Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

York county tramps recently emptied .
water tank and turned it into sleeping aDsrs-
Five red haired girk gave white
horse bazaar at WiIliamsport in the cause Of
-Constantnopls has real German turn
verein. which celebrated last month its twen-
tieth birthday.
-Minnesota strawberries, fresh from the
vines. were served at banquet in Winona on
Christmas Day
The manufacture of oil Of roses is to be-
gin on . large scale in the Crimea. where the
roses grow in great profusion in the mountains.
"A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone has had il rieged
mp on dumbWaiter arrangement so that he
can answer call from any part Of the house.
The largest and best paying graphite
mine in the country is in Warren county N.
7. In the same region are also extensive gar
net Mines the ore from which Is worth S40s
ton.
There are three Roman Catholic and
eight Protestant missions in the Congo terri
tory. They support B stations and IS mission
aries. The Protestant missions are supported
by Americans, English and Swedes.
kansas raised $4,000, 600 bushels of
wheat this year. If made into bread, reckon
ing bnshel TO 90 pounds Of -four it would give
each man, woman and child in the United
States "a two-pound loaVes Of bread.
The Marquise de Gallihet, zone Of the
most beautiful women in Paris, Is suffering
from strange form of insanity. She goes into
commissions whenever she sees her face in q
mirror. Usually women are affected the other
way, and in II cases out of dozen would be
Historically mad If there were not mirror in
the house.
During the recent foods in Japan 2,419
persons were killed and I55 were wounded; s0,-
600 were deprived of the necessaries of life:
0OO0 houses were swept away or rendered un-
with their crops were laid waste; 1900 bridges
were carried away. and hundreds OF miles Of
road were destroyed
The number Of eloisters and monks In
Spain have increased with astounding rapidity
OF late years. Spain now has 29 90 mo nksa
5000 nuns in l,SS0 eloisters and I7g ORDERS In
women. In the last IA years the number Of
monks in Spain has been sextupled and the
number Of nuns has been doubled
The preacher who dropped into an Office
In Alpena, Mich, the other day where four OF
the biggest guns in town were playing poker
t9r money, may not have known what he was
about, but then again he may Anyhow he
flashed subscription paper for some benevo-
lenee before the blushfng players. and quicker'n
you eould say Jack Robinson took pledges for
over 500.
"A few days ago, while the crops on the
Kicker farm, IN East Nittany Valley, Pa,
were being threshed, chicken was found un-
der the sheayes of wheat in ono Of the mows
where 1t had been since the grain was placed
thereon the 18th day Of July. The chicken
had lived all that time without food OF water,
and weighed when it was found considerably
less than one pound. though still alive.
-EvGorornor Nc-raII :, o,ot.S .. .,-s.r.
that work on the Grant monument at Riverside
Park viii begin next spring, and that '-the asso-
ciation will spend 81 900 600" As the monument
fund, after the most urgent appeals and persist
1t would seem that Ex-Governor Cornell is over
sanguine ia his predictions unless the projectors
Of the monument propose to go ahead and trust
to the future for funds to pay for il.
That IS rather pretty story which is
now making the rounds about Congressman
Cheatham, the colored Representative from
North Carolina 1t tells that he asks for the re-
tention in ONCE OF young Democrat in his dis
trfct on the ground that in the old days Of
slavery he 1.-THE Congressman) was given as
bridal present TO the young mans mother. II
true. the story has many morals Not only does
1t show the CongreSsman'S magDanimity in
strong light but it directs attention to the
marvellous change of fortunes which quarter
Of century has wrought at the South.
The electric light has found curious
u5o IN RUSSIA, VIZ. lot llumlQdBlQE 8dlQIly lLu-
ages in cathedrals. Thus a magnificent figure
Of the Madonna, just placed in the Alexander
Newsky Monastery, loaded with precious
metals and gems Of immense value, stands gilt
teringly in the focus Of an electric beam,
donna in 81 Petersburg. From near and afar
thousands make pilgrimages to these shrines.
1t has been decided to so illuminate the an
cient monastery OF ST. Ursula at Olmutz. the
first instance on record of its use exclusively in
q monastery
Locomotive No. 96, belonging to the
New Jersey Central Railroad which exploded
at Matawan last Monday had a history. For
years It was considered by the employees OF the
road as 'hoodooed." One of its first adVsn-
lures was to run of the pier at Couminipaw,
dragging train loaded with passengers after
it. This occurred Is years ago. No lives were
lost, but 1t was the first and last time such an
accident has happened In the history Of the
road. A little later it was in a smash-up at
Dunellen It has run over and killed more
people at the grade crossings than any other
engine on the road, but it happily closed its
career on Monday without killing anybody.
The Russian Minister of the Interior
has formulated plan for the taxation es all
foreign immigrants to South Russia. His
prime object is to keep out the German peas
ants, with their liberalizIng Influences. A
somewhat similar plan. with the same Interior
motive, was proposed in 1887. The Russian
Government was then on the point of taxing
all Russian subjects who remained abroad more
than one year s., 900 year. The execution Of
this plan would have empted all the German
and Swiss universities of all the poor Russian
students who invariably imbibe radicallsm
with their foreign education. For some unex-
planned reason the plan Of 1887 miscarried
Prof. Haddon, the English naturalist,
who has Just spent some months on the islands
south of New Guinea, says there will never
again be SO good q time as now to study the
natives and make anthropologieaI collections,
as the Papauns there are dying out fast, and
are still more rapidly discarding their native
arts, preferring to buy the merchandise that
the whites bring among them. Recent travel
ers in the Congo basi6, say the Introduction Of
European manufactures is playing the mischief
with native handiwork- DR.. Wolf observed
this fact far south Of the Congo, and said that
In some places the natives. who have acquired
foreign jaek-knives and other hardware, are
likely to forget the art Of iron working Mr..
HOre on Lake Tanganyika. deprecate the i'm
Dortation Of any merchandise that will ruin
native Industries. There seems to be ten
dency in some savage lands to accept the white
man as . valuable agent for the promotion Of
aziness.