Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

| Plants in liquor saloon windows have TO
be frequently replaced. They wither in the At
mosphere Of alcohol.
Miss Susan Cofrooth, young and hand
some, of Beartown, Lancaster county. Is hopeless
ly mad, the result Of an unfortunate love affair.
While in the topmast branches Of tree
at Allentown Frank Schlicter broke his wrist
and could get down only with the greatest difh-
Guilty.
"A fire kinder made Of asbestos and
used with kerosene oil is one Of the latest labor
saving machines which Maine Yankee has
put upon the market
Mary Batterslee, maid aged IS years,
was sent to Longview Asylum, in Cincinnati,
Tuesday. Her deIusions are about men, and
she imagines one Is following her all the time.
1t took only one hour by the clock for q
crowd to get away with all but the bones of an
or roasted for 3 barbecue given by Alderman
Diver in New York Tuesday. The carving had
to be lively and expert.
Colonel NJ, a prominent merchant and
banker of Galveston, Tex. tells story Of
It gave 'the horrors" TO eyerybody-men,
women and children who slept in IT
Cologne is to have singular exposi-
tion next year, the exhibits to be confined to
instruments of war, ammunition and aecoufre-
ments Several entries have already been
MADE, and it is stated that All the recently IN
sented.
The eggs of Pacific island turtles are laid
In perpendicular cavity about yard deep, at
the bottom Of great circular excavation, which
the female scrapes by whirIing around like .
ny Win lts wings singed. and violently plying
q litter.
st. Paul's new Court House, which the
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million, was kept as nicely below that figure as
Pittsburg's temple of justice was kept within
its estimate. The st. Paul fgures lust COM
pleted, are $780, ,059 81. These two great public
edihees are almost unique for absence Of job
berry.
Mrs. Nellie Keener, of st. Joseph, and
Mrs. Kate Keener. of Kansas City, both claim
to be the only surviving widow of George
Keener, deceased Both swear that they were
legally married to him. never divorced nor to
have had another living husband. Both claim
to be entitled to the possession Of S. 600 which
IS awaiting lin ST. JoseDhl the decision OF the
Kansas City Court of Appeals.
The Director of the Mint has prepared
a statement of the gold and silver coin in the
United States at present, which shows in round
numbers s6l7 OOO 900 in gold coin, $40 900 in
silver dollars and S76 600 900 in subsidiary silver
coin. besides $64 900 600 Of gold bullion held IN
the Golfers Of the Treasury as security for its
lars, though twice as great in number and
value as the silver, can be piled in one-tenth
thespace required for the latter.
"A curious complaint has been raised in
Philadelphia about labels on bread. The ques-
tion seems to be, Which is preferable-a Tin
tag or one Of paper? Tin tag adherents claim
that the paper stickers are often affixed TO the
loaf by means of saliva, and they assert that it
is not pleasant to find . bit Of printed paper
aWfmrnino in .eT.o<
1t Is equally undesirable to find your bread pa
pered on the under SIDE, or to taste the flavor
of gum arabic in your pudding. The other fac
tion claims that piece Of painted tin is neither
nutritious nor pleasant to the taste, and that a
tin tag tangled in ones windpipe Is a cousum-
nation deyoutly to be avoided
There are tortoises in the South Sea ISL
ands, bur their shell Is Of little value and on the
Galapagos Islands species exists which some
times attains weight Of half ton A seaman
of q New Bedford vhaleship some years ago
was missed By his companions on these islands
They sought for him for several days without
success. and were about to leave without him,
when they were surprised to see him coming
down from the mountains. driving one of these
huge brutes with club. This was the largest
specimen ever heard Of, and was probably hun
eral days and nights with true Yankee peril
nacity, in guiding the clumsy brute from the
mountain to the seashore. These tortoises and
only inhabitants of the Galapagos which are
q mass of extinct and barren volcanoes.
-Dr. Lewis Dodge an OLD resident and
formerly practieing physician in Chicago.
now residing at 1SOI Wabash avenue, claims to
have been defrauded, in Eerycurious manner
put Of $4,000 worth Of property in the lasttwo
years by series Of very peculiar real estate
His story is that Marford Corbin
and his wife, Of Crown Point, Ind. assisted By
a IL
Indiana man, have systematically worked
fraudulent deals on him until he Is now almost
penniless In one transaction he claims to
have decided Corbin valuable property for
piece Of land which the latter claimed to be
free Of incumbrance, but which was in reality
lncumbered to its full value. In two other
cases he says he sent deeds to Corbin to be re-
corded, which the latter not only failed to
record, but on the contrary sold the property
recover some of his lost realty the doctor Tues
day brought suit in the Superior Court against
Corbin and his wife tor $4,000 He VIII follow
The petition up with another suit to the amonnt
Sir John Lister Kaye, who has IL
separate farms Of 1000 acres each. about 800
niles west Of Winnipeg, has novel scheme
If colonization. His first object is TO secure
immigration. and for this end he has made AZ.
with the Government for the pur-
,hase of 1850 acres OF land at a modest price
his land to be situate adjacent to his farms.
Upon these acres he intends to establish 20 set
lements of 70 farms each. thus providing for
400 families. which, by allouingto each family
I've persons, viii add to the population and at
he same time accommodate with homes 1000
ersons. His intention is to locate the farms,
ave a dwelling house and outbuildines on
ach, wells dug, seed in the ground and every
hing ready for the settlers when they arrive;
hen he proposes to lend to such as require a
pan the sum OF 81 200 to pay on their land. and
o provide such other necessaries as NAV be
equisite to 20 with their work In each
roup of 20 families Is to be established a sort
central village" in which viii be a school
ouse, little church. blacksmith's shop,