Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

1t is estimated that 1000. .OOO, 900 cigars
are consumed in this country annually.
San Francisco, with q population OF
about 10000, has only 40 churches. with
seaslng capacity Of 1000 and an average AZ
tendance OF 25OGO
The year 1918 was very fruitful OF
Massachusetts, Governors, SIX Of the men who
nave nave neld that Office within 40 years having
John Hathorn Lott, who lives near
Glenmore Lake, in the Warwick Valley, N. z,
is 80 years Of age and thinks nothing Of walking
10 70 Is miles Ia day.
Mrs. Margaret Stuart, aged 1Os wears.
Of Plug. Carroll county, Ga. wants pension.
Mrs. Stuart Is the widow of James Stuart who
1oQgns IN the Indian war Of 1872 under Captain
John Myrick.
Several OF the leading hotels and res
taurants OF Boston are making ARRANGEMENTS
to provide music for their guests at dinner and
in one or two cases this innovation has already
been introduced.
In certain districts Of Washington the
street numbers are badly mixed up. Il is said
sn snaf when the coloTed people move. as they
ire 4Gently do, they generally take the door
house.
Very little interest was taken in the
election in Germantown wards. Philadelphia.
In some Of the divisions the BAGS Containing
tickets were simply hung up on trees and
fences and the voter was left to make his own
selection.
Occasionally, when the train arrives at
BostVick, Fla, nice looking young man
jumps on and kisses the best looking zfrl at
the depot srpposing her to be his sister. He
apologies 50 nicely that the girls are begin
ming 70 look tor him regularly
Colonel B. G. Barkley, of Charleston.
3. C., says that the curlews and sea guils on
that coast eat more clans than the entire pouu-
lation Of the city. They pick them up. carry
them into the air, drop them on the rocks and
break them open, than swoop down and feast
upon them.
"A certain Augusta man has very fne
banjo that he prizes highly, and is usually deaf
to all proposals to loan it One night not long
ago he let friend take it to play on at an en-
tefta1nment. That night dre destroyed the
place where the instrument was usually kept
The owner had saved it By his kindly act.
AT Wauregan, Conn, last week, man
hunting squirrels treed apd caught monkey
and few days before another monkey was cap
tured in similar way in q forest in the middle
OF the State. No one can guess whence OF
whittier the monkeys were drifting. II anyone
has lost some monkeys the hunters are pre-
pared 10 treat with him.
-E Hart Fem and @. 7. jackson, Of
Hartford, went skunk hunting. and their dog
drove the game into the back yard OF the Mon
towese Hotel jackson espied the eyes Of an
animal shining in the darkness and blazed
away. Then pig squealed. The hunter adj
Tanced and discovered that he had killed the
youngest and most promising pig in . litter Of
Tour belonging to the landlord Of the hotel
There is an organization of amateur
sportsmen at MohnsVille, Pa, in Cumru town
who make speciality Of capturing polscats
with hounds. So far this season they have
caught 20 polecats, 13 raccoons and 5 possums,
besides half dozen ground hogs The skins
OF the polecats are very valuable, and the club
are making good thing IN the curing and sale
OF them.
The beard of Henry s. Cook, tailor,
Of Norwich, Conn, is as long as be .iA Mr..
Cook is q small man, 90 years old. His beard
is jet black and fne and silky, and so Is his
hair. When he il erect and his beard I'M
furled, he can step on six inches Of it. He
wears u ordinarily coiled in wad inside bis
vest Barnum wanted Mr.. Cook to travel with
his circus; but Cook is prosperous, and does
not care to be freak.
"A story Of strange combat comes from
FishkilI, Dutchess county, N. Y. A gray eagle
which had its nest in the Fishkill Mountains,
has been seen to alight several times in the
asylum grounds. presumably in search Of prey.
A great dock Of crows had chosen that 10
cality as feeding ground ana resting place,
and they evidently looked upon the advent Of
the eagle as an intrusion. The crows appar-
emily decided to give the majestic bird to I'M
derstand thar It was po1chfna At any rate il
is q fact that q dozen or more OF the crows A.
Rogers field, and put It to light Ths battIo
lasted half an hour or more. The crows which
did not participate kept circling around and
around the combatants and oaWing incessantly.
The fight was witnessed By several persons
who picked up many blood-stained feathers
from the ground.
Farmer Lutz, Of MonteIlo, Pa, missed
. young COW, and hunted All over the place for
her for two days. but In vain. On the evening
of the second day his son Billy went to the old
smokehouse and, pulling up the latch. noticed
that the piece Of old clothesline with which the
door was usually fastened to the frame By
means OF staples for additional security had
been chewed in two. He thought this was
queer but q moment afterWard, when he
stepped ovar the threshold. the case was made
clear to him. There on the door Of the smoke
house, mooing family In her compressed quar-
tiers, ana weakened BY lack Of food and water,
lay the young heifer, suffering the punishment
for her curiosity. She had got there two nights
before having first jumped over the barnyard
fence, opened the farmyard gate with her
mouth and forelegs, and then chewed the rope
on that fastened the smokehouse door and lit
ed the latch.
The tenth annual report Of Mr.. Arthur
Gilman, Secretary Of the Society for the Col
legiate Instruction Of Women By the Pro-
fessors and Instructors Of Harvard College,
shows that since the organization Of the society
in ls7a in which year Is students entered. there
has been continual growth. until At the BE-
ginning Of the tenth collegiate year there are
lis students distributed into 55 classes, and
directed by IA professors II assistant pro
fessors and 18 tutors-41 teachers In all There
are three classes Of students. In the hrst class
are those taking the course Of four years,
which IN the college leads to the degree Of
B. "A. A second Is composed Of women, who
have been teachers or who intend 70 teach,
who desire special instruction as sOpplemen-
tary to experience or to work done elsewhere,
and third comprises women who seek special
studies with no intention Of becoming teachera
but simply as helps to general cultivation.
como oULL1NGs.