Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-01
CURIOUS COEDESsAII0Ba


"A third Of the deaths ia ihs French
army are due to typhoid fever.
The new Chinese consul At Neu York
City, rejoices in the name Of Shame Fun
-Eighty-6ve thousand tulip bulbs viii
De planted in the New York parks this fall
Charles Dickens house At Gad's Hin,
London, is for sale. The cherished home of the
= e~s novelist can be purchased for 8300o
The Imperial party which vas staying
az Fredensborg, last week, comprised "a
emperor, 2 expresses 8 kings, queens
"a 1sS,ss;ap pparent to thrones and % princes
In 1889 there were about 90. 900 acres Of
iruls trees growing in EngIandsnow there arc
zl1gy acres. Yet last year 2sOo.o00 bushels Of
apPlss y .sle ~ imported b. the mother country at
--on Sunday last two wild partrideeu
were seen walking through the public square
:. Ano1slle, "a They WeTs DOT in the least
eAgls,eos ana waited quietly while prominent
tse'uehs ran Aof MS gun and shot them dead.
while proWling round eornfsld near
Deep creek, Norfolk county, Va, On W8dnes-
9T4y, T,y, Ppsy woman got caught II q bear trap.
A., 49,. - = esoueo and wounded her morally,
-rr~1-
on Thursday morning
The Century Publishing Compsnv con-
sumes nearly 90 tons Of u1nsr 4 ro1fs .-d
their paper bill amounts q ahour rI0d an
harper Bros. for their ILLUSTRATED u7usr. rl,r
magazines use annually about . 000 rsama. b.
slles vast quantities Of book naDor for ofher
Puptu,catlonA Ihe ArkelIs use $1,000 reana an
,,i-sg sS sSr * and frank Leslie. Puck 70
-Ann1
aristocrarc marriages since 18Oo Harriet
Mellon marrlaq the ninth Duks Of 81. Aihan1,
Kitty sfephenS the fifth Earl Of Essex. Eliza
REa1rsn. Es5r. ne ne tEslfih Earl Of Derby; Louisa
Foste. the third Earl Of Harrinrron- Reside1
these the beautiful Miss OPNefIi became Tadv
Becheri MrE Nesbitt, Lady Boothby. and Hels1.
Faucit Lady Martin. =
"A negro woman employed on Josspb
Middleton's farm. near Brazoria, Tex. vas some
time since pecked in the hand By an angry hen.
She has now grown quite mad. and acts like
chicken. wandering about tbe woods and peck.
ing at Al mo accost her. she makes acluck
ing noise. horribly like that of fho hen- er5
slts Dy the hour scratching uD earth with ian6a
and Feet She Decks up her food and her verV
1ace = assuming sharp bird-liks aspsck she
under roof
= eHA XIV @utO nc l1ulo4 UNEI1l
room at West Afedford staflon, On ne Boston
ana Lowell Railroad, few days aso. and for =
long time no one could be got 70 a1tampt h
election A bottle Of chI0r0form uns emprief
over him from window m the fo0m, but til.
only made him more frfsky. An awful odor
began 20 permoate the whole station bnfIdfno
and, IN despair, the officials began to throw
stoae. = tne little intruder, but he got under
cnair and would not decamp. At last foriorn
nope was formed, and i've oficials preoipifsted
themselves upon the skunk and n1erdof him
Y VIII pltcn1ork The Board Of Healfh azd
for.
8-Extreme low water in the MissISsippi
recently unearthed q historical relic AZ tie
ferry landing at Columbus. Ky. In tie sbaus or
! huge old-fashloned columbiad, which aid
tuty during the late var in the hands Of the
5onfederates. Those familiar With the h,storv
= the formidable weapon STATE th1f fr PLAYED
part in the battle of helmont' No,
u the fall Of 1881, and that fr1m i11 loffy percf
IN the bluffs above Columbus It sent MANY 4
1nge shell screaming across the river into
3ranrs army, and that Il had more 70 do with
zssePlng s Ping me gnn5oat. e bay than al others g
ne Confederate fortihcatiols erected 81 C1lnm-
BUS, Ky. 30 years ago.
"A short while ago the Atlanta C6nstE
ntfo1 published story written By Nrs. Ward.
'alled Mrs Browns Burglar" Nm. Ward
ocatsd the story in . town which shs named
'Blackshire," Ga, and made 1lrs Brown ths
Keeper Of hotel, and her husband = dentist.
40 .kasL T. nov t1Ins oqt that there = Black
.hlre, Ga, and IN the town t1er1 lives q Nr7.
Brown Who runs hotel. and her husband Is
1enElsk Mr.. Brown throaten1 % sue the Con
for $4,000 damages A few years ago
Vt. wallace r. Reed wrote story about aJef-
e.-en t1Qn77|' 3eorTi1 QQnT|r1 guard Tha
.-nS 3 ~ n1tis.o1-. p15 = , t4t N.II |0r paper
uard IN south Georgia