Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

panorama of Niagara, with an artificial roar"
of the falls.
The italian Government has ordered
that the study of English shall be added to the
curriculum of all Italian universities.
There has been a tremendous rainfall in
New South Wales. Seventy inches in seven
months, and still raining at last accounts.
1t is said there are no lese than eight
American girls at Lenox who have this year
refused offers of marriage from titled for
eigners.
SO much in excess Of the supply is the
demand for whalebone that several tons were
soi9 u iaSt a week in London at the enormous price
OF Fl, $50 per ton.
"A sweet potato from the fertile soil Of
James Coxs farm, Kinks Mills, Lancaster
county. Welghs Just three pounds six ounces.
IL was grown from Jersey seed.
"A Three Rivers, Mich, girl has beau
who is a Lake Shore fireman. Every day she
ties bouquet to stick and hands it 70 her
lover as ne nles by her home in his cab.
In New Orleans court Mrs. Kate Nc
Ginty is suing for $4,000 damages for the loss
of her husband. He went down with tha
dredgeboat Bayley, whose boilers exploded a
year ago.
All the liberty poles in Maple Corners,
near Portland. Mich, were cut down last week.
As both the Democratic and Republicans suf-
fered alike neither party can make campaign
material out Of it.
John P. Walker, driver for an Adrian,
Mich. grocer, hit his horse humping whack
with the whip yesterday and the animal plant
ed his feet against Mr.. w Walkers shins, break
ing both Of Walkers legs.
In Berlin schoolmistress receives $500
annually during the first years of her service; a
schoolmaster. s4Oo. After 42 years of unDroken
service the schoolmistress' maximum salary is
S4sO, and the schoolmaster's $500.
Street Commissioner WoIverton, Of
Adrian, Mich. had a calf which had a habit of
sticking its head out of the barn door, Mon
day bolt of lightning killed it. The queer
part of the case is that the barn entirely es-
capped.
"A very smart young man in Savannah
tried to pay his street car fare with SlOO bill.
The conductor was accommodating, and stop
ping the car he went into a store and got the
bill changed, giving the young man a shot bag
1ull OF silver, amounting to 500 %.
Seneca Jones, pastor of the NJ. E.
Church at Woodland, is a practical mechanic.
For six years he has been at work building
pipe-organ, which will be put up in his church
in few weeks. 1t covers floor area of 130
square feet and will contain 900 pipes.
"A peculiar torture is practiced in the
prison of Uskub. Macedonia, Thieves and
forgers are chained naked to the floor and 80
ants are placed on the body Of each person. 1t
is said that the uneasiness caused by the ants
roaming freely over the body is the most exas-
peratlng torture.
AN Idaho bank on which there was a
run piled upon the counter what was supposed
to be $40. 900 in gold. This stopped the run and
brought in depositOrs and when the trouble
was over the gold was taken down. The pack
ages contained iron washers cut to the thick
ness and size of $40 gold pieces.
The wire rope used in the tunnel at
Glasgow, Scotland, is claimed to be one of the
largest and longest wire cables in the world.
1t was made at Cardiff, Wales, in 1885, and is
2.400 fathoms in length or about miles and los
yards. 1t weighs q y tons and has nearly 1OO-
OOo fathoms of wire in its makeup
The hottest day of the year in New
Zealand generally comes at Christmas. The
day is great occasion for picnics in the coolest
hooks of the woods. The only recollection Of
the Christmas dinner of Western notions is
the plum pudding. which is rellg1ousiy eaten,
but to the accompaniment of cold lemonade
instead of cotfe and wine.
The Du Pont powder mills explosion
caused a confusion at the West Chester Normal
School amounting almost to panic. The STU
dents rushed from the classroom, ran about
like frightened fowls and some feared an earth
quake. Tha cause was bulletined on the black
boards and in that way everyone learned West
Chester was safe to this earth for the present.
One of the most remarkable old ladies
in Maine is living the island of Monhegan.
Although only 70 years old she not only knows
nothing of the cars, telephone, electric lights
ETC., but has never seen a horse. She has
always lived on the island several miles from
the mainland, and her world has been Mo1he-
gan. Sheep and cows are kept on the island,
but there is no call for horses.
AS this is the season Of rice BIRDS the
following recipe from lady who knows how to
serve rice birds in the most delicious way will
be worth cutting out and pastlDg on blank
leaf of the COOK book. Cut sweet potatoes
lengthwise. scoop out in the center of each
place that will fit the bird; now put in the birds
after seasoning them with butter, pepper and
salt, tying the two pieces of potato around
them. Bake and serve them in the potatoes.
Colonel W. S. Allebach, jeweler of 80
years business standing in Tamaqua, stood on
the porch fronting his store the other morning
and noted a large bird swooping rapidly his
way. The direction was northeasterly and in
a twinkIing it shot downward, and, sweeping
in a straight line, struck the shop window the
glass falling out, shattered into numerous
pieces. The bird was pheasant, and Colonel
Allebach is in search of a cause why his win
dow should have been selected in preference to
others more prominent.
About quarter of century ago, when
Charles NJ. Winant, now City Marshal of New
port, Ore, was small boy, he was sitting one
day on his fathers knee in their house at
Bruceport, Wash. John B. Rose, now under
sentence of death IN Pacific county. Wash, had
a grudge against Mr., Jed Winant at that time
and fired through the window of the house at
Mr.. W1nant and his son while they were sit
ting as described above. Fortunately the bull
let missed Its mark and neither the father nor
kr
derer of quarter of century ago now awaits
the hangman'S moose for his participation in a
crime, which was not merely an attempt, but
resulted in the murder of two lnotfensiye peo-
pie.