Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


"A Chester baby fell from second story
with slight injury.
"A Meadville rooster whipped an owl, .
dog and TWO roosters.
Petroleum in large quantities has been
found In New Mexico.
| AT Columbia, Pa, III shad were taken
in one haul, and 400 during the day.
"A. Henry, of Pocopson, Chester coun-
ty, aged 6S years, has never ridden on a rail-
road.
| Wolves are doing so much harm in
Iowa that hunts are organizing for their ex-
termination.
| Ice cream and cake have been introduced
as novel and happy feature of prize decla-
nations at Bluehill, Me-, Academy.
William Galway. the pioneer among
railroad engineers. who has just died, Travelled
over $4,000 miles during his lifetime.
"A st. Louis colorel woman got mad at
her lover because he bought red trimming for
! her hat when she wanted blue So she shot
him.
The national debt of Germany, which
is much smaller than that of any other great
country in the world, Is, in round figures, Sls2-
| 100000
Beers is the nams of the Austrian
sculptor who has succeeded in discovering
process Ior mololnR marble nulu PleclSeiJ a.
| bronze Is nodded
Young Japs are regarded by American
| naval officers as the best kind of servants on
shpboard. They are maryels Of neatness in
| telligence, obedience and courtesy.
Henry Warren, a man who sells news
papers on the Derby Railroad, between New
| Haven and Birmingham, is now in his SD year,
and is cutting third set Of teeth.
john Worth, of Martinez, Cal, hasa
copy of the Ne10 England CoIrant of February
II. 1923 that was printed by Benjamin Frank.
lin, in Queen street, Boston, Mass.
An Alpena, Mich, justice swors him.
self as witness in case which was pending
before him as judge. He wanted to serve as
| 1uryman also, but the defense objected.
| The basin of an extinct crater in Nevada
has been turned into a storage reservoir. 1t is
| one and a half miles long by one mile wide, and
is fed by canal that taps the Susan river.
| "A curious package was shipped by e1-
press from Jacksonville to Baltimore the other
day, 1t was a small white casket with silver
trimmings, containing the embalmed remains
| OF valuable dog.
Sparrow heads are legal tender among
Michigan youngsters, in lots Of ten. 1t takes
one lot to buy fshpole and two will purchase
baseball, when they have been cashed in az
the Recorders office.
Joe Swain, of Bear Creek, Crook
county, Ore. has succeeded in raising us lambs
for every 100 ewes he had in his band. Such an
increase seems almost incredible, as 80 per cent
Is considered large number of lambs to raise.
Lake Chelan, Wash, never freezes, al
though in latitude 4so north. The reason given
is that it is so Deep and the warm water always
rises from the bottom to supplant the cold,
which goes down to warm itself. The Indians
hsh in the lake at all seasons and use salmon
eggs for bait.
What is said to be the largest shad ever
caught above tidewater in the Delaware river
| has just been taken in the net of William
Smith, an old fisherman. at the Lambertville,
| n. j., fishery. 1t measured 81 inches in length,
inches in breadth and 5 inches in thickness,
| and weighs lS1S pounds.
The statement in magazine that butter
flies have gone to the remarkable height Of 800
feet in the Alps has elected from Mr.. Maxwell,
of California, letter in which he pronounces
the trip not at all remarkable. He writes that
last summer he encountered numerous butter
mes on peak OF the Sierra Nevada 1000 feet.
Nearly 1000 immigrants arrived in
New York Sunday on the steamships Umbris,
La Bretagne, City of Chester. MoraVia and
Bothnia. About 1000 were landed at the
Barge Ofice, much to the disgnst Of the over
Saturday from 8 in the morning until 10 at
night.
"A. G. Bracket, who has been searching
into the subject says that previous to the time
of Richard IL (l37z'99) all the English women
who rode at all rode like men. Richard mar.
ried Annie OF Bohemia, the eldest laughter Of
Charles ~, Emperor of Germany, and it is to
her that we owe the introduction of the side
saddle. 1t is stated that she was deformed
and, therefore, could not ride with ease on the
usual saddle.
Estimate OF the worlds population:
The Mongolians lead with about 100000 0O0 and
people Of Europe, four-ffths of those of the
American continent and all of the civilized
residents OF Australia, come next, with 5450O0,-
coo. The negroes are put at 150000,000, the
Semitic people at $1,000 600. the Malays and
Polynesians at 80, ,O00, ,OOOO and the Indians Of
North and South America at Is, ,OOO,0O0
Margaret Kinney, of Alpena, Mich,
has been asleep for two years. She lies notion
less on the bed for two weeks at a time, taking
neither food nor drink. She has not spoken
during the entire time, and rarely opens her
but her face has a deathly white appearance.
Formerly she was vivacIous and very bright.
The cause OF her long sleep IS puzzler for
physicians. It was preceded by very slight
sickness.
The late E. W. Yerrington, the cham
pion wing shot Of Connecticut, attributed most
of his skill to the fact that he never used
liquor OF tobacco in any form. He weighed
265 pounds feet and inch in height, and had
dark eyes. He shot an L. U. Smith double ten
gauge gun, I3-inch barrels and loaded his own
shells by hand. He always used the same load
at all kinds of targets. There was no doubt
that Mr.. Yerrington could shoot 300 or even 500
targets in succession with as little fatigue and
make scores fully equal TO any shooter in the
United States.
MIR. Henry Jones, of Stratiord-upon-
Avon, has just died at the age of sc. For up
ward of half a century Mr.. Jones has been
Stratford celebrity; his museum of curiositiss
has been visited by thousands Of English and
American travellers, including prominent
Shakespearean writers and actors. The mu-
scum consists of figures of men, beasts and
birds, shaped from roots Of trees. curiously
wrought stones. and allegorIcal figures and
subjects carved in oak panels by Mr.. Jones.
The eccentric man also wrote execrable verses
which he used to recite to visitors. His visi-
tors book contained the names of many
famous persons There is a book, now rare
devoted to Mr.. Jones and his museum called
"The Glyptic," by John W. Jarvis. published
in London in 1875.