Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


of inhabitants 10 free public and Is commercial
bathing establishments.
Charley johnson, of Amber township,
Mason county Mich, is only 16 years old aud
yet he weighs 80 pounds,
"A sealskin coat or robe has been "built"
and lined with salite for the Duchess Of Port
land at cost Of l 900 guineas.
Thousands of barrels of apples are
packed away in cellars and warerooms in Atcht.
son, and great many are being shipped daily
to other points.
The frosty weather has been telling
heavily on the accident assurance companies.
One company in London is said to have had 276
claims for broken legs within seven days.
Mississippi has girls industrial col
lege. Columbus. Ga. has laid the CONVERSIONS
OF building 10 be devoted to the same pur-
pose. and now Alabama is agitating the subject.
Joe Burks, of Panther Creek, N. C., is
an enthusiast upon the subject of egg eating.
He lacks one inch of being seven feet high and
claims record of having eaten l30 eggs at one
meal.
-Aubery Boucicault, son of Dion Bouci-
cault who is just about to be married. has
written new play expressly for his mother. In
which Mrs. Roucicault will appear with her
daughter Nina and the author.
There is very little ebb or flow OF tide
in the Arctic, out occasionally there are very
strong currents. All winter there is a general
now Of tide and ice toward the south, while in
summer this fow is northward.
Shorthand impairs the intellect BY
superinducing, in some occult way, q sort Of
atropny of the memory Consequently, short
nand mas never been systematically cultivated
Dy American newspaper reporters.
Two hundred thousand dollars q year
are spent by the London School Board in en-
forcing the attendance of children. They are
advised to try the French plan Of getting
children to school by good lunches.
New York is ahead OF all the other
cities If individual riches running up into seven
or more figures is meart. 1t is said that New
York has over LOCO millionaires. while London
mas oUO, Paris 5OO, Berlin 2OO and Vienna 100
The salmon fishermen of Maine are in
earnest in their war against the seals, that seem
to be multiplying along the coast. They say
bounty OF 81 head must be offered by the
State on seals, or ere long there'n be no salmon.
The new court dress to be worn in Berlin
consists of light blue coat with red trimmings
and elaborate silver embroidery. This garment
will be worn hereafter by all members Of the
high aristocracy holding hereditary court
offices.
"A belt now being made for a Lousiana
electric light company will be the largest in the
will take the skins Of 175 animals to complete
it. When finished it will weigh two tons, and
cost slO,OOO, or about $40 square foot.
AN Iowa farmer fed in November two
acres OF corn to his cows as their sole ration
and sold the milk they produced to the cream
ery for $50, and had 5000 pounds of skim milk,
ESQ pounds of which will make as much pork as
bushel of corn, for his trouble of milking.
The rabbit cannot climb the outside of
tree but he can climb up the inside of hollow
tree-provided the hollow is not too great in
diameter. The thing Is done by humping his
back, and. with his back against one side and
his feet on the other side he works his way mp.
Maine has produced Keely with a
mysterious motor. He lives in Monroe, and
says that his machine is capable of one to ten
horse power and does not derive 1t from steam,
water, gas or any agency now known. He's
going to hitch the machine to churns and
pumps.
"A sensation has been caused in the Ger
man Foreign Office by a suit brought by .
broker named Jacobsohn against barrister
named Neuern, for 1000 marks commission for
securing Neuern a position in the service.
Neuern has been dismissed on account Of ths
scandal
New York City will build an immen Sc
dam in the Croton Valley. 1t will De l59 feet high
and will hold 3O,OOOOO gallons. The estimated
be completed for several years. The new Croton
aquedpct, completed year or two since, cost
S2S,OO00O0
Corporation Counsel Clark, of New
York. decided that the Coroner has the right
to investigate all deaths resulting from or In
any way attributable to the use of Koch's
lymph under section LIB of the consolidation
act where the words unusual manner gives
the power to the Coroner.
"A German physician proposes that the
manufacturers OF preserved meat should be
compelled to stamp their cans with q legibls
date mark. For year or so, he says, canned
meat may remain perfectly wholesome, but
after that it deteriorates in a way detying alike
precaution and explanation.
AT the close of the fiscal year 1890,
Ohio had 57,087 pensioners: New York, Sc, ,206;
PENNSYLVANIA, 49, 57S; Indiana 47,79S; Illinois
q, ,943; Michigan, 268 853; Missouri, 23749; Iowa,
g lS9; Kansas, q 32l; Massachusetts,, p, ,S97;
Wisconsin, 16. .7SS; Maine. Is 924, and Kentucky
,5 9O9. The number in none of the rest of the
States comes up to five figures.
The Bank of England was established
in 1894 and is older than any of the institutions
of the class in any other of the great nations.
1t was not the first of the important financial
houses, however. The Bank of Venice was
created in 110l, that of Genoa in 1407. that Of
Hamburg in 1913. and that of Rotterdam IN
1886 In 1903 the Bank Of France was sstab-
lished.
Public lands are still to be had, taking
States and Territories containing them in
alphabetical order. in Alaska, Alabama, Ari-
zona, Arkansas, California, Colorado. Florida,
Idaho Iowa, Kansas. Louisiana, Michigan.
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska. Nevada, New hexico, North Dakota,
Okiahoma, Ores on, South Dakota, Utah. Wash
ington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. or in little
over half of the States and Territories taken
together.
Tradition has it that the last assembIage
in the hall of Tara took place in the year A. d.
544. The great triennial council of the Irish
nation was held there for several centuries
previously, but because criminal who had
fed for safety TO the monastery OF st. Ruan
had been dragged to the hall and executed. the
holy Abbot and the monks cried aloud against
the sacriIece and pronounced q curse upon its
walls From that day." says an old chronicler,
s.no kings ever again sat at Tara"
The farmers in the vicinity of the Gambo
Powder Mills, in Windham. Conn.,, use as .
fertilizer the salt which accumulates in great
ouantities at the mills. The salt comes from
the saltpetre, and its separation from the nitre
ia a process of refining which constitutes the
most difficult and important feature of powder
making In the year 1858 tobacco was pretty
soaI ce in the North, and it's cultivation was in
stituted in Connecticut. At that time 800 tons
of salt had accumulated at the powder mills,
and it was sold 10 the Connecticut tobacco
growers as fertilizer for one cent q pound de-
iiyered at q wharf in Portland. Il took four
months to haul it. For what was considered
worthless the sum of $1,000 was derived
FEW FRIGHT BITS