Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Out Of Is deaths in Portland last week
16 were from cholera infantum.
The porter OF train was arrested at
Pendleton, Ore. the other day for robbing
| Chinese passenger of $3.50.
Mrs. Sallie Brown, said to be the Oldest
person In the State. died iat Chichester, Mass,
last week, at the good old age of los
The second international Congress of
believers in cremation will soon meet in Berlin.
The first congress Of l6 delegates took place in
Dresden in 1876.
Indians that live along the line of
Umatilla river, Oregon. complain of fishermen
who catch hundreds of trout and carry away
only enough for a meal; the rest are left to rot
on the banks.
"A cloud.burst in the Santa Rita Noun
tains. A. T., not only swept away and drowned
cattle and horses. but lot of wild animals,
such as deer, bears and wolves, were caught
and ingulfed.
w. s. Williams of Cherokee county,
Ala, Is the father OF % children. the eldest Of
whom is 40 years old and the youngest Mr:
Williams is in his seventieth year and is still
hale and vigorous.
Rochester, Ind, has boy orator years
old. He is named Irwin Jay Steininger. has
remarkable memory and spouts speeches and
sermons to the amazement of the people who
visit his fathers farm.
The Kentville On. S. Star tells story
o. man buying an orange for sick wife and
returning 1t the next day with the startling
announcement that she was dead. 1t says the
story is youched for.
"A lady of Kursk started in the middle
of July for St.Petersburg. She intends to make
her way. distance Of ], 200 Versts on horse
back within 20 days. A club of velocipedists
escorted her to Orel on their wheels.
IA Hartland, Mich, woman thought she
heard burglars in the house while her husband
was away, and, getting out an old horsepistol,
she blazed away at something she saw
In the road. Her husband now bewails the loss
OF 500 mule that she fired at.
The place to send old stamps is the Aisle
des Billodes, Loele, Switzerland. In 1888 this
asylum received over 100000 stamps of which
the best the children assorted and sold for $40
to dealers and collectors, while the others we're
used Tor decorative purposes, rooms being pa
pered with them.
"A genuine Russian prince named War
chofsky has been discovered in barber shop
in Bridgeport. The exile is the son of a noble
man who was sent to Siberia for being inpli:
Gated In one OF the attempts to assassinate the
Car. He has already served five years in our
navy and has become naturalized.
Judge Bloomfield, of Vancouver, Wash,
has decided that where the law says that a Ger.
tain measure must have the consent of two
ffths Of the qualified voters of the county to
make It operative, the absence of electors does
not prevent the CARRYING of the measure by a
tWo-f1fths vote, the law presuming that those
absent assent TO the will Of the majority.
IN. A. McDavid, of Fellowship, Fla,
carved out ~rebus' on the end of an orange
cane which translated is the name of President
Harrison. On one end of the handle is the
head of hare. near the centar is an eve then
sun. Putting them together the symbols
spell Harrison. The cane is elegantly finished
IN oil and has been sent to the President by G.
2. Haycraft.
"A Bangor mare after leaving the hay
field was returned to the stable in decidedly
snappish mood and the first thing she did was
to catch her three-months-ol flIy's nose in her
mouth and tear the flesh entirely from it. Four
teen stitches were taken in the wound but the
heshsdied and has been cut away. The colt
was valuable one and its owners hopes of its
getting the first prize at the Bangor fair are
gone.
"A women in New York, who has been
ruined by drink, gains a precsrIous living by
boarding and taking care of IA old blind peo-
pie. Mornings she leads them to their places
where they sit for charity and peddle email ar
tfcles, and evenings she fetches them home one
by one. She supplies them with their meals
and gives them a certain rude comfort. As
she is careful to keep her proteges within the
law, she ls not interfered with by the police.
Everybody has heard of Railroad
Jack" Saratoga's wandering dog, owned by
nobody but beloved and cared for by railroad
men all over the country, whom he accompa-
nies on their trips. He returned not fortnight
ago from three weeks trip. which had in
cluded Omaha He took run MP TO Montreal
and back, and Saturday reached home from
Boston, where a column of biography and his
picture appeared in daily newspaper during
his stay.
"A will made by Frederick the Great in
l74l, during the first Slesian war, was printed
in the first volume of THE War of Frederick
the Great" Just published in Germany. It
reads as follows: II am only King so long as
am free. If they kill me wish my body to bs
burnt in Roman fashion and my ashed to be
inclosed in an urn at Rheinsberg In this case
Knobelsdorf This architect) shall construct a
monument for me ike that OF Horace at Tus-
culum."
Miss Anna Patton, of Port Huron, wanted
to get passport to gone home to Scotland Cor
a visit. Lr. Blaine said he couldn't give her
one, as she was not citizen of his. The lady
went thereupon before a circuit judge re-
nounced allegiance to everything save Uncle
Sam. and was made a full and complete citizen.
She will now write Mr.. Blaine. Children who
came to this country before they were IS years
old, without their parents, can take out full
papers on becoming of age.
"A notable horse race took place at Sara
toga, Mich, last Saturday. 1t was gotten up
by Parson Arney. of the Methodist Church. to
raise money for religious purposes. There was
a great gathering at the driving park, and when
the parson drove in with his noted mare he was
greeted with applause. All the booths sold
things for the benefit of the church. The pastor
addressed the people, saving the meeting was
called in the interest of purer races. better
stock and the upbuilding of the spiritual COM
munity. Then the trotting and running events
came OF amid the enthusiastic plaudits of the
throng. Two OF Parson Arney's horses won.
1t is generally understood that the hair
and nails grow faster in hot weather than in
cold, but perhaps, few are aware that any tenn
perature can impart so great stimulus TO the
growth as Colonel Pejevalsky, the Russian
traveller says the Central Asian heat did during
his Journey in those regions in the summer Of
1889. In June the ground and the air became so
excessively hot. SO great, indeed. as to render
travel in the daytime impossible. Within
fortnight after this oppressive weather began
it was noticed that the hair and beard Of all
the party we're growing with astonishing rapid
ity, and. strangest of all some youthful Cos
sacks, whose faces were perfectly smooth, de-
yeloped respectable boards within the short
period of 2U days.