Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A young Engllshman won S7VSVOV sne
other day at roulette at Monte Carlo.
"A hotel in GreenYille, Me-, is said to
be the only one in the world that serves trous
on its table every meal In the year.
Still another order has been started IN
Maine-the "Permanent Haymakers Assocfar
tion." It's lodges are called "haylotts-
w. h. Culpepper, Of Talbottom, Ca,
says he has a mule that will point birds. he
rides the mule when driving partridges into
net, and the mule enjoys the sport
AT Statesboro, La, negro cut down
large pine tree few days ago, and it fell across
center for 25 feet inches and 3l6 OF an lnen,
and making 25 rails TO the cut.
"A comical sentence appeared in the
programme Of a recent concert at st. James
Hall, London. A certain song was announced
thus: "'She Wandered Down the Mountain
Side,' accompanied BY the composer"
"A ragged street gamin, holding up at
arms length an old rubber boot from which
pours stream of water, is the design for
work Of art for the Common, which the Bos-
ton Aldermen have just approved, according
to New York paper.
AT Dublin, Ga, nanny goat lost her
two kids during the recent cold weather, and
as her owner had two hound puppies, she de-
cided to adopt them. Every day the goat goes
to the front gate and bleats, and when the pups
hear her they go out and get the feed.
-An advertisement calling for ten young
| ladies with large feet was recently inserted in
Chicago paper. The advertiser wanted to
secure that number of maidens with No. u
the desired number. The biggest foot in the
collection was IA inches long.
The Jekyl Island Club, Of Georgia, ID
meeting with great success in propagating the
English pheasant. A few months ago the club
received 70 birds out of 100 which were sent to
it from England, Y having dieG on the journey.
From these 7S birds 900 chicks were hatehed
out last fall by common barnyard hens.
Fred A. Stewart, mate Of schooner,
which recently arrived at Portland, Me-. was
sleeping in his berth, the other night, when he
felt something scraping his face. He grabbed
it with his hand and threw 1t on the floor. and.
getting a light, found it was good-sized rat
he had killed, which had been gnawing his
face.
There isacob-pipe factory located at Sc
dan, Mo-, which is doing a rushing business.
The factory pays at the rate of u cents for l1i-
man hauled load the other day Of 1H-fnch
cobs which brought him s64 The time may
yet come when the people will raise wheat for
the chaf.
The gorgeous mansion in Hopkinton,
Mass, which Mrs. Searle, formerly Mrs. Hop
kfns. has had built boasts an organ costing
$4,000. Its case is of English ash to corre-
spond with the finish Of the room, exquisitely
carved with gold molding, is over 30 feet high,
and is probably the most costly organ in any
private dwelling in America. The music room
Is large. over 40 feet high, with paneled ceiling
OF terra Gotta.
Railway battalions will be the next adj
dition to the home forces in England. 1t is
stated that the Great Northern Railway Com
pany has given general consent to . large num-
Der of its employees. principally engaged in the
Kings Cross establishment and the metropolis,
tan suburban stations, being enlisted in the
Royal Engineers, in order to form a railway
battalion, and it is understood that the move
ment will be further extended to other princi.
pal stations. One battalion has been enrolled
for some time at Crewe.
Recently there was sent from Norwich,
Conn.,, to New York five two-gallon tin cans
filed with oil of black birch, which was manu-
factured in Bozrah by John Miner. 1t is worth
$50 gallon, and the five cans contained 158
pounds of oil. valued at $500, little over S5
pound. Black birch trees do not yield oil as
the maple trees run sap. There is work in
| getting the tender twigs. and labor in the pro-
| cess of extracting the oil. One ton Of twigs
yields just pounds Of oil, and it took nearly 50
| tons Of twigs to yield the 10 gallons. This oil
| is used IN giving the wintergreen flavor to con-
| fections of all kinds.
The unfortunate Crown Prince of Aus
ira shares the crypt Of the Capuchin Church at
| Vienna with lib of his ancestors. With three
exceptions, every member of the Hapsburg dy-
nasty has been buried there since the Em-
peror Matthias died in l6l9-these three excep-
tions being the Emperor Ferdinand IL. buried
at Gratz the second wife of Leopold L, and
the Empress Amelia, buried in converts.
| Thus the crypt contains the remains of
| II Emperors, 2 Queens, a Archdukes,
| Is Expresses, / King of Rome, 81 Arch
duchesses, 2 Dukes and 2 Electoral Princes,
besides the hearts of Expresses Of Mario
Anne of Portugal and an Archduchess.
j. @. Walters, Leary, Ca, is peculiarly
| afflicted. He cannot eat an egg or any food
| that contains the least hint Of an egg. without
subjecting himself to almost deathly sickness
The other night he drank portion of an egg
| flip, thinking it was milk punch, and in .
moment afterward was rendered exceedingly
| sick and was forced TO seek his bedroom, where
| he was confined for two days. recovering from
the effects of one little egg. Mr.. Walters says
| he has been troubled thus peculiarly since his
| earliest recollection, and notwithstanding the
utmost watehfulness he occasionally gets hold
| of food with eggs in it and Immediately UNDER
| goes nausea as severe as the most terrific case
| of sea sickness ever produced.
Mr.. Joseph H. Clapp, of Augusta, Me-,
who is a blood relation of Captain Reuben
| Carver, of Pilgrim Colony fame, has an old
| English chair of oak and mahogany, which
was brought over to Plymouth from England
in 1882 by the ship Lion and presented to the
Captain. The chair bears on its bottom an in
scription giving the history of the origin Of
| Thanksgiving Day, MANY a time" writes Mr..
| Carver. II have sat on my grandfather's knee
| in this chair under the noble old elms which
| were in front of the Old Province House Il
| Boston, which Joined my grandfathers estate,
| and heard him tell the story of the Boston tea
| party, of which he was one of the foremost
members" Another of Mr.. Clapp's possessions
| is china punch bowl, brought over by Captain
Graves in the shin JaTnes in IR95