Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
"A military pace is211 feet.

1870 by Cincinnati firm, but it was many years
before the fremen would take kindly 10 the In
novation.
Andrew Douglas, of Pickering, Ont,
man about 70 years Of age. compained OF being
tired of life, and anticipated fast approaching
death by blowing out his brains.
Mrs. Boches. woman of French Indian
descent, died at Kalkaska, Mich. Friday, aged
Ill years. She was as spry as many avoman Of
50 years up to the time of her death.
"A Kansas woman who took a prominent
part in the last campaign as an Alliance lee
turer, first contracted taste for public life by
commanding broom brigade at EmDoris.
"A man in Burlington, Ia, has sued
railroad company for $4,000 to compensate
him for the loss of two fingers. What value he
would place on a full hand has not been dis
closed.
A minister of Leeds, N. Y, is typical
kIeptomaniac. He was taking dinner with one
of his parishioners lately and was in the act of
saying grace when he pocketed silver spoon
from the table.
"A young Mexican never pays for the
tickets when he takes young woman to the
theater The lady's father attends to that and
considers himself insulted if the young man
proposes to pay.
AN estimate sent to Congress yesterday
by the Secretary Of War to supply deficiency
in the Quartermasters Department shows thar
the cost of the Indian campaign just closed was
about g, 100000.
Dogs against sheep was an issue in the
North Carolina Legislature few days ago and
the dogs won. A bill was before the House for
the protection of sheep against dogs, and it
was defeated by vote Of 50 TO 9.
William Bradley, Of Barry, Ill, went
to see his sweetheart Sunday while drunk. but
she wouldn't see him unless he was sober SO he
went to blacksmithis shop, heated an iron rod
till it was red and then ran it through his body.
Artists who were in Venice few weeks
ago had a unique opportunity. 1t showed
there necessarily for five days. Such a storm
is not within the memory Of the oldest inhabi-
tant. Venice under snow! What chance
for the painters!
"A Columbian memorial, designed byJ.
Allen Whyte. Of Chicago. for the Exposition,
would have a star-shaped building surmounted
by a dome 400 feet high and this in turn sur
mounted by tower whose top would be !, Az
feet from the base.
The editor Of a weekly paper in Kansas
has been shot at twice. assaulted three times,
and had the windows of his office smashed in
three times within the space of four months.
because he declared that the Mayor ought to
be impeaehed for drunkenness.
While Germany loses only 110 persons
per annum from smallpox, France loses A.000.
.nca 70 tn. rie;d ,v.v in ,xbicb yaccinstior ia
enforcad H. Garmany al 60 +ba caraiaasnass
Of bis own countrymen In this matter.
The Canadian Marine Association has
determined to ask the Government to reduce
the tolls on grain delivered for the seaboard by
Wy Tay VI y 5S son .hu y, IN. e. a,s o., -,
ssnIppeu o. LoaI,s ~ w w ~ n5
roap .or Pans,nSi nj. 'niousn SHe "'iANU ~"U Nv
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"A lady missionary IN lnoia Is repor'eu
as saying tnas tne DoAes OF u ~ oens
new fork last year consalneu -'Ooo PsiIs -Oa oa
corsets, ~ pairs " ss.setS, .i auJ 49,
civ,i,zsd tortnrss in aictsd nv these
sSiSi so.S,o o.rr,an.s tbat +ha 1atiyss rsfnSsd
70 wsar than
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The exhibition az munlcn was very
successful, 2S2 works being sold and about s0,'
600 taken In as pronts over and ABOVE al e1'
penses- Berlin proposes 70 noin an internA- @
uonai e4nlolslon IN ioo1, so ma =. LIZ ,sI
mineo noS 20 % ousone; VIII so neI,, ;h1aa
falace 20 tne arIseS sIs yT@t. T. S1,,;..
Plcbures ny tno sano nahuS VIII 10 ~ui"
-Oueen's College Oxford mas i1st cele-
h-,.oS .ha s,o,h .nn;1srearv of IT'S foundation
It was on January ls l34OIH that Edward I'LL
sealed, in the Tower of London, license to
Philippa, to found In the parish OF 81 Peter;ln-
coieglsse nan ol th H
ana otneIs unoer INC nAino VI sne Sueon Ia
OF o1Ioro.
"A dispatch from City of Mexico says
.ba.w Ricbardson. the Boston naturalist.
- a.. .Io-t,,,r .ha Forosts az r,antraI Amar
lea for the British Museum, was, at latest ad-
vices. at Lake AtItlan, Guatemala. His work
in Guatamala has been very successful. as he
had discovered iour ne" sPeclss ol oisuS no
Is now ABOUT 70 stars lOr hVnuu'as' 0SA'Au"l
and Nicaragua.
Thu sfaonar Gaelic arrived from Honp-
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Kong, anu brings news oL aserlous car
in Java on December II The town OF Josna
sunerea mos s G U tsa SU-9naan'. d "n.rsa-
randsrsd aImost nninbabitabls, Twelve per.
sons were killed and II injured All the dis
tricts of West aud Middle Java suffered more
or less, some severely.
"A spark from q locomotive on the
Southern Pacific Railroad In California caused
the burninp of a wheat crop The eompany
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Oelng sueu iOL uHass 1.Is.;N 20 .Ln St n Ee
was causeu " IN .aod y. az 80 Ifn;,aS
company, Ieosoe y. sno iOeu' enu VIZ -. - =
States Souls ~. T Sc ~ .La - ~ ~ I.ssaa
IessoI mas ,os a IL - s.;.,a .,,ine,; y,
an inpoibanS piin0iPie' VI "iue @pPAAeN
The story that the Governor of Montana
.,+s ,,ia With a Lnifa ia botIv resented bv ona
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OF MS irienus, "no says' Oui JUG was OOi" - -
Missouri, and IN tnat otate etiqustIe uemauus ~,
that the eater grasp the pie nrmly but gently