South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A Chop FOR BREAKFAsT-Bash.

PHILADELPHIA Is trying TO discourage
the use of coal oil.
AN English lady has been sued for
breach of promise by a farmer.
TIE Lowell C0u1 Ter asks its exchanges
to Quit calling it the Low. COur."
"A large swarm of bees occupy the
steeple of the German Lutheran Church
in Lancaster, Pa.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, is con-
Quoted in the interest of its policy holders,
not to enrich stockholders.
a HoTEL-KEEPER in Penn Yam, N. Y,
has sued the Board of Excise of the village
for $1,000 damages for refusing him a IL
cense.
A CALIFORNIA politician says the path
of rectitude has been travelled so little in
that State of late years, that it has all run
to grass.
A DRUGGIST has been sued for damages
in Waverly, n. Y, for selling laudanum to
a mans wife, snd the jury have awarded
damages TO the husband.
THE Washington is a great public favo-
rite; the increase of business last year
over the year previous vas greater than
that Of any other cash company.
THE Rev. A. Folsom, a Methodist cler.
gyman in Raymond, n. H, now seventy
seven years old, walked to North Salem,
on a recent Sunday, a distance of seven
teen miles, and preached three times.
ONE of the largest hotels in Philadel-
phia is owned and managed by a woman,
and in n store, among several large ones
owned by women, a business of over $780,
900 a year is done.
Mrs. BARTON and Mrs. Eldret, two sis
tiers, at Blldwinsville, N. Y, who had al
ways lived neal each other, died the same
day recently, at the ages respectively of
ninety-ive and eighty-seven, and Here both
buried at one time and place.
AN awkward young man, while rowing
a lady on I~rondequoit Bay a few days ego,
fell overheard. She pulled him into the
skif by the hair, put him ashore, and then
rowed away home, leaving him on the
beach to dry and to lament the results of
his stupidity.
JOHN KING, known as the first teeto-
taller in Great Britain, has reached an old
age of helplessness and poverty, and to
alleviate his position all the teetotalers in
the three kingdoms are to contribute a
penny each for his benefit. He is now in
his I'D year, living with his fourth wife.
RECENTLY, ct an evening service IN
of the churches in New Haven, the pastor
observed a man in the back part Of the
church hitching about in his seat, snd,
thinking he was suffering from a con
science that would not be quoted, he said,
"Does the brother want to spesk?" The
man rising said, "No, sir, the brother
wants a drink of water" andthen he walk
ed to the altar and took a drink of water,
and resumed his seat, after which the SER
vices were proceeded with.
"a THERMOMETER should be placed in
a open space, out of the vicinity of high
buildings or any object that impedes the
free circulation of air. 1t should face the
north, to be always in the shade, should
be twelve inches from every n~eighboring
object, should be about fifteen feet from
the ground, and should be protected
against its own radiation to the sky, and
against the light reflected from neIghbor-
ing objects, or the ground itself" So says
Signal Officer Singleton, of st. Louis.
THE Worcester Alass.) Spy has the fol-
lowing account of one of its carriers: "a
novel and most faithful Spy carrier, it ap-
pears, has been put upon N Of the nor
them routes of this city, in the person of
an intelligent spaniel dog. This animal,
belonging TO a farmer near BARRIERS Cross
ing, comes to the regularly appointed place
near the eros ing every morning before
the passing of the Nashua train, and, tax
log the paperi in his mouth as it is thrown
out by the expressman, diligently conveys
it to the residence of his master. The
faithful canine, after receiving his charge,
watches the train with much apparent in
terest till it is nearly out of sight,
and then, giving a significant wag of
his tsil, darts for home with telegraphic
speed"
L. MARIA CHILD, in writing upon the
alb ;urdities of female fashions, says:
" Seven or eight years ago bonnets were
hung on the back of the head, and slipped
down on the shoulders, instead of being
perched on the forehead and tipping over
the nose, as they now are. At that time a
bride in the vicinity of Boston left her
fathers house soon sfter the marriage cere-
mony, and rode seven or eight miles in a
winter evening to the dwelling of her
husband. She became so silent curing the
latter part of the ride thatthe BRIDEGROOM
was alarmed, and, there being no house 10
sight, he drove as rapidly as possible.
Arrived at his own door, he lifted a corpse
from the sleigh. Her bridal bonnet hal
afforded no protection from the severe
cold, and her brain was frozeU."
A GRAVE MIsTAKE.-A queer mistake
occurred recently in g burial, by a family in
Cincinnati, If a young German woman
who had died at a pest-house, under the
supposition that they were burying their
mother, who was supposed to have died at
thas institution. The mistake occurred in
telegraphing a death from the pest house
to the Cincinnati Hospital, the patients
number being used instead of her name.
The wrong number was given, or taken, in
the sending or receiving of the message,
and It happened 10 be that of The old lady.
Notice that she had died was sent TO her
relatives. They, without caring to ex-
pose the body on account of the disease
(small-pox) hsd it turned over 10 them in
a nest burial case, and Immediately buried
it. After the usual season of close mourn
ing, they were startled by the announce
ment from the hospital that their mother
was in a fair way to recover.