Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-The Prince OF w aleS lie is insured 10
ssCO,OOO
Italy produced 621 ,562, 900 gallons o
wine last year.
Pennsylvania coal sells in Italy cheape
than Welsh coal
The many gifts to Yale College last yea
exceeded 81, 100000.
"A boat struck and killed a large whale
in the Atlantic Ocean a few days ugo.
One of Tampa's principal cigar factories
will turn out Ia, COO COO cigars this year.
Mrs. Chloe Ouden, a colored woman
died at indianapolis Friday aged l27 years.
"A colored man killed coachwhip snake
near Bowdoin, Ca, the other day and il
measured feet.
Chicago has the biggest lime kiln. Si1
thousand barrels of stone and lime are
crushed in a day.
AT Griffin, Ca, king snake was seen
to swallow a green snake several inches
longer than its own body.
The oldest man in the State is said to
be Jacob Steel, of Fayette county He will
De lOS years old October l9, 1891.
Boston has two more banks than New
York: Pittsburg has two more than Chicago
ana ~ more than Philadelphia
The Union Pacific trestle bridge near
Dalles, Ore, s25 feet long, was recently re-
QUILT In "a hours after being burned.
"A colored man near Cochran, Ga, has
six fingers on each hand, and three of his
four sons are said to possess the same num-
Der.
-Itis no unusual thing for a vessel ply
ing between Japan and San Francisco to
bring 100000 fans as single item of its
cargo.
Camden, N. j., boasts of blind barber
who can shave as well as if he had perfect
sight. He works every day and, makes regu-
lar wages.
FLORIDA has !, ,973 Sunday schools, II ,963
teachers and 81, ,405 scholars, showing an in
crease over 1890 of s9S schools, 55S5 teachers
and q, sol scholars.
Houston county, Ca, claims the Young
est Confederate soldier in the person of
Augustus L. Dixon, who enlisted in 1853
under II years of age.
Last year the fire insurance companies
doing business in Ohio received for premiums
81, l72,3S7 and only paid out for losses So 49,
469, or the losses were only So per cent Of the
premiums.
Twin sisters Joined together at the
lower part of the body were recently shown
in Paris. They are II years old and their
tastes are very different. One abhors cham
payne and the other loves it.
The fire losses in May throughout the
Union amounted to s22 OS5, 40 of which s., 49,
600 was caused by forest fires. For the first
flYe months OF this year the losses aggregate
S69,0OO,OO against 81, 100000 for the same
period last year.
jacob klsor, farmer near Macon, Mo-,
upon his death bed revealed his money
hiding places His relatives found 5000 one
place and 81, 100 in another. He owned 600
acres OF good land. Kisor started 20 years
ago with 50 and span of mules.
"A church was being removed across the
railroad track ut Oakesdale, Ore. Sunday
when special train conveying an opera
troupe came along, and before the engineer
could stop his engine it struck the church
square amidships, cutting it in two.
When the Beecher statue was being
placed in position in Brooklyn the other
day, the workmen fastened q rope around
the neck of the statue, with black cap
drawn over its head, and left it dangling in
mid-atr while they went to dinner.
One costume worn by the late Emma
Abbott weighed $50 pounds. The mantle
alone pulled the scale at 75 pounds. How
the little woman managed to stagger along
under it, says the Philadelphia Times, in
hot theater Is mystery to everybody.
There is not a mile of railway in Brown
county, Ind, nor within six miles of it.
Nashville, the county seat has 400 inhabit-
ants, and but one brick structure the Court
House. The Jail is built of logs. The county
has not sent anyone to the penitentiary for
seven years, and there is not saloon within
its limits.
The crucifx which Christopher Column
bus wore when he discovered America Is re-
puted to be in the keeping of the Sisters of
Loretto at Durango, Col An inquiry will
be set on foot with regard to the authentici-
ty of the relic, and that if its genuineness is
established it will be exhibited at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Mother Goose was a real character,
and not an maginary parsonage, as has been
supposed. Her maiden name was Elizabeth
Foster, and she was born In 1865. She mar
ried Isaac Goose in 1893, and few yearsafter
became q member of Old South Church. BOs-
ton, and died in 1857, aged 90 years. The
first edition of her songs, which were origin
ally sung to her grandchildren, was pub
lished in Boston in 17l6 by her son-in-aw,
Thomas Fleet.
A curiosity was discovered at Sewick-
ley station, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, in the shape of an iron chain imbedded
in the body of a big sycamore tree. The
chain had been originally used for tying up
a skiff. 1t was evidently placed there a
number of years ago, and the bark on the
opposite side from the river cut to hold it in
POSITION. bOtn the DARK anu WOOD nave
long since grown over it, and the chain now
passes completely through the trunk, nine
inches from the surface. 1t is held as firmly
as a rock
Quite a peculiar phenomenon occurred
about seven miles from Richmond, Mo- Bear
Creek, a large tributary to the GascOnade
river, was quite high on account of the re-
cent rains, and bad begun to overflow many
of the low bottoms. When at the height OF
the flood the waters suddenly and myster-
iously began to subside. On examination it
was found that seven or eight miles above
the mouth Of the creek cavity had broken
through the bed of the creek and the water
was all emptying into this cavity. Thecreek
has dried up below.
-Ringgold, Ga, was visited by a won
derful phenomenon recently. Millions upon
millions of fireflies issued from neighboring
mountain ridges and took down the course
of the Chickamauga river, which skirts that
city on the southern border. The pyro-
technic display was grand Trunks of trees
skirting the river were plainly visible a
quarter of mile distant, and the entire
mountain side was illuminated. The horde
of firefies was fully 40 feet high, and 1t took
a quarter of an hour to pass down the
stream, extending over a mile along its
course.