Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-tbe glare IN his F10m NJ ah eantTja light has
seRisthiRg ~ do Win ths FsegVsfy,
There are 1000 insane people In the
city sf New Yefk, and experts on insanity day
that the ratio ef lnpatiea y increasing IHuah
faster than that " the population,
The boundary line between the United
States and Canada II distinctly marked from
Lake Michigan t0 the Pacific by earns, pillars
OF iron, earth mounds and timber alsaflhgs
e-At the recent marriage Of the daughter
of Ghauneey KilmeF, Of New York, az his suns
meF home at Rock City Falls the grounds we're
illuminated with nine miles OF Chinese Ian
terms,
The largest fruit farm In West Virginia
is the Becker farm, near HaFper'a Ferry. 1t
eaptains 5000 apricot trees. 1000 peach trees,
5000 plum trees, 5000 miscellaneous fruit trees
and 5000 grape vines.
1T costs the English GovernmentS2, ,962,-
900 annually to support Queen Victoria and her
immediate faulty. Whenever the Queen visits
Balmoral Castle 1t takes 5000 10 defraY the
railroad expenses OF the journey.
"A Warwick farmer had q gang OF
tramps in his yard few days ago who refu sed
TO obey his orders TO ''moVe on" He showed
remarkable presence OF mind when he over
turned hive OF bees. The tramps disappeared,
but not until many had suffered.
An examination of the scales used by
the ice dealers at Holyoke showed that one was
short anywhere from Is to 20 pounds and
another was short half pound in five pounds.
None of those examined were found TO over.
weigh the fractional part of an ounce.
ALI through New Mexico, Arizona,
some parts of Colorado, and also IN Old Mex
leo, no rain has fallen for months, and thou
sands upon thousands of range cattle are lying
dead in the parched valleys, and thousands
more are dying for want of grass and water.
The corner stone of the Piedmont Insti-
tute has been broken open by a sneak thief and
robbed of the bright new dollar placed there
by Judge w. g. Barber. The papers were not
disturbed. The institute walls are going up
rapidly and the house will be ready for use by
October.
Two gold spikes were driven on Satur-
day in the last two rails of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad connection between the Lehigh and
Schuylkill Valleys at Remniont, West Penn
township, Schuylkill county, Pa This line
will bring PottsVllle within four hours journey
of New York.
"A New Auburn, Me-, man took a novel
way of advertising the other day. He managed
to catch large snipe, and placed him in his
store window among a lot of gaudy-looking
fireworks, with placard about his neck bear
Ing the following inscription: "A genuine
Australian duck"
Maggie Richardson, aged 9, Of Brown
county, Ind, ran away from home, deter
fantile imagination pictured already under
way. The first day she walked Is miles. finding
shelter at night in a farmers house, then she
boarded train for indianapolis. This led to
her detention and return.
1t may be a surprise to many to learn
that statistics prove the sea to be safer to live
on than land. The death rate of sailors in the
British merchant marine is under Il per
thousand; the loss of life by shipwrsek Is about
quarter of this; in fact, there are more lives
| lost among miners FROM accident than among
| sailors, and many more among railway eul.
plOyss.
AT Fort Madison, Ia. reside probably
/ the oldest twins In the United states. Mrs.
| Elisabeth gfeseom Campton and Mrs. Sophia
| u. Hidsbfahdt. They wsfs born In baltimore.
/ January 1900 and they Afs consequently over
| ~ years Of Ags, They are very spfy OLD ladies',
| aud still very skliifui at fins nssdlsw6fh.
| Their grandmother, MIS-, Betsy H0ss, made the
| afst American nag,
-Hev. j. W. Arnsy, Of saranae, Mich,
isa refreshing exponent Of Methodism. Hs
can preach aud singI his family make good
string band that plays Sunday nights IN ths
shuTehI he owns iva fast horses, 8ns worth 500
and Iha other worth pl00 and has secured IL
Taes track, on which hs viii conduct soms lively
| speeding July ~ His congregation will nave
| him stay with tham another year
-Bportsmen in India aud Africa have
y
the most dangerous and rsvengeful OF animals.
Frank l.. James, of England, we'll known
African traveller and entertaining writer, had
occasion recently TO talt this pr2pnssitl hi th9
beast and met with fatal results; Instead %
stamping his assailant out of existence, as Is
sometimes the case In such encounters, the on.
ragged brute pierced Mr.. James breast with
tnsk, and he died soon after.
Seth Low, the new President of Co
lumbia College, has no respect for rule that
does not provide for q contingency. young
man not OVsrburdsned with wealth last fall
entered the law school, paying what was for
him quite a fee. After attending two or three
lectures, business exlgoneies forbade his con-
tinuance at study. He applied TO the Treas
urer for rebate on his cash payment only 70
meet with delay and hear q rule reolted against
such demand. Then he dropped President
Low line. Within four hours the pOstottce
brought a courteous reply and check.
In Geneva, at a circus, a female trapeze
performer Mile. Mathilde, astonished the na-
tiVes every night by her performances with q
youth Of about IL, high up IN the air. One
evening this youth, by his own carelessness,
slipped from the hands of the girl, who hung
by her knees A cry Of horror arose from the
audience. when she luckily caught him with
her teeth by the embroidery over the breast OF
his tights. She pulled him up into sitting
position on the trapese, then boxed his ears
vigorously and made him go through the per-
formance again-this time without fault.
"A portly gentleman was seated in one
of the East river ferryboats the other day try
ing to light a pipe. says the New York Times.
A street arab of dlminutive size sat beside him
and behind his elboY. twisted up his lips and
gently waited soft breezes that effectually ex-
tinguished the matches, and the pOrtly gentle
man continued to light As match after match
went out the portly gentleman got more ex-
asperated, and the small boy, efecIually con-
cealed by the large proportions OF his neigh.
bor got happier. Tue gentleman looked
around at last, and then there was an explo-
sion. But the small boy was a live small boy,
and he vanished before any wrath could reach
him.