Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


wichita, Kan, claims to have A
women's ciubs
The total receipts of the Eiffel Tower
since the opening, on May ID 70 70 Juiy ~
amount to 242i. .73S francs.
According to the usual basis Of COM
putation. Detroit's new city directory shows
population of go, 492.
The School of Medicine of Boston U mi
versity has graduated 47s physicians. Nearly
one-half of these are women.
John K. Davis, of Cincinnati, is said to
be very proud OF the fact that he has the small
est mans hand in the country. he cannot GET
except with difficulty, glove small enough 70
1T him.
Mrs. Feeney, of Glare county, Mich, is
journeying on foot to friends in Ohio, accom-
panied by four children, one being baby. and.
miles of her journey.
The Congo district appears to be de-
veloping as producer Of tobacco. Brussels
tobacconists say that its leaves are remarkably
well adapted for cigars. being Of exceedingly
good flavor and very supple.
-Boston's international Maritime Exhi-
bition will open November 4, 1889, and close.
January 1. 1890. It will admit exhipits Of every
thing connected with ships. shipping and m
rine interests, and viii be the first exhibition Of
the kind ever held.
Preparations are already being made in
several German university towns to celebrate
next year the three hundredth anniversary OF
the invention Of the microscope. Zacharias
Jansen, of Middelburg. put together the hrse
microscope in 1890
The tickets of admission to the Paris
Exhibition used to July 81 number 10 022. 900 as
against 5.ll6,O 900 during the corresponding
period in 1878. The highest number Of admIs-
sions in a day has been 2sS,000.
The inhabitants of Sing Sing. N. Y, are
agItating for either q change of name for their
town or the removal of its prison There are .
great many good people out OF jail there. and
theywant the fact made palmer to the.world at
large.
For years a Springfield. Mass, horse
suffered from a sore shoulder. This week q
veterinary surgeon made q close examination OF
the shoulder and found 25cent silver piece
deeply imbedded in the flesh. How the coin
got there is q mystery.
The longest uninterrupted debate on
record was. on August !. brought to close By
the New Zealand House Of Representatives.
1t had caused continuous sitting OF 70 hours,
entirely gwen up to the discussion of repre-
sentation bill. Yet the debate was not finished
Some devout person has discovered q
reference to the notable recent discovery in
the thirty-third chapter of Job, where, after
the man is so reduced that This bones stick
comes fresher than child's. and he returns to
the days of his youth"
The experiment Of going down the
Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal. in submarine
armor to put out the fires has been unsuccess-
full. The heat was too great, and gas passed
under the helmets of the two men who de-
scended. They reached the 9O0foot level, or
within 100 feet of the fire.
aJ;.I- T.
Gently made quite pot Of money by selling
bulbs which he said would produce rare orchids
and other exotics. Enthusiastic ladies paid
from IS cents up to Us apiece for the magic
roots. The bulbs were duly planted, and pro-
duced-common turnipsi The vender long ago
left for parts unknown.
The Indiana State Board of Health has
been notified of the existence of several cases
Of glanders in Parke county, and in one in
stance prominent farmer. has himself con-
tracted the disease. He was plowing with one
of the glandsred horses when the animal threw
face. slightly bruising the skin. Some days
after he was taken sick, and the physicians
diagnosed his disease as glanders and say that
he cannot possibly recover.
A strange animal that made its first
appearance last May is frightening the people
of New Gloucester. Me. its size is said to be
about that of a medium-sized Newfoundland
dog: 1t has shaggy gray hair. Almost every
evening his screechilg has been heard. Sun
day evening, August II, he came suddenly upon
a boy while getting the cows The boy began
to run, the animal following him. The boy
succeeded in climbing a tree and remained
there for abou. fifteen minutes, during which
time the animal remained under the tree,
screeching continually; The boy described him
as having silver gray hair, with large eyes. and
teeth two or three inches long. which cameup
above his upper jaw, His mouth is very large.
"A young man named Dixon has Just had
an unpleasant counting experience in Innis-
howen, County Donegal, Ireland. His lady love
is not only very pretty, but she is an heiress her
uncle having left her a fortune. Moreover, she
is partial to Dixon. The young man was calling
on the girl one day when he heard the footsteps
of couple of rivals, and in q sportive humor
he concealed himself in the butter box. While
he was enjoying the conversation the girls
father came along with pail Of hot water to
scaId the box. Before the girl OWNED his pur-
pose he dashed the water into the box. The
howl of anguish that arose scared the old gen.
found to be so badly scalded that he had to be
removed TO hospital.
There will be opened at Tahlequah, I.
T., on August 26 a new female seminary, Of
which the Cherokee inhabitants of the Terri
tory are very proud. There have already been
received Ia applications for admission from
Cherokee maidens and but Ii out of its l06
rooms remain to be filled The building is of
brick, three stories in height, of handsome
stands in the center Of beautiful park, eight
acres in extent 1t is handsomely fitted up and
furnished and is heated by steam. The pupils
having rooms are charged S. a month, while
there is large dormitory for those unable to
pay this sum, and they are educated and boarded
free of expense. OF the revenues of the
Nation IS per cent is devoted TO school pur-
poses, and out Of this money the seminary was