Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Turkish women eat rose leaves with but
ter to secure plumpness.
1t is stated that oysters 10 inches long
are found in New Guinea.
"A citizen of Baker CITY, Ore, paid s12O
freight on two terriers from England.
Certain European nobemen-princi-
pally Englishmen-are now the owners of about
q 900 acres of land in the United States
The cultivation of pecans is increasing
in the South. F. A. Swinden has a farm of 400
acres near Brownwood, Tex, upon which he
has L, 900 trees planted.
The great exhibition held in London in
1851 was attended by 6.O39, 1875 persons, and left
a profit of f2l3,3O5 1t renamed open from the
frst OF May till the 1lth of October.
Charlie jackson, an 8-year-old lad Of
Marlboro. Mass, last week picked up pocket
book containing $4,000 in gold certificates and
checks. He found the owner-a sea captain
soon after, and, returning the pocketbook to
him, was handsomely rewarded.
Paris gossips declare that one OF the
regular physicians who was most conspicuous
in ridiculing DIR. Brown-Sequard's 'elIxir" has
Just been cured of paralysis by its administra-
tiOn, and is now as Jealous an advocate of Sc
guard as he was previously scotfer.
The newest and most select club about
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of Punchs young men, with the addition Of =
few persons like Sir Cha rles Russell and Lord
Rosebery. The two pins in question come
from the names of Dick Turpin and John Gil
pin.
An explorer VINO has been collecting
specimens from the sea bottom, and also
watching the habits of marine animals. says
that artists wrong in representing divers as
walking upright, as his experience shows that
1t is necessary to walk with the body inclined
forward at an angle of 40 degrees.
Many parents are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but a
Scotch gentleman estimated his two daughters
value at even a higher rate than this. be-
queathlng to each her weight in 81 notes. The
elder seems to have been Simmer than her
sister. for she got only f5l, 200, while the
younger rece ived f5T, ,3A
AT Athens, Ga, a man on his way home
saw dog running toward him through the
darkness at full speed. Surmisng that the dog
was mad, the man climbed up tree and re-
mained there the rest of the night, with the dog
standing guard below. When daylight came
the man discovered that the dog was his own,
Slowly and softly the man began to descend,
and the truth was rapidly dawning in his mind.
Some statistics from summer resorts
shows that the New England coast receives the
greatest number of city visitors in the summer,
536 prominent persons visiting it, while 3O8 90 to
the interior; the same number go to Pennsyl-
Van1a, Maryland and Delaware 240 to the south
shore of Long Island 232 to the north shore Of
the sound 204 to the hudson river, lis to the
Jersey coast and 68 to the north shore of Long
Island.
Just after the war ended the Navy De-
partment gave Ericsson 15-ineh shell found
among the ruins of Sumter. II had been red
fuse had failed to go off E ricsson sent it to
the King of Sweden, and the good Oscar
placed it in the great museum at Stockholm,
with fitting and touching inscription in honor
OF one of the most honored of Swedes. It's
there now.
"A rare horse is that of George Booth,
Superintendent of the Bristol Gas Works. The
animal was recently neglected at dinner time,
but went on an independent foraging expedi-
tion. First, "horsey'' raised the lid of the
feedbox and dIned to satisfaction. Then a
trip was made to the hydrant, where he turned
on the water, filed the trough, then turned it
of, quaffed to his hearts content and went
back to his stall.
Frank Z. Patterson, one of the exeeu-
tors of the Patterson estate at Manayunk, re-
Gently found an old brass cannon among the
debris of the storeroom that had been used in
the Mexican War and sent home BY the late
General Robert Patterson as a trophy of his
victory at Natural Ridge, on the way from
Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. This old
relic will be presented TO the Historical So
Clclg dL du carry UdIe-
1t is singular fact that the great men
seldom leave direct descendants Napoleon,
Wellington, Washington, all prove this rule.
Shakespeare left only two daughters, whose
children died without issue. Probably the
nearest relative to the great poet now living is
one Thomas Hart, 2 resident of Australia, who
is said to be the eighth in descent from Shakes
peare's sister Joan. Waller Scott's line ended
with the second or third generation.
The story goes that when Crowfoot, the
Blackfoot chief, received perpetual pass over
the Canadian Pacific Railroad he wrote the
following picturesque letter of thanks: Great
Chief of the railway:-I salute you o chief.
, great, am pleased with the railroad key,
opening road free to me. The chains and rich
covering of your name writing its wonderful
power TO open the road. show the greatness OF
your chieftness. have done. CRowFooT.
A curious calculation of the amount Of
food consumed in 4 lifetime of 70 years has re-
Gently been made by NJ. Soyer, a French
savant now chef of the Reform Club of Lon
don. Among other things, NJ. Soyer says that
the average epicure of three-score and ten will
have consumed 80 oxen 200 sheep. 100 calves.
200 lambs. so pigs. 2200 fowls. LOCO fish Of
different kinds, $4,000 oysters, 5,475 pounds Of
gerabes, 23 pounds of butter. $4,000 eggs
and tons of bread, beside several hOgsheads Of
wine. tea, coffee, etc. This enormous amount
of food will weigh but little short of 40 tons.
For moths salt is the best exterminator.
The nuns in one of the hospital converts have
tried everything else without success, and their
experience is valuable, as they have so much
clothing of the sick who 90 there, and strangers
when dying often leave there quantities Of
etc. They had room full OF feathers,
which were sent there for pillow MAXIM, and
they were in despair. as they could not exterm-
mate the moths. until they were advised TO try
common salt. They sprinkled it around. and
in week or ten days they were altogether rid
of the moths. They are never troubled now'
"A Greenboro IN. c. } correspondent Of
the Richmond Dispatch states that Northern
syndicate is negotiating with the Battle Ground
Company for sites for large hotel cafe and
pavilion at the GuilifOrd battle ground. This
beautiful park six miles from Greensboro, lS
being extensively improved. Already number
of cottages paviliOns and monuments have
been erected, and it is destined to become one
Of the greatest pleasure resorts OF that section.
There are several mineral springs on the prop
erty. A bill providing for an appropriation OF
$40, ,0GO for the erection OIL the grounds OF a
monument t. General Nathaniel Greene has
been favorably reported in the National House
Of Representatives, and will be passed.