South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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which travelled $50 miles in thirty hours.
NEW YORK has twenty nine miles of
water front and over seventeen miles of
saloons.
THE Washington is purely mutual, and
divides its profits among its policy-holders
only.
A DAUGHTER of a New York stock
broker exults over the fact that she has
been to Europe six times, and has never
seen the inside of her mothers kitchen.
THE largest telescope in the world is
now being made at Cambridge, Mass, for
the government. Three or four years will
be required to complete it.
An Irish magistrate, c~ensuring some
boys for lettering in the street, said: "If
everybody were to stand in the streets.
how could anybody get by?"
A FELLOW tried to hang himself in
London not long ago, and the magistrate
before whom he was taken very properly
ordered him to pay the man who cut him
down ten shillings for the job.
In the midst of a stormy discussion, a
gentleman rose to settle the matter in dis
puts. Waving his hand majestically over
b excited disputants, he began: "Gen-
tlemen, all l want is common sense"
Exactly, that is precisely what you
wantr' was the immediate response.
Mr.. W. W. THOMAS, Jr, the Maine
Commissioner of Immigration, has been
presented by a Swede with a watch, triang-
ular in form, having the dial near the
vertex of n of the angles. By looking
through an aperture in the dial, the day OF
the month is ascertained, and beneath the
dial is an arrangement which shows the
day of the week.
A YOUNG lady in the singers gallery of
q church al Lyons, N. Y, while looking
OVER the railing, the other Sunday, to see
what the congregation had to wear that
was new, lost her balance and fell plump
upon q deacon's head and shoulders. She
bounded into the aisle, however, without
receiving any injury, and Joined in the
concluding hymn.
WHILE c~ompositors and pr~oofreaders
are human, typographical errors will be
in order. The Food Journal, published
In London, has to apologize for a very fun
ny blunder of the types. In a recent
number it credited the Boston Journal Of
Chemistry with the responsibility ofa mon
strous pea, measuring thirteen and onehalf
inches in circumference 1t should have
been pear.
In the town of Newbury, Mass, is a
dwelling which was erected In 1862. 1t
was used for a garrison in the time of the
Indian wars. The stairs are made o fblocks
of oak timber ten inches wide and ten
inches thick. 1t is now occupied by the
seventh generation of the family that built
it, the Christian name of each owner being
Benjamin.
In Titusville, Pa, when a man owns
four or five hundred wells he is generally
considered well of, and ''barrelsful of oil"
is the synonym of pockets full of rocks"
1t is customary to speak of the fashiona-
bic young lady as wearing an eighty-six
barrel opera suit and when a boy wants to
have his teeth plugged he gets a requisi-
ton on the "old man" for a couple of bar
rels of oil. The system being abundantly
fabricated, works very smoothly.
A CITIZEN of Albany, N. Y, has been
particularly unfortunate in the marriage
relation. His first wife killed herself
thirty-four years ago; nine years after, his
second wife ran away from him, and died
of consumption in Illinois; six years later
his third consort was drowned. In 1858
his fourth helpmate was killed, and he,
having been convicted of the murder, was
sent to prison for life, but pardoned out.
In another decade the fifth partner mystic
riously disappeared and very recently the
sixth idol of his soul sought peace and OBJ
fvion by hanging herself to a bedpost.
REV. MIR TALMADGE told his Brooklyn
people IN q sermon, the other day, that the
Sabbath evening previous a woman wa
taken with commissions in the vestibule of
the church after service. In the delirium
that followed she kept repeating: Eight
centsi Eight cents 1 wish 1 could get il
donel l am so tiredi l wish 1 could get
some sleep, but l must get it donel Eight
cents Eight centsf' 1t was afterward
found that she was making garments for
eight cents apiece, and that she could
make but three of them in a dayl And
the physician said she evidently needed
food more than medicine.
TWENTY years ago a Boston tailor retir-
ed from business on account of failing
health. For a few years past he had suf-
fered much from dizziness. A short time
ago a surgeon discovered and extracted
from his body q common sized needle,
with double thread four inches in length,
attached. As he had used no needle of
the kind for twenty years, the surgeon
supposed he must have swallowed it an
terror to the period, and is of the opinion
AA1s LIZ WO4h4nS vi tAC ACO1lC duQ buICdu
through the system caused the dizziness.
Since the operation the patient feels great
ly relieved, and is improving in health.
An odd law-case was lately tried in Biz
minghsm, England. A laby lost her well
beloved parrot; and, n day, she saw it
upon the stall of q bird-fancier who would
give it up. An action was brought.
The lady declared on oath that her bird
unnKQ Enn1fch TIKI hid MO-, ~ 49, |
that this particular Poll conYersed only in
Spanish; but being brought into court, it
was abashed, and opened not its mouth.
It was then given in charge to an inspec-
tor, who reported that upon recovering
its lost parts of speech, it burst into
" Pretty Polly" Beautiful Polly" [" Kiss
GOOD morning." "What's the
time?" There was nothing of the noble
Spanish about this, and the cracker eating
creature was handed over to its mistress,
without wen the formality of a -ex-
A GENTLEMAN of New York city, witty
and agreeable, but with a single impedi-
ment of speech, had it In his heart to be-
come the possessor af a pure black-tan
for which he was willing to pay a
liberal price. A superior little brute was
brought to him by q d~og-fsncier, who de-
handed for it the modest price of fifty
dollars. Not being disposed to check for
that figure unless sure that the dog was a
good natter, he proposed to the party to
meet him next day at a pit where dogs and
rats were brought for sanguinary contest,
and try him with a rat. Agreed. Next
day u friend, having obtained a first-class
rat of the " wharf" species, had him con-
Veyed to the theatre of strife. Both were
1t the same time thrown into the arena
After being pursued for a moment the rat
made a spring at the terrier, caught
him on the lip, and made him howl with
pain In short, she had him" Our pur-
chaser turned and said, al DIDN'T think
d-d-dog's good for anything. DID,
1ont you want to b-buy my r-rat?"
The Boys Fourth Of July.
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