Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-17
CURRENT CONVERSATIONS.

Tampa, Fla, has hotel with the ap-
propriate name of Booze House.
A Cincinnati Court recently decided
that spiritualistic meoium is a fortune teller
"A peasant woman near Nantes, France,
recently gave birth to five children, who were
still alive at last report.
Artificial eyes made of eelluloid are
dangerous. says French physician, in that
they set uD an irritation.
There is a man in Atehison who has
TLn written and prepared his own obituary notice.
1nere Is nothing left to fill in but the date.
The Australian tailor who Travelled in a
trunk rl from Vienna to Paris has Just made the
TIP from Paris TO London in the same manner
Frank Woodruff, of Cronin case fame,
will probably be taken to Kansas for horse
stealing as soon as he gets out of the Chicago
Bridewell.
-"Old Sacramento the cannon taken
across the plains by General Fremont in his
first expedition, is an object of interest at the
Kansas State Capitol.
AN artesian well was driven IS feet
through solid rock at Pullman, WASH, when
1000 gallons minute.
"A party of Marquette explorers has
discovered rich vein of Bessemer iron on the
Breitudg estate, near Crystal Falls, Mich. The
vein is over so feet wide.
Electricity has been introduced as light
into the British Museum, thus enabling that
institution for the first time in its existence to
be kept open in the evening.
The Michigan State Board Of Health,
believing consumption a communicable dis
ease, advises that all pupils affected be ex-
cluded from the public schools.
Susan La Flesh, an Indian girl, who
graduated in medicine after going through
the Hampton (Va.) school, is practicing among
her tribe, the Omahas, and with reported suc-
cess
The "cap that was snapped" when Ex-
Congressman Breckenridge was making a
speech in Arkansas proves to have been a
match struck by countryman to light his con
pipe.
up in Rogue River, Ore, fruit growers
have found firm friend in yellow jackets.
They are death on the green aphis scale. and
when they light a tree it is thoroughly
cleaned in few minutes.
1t has been suggested that the study OF
the influence of diet and habit upon the color
OF hair in different nations of men may cause
discoveries by which the color of the hair in
the human race may be modified by judicious
treatment.
"A Missouri farmer is the owner of a
steer which was accidentally covered I'D with
straw during the threshing August 90 On
Saturday last his horns were discovered as be
was eating his way out of the stack of straw,
haVlng lived without water As days.
The following method of making paper
transparent for copying drawings has been
found very serUceable: Place blank sheet OF
paper over the drawing and rub it lightly with
pure benzlne The tracing can then be readily
made, and the benzne, upon evaporation.
leaves the paper as Opaque as before.
-Clarenee PhiI1i1z bor rasidin. :.
Tampa, Fla. has been presented with a hand
some medal of gold and silver BY Mrs. ]. C.
Williams. for bravery in putting out in a leaky
boat TO the rescue of party of ladies in a dis
abled yacht, and succeeding in getting the i'm
periled craft into safe harbOr. Engraved upou
the medal IS view of Tampa Bay
The number of wealthy. Americans who
rent moors and tshings in Scotland is greatly
on the increase. says the Court Journal A
financially gifted man from New York reckons
the sum total expended by his cOuntrymen at
no less than f6OO, 900 year-this for rent alone,
which certainly does not cover half the outlay
incurred by the modern sportsmen.
There has been discovered on the west
coast of Africa bush, the seeds of which yield
yellowish fat of a very agreeable nutty flavor,
which might be used as a substitute for butter
1t solidities like butter. and contains no acids
which cause it to become rancid. If the plant
can be domesticated IN this country, no home
Thomas Silverthorn, a hotel keeper at
Coral, Mich, has a spectacle case five inches
long that dates back to the misty past The
lid and bottom are of BRASS the sides of copper.
On the lid and opposite side are seven rude en-
cravings, and under each is written in the
Polish language the Scriptural account of the
birth of Christ. 1t is claimed to be from 500 to
800 years old
Bay City has an electrician, and prac-
tical one too. His household recently was
compelled to issue an edict against a superhu-
Gus mess of kittens. Drown them? Not any,
He tied their heads together with copper
wire, turned on the spark, and, presto, the cats
were deader than hemmler, and now he Is to
apply for patent on his process OF kemmleri-
cation of cats.
Blowout Mountains, in the Cascades
above Breitenbush, Ore, is unmistakably one Of
the wonders of the Cascades, consisting of about
500 acres of granite rock piled up in every con-
been caused by an accumulation of gas below
which, bursting out threw the rock into the
canyon, forming a beautiful lake from 20 to 81
rods wide and half mile long, in which
abound mvriads of trout.
"A prisoner in the Webster county Oa.)
jail, few days ago. received q copy Of the
"Kreutzer Sonata" The Sheriff felt obliged
to read the book through in order to Judge OF
the prOpriety of leaving it with the prisoner.
The official was rewarded for his watchfulness
between leaves which had been pasted to-
gether. This offensive feature was promptly
expurgated, but it is not known whether the
prisoner received the volume as amended
"A stranger entered the Church of the As
sumption, Brooklyn, on Saturday morning, and.
borrowing rosary from the sexton, knelt in
apparent prayer. When the sexton. who had
been out. returned a few minutes later, the
stranger had vanished So had two silver chal-
ices two slken stOleS and two proyer books.
Chase was given and the fellow was caught
Upon his person was found the booty taken
from the church, as well as three silver coffin
plates bearing the inscription "Rest in Peace"
"A curious natural object IS now to be
seen in the Catholic cemetery grounds. at Mo-
bile In the upper part of the graveyard,
within the walls of the lot of the Callaghan
family, there is 4 fair-sized fir tree. which tree
like other trees, twice year puts forth its new
branches. A new spray has just appeared at
the apex of the pyramid formed by the trees
dense foliage, and strangely enough this spray
has the shape of an anchor, with a stock form
ing a cross. This perfect representation of an
anchor and cross with ball the end ct the
shank, Just rs appears IN a real anchor. attracts
the attention of all who visit the cemetery.
Vx-Ur-rV TILL,