Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

! "A SIC, 900 joss-house was recently dedi-
Gated in San Jose Chinatown.
The population of Seattle, WASH, is
1886 according to the final returns Of IA census
enumerators.
The average consumption of coal a day
on the Canadian Pacific steamers to and from
Japan is only So tons.
"A Seattle girl fell from the third story
window to the sidewalk and she went TO :
dance the same evening.
"A mortgage for $4, 900 was fled for
record at Eureka, Humboldt. 1t was for three
years with interest at per cent month.
"A Cincinnati woman, enraged at her
husband, determined to ruin him financially
She ''shopped' all day and piled up bills to his
account to the amount Of $1,000.
The first missionary donation recorded
in Protestant annals came from Sir Walter
Raleigh, who sent his f1OO to company formed
for the conversion of the Indians
The English home office warned the
proprietor Of the Westminster Aquarium that
he would be prosecuted if Succi who was hold
ing 40 days fast there, should happen to die.
"A man recently went to the city hos
pital at Hamilton, Ont. suffering from a
diseased kidney, the other being perfectly
sound The doctor in attendance removed the
sound kidney by mistake, and the man died
shortly after.
Two savage bulls owned in Truckee, Cal,
got into a fight few days ago. While they
were struggling with locked horns they stepped
on the covering of an ole well and both fell into
the waters. 1t took hours to haul them out.
One OF them was rescued alive
One of the relics placed in the corner
stone of the Confederate Soldiers Home st
Atlanta is a spur sent by General Longstreet,
1t was made from Union cannon captured at
the first battle of Bull Run, and was worn by
General Longstreet throughout the war.
DIR. Laurent, OF Rouen, considers boiled
milk less healthy for young infants than milk
which has not been boiled. Although boiling
destroys microbes. it also destroys constituents
OF the milk which act as fermentS and render
1t more digestible. especially in the case Of
babes.
"A young man in Elberton generally
keeps up with everything. He studies medi-
cine in the morning, keeps up with all sensa-
tions during the day, reports for the Star in the
afternoon, drills in the evening, and goes sere-
nad1ng every night. He is now talking of going
into the butcher business.
1t is an interesting fact that in Colum-
bia where potatoes form the chief food of the
people, and where potato disease runs riot very
often, the greater the altitude at which the
vegetable is grown the less is it liable to the
disease, and at 5000 feet above the sea it grows
Olive Thorne Miller, the Brooklyn au-
thoress, has a room set apart exclusively for
her pet birds, about which she writes so enter
tainingly. In this indoor apartment she trains
and watches them. and from her observation
of their ways writes such books as Birds
Ways" "In Nesting Time," etc.
"A great number of European starlings
and chaffinches have recently been set at liberty
in Central Park. New York, for the purpose Of
introducing their species into the United
States. Both birds are fine singers and are a
decided acquisition. The starIings are as large
as blackbirds and have a plumage of unusual
beauty.
"A schoolboy recently scalded his leg
from knee to toe. As there were no signs of
healing, the attending surgeon chloroformed
greyhound puppy to death, shaved its body,
skinned it. and grated the skin on the boys
leg. The healing was rapid and the color OF
the grated skin was uniform and very similar
to that of the normal skin.
An old man with one foot and half in
the grave entered house of q supposed widow,
Swede. In Menominee county, Mich, and an
nounced himself the husband and father of the
wife and children He had emil
grated to this country 80 years ago and had lost
track OF his family, which, unknown to him,
had come over few years later. The reunion
was as gay as it was surprising.
"A recent invention consists of a fender
for street railway cars run by electrIcitY. It
presents platform capacious enough to re-
;eive victim SO unfortunate as to be caught
lpon the track before a car. At slope before
{ is heavy four-ply rubber betting, pliable
ar objects, but sufficiently rigid to prevent
in arm or leg from being drawn under the
ender.
The notorious desperado, Lee White,
ode into Lamin, N. NJ, with one confederate
md had things his own way as long as he re-
NAMED. He first visited store and secured
poets TO the railroad station employees and
rain crews. From the operator he got gold
watch and s., from the train crews he got SIX
watches, three gold and three silver. and $40 in
money.
Frederic Splitter, the collector of prob
.bly the greatest gathering of objects of all
orts of arts.ever brought together by a private
,erson, died in Paris two weeks ago. Born in
hungary in 1915. he went to Vienna to engage
n trade. and accidentally discovered an Albert
)urer, which he bought and sold for little
,rofit Till that time he had known nothing
# pictures or curiosities, but for 30 years he
ealt in antiquities all over Europe. His pres
mt collection is unparalleled, embracing nearly
very form of art.
Several years ago the residence of Cora
'earl IN Paris was entered by thieves and
obbed Of sl20,0OO. One of the robbers was
aptured and condemned to five yeaIs' impris-
nment but the property was not then recov-
red. On his liberation from prison lately he
ndeavored to raise a sum from a banker, with
7hich he might go to Germany and redeem the
tolen property. that had been deposited in
herman bank. The bankers suspicious were
xcited and the man was arrested and has re-
ealed the name of his accomplice. The great
um may be recovered, but too late to be of any
ervice TO Cora Pearl, who died in destitution.
In England in 1S6S-69 there was one
nown thief to every 1000 persons; in lSS7-s8
he percentage had fallen by nearly half, and
here was only one known thief to every 1,945
ersons The decrease in the receivers of
olen goods is still greater. In lS6S-69 there
as one to every S.430 people; in 1SSz-S8 there
as one to every q, 599. In 1869 there were
962 houses kept by receivers of stolen goods;
| 1888 there were only 77& The number of
ispected public houses. beer shops and coffee
lops has fallen within the same period from
l97 to 753 In 1S68-69 there was one policeman
|, every S58 people; in 1SS7-SS there was one
oliceman to every 769 people. Such are the
ste