Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
-The population Of Japan /. lust under

The population Of Japan Is just under
100000
Over 5000 Russians have settled in
and around Eureka, Cal. within year.
I'm Russia, in 1883, there were pub
lished 5sls books, Of which I7,s95,O50 copies
were printed.
English cutters who used to pay g, 600
2 ton for ivory have recently had to pay aS
JEFF. Davis grave is guarded night and
day By detail Of police. and the vigils viii be
kept up for at least four months.
AN Iowa girl, Flora Loak, has lust shot
3 man dead for serenading her grandfather on
the occasion Of his latest marriage.
There has been an extraordinary epi-
demic Of suicides in the German army Of late.
In one month % officers shot themselves.
1t is said that one of the English novel
lists is able to repeat from memory every word
he has written-and he is the author Of many
books.
Samuel TragdoD, who was serving life
sentence in the Iowa Penitentiary for killing ;
man for cheering for JeR Davis, has been par
doned by Governor Larrabee.
The New York Postofiee issued O,695
money orders last week for Europe, the amounts
sent footing up 81 ,O00,0O0 Most Of this money
was from successful immigrants.
Last year Germany granted only 1921
pensions. against EngIand's 9,779 and the
United States 20, 40 The number granted in
Germany has fallen Of 927 in hVesyears.
William Harrocks, a Philadelphia
brakeman, was killed by the cars. few days
ago. Three nights before his death one Of his
neighDors dreamed that he had been killed.
"A Town councillor Of Houtz, Bohemia,
who refused to- Join in an official vote Of con.
dolenee with the imperial house on the suicide
Of the Crown Prince Of Austria has been SEN
fenced to two months imprisonment.
The mother of Monsieur de Paris, Nine.
Deibler, died at her sons house near the prison
Of La Roquette week ago. aged 90 Her son, the
present executioner in chief. married the
daughter OF the headsman OF Algeria
The Pension Department has upon its
rolls the names of HiWidows OF revolutionary
soldiers who have been regularly paid pensions
years Of age and two 96. The youngest is II.
The Pope has received bequest of $780,
900 from Baron Lilienthal. The latter was by
extraction Hebrew, and made money in the
Union Generate speculation, and his desire was
to render the Pope independent Of Peters
pence. The will will very likely be disputed.
An Englishman has bought the con-
tents of the royal castle of Nuremberg, con-
tanning the most complete collection of tnstru-
ments OF torture extant, costing $4,000 in all.
There is library OF 1900 volumes, giving the
history Of crime and torture for many CEN
turies.
One Of Bishop Taylor's African mission
aries declares that while apparel does not make
the man, the want Of it renders the work Of
missionaries very embarrassing. when you
come across a man, !" he says, wearing only
stoVepipe hat and Congo Free State smile, It
Is hard to preach to him without feeling Of
self-consciOusness."
1t is related of Traverse City girl that
she has made her best fellow promise to come
around at noon for an answer to his proposal Of
several thousand times, but always in the eYen'
ing, and she viii marry no man unless she knows
how he looks by daylight.
IA party Of surveyors,in the wild Ugati-
maru country, in New Zealand, have discovered
and brought back to civilization q white woman,
who has been identified by scar on her body
as the daughter of settler, stolen 10 years ago,
when chlld, by the Maories. she was living
with Maori and his wife, and could not re-
member word Of English.
The diamond and pearl necklace worn
otobg oSSaoAOno
bilt has excited the greatest wonder and ad-
miration- The striking feature Of this neck
lace is that the diamonds are pierced through
the center and are strung alternately with the
pearls. It Is said that 1t required many weeks
Of patient labor to pierce each stone.
The figures given for the cost Of using
the great ordnance lead to . calculation that
the Benbow, which carries two u1ton guns
and other smaller arms, would in two ordinary
m
the value Of fl3QOOO. A modern naval engage
ment on the scale which more than one nation
is ready to engage in, would cost millions.
Two or three years ago the Russian
Government established credit banks for the
purpose Of assisting the owners Of large estates
who happened to be pressed for money The
effect has been that the number Of mortgaged
estates Is much greater than ever, and many
belonging to high mobiles are to be sold this
year for nonpayment Of the interest on loans.
"A Milwaukee clergyman who is ac-
quainted with Rev. Mr.. Milburn, the blind
chaplain Of the House Of Representatives,
states that the chaplain has no idea Of time.
he ls liable, ie is said, to preach for three
straight hours, and he is so confused in regard
to day and night that he Is likely to start out at
for the purpose Of making social
call.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has the most val
liable collection Of diamonds in the world ex-
cept the crown jewels Of Russia and Great
Britain One Of her necklaces is worth $780,
700 and her entire collection is valued ag S.
100000 The raresE gems from the casKets Of
he ex- Queen Isabella, Of Spain, and the ex-
Empress Eugenie are now owned by Mrs.
Stanford.
Extreme low water in the Mississippi
recently unearthed an historical relic at the
at CoIumbus XIV in the shana of
: huge, old-fashioned columbiad, which did
Iuty during the late war in the hands Of the
Those familiar with the history
4 the formidable weapon state that it played
conspicuous part in the battle Of Belmont Mo-,
n the fall of 1881, and that from its lofty perch
n the bluffs above Columbus it sent many
uge shell screaming across the river into
rants army, and that it had more to do with
eeping the gunbOats at bay than all others at
be fort. The gun is. the only remaining relic
Z the Confederate fOrtihcations erected at
columbus, KY, 30 years ago.