Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

1t is officially declared that there is salt
enough in the Teeside field in England to SUD-
ply the world for 800 years.
Captain j. r. McCouum, of Newman.
Ga. went out bird hunting and had the re-
markable luck to bring down nine partridges at
one shot,
There is one district in South Carolina
where there are over 800 registered distilIeries.
and, il IS estimated twice as many secret stills
-moonShiners."
The southern district OF London is being
harried by burglars, and it is estimated that
$4,000 worth of property has been stolen in a
territory covering about three square miles.
The Duke of Portland has been disap-
pointed again. 1t is girl, and the precedent
Of a century, during which no direct heir has
been born to the house, remains unbroken.
There are in DeLand, Fla, ITO young
ladies between the ages of IS and 81 years to
oDly 6O boys OF the same age. Fifteen OF the
young ladies are attending the university from
abroad.
"A silk handkerchief, so often recon-
mended for wiping spectacles or eyeglasses, is
not good for this purpose as 1t makes the
glasses electrical, and causes the dust to adhere
TO them.
Three lynche-s in Minnesota have been
convicted of murder in the first degree, an
other has been sent to the penitentiary for life
and ~ other who pleaded guilty of riot were
fined 81, 900 each
The once populous town of Meadow
Lake, New, has.now but one inhabitant and he
has just emerged from 40 feet of snow. He
lefthome through trap door i'll the roof and
toboggan incline.
The proprietor of one of the uptown drv-
goods shops in New York has restricted his
clerks to the use of the one title, Madame" in
addressing women customers, whether young
or old. 1t works well.
There were 1896 books published in
Germany last year. an increase of nearly 900
over the number in 1888 The list of educa-
tional books IS the largest, 20S3, and of Masonic
books the smallest, d.
The Cocopah tribe OF Indians, of Lower
California are killing each other and are with
out chief. The moment old Colorow died
trouble began. and it looks now as If the whole
tribe will be cleaned out.
1t is said that Mr.. Biggar's death was
due to his uncOr promising temperance prin-
ciples. His doctor ordered him to take wine at
his meals to brace himself up, but he refused TO
do SO, and gradually broke down.
"A horse fell into an abandoned shaft at
Silver Fork, New. on January 10 and lived
19 days Without food or drink. When res
cued the animal was able to walk and in
few hours was able TO move about all right.
The Presidency of the United States is
the highest gift in the power of the people, but
the President has the power to make still
higher one. He can appoint the postmaster at
Mineral Point, Col, 1900 feet above the sea.
The largest tree in the world is reported
to have been recently found in California,
measuring l76 feet in circumference at dis
tance of six feet from the ground. This would
give diameter of about 60 feet at that point.
An Alpena, Mich, man was licked
nearly to death by an indignant bartender. at
Hillman, the other day. because he called for
whisky, and before drinking it gave friend
some directions about shipping his remains
home.
In consequence of an edict issued by the
Emperor of Russia. the German Court Theater
at st. Petersburg will cease TO exist after May
i. The Germans in that city are much an
noyed and there IS some talk Of organizing
private theater.
AT Cuneo, Italy, a soldier who had
played truant from his barracks until after
midnight. endeavored to climb secretly through
the window of the building. and, with this in
tention, caught hold of the electric light wires
and received fatal shock.
"A new malady, believed to be a sue
cessor to the grip. has appeared in Southern
Russia, and has already reached Milan and
Lombardy in Italy. The symptoms are feel
ing of paralysis in the limbs and tendency TO
lethargic sleep. and it frequently proves fatal
"A bullet from one of the new English
army rifles being used at the range at Alder
shot Camp, few days ago, went wild and trav-
eled two miles before stopping Practice at the
range has had to be discontinued on account of
the long range the rifles are thus shown to
possess.
Some boys playing on the canal bank at
Retford. England. found hole full of coins.
Nine of the lads filed their caps with the money,
which they took to the police station. The
treasure place was afterward thoroughly
searched and altogether ESQ worth of coins
were taken out.
Government officials have had Fair
port, N. Y, beverage, known as hop soda, ana
lyzed, and thus ascertained, what its thousands
of drinkers mad found out unscientiicalIy, that
it is lager beer. 1t had big run IN no-license
counties until temperance society representa-
tive got upset on 1t.
Charles Waldron, the Hillsdale banker,
who ran away with his partners money and a n
other mans wife, has made as much as s65, 900
in real estate in Fairhaven, Wash, they say,
and now not only has his own wife with him
again but has sent for his old cashier to come
out and run his bank.
In prehistoric cemetery, lately uncov-
cred near Montpelier, in the south of France,
among other things found and reported to the
Paris Academy were two skulls, evidently be-
longing to the Aryan race and some human
bones that, judged from their proportions, must
have belonged to man at least ten feet in
height
DIR. Francis H. Brown, of Boston, has
devised plan by which six deaf persons who
formerly heard nothing Of the sermon now
a