South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

for eight years, recently found each other
IN a Chicsgo police court, both charged
with drunkenness.
UNTIL the 1st of July, seven persons
committed suicide this year at German
watering places, in consequence of losses
sustained at the gaming table.
A MAN in Galveston, the other day, who
complained of being over heated, affected
a permanent cure by drinking six glasses
of ice water, without the aid of a physi-
clan. He was cool when the Coroner
came.
WATERBURY, Conn, has Bachelors
League" whose articles of association
punish, by heavy fine, any member being
seen twice consecutivelv in company with
the same woman, and with expulsion from
the order for third offence.
RELATED BY MARRIAGE
=" As my wife a: the window one day,
| Stood watching man with monkey,
/ A cart came along with broth Of 8 boy
| VINO was driving stout little donkey.
To my wife then spoke, by way Of Joke,
| There's a relation Of yours In that carriagep
To which she replied, as the donkey she spied,
Ah, yes-a relation by marrisger"
In driving a London underground rail-
road tunnel, we are told that in one part
OF the line the cuttings were made through
mass of skulls and bones, sixteen feet in
the ground. In another place forgotten
secret passage, twenty feet wide, was dis
covered, supposing to date from the four
teenth century.
A WOMAN with three lighted candles in
each hand, traversed the streets of New
Bedford on her knees the other evening,
not1n payment off an election bet, as might
be readily supposed, but as a religious
penance in fultillment of VOW for the
safe return of her husband from sea.
A sCHooLIAsTER in Bridgeport, Conn
who asked a small pupil of what the sur
face of the earth consists, and was prompt
ly answered, "Land and water" varied
the question slightly, that the fact might
be impressed on the boys mind, and
asked, What, then, do land and water
make?" to which came the immediate re-
sponse. "Mud."
As specimen of Berkshire old age, the
Pittsfeld (Mass.) EIgls says that one day
recently, MIR. Cecil Spring, of Worthing-
ton, aged ntnety-six, went into the field of
Horace Spring, in Hinsdale, with his son, |
grandson and great grandson, and assisted |
IN moving field of grass that yields two |
tons to the acre. The old gentleman took |
the lead of the four, and4he way the grass |
went down before these four generations !
was caution.
The tomato vine, it Is stated by the New
York EceniHg Post, is covered with a col
orless dust or dye, perfectly undistin-
gulshable by the eye, and only to be
recognized after immersion in water, to
which it communicates dark green color.
After picking few tomatoes, the hands,
though in contact with the vines, will ap-
pear perfectly clean. If the hands, how
ever, be washed the water, it is stated,
will exhibit a decidedly green shade.
AN aged woman in North Adams,
Mass, relates that many years ago, while
attending social dance, ayoung mechanic
asked her hand for one OF the dances. She
Indignantly refused, feeling very much
mortified that he should make such an
offer. Years have passed, and she has
filed an honorable but humble position in
life, while the young man whom she then
scorned has been Governor of Massachu-
sets.
THE ex-Empress Carlotta has recently,
IN her insanity, caused her guardians and
relatives good deal of trouble. She in
sists in remaining in the open air all the
time, and any attempt to take her back to
her apartments brings on frightful parox.
ysms of rage, in which she refuses to take
food for several days in succession. The
Queen of Belgium passes every day six or
seven hours in the company of the unfor-
tunste lady. Carlotta's favorite language
is Spanish, and, to crafty her, both the
king and queen have learned to speak that
tongue since her return from Mexico.
A MAINE paper relates little romance.
It is to the effect that New York mil
lionaire, who was spending the summer with
MS wife and daughter at one of the Dirigo {
States most noted watering places, was !
called away on business, and before going !
gave his daughter some $500 as pin-m
This did the daughter promptly send to
ler lover in New York city, with request
hat he should present himself forthwith {
Thus advised, so he acted, and on arriving
le and his true love hied them away to a {
clergyman and were made one. And now !
hey await the paternal blessing.
A WOMAN living in Portland, Me-, keeps
! brood of ducks, and of one of them the !
Press tells the following: Lately she no !
iced that the largest and finest Cne of the /;
)rood appeared to be ailing. She doctored i,
t to the best of her knowledge, but in :
rain. The duck finally died. The woman, :
,eing anxious to ascertain the cause of the :
owls death, cut it open, when singular
light presented itself. In the crop OF the
luck was large frog, like any other lex =
ept that it was covered with very thin =
kin. through which the blood vessels 4;
ould be plainly seem, completely filling :
he crop, thus causing suffOcatiOn. 1t :
GEMS that when the duck was young it :
must have swallowed little polly-wog, ;
nd this polly-wog had grown and thrived
q its singular habitation-
THE ST. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette says: "a +
ay or two ago, gentleman, who had a
been used to eating genuine \
ountry butter, arrived in the city, and put 4
ID at one of our hotels. When dinner a
Tas announced he took his seat at the .
able, and after gazing with evident de- n
ght on the lengthy and attractive bill of +
are, made his order 1t was promptly a
lied, and he was indulging in the hope of n
luxurious feast, when, helping himself 4
D some butter, along with the unctuous n
lass, a long hair, evidently from some n
uman Uranium, came curling out on his n
nife. He held it up, gazed suspiciously b
{ it for a moment, and then motioned for n
he waiter. The latter individual prompt q
7 entered an appearance, when the guest, II
olding the knife up before him, and 4
ointing to the capillary attached to it,
in voice loud enough to be 1c
card by the whole table: Look here, O.
~ friend, have you any bald-headed but s
II about the house p" .,
THE st. Paul Pioneer says: "a strange g
use of equine affection and solicitude was o.
elated to US yesterday A teamster near b
he fair grounds, has for some years driven
certain span of horses about the city. A A
lOrt time since, he turned them out upon el
he prairie to feed during the night, and 81
ext morning was disappointed at not find f
lg them, as usual, near his house. He a.
sarched for them in vain for eleven days, N
nd had about come to the conclusion that Ii
ley had been stolen, when he discovered n
ne of the span, about balf way down the b
river bank "a short distance from Il
is stable. Upon approaching the spot
e found the mate lying dead away down n
the foot of the bank. Examination rs
onvinced the man that the horse hsd &C :
dentally fallen over the bank, and broken "
8 neck, on the evening of the disappear O
nee of the span, and the remaining horse
ad descended as far as it dared to go to.