Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-01-07
OUR AGENTS.
FACT AND FANCY.

Women's rites-matrimony and divorce.
London had 1873, ,75l paupers on the 4th Of Nc
yember.
The census of Florida shows an Indian popu-
latou of 202.
Louisiana has "grand trunk railroad -
eleven miles long.
"Pulverized dog is the latest name for sau-
sage in ST. Joseph.
The colored Roman Catholics are a numerous
body in Washington.
The nearest the Parsians can now come to
mutton is little weather.
Fooling with a horse pistol was the YER
dict of coroner's jury in Utica.
Lynn, Massachusetts,, has shoemaker who
has worked steadily for seventy-iour years.
On all the walls of the Tuileres, in Paris, in
all directions, is written - To let because OF
folly.
According TO the programme, there four
ecpses arranged for lS7l-two each Of the sun
and moon.
Railways down east convert their old ties into
charcoal, and thus make them yield hand
some revenue.
The New Jersey Colonization Society has or
its books the names of 200 negroes who want
to go to Liberia.
There are seventy cigar manufactures in San
Francisco, employing 1000 workmen, of whom
1900 are Chinese.
Only once in the last twenty years has the
upper Mississippi been open so long for navi-
CATION as this season.
A couple in Newport, Rhode Island, recently
celebrated their pearl wedding, having been
married seventy years.
Iowa now has three thousand miles of railroad
peterborough to extend fifteen times across
the breadth of England.
The woman's rights agitation in this country
commenced twenty years ago in a Convention
at Worcester, Massachusetts.
The difference between a bouquet of flow ers
and the " bouquet " of wine is, that one makes
a nosegay aud the other gay nose.
A student in the Michigan Agricultural col
1ege has realized 81 900 from the sale of pat
ent gate-latch, invented by himself
Mrs. Justice-of-the-Pe Peace Morris of Wyoming
for weighty personal reason, has retired to
private life. 1t weighed about ten pounds.
Statistics in the Chicago papers show that
1910 buildings have been erected in the city
since January lst, 1870, at a cost Of nearly S.,
900, 900.
The marriage of Mrs. Tower, of Lowell, Mass
divorced wife, was recently nuifed because
she had contracted it without the sanction of
the Supreme Court.
A man in Lee, Massachusetts,, has secured a
judgment for $3.50 against negbor for putting
a scarecrow beside the road by which his horse
was scared to death.
"You ought to lay up something for a rainy
day" said anxious father TO his prohigate
son. "And so l have" replied the youth.
"WhatP' can umbrella"
They talk good deal about the twenty-eight
inch beet they have grown in California, but a
policeman in New York, according to Punehnelio
has beat three miles long.
country girl coming from the field was told
by her cousin that she looked as fresh as a daisy
kissed by the dew. ''No, indeed, - was the sim
pie reply "t that wasn't his name"
Atmospherical knowledge says the Danbury
Mass NewS, is not thoroughly distributed in
our schools. boy being asked " What is
mistY vaguely responded can umbrella"
Pierce City (Kansas) gentleman entered a
ball room lately, and incidentally remarkiug,
al haven't had any fresh meat to-day" began
firing into the crowd lie killed four men.
/" Mr.. Jones, understand you said that | sold
you barrel of cider that had water in it %
"No, no, was the reply, " only said that you
sold me barrel OF water with little cider
in it,"
The New York Commercial Adrertiser SAYS :
The cable of 1866 is suffering badly, and the
cable of S65 has ceased working. Ananias was
struck dead for lying, but the cable is struck
dumb"
The District Circuit Court has struck a severe
blow at the citys chief business interest, by
making a rule requiring the personal attendance
in court of parties to divorce salt and theil
witnesses.
Miss Isabella Smith, who claimed that she haC
been injured in her feelings to the extent o
5000 through the failure of one John Z
Campbell tdmarry her, was awarded the sum
$4,000 by a jury at Wayerly, Iowa.
The last kerosene horror is reported from Per
ry county, Pennsylvania, where, as the result 0
an explosion of kerosene lamp, the dwelling
house was burned down, and the inmates,
wife and two children, were roasted to death.
man in Detroit told his little boy, ten years
old to hold the lines while he went for a glass
OF beer. The boy waited three hours, then
drove to a hotel and ordered dinner remarking
"The old man is on of them drunks of
his'n."
A MAN and his wife riding near railroa
track at Columbus, Indiana, got into an argu.
ment as to whether they could cross the ira OK
before the train along. She said they
could; but he sa( Martha, it is impossible II
He was correct The whole town turned out to