Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

eAiAu - tue only city IN Germany bnab
has an excess of !. .O0O,OO population. Only %
have over lO0 900 inhabitants.
s-Australia has begun to send eggs to
England. They must be at least six weeks old
before they can be put the market
There is said to be strong sentiment in
Arkansas against the convict lease system, and
the Legislature will be asked to abolish it.
The Corean alphabet is phonetic, and 80
simple that any one can learn to read in .
day. Nearly all the women in Corea can read.
In digging out an old we'll at Murphy's,
-Calavears county. Cal. the other day, skele-
ton with handouts on was found. Its historyis
unknown.
-Americus, Ga, reaps a rich harvest
from the dry counties near by. Last week .
single firm shipped something over 1000 gallons
of whisky to those counties.
AS young woman was entering the
Methodist Church at Dover, N. H, on Sunday
last. about LOO pounds OF snow fell from the
roof upon her. She was taken home in a dazed
condition.
"A Kansas man was injured in rail-
road wreck at Breckinridge the other day. and
other passengers dragged him to to the mirror
and made him look at a small wound on hts
head.
The Mediterranean is comparatively
shallow. A drying up of $50 feet would leave
three different seas and Africa would be
Joined 10 Italy. The British Channel is more
like pond, which accounts for its choppy
waves.
The directors of the English Great
Western Railway intend to run an express
train, constructed on the American system, as
an experiment. l. will consist entirely of long
cars, having communication all through, from
one end to the other.
One of the latest crazes in st. Louis is
that of riding upon the electric cars to cure
rheumatism, and hundreds of victims of the
dreaded afhiction. who have borne their suffer
1ngs in silence are now eagerly seeking for in
formation and testing the new cure.
The Committee on School Management
of the Chicago Board of Education, to whom
had been referred petition for placing the
Bible or extracts thereof in the public schools,
reported last week that "for the general well
fare of the public schools" it was not advisa-
Bile to grant the petitioners request. The
general board unanimously adopted the COM
mittees report.
"A man named Simon has been arrested
at the request Of the Austrian Government at
LeschnItz, Silesia, where he owned handsome
villa and lived in great style, his neighbors sup
posing him to be wealthy speculator on the
European Bourses. Evidence was secured
which showed that he was the head of a secret
~, ID.
lin, Altoona and Vienna.
"A great forest fire is raging on the
mountain range of Batoom. Russia, so that the
smoke IS spreading many miles around. Beside
the loss of the finest timber which this fire in
wolves, the destruction of the forest will be
fatal to the irrigation of the entire districts for
ina snas forest was the only preserver of the
mountains which it covered
In Main street window in Pawtucket,
r. L, there is fine specimen of the cat owl
alive and apparently ugly. 1t was caught last
week in rather curious manner. A gentle
man was in the woods with his dog Gordon
setter. when the owl attacked the dog CATCH
ing it by the throat. The owl succeeded in kill
ing the dog but its beak and talons got caught
in the dogs hair or flesh, and its capture was
easy.
The village of Little City. in the town.
ship of Haddam, Conn.,. has a fine scnoolhouse
which has been without pupil for two years.
Time was when Little City had a prosperous
school with 30 children, but now there is not a
child in the small hamlet to educate. The cause
is general abandonment of the town by all
the young men, who seek better chance in
the larger towns, while the women remain un-
married.
"A visitor in New Orleans says that
there are three features of the life in the
Creole City that are sure to impress the
stranger forcibly. They are the cemeteries,
which are veritable flower gardens; the
language OF the French residents, which is
spoken everywhere and has the pure Parisfan
accent, and the fact that the negroes on the
lower river still sing the old tuneful songs that
were heard in slavery days.
Another Russian officer is going to
make long-distance experiments on bicycle.
This is Baron de Kellerkraus, staff Captain Of
the Kovne Artillery, who has already distin-
gulshed himself by a ride from Kovno to
TobOlsk. He Is now waiting for the warmer
weather, and Will then travel from Warsaw by
way OF Vienna, 81 uttgart Paris. Lyons to
and thence continue his tour into Africa
MIR. and Mrs. Todd, Christian Scientists
end graduates of Toronto (Ont.) Metaphysical
Institute, say that anything can be cured. from
a corn on the foot to heart disease if the pa
tient to be treated will but have faith IN our
doctrine" No material medicine is used. Dr.
Todd says he has many patients. and has made
many cures. Those who are not cured are the
rebellious ones, who will not have faith. The
doctor was formerly Methodist Sunday school
superintendent near Toronto.
While excavating in front of the Chi
nese Consulate in San Francisco few days
ago, workmen found six old fint-lock pistols In
the clay soil, about five feet beneath the sur
face. One of the pistols, which was taken to
the Alta office, IS about 15 inches long, and
several maFks are ulSCefn4Olo on the Oarrol.
including u. H." with '.P." underneath, and
the figures '61." The soil at the place where
the pistols were found is believed to have been
not disturbed since the present city was built
The pistols are thought TO have been cached
by Spanish buccaneers.
The renowned composer, Rubinstein,
who has been the director of the st. Peters
burg Conservatorium for many years, has re-
solved to resign his post and to quit Russia He
openly declares that the anti.Semitism that has
prevailed in Russia for the last ten years Is
more than he can bear. and that he wishes 10
spend the last years of his life in peace. Even
the most virulent Judeophobic publications
like Nouoye VrenUG and Syn OtetchestUo ex-
press their regret at this resolve of the great
composer and virtuoso and hope that he may
yet be persuaded to stay.
-Bueno Guasa, Mexican planter who
arrived in New York the other day on the
Aguan from Vera Cruz told reporter story
of fight between woman and an eagle
which occurred on his estate at Canon Jalico.
The father had gone out to work in the fields
and his 4year-old child was playing before the
door. A great eagle came swooping down from
the mountains and caught the child in Its
talons The mother rushed to save her child
when the great bird turned on her and with its
wings and beak threw her to the ground and
fractured her skull. Then II seized the child
again and was trying to rise with 1t into the
air when the father came up and shot the
eagle. The mother died.