Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

OUhlUUO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Seine is full of drift ice and the
river steamers have stopped running.
With the death of Senator de Lafayette,
the famous family has become extinct.
There are 2, ZOO husbands in New York
City, it is stated, who are supported BY their
wives.
Several New York churches now adver-
tise their services in the elevated railroad
structures.
Statistics indicate that the cranberry
crop this year will be smaller than that Of any
year since 1884
Arctic owls are being shot on Long
Island this winter, They are large white birds
and are seldom seen south Of Hudson Bay.
The harbor of Batoum, originally in
tended to hold 20 steamers, is to be deepened
and made sufficiently large to contain 80 yes
sells
Miss Maggie Mcdowell, one Of the
bellies Of Charlotte. N. c.. has become the wife
of German nobleman, the Baron Won Malt
zahn.
News has been received from Inyo
county, in the most isolated portion of Califor-
MIA that L5OO Piute Indians are on the point Of
uprising.
General Booth is authority for the state
menE that there are 1853 corps Of the Salvation
Army in America, with 81 outposts and 1,C66
officers in active service,
The DEVILS River Neus is the classic
and suggestive name Of a new Texas paper.
The salutatory says 1t will be edited by an
Italian scholar named Mike Murphy.
"A coffee house with pretty Mattresses,
opened last week in Berlin, bearing over its
portal sign consisting of Koch's portrait with
the inscription, THE Jolly Bacillus"
The visible supply Of corn is now less
than 1000 600 bushels and the smallest for this
season of the year since statistics on this sub
ject began to be compiled IL years ago.
The senior class at Phillips Exeter
Academy have chosen a colored boy for class
orator in the person Of Henry C. Minton. He
comes from Philadelphia and Is leader in his
school work.
thropically sent "a British families to the cape
to found an improved colony. She bought land
for them, but the result was failure. The men
would not work.
The new American cruisers compare
favorably in speed with the fastest war vessels
afioat, and the battle ships promise to be among
the most formidable and seaworthy of modern
floating batteries.
in these days "the light fantastic"
comes by inspiration. Grille dEgout, the great
French dancer. says that she follows insDira-
tion while performing and seldom takes exactly
the same step twice.
More than 100 writers in England, male
and female, have written the life of Gladstone.
and have the manuscript all ready, so that they
can rush to publishing house with 1t the mo-
ment his death is announced.
Count Tolstoi is described as wearing
usually such coarse clothing as is worn by the
poor classes. His shirt is worn outside of his
trousers, in the fashion of the moujIk. and is
gathered in at the waist by leather belt.
"A life of ease does not satisfy some rich
girls. Miss Mabella Young Low. Harlem, N.
Y, girl and college graduate. has purchased
nursery and will devote her time and energies
to the cultivation of roses and mushrooms.
The Southern author, Cable, is a man
of slender physique and medium stature. His
beard and eyes are dark. and his high forehead
is surmounted with head of jet black hair.
He has soft, feminine voice, and is 45 years
old.
Reports from the exploring expedition
sent into Alaska by W. ]. Arkell are to the
effect that members of the party have quar-.
relied among themselves and divided, and are
| now showed in among the mountains, with pro-
visions running short.
The hunting costume for women is of
such clerical stamp that when q lady was
thrown lately in Ireland countryman rushed
up with the remark: 'If your reverence will
Just kape along the bank bit there is handy
rail you might climb over"
old Geronimo's son. little chap of 8
years. is an important figure on the Southwest
swears like pirate. and can take his horn Of
whisky with the toughest. Altogether he is as
vicious little fellow as a boy can be.
Sarah Hunter, aged 13, employed in the
household of W. II. Smith, near Winona, Oat.,
tried to poison her employer and his family and
afterward succeeded in destroying her own life
with trough rats" The girl felt aggrieved
because she had been chided for allowing the
fires TO go out
I'm England they give their football
players SIS to $40 week regular salary with
81, 900 bonus at the end Of the season If their
conduct has been creditable. The plan of
putting premium up for good conduct has
wholesome effect. The plan might be tried on
baseball players.
Two men have found near Fresno. Cal,
what is claimed to be a genuine petrifed body
of man. 1t is remarkably well preserved and
even the lines of the back of the hand are
visible. The head is Of a good size and features
Of Caucasian type. The body measures nearly
seven feet in length.
Gentlemen have been very lucky on the
French race courses this year. NJ. Maurice
Ephrussi won SS5,OOO; BaroDs Alphonse and
Gustave de Rothschild. about $4,000 each;
Donon, Baron de Saubeyran ana NJ. Michel
Ephrussi between $4,000 and S7U,0O0
"A novel suit is before the Superior
Court Of Maine. The plaintiff, Cape Eliza
beth man, brings suit against Portland man
for alternating his wife's affections. and the de-
fendant in his plea. declares that the wife
never had any affection for the husband, con-
10 ha nO Qlipnata them II
stand trial on this ground.
A marriage peculiar in the length and
brevity of the high contracting parties was
celebrated in Parkersburg. VIVA, recently. NJ.
v. Collins 40 years old, 6 feet 7 inches in
height, was welded to Miss Martha Farms
worth The bride is 3 feet inch in height
tall enough when standing on a chair to reach
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