Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

cupied was erected in 1871
ID. Edgar Grouse, of Syracuse, N. T.,
has just built $4,000 stable.
"A rabbit with two tails was caught IN a
trap at Red Bank, N j., last week.
The number Of books in the Boston pub
lie library has now reached 100000.
"A revival meeting which has just closed
at Muskegop. Mich, gathered in 100 converts.
The Bank of Eagland building, Lon
don, covers eight acres and employs LOOO per-
sons.
"A man in the interior of Pennsylvania
killed himself because he couldn't use his SfOO
new sleigh.
There were only 254 daily newspapers
IN the country in 1850 only 3S in 1850 but 574 in
lSIO, ISL in 1880 and 1423 in 1888
The Roman Forum is about to be
ruined by road bridge which is to cross its
center in order to continue the Via Cavour
toward the river.
"A royal Egyptian mummy landed at
Marseilles, France, the other day was taxed the
usual duty on dried fish, no scale for preserved
Pharaohs being known to the customs
There is a man in Waterville, Me-, who
boasts of a pair of mittens that have seen
service, but are good for several winters yet.
The present owner inherited them 81 years ago,
from the man for whom they were made, and
has worn them every winter since.
The newest thing in crests or mono
grams is to put them down at the bottom of the
note paper instead of at the top, as before, the
chosen corner being the right-hand one. The
having made a mistake, and begun his letter
topsy-turvy.
"A writer in an English paper claims
for Woodbridge the credit of possessing the
meanest man in the person of miserly yeoman
who refused to allow his daughter to receive a
sealskin Jacket as present because he could
not afford to pay for the eamphOr which would
be needed to keep the moths out of it during
the summer.
"A new departure has taken place in the
lighting of public conveyances in London.
Several of the new omnibuses are lighted by
gas instead of oil. The gas is contained in a
small reservoir, similar to those in use on the
railroads, and is carried underneath the vehicle.
Inc light given is greatly Superior to oil, and
enables the passengers to read 4 paper with
comfort.
The ladies at jackson, Mich, are
taking the tenderest care of Latimer, the
alleged murderer Of his mother. They supply
him with delicate edibles, and their floral
offerings have transformed his gloomy cell into
fairy bower. They would be miserably dis
appointed should he prove to be innocent Of
crime and never to have had the charming
aptitude for assassination which has won their
regard.
Back in the last century, Alexander
Smith, afterward known as John Adams, one
of the ringleaders in the famous mutiny on the
ship Bounty in 1889, saved midshipman from
drowning. The latter put El00 in bank to
await Smiths call. 1t remained until it had
risen to the sum of EGG. 600. Now three grand
sons of the mutineer, living on Norfolk and
Pitcairn Islands, have discovered their iden-
tity and one of them has succeeded in estab-
fishing his title to the great accumulation.
"A Paris correspondent says that COM
pressed air is now being extensively employed
as motive powerin Paris instead Of steam.
The Central station comprises II boilers and
six compound engines, and the air. which is
compressed TO six atmospheres, is stored in
vast receivers, and distributed as required to
various industrial establishments. The COM
pressed air also serves as a refrigerating me-
dium, which can be utilized for sanitary and
other purposes. 1t is intended to erect covered
markets, which will be provided with cooling
chambers, supplied with compressed air from
the Central station.
An extraordinary crime, If the deed can
be called crime, owing to the offender being
a child Of only years of age, was committed
in Panama the other day. 1t appears that
poor woman left her room, leaving her baby Of
only few weeks old fast asleep, and second
child, aged some 4years, playing in the room.
On her return to her CONSERVATION she found
that the 4-year-old child had beaten the baby so
severely over the head with a stick that the
little thing was dead. The only theory adj
vanced Is that the baby had awakened, and in
order to quiet it the older had innocently beat
it over the head and caused its death.
-Citizenship amoyg any of the five tribes
of the Indian nation has a tangible cash value.
The Cherokees, of whom there are between 20.
900 and 25, O0O possess Il, 100000 acres of land,
worth from IS to SIS an acre, and have s., 100000
in the hands of the United States Government,
from which they draw S142, 900 year, besides
rental of 100000 from the cattle companies.
When o surplus accumulates it is divided
among the citizens. About half the Cherokees
are full ll-blooded, while the rest are of mixed
Scotch and Irish blood. but white men cannot
acquire citizenship now by simply marrying a
Cherokee woman, as formerly Sam Houston
married Cherokee: so did John SEWER. and so
leading families of the South.
"A reputed old maid of go summers, who
had been for years in the service of a grocer at
the Halles, France, died recently; and as she
was believed to have saved little money, her
niece, young woman of Is. lately welded to a
policeman, searched diligently among her
clothes and boxes for the treasure. Nothing,
however, was to be found, although the mat
;ress, which with French people of this class
often plays the part of bank. had been ripped
carefully. A large cheese was discovered in
box under the bed, but as it was too strong for
The palates of the policeman and his bride,
they disposed of it to the grocer for the sum Of
10 francs. The next day, as the worthy man
was cutting the big cheese, his knife came into
contact with hard substance, and presently
gold pieces were rolling about on the floor.
fhe secret was at last out. The cheese was
now carefully examined. and was found to con-
ain 1000 francs, or ESQ, in notes and gold; but,
lnluckily for the presumed heiress. there was
.lso little bit of parchment, on which the
venerable Rosalie had penned few lines, set
ing forth that she bequeathed the money to
her son, whose name she gave, and who 10
serving in an infantry regiment at Lyons.
JUST FOR FUN,