Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

I has 325 unknown depositors, of which number
% have not troubled their deposits since 1859.
"A penniless Scotch immigrant accident
ally stumbled upon a rich brother in New York
the other day whom he had not seen for 81
years.
Several baskets full of fish that sudden
ly found themselves on dry land after the water
receded have been picked up in Maine this
week.
The spread of the English language is
indicated by the fact that it was used in the
framing of q recent treaty between Russia and
China.
French scientists have analyzed a quart
of water taken from typhoid infected district
and found 15,OO0,OOO to 2Q,OOO,OOO typhoid germs
! therein.
"A young lady 10 years of age, named
Cyrenna A. Boyd died at Sacramento, Cal, of
hlood-poisoning caused by having her ears
| pierced.
| AN Aroostook, Me-, couplew were married
last week whose combined ages were % years,
the bride being IA and the bridegroom one year
her senior.
] "A Maine girl, 81 years of age, recently
travelled from Michigan to her home in Thom-
aston unattended. She attracted more atten-
| tion than a circus.
! -Scotchmen banquetting in London are
| now entertained with music of real northern
pagpipes, played into photograph and sent to
London by express
The popular fad in Washington nowa-
days is the study of the language andliterature
! OF Spain which was given a great impetus by
the sessions of the Pan-American Congress.
AN Ansonia. Conn, druggist has an
electric bell in a cabinet containing poisons
| When the door opens the bell rings, reminding
the compounder that he is handling polsons.
AN English naval officer has invented
pneumatic line-tbrowing gun, very light and
portable, which fires a hollow shell bearing the
| cord to q wrecked vessel or into a burning
building on dry land.
"A rich Italian has purchased the Villa
| Zirio, at San Reno, in which the Emperor
Frederick was i'll so long before he went to
Berlin to be crowned, and has closed it rigor-
| ously against all visitors.
"A new red glass has been recently pro-
| dGced in Germany. Besides its use for the
manufacture Of bottles, goblets and vases Of
various Kinds. 1t is applicable in photography
and In chemists and opticians laboratories.
Captain Owen j. Sweet, of the Twenty
fifth Infantry, and a special detail Of troops
have completed the work Of setting hesdstones
over the graves of General Clusters brave band
who fell in the battle of the Little Big Horn.
June %. 1876.
-Grasshoppers are very numerous on the
Grass Valley slope of the Sierra Nevada. In
IHe euRe OI Iue snow line Lney come 1Orth IN
great numbers. As the edge of the snow creeps
up the mountain the grasshoppers rise out of
the yet moist ground.
"A pretty incident accompanied the
| shower of rice at recent wedding As the
| departing couple were showered with rice a
nocK OF city sparrows swooped down and COW
cred the pavement. and before they flew away
not grain of rice was left.
The law enjoins upon Mayors the duty
OF seeing that the prohibtory law is enforced.
| Yet in the face of this, the Mayor OF Bangor
coolly notifies the Governor and Council that
he viii attend to having the Bangor rumshops
closed on Sundays and at 10 o'clock every even
ing
Monuments have now been completed
over the burial places of the English French
and Italian troops killed in the Crimea during
the war of lS545 Russia's memorials over her
fallen soldiers on the same plains are on a
grander scale, as she still holds the fort Sebas-
topol.
Exhibitors who won medals at the Paris
Exposition are receiving diplomas specifying
the class of medals to which they are entitled.
If they want the medal they can get it for
spot cash, ranging from about Sl33 for gold
ones to less than dollar for nice little ones in
bronze.
king Humbert is a prudent monarch.
and does well TO be so in the present state Of
the Kingdoms finances. Last year the civil list
for the royal household was Is 600 francs.
and the King spent l5349 800 francs leaving
cent and three-quarters TO his credit for the en-
suing year.
"A Californian who has been twice di-
vorced from his wife has again remarked her.
There's where the beauty and adaptabilfty of
our divorce laws come in. They allow a couple
whose association becomes wearisOme, but VINO,
after all, really love each other, to take an oc-
casional vacation.
Mature plays queer freaks with the
flower seeds sent out by the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington. A man who received
a package of seeds labeled giant pansvp
planted them in flower bed and soon had
small crop of turnips. while number of seeds
labeled double pinks'' produced long-neck
squashes.
The natives of San Reno and Mentone,
where so many consumptives from other places
have spent their winters under medical advice,
are beginning to suffer from the disease them
selves and 20 of the leading medical authOr-
ties of the district have taken steps looking to
their better protection from infection from
tuberculOus microbes.
The Queen Dowager, of Portugal, on
one occasion brought home from Paris l,C00
pairs of shoes. Subsequently she ordered no
less than 20 dresses from Worth, to be delivered
together, which on their way home we're lost at
sea. Her Maesty,no way concerned. sentw ,
to Worth to supply 20 duplicates, and these :
reached Lisbon safely.
"A prominent attorney Of Palatka, Fla,
has in his possession n very old and valuable
law book. IL bears the title of "A Collection Of
the Statutes of England now In use In North
Carolina" and was printed In tho year 1923.
Among the curious acts contained in this
ancient dpcumoBt. and ons which would be en-
iiroly unnecessary these days, was IAN Act TO
avoid this double payment OF debts"
AN old Bclinst sea captain Is credited
with dovlsing n unique barometer Il consists
,f thin strips Of white plno with number OF
,ross pieces upon IL. This IL hung upon tho
sides OF the building. aud when wet weather IL
tpproachlug the barometer bulges out IN tho
,giitcr while IN dry woither tho center sinks In
,nd tbs ands push out, IL II said 20 be an i'm
DrOyem0nt on rheumatism or cOrns.
.-IIesldes the rabbit pest, New South
w nIes il troubled by another called the "nying
Tox pest" This creature Is species OF bnt tho
argost Of the baL tribe. sUmetimes measuring
nearly five feet In eXpanse of wings, and liz
popularity termed the flying fox on account OF
hn red fox like color OF the fur and tho very
,nIplna aspect of this head" The attacks OF
hese destructive animals are mainly aimed
Iganst fruits and other vegetable substances
"A Journal In Chicago some time ago
,ifered prizes for the best projects for empha-
izlng the success of the Worlds Fair In that
ty Ono inventor contemplates tho building
Il tunnel Of thick glass far out into the lake,
o that the effect OF an immense aquarium bo
ecured. Another inventor proposes tho cree
ion of two towers, each about iOV rect mgn, Al
considerable distance apart and the construc-
ion between them OF an aerial electric rail-
way.
A FEW QUACKs.