Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Ninety thousand COWS, it is calculated,
have to be MIXED twice a day to supply London
alone.
"A few days ago John Bates picked from
one tree on his place in De Soto county. Fiss
s.4d oranges.
On last Thursday, in Sumter county,
Fla. 7. d. CANDLES little son, Samuel. while
at play. ran splinter entirely through his
foot 1t was three inches long and the size OF .
mans finger.
The Society Of Friends OF the United
Kingdom say, in their last report, that they
have 1880 members, and that their annual
death rate is incomparably lo1-about Is $40
per 1000.
-Adyices from Zanzibar state that the
Portuguese on that river are vigorously boys
cotting the British, and do not permit the na.
tives to sell even the necessaries Of life TO En-
gish vessels.
The colonies of Australia have asked
the Home Governments to accord them tho
privilege possessed by Canada Of negotiating
commercial treaties with foreign countries
under the sanction of the Foreign Office.
The Swiss workmen's congress at Zurich
has passeda resolution affirming the necessity
of making ten hours work the limit of regn-
lar working day. The congress also resolved
that Swiss workmen should observe May u a.
labor day" holiday.
Mrs. George D. King, better known aa
Madam Roi, pedestrian, pugilist and wood
sawyer, is to attempt to walk from New Bed
ford to Bostonin IL hours. She invites bicyclists
or others interested in the genuineness Of the
attempt to accompany her.
Major Bacon is said to have unearthed
at Atlanta, Ga. a rusty old statute. which was
enacted by the Colonial Assembly of 1703. re-
curing every minister to read from his pulpit,
That the public may understand them"
The late Duke of Bedford sat in the
House of Commons for 25 years, and in the
House of Lords for Is years, in all a Parlia-
mentary career of 43 years. without opening
his lips his estate covered lis acres IN Lon
don, with about 5000 residences or shops.
1t is related that in a burying ground
for color ed people near Birmingham, Ala, is q
weather-stained tombstone upon which can be
deciphered this inscription: "Henryetta EN-
meretta Demiretta Creamertarter Carolina
balstic, Daughter of Bob and Sooky Coffin"
During the course of sermon delivered
in BROOKLYN. a few nights ago. Rev. c. II. st.
John said that in his native town in Kansas,
there was man with wooden leg, which. by
nook or crook, he kept constantly filed with
whisky for the benefit of himself and his
thirsty friends.
-Bartholdi's statue of Gambetta, now
standing and holding in his hand the torn flag
OF France, which he has Just picked of the
ground. The imperial eagle, with which the
stan was tipped, will be seen lying at his feet
In front OF the pedestal there will be two alle-
gorical figures representing Alsaee-Lorraine.
Prof. Schnitzler, in Vienna, the other
day, exhibited patient suffering from tuber-
culosis of the larnyx. who had been treated
with DR.. Koch's lymph with singular results.
q NJ m "a had INN nUad nnAo
the treatment, but shortly after Improvement
was noted tubercular swellngs had developed
on his nose, which reached an enormous size.
1t Is said that in Paris twice as many
crimes are committed by persons between the
ages of 10 and 20 as by those between 20 and 40.
In one year minors are credited with 80 murders,
SO manslaughters, 8 parricides, 2 poisonings, "A
infanticides, 4.2l2 blows and other physical in
juries, % cases of incendiarism, 153 OF theft.
so of immortality, 458 of attempted theft, and
II, ,3S2 of other misdoings.
Mercer county, KY, is very much
worked up over the ravages of dogs among
| sheep. Within the past 10 days. as shown by a
| list with the names of the owners, IA head of
fine sheep, valued at 81, ,330 have been killed by
dogs. Many others, not on the list, have suf-
| fered. and other losses resulting from the kill
| ing of the ewes at this time run the total loss
up to an enormous figure.
! The new Maine Enforcement League,
the object OF which is to secure a better en-
forcement of the liquor law, and of which
Senator Stewart, of York, Is President, is pre-
pairing bill which will soon be introduced,
| providing for the incorporation of the new body
| and allowing it to hold property to the extent
| of 100000. The object of this is to allow the
league TO create a fund to secure legal aid in
| the prosecution of offenders.
The Henderson Belt Line Railroad, in
Kentucky. has outstr1pped all the older cor
| porations in the rapidity with which it accumu-
lates damage suits, The road is less than a
mile long, and is not yet six months old, but it
| is already defendant in 2 damage suits, for
| amounts varying from $500 to 50 600. The Hem
| derson gentleman was ABOUT right who, IN reply
to a letter from friend in Webster county
complaining of hard times and asking how he
| 'could make some money" responded, Come
| to Henderson and sue the Belt Line Railroad"
The grave of Henry Clay's daughter, at
Lebanon, o., is said to have been shamefully
| desecrated by relic hunters. This daughter
died while Mr.. Clay and his family were on
| their way to Washington by stage coach many
| years ago. She is girl II years of age and her
loss was sad blow to her father. who at that
was compelled TO bury the body and go on to
Washington intending some day TO return and
remove it to Lexington, KY. But he never did
SO. and the grate may be seen yet in the old
burial ground, surrounded by wire fence.
"A secret service agent is after the man
pen and ink. Showing one, he said recently:
''The maker of this bill issues one of them at
long intervals. so that he cannot depend on his
counrerfeiting for living. feel sure, there
fore, that he takes so much pleasure in out
WHITING the Government officials that he IS will
ing TO spend time that ought to be worth several
hundred dollars to him in making one paltry
so bill. 1t is as likely as not that he is man
who holds respectable place in his COM
munity, and that his arrest would cause sem
sation.
A Chattanooga (Tenn.) woman claims
to be the sister of Red Cloud, Sitting Bulls
Lieutenant. She says that when years old he
was stolen from his parents, who then resided
in Wisconsin on an Indian reservation, and all
track of him was lost for Is years, when he was
found among the redmen. He had forgotten
his own name but remembered that of his
father and his dogs, and his Identification was
complete. He renamed with his family few
weeks speaking English imperfectly, but
French huently. But all his sympathies were
with his adopted tribe, and he rejoined the
Sioux.
MANY Western towns-Omaha, in par
ticular-are filed Just at present with itinerant
venders of souvenirs of the fight at Wounded
Knee. and for a moderate investment of cash
the Eastern tenderfoot can procure any sort
of relic, from the leggins the Medicine Man
wore when he threw up q handful Of dirt and
ordered the red devils to dre" to ghost-dance
shirt A genuine article OF this sort brought BY
a Chicago newspaper man from the battlefield.
where it was stripped from the back Of dead
souaw, is made of white cotton cloth, embroi-
dered with yellow. 1t is covered with blood
from the wound that caused its former owners
death, and is a most CHASTITY trophy.
WAITS FROM WIT-LAND.