Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Richmond. No.. that the boys kill them with
| clubs.
To the Benedictine Order have belonged
43 popes. 200 cardinals, 600 archbishops, and
more than 1000 bishops.
| Golf appears to be hourishing at Cam
bridge, England for the University Club has
Just decided to expend Fl, coo in building a new
house for the members.
John Slensby, Sr., of Milwaukee, is
about so years old. His years are not troubling
him so much as is the fact that his wife has
| lett him. She was his sixth.
-Egbert Storer, of Norwich, Conn, VINO
is reputed to be descendant of Hendrix Hud-
son. the navigator. has a trunk which is said to
nave belonged to that pioneer.
"A deacon of Lakewood, n. j., church
on recent Sunday shot coon that took pos
session OF tree in his back yard and now the
church wants to discipline him.
The old Stale Board of Emigration held
its last meeting at Castle Garden New York
City, Tuesday, and discharged all its employees
except Superintendent Jackson
The Aldermen of New York CITY Tues
day passed the resolution permitting the New
iork and Long Island Railroad Company to
construct tunnel under the East river
The noted bull in a china shop had
counterpart in Norfolk, Va, the other day,
store, from which he was evicted with difh-
Guilty.
"A company has been organized in
Chicago for the delivery of parcels and light
weight goods throughout the city and suburbs
by means of bicycles Articles of incorpora-
tlon have been applied for.
The Indianapolis Nelos says the new
binder and reaper trust will, on January /, dis
charge several thousand men from the factories
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services will not be needed.
The four-masted barkentine Charles F,
Croeker has just been launched at Alameda.
Cal She is said to be the largest barkenrine
launched on the Pacific coast. She is 24O feet
long; and will ply between California and the
sandwich Islands.
Patrick McCabe, convicted of compile
ity in the plot to blow up the Glasgow Gas
Works in 1888, died Tuesday in prison at Perth.
he had been insane for two years McCabe's
friends allege his death was due to the cruelty
OF the keepers of the prison.
There was decided earthquake shock
at Knoxville, Tenn, Tuesday morning about
o'clock. Persons from the surrounding country
report the shock so severe that houses were
shaken and dishes ratified. Many persons at
startled. SD
Fairfield, Freestone county. Texas ia
stricken with mysterious disease. The Gov
ernor was appealed to Tuesday, by telegraph.
Tor medical aid. The sickness broke out sud-
denly and out of l3 cases ii deaths have oc-
cured. 1t battles medical skill and kills in a
few hours.
"A Maine lady who lately celebrated her
one hundredth birthday tells how her mother
taught her to write on birch bark The chill
dren of those days in their widest dreams
could hardly have imagined the advantages
and luxuries that the little folks of to-day take
as matter of course.
Frank Ham, Captain of the steamer
Kineo, and well known to the thousands who
frequent Moosehead lake, Maine, every year.
fatally sfot himself few days ago to escape
being married to respectable Young woman of
GreenVllle, TO whom he wrote saying that he
was unworthy of her.
"A telegram from Medicine Hat, Winni
peg, saws: Superintendent Niblock has lust
finished plowing his gardens. The weather is
as warm as June, and haying is still in progress
on many ranches. cricket match and other
sports are being arranged for Christmas Day
1hey are playing lawn tennis az Souris
An example of a rare animal-er7ptop-
rocta ferox-never exhibited alive in England
until now, is to be seen at the London Zooloel-
cal Gardens. 1t has the reputation of being
one OF the most feTociouS and bloodLhirsry Of
carnivorous animals 1t Is halfway between a
cat and genet, and inhabits Madagascar
According to statistics just published,
the average Partisan consumes during his life
time ]. 800 pounds of bread and 100 pounds of
meat, and these he washes down with 81 barrels
of wine, 400 lirres Of alcohol about 100 litres of
beer, and an equal quantity of cider. Ae also
absorbs II, l6O eggs, l.600 pounds of fish, 1900
pounds of oil, lSO0 pounds of salt and 10000
pounds of vegetables.
1t has long been the custom for the
breweries in Chicago to pay for the saloon IL
censes of their poorer customers. A few DAYS
ago the brewery syndicate decided to stop this
and it was expected that 600 saloons would be
closed. 1t was announced Tuesday, however
that an independent brewery, with prospective
capital of sl.0O00OO, is being established and it
Will pay the licenses of its customers.
While Miss Dunson, of PIainfeld, N.
j., was on her way to New York, a few days
ago, to make a last inspection of her wedding
trousseau, she received probably fatal injuries
by being run over while endeaVoring to alight
from the train. She was taken TO New York in
an ambulance, and at her bedside Rev Mr.
Stafford performed the ceremony by which she
and James Paisley Long were wedded9
The COW tree, the sap of which closely
resembles milk. is a native of South and Central
America. 1t is a species of evergreen, and
grows only in mountain regions. A hole bored
in the wood, or even a wound made in the bark
of this remarkable tree il almost Immediately
filled with lacteal-like fluid Alexander Won
Humboldt was the first traveller to describe
this tree and bring it to the notice of Europeans
Schiller, Goethe and Lessing are about
to be introduced in Consrantinople. The Crown
Prince of Meiningen, who has already earned
some repute by his translations of German
classics into modern Greek, will undertake the
temporary management OF the Greek Theater
in the Turkish capital for the performance Of
Schiller's Robbers" Lessing's Emilia Ga
leotti," and other German dramas IN modern
Greek.
The United States Government has pur-
chased from the Trinity Church corporation in
New York, the block of ground bounded by
Christopher, Barrow, Greenwich and Washing
ton streets. This ground will form the site for
the new Appraisers stores. The price to be
paid is $3.50, $50 "a. A clause in the contract
provides that the Government may withdraw
from the purchase at any time before February
i next.
The contract for the building of the
Ammen ram for the navy, which has been
awarded to the Bath Iron Works. is a much
greater undertaking than the two gunboats,
now under construction at Bath. Armed with
a powerful ram, and provided only with rapid
firing pieces, she is intended to engage and
DESTROY her enemies by means of her powerful
peak. Further to insure her fighting efficiency
she is to be provided with water compartments
which on being filed, will sink her deck to-
within few feet of the surface of the water.
This deck will be heavily armored, and will
effeetuaIly prevent the ingress Of any hostile
shells. The ram is the design of Rear Admiral
D. A. AmmeD, United States Navy. II is cal
culated that one or two vessels of the Ammen
hostile fleet up New fork Harbor, The ram
rnuSr he eomnleted wears after date of