South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

a LITTLE SHORT-GeQ6Tal ION
Thumb.
A CURE FOR DIssIPATIoN.-Stsy-at-
homeopathy.
WHAT is the worst kind of fare soldiers
can live on?-Warfare.
WHY is the crow a brave bird?-Be-
cause he never shows the white feather.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is one of the strongest, safest, most
successful ard best managed corporations
in New York.
THE new postal rates commence in
England October 5. A letter weighing
one I'M goes for one penny.
LIBERAL and equitable in all its trans
actions, the Mutual Life, of Chicago, is
not excelled by any company in the
country.
A PHYSICIAN of Washington estimates
the number of cases of cancer now under
treatment in the United States at 100000,
with an average of 1000 deaths a week.
EIGHTEEN copies of the first edition of
the Bible ever printed are still in exist
ence. They were printed at Metz, be-
tween the years 1440 and 1445. Mr. James
Lenox, of New York, owns one of the
copies, having purchased it at q cost OF
$3,209.
TEE Juniata County Jail, in Pennsylva-
mis-, has fallen into a state of dilapidation
through want of use. Recently a man was
confined in it for some trifling offense, but
he found his situation so lonesome that
he made use of his curved forefiuger as a
key, unlocked the door and left the place
in disgust.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, nov that the cares
of state trouble him no more, is develop
ing into a numerous old gent. On a re-
cent visit to Holly Lodge College, the boys
met to cheer him as he left, when he ad-
dressed them, saying that he could not
understand how Englishmen could call
the climate of Great Britain variable
when it rains all the time.
A SINGULAR illustration of the mutabil-
ity of human affairs is mentioned in the
Massachusetts, papers. A gentleman, some
years ago, in his prosperous days, gave
his town a tract of land for a public
square. The square still bears his name,
while he, penniless and friendless, is an
inmate of the town almshouse.
A CURIOUS medical experiment was
tried in Russia not long since, which Illus
trates the influence Of the mind on the
body. Some murderers were placed, with
out knowing it, in four beds where four
persons had died, of the cholera. They
did not take the dsesse. Afterward they
were told that they were to sleep in beds
where some persons had died of malig-
nant cholera; but the beds were, in fact,
new, and had not been used at all. New
ertheless, three of them died of the dis
ease within f0ur hours
A WEDDING GIFT
All that have this day is thine,
A heart whose faith has never falterd,
A love that knew no other shrine,
And through all changes lived unalterd.
Had | a thousand hearts TO give,
Thine all their love and faith should be,
Had / q thousand years to live
I'd gladly spend them all with thee.
There's not a Joy in all the world
Like that of love beyond dece wing,
Though bolt on bolt be at it hurled
The heart will t~riumph-shen believing.
This day my joy hath sovereign sway
A joy which but with thee 1 know,
The rapture Of a first fond love
Which, welded, makes a heaven below.
THE French have a story that Sir
Walter Scott once offered his youngest
daughter her choice between a dowry Of
100000 francs or "Quentin Durward."
She asked to read the MS. took it sur.
reptitiously to a publisher, found that he
would give her 10000 francs, and duti-
fully and meekly told her father thst she
would rather have the MS. than the
Sir Walter was deeply touched
by this mark of flial devotion. The
Paris journal which tells the story says
that a French girl would never have done
such a thing as that. She would simply
have taken the 100000 francs, and-she
would have found some way to have got
ten the romance also.
A MAN named David R. Spencer, with
his family, consisting Of a wife and three
children, arrived in Putnam County, Pa,
a few dsys ago, having moved all their
goods and family from East Ten
nessee, a distance of five hundred miles,
in a wheelbarrow. He vas Just twenty-five
days on the way. One of the children, the
youngest, he wheeled the whole distance,
while his wife and the other two children
walked every step of it. The wheelbar-
row was built according to his own notion,
the wheels being four feet high, and the
body of the concern standing thir y-four
inches from the ground. He says he left
Tennessee because he could only earn fifty
cents per day there, and having relatives
living in Putnam County, he Just thought
he would strike out for there, which he
dii in the above novel manner.
murder will out is and old adage,
and with rare exceptions has proved true
Often it is a very little thing, and one
most unlikely to be thought of, which af-
fords a clew to the crime, and fastens it
upon the guilty party. The fact that re-
Gently certain dentistry work upon the
teeth of a young woman found dead helped
prove the identity of the body suggests a
which many years age greatly excited
the public mind. A professor of a Boston
institution murdered DR.. Park
man, a prscticing physician. In various
by knife and fire, the murderer be-
lieved he had destroyed all trace of his
But the ashes of the furnace in
the building were examined by the detec-
lives, and there appeared the evidence of
and guilt-a set of falsh teeth, on
the gold of VIII Oh was imprinted the name
I" Parkmsn." A city dentist recognized
bis own work, and this, with other cir
cumstances, convicted the murderer.