Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Wisconsin iron range has been tested and
proven genuine.
There are some drugs which are said to
be worth 5000 bottle and the druggists say
they don't make much on them either.
Her American tour will net Patti $780,
OOO This viii go long way toward her house
hold expenses in the Welsh castle with the un-
pronounceable name.
Waters in Washington hotels have
adopted a new method Of obtaining Christmas
tips. They place before helpless guests cups
bearing the legend Remember Me-
"A company is engaged in building a
new hotel in London which will cater exclu-
sively for American patron age. It is to be
called the Columbia and it is to have an Ameri-
can bar.
"A family at West Bethel, Me-. consists
of couple, s. and so years Of age respectively,
VINO live alone and do most Of their work. But
they do not lack for music or excitement-they
keep l5pet cats.
The Italian Admiral Albini thinks that
the future mAn-of-war will have double screws
and helm at each end, so that In battle it need
waste no time in turning around. Its sides viii
be unarmored.
"A social authority declares that man
can afford to dress badly If he is a oenius or a
ehump. But If be isn't one or the other Of
these two things, he must toe the mark OF
fashionable convention
John N. Matthews, who operates a
Government distillery in Madison county.
Georgia, says majority Of the distilIers Of the
Ssate VIII abandon the business If negro
omclals are forced upon them.
"A new process for burning coal without
smoke has lately been discovered. 1t consists
In sprinkling water containing special prepa-
ration of resin over the coal, and the result in
that there is no smoke, and the glow is as in
tense as coke.
In discussing lager beer German critic
insists that there is in the German vocabulary
no such word as lager, which he believes to be
purely Viennese expression. There is also
very little lager about a great deal of the beer
that is put out
What is known as the rhinoplastic
operation has been successfully performed by a
Brooklyn physician Last October he made an
entirely new nose Tor a woman, using the breast
bone OF ? chicken as a foundation The LADY
now has as good nose as anybody.
NO man or woman now living will ever
date document without using the figure g. 1t
now stands on the extreme right, 1859. Next
year it will be in the third place, where it will
remain ten years. It will then move up to the
second place, 1900, and there it viii rest 100
years.
Anyone can make the hand-grenade fire
exttnguishers, and at a small fraction Of the
prices charged in the market. Any light quart
bottle will serve to hold the solution, which is
composed Of one pound Of common salt, one
half pound Of saLammoniae, dissolved in about
two quarts Of water.
What will be the largest locomotive
ever built has been ordered by the st. Gothard
Railway Company Of ]. A. Mafit, Of Munich.
1t Will be large double compound tender 10
comotiVe on the Mallet system. The service
weight will be 95 tons, and the engine will run
on SIX axles coupled in two motor groups.
"A South Carolina man who was curious
to know Just how much stuff an alligator could
get away with when he felt well, fed out hind
quarter of COW, seven chickens, a sheep four
geese and a hogs head before the reptile
had died Of poison, but this didn't trouble the
gator any.
The latest electric device is for detecting
fires. When the temperature of a room
reaches dangerous point the composition in
the little button starts the bell to ringing and
indicates the number Of the room in the
ONCE. The alarm is kept up until the
temperature OF the room is reduced to below
the danger point.
"A man named Pawlikovski, who died
lately at Wloclawek, Poland. and who worked
In the fields until last year, is said to have been
ll5 years Of age. 1t is further related that his
brother died at the age of 116, and his father at
10, while three surviving sisters are aged re-
families in Europe.
An officer high in army circles suggests
that as solution of the Indian question, the
red man be enlisted in the regular army. He
says that they make good soldiers, but very
poor farmers. The American army has found
the former to be a serious fact while the
Interior Department has made almost an utter
failure OF converting them into farmers.
"A Brooklyn girl, who is an heiress, but
whose property is in care Of a trust company,
applied to the President for money with which
to buy a sealskin sacque. He refused, on the
gro un that it was luxury. The girl then ap-
piled to the Supreme Court, through a lawyer,
for permission, and it was granted, and in less
than two hours the young lady was wearing the
best one she could find.
The French Academy gives q prize Of
ZOO francs every year for the best verses upon
whatever subject it may select. This year the
assigned theme was labor. but of the 200 poets
who entered the contest not one considered
labor in any other light than that of pessimism.
They all dwelt upon its pains, its hsrdships, its
1rudgery and its miseries, without once touch
ing upon its dement's, its duties or its saving
There are ten GENTLE churches in Salt
Lake Of the leading denominations. The Meth
odists the Presbyterians, the Baptists and the
gatiOnalists-through the New West
Association-al1 have mission
schools, the Methodist being a boarding school,
Hammond Hall, the gift of Charles G. Ham
nond. Of Chicago, is the Oldest school Of the
New West, which has beside it two or three
yard schools. These various mission schools
eem to be full.
The famous gold mines of the Province
,f Carabaya, Department Of Puno, which were
'ormerly worked extensively by the Spaniards
Ind Portuguese but were subsequently
IbaI dUned. partly on account Of the attacks Of
avages and partly because Of revolutions are
low exciting great interest. Many quartz and
,lacer mines are being taken up as, with the
dvance of civilization and improvements in
he roads. enterprise is taking rapid strides in
hat district, where there is immense mineral
nd vegetable wealth.
The lash has never been abolished as
means Of discipline in penal institutions Of
Germany. Generally they use thong 2Oinehes
ong, fastened to q handle yard long. The
ash is thickest at the end. The thickness
aries according to the provinces. But the small
st lashes are two inches thick Only in Saxony
re the dimensions fixed by law, the handle
here being 80 inches long and the lash 36
lches. The maximum number Of blows Is left
o the Judgment of the prison directors but it
lust not exceed Is in Meeklenbourg and Olden-
ourg, 30 In Saxony and 90 in Prussia.