South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The STONE TO DO A Coon TURN-The
grind stone.
BEER fills many bottle, and the bottle
many bier.
BY the payment of annual dividends the
Mutual Life, of Chicago, supplies insur-
ance at cost. Insure there.
DETROIT has post-ofice clerk named
Oliver Bedient. One of his commenda-
tions is that he is always o. Bedient.
MAKE friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you.
Remember the Washington Life.
TIE hair of the ex-Empress Charlotte
of Mexico has turned entirely white. She
is only thirty-one years of age.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Hartford
C0uT ant who has been sailing along the
Massachusetts, coast, wonders why Glou-
cester is spelled the way it is; and if that
is right, why shouldn't lobster be spelled
"lobcester?"
THE ex-King of Naples lives in the
same palace with his wife, Queen Maria,
but he has not exchanged a wCrd with her
for several years. The Pope some time
since refused to divorce them.
A SPRING looking exceedingly clear and
tempting, but strongly impregnatcd with
arsensic, was recently discovered in
Nevada A number of persons were
poisoned before its dangerous character
was known.
A JERSEY mother spread her shawl on
the beach, laid her infant on it, and then
went shell hunting; meantime the tide
rose, and when mamma looked around she
beheld baby and shawl floating. She
bounded after them, and saved both the
precious articles.
THE Postmaster of. Boston cautions
business men against the practice of open
ing letters In the area of the Post Office
and throwing the envelopes on the floor
Sharpers turn the practice to their advan-
tage, thus learning the numbers of the
boxes of the firms, and demanding their
| letters.
THE following is the inscription on the
| tombstone of Mary Jane, aged II years
months" /" in the Cape May Cemetery:
"She was not smart, she was not fair,
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
And empty stands her little chair
| She died Of eatin' watermelin.n
An old gentleman took huge volume of
history of thousand pages, with maps and
| illustrations, into bookstore, few days
ago, and, saying he wished another copy,
offered to lend it to them as long as they
needed it to print another by.
In the cemetery at North Chichester, N.
H., may be seen ten marble slabs in a row,
all of the same size, and all bearing the
name of Lake, whose ages, as recorded, are
as follows: so, 65, SO, So, SO, 50, 6S, 81, 70
and 81 years. Aggregate, 7l5years; aver
age, 711z years.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania,
has freshman eighteen years old, who
has secured means, by buying and work
| ing with his own hands a farm of eighty
acres near Omaha, to take him through
the course and have his capital left when
he finishes. After that he will return and
show the world what he knows about
farming.
A SINGULAR and beautiful incident oc-
Cured at a funeral in Cape Ann the other
day. Just at the conclusion of the SER
vices over the remains, a white dove sud
denly made its appearance, and after max
ing the circuit of the apartment, alighted
upon the head of the rector who had con-
Quoted the exercises. Thereit quietly re-
mained until removed and properly cared
for. 1t did not belong to the family, but
was the property Of neighbor who re-
sided on the same street.
IT appears from statements made in
Parliament, q short time ago, that the
present system of shilling kilograms adopt
ed by the British Government, when it
took charge of the telegraph lines of the
kingdom, is working finely. The lines
are crowded with messages, and from
$4,000 to $4,000 more are being now
earned than during the corresponding
weeks last year. The question of sixpen-
nv kilograms is under consideration, to be
tried as soon as there is q sufficient exten-
sion of the lines to accommodate the ex-
pected increase Of business.
TIE Corinne Journal asserts that, by
recent chemical analysis, it has been ascer
tanned that the water of Great Salt Lake is
losing its saline properties at rate that
if it continues in the same ratio as the,
last ten years have shown, will freshen it
altogether within the present century. A
theory is advanced by one of the \ ale
men that the salt in the lake has not been
deposited there more than three hundred
and fifty wears, and that the changes in
the lake from fresh to salt occurs at periods
of five to ten centuries 1t is also stated
that alkslies and salts of the basin will in
time give place to another condition
governed by the atmosphere, out of which
irop:c luxuriance and giant growth of tim
Der are to come.
APooR woman named Lalanne, of Epar-
ras village, Upper Pyrenees County,
France, hearing that her son, private in
an artillery regiment, made prisoner in
Sedan, had fallen i'll at Custrine, Prussia,
determined to go to see him, and, if pos
sible, bring him home. She set out On
foot. and, despite fatigue and trial of all
sorts. she succeeded in reaching her child
and bringing him back with her. Her
neiphbors could not easily express the ad
miration and sympathy felt for her. The
Minister of War, upon hearing of these
circumstances, gave fIlrlough to her son
and sent her money enough to procure
medical assistance and medicines for her
boy.
A FIRM that had agreed to furnish two
hundred tons of coal for the Albany Capt.
tol, after they had finished drawing, pre-
sented their bill to Colonel Cassidy, the
keeper of the building. "That will be all
ripht.n y said the Colonel, "when you deliver
twenty.six tons more" "What twenty
six tons ?" asked the contractors, in aston
ishment. "Why, it is just that amount
short" said the Colonel, 4" for I've taken
the pains to weigh it" Neither coaxing
nor bullying could change the Coloneps
determination, and after the delivery of the
twenty-six additional tons, the receipt was
signed.
VIeNRRoN, a man greatly renowned for
his strength, was recently killed at Bou-
logne while performing before large
audience, in a building erected on the
sands at the back of the Casino. His
great feat was the sustaining on his
| shoulder of q six-cwt cannon, while it
was being fired by his assistant. On this
occasion the assistant applied the match
too son. Vigneron had not time to settle
himself into his usual position, and, when
the discharge took place, the cannon jerked
violently aside, instead of recoiling in the
usual way. The conclusion felled the un-
fortunate cannon-holder, and inflicted
frightful injuries on the right side of his
head, from which he died in very short
| ime.
THE smallest steam engine in the world
is in possession of John Penn, Greenwich,
England. 1t will stand on three penny
piece Its base plate measures three-eighths
of an inch by about three-tenths. A few