Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A rattler was killed in Cucamonga can
yon last Wednesday, says the Pomona Times
that measured feet 2 inches long by IL inches
around the waist. 1t sported q rattles with a
button.
In 1888 we paid in pensions $50, ,288,
sos "a. In 1889 we paid sS7, 24,779 IL. The cosE
Of the German army it may be interesting to
note. is for this year estimated at s91, 726. .293
Besides our pensions our army costs S3O, ,OOO,0 0O0
"A Matilda A. Scott, living in North
May street. New York, has kennel and dog
farm, where she raises toy terriers that net
$500 year. and she paws all her expenses with
the proceeds of the canine sick ward.
Colonel Platt B. Walker, member of
the Minnesota River Commission, says that
there is $4,000 lying idle in Washington that
was especially appropriated three years ago for
the Improvement OF the Mississippi between
Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Seven of the supposed -to-be sharpest and
wisest lawyers in the country have made wills.
passed away, and the said wills have been
broken all to fniters by heirs and other lawyers.
An ignorant Missouri farmer wrote bis will in
four lines on slate, and IL stood three lawsuits
and ten lawyers.
The most important real estate deal last
week in Chicago was the transfer by E w.
Willard of his 20 acres south of Jackson Park
and the Hyde Park water works to the Turner
estate, of ST. Louis. The prlce paid was $780,
000. The land was purchased away hack in the
'sVs by Mr. Willard at 81 so an acre.
Mrs. Locke, wife of the rector of Grace
Church, New York, has always kept a cat
kitchen Of Angora breed. Her pet charity is
st. Luke's Hospital, which has always been
heavily burdened with debt Mrs.Locke annual
contribution consists of four Angora pussies,
which, reduced to United States currency,
amounts to about $50.
%. 8. Nestergaard, Lutheran mission
ary, passed through Minneapolis recently, on
his way from Norway to China. He expects to
spend the rest of his life among the Chinese Of
the interior. He has brother who has been in
Ch1na for several years, and has adopted
Chinese dress and customs, pig tail and all Mr..
Nestergaard will probably do the same.
j. M. Rice, farmer living in Indiana
is trying the experiment of raising wild geese
and ducks. He has half dozen of each.
which he has on ponds on his farm. They were
caught on the Kankakee river last fall, and he
keeps their wings clipped. They have become
quite tame, but it remains to be seen whether
they will become thoroughly domesticated and
breed.
An old Irish prophecy declares that
when an ODoherty rules in Derry and an
ODonnen in Raphoe Ireland will be free
Home Rulers therefore are greatly worked up
over the fact that DR.. O'Doherry has Just been
Cathedral, Londonderry, and that the preacher
on the occasion was DR.. O'Donnell, Bishop Of
Raphoe.
Chester W. Barnes, of Preston, Conn,
caught brook trout which weighed exactly
three pounds and one ounce. It was not so
everlastingly long as extraordinarily fat. It
was just about the size of an ordinary shad. Its
color was OF a deep purple and it looked as if
It had done nothing for ten years but lAnguidIy
noat In q black forest pool, taking the lions
share of the food.
A. strong alkali at once applied to a
snake-bite will deeompose all the venom which
1t touches. So if both fangs of the snake have
pierced the skin the two wounds should be
made one with sharp knife, and then filed
with dry carbonate of ammonia. Frequent
small dissolved doses of the same should be
taken inwardly, or so drops of aromatic spirits
OF ammonia taken hyPodermically, for its
peculiar effect upon the blood.
Daniel Cadden, of Baltimore. had been
suffering the most intense pain in his head for
nearly week. A physician who was called
after a thorough examination. thought he de-
tected an unusual noise near the drum of the
ear. he inserted an instrument and, after
about three minutes work, brought to light
great. ugly-looking spider. The insect had
craWled into the mans ear while IN the market
house on last Tuesday. Cadden is all right
now.
In an electrical exhibition in San Fran
cisco an illustration was given of the saving
that was effected when gas is used as fuel in
stead of an illuminant. During the evenings
run the gas engine which works the electric
plant, consumes 300 cubic feet of gas, and fur
nishes 30 l6-candle power incandeseent lamps
while 63 16candle gas lights, with hve-foot
burners, would require 6l8 feet for the same
length OF time. This is saving of over so per
cent
"A Barber county, Kan, newspaper
publishes the story of young woman of Lodi.
ell lsAl
prepared for burial. She came back to life
again, however, and was able after few days
to be up and around the house. "But her old
malady again asserted ITSELF" says the news
paper, "and last Saturday she again passed
Into that sleeps that knows no earthly awaken
ing. There was no mistake about the death
this time, and on Monday the earthly casket
was returned to earth.
The most northerly railway in the
world is that one now building between Swe-
den and Norway. 1t runs from Lulea. a little
town at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia. to
a fort on the Atlantic in the ford
of Ofoten. The works are frequently stopped
on account of the severity of the climate, but
II IS hoped that the line will be opened in 1891
IL IS British enterprise, owned and constructed
by British capitalists. 1t passes through the
rich iron district around Gelivard, where
most valuable ore abOunds. While crossing
the arctic circle the engine blows its whistle.
The latest discussion concerning Mrs.
Cleveland's social position, it is said, occurred
at breakfast party given the other morning
by Mrs. Bliss at her country residence at Nam
where such well-known people were
present as General Sherman, David Dudley
Field, Ward MeAllister, Mrs Paran Stevens
and Mrs. Cox. General Sherman and Mrs
Stevens stood up enthusiastically for Mrs
Cleveland and declared that if the wife of the
was not sent in to dinner first
t would be wholly unrepublican and un-Amer-
can. Those of the other side contended that
f Mre. Cleveland was recognized solely because
1f her husbands one-time ofncial position this