Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


City of Mexico one day last month
-Philadslphia Hibernia Fire Engine
Company, still in existence, was organized in
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has decided to
have ball in her stable at Newport on
August 81
"A 'highly-connected and respectable
young woman" Of Freeport, N. Y, has been
arrested for horse-stealing.
Thomas Furlong, of Pasadena, Cal, il
an ardent amateur naturalist. His latest addi-
tion to his collection was 800 tarsntulas that he
Matched In an incubator
"A 30-cent check for doughnuts was all
C8sar's wife got from her husband for four
weeks: So, at least, Mrs Caesar testified in
providence court the other day.
-"Birch bark" lawn parties are the
latest In Maine. The invitations are written
on birch bark and the refreshments served
from plates OF the same material.
lit is stated by one of the guides at
the Capitol in Washington that Is brides an
statuary hall each day of the year.
"A horse of Mr.. Howell, Dover (Del)
miller, recently lost an ear in an accident, but
this did not depreciate its value, as the enter
prising owner at once cut an ear from an old
punaIo robe and successfully grated 1t TO the
dismembered organ.
For 2s years Joe McKinsey, of Silver
Greek, Mich, has owned two mares which we're
nall sisters and were marked Just alike. Last
.,rots rotsuay az tney were both killed BY the same
service togetner rested in the same grave.
The California papers say that the brig
Natalia. which foundered in the harbor Of
Monterey in 1884 is to be raised, or at least
what Is left Of her copper sheathing is to be
brought to the surface. 1t is said that this is
the same vessel that brought Napoleon back to
France from the Isle of Elba In lSl5.
There is q whistling we'll at Logan
county, Kansas which warns people of ap-
preaching storms from to u hours in advance.
II is 1875 feet deep, and sends out a strong cur
rent OF air. which, as it escapes through the
apertures about the pump, whistles in a loud,
nute-1Ke tone that is distinctly audible to
every person in the township.
Who ever heard of cheese mine? Yet
one has been discovered at Palmyra, Wis It
isn't precisely q mine; in fact, being a large
quantity Of cheese which was buried many
years ago beneath a factory and there in some
manner forgotten. 1t has Just been discovered
and the valuable product Is being quarried out
Dy the present owners of the factory.
In lecture at New York young con-
vert from Brahamism, Mr.. Vishun, gave the
number Of Christians now in India, including
and said that if the increase in the number of
should continue as in the last ten
years, the whole Of India with its population
OF over 2500Oo,0O0. would be Christianized
within century.
-Elmira has peculiar case Of love and
marriage between a school principal and one of
her former pupils. Miss Hannah Rhodes was
45 years old when she approached the matri-
monial altar. She had been teacher in the
public schools OF this city before her husband,
Thomas +. Connolly, was born He is about n
anS me oUgssr he mot .5
ment at the hands of his present spouse.
j. r. Tobin, of Tacoma, is likely to in
stitute suit against a telegraph company He
received message saying: "Sallie died the
9th." Sallie is the Christian name of his
wife. He threw up important contracts and
started Tor San Francisco. where the telegram
was dated. There he learned that the message
should have read SAILED the 29th," and that It
was sent for the purpose Of Notifying him that
his wife and family had departed for Tacoma.
The dried leaves of the coca plant,
which is cultivated on the slopes of the Andes.
form AN important article of internal trade
among the various native tribes. 1t is estima-
ted that not less than 80 OOO 900 pounds are con-
sumed annually After the morning meal men
and women alike take mouthful of the leaves
mixed with a little lime; fresh leaves are added
throughout the day. and without any add jon
al food the consumer is enabled to do
days work.
"A gentleman from Russell "
Georgia, informed q Columbus repore.
Mr.. ]. F. Williams, of INLAND owned to-.
which had grown fat from eating tobaceA-
hogs are kept in a pen and have been rsgnlae
tobacco chewers for several months. At first
the hogs did not seem to relish the weed, bus
soon they became very fond of it. and now they
seem to be perfectly miserable when their
owner neglects to give them their daily allow
ance of tobacco. The hogs began to fatten as
soon as they became tobacco chewers.
There seems to be an extraordinary
large crop of snakes this season. Along the
on the east side of the Hudson
valley, near Greenwood Lake. persons who are
looking for them can find pilots, adders, rattle
snakes and other poisonous reptiles IN great
abundance. John Hallock. a farmer, who lives
1T Greenwood Lake. one day Last week killed
arge adder and pilot snake. He said after
snakes when he did not kill a dozen rattlers
Ind as many pilot snakes. One day recently
'wo rattlesnakes were killed between Stanhope
md Waterloo. One had II rattles and the
,ther q.
Two cedar doors, over 4SO years old,
rave been received by Mead & Taft. at Corn
vail, N. Y, from Mexico, to be placed in the
esidence Of Mrs. r. 8. Hays. at Millbrook,
Duchess county. These doors were taken from
me of the old Catholic monasteries which were
rected in Mexico directly after the great mas
acre in the year 400. Each door is feet by
eet in size and inches thick and their weight
) 800 pounds each. The stiles and rails are
worked from solid wood and are fastened with
vooden nails. There were probably no hinges
Ehen these doors were made, as they appear to
ave been hung on pivot. The wood carving
plain, and deep. and one door bears fine
pecimen of the art in the form of a cross of
caves. These relics were purchased by Mrs
lays during recent tour through Mexico.