Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Wyoming is the first State to make an
appropriation for the Worlds Fair
Mrs. Dan. Whitman, of Adrian. Mich,
is the mother of the third pair of twins
Zone of my whooping cough PATIENTS"
The largest peach orchard in the world
is at Blownwood. Tex, which contains Il, 900
trees.
says Philadelphia doctor, sis grandmother"
Washington society is said to be per-
turbed because Of the scarcity of young men as
dances.
Daniel Amsden, of Ypsilanti, broke his
neck in friendly scuffie with friend the
other day.
Germany and Holland, produce about 100000
pins daily.
"A New York doctor, startled by pro-
posal of marriage from spinster, called in the
police and had her arrested.
"A photographer in Springfield, Mass.
has been arrested for doing business on Sum-
day aIter being warned to close.
A woman was forcibly robbed on the
steps of Chicago church about noon the other
Gay while her friends surrounded her.
Three earthquake shocks occurred re-
Gently at Parral, Mexico. causing the gallery Of
convent to give away, killing six and wound
ing nine persons.
Earl Davis, 9-year-old boy Of
Adarian, Mich, shot himself fatally In the
lung because he had been chided for running
away from school.
Annie W. Baxter, of Jasper county,
NO., mas taken possession of the office of
county clerk, and is discharging her duties to
the full satisfaction of the public.
The ninth annual reunion of the New
Yorkers, Of Kalamazoo county. Mich. was
held Wednesday evening. 1t was attended by
fully zoo families, and was most brilliant
event.
George Schur, of Detroit, while run
ming lathe was struck in the corner of the
eye by splinter of pine. 1t passed through
his nose and entered his left eye. He will
probably lose the sight in both eyes.
In japan the act of flirting is penal
ofense. Serious complications arise under the
law, but the young people of both sexes know
that they cannot wink and blink and giggle at
each other unless they mean business.
1t is claimed that the coeducation Of
the sexes in Columbia College. Missouri, is a
success. The facts show it. Forty-two mar
riage engagements so far have been made be-
tween the boys and girls of that institution.
The 90-foot tower erected at Kearney,
N. J., in lS43. has been torn down. Haskell
built the tower, and on a certain day ascended
it with his family expecting the Lord to snatch
them into heaven. They were disappointed.
Different classes Of substances have
been found to affect the organs of taste in the
following order: Bitters, acids, saline SUBJ
stances, sweets and alkalies. The taste nerves
are nearly QUO times as sensitive to quinine as
to sugar.
Since the City Council of Griffin i'm
posed a tax of $40 per annum upon the South
ern Express Company that company has adj
vanced its charges. Packages, for instance.
that cost Is cents before the tax wasleYied now
cost 35 cents.
The 11-months old baby of Oscar NJ.
Spurrier, leaving near Baltimore, Ind, was on
Thursday relieved of 36 different articles which
he had swallowed surrept1tiously, including
several buttons, eight tacks, four needles and
Is pins. 1t is believed he will recover.
The old Ray mine in Charlotte county.
N. c., which is now owned by a company of
Baltimoreans and North Carolinians, is being
worked right along. Captain Lewis, the miner
in charge, said they are working good gold out
of the new schute just discovered, and the
future prospect OF the mine IS good.
H. G. Jennings, tenant on the place of
]. h. Lasseter, on Snake creek, in the eastern
part of Carroll county, made of of three acres
of bottom planted in corn last year, an average
of 1U0 bushels and IA pounds Of corn per acre.
1t is estimated that one of the acres would
have made over R5 bushels per acre.
The garbage scow in the Seattle, Wash,
harbor attracts vast mu1titudes of sea gulls.
Whenever the boat is towed OUT from L 900 to
1900 follow it to its destination, and the men
employed on it claim that they scarcely have
room to work, as the gulls cluster around them
in swarms, all fighting one another to get on
the scow and select their food.
Some of the Georgia papers have es-
poused the Swedish THEORY of handling and
selling whisky and intoxicating drinks. In this
plan company is appointed to deal in liquors,
keepers. with a stated salary for each and a
stated gain for the corporation, and the surplus
to go to public and charitable institutions
"A diamond necklace formed of a single
row of enormous solitaires suspended from
slender gold chain set with little diamonds,
each stone a marvel of purity and brilliancy
well as size adorns the showroom of Paris
iewelry store. This splendid ornament was to
have formed the Christmas gift of one Of the
partners in the clearinghouse OF Barring
Brothers to mis- wife, but when misfortune be-
fell the firm the necklace was left on the
jewelers. hands, It is valued at $500 900.
Daniel Parsons, who resides on the old
Salem, Mass, road. has a curiosity in the
shape of a hen which has adopted litter of
five kittens. The kittens have but just reached
the open-eyedperiod and will follow the hen
around the yard, she diligently scratching
meanwhile for the festive worm or bug, as the
case may be- which she tenders thems as food
as she would her chicks. When the kittens
begin to cry the hen will tuck them under her
wings, where they rest perfectly contenred
Not being endowed by nature with the means
of feeding her charge, it has been found nee
essary to capture the hen and tie her up
while the mother cat attends to her duties in
this line. At other times she has full sway.
being valiant even TO blows in the protectlon Oh
the children of her adoption.
Mr.. Jonathan T. Estill is having erected
on the Estll lot in the Richmond Cemetery
stone to the memory of Monk. the faithful
body servant of the distinguished Caprain
James Estill who fell in the desperate struggle
at Little. Mountain in 1852. in which encounter
Monk was likewise hero. Monk died IN 1855
and was burned on the Est1ll farm, SIX miles
from Richmond so that "a years have elapsed
vet he is to be remembered to posterity by a
cenotaph The stone is now on the lot, and is to
stand near the statue of Captain Estill. This is
well. for although in life they occupied the re-
lations of master and servant. yet in battle they
stood in the front rank, and when the master
had fallen at the hands of the foe the servant
in mis- powerful arms helped to carry away the
wounded Monk was probably the first to make
nowder in Kentcky. He secured saltpeter
from Peyton's cave. and made powder TOR Fort
Estill and Boonesborough.
SHIPPED FOR FUN.