Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

-Sleighing in Maine is still excellent.
-Twenty-seven railroads terminate in
Chicago.
The little city of Spokane Falls, WASH,
contains 1000 Swedes.
The winter just ended in Iceland was
the mildest ever known.
"A man in Salina, Northern Kansas, has
already planted patch of potatoes.
"A Wichita, Kan, youngster, aged 211
years, knows all the letters and figures.
The largest copper mines in the world
the Anaconda in Montana-haye shut down.
-Japan's first Parliament contains II
Christians one of whom is the presiding Off
| Ger.
Local item in the Albany, Kan,
Ledger: John Thompson's dogs are all dead
| but Il"
In some parts of Australia locustsS and
caterpillars are several inches thick on the
| ground.
"A resident of Bairdstown, Ga, is buy
dollar for it.
| There has been skating on the Thames
at Twickenham, which has not been possible
| for over 30 years,
The G. A. R. of Cincinnati are making
an effort for reduced undertaking rates for de-
/ ceased mem bers.
| 1t is said that the natives of Alaska
/ spend SO much of their time IN boats that their
/ legs are crooked and weak.
The United States OF Columbia leads all
| the South America countries in active prepa-
| rations for the Worlds Fair.
| "A Kansas woman began saving dimes
year and half ago, and she broke her bank
| open the other day and counted out sl1S 10
The most expensive street car in the
world is owned by the Scott Electric Railway
Company of Cleveland. The car cost $4,000.
"A soldier at the battle of Wounded
Knee, who was shot from arm pit to arm pit
through both lungs, is as well to-day as he ever
was.
Two enterprising homesteaders in Colo
RADIO stole a completely furnished house the
other day, hauling it IA miles to land of their
own.
The Bell telephone patent soon expires
in England In the United States it runs until
1893. II years from the time the patent was
issued.
jackson, Ga, has freak in the shape
of four-footed chicken The fore feet are
normal, but the binds are placed for walking
backward.
In a recent fox chase at Albany, Ca,
4Hi5o LULA 0hdDlcs VI ALdHbd, optuk Stfeu
hours continuously in the saddle. and was in at
the death.
In a small river island near Abbeville,
Ga, a party Of boy hunters found regular
army of rabbits. Hundreds of the animals
were killed.
Scientists have demonstrated that it is
possible to change every gas into liquid FORM
1t is simply question of securing the proper
temperature and pressure.
Mrs. Erastus D. Williams, of Athens,
Me-, has not spoken aloud for nearly three
years till within two weeks before her hus-
bands death, which occurred recently, her
voice came again.
AN interesting curio sold at the Bray
ton-Ives sale was fawless crystal ball, 81 57-1O0
inches in diameter. In Japan such spheres are
objects of worship, and those five inches in
diameter are exceedingly rare and costly. This
one IS hawless and sold for 81, 800.
The Lummi Indians. located on reser-
vation few miles from Whatcom, Wash. now
number only about ZOO They were once pow
erful tribe, but have dwindled to their present
number by warfare and disease. They are
peaceful, industrious and religious
Greenfield, o., is all astir over the visi-
tation of strange apparition in the garb OF
woman dressed in black. making its appear
anee about midnight number of the young
men of the town have attempted to follow it,
approached.
Captain Steigena, of Holland, Mich.
has big company of Dutch boys drilled entire
ly after the tactics of the army in which ne
served-that of the Netherlands 1t has Sc
cured full equipment of arms from the Gov
ernment, and may attend the next encampment
as separate affair.
The difficulty in the way of the peasants
in Russia attending mass has been overcome in
those sparsely inhabited tracts of country
which are crossed by railway by a travelling
church capable Of seating 20 persons and per-
forming parochial duties at several stations
during the day.
"A Teesville, No., woman was sitting in
awagon watching her son cut down a tree. The
tree fell toward the wagon, and the boy called
to his mother to get out OF the way. She
seemed unable to move. The tree crashed
down just behind the wagon without touching
Mrs. Trollinger, but she fell over. dead.
Iowa owns 5.921. 100 hogs; Illinois,
4 944, ,258 Missouri 1885, 400; Kansas, 3, IA 324;
Nebraska, 29O9, ,779; Ohio, 2,74l. .565 and the six
New England States, 342 036. Tennessee has
2 2S7, ,059, Kentucky, 1900, 204 The hog-Droduc-
ing States are in the Ohio and Mississippi VAL
leys,
"A Southern genius has made out of a
drygoods box clock that keeps 13 different
times with perfect accuracy. It shows the
time in Atlanta, San Francisco, Cairo, Egypt;
China; Paris, France; Quebec, Cam
aQa, MELBOURNE. AuSCraI1a, lily OF Mexico,
Dublin, ireland; Berlin, Germany, and Rome
in Italy.
1t has long been belief among con-
noisseurs In art that Phidias Praxiteles and the
Greek sculptors did not leave their work in the
pure white marble. but that it was tinted and
colored. To this doctrine Edward H Robinson,
curator of the Greek art department in the
Boston museum OF fine arts, has long been
and under his direction collection
Illustrating color in sculpture will be opened.
A woman once consulted a seer regard
ne way to retain the affection of her hus-
band and this was the advice received: Get
raw piece of best sIrloin steak about half an
nch thick. Rub with a central slice from
Wild onion. salt and pepper Toast over
bright coal fire gridiron which is handled
,nly by yourself. never by your servants; then
,ut little sweet butter over the beef. Give
lin half a pound of this each morning and do
lot speak while he eats it."
The latest census. A Swiss scholar has
,een taking a census of the inhabitants of q
heese. The microscopic examination of one
'gramm" of a fresh Emmenthaler cheese, such
IS is sold in England under the name Of
iruyere, contained fewer than $4,000 So
allied microbes. This prodigious encampment,
fter 70 days. proved TO have increased to
rIbe of 100000. Another sort of cheese con-
aimed within single "gramm" board and
odging for about 100000 microbes, while II a
gramm' cut from the rind of the same cheese
e found about 5,00O,000 of these inhabitants
piece Of cheese upon our tables, OF rev
ounds' weight, may consequently contain
nore microbe inhabitants than there ars
uman inhabitants in the whole world