as three times
in single day.
NEW and original weekly publication is
announced in London,-a "gastronomic
journal of high class to be called 1.-The
Knife and Fork"
have passed through the Suez Canal since
its opening The amount of tolls reAived
from them was about 100000.
OMAHA has q frst-class divorce case on
hand, a leading church member being
sued by bis wife for a dissolution of the
marriage band.
IT Is feared the Louisiana orange crop
will be a total loss this year. 1t is esti-
mated the loss i. PlAquemines parish alone
will amount to $40, 900.
The London Globe says that an invita-
tion will probably be offered to American
rifemen to visit Wimbledon for an inter
national rifle match this year.
SOME of the English laws seem queer to
Americans. Thus, at Leeds the other day,
a stoker at a mill was sent to prison fer a
month for neglecting to fire his furnace
properly.
The Bombay Government Gazette re-
ports that in India there are 8. .253, ,060 acres
devoted to cotton culture, showing an in
crease of thirty per cent. during the year
1869.
TnE President of the Fenian Brother
hood of the United States has issued an or
der for the meeting of the annual congress
of the Brotherhood, in Chicago, on the
11th of April
SOME excitement has been created in
Knoxville, Tenn, by baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules gov
erning cutting teeth" by cutting its back
teeth to start with.
ACCORDING to the Revolution there is
faro bank on Fourteenth street, Washing
ton, kept by woman, where the women
clerks ofthe Treasury go to gamble their
salaries away.
A PROJECT to establish a shelter for lost
dogs has recently been grated upon the
operations of the Woman's Branch of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, in Philadelphia.
The legal asszie of bread in New Or
leans, on The basis of an average of $3.50
for -four, is fixed rs fellows: 4S ounces for
twenty cents; "a ounces for ten cents; II
ounces for five cents.
ONE of the Charleston, S. @. military
companies will dedicate a monument in
May to the memory of their comrades who
fell during the rebellion, and Gen. Wade
Hampton is to deliver the address.
TIE Female Printers Union. of New
York city, now numbers about fifty men,
bers. The total number of women type
settlers in that city is one hundred and fifty.
One of the Piute Indians predicts an
other food speedily, ''lke the one 1870
years ago, whel, it rained forty days and
forty nights, and all the people got into
the big boat built by Columbus.
In Saginaw, Mlcn., the lumber sales in
1869 amounted to $40 600, 600; the fisheries
about $50, 600 and salt, ], ,044, 52S. The saw
mills employ about 8 600 men shingle mllls
600, and the salt business with its various
details, 1900 men.
II Is related of a centenarian who died
the other day that he learned to use to-
bacco at the age of so, but abandoned it at
81, having discovered that it made his
hand a little unsteady. His nerves
improved, he said, very much after that.
FIeARo tells of Russian poet who has
not only been able to dedicate q volume of
verse to his mistress, but to furnish the
binding from his own person. Having had
leg amputated, he devoted the epidermis
to the establishment of his rhymes.
A NICE young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the daughter of a
highly respectable lady. and came back for
the lady's blessing, which was freely given;
together with the information that the girl
was not her daughter, but quadroon ser
want girl. He said it was swindle, and
went away so rapidly that they couldn't
see his back for the dust.
Ii divorce case at Detroit the other day,
Judge Patchin decided that farm should
be equally divided between the severed
couple, on the ground that the woman,
by her hard work, had doneas much as the
man to acquire the property.
A NOVEL and worthy enterprise is that OF
the Boston and Albany Railroad, which
mas recently eStaDuSD6u nDrhry lOr ln6
use Of It's employees. Any empioye on any
part of the line can obtain any book desir-
ed without charge for use or transporta-
ton.
A New YORK letter says: "The most
elegant dress ever seen in America was
worn at a late disreputable ball in the me-
tropolis. Twelve hundred yards of delicate
white illusion, forty yards of the eostliest
gold cord, thirty-eight yards of salmon
colored satin, fifteen yards of white satin
and eight yards of thread lace were used in
making this beautiful pattern dress. 1t
was made by an American modiste, after
designs by the wear.r."
QUEEN VICToRIA's annual allowance is
$3.50, 900, besides e25, 600 from the Duchy
of Lancaster, and the fee rental of dozen
castles, palaces, &c. As she accepted a
legacy of $3.50, eco from Mr. Neeld (who
passed over his own relations to enrich
her), as she inherited e1, 900, 600 from
Prince Albert In 1851, and as she has not
spent third Of her allowance since his
Death, it is estimated that Her Msjesty's
cash capital, well invested, is at least
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