Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Lake Constance. Switzerland. by the breaking
of the Ice crust.
"A lady's nose has been rebuilt from the
ribs of a cat Transfers of one living organism
to another have become quite common.
Baltimore had an imposing celebration
of General Lees birthday, and Richmond's dis
play and ceremonials were magniicently inn
pressive.
"A committee, of which Herr Joachim,
the violinist is the head, has been formed in
Berlin for the erection of monument TO Mo-
zart in Berlin.
Seward Clayton died January at his
home near Clayton. Ga. HE was born October
6. 1899. He raised large and respected family.
Each of his sons, four in number, were feet
inches in height.
The bitter cold of the present winter has
been bad for trade in Paris as it has been in
London. The toy venders who own the booths,
or baraques, annually erected on the boule-
wards, have suffered terribly from slackness Of
trade.
Orange trees in full bearing are as num-
erous as ordinary shade trees in the streets
Of some inland Florida cities and towns. It 10
common sight just now to see the sidewalks
lined with trees well loaded with the golden
fruit. which nobody takes the trouble to
pluck.
and pressing out the juice for sale to passers
by is an odd feature of the wayside in Tampa
and one or two other Southern cities. The
liquid sells for a nickel glass. and many people
like 1t. 1t tastes insipid and sickish sweet to
Northern palate.
Bert Bliss, 10 years old, while skating
on the river at Des Moines last week. broke
through the ice and would have drowned but
for the bravery of a young comrade named
Brewer who nj IA
brought to the surface the unconscious body
of his companion.
-Maude Deneau, 21 years old and less
than four feet high. was married at Lockport,
N. Y. to John Argue, a tall. slender young
man, last week. The marriage is also chronicled
at Louisville, KY, of Polly Ann Collins, II
years and months old, to Jesse Donahue, a
widower, 80 years old, Polly's parents con-
senting.
Bar Flarbor, Me-, people are astonished
to find that young fellow who always passed
as dude down there, because he manicured
his finger nails, has turned up bold Indian
fighter in the Bad Lands. In the meantime, IL
seems, he has been eultivating his courage by
eloping with an heiress and bravlng the heels
OF the bronco OF the plains.
The latest fad among equestriennes is to
ride day to the left side the next to the right
Since Mrs. Jenness-Miller sounded a trumpet
and informed women they were in danger
of growing lopsided by not riding man fashion
there has been much anxiety felt over the Sit
uation of affairs. The physicians and the for
eign barons vino run our riding academies have
evolved this panacea for onesidedness.
The Suwanee Canal Company, which
recently purchased the Okefenokee Swamp
from the State of Georgia for s63 0UO, was
organized at New York Saturday. The COM
pany will issue 5000, 900 in stocks and bonds.
Captain Harry jackson was elected President,
and all the other members of the company were
retained. The property is considered very
valuable. The contract for the canal to drain
the swamp into the ST. Mary's river will soon be
made.
In the park surrounding the old State
Capitol at Richmond Is a large colony of gray
squirrels. Many of the large trees have COW
cred boxes among the branches, which the
squirrels nest in. and where they hoard their
food. The little fellows are as tame as kittens.
his hand and whistle, and squirrel will run to
him fearlessly and search his palm for nut or
other tidbit. Self-cIosing gates at all the en-
frances keep out dogs. SO that the squirrels
flourish unmoleSIed.
Philip Seibert was married IN Ohio, at
the close of the war, to the girl who waited for
her soldiers return. In 1858 they were divorced,
Seibert going to California and she to Wiscon-
sin, where she again married. Seibert also
married in California. He was widowed few
years ago and started back east with his son,
and by the merest accident met his first love
aud they were again married, she having been
a widow a number of years, left with mar
riageable daughter, with whom young Seibert
fell in love, and Christmas they were married.
The question now arises rs TO how the two fam
lilies are related to each other.
"A company of wealthy men has been
formed to open in st. Petersburg a '1iving
chronological exhibition" Living specimens of
the various races and tribes that populate the
dominions of the czar will be collected for
show, together with samples of their dwellings
and the appointment Of their houses, their
shrines of worship. their garments, the food
they live on, the products of their peculiar in
dustries, and even their manners and habits Of
life if possible Should this exhibition be sue
cessful. IL will be carried about to an the I'M
portant cities of the empire. The American
show of the wild West" in Moscow and st.
Petersburg last summer, gave rise to the plan
of this undertaking.
"A new band Of religious cranks has
made its appearance in Saxony. The band is
composed of men and women recognizing a
community of goods and living generally like
people possessed. They hold prayer meetings
after dark. The men pray and expound and
the women indulge in manifestations of hys-
terics A man named Hans Wurzel who was
at one time an honest and fairly reasonable
brieklayer, is the leader of the band. He claims
to have succeeded Moses, and he is now in the
Zurckau JAIL with IL of his followers, on the
charge of rioting. The act of riot was de-
mand on the jailers for the opening Of the
prison doors.
They have snakes in Florida. They are
not mentioned in the real estate advertisements.
but they go with the real estate Just the same,
and likewise with the water. young man who
had gone down there to escape any cool wealth
err that may strike here this winter was out
boating on the st. Johns river with friend on
a recent evening. and, seeing little tributary
coming into the main stream beneath pict-
uresuue aisle of expresses, they decided to ex-
plore it They had rowed but short distance
when the creek narrowed so that there was
barely room to propel the boat, and none to
turn it. and an underground OF pusnes nung
so low as to almost touch their faces. A peculiar
rustling caused them to ship their oars and
llstep The noise was overhead. 1t was made
by snakes They mad got into regular nest OF
serneuts The banks were alive with them; the
underproyth was festooned with them; they
were crawling and squirming on every hand;
thew were dangling close to their heads; they
were wriggling through the water-long snakes,
short snakes harmless snakes, poisonous
snakes fat snakes, lean snakes, ugly snakes,
law snakes-an arbor OF ma;erialized delirium
other for a second. then bending low and
moving cautiously, they rowed their boat stern
foremost, back to the 81. Johns river. Until
thew reached the more open water neither OF
them spoke and they have no recollection Of
breathing. They do not row there any more.