Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A CnduLauqua sOCletJ 10 D0AnS IoEmeu
in Honolulu.
The largest war vessel in the Pacific is
III. NJ. s. Warsprite.
"A child without eyes or eye-sockets has
been born in Dubuque
The roller skating rink craze is break
ing out again at Adrian, Mich.
davenport, with a population of but
5OO0O will have iltering plant.
"A pet coyote belonging to a st. Joseph
man celebrated Thanksgiving by breaking into
a a. ne1ghboring henhouse ana dispatching Is
Diooded chickens.
The students of Haskell Indian Insti-
tute. in Kansas, consumed I3l chickens, II
gahons OF mlnce meat and barrel OF cram
Derrles on Thanksgiving Day
"A rare ind of bric-a-brac was recently
imported from Alaska to Victoria. 1t is
LaDie OF Dlack stone, elaborately carved and in
laid with pearl and walrus ivory
Atlanta has an infant phenomenon who
KNOWS more ABOUT anatomy than a dozen medi-
cal faculties and who loves no amusement bet-
Ter than TO joint human skeletons.
Detroit is not the most eosmonolitan of
American cities, but the other day Bebrev.
an Arab and an African negro were arraigned
IN court on the complaint of a Chinaman
The Dutch Indian Government offers a
prize of 81. 900 for the best practical answer to
the question in what manner the salt which is
sold in Dutch India in small packets should be
packed SO as to keep dry.
The BARRIERS of Sedalia. Mo-. were
charging 10 cents for shave and wanted to
raise to 10 by steady Jerks of a cent at a time
When the raise to II cents came, "A men paid a
each at hardware store for shaving outfits.
The north magnetic pole, as we'll as the
south magnetic pole, shifts its position steadily
but slowly The northerly pole is at present in
the Peninsula of Boothta, not far north of Hud-
sons Bay. and lies between Bafin's Bay on the
east and McClintock Channel on the west.
Two young girls in AbbeVille county.
N. C., have made two bales of cotton apiece
this year, and besides that have supported
themselves for some time by their beautiful
machine work. They do this regardless Of
tnelr fathers aid. who is wealthy farmer.
In late trial in Binghamton, n. Y,
every juror on the panel who claimed not to
have read of the case-was challenged of, leav-
ing IL men who had read and discussed it, and
court, lawyers and public are agreed that 1t was
one OF the fairest Verdicts ever rendered by a
jury.
They are having good times in Kansas.
ut took five bushels of corn to ret into a cir
Gus in Kansas in the autumn of 1885," says the
Wichita Eagle. This autumn you can get
the side show and get picture of the Circas-
sian beauty, all for one bushel.''
There may be an Indian war dance at
Calvin, Mich, while the half-breeds are waiting
for the return of an Indian called Long Chief.
He went among them with fairy tale about
Government money they were to receive and
assessed each person with mixed blood 70 cents
Tor the interest he was taking in the matter.
He secured 100 assessments.
While dredging on the oyster beds near
New London an oysterman brought up some
thing which at first looked like lifeless sea
serpent covered with immense scales but on
examination 1t turned out to be a strip of hose,
seven feet long and three inches in diameter,
completely hidden by the bivalves, which had
become fastened to it, BY actual count there
were over 1000 oysters on that piece of hose.
"A freight train on a Washington rail-
road pulled derailed car from one station to
another, distance of six miles, and over a
long trestle. apparently without the knowledge
of the trainmen. The wheels of the derailed
truck had cut up the ties the entire distance in
a most frIghtful manner. In some instances
the spikes were laid bare, and in other instances
they were drawn up from the ties.
Rev. Joseph T. Durvea, pastor of a Con-
gregational Church IN Omaha, has his own
ideas about the regulation of the liquor traffic.
He wants the National Government to control
the sale of liquors, taking the profits for rev.
enue instead of a tax. He would have a depot
in every district for the sale for legitimate
uses, registering every man who buys, and re-
fusing to sell it to any person whose friends
complain that he abuses himself.
Receipts at the Passion Play.-The re-
ceipts of the Passion Play at Oberammergau
were over 100000 marks (f35. .0OO). or double as
much as ten years ago. The salaries of the
numbered about 700 in aII-are
small. Mayer 1.-THE chief actor) received $50 for
the season. as he did ten years ago. The leader
Rh mir and GaTr oh
Peter and Pnate, f21 each; and the others less
in proportion, down to the cock who only gets
e for Growing the whole summer.
The ancient and ghostly ceremony of
the religious brotherhood known as "Of the
Souls in Purgatory," in the Republic of Marino.
was performed for the last time last month.
The brothers dressed in black. with masks and
torches, carry skeleton stretched on white
sheet on bier about the town, winding up
with sort of Danse Macabre. The bishops
ana the civil authorities, with. it is said, the
sanction of the Pope, have ordered that the
dance shall never be held again.
of late years the old song which boasted
that "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a
farm" has not been heard very often. The i'm
preston has gone abroad that it is no longer
applicable to the situation. But the report of
the Secretary of the Interior shows that there
are still vacant public lands amounting to 5S6-
2l6, SCI acres, exclusive of the undesirable do
mains in Alaska, and not counting the Indian
some of which are already falling
into the general territory. There are farms for
a good many of US yet.'
The torpedo boat Sand Fly. 52O tons,
had narrow escape from laundering off the
Spanish coast during the gale in which the Ser
pent was lost. She shipped so much water that
1t was expected she would go down. 1t was
necessary to tighten the ship. and all the stores
ammunition and shot were thrown overheard
They would have let the guns 90. too, but for
fear in loosening them they would break the
ship. If the engines had given out for mo-
nent she would have been lost surely, but
fortunately they worked until the storm was
abased and then gave out and left her helpless
until she was succored by the troop ship Time.