Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

An ambitious young Englishman an
nounces that he is about to publish key to
Browning's works.
-Scotchmen banquetting in London are
now entertained with music Of real northern
bagpipes played into a phonograph and sent
down 10 London by express.
Waterloo House, in London, that has
long stood vacant, is to be changed into grand
hotel and to be called "The President pre-
sumaDly to catch American travellers.
Charles Jones, of Middleton, killed an
otter on his farm which weighed III pounds.
An old citizen says the last otter known to have
been seen in this section was 50 years ago.
king Dinah, the Senegambian chief
who made sensation in Paris last summer, ID
having trouble with his subjects because he has
adopted some of the habits of civilization.
Rev. f. o. Morris, the wellknown
British naturalist, is trying to procure the pas
sage Of an act of Parliament making birds
nesting Illegal in order to preserve some Of the
rarer British birds from total extinction.
One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. It is situated between the Ural
and the Okhotsk Sea. well was recently dug
IN TINS region, when It was found that at .
oeptn OF Il6 meters the ground was still frozen.
1t is alleged that the falsifcations Of
English coins by clipping and counterfeiting
hasgone TO a greater extent during the last few
years than for a long time before and that things
nave got to such pass that it isn't safe 70 ae-
cept coins at all.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be IN.
dertaken this year by a company owning
capital of s20,000,0O0. If the operations prove
successful the old wooden plow pulled by oxen
that has held the field since an era before the
Roman Caesars, will probably have to go.
The British military authorities an
nounce as the subject for the prize essay of the
United Service Institution for 1890 'sThe taeti-
cal operations of the future as affected by the
introduction of magazine rifles and machine
and quick firing guns and smokeless powder"
The Gar of Russia is now the largest
landholder in the world. Three weeks ago he
purchased one single tract larger than the
State Of Texas. He has also bought in the
lands Of the Hohenlohe family, which they had
Inherited, but were not allowed to occupy in
Russia.
Switzerland proposes to hold a, t,Laus-
anne in June fair that will present specimens
Of all known alimentary substances, taking in
breads, confectioneries, pastries, cooked dishes,
vegetables, groceries, preserves, chocolates
and so on through all that the human stomach
knows
Monuments have now been completed
over the burial places Of the English, French
and Italian troops killed IN the Crimea during
the war Of lS54-5. Russia memorials over her
fallen soldiers on the same plains are on q
grander scale, as she continues to hold the fort,
SebastopoL
"A florist in London, England, has had
the happy thought Of hanging trails of moss
over and around the electric lights in his win
dow. The green and yellow tints of the deli
cate leaves form lovely veil for the light
which glimmers through them without being
diminished.
H. 0. Forbes is reported 10 have made
an important discovery in the neighborhood Of
Christchareh, New Zealand 1t IS the discovery
in cave of a great many valuable relics Of
men, birds and beasts. Not the least interest
ing portion OF the find consists Of the bones or
an extinct species of swan.
The Eighth Hussars of the British army
have gazelle for ~child of the regiment It
accompanies the regiment everywhere, and is
an especially conspicuous figure on the Sunday
church parade, when it accompanies the band
leading the line with stately tread appar-
entlyimitated from that Of the drum major.
Monthly police reports of foreign Wis
itors in the hotels and boarding houses are
made at Paris. On February the official
number was E.5O3 slight decrease from the
preceding month. but with slight variations,
the number remains about the same for each
month, excluding August and September, the
dull season
"A clever young woman in st. Joseph,
Mo-, outwitted tyrannical father on Friday
and succeeded in marrying the man of her
choice without his consent She managed to
become maid Of honor at wedding where her
pest man vas also the grooms. apd at the
groomsman, and they were pronounced man
and wife "ere the mother could speak or the
father could bar"
The Gar Of Russia has Just decorated q
private soldier, whose fidelity recalls the story
Of the Roman sentinels, who persisted in the
destruction Of Pompeii. When recent EARTH
quake destroyed a small Russian town in Gen.
tral Asia, this soldier was on duty at the mill
tary treasury. Although the houses were
crashing around him, he stood motionless
awaiting death. Fortunately a sergeant saw
him amid the ruins and instantly ordered him
to quit his post.
I'm the Belgian districts, where the play
full frog lives in large colonies around the
ponds, canals, and bitches. there is lamenta-
tion and woe among the farmers at the whoe-
sale destruction of the creature. which, besides
being, in the French gourmand's estimation,
good for food" is very useful to agriculturists
as q slug and insect hunter. After various
fruitless attempts to prevent the destruction of
the frogs, they have now put their case-and
that of the frogs-before King Leopold peti-
tion1ng that frog hunting be prohibited during
certain parts Of the year, so as to prevent frogs
from disappearing altogether from the country
If, therefore, it should be noticed in the near
future by admirers Of ssewed frogs that their
favorite dish is becoming more expensive than
ever they will know whom to blame for the
fact.
Chemically, the apple is composed of
vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, chic
rophyll, malic acid, gallic acid, lime, and much
water. Furthermore, the German analysts say
that the apple contains larger percentage Of
than any other fruit or vegetable.
This phosphorus is admirably adapted for re-
newing the essential nervous matter, letnlcin,
of the brain and spinal chord. 1t is, perhaps,
for the same reason, rudely understood, that
old Scandinavian traditions represent the ap-
pie as the food Of the gods. who. when they felt
themselves to be growing feeble and innrm re-
sorted to this fruit for renewing their powers
of mind and body. Also, the acids Of the ap-
pie are Of signal use for men Of sedentary
habits, whose liVers are sluggish in action;
these acids serving to eliminate from the body
noxjous matters which, if retained. would
make the brain heavy and dull. OF bring about
jaundice or skin eruptlons and other allied
troubles.