Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

shoulder in making her bed
-Vienna's death rate has increased 80 per
cent above normal in one week.
The New York Bible house since April
! last has issued 725.OO0 volumes.
All the Jamaica railways have been
taken by an American syndicate.
The imperial cable from Bermuda to
Halifax win be completed in June.
1t requires % volumes to register the
different cattle brands of Arizona.
"A pear raised at Modesto, Cal, meas
ured inches high by 10 inches around.
New South Wales and Queensland have
erected 8S7 miles Of rabbit-proof fences.
"A letter containing 800, 900 has been
stolen In transit between Vienna and Pesth.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works expect
this year to turn out not less than 1000 locomo-
tives.
The commission of Fren eh engineers to
investigate the Panama Canal has arrived on
the ground.
New York last year spent s17, ,OO0, 900 on
her public schools. hiring 81, ,97 teachers to in
struct 1,SO3, ,06 pupils.
The International Electric Exhibition
to be held at Frankfort has been postponed
The Baltimore Committee Of One Hun
dred have fixed upon 81 900 as the full retail
incense lee for that city.
AT Tucamche, in Guatemala, the boys
in school recently seized the master and
hanged him in the schoolhouse.
While walking through the woods last
Sunday, a woman of Alliance. o., saw and
killed blaeksnake four feet long.
"A letter was recently received by
Kansas Congressman at Washington which had
eight special delivery stamps il.
The condition of a certain cat In La
molne, Me-, is literally at skies and seYens.
She has seven toes on her hind feet and six on
her fore feet.
The police detectives Of New York made
ISIS arrests last year. resulting in sentences ag-
gregating SO2 years. S298,716 worth of property
was recovered.
"A tree was recently cut on the land Of
]. E. Widdowson, in Banks township Indiana
county, Pa. making Is sawlogs, the largest Of
which scaled $500 feet.
"A Salem, Ore, man sold athree-quarter
short-horn COW to Portland butcher last
Wednesday. II weighed l63O poEnds. The
same farm owns sheep that weighs 263
pounds,
-Hereis journalistic enterprise. Ayoung
man has started a newspaper on the Sioux
reservation. There are no white people there
yet, but they will have newspaper when they
do arrive.
The two tallest convicts in the Salem
Penitentiary we're sent from Jackson county,
Ore. Caldwell, nfe-termer. stands feet 81
inches, and Rotten, who went in for one year
last week, is feet ~ inches.
"A telegraph message costing 81 81 a
word was recently sent from Portland to Hong
Kong. and an answer received in IL hours. It
was first sent to New York, thence to London,
across the continent to Yokohama.
The late Thomas Parker, of Washing
ton became so attached to a cane, which he
had carried for years. that he kept it in bed
with him all during his illness, and before
dying expressed wish that the faYorite stick
be buried with him. His wish was carried out,
the cane being put in the coffin.
An eccentric old German living in the
town Of Milwaukee recently went to the city
and chartered a street car for his exclusive
use. He rode all over the line and would
not permit anybody to get in the car with him.
At another time he attempted to charter a
special train to take him TO his station, some
four or hVe miles north OF the city.
Fish charms have been met with among
many nations. The fish called the bullhead is
used by some Of the Russian peasants as q
charm against fever. Many kinds Of hsh have
two hard bones just within the sides Of the
head; and one species, the maigTe, has these
bones larger in proportion than most others.
These two bones, called collie stones, are re-
garded 10 possess medicinal virtues They were
mounted in gold and hung round the neck.
Master Henry Rutter Bair, son of Col
lector Q. G. Bair, of Pottstown, is the owner Of
a gun which is 100 to l50 years old, and is now
in the fifth generation Of the family since it
was first purchased. It belonged originally to
young Harry's MISREPRESENTATION who re-
sided in Douglass township, in lower Berks;
from him it descended to his son. Harry Bair,
then to Harry Bair's son, Henry l. Bair Gather
OF @. G.. bair), who gave 1t to the present
owner.
Medicinal rings were az one time very
seriously believed in. Physicians we're won't to
wear finger rings In which stones were set, and
these stones were credited with the possession
of many virtues Sometimes the patient was
simply touched with the ring; sometimes he
put it on his finger for awhile. Many patient
has worn such ring to stop hemOrrhage. Ii
the desired result followed, the ring was unre-
servedly regarded as the healing agent; If the
cure did not follow. we are told nothing about
1t.
"A peculiar result of the drinking Of ice
cold water from a spring in stonington. Conn.,,
is reported. The water flows from a crack in
high rock, and the veins Of the man who drinks
from it begin to swell, and he looks and feels as
though he we're about to burst for the next ten
minutes The swslling gradually subsidies and
no serious effect Is felt, except slight buEzing
in the ears Il is the talk Of the neighbOrhO0d,
and everybody is eager to try the effect Of the
water. A specimen has been sent to Boston
for analysis-
Sergeant Cartwright, of the Atlanta
police force, tells Of man named Christian,
who was cured of rheumatism by the burial
treatment Somebody told the family that il
they would dig hole and bury young Chris
ian in the earth for 4S hours, first putting on
him mixture Of turpentine and other homely
medicines it would cure him. They decided
% try the remedy as a sort of last resort, and
.hey went to work to carry out the heroic
prescribed. They dug the hole and
placed the Door fellow in it, all but his head,
which was not affected, and after packing the
iirt around him, they remained to watch the
sffects of the cure. He endured the confne-
nent for the prescribed period, although suf.
'ering intensely during the whole time, and
Ehen they took him ont he hardly looked liked
he same man. But from that day forward he
began to improve. The rheumatic affection
disappeared, he began to fatten up, and finally
became as sound and hearty as any man in the
community.