Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

MIR. Sudden is photographer at Jeffer
son City. No., who makes specially OF instan-
taneous pictures.
The cultivation of oysters along New
| Hampshire's short coast line is about to be at
tempted by the State Fish Commission.
"A GAINESVILLE young man has perfected
an electric motor which, when started and the
circuit SHUT of. will go till it wears out.
1t Is reported that Edison is now at work
upon patent appliance which will make the
| helIo" girl in the telephone office a useless
luxury.
The snow in Cincinnati had the effect of
burning out the motors of the cars on all the
| double trolley electric roads, The single trolley
| system is not affected.
The Van Rensselaer's family dining
table, at which Washington, Lafayette and
otner dignitaries have dined is owned in Akron
! Dy descendants of the Rensselaers.
"A social innovation in New York City
| is the "blue-ribbon invitation" to dinners indi-
| eating Cby knot of blue ribbon in the lower
Ie1tnand corner) that wine will not be served.
@-Dr. Bang, of Copenhagen, considers it
| probable that large proportion of tubercular
| (scrofulous) affections of the cervlcal glands
IN children owe their infection to tuberculous
milk.
The class yell of the young ladies of the
freshman class of Colby University Is stated to
be as follows: Coordination ha, ha, ha, tes-
| saras kai enenekonta dux femina facta, rah,
1 rah, rah."
| Ernest Meyer, defaulting bookkeeper
OF Cincinnati. having escaped from a eonsta-
Die, mad the impudence to telephone that fact
70 the authorities, after which he left for parts
| unknown.
The Pope has ordered the enlargement
of the reading rooms and other improvements
in the Vatican. The new Leonine Library will
500 soon pc ready, and IN it will be placed about
| 100000 books.
The sale of fancy garters for New Year
| presents Is reported to be heavy IN the North
| ern and Eastern States. West and South not
neard from. but the fad is likely to spread all
| over the Republic.
The most expensive Legislature in the
world is that of France 1t costs annually
about So 900. The Spanish Parliament costs
S69OVVo' the Italian S430 900; the Belgian, $780,,
| VVV; tne portuguese, Sl50,0O0.
"A ring which General II. j. Hunt lost
near Fairfax station, Va, during the war was
recently found imbedded in the hoof of COW
owned Dy dairy farmer in that locality, and
was returned to the owner in Washington.
| "A beggar's journal has been started in
| Paris and meets with success The cost of a
| number is cents, and it contains articles on
tne pest methods OF pursuing the business and
advertisements of use TO those soliciting
| charity.
"A Cincinnati man has been entertain
ing himself by connecting a wire to the tele-
phone wire and listening to what passed over
the wire. Friday night he got his line too
close to the light wire. the result was a shock.
he Is no longer curious.
james Dick, of Canton, was run down
by an engine; he laid fat on the track and as
the engine backed over him he grasped the &C.
centrlc rod. The engine was stopped and he
was taken out none the worse save that his
black hair had turned perfectly white.
Lake View, Me-, a new village on
Schoodlc Lake, on the line of the Canadian
Pacific, is one of the places that knows how to
appreciate railroad June l. 1882 it was
wilderness: now it has spool factory nearly
nnlshed. a hotel, store and postoffice and sew.
eral pretty cottages.
"A "wild man of the woods" has been
discovered in the district near Rouen known as
Petit Quevilly. This person lives in the forest
by preference, and enjoys frosty weather, al
though he is in rags. He receives pittance
from his mother, which enables him to buy
bread, meat and tobacco.
Certain New York firms have been trv-
ing good-loOking women as bill collectors. So
far the scheme has been unsuccessful Three
of the women married inside a week, and four
more are engaged, while the balance sympa-
thize with the poor fellows who have run into
debt, and have not collected a cent.
In speaking of the minute parasites
which are found in the hairy part of tigers
foot, scientist says: They constitute one of
the most wonderful curiosities know of in the
animal world. The parasites small rs to
be almost invisible to the naked eye, and YET
each is perfect counterpart of the tiger
"A large prairie wolf, said to have es-
capped from circus year ago. was shot by
John Mcconnell, of Montgomery, N. Y, one
night recently while it was making meal of
one of his fowls. One morning previous to this
Mr.. Mcdonnell discovered the carcasses of "a
fowls, some of which had been partly eaten.
Maine not only sends Europe some of
its best apples but is now exporting the perfume
of the rose. In the cargo of the steamer
Partisan that sailed on Friday are nine large
cases of wild rose pot pourri' made by a
Portland nrm, largely OF Maine wild roses.
gal and Australia.
Michael Woods, 35 years old, of Palmer,
Mass. eloped the other day with a 15year-old
girl. and they were married The girls parents
swore out a warrant against " oods for abduc-
ton, and the detective found him in bed smok-
ing pipe. while his bride was working in a
mill for IL cents day. His romance was
rounded out by sentence of eight months in
the house of correction.
The greater part of the original forest in
Maine has been cut over but people well &C.
quainted with the subject say there is as much
land in trees or in clearings left to grow up to
woods as at any time since the state was settled
A DAYTON farmer is also quoted as saying that
the logs which cut in York county this
winter are better and bigger than those cut p
wears ago. and that there is in the county more
acres of woodland now, mostly small growth,
than there was 80 years ago.
1t is announced that the New York Can
Ger Hospital, at Eighth avenue and One Hun
dred and Sixth street, will soon receive an ad.
ditional sum amounting to $4,000 from the es-
tate of its founder. Mrs. George w. Cullum
Mrs CuIlum was active in the organization of
the hospital about seven years ago. BY her
will she left to it her Rincon Hill property in
San Francisco, and some land west of Central
Park, near the hospital building. The entire
bequest will amount to about Sl75.OOO. The
money previously received has been used to
assist in the erection of buildings and the pur.
chase of their sites.
There are 1874 towns in Maine that re-
mort no abandoned farms and 3l3 which have
one or more apiece. The total number of such
farms is given as 3.3lS or an average of about
62L uer town. The average number per town is
largest in Oxford and Franklin counties where
it is 10 and IA respectively, and smallest in
Aroostook and Hancock. in each of which it 10
2 The average in Androseoggin Is 8. The total
acreage of these farms is 204,5l3 or 81 I-lO acre
per farm, and they are valued for taxation at
ST. 268 T69 an average of 81 SO per acre. Tho
largest acreage is IN Oxford county-4, 40
Somerset coming next with 3l.24S, Androscog-
gins proportion being 8,033.
OUR STATE WITS.