Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Robert E. Click, although serving out q
life sentence in Joliet prison, acts as the war
den's coachman and trusted messenger
Paris sends to foreign lands Annually
$500. 600 worth of bon bons. In things oehca'e
and dainty Paris always takes hand
Distance is continually being abridged.
Bv the new route via British America it viii pc
possible to go from London to Yokohama IN IS
days.
"A Wyoming Territory stage driver re-
Gently killed wildcat weighing 100 pounds
by taking of his wooden leg and using 1t as
weapon.
"A Crawford county man who thought
last fall of erecting costly toboggan slide, ID
SO glad he did not do it that he banqueted
party of friends the other evening.
while sinking well at his new saw
mill near Seymour, Ind, Jesse Cox came across
some large chestnut trees 35 feet below the sur
face in perfect state OF preservation.
Henry StillmaD, of Woodstock, Conn.,,
predicted an open winter by means Of the
goose bone, and local paper has just repub-
iished his letter of last September, IN Vindica-
ton of him and the goose bone.
The Republicans Of the Eleventh Mis-
souri Congressional district petition Congress
to be deprived of representation in that body
because the statutes require that all the coun-
10 a river dividing two Of their eount1es Ot
course their Representative IN Washington is
Democrat.
Germany is the only civilized country
in the world wherein murderers are still be-
headed with an ak sword. Just before
Christmas two were executed. Having been
blindtalded, they knelt down in turn before
block and the executiOneer severed each mans
head from the body with single blow Of his
broad-bladed ak.
"A portrait of ex-PresideEt Cleveland is
soon to be hung in the White House. The
picture will cost S. 900, and will be paid for from
money provided by Congress in the official esti-
mates for the executive branch of the Govern
ment This is the first time that such an item
has been embodied in the Treasury estimates
tor the fiscal year.
Mr.. j. W. Wilder, of Price Hill, Gin
cinnati. is exhibiting bottle of picked onions
that have begun to sprout, and on which the
young shoots have already attained length
of more than an inch. The wonderful thing
about these onions is that previous to being
put into the bottle of vinegar and hermetcally
sealed they were boiled for an hour in cider
vinegar.
An English warship of the frst-class re-
| Gently had a suggestive experience in the
| Channel The belligerent vessel nearly ran foul
| of a derelict laden with timber. After time
| the warship decided to sink the dangerous
| nuisance For some hours the warship fired
| her heaviest guns at the derelict. The next day
| the timber-laden craft was found aground, not
touched by single shot
There need be no more Leander-like or
| Byronic swimming across the Bosphorus II the
| project contemplated by a French engineering
company De taken up seriously and carried TO
| completion This plan promises nothing less
| than the construction of a colossal Dr1dge eOO
/ meters, or S72 yards long over the historic and
| picturesque channel that flows between the
| shores of Europe and Asia, connecting the sea
| of Marmora with the EuXine-
AT Washington, socialist club, COM
posed of workiugmen, professional. literary
and business men, has inaugurated a novel
plan for further1ng agitation of the eight-hour
! movement at a meeting held last evening. An
| "Eight Hour Dining Club" was organized,
| which will indulge in banquet once a month,
each plate to cost 50 cents. The members are
to seat themselves at table at exactly o. CLOCK.
| each speech is to be exactly eight minutes long
| and each member is to wear small pin, con-
sistlng Of the figure eight
The largest black diamond ever found
has recently been brought to this country from
the mines of Bahia, Brazil. 1t is a sort used for
such mechanical appliances as tipping drills,
glasscutters. ETC., and to an ordinary observer
the stone looks more like lump OF anthracite
coal or a bit Of coke than like rare jewel
This diamond is about two inches IN length
weighs 367L carats, and is valued at S0OOO. Un-
|
and hence no ieweler would care to purchase
it save for the purposes Indicated.
The other day there came to Salem, Ore,
box car that left Detroit 16 days before. 1t
contained P. HarWood, wife and two babies,
cows horses, sheep and an endless assort-
! ment of household and kitchen furniture and
farm appliances. A stovepipe had been pushed
through a ventilator hole in the car, and the
smoke that wreathed the opening gave evidence
that those inside the car were not suffering
from the cold. Mr.. HarwoOd said the trip was
made easily and quite pleasantly, considering
the crowded condition OF the car.
Mr.. Carnegie's book, Triumphant
Democracy" is causing more trouble in the
Old World. The first time translation Of the
book was published in Germany, the entire
edition was quietly suppressed by the
authorities. Reeentlya new German transla-
tion was published in Leipzig, and now TINS mas
been interdicted by the authOrities Mean
while, French, Spanish and Dutch translatlons
of the book are making their way in different
parts of the world, the Spanish version being
particularly popular in the Argentine Republic
and in other parts Of South America
In Germany railway fagman at the
crossing at a small station thought he had the
grip when all the other employees Of the road
were getting leave of absence for the same
cause, and applied to the company's doctor to
be examined. The doctor could not spare the
time to stop at such a small place, SO ne tele-
graphed to the hagman to be standIng Deslde Sie
the track when the train went past with hls
tongue out and he would examine MIN on tne
fy The hagman dutituly stood with ms
tongue out all the time the train was slowly
passing his station, and tne mex u1y SaI Inc sI-
plants of the impertinent conoucs OF one Oh Ibs
employees at that station.
in the Holy Trinity Church, in the
Minories, Is preserved in glass case beneath
the pulpit human head. The vicar, the heV.
Samuel Rinns, has recently issued book con
tanning details about this caput mortuum- II
Is supposed to be that of the Duke Of Suffolk
father of Lady Jane Grey, who was oeheaded
in 1854, shortly after the exeeutlon o oI o,I nIs
| tioner did not as was usual in sueh cases, nolo
mn the head Of the Duke TO the people, put lei
IL sinnply drop into the basket, the supposi1on
being that he vas Dr1Dea 70 Dtg IL 1s I. =
was found by the Earl OF Dartmouth Inns
story Is doubted by former vicar, VINO Wrlte:
70 saw that it is more probable tnat tne mead
belongs 10 some unknown person OF latel
times"
A London correspondent says that it il
a mistake to suppose that the Queens guestI
at Windsor Castle have any opportunity fol
nrot,aeted or confidential communication witt
Her Majesty except such Ministers as hsvI
audiences The visitors arrive at the castle
about o'clock, retire to their respective room
and assemble in the corridors in full dress a
$50. The Queen presently enters from he
private apartment, and after bowing to tht
company, and perhaps speaking a few words Il
one or two friends, she goes into the dinning
room followed by the guests. After dinner
during which the conversation. as matter o.
course, is to the last degree vapid and common
place, the company return to the corridor, AMI
then the Qusen speaks for few minutes q
each person in turn, and then bows to the cir
Gle and retires, after which the party proceed
to one of the drawing-rooms for cards ant
music. and the men ultimately find themselves