Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A QQe We'll Oh 0dbuTdl BdS ndS SuucA
recently at Warrenton. near Astoria, Ore.
london exchanges tell of two girls in
Germany who have been in frances nearly
seven weeks.
Clements White, aged 72, OF Smyrna,
Del, walked a6 miles to notify son of death
In the family.
Fifteen bows of the Tombstone public
school were fined 81 each last week for defac-
ing school property.
Hunters are slaughtering deer for their
pelts near Lake Chelam. Wash. The poor ami
mails are knocked down with clubs in the deep
snow.
Henry Washburn, 20 years old, welded
A-year-old bride on Saturday, at Madison,
Ind, an on Sunday applied for an annulment
of the marriage.
Ten years ago the plains near Deming,
Ariz, were feeding antelope. Last week 5000
head Of cattle were shipped from Deming to
Eastern cities by rail.
w. A. Rice, of San Luis Obispo, took
a 500 prize for raising the biggest onion from
seed furnished by Philadelphia farmer. Mr..
Riee's fragrant tuber weighed SIX pounds two
ounces.
On the west coast of Africa there are
now 200 churches, $1,000 converts, 10000 adher-
ents. 2,750 schools and $4,000 pupils. Religious
bo oks have been translated into IS dialects Of
the section.
"A large reservoir at Dunsmuir, Siskiyou
county, was cleaned out last week. and the
trout were found to be in perfect condition,
though they were not fed for six weeks during
the heavy snowstorms.
"A carload of salmon left Portland last
Wednesday to be shipped direct to Russ ia
The fish are sent in barrels to St Petersburg,
where the salt will be extracted and the fish
will be canned. This is done to avoid the heavy
duty on canned goods.
"A gentleman who lives near Washing
ton Village Me- and deals in sewing machines
ran upon quite a mine of wealth recently. In
tearing to pieces an old machine which had
been in his possession for some time, ran upon
a secret cavity containing ID 80 bills
Harvard intends to erect monster club
house for the use of all clubs connected with
that university. If the scheme is carried out
the new building will be erected near the
campus, and the various clubs can secure quar-
ters at much lower rates than they pay now.
1t will cost about $4,000
While A. Keith, a range foreman OF
Matrona county, Mont. was riding a few miles
from his ranch, he ran into a bunch Of 40 elk.
The old ones were thin and discouraged. He
roped couple, but was compelled to let them
go on account of the inability of his mount,
Gull used about the place.
When seven convicts were recently
liberated from the penitentiary at Walla Walla,
their first act was to get drunk; next to beat a
soldier, next to intlmidate the City Marshal,
who being no spring chicken, laid out the ring
leader, and the rest are now hiding around
lumber yards and hay lofts.
Milton w. Lee, deacon in the First
Congregational Church at Kalamazoo, Mich,
has become a convert to Adyentism and wants
letter of dismissal SO that he may join his new
found friend. Mrs Lee wants to go with her
The have
pointed a committee to investigate and see II
they can't keep the deacon.
A New York canoeist has started on the
longest canoe voyage ever undertaken. He set
out from the statue of Liberty and will end his
voyage, after 1000 miles of padding. at the
mouth of the Columbia river, Fort Candy,
Wash. He carries with him a bottle OF water
from the Atlantic Ocean, which he will empty
into the Pacific in October next.
Among some paper rags in the Plain
well, Mich, paper mill there has been found
an order allowing one Stephen Stillwen to
carry cloth and trimmings for suit of clothes
signed by the s.Superintendent." and dated
New York, October Z, l7S2-" about 80 days
before the British evacuated New York.
"A burglar named Heine, while being
taken from Louisville to Eddyville. KY, to
work on prison contract, escaped from the
| train in daring manner. He walked forward
| in the car to get drink of water. When near
the door he seized the guard, cboked him to IN
| sensIbility, and, with another convict who was
| helping him. jumped off the tram and disaD-
| peared in the darkness
An old Wyoming hunter estimates that
there are not over 500 buffalo on the globe now-
There are less than 100 wild bisons, about 200 in
captivity and 200 IN Yellowstone Park. Nearly
ali of the wild ones have been located
Twenty-Five are known to be in Texas, 20 in
Colorado, 26 in Wyoming and Montana and Is
in Dakota. The big herd said to be in the Brit
ish possessions is but myth
"A woman dressed in mourn ing called at
! a Montreal police station and requested that
she might be given her sons picture. When
told that there was none there she answered
that it was in the rogues' gallery. "He
once accused of picking pockets" B" said the vis-
tor "but was discharged. This picture was
taken at that time. l nave none. except one
showing him as a child, and now he is dead"
Anna G. Bracket, who has been search
ing into the subject, says that previous to the
time of Richard II. l377-lS99) all the English
women who rode at all rode like men. Rich
ard married Anna of Bohemia the eldest
daughter of Charles ". Emperor OF Ger
many. and it is to her that we owe the inIroduc-
tion of the side-saddle. 1t is stated that she
was deformed and, therefore, could not ride
with ease on the usual saddle.
"A grand organ is being built at Crems
for the Sanctuary Vale di Pompei. It is
called a polyphonic organ, and is to be ready to
be put in its place on the 8th of next month.
The chief characteristic of the instrument Is
the perfect imitation which it can produce Of
almost the whole orchestra, especially of the
strings and the wood wind. 1t has three key
boards, each with 81 notes, "a pedals and 1000
pipes, divided into 40 registers.
"A curious case has developed in Ogden,
Lenawee county. Mich. Miss Wotanlg, aged
IS, after attending series Of revival meetings,
has come to have periodical spells, when she
goes into a trance and holds conversations with
the patriarchs of the Bible, being able Then
she RECEIVERS not only to give complete .eport
of what they visited with her about, but also
to tell exactly how they looked and were
dressed. A doctor has been called to try to
cure her. as her family doesn't believe it Is
good for young lady to move IN quite such
oil