Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

club has been formed
"A sharp shock of earthquake was ieh
at Brockville. Ont. Wednesday.
Long kid gloves are going out Of fash
ion The lace or silk gauntlet substitute has
already appeared.
The largest county in the UnitedtStates,
it is said, Is Custer county, in Montana, which
contains S6,OOO square miles.
"A new way of serving raw
sinners is in good-sized china shall 10 49,
lne oiVaives lie in their own iuics in WHICH
Half dozen New York ladies ear, .
and eiyns ring oy holding conversation classes
~ "A Ia" is about to be enacted compelling
ail aliens owning land in Russia tn al, .s...
property or become Russian subjects ''n 'ne"
About 500 veterinary surgeons in er..s
- in signed paper condemning overhead
cneck reins as painful to horses and nroSno-
i've OF disease. Si0uuc-
1.-Two Havana journalists are in iail ma
Tor mentioning the formation of new pol;,;c.,
party, and the other for advocating annsT.tio-.
W the United States.
within 81 years Mexico has had "a
PRESIDENTS, 1 Regency and 1 Empire, and
.tyany .tsysry every change of Government has been
erected by violence Se'-'
In London town woman in every 20 il
pauper. in every 13 is illiterate and in every
o IN gin drinker. So says a recent report Of
an HngLsh industrial society
"A New York husband was 40 in,anelv
Jea,ous that he would take his uife's shoes
I, Will nIm Wnen he went to work so that aha
'ouiu not go out in his absence.
1t Is said that the city of Boston is com-
Peneu 70 pay on an average SIS, 900 year on ac-
count OF injuries sustained by people who mees
Will accidents on the sidewalks.
Farmer Neal, who lives near Cawker
CIty. In Mitchell county, Mo-, cleaned his we'll
OF out last week and found 80 big bull snakes and
~ Duiiirogs. The reptiles were alive.
A.-A number Of French manufacturers
nave warned the Government of their intention
70 remove their factories to places abroad if
terial. pO'eo On "a" Ane-
"A discussion upon the modern pro-
nunciation of English leads to the observ,tion
that the letter r has ceased to be heard Thsrs
'1ore." "ue
N. d. Rood, of Santa Barbara, Cal.
Wnile out sailing the other day with a party Of
ladies and gentlemen, shot and captured a
sPotted or leopard seal weighing 800 or 400
The Academy of Sciences of Cracov
mas just published a poem of the sIxteenth
century which treats of the same subject as
King Lear" The copy has but lately bean
discovered. '' OSo"
james A. Payton, of Posey township.
Harrison county, Ind, undertook to wash bis
ssweetnearts face with snow, and the young
iady threw him down with such violence as to
dislocate his knee w.
"A San francisco lawyer, and one Of no
particular eminence either has been allowed
tol MS services as attorney for the admins
traitor OF the Blythe estate the magnificent fec
OIL sSo'oo0 His name is John A. Wright
India and Ceylon are increasing their
production of tea to such an extent that 1t Is
expected they will furnish IS per cent of the
amount consumed in Great Britain This wear.
China is a great sufferer from this change.
The Douglass Company's steamer Ma
moa, when about 45 miles from Hongkong, was
boarded by about 40 pirates armed with reyol-
yers, who, after killing and wounding number
end. ~
The royal Saxon collection of china, the
nnest lot Of Dresden china In the world, has
Just been greatly increased by the addition to
!. IL OF the l4.OO0 pieces of DR.. Gustav Spitzner.
me me museum nus now contains about ~, ,000 pieces
from the Meissen factory.
from India to Queen Victoria 1t is more than
60 feet in length and is signed by more than
1uVVO women In India who are anxious to have
the legal marriage age for girls raised from its
present limit of 10 to IA years.
The report of the Russian mperial Com
mission rintrusted with the duty of investigating
the Hebrew question is decidedly in favor OF
the Russian Hebrews and proves that they
made their living not through usury but BY
agriculture and other industrial pursuits.
The most precious bit of dog flesh out
side of a coursing greyhound is gong to quit
England for America. The noble animal is
the st. Bernard, Sir Bedivere sold by T. H
Green to E. b. Sears, of Boston, for 50, 500.
This dog hasn't as yet left prize untaken.
The case Of Governor Francis T.
Nichols, of Louisiana, shows that the anatomy
of man might be much simplihed without great
injury to his usefulness in the affairs of life.
He has lost a leg and an arm and an eye, still
he gets about in a lively way strikes sturdy
blow and can see things as quickly as anybody.
Washington is overrun at present with
spectators from the South American States
Many Of them are experienced promoters who
have found London rather dull since the Bar
ings failed, and have come to the United States
as to fresh fields and pastures new. They are
loaded down with concessions for mines, rail-
roads. harbor privileges and other promotable
material.
"A unique Maine school Is that taught
by Miss Mamie Desiles on Mark Island, three
miles out from Green's Landing, Deer Isle.
Her school consisted of the lighthouse keepers
children, whom the keeper engaged her to in
struct for term of ten weeks. two sessions
day. The school was divided into classes like
any other. For weeks at time it is imDoSsi-
bic to get on this rock-bound Isle.
There are 28, 900 names of pensioners on
the books of the United States Pension Bureau
at the corner of Laight and Canal streets, New
York. Regular times for the payment of claims
and December. There is horde of applicants
on the days referred to, but the majority of the
claims are paid by letter. The money IS sent
all over the world. including China, Japan, In
dia and the far North, in sums ranging from 81
to ST. Among the largest sums paid out are
those received by Mrs George B. Mcclellan
and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. The former re-
ceives 81. 900 annually and the latter 5000
Emperor Williams attack on the
classics in the German gymnasia has been fol-
lowed in England by an attack which will carry
even more weight with scholars and people in
general than the German Emperor's pronun-
clamepto At the recent conference of the
head masters of the public schools at Oxford,
MIR. Weldon, the Head master of Harrow,
moved resolution declaring that it would be
A gain to education il Greek were not 'tcom-
pulsory subject in Cambridge and Oxford.
The resolution was supported by the head mas
tiers of Marlborough, Wellington, Rugby Clif-
ton and Shrewsbury and though it failed Of
passage, it was rejected only by a vote Of 81
nays to % yeas.