The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20
Miscellaneous Items.

Our nurses are our first theologians.
BEARS are besieging McMinnvine,
Tenn.
The English Parliament is to meet
February ID.
THERE are 1000 doctors in the Uni
ted States.
The Pennsylvania Legislature meets
next week.
In Florida the people are making
"orange brandy"
AN Illinois fire company elected a
lady foreman.
MISERY requires action, but happiness
seeks for repose.
The Boston Journal advocates max
ing voting compulsory.
BUFFALo meat is in the market in
various Western cities.
A New ORLEANS fortune-teIler netted
81, 200 in twenty days.
CALIFORNIA is building one-story,
earthquake proof churches.
CAIRO has ten-year-old boy with
whiskers four inches long.
THE breadth of winter wheat sown in
Ohio Is large, and the wheat is in ex
eellent condition.
A AGFTED hand-organist at Detroit ac-
companies himself on iewsharp.
SIX women have Just been elected on
a school committee in Lynn, Mass.
OLD maids are described as "embers
from which the sparks have fed
THErefuse potato pouace from starch
factories is to be made into paper.
A NITRo-eLYCERINE explosion in Hun
gary recently killed forty persons.
The area of the bituminous coal-felds
in Iowais twenty thousand square miles.
AMERICAN pianos are popular in Eng
land, and in many London drawing
room.
The class ID at Yals college has lost
five members by death within year.
The population of Ohio, according
to the corrected returns, is 1853, 6S1.
K1Dgloves, of heavy texture, are worn
by sensible women for the promenade.
MEMPHIS proposes to institute a mer-
chants exchange and a vigilance COM
mittee.
BALLOONS still regularly leave Paris.
France with mails and military intel
hgence.
AN American manufactures torpedoes
and other war material at CONSTANT
nople.
THE old bell house in Capitol Square,
Richmond, has been converted into a
paper warehouse.
THE last pier of the st. Charles CMo.) }
bridge rests on a solid rock 6S feet be-
low the surface.
THERE are at presentin Germany up
wards of 25,000 widows and 10000
fatherless children
The Mississippi has already been
jammed with ice opposite ST. Louis, so
thatpeople could cross.
A CONVENTION was lately held in Ore
gon to devise means for elevating the
Indians of the Pacific coast.
The largest and most beautiful Meth
odist church in Cincinnati has 90
pews, ofwhich every fifth one is free.
IF we may rely on the st. Josph Her
aid, "the prowling wolves howl the
notes of starvation" II Alaska.
THE Campagna around Rome is to be
drained, and made the source of agri-
cultural fruitfulness instead ofmalaria.
AT the battle of Gravelotte, trum-
peter was killed by ball which went
in at the mouth of his instrument.
THE Chinese relieve neuralgia and
gout by applying oil ofpeppermint over
the part affected, with camels half
pencil.
A NRw-HAMPsHIRE man is said to
have sold his right to chair restorer
for 800, 900, after making small for
tune by Its manufacture.
A LARGE steel-rolling mill is In pro-
gress of construction in South Bethle-
hem, Leigh county, Penn. When com
pleted, it will be /, 500 feet long; wing
40 feet in length. One Of the stacks,
124 feet high, was finished last week
"MUrroS HAMS" are among the
smoked luxuries of Georgia, and they
promise to be, as articles of food semi
to other quarters in large numbers, q
source of commercial revenue to the
State.