Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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A rich silver mine bearing ore worth
$500 ton has been discovered in Wyoming.
New York has big lumber interest.
Last year the trade amounted to sl6OO,OO0OOO.
The Ontario mine, located at Park City,
Utah, has paid to date 81. $4,000 in dividends.
The Red Cloud mine in the Wood river
Qdaho) district yielded 172 tons of ore last
| month.
"A Cincinnati horse objected to having
tobacco juice squirted on him, and chased the
| scuirter.
| Silk is numbered among the products OF
Missouri. the State having produced last year
| 2,T78 pounds of cocoons.
Lima people are not up in the use Of
fire alarm boxes. They prefer to run and
scream themselves hoarse.
Miss Luella NJ. Cawles, of Kelloggs-
vile. O., has become insane through grief
caused by the death of relatives.
The so Yale graduates in Toxic, Japan,
are the astonishment of the natives for their
boat-rowing and prodlgious kicking powers.
Lately an electrical apparatus has been
introduced for stopping elevators, engines and
other machines and motors instantaneously.
Maine men do some strange things.
The owners of an unsuccessful pants factory
are converting it into maple syrup factory.
Frederick Livingston, IN his goth year,
continues to perform his duties as President of
the First National Bank in Petersboro, N. II.
Nathaniel Thayer is called the Wander
bilt of Boston. He has fortune of $1,000
QUO. invested for the most part in Western rail-
| ways.
"A tusk seven feet long and tooth
weighing over seven pounds, supposed to have
| booD mar 0f n M hav hoe had
| at Monson, Ia.
ALI of the Dostofices in Italy receive
money on deposit. allowing interest at the rate
| of 81 per cent per annum and dividend paid
every five years.
1t is srumored that the Farmers Alliance
is talking of buying the Springfield Reaper
| Works and running it in competition with the
Harvester Trust.
The Belmont family, fearing an ATTEMPT
to steal the body of the late August Belmont,
buried at Newport, have established nightly
| guard at the grave.
Six boys of one Augusta, Me-, family
drew their pension last week. they all having
| served through the late Civil War, being now
| gray-headed old men.
"A San Diego county (Cal. horticulturist
is going to graft the many live oaks on his place
| with chestnuts, which he has learned will sue
| ceed well on oak trees.
The latest prank o { Harvard students IS
| to steal all the thermometers in Boston, and
| the scientific inhabitants of the Hub do not
| know whether it is summeror winter.
| The effective of the Argentine army has
| been fixed for 1891 at 1863 men. OF these 2325
| compose the infantry. 2225 the cavalry 7S9 the
artillery, and go the corps OF engineers.
The Cars personal bodyguard of pri-
| vate police consists of Is specially picked Cos
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| keep watch in the kitchen and private apart
| ments.
| 1t is reported in Zanzibar that the Sui
tsn of Vitu and his followers, have destroyed
| an English Mission station on the Tana river.
| Several native Christians were killed by the
| Sultan's people.
| A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
| folding, over the face is q complete security
against suffocation from smoke; it permits free
| breathing, and at the same time, excludes the
| smoke from the lungs.
"A Russian peasant named Namischeff
entered the barn of a usurer to whom he owed
| money and hanged himself upon the door,
writing upon it with chalk the words: This
pays of my indebtedness 10 you"
About 20 years ago the Japanese au-
| thor, Kioyte Bakin, completed a novel upon
which he had been at work for 3S years. 1t
| comprises 106 volumes, ana is said to illustrate
The Great Western Argentine Railroad
| Is about to try the experiment Of burning crude
| petroleum in its engines. 1t has contracted
| with Mendoza company to take 100000 cubic
metres of crude petroleum at s12 metre.
George Montieu and 7. V. Smith, scenic
artists with the Crystal Slipper company, had
| fight at Milwaukee, Wis. while in the "hies"
| IS feet above the stage. They fell TO the stage
and both were badly. perhaps fatally, injured.
1t is the opinion of Edwin Arnold that
| the Old Testament is not more interH oven with
the Jewish race, nor the New Testament with
| the civilization of Christendom than is the
Koran with the records and destinies of Islam.
| Emperor Williams personal finances, it
| is reported in Berlin, have been hopelessly IN
volved by his own reckless expenditure, and he
has had to borrow 25O00. 900 marks from the
| banker, Herr Won Bleichroder, on his note Of
hand.
| The Rev. DR.. Charles f. Hoffman and
| his brother the Rev. DR.. E. A. Hoffman, dean
of the General Theological Seminary. both of
] New York, are said to be the richest elergymen
| in the United States. The wealth of each OF
| them is about Sl4, 100000.
A very extensive domestic industry in
Russia consists in the manufacture of wooden
| spoons which are made to the extent of 0OO0-
| 900 annually. mostly of birch. The poor or
| that land are happy If they can get something
i
Philip H. Holmes, an artist of
Gardiner, Me-, has Just found in the corridor OF
| the Girard House in Philadelphia a canvas,
| 2Ox15 feet which was lost at the time of the
| Centennial Exposition. 1t is a view of the Adj
| rondacks and is valued at $1,000.
One of the odd sights in Chicago re-
Gently was the moving of a stately elm tree
| through the streets from Crosse Point to
| Graceland Cemetery. The tree was lifted as it
| grew and transported. upright. IN crate, CIV
| ing the impression of a travelling tree.
-Dueling continues very frequent in
| Italy. During the last II months z75y duels
| were fought and so of the combatants sue
cumbed. Some of the duelists were wounded
several times in the same conflict. for 39Ol
wounds were inflicted and over 1000 of these
were serious.
j. J. Bayard, doctor. who went to
San Antonio. Texas, 25 years ago and led the
life of a hermit in the mountains, except to
minister to the sick. died there last week in a
log hut he had built for himself. He claimed
to be brother of ex-Secretary Bayard, and to
to have served on General Taylors staff during
the Mexican war.
From the report of the State engineer of
New York, it is learned that Niagara Falls are
receding about two feet every year. The first
accurate survey was made in, 1912, and since
that the total recession amounts to more than
100 feet This is not strange, considering that
27UOOO cubic feet of water pass over the falls
every second, or over 16,OO9OOO cubic feet per
minute.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.