Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-svrscu.e ice dealers have started an /


exchange.
Hundreds Of jelly fish of new species
were driven ashore by recent storm on the
Oregon coast.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ledbetter, who died re-
Gently near Washington, Ind. was the mother
of q children.
A citizen of Akron, o., has applied to
the police to arrest Satan for hanging about
his house o. nights.
The once fighting Modoc Indians have
become industrious farmers in the past II
years, and half Of them have professed Christi
anity.
Six hundred and fortY-nine converts
were recently received into membership OF
colored church in Baltimore the Central Meth
odist Episcopal
DO not envy the driver of an ice wagon
his cool place in summer In four m onths last
season 42 drivers in New York City were>at-
tackled with rheumatism.
Another case of fading an egg within
an egg is reported from Hanover, Pa. Instan-
ces of this kind are becoming so common that
they are scarcely worth reporting
The longest train that has been heard Of
for some time was one which passed over the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
composed of lib open and box cars.
Mrs. Retta Mckee, who was found in
the Madison county, Indiana, asylum, has been
returned to Clinton county,, Ohio, to answer
the charge of having stolen ten horses and
other property.
The Maine ice eropis estimated at 1, ILL.,
900 tons, a small yield. OF this the Kennebeo
houses, which have a capacity of ], ISL 900 tons,
have but $4,000. The PenObseot crop is put az
25OOO tons and the coast crop at 100000
Mrs. Sarah Mallory died at Long Pine,
Neb., recently, at the advanced age of 1O6
years. She was the daughter Of Colonel
Wright, of revolutionary fame, and the widow
of Major Mallory, who was a private IN the
war of 1776
In an obscure street on the extreme west
side of New York City there is dealer in shoes
who bears the proud name Of McAllister. By
strange coincidence the number OF his house
is 400. "McAllisters-400" is the sign above
the doorway.
Compressed vegetable parchment is be-
ing exper1mented with for bearings on Prussisn
railways. An emulsion of water and oil, any
of the mineral oils. is used as lubricant. The
parchment soon becomes impregnated with oil,
and Is able to go long time without renewal
OF fabrication. Superiority to metal is claimed
for it.
Vancouver, B. c., is the youngest city
Of the Dominion and the western terminus Of
the great Canadian transcontinental route. It
is but three years old and one year from its
DlrLn II was totally destroyed Dy Qre. Dut ike
Chicago it Sprung from the blaekened ashes of
ruin, and to-day it is a thriving city Of 1900
inhabitants.
There will be exhibited at the Texas
Spring Palace, which is to be built at Fort
Worth, q gigantic map of the Lone Star State.
The women of Texas are making the map on
canvas, and the name of each of the 264 coun-
ties will be worked "with some beautiful
product made in the county" One county,
Tom Green, is larger than the States Of Massa-
chusetts and Connections combined.
I'm Sir John Sinclair's 'Code of Health
and Longevity are to be found the biographies
of Thomas Parr, died at l52; of the Countess of
Desmond, who made the journey from Bristol
to London after she had passed her I4Gth year.
and of Peter Z0rtan, a Hungarian born in 1531
and died in 1723. aged l85 years. The Scotch
bishop, Kentigern :beatiied under the name
Of st. Mungo, also lived to the ageo 1S5
On the evening of May 20, 1866. the
citizens Of Boston celebrated the repeal Of the
stamp act by hanging l08 lanterns in the Old
Liberty Tree on Essex street. One of the Ian
terms, which, according to its inscription, was
hung on the west bough, opposite Frog lane"
has been in the Hunneman family ever since,
and has just been presented to the Bostonian
Society by the widow and children of the late
Joseph H. Hunneman, of Roxbury.
Since the death of NJ. Chevreul, at the
age of nearly 103, there has been renewed inter-
est in the statistics of longevity and a greater
disposition to give credenee to the stories of
persons who have survived for century or
more. Chicago comes to the front with GER
tihoste returned to the Registrar Of Vital
Statistics March go of the death Of Daniel
Burke, aged LA years. and a local contemporary
tells still more wonderful tale of four mem
bers Of an Ohio family, all living, whose ages
aggregate 40 years.
When the famous old grasshopper
weather vane fell from the Faneuil Hall spire,
he okba dox n foo
of pieces of paper. a lot of oakum, a Chinese
coin with az. Vinar" stamped on its face, a
8-cent silver piece dated 1852 and a piece OF
copper roughly inscribed Boston 1852" The
grasshopper will soon be put in its old place,
and will contain specimens of all the coins Of
1888, the names OF the present members of the
Boston city government, and copies of Boston
newspapers.
1t was long thought that blood oranges
were produced by grating an orange tree with
a pomegranate slip, but it is now said that
there is not the slightest foundation for this
belief. The blood orange. which is merely a
variety of the sweet orange obtained by culti-
walton, was first raised by the Spanish garden
ers in the Philippine Islands: when 1t was first
seen in Europe it created sensation among
the superstitlous who saw all sorts of disasters
foretold by the bloody fruit. In the last CEN
tury blood orange trees brought exceedingly
large prices.
"A discovery of considerable interest to
antiquarians was made yesterday by force Of
men engaged in making excavations for sewer
connections in East Liverpool, o. At dis
tance of about ten feet below the surface they
came upon a stone about the size Of saucer.
1t was smooth upon the upper surface and bore
the following in plainly legible characters:
'17p0; A. Azdell; Camp Rett" In addition to
this, there is carved upon the stone q rude
representation of human face, which the now
long dead artist may have intended to repre-
sent the moon. It is evident that some other
writing was placed upon the stone, but it can
not now be deciphered.
John Hsrkins, of Boston, ordered $50
suit of clothes, to be delivered c. O. d. When
the clothes were delivered Harkins gave the
boy $50 bill in payment. AS the boy was go-
ing, Harkins suggested that the bill be put
into an envelope for greater safety. The boy
handed the bill to him and he apparently put
it into an envelope. When the envelope was
opened by the tailor it contained a 81 bill.
Harkins was arrested. charged with having
substituted the 81 for the $50 bill, and was con-
vieted of larceny of the clothes. When he was
brought up to be sentenced his council moved
for new trial on the ground that the prisoner
was not guilty of larceny, as he did not steal
the clothes; it was not larceny OF the money,
as he did not steal it; it could hardly be false
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