Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-20
CURIOUS CONDENSATIOKa

Jane Simmons, mulatto woman, Of
Milledgeville. Ca, has followed the butchering
business for 20 years.
The Socialist party Of Germany num-
bers nearly LOOO,O 900 adherenrs-nor quite one
nftleth OF the empires population.
Florence and Cspus have just estab-
lished electric lights in their streets. and the
nrst nights were celebrated with ambulating
bands of music.
The Russian Government has ordered
the planned great railway line across Siberia to
De begun in May. When the line is completed
y Is estlmated that the. tour Of the world IN 80
days will be feasible.
The mother of HOnily, the famous In
dian chief, died not long ago at Der daughters
home on the UmatiIia Indian reservation. She
ls believed to have been the oldest woman in
Oregon. Her age was l13.
In Piedmont, while a peasant was
lately engaged digging the soil, he discovered
deep hole, In which we're found buried an i'm.
mense collection Of copper and bronze coins Of
the Roman republic and empire.
"A bear went floating down the Sacra-
mento river on an immense cottonwood tree
AS It was about to pass under the railroad
bridge at Colusa by rapid movement it caught
beam, pnlled itself upon the railway and
trotted into Butte county.
-Workmen excavatino near the CaIcutta
Oustom House recently came across an old
IRON cannon i've feet long, which experts de.
clare to have been one of those used on the
suIpS oI the English feet that bombarded the
town after the tragedy of the Black Hole.
Upon the death of the italian Prinee
Amadeus the lottery Offices in Vienna were be-
sieged with tickets bearing the number a.
which, according to the lottery dictionary. sig
mines death OF prince;' AZ came out, andtbe
players won several millions of forms from the
imperial treasury.
Queer accidents will happen In Con.
necticut A citizen of Norwich. strollinu
along the other day, accidentally hit his pipe
with his hand; piece of burning tobacco flew
ana bit him in the eve. 1t burned a delicate
round hole in the eyeball, but careful treat.
ment saved the sight Of it
-RiVeting by electricity has been success
fully accomplished. The cold rivet is placed
In the hole, and when heated to the proper
temperature it can be closed by any of the ordi-
nary apparatus now in use, The heating of a
half-inch rivet of two or three inches in length
taxes about half minute.
The French Academy of Fine Arts has
awarded the Rossini prize Of 1900 francs for
the best opera Hbretto. There were A COM
Petltors The Academy decided in favor of the
nDreSeo OF Isis" written by Eugene and
hdoqard Adenis. The book is now at the dis
posal or composers that may under certain con-
dItlons desire to wed its text to music
Major Joseph W. Wham. now stationed
at Tucson, Ariz., says he was Lieutenant in
the Twenty-tirst Illinois Regiment when U. 5.
Grant took command of it. The "bovs,' wanted
aspeeeh and loud calls for "Grant,D Colonel
Grant were persisted in until Grant. who had
been sitting down, arose and securing instant
attentlon responded as follows: "G0 to your
quarters" They went.
There are four Ms on a silver dollar.
TWO plainly visible-one each in the words
UDum and America. another less distinct at tbe
base of the neck Of the Goddess of Liberty and
the fourth on the left curve Of the knot that
binds the wreath together on the reverse side
OF the coin. The last is hardly visible to the
naked eye. Mr.. Morgan was the designer and
engraver OF the die and the small NJ represents
the initial Of his name.
Cancer Of the stomach has carried of
one Of the large Indian pytnons, said to be 65
years old, at the geological gardens. The SER
pent had been at the gardens for five years. It
had been i'll for some time, and Prof Thomp-
SON treated is therapeutiealIy with the entrails
of chicken and rabbit, which are said to have
soothing effect upon the decaylng membranes
II was necessary to hold the snake by the neck
and force the food down its throat. A plaster
cast has been taken of the serpent's head The
python was IA feet ip length, the Jaws inches
in length and the head 81 inches in breadth
-Well-diggers on the Crowley place at
Little Prairie, Wis, fsd indications of buried
forest. The cedar or pine found at a depth Of
% feet appeared to be branches Of a tree; at 40
feet the growth was larger, as if near the trunk;
It 45 feet larger still. The first 35 feet was
through light gravel and the next 10 feet
trough blue clay, exceedingly hard. The Inn
'ression prevails that swamp will be struck at
|. lower depth, as has been the case in previous
instances where the wells were abandoned.
food water in that locality is rare, though the
and lies high and the surface soil is light The
natter is attracting much attention.
in Cherokee county, Ga, there is a man
Who draws two pensions-one from the United
states for wounds received in fighting for the
stars and Stripes. and one from the State Of
Georgia for wounds received in fighting against
he Stars and Stripes. He is very old man
,nown as Mr. Garrison, the Superintendent Of
he Paupers' farm in Cherokee. He served in
he United states army in the war with Mexi-
o, and received severe wound. for which he
now drawing pension. When war was de-
Jared between the North and South Mr.. Gar
ison. notwithstanding his wounds took up
rms for the Confederacy and is now drawing
pension from the State for wounds received
Thile battling beneath the stars and bars He
perhaps one OF a very few living men draw
lg pension from two different sources.
The authorities of Akron are exper-
COuSlOefaDle olluculLy IN enforcing the
ew law compelling attendance At school. A
ueer condition of affairs has been brought to
ght by the issuance of warrant for the arrest
I Joseph K. Sauders upon charge Of Violat-
x the above law. Sauders belongs TO a pecuI-
II religious sect similar TO, but not identical
ith, the Second Adventists. and believes that
le world is coming to an end very shortly. He
,erefore holds that 1t is useless TO waste time
BON worldly matters and although he has five
lildren of school age they are not attending
hool, in consequence of this religious belief.
here is considerable discussion among MEM
ITS OF the bar as to whether the above facts
institute a ground for action, as the State
hool laws are supposed not to interfere in
ligious affairs.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, in her very interesting
story of Flatbush, says that at the beginning
the present century, instead of the fashion
ates with their full directions as to the
anges in costume, doll was dressed in Paris
the height Of the prevailing mode and sent
the regular fast-salling packet to the
lntua makers as a model to be copied As
rly as I7I2 these dolls, dressed in the fashion
the reriod, were sent from Paris to London,
d it was by this means that the changes Of
shion were introduced before steam opened
the facilities for intercourse. 1--WE have"
9 says, "a vivid remembrance of the old age
one Of these fashion dolls which had been
Mt from Paris to fashionable mantua maker
New York. When the dress was changed as
style, the dressmaker sold the doll to one of
r customers, and Miss Nancy Dawson passed
70 the obscurity Of humber dollies who had
hadr ant oa f7fa MI a,rFa