Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

John Hoey has given up the cultivation
of roses at his beautiful place at Long Branch,
and turned bis rose houses into aquaria.
The financial difficulties of some italian
municipalities have induced certain bankers Of
London and Berlin to form syndicate 60 help
them out
The wife Of baronet has appeared in
the Row. in the regular hour, riding astride.
Her dress was a divided skirt, rather longer
than the habit now fashionable.
-"Old Chabert," one of the best known
Socialist speakers in Paris, died recently. He
spent his days denouncing capitalists, and
always appeared in public wearing blood-rsd
scarf.
"A remarkable run of striped bass is re-
ported from the Susquehanna. At Port Deposit
the fish are said to be SO numerous and SO large
that they have broken the nets of several of the
fishermen.
The man upon whom the woman fell
when jumping from the tower of Notre Dame
couple of weeks ago, died of his internal in
juries after having been discharged from the
Paris Hospital as all right.
Charles r. bennett, the Chicago editor
who died lately, once owned 40 acres of land
that is now in the heart of Toledo. At one time
in his early days he was offered the entire
possession Of Mount Desert for trifing sum.
The Emperor of Japan wants to ride
expensively. Therefore he has ordered that a
state coach be constructed and has laid aside
Sl75,OOO for tnat purpose. OF course the orna-
mentatiOn Is responsible for the most Of this
sum.
"A wellknon London lady of rank has
just had a pair Of ten-button gloves made in
which each button is a diamond. The pair cost
500. Gentlemen in London are now wearing
mousquetaire gloves which 60 higher than the
elbow.
AT some of the ceremonies of commence
ment week at Bryn Mawr College the students
wore academic costumes. the blondes choosing
white gown and mortar board and the bru-
nettes yellow. The college colors are white
and yellow.
Every lobster has his name on him.
Look at one of his claws when he comes out Of
the water. You can see it better then than
when be is older and has been boiled. He has
his name or the year he was born or something
| always on his claw.
The military authorities of Russia have
issued an order that cavalrymen shall not wear
their ordinary spurs when they attend a ball.
They may wear spurs with blunt rowels, but
they may also if they prefer, appear in civilian
clothes. with no spurs at all
Mrs. William Pheein and her II chill
dren. half of whom were twins, passed through
the barge office at New YORK from the steam
snip Friesland recently on her way to join her
husband at Fort City, Pa- She once haQ Two
more children, but they died
"A remarkable record was that of Jacob
Fisher. who died lately in Kutztown. Pa.
He was 100 years old, he had voted for 10 Dem
ocratic candidates for President and was
never ill in his life. Moreover, he had used to-
| baeco and whisky ever since he was a young
man.
Charles B. Waite, the New York AL
ierman who turned informer in the famous
Doodle trials, and who was at ons time proprie-
tor of the great Windsor and BreYoort Hotels,
| is now an employe Of hotel in st. Paul. the
proprietor of which was formerly Mr.. Waite's
chief cook.
| Miss Lois Longyear. of Grass Lake,
| Mich, wrote an elab crate direction as to her
| funeral arrangements several days before she
| died She refused to be preached about and
selected few hymns which she wanted sung
| and requested that her body be not buried un-
/ til several weeks after death.
The widowed Archduchess Valerie, of
Austria, is at last engaged to be remarked, her
| fance being the Archduke Francis Salvador,
| son of the Archduke Charles Salvador of Haps-
| burg-LOrraine. The Emperor has refused to
allow his daughter-in-law to accent the wedding
presents which Municipal Councils all over the
empire intended to vote for her.
in the vicinity of stracker's Bend, ILL.,,
a wild man has been seen on several occasions
116 has appropriated SoCblOu Ol "
own use, and is being left Severely alone. He
forages for supplies at night and lives on the
fat of the land, and the residents are afraid to
venture out after dark Strong measures for
his capture are being contemplated, as he is
the source of much terror to the settlements
Mrs. Annie Roush, OF Letart, o., was
born at Morgantown. Pa, June 4, 1857, and has
lived in Meigs county since 1901 She is in
good health and from appearances she will
live several years yet. More remarkable than
her great age is the fact that she is at the head
of fully 1000 living descendants, which, it Is be-
lieved, no other person in the world can sue
cessfully claim. She can look down on six gen.
erations.
Two years ago George Croft, of Oshkosh,
Wis, loaned a friend $40, to be returned by
mail. Soon after he received letter asking If
he had received the money. Croft replied no.
| Soon after he received letter with the SO in
| it, and the friend declared he had once before
| sent the money. This week Croft received the
| first letter containing $40, which was sent Au-
| gust IL, 1888. to Ashland and had lain there
two years.
A daughter of General Lyon (the Con-
necticut hero who served in the Mexican and
Civil Wars, and who left all his property to the
Government to assist in carrying on the latter
war) has been found serving cook in a
graders camp, near Denver, Col. where her
husband. an invalid. was workman. 1t is
stated, also, that the wife of LInc0ln's first
Private Secretary, Frank Milton. is a cook on
the steamer st. Croix, on Western river.
A Missouri farmer thought he would
plant 20 acres of ground in corn, and, taking
the sack which contained his seed corn. went
into the field. put his corn planter into oper-
alton and pretty soon had the required number
of acres planted, so he thought, with seed corn.
But upon finishing his job, what was his con-
sternation and amazement to ii nd his stock of
corn untouched. He had simply forgotten to
put the corn In the planter, and was forced to
do his whole work over again.
"A farmer of East Palestine, o., has
produced potato which presents q striking
freak of nature. 1t is only small potato, but
a new tube has formed inside Of the old potato
which has burst it open in two places. The
young potato has the appearances Of having
grown through the body of the old. It is ac-
tually a new potato formed inside of the old,
drawing nouTIshment from the old, and de-
Yeloping without any stocks or leaves and with
out being planted IN the ground.