Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

GUklVUO CUNDENOdlIUNS,
During the last ten years Americans
have contributed 100000 to relieve suffering
caused by disasters or epidemies-
Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris, an authority
on fox hounds, bees and Jerseys is feeding his
herd on cotton seed bulls, and says the result in
milk, butter and beef is amazing.
-Beggary has been reduced to an art as
well as a profession in Rome. In recent case
before the police an old man admitted that ne
had as many as so lies IN daily use.
The Chinese lack appreciation of the
stage. AS soon as a Celestial enters on the
stage he is deprived of citizenship and his chill
dren after him for four generations
AN English detective. after search of
four months. has found Tin Sydney piece
Of silver plate stolen from London house
and which he was instructed to recover at any
cost.
The coin and slot device has been ap-
pl1ed to children's savings banks. When once
| set for action a regulated number of coins
| must be dropped in the bank before it can De
i opened.
"A company has been formed in New
| York to manufacture sandwiches by the thou
sand and retail them throughout the city in
\ liquor stores, othces and factories by means OF
| peddlers.
lin one small lake in Cuba containing
about 200 acres an American recently counted
107 alligators, all fat, contented and healthy,
! and living in hopes OF annexation to the
| United States
The total Indian population is less than
go, COO Of these q, ,239 live in houses and gGl2
families are engaged in agriculture. And
/ among these so-called savageS there are ,663
! church members.
The proceedings of the Japanese parlia-
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| stenographic system original in Japan. The
| characters are written in perpendicular rows
| from right to left.
"A Hindoo lecturer in England SAYS
that the British have degraded India and her
people to the level of beasts, and that tens Of
thousands die yearly of starvation, and all re-
ports are suppressed.
"A San Francisco firm has built the
largest wine cellar in the world. 1t Is capable
of holding 100000 gallons of wine. Its cost
was S250000- This is one indication of the
rapid growth of wine production on the Pacific
coast.
Mrs. J. W. Cureton, of Trenton, Ca,
caught one of the largest eels that was ever
caught in Georgia one day last week. It was
five feet long and estimated to weigh about 75
pounds. 1t took one bushel of bran to stuff its
hide.
"A Kentucky man who was dying alone
left his will in lead pencil on the head of
whisky barrel, and 1t is held to be valid. The
only thing he left. however, was gallon of
whisky in the barrel, and that ism t worth
fighting over
Who would believe that the once de-
rided velocipede would within a few years give
birth to more than q, 900 bicycles and that the
League of American Wheeimen counts alone
1900 members, 10000 of whom live in New
York and the surrounding suburbs.
"A sharp fakir is making a good income
by advertising sure method of killing all in
sects. When you send him 50 cents you viii
words: Get your insects to smoke cigarettes,
and they will die within an hour. So long"
The Piute Indians in Nevada are in a
worried frame of mind over the prediction Of
one of their number that great flood is soon
to sweep over their Territory. They have de-
serted their homes, it is reported, and taken to
the mountain towns, carrying provisions along.
The experiment of going down the
Idaho mine, at Grass Valley, Cal, in submarine
armor to put out the fire 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 900-foot level OK
within 100 feet of the fire.
"A boy of 16, who is pretty sure to
break his neck one of these warm days, is
David Pickering, of Newark, who is said to
clear a bar feet inches above the ground,
first on his hands and then on the back of his
neck, without even the comfort of a mattress
to break the violence of his fall.
-Leavenworth, Kan, has developed q
notable epidemic of sickness, but it alarms no
one but the doctors, who are not consulted.
The patients themselves just sign the certih-
Gates setting forth that they are ILL., and Ieave
them at the drug stores, which are not per-
mtted to sell liquor in the absence of such
trustworthy data. Some wonderful health sta-
4scffoo hor ,ado fro has L.
day.
On drooping bough of large elm,
close by hotel, in Sunderland, Mass, two
English robins have made nest. Strong
winds caused so much swaying as to endanger
the eggs in the nest. The birds have been
equal to the emergency. They have secured
some twine, and fastened one END under the
nest and the other end to a larger branch
below, thus avoiding the danger of too much
oscillation. The instinct exhibited by these
birds has attracted considerable attention
M. Pasteur is threatened with rival
Dr.. Peyrand, consulting physician at Vichy,
claims to have discovered an efficient method
of treating rabies. By injecting into rabbits
the essence of the familiar herb called ''tansy,"
he produced what he calls hylrophObic IntOxi
cation, or something very similar. and with
virus thus obtained he mingled 10 per cent of
chloral. He injected several animals which
had rabies with this prophylactic, and he pro-
fesses to have cured four out of six. This lin
tied experience. however, can scarcely be re-
garded as a sufficient test of the success of the
new mode of treatment.
Samuel Reid, Of Bridgeport, Conn, is
the owner of very intelligent Irish setter, and
he never tires of telling of the many wonderful
performances of his pet. The other night Mr..
Reid told his wife, in the presence of the dog,
to rouse him at O'Clock in the morning. Mrs.
Reid failed to awake at the hour named, and
Mr.. Reid was aroused by hearing his knowing
dog scratching at his bedroom door. He arose,
ana upon looking at the clock discovered that
it was SOB o'clock. Mr.. Reid says it would
take considerable money to tempt hin to dis
pose Of the dog that. seemingly, so well UNDER
stands the English language. and is so faithful.
TAKEN FROM LIFE.
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