Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Gatchina, the Cars home, contains 700
rooms
Mrs. Robert Goelet, of New York, has
an income of $500 day.
"A young man named Rice defeated his
father for the Legislature in Kansas. This 10
young America coming to the front with .
vengeance.
"A defendant in New York court con-
fessed that he was the "most notorious liar in
the world. rcan't help it. would rather tell
lie than not"
"A surgeon says he can take any human
face and with four cuts of the knife and few
stitches so altar its original expression that a
mans mother won't know him.
The Canada preachers stipends have
hitherto been exempt from taxation if below
81, 900 year. Henceforth they will be subject
to tax as the incomes of other citizens are.
The Wellesley College girls have been
measured, and the average waist measure Of
the !. 100 students was found to be A2 inches
physicians say that this is too small for health.
The first two bicycles ever ridden in
Georgia were straddled by Hon. John A.
Sibley. now of Cobb county, then an Augusta
boy, ana the other by the editor Of the Amer.
icus Times.
Reports from Eastern Colorado tell Of
awful destitution and famine among settlers
owing to lack of rain. Many are dying of
starvation, and hundreds will follow If assist.
ance IS not soon rendered.
-Ex-Mayor Thomas Navin, of Adrian,
Mich, who seven years ago stole 50, 900 600 from
tne city and made it bankrupt, has been par.
doned, and on his release from prison will com.
mence the study Of law in Detroit.
AN association of coloreG residents of
the State Of Washington has been formed for
the purpose Of encouraging the immigration of
negroes into Washington and in general to i'm
prove the condition Of the colored people.
Mrs. George Redpath opened stove
door at Marengo. ILL.,. with an apron, which
caught fire and burned her 50 badly that she
died In few hours. In attempting to put the
nre out her husband burned the ends of his
fingers off.
The Douglas county (Oregon) nickel
mines are attracting much attention. Develop
ment of these mines is looked forward to with
interest ]: B. Riddle, of Riddles, Ore. IS at
ene head OF the company owning the district,
which is held at s., ,500,001
The great dam across American river,
California, has been finished. The work was
done BY the convicts of Folsom prison, and
great benefits will accrue TO Sacramento
through the completion of the work and the
canal. which will be completed at later date.
The commonest kind of ink bottles are
transformed into harlequin perfume casks.
After the ink has been withdrawn from their
depths the bottles are cleaned and painted in
stripes running from the neck of the bottle to
the lower edge. The stripes are silver, gilt
bronze. scarlet and blue.
Austria has not only High School of
Agriculture, but Is intermediate and SO prim-
ary agricultural schools. besides nine chairs of
agriculture in polytechnic establishments and
Agricultural experiment stations. There are
also l62 courses of agricultural lectures, at
tended by about 1O.0Oe persons a year.
Jesse Klugh. of Maytown, Lancaster
county. Pa, has resurrected an old contract
which shows tina: in 1s45 his father agreed I'd
teach school in East Donegal township for $50
a month, and furnished fuel besides AT
present the teachers in the same district get
SOL month and the board furnishes the fuel
There were three fatal cases of yellow
fever recently in Brunswick, N. c., which is a
short distance from Hammond The victims
were Miss Kelly Thomas, Willie Stanley and
Brooks. 1t is supposed they imbibed the infec-
ton from lot of secondhand clothing. There
were two other cases, but they did not prove
fatal.
1t has been determined that under no
conditions can the deaf learn to speak by asso-
citation and without effort as normal children
do but that in every case speech is an acquisi-
ton only possible with great and sustained
skill, patience and perseverance of competent
teachers.
Only last month, boys who were search
ing over the old battlefield at Gettysburg for
relics, discovered two musket- balls with their
points so thoroughly telescoped that they could
not be separated There is bur one expIans-
tion of the freak. They had met in midair
and were welded by the friction caused by the
conclusion.
DIR. Torembovies has found in the na-
tional library at Cracow a number of manu-
scripts of Spanish songs, romances comedies
and novels hitherto unknown and dating from
the sixteenth century. Among the most re-
'The Child King Broadbii FL Rev Chico. Chico Who Who
lost Grenada"
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER told Boston
audience the other night that Jews were a
sober people because they were never prohi-
bited from drinking. Men sometimes make
SINS by prohibiting certain things. There
would be less sins in the world and fewer sim
laws TO be transgressed. No sooner is q thing
prohibited than craving for it arises In the
human mind. Rabbi SCHNEIDER contended that
the more the liquor question was agitated the
more drinkers there would be.
Waller f. Boyle is probably the
youngest author in Georgia. or. perhaps the
United States. He is only II years old. Sew
Detroit Free Press. He is now fixing up a
story for boys. under the supervision of his
uncle, L. 7. Blome, and will send it to some of
the children's magazines. Walter is entirely
INDEPENDENT IN regard to his productions and
refuses to let anyone see them until he has
finished when his uncle looks over them and
makes suggestions, which the young author
gravely considers.
La Belle King, one of the opium
smugglers who escaped from the United States
Secret Service officers while being conveyed
from his home, Port Huron, Mich, to Detroit
two years ago, by jumping through a car win
dow, was captured Tuesday at Olympia. Wash,
where he was driving a laundry wagon under
the name of Boulanger. He is said to be at the
head Of the largest smuggling rings in the
United States and is worth great deal of
money, His capture was made BY Special In
spector Coblentz, who has been following him
for some time.
Fashion is sometimes a friendly dame.
The Countess Taafe. rich and powerful social
leader in Vienna. has set the mode of wearing
many carved mother-of-pearl hairpins and
other ornaments to profit the needy fishermen.
Archduchess Valera, daughter Of the EN-
peror has made silver ornaments and furnish
fn9s fashionable for the sake OF the sflvor
workers. To benefit the half-starved weavers,
the Princess of Wales has revived the anti
ouared manufacture of Irish poplins. Of which
she wears many. and with her sister-in-law has
forced into vogue for the street the heavy
woolen cloths, the making Of which means
bread to so many hungry men and women.
IN HUMOROUS VEIN.