Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The gas supply at Perth, Scotland, 10
threatened with exhaustion owing to the In
ability of the companies to obtain coal.
Mexican contractors are importing
thousands Of Chinese laborers to work on rail-
roads In course of construction in that land.
1t has been determined that so far as the
danger to ships compasses from magnetic
leakage from the dynamo is concerned. it is
equally the same whether the ship is double or
single wired.
-Scottsboro, Cal, has its musical
prodigy in Belle Gentry, 3 years old, who
plays 10 or II pieces perfectly on a large ae-
cordion. which is the most difficult Instrument
to handle.
The largest amount of wild honey ever
taken from one tree was reported from Oregon
recently. A farmer took 700 pounds from one
cottonwood tree in which huge swarm of bees
had stored up the annual aecumulations for
many years.
The Russian Minister of Justice has
issued private circular to the judges and I'm
perial procurators, notifying them not to per-
NIT Hebrews to be enrolled as barristers. and
that those already practicing must receive
notice OF expulsion.
Eastern Siberia is a source of profit to
Russia. and the gold mines of that section turn
out 5000 pounds of pure gold annually. Ats2t0
pound, or 81 per pennyweight. the value il
only sS6i OCO. small sum, compared with the
gold mining in this country.
-Fruit-growers in Southwest Georgia ex-
1ecS an abundant fruit crop this year. Thou
sands of acres about Marshallville and Fort
Valley have been put out in orchards, and the
yield OF peaches. pears and plums will be
enormous II the seasons are propitious,
"A traveller in the Orient SAYS that the
bellies of the East are usually old women at 20
They marry. as a rule at Is. The girl whose
haf 10
dowry is sufficient, is the girl of fat and
dump" figure, moon face, brown eyes and fair
hair.
Mrs. Charity Hathaway, ofBeemer Hill,
Sullivan county, Pa, is the only woman trap
per and raw fur dealer in the county. Last
season she cleared nearly $50 from the sale of
1urs and ginseng root. The animals from
which the greater portion of the furs was OBJ
tanned were trapped and skinned by Mrs. Hath
away.
"A negro in Chattanooga, who had killed
very large ra., was persuaded that it was .
great delicacy with the Chinese and they would
buy it. He took it to laundryman and barely
escaped with his life. The Chinaman threw
hatrons and everything throwable about the
place at the frightened negro, and chased him
several blocks up the street.
-Hypolite Hardy, of Paris, has asked for
four and half acres on the lake front at Chi
cago to construct subterranean exposition os
dazzling design for the Worlds Fair. He pro-
poses to illustrate among other things the cata-
combs of Rome and PARIS. the buried cities of
Herculaneum, Stable and PompeIi. Danre's
Inferno the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and
great many other interesting features.
1t is rumored that an English syndicate
is after the American leatherboard mills of
which several are in Maine The Mousam Man
ufacturing Company, of Kennebunk and East
Poland which has an output of SIX tons per
larppst- RncOrd
Livermore Falls has an output of two tons.
The Englishmen think such an investment will
pay better interest than any in England, IL 10
said.
AT San Martin. near Atacapotzal, Mex,
there resides pure Indian woman, who is be-
lieved to be lis years of age. Her descendants
are numerous and count among their number
great-great-grandchidr She owns docu-
ments proving that she carried on lawsuits with
Viceroy Vinegas while Spain still held do
minion in Mexico. The name by which she is
known is Torres, but her true name Is 1xca-
huaxochitl.
The Queen of Italy wore a costume of
extraordinary magnihcence at the recent open
ing of the Italian Parliament, which was also
most becoming to her style Of beauty. The
dress was Of violet satin, exduisitely embroid1
cred, over which was thrown short violet veil
vet mantle of slightly darker shade. The bon-
net was Of forget-me-not blue velvet covered
with gold lace and adorned with a plume OF
pale blue feathers. fastened with an immense
pearl diamond clasp. The Queen also wore
earrings of pearls, diamonds, and such ropes OF
pearls in three rows as would have enchanted
Lothair.
Benton Halstead, brother of Murat
Halstead, claims that he made the original
typewriter in 1870 He riggsd up a machine.
using types borrowed from his brothers onios:
keys whitfield out Of pine, and connections be-
tween type and key Of hemp twine that were
braakinO
causing trouble. He used this rough affair in
his own law office for many months. and plead
ings prepared thereon were the admiration Of
the entire Cincinnati bar. A patent was se-
cured, and a model of the machine, hemp
twine pine keys, and newspaper type Is now in
the possession of Uncle Sam at Washington.
Mrs. Henry MCGOWAN, of Barre, VT,
died from typhoid pneumonia recently.
Twenty-four hours later her husband died Of
cart disease while standing by her coffin. The
coffins containing the Two were placed side by
side in the same hearse. The funeral process
sion stopped first before the Roman Catholic
Church, where a service was held over the
body of Mrs MCGOWAN. Then the procession
moved slowly to the other end Of the village to
the Unversalist Church, and there the coffin
containing the husbands body was borne into
the church. After service the cofnns were
again placed side by side and taken to the re-
ceiving tomb Of the village cemetery.
William Ramsey, sportsman. who has
ust returned from hunting trip In the Indian
Nation, brought with him to Wichita, Kan, an
interesting relic, which he discovered half
buried on the bank of a creek in the Cherokee
strip, 40 miles west of Pond creek. The relic Is
an old rife barrel. On it is the inscriptions;
.'Old Mike JONES' presented by Kit Carson,
1870" On the side of the barrel Is the word
''scAIps" followed By % file marks. Around
the spot where the barrel lay buried were
bones of horses and men and two skulls. The
tind probably reveals the fate of Mike Jones.
who is remembered as a member of Kit Car
sons adventurous band, and who, about 1850
mysteriously disappeared from his winter
haunts and has never been heard of since. The
bones lying round his old rifle probably tell q
silent tale of an Indian attack and raising ~
scalps.