Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Ram fighting is said to divide with cock
| fighting the affections of those Of sporting
blood among the natives Of Ceylon.
Philip Kick, who died recently near
Mt Vernon, O., was the father Of 10 children.
| His widow and II OF the children survive.
"A Scranton landlord has ordered all the
girl walters at his hotel to wear slippers, so
that they will make less noise while moving
| about.
The Recorder Of Portsmouth, England,
has publicly eensured the Dockyard police for
neglect OF duty because they allowed man
who had once been in prison to enter the yard
In search Of work,
"A new trufie field of wide extent is said
to have been discovered near Mussorie India,
and epicures abroad are letting their mouths
water in anticipation of q more abundant sup
ply Of the delicacy hereafter.
The daily consumption of oysters at the
Senate restaurant is about 25 bushels during
the oyster season. Fully the same quantity is
served to customers in the House restaurant.
Friday IL the big day for oysters at the Cap
itol.
White county, Ark, claims the cham
pion big girl Her name is Nellie Arilda Ma
lone. She was years old the l4th of last Au-
gust, and now weighs go pounds. Her father
is dead, bus she has two sisters and a brother.
all younger than herself.
According to the British Catholic Di-
rectory for 1880. the estimated Catholic pop
ulation Of the British Empire is 9,73O.OOO. Is
Is distributed as follows: Ireland 39I3 900;
England and Wales. 1890 900; Scotland S27,-
w and the colonies and dependencies, 4 4l30,-
Charles Logan, Of Parkersburg, W.
Va. was burned in an oil explosion, taken
home and put to bed. Shortly afterward his
mother was horrifed to discover that the bed
was on tire. The strange occurrence can be ac-
counted for on the theory Of spontaneous COM
bustion.
"A tax collector of Crawford county re-
Gently sent the following dun to a delinquent:
"Mr. tot l wood Rite you few lines in re-
gard to your tax haf to go To town the last of
the month SO want you tax on or before the
25 TOR dond wanto Levy and Sell property if 1
can helpit."
In one of the small islands of the New
Hebrides trading vessel recently put ashore a
sailor to buy some yams, arranging to call for
him in few hours. While he was waiting a
band of natives attacked him and carried him
of into the interior, where subsequently he was
roasted and eaten.
Edward Travis, 81 years old, was ar
raigned in Liverpool court few days ago for
stealing door Unat On the trial it came out
that he had committed the same offense twice
before, and had been sentenced to 1Ve years
imprisonment each time. The Court intro
duced variety into his life by letting him of
with one month this time.
The MaeSerraigh family, of ireland,
were originally called Hodnett, and came from
England; wishing to make themselves as Irish
as possible. they took the name Maeserraigh.
but after a while, when this had degenerated
into McSherrY, they grew tired Of it, and, re-
memberIng that Sesrrach means fool in Irish,
they have changed their name again to Foley.
The Government OF India has been COM
PEELED by law to purchase three copies of each
new book issued in the country, and it has been
discovered that practice has grown up Of
printing new books simply for the sake of the
sale of those three copies, for which any price
within reason could be charged. A change is
about to be made in the law. and hereafter the
publishers will have to present the copies to the
Government.
The King of Belgium had a telephone
line from his palace at Laeken to the Theater
de la Monnaie in Brussels in order that he
might hear the performance without having to
leave his palace, but he had no telephone con-
ernment offices in Brussels, and when the
palace at Laeken was burning the other day
they had to borrow somebody elSe'S telephone
to send the King word about it.
DR. Lucien Howe says blindness has in
creased in the State of New York during the
past five years I3 times as fast as the popula-
tion; and the State Charities Commissioners
state that the excess in the increase of the in
sane in the State over the increase in its pOpu-
lation for the last nine years has been more
than "A per cent. These figures are most start
ling especially when it is considered that the
modes Of treating the eyes and brain are sup
posed to have been SO much improved of late
Tears.
Virginia is thus far the only known
State which boasts of hen dentists. Some
time since the Pdge County Courier published
an account of hen there angTily flying at
farmer and pulling out one of his teeth.
George E. Heath who lives in Hanover county.
states that on Saturday morning he went to his
hennery and attempted TO take hen of her
roOst when she few at his face, pecked him IN
been troubling Mr.. Heath for some time, and
which he intended having extracted. This is
he second hen dentist in Virginia.
Full one-half of the people living with
n a radius of five miles of Edgewater and
N. j., have fiocked to the site Of
he unearthed tomb of the people who at one
ime ruled that land. Eight skeletons were
AIKEN up at one place and others have been
ound. Among the skeletons was one whose
kull was found encased in tortoise she'll orna-
nents, oyster shells and beads. It is probably
hat of the once powerful chief KineWaugha,
Vhose descendants still live along the shore.
FOUR skeletons were dug up there and little
lue is completed probably hundreds will be eX-
umed.
"A dispatch from the City Of Mexico
tates that William B. Richardson, the young
Ioston naturalist, has succeeded in reaching
be top of the volcano COlilna. The feat was
daring one. Richardson pitched his tent at
be upper line of pine trees and just below the
ower line of ashes and lava. The trees above
ad all been burned, and it was impossible to
Talk in the deep bed of ashes. From this point
richardson and his Indian followers could hear
De soupd of air from numerous rents in the
dc of the volcano. The Indians were much
srrified, and could be induced to remain only
Y the earnest persuasion Of the naturalist.
ne night during the eruption they could dis
nctly see the deep red glow of melted lava as
ran down the line, fiery stream, Dury1ng
self IN ashes, trees, or in beds OF brooks and
der beds of lava. One dense cloud Of ashes
overed the party thickIy and drove birds lower
own.