The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-27
WHOLE. NO. 22S.
Miscellaneous Items.

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THEY are hunting the fox out west.
TWENTY newspapers have been started
in California this year.
rHIEF in Missouri boasts one thous
and four hundred convictions.
ATHE way Terre Haute ladies cure their
Cords of finebriety is by glueing up their
eyes.
Los Angeles, Cal, thinks theatre
all that is needed to make it an earthly
paradise"
IT's not what we choose thatwe select
to-do in this world, but what chooses
us to do it
A TON of honey has been sent to mar
ket this year by bee-keeper at Taun-
ton, Mass.
AT New Haven colored lady has
just sued a colored gentleman for breach
of promise.
GRANITE goes from Portland to St.
louis by water, ssall the way around, by
the Mississippi.
IcE-CUTTING has commenced in New
England. This may be called making
ice while the sun shines.
THE Alabama claims are not inappro-
priately named. If translated Alabama
really means, ''Here we rest"
DELAWARE judges accommodate pris-
oners whose time is valuable, by giving
them more lashes and less imprison-
ment.
FRrY-NNR newspapers in towns and
cities on the Pacific coast have per-
ished during the past year.
INDIANA, having paid off her debt, is
anxious to contract q new one for the
purpose of building new State House.
A REPORT that the supply of tobacco
was nearly exhausted spread consterna-
tion among the soldiers in Paris.
TIE Mayors of the cities in Illinois
are to meet for consultation in Spring
field on the 18th of january.
An attempt will be made in the Penn
sylvania legislature this year to pass an
act for the revision of the State consti-
tuition.
THE New York Independent depre-
Gates the establishment of young
Contributors Departments" in maga-
zines for youth.
The 'Union Reform Party" in South
Carolina has been formally dissolved
and pronounced failure. Thenegroes
would not support it.
TIE President of the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
ANIMALS has issued an order against
horse-clipping.
CALRoRN1A's people use, on an aver.
age, 10 gallons of wine each annually,
and sixteen and three-fifths pounds Of
coffee.
IT is estimated that at least half a
million copies of the Bible have been
circulated in France and Germany
since the beginning of the war.
An Omaha man penned up neigh
bor's COW and then sold him milk for
three weeks. The latter has just found
out the joke and gone to law about it.
IT cost Boston for each bath taken
last season at the public bath houses,
including all expenses for constructing
the houses, superintendent, &C., only
one cent and five mills.
A SCHOONER was launched at Lubec,
Me-, recently, which was built three
quarters of mile away from the wa
ter, and had to be dragged there by
oxen and pulleys.
A LADY aged 81, in England, finding
herself in the wrong railway train,
leaped from it when it was running at
a speed of forty miles an hour, and es-
capped without injury.
EXTRACTS from Fun's Postal Gard -
Paris has not hauled down her flag,
but we are in expectation of furly in
formation to that effect Mr.. Upper
is reading his own works Noto he
will know what others have suffered.
AT wedding recently, when the Off
eiating priest asked the lady, VIII
thou have this man to be thy welded
husbandl" she dropped the prettiest
courtesy, and, with modesty which
lent her beauty on additional grace, re-
piled, " If you please.