Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Sumner (Ill.) farmers in general hunt
bagged 300 rabbits.
The city of London, England, will
build and rent houses to workingmen at slight
profit
"A favorite Christmas doll recites in a
childish treble few lines of some familiar
nursery rhyme or song.
-Lorin Fletcher, of Minneapolis, it is re-
ported. has just sold for sl34U00 a corner lot in
that city. which cost him $, 500 20 years ago.
AN ingenious method of applying drugs
hypodermical1y to the body in which eleetricity
IS brought to bear, Is receiving considerable at
tention.
The Queen of Sweden, who still suffers
from shattered nerves. finds ease in working
like housemaid. and in wedding and digging
in her garden.
The Methodist ministers are discussing
the question should women be licensed to
preach" Most OF the married women are al
ready lecturers.
Kansas requires for the instruction of
her 509.6 .6l4 school children 1872 teachers. She
has SSH schooLhouses. She pays her male
teachers s42 q month and her female teachers
S3I a month.
The Maine lumber camps are unusually
bright with women this year. They are house.
keepers for their fathers and husbands, and
acters away.
-Philadelphia statistics show that so
women are employed to 100 men in that city.
Not so long ago the sight of a woman following
any avocation in public attracted a crowd. So
the world advances.
William l.. Beattie, one of the pioneer
settlers of Saline county, Kan, died at Sweet
Springs last week. Instead of a funeral sermon
paper he had prepared before he died was
read. He was 73 years old.
"A negro at Hawkinsville, Ca, fearing
that somebody might steal his silver dollar, put
it in his mouth before he went to bed. When
he awoke the coin had been swallowed. doc
tor extracted it with difficulty.
-Jaguar skin is a new material now meet
ing with approval for application on cloth and
woolens. The color is brown, shaded to amber,
and the surface is covered with irregularly
shaped spots in shades of yellow, red and light
brown.
AT Anerieus, Ca, the other day, a
negro was exhibiting hawk that measured
feet and II inches from tip to tip The bird was
not dead. and was as fierce as an eagle. A lit
tie boy went too near and was clawed clear
through his clothes, drawing the blood and
loud yell.
While sinking mine shaft recently at
Mysore. the workmen broke into an old shaft,
dug perhaps thousand years or more ago, and
IN which were found implements of various
KINDS that bore unmistakable evidence of the
former Workmen being Chinese.
Prof. Thurston saws: "The assumption
seems fair that the locomotive engine will have
been superseded when we double our speeds,
and that we must find ways to utilize the
weights of the cars themselves for adhesion and
to make each carry its own motor"
-"Prof. Rowland's thermometer at the
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. is the
most perfect instrument of the kind in the
country, and is valued at $40 600. The gradua-
tions on the glass can only be read by micro
scope, they being too fine for the naked eye.
One OF the efforts of the :Pan-American
Conference is seen in the establishment of
new line of steamers on the west coast Of
South America, the capital being furnished by
the merchants and bankers of Valparaiso and
Santiago, encouraged by the prospect of
Government subsidy.
The fact is not so well known as it de-
serves to be that cream constitutes an adm1ra-
bic nutriment for invalids. 1t is superior to
butter, containing more volatile oils. Persons
predisposed to consumption, aged persons, or
those inclined to cold extremities and feeble
digestion are especially benefited by liberal
use of sweet cream. 1t is far better than cod
liver oil, and besides being excellent for med
ical properties it is highly nutritious food.
George Schatchtal, who died few days
ago, was known as the heaviest man in Brook
lyn. His weight was 500 pounds. At the time
of his marriage, II years ago. he was well pro-
portioned, feet tall, and broad shouldered.
Then he began to get fat and in spite of all his
efforts continued to grow. The coffin in which
he was buried was feet long, feet inches
wide and feet inches deep. 1t was lowered
ont of the window, as it could not be taken
down the stairway.
"A young woman, an orphan, recently
masqueraded in Tennessee in male attire to Sc
F0rt
she was taken sick and sent to the Memphis
hospital She remained there five weeks and
was convalescent before the city physician dis
covered his patient was girl. He took a
friendly interest in the lass, learned she had
tramped from Kentucky there without discov-
cry. adopting the male attire TO avoid insult
The sequel is the doctor and the girl are to be
married.
Prof. E. H. Snow, Kansas State Ento-
mologist. by study of the bacilli and microbes
which prey upon the chinch bug. has discOy-
cred a process of inoculation by means of which
stroyer-which really exists in a fungus growth
once inOculated and given its deadly virus,
will multiply with incredible rapidity. The
sDoreS of these fungi are easily carried and
scattered about by the wind, and in this man.
ner can be readily diffused over large area of
wheat fields without any special trouble.
Mrs. William Astor has gold dinner
service valued at $4,000, and this service in
lion and unicorn repOusse work, is set always
upon the finest of white linen cloths, with no
sashes or fluff of silk. The cloth is bordered
with broad white lace, revealing tint of pink
through its meshes of the exact shade of GlOIre
de Paris roses. which forms invariably and at
all seasons of the year the table decoration.
The most valuable dinner service in the world
however, belongs to Queen Victoria, and occu-
pies two rooms at buckingham Palace, over
which two men watch continually.
One of the new occupations for women
now creating demand for which the supply is
unequal is that of instructors in women's gym
naslums The salary ranges from $500 to $50 a
year, with four months vacation, ana the work
is most hygienie and improving: but leading
of gymnasium supplies are un-
able to fill the orders that come to them for
trained teachers in the use of the apparatus.
There are five leading schools for physical edu-
cation. Boston has a normal school In physl-
cal culture, the Adelphi Academy has another
well-known institution where the student is
taught how to fit up gymnasium, and to
apparatus as well as to teach
their USE The summer school for teachers at
Harvard College is an important institution,
having had 160 pupils in the three mouths of its
existence. The average cost of instruction in
these train ing colleges is about $500 year, and
a course of instruction for graduation COM
prises two years of seven months each.