Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

STANDING in the forest near Delphi, Ind were
sold lately for $l0,0C6.
Owing to the ravages Of mumps and
scarlet fever, the public schools at Palouse
City, Wash, have been closed.
English capitalists are on the ground
with the intention OF buying up all the Colum-
bia river salmon packing bouses-
An American bar and a winter garden
on the roof of the new premises of the Pelican
Club in Soho is the latest London idea
The Ventura county, Cal, papers are
urging their readers to plant csmPhor trees
They are said to grow as rapidly as the euca-
lyptus.
-Ninety-fve men at Kelseyville, Lake
county, Cal, signed the pledge in one day last
week, and the only saloon ir town is now
closed
"A writer IN the Journal of Medicine,
Paris, warmly advocates the adoption of the
international language, Eolapuk. for medical
purposes.
E. G. Kontz, who has recently been
elected Auditor of Atlanta, Ca, one of the
most Important Offices of the city government,
Is only "a years old.
The 4-year-old son of Frank Nesbitt, Of
sacramento, got 4 bean lodged in his windpipe
lew DAYS ago. and death followed in spite of
DR. Brown-Sequard is still engaged on
his youthful elixir at Paris, and persists IN be-
lieying that his experiment will at last he sue-
cessfully established.
The moment the people OF Phnnix.
Ariz., heard of the terrible disaster at HASA
yampa dam they raised 500 and dispatched a
wagon-load of supplies.
According to high authority in the
ha6 6ao has
masts and spars are hereafter to be banished
from all fighting vessels.
Colonel Harper, of Tucson, Ariz.. re-
ceived payment from the United States Gov
ernment last Wednesday for bill of 1855 so
for forage supplied by him in 1865.
The English criminal authorities are
seriously discussing the adVlsabliity of adopt
ing the French system of identifying criminals
by anthropometrical measurements.
Samuel Hill was sluicing two gravel
claims last week in Ell Dorado county when he
picked up a nugget worth $500. The following
day his son worked out several ounces from a
pocket.
Since the Inauguration of new system
of postal wagons for emptying the mail boxes
in Berlin, an ordinary city letter reaches its
destination IN an hour after leaving the hands
of the sender.
One of the editors OF Los Angeles
paper failed to pay his hotel bill in Coronado
last year. and, at the last meeting of the Edi-
torial Convention at San Barnardino, his name
was ordered taken from the rolls.
1.-THE Court Bureau, Limited" is the
name Of a company organized in London under
eminently respectable dictatorship, to act as
sort of social clearing house, through which
cards may be exchanged and invitations issued
aud received,
Mrs. Conway, an aged Irish woman Of
Atlanta, Ga, has put on mourning in honor of
ex-President Jefferson Davis and Henry W.
Grady. Her dresses are made from the calico
used In drapiDg some of the city windows when
these gentlemen died.
"A mining claim was taken up recently
in Hawthorne district, New, and the following
notice was posted: I'VE clame de Iege from
the law Of the American Congress and the
united states Begin at these notieia and run
loo feet to the first day of January"
The price of shooting at man has been
judicially fixed at Palouse City. VIII. Arthur
and Albert Grieggs made targets of each other
on the streets of Palouse City recentlv The
former fired two shots and the latter four. all
missing. Arthur was fined SIS and GriggS $50.
The various branches of one of the most
distinguished Russian families are about to get
together at Moscow to celebrate the fve-hun-
dredth anniversary of their attachment to the
Imperial service. The family includes the
Korsakoffs. the Rymsky -Korsakoffs and the
Doundoukof Korsakotfs.
The art of making stained glass win
dows in this country has within the past few
years been attracting widespread attention by
its steady and rapid improvement, its high
artistic merit and design, its excellence of
ART workmanship, the novelty of the effects
produced and its perfection Of technical
methods.
Recent observations of the waters of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively that the
statements made that no form of animal or
plant life exists in the lake are erroneous No
fish or other large form of animal life has been
discovered, but the presence of vegetable or
ganisms in the lake may be considered q fact
from the abundance of minute animal exist
ences.
During a thunder storm on last Tues
day the jail at Moulton, Ala, was struck by
lightning and a hole torn in the roof. The
jailer neglected to repair the damage and on
Friday night five prisoners made their escape
through the opening. They obtained a file
somehow. filed out of their cells, and by cut
ting their blankets into strips lowered them
selves to the ground from the roof.
A man on bicycle in California at
tracted attention by his singular acts. He
rode about the street, calling out to all he met
Repent, and be savedI The kingdom of God
Is at handr' As soon as he had announced
this he would hurry on as if he had certain
time in which to announce this to all the peo-
pie of Oakland. People stared at HIM, and ap-
peared to agree that he was mild sort os
lnnatic.
j. G. Woodruff, Warwick, N. Y,
farmer. washed his cattle with preparation
of petroleum to destroy vermin. After a fine
bull had been thoroughly washed hired man
touched match to the animals side The
blazing bull made bee line for the barn,
which was consumed with all it's contents
That hired man is rightfully entitled to the
shoes lately worn by the man who didn't know
it was loaded
-Smugglers are reaping rich harvest
down near the Canadian frontier. They pur-
sue their unlawful work in houses built on the
line, half in Canada and the other
half in the United States. Generally these
houses contain a tramway, upon which cars
contraband goods, can be moved
from one country to the other. When United
States officers make a raid the cars are pushed
over into Canadian territory, ana vice versa
The Canadian Government will take measures
TO prevent q continuance of the fraud.