Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


The Speaker of the Japanese Parlia-
ment and the Chairman of the Committee OF
| the Whole are Christians.
Baron Hirsch, the wealthy banker OF
Vienna. will shortly subsidize schools for jew
esses IN Galicia to the extent Of f500.OOo
The Persian New Year resembles our
| Easter Sunday in the respect that everyone is
expected to put on new suit of clothes.
The French Grand Orient has declined
the overtures of the German Free Masons for .
closer cooperation of the European lodges.
In Germany the law makes servants
give a months notice before leaving. The
mistress must give similar word before dis
charge.
M. Dupeaud, a French municipal coun-
| cillor, has been arrested on the charge Of
strangIing to death his mother, who was 50
years of age
DIR. Cheyne, of London, has been for
several weeks testing the efficacy Of the Koch
lymph in cases of leprosy. and he reports with
satisfactory results.
1t is claimed that it will require $3.50
cars to move the orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia this season. The value Of the crop is
estimated at $685. .0O0
1t is estimated that the wealth of the
United States now exceeds the wealth Of the
whole world at any period prior to the middle
] OF the eighteenth century.
"A bottle thrown into the Atlantic
November "a 1887, from the Cephalonia, about
400 miles nut from Boston, recently washed
ashore on little islet in The Caribbean Sea
/ 6,3OO miles away.
"A most curious indication of the
lingering of superstition is an agency which
has been inaugurated in Paris for the supply
i OF the "fOurraanth - nfnnar tiaz 0f
10 may De increased at short notice.
| "A Kansas newspaper says: ga Waeh-
ington county man played very sharp trick
upon neighbor last week. He stole whole
| herd of cattle, 150 head. sold them. pocketed
| the money and then committed suicide. His
| victim has been unable To think of any way of
| gettingeven, and is very much disgusted."
-Apropos of the agricultural progress Of
women in England, it is worthy to note that at
Birmingham there are Al women and only 8
men candidates for the Cambridge higher local
| examinations; at Bradford, "a women, man;
| at Leeds. 30 women, men; at Manchester a
women. man; at Liverpool SO women, man.
Prof. Lenbach has intimated his will
| ingness to paint portrait of Prof. Virchov
| for the Berlin National Gallery. He says that
| he deems it an honor to be permitted to paint
| the famous savant. and would gladly do the
| work for nothing were it not out of considera-
ton for the feelings of an old friend The low
| PAASc VI oVOO no udS Dccu dkIccu upOu
The experiment of giving the Office OF
County Superintendent of Schools to woman
| has resulted very satisfactorily in Madison
county, KY. Hon. Curtis F. Buruam, in a
| recent speech in the Constitutional Convention
spoke of Mrs Amanda T. Million as the most
faithful and efficient school superintendent
| Madison county had ever had.
Lake Maitland, in Orange county, Fla,
claims to have the only complete female cornet
1 lax, -, H. .V4A
social organization, composed of the most
| beautiful and accomplished young ladies of that
resort, the playing of the yonng ladies is of the
highest merit. There are ID young ladies and
| two young gentlemen in the band.
Mayor Yancey, of Lynchburg, Va, an
nounced that he would remit all the fines of
| citizens for failing to remove snow from their
| premises, as he considered it unjust to fine a
| citizen for an offense that the city was guilty
/ of. He then issued rules against the superin-
teDdent of the city hands and the city engineer
| to appear before the court to show cause why
l they did not do their duty in cleaning snow OF
the city property.
"A French chemist NJ. Aime Girard,
has shown that the potato called Richter i'm
perator'' is we'll fitted for the production of
| alcohol by dlstillation commercial scale.
At one operation 78 900 kilogrammes of potatoes
| were treated, and 10 litres of alcohol, abso-
| lutely pure, were obtained from every 100 kilo-
| grammeS of the tuber. Another distilIation
| gave II lures IOT L06 same QuanLlLy OF rOOL8.
| The "draff" which resulted was readily eaten
| by cattle.
From a newspaper printed in the year
ITO is the following description of dandy,
"A few days ago a macarroni made his appear
ance in the Assembly rooms at Whitehaven,
| dressed in a mixed silk coat, pink satin waist
coat and breeches covered with an elegant silk
| net white silk stockings with pink clocks, pink
| satin shoes and large pearl buttons; mush-
| room colored stock, covered with fine point
AAs- oanA- -lra l,r hsr~k.
| full Of pearl pins"
Such serious defects have been discov-
| cred in the new French steel cruiser Forbin
that the admiralty has ordered her to be taken
into the repairing docks. Her machinery has
| been found to be so badly constructed that sew
eral months must elapse before the necessary
| repairs can be effected. Another case Of de-
fective building is also engaging the attention
of the authorities. The ironclad Requin was
recently dry-docked TO have her bottom
most unsatisfactory condition. necesstating
considerable repairs.
The Imperial German census of Decem.
| ber gave these results: Population of Berlin
1547, ,4S5; Dresden, $4,000; Munich, $40 900; Co
logne. 2S2. 900; Hamburg. $4,000; Msdgeburg,
100000; Frankfort, 1000; Strasburg, l350O0
Leipsic, which now has 293 600 inhabitants will,
| by enlarging its limits. have 352 0O0 and be the
| third city in size in Germany. Helgoland has
2,OS6 inhabitants. So more than il had Just ten
Il
| increase of 452 600 in the last ten years. and of
| 259 900 in the last five years. The average an
| nual increase for the last i've years is about
$1,000
| -Georgians are said to be of the opinion
that in erecting statue TO the memory of
| Alexander II. Stephens. the wheeling chair in
| which the lamented statesman lived much of
! his life should not be ignored in the modelling
i of the bronze. This is a question that has come
MP frequently in the past, and is one which
should be very freely discussed before a settle
| ment is reached either way. 1t is certainly not
proper to erect statues of men representing
/ them as they were not, although the designer
/ of the stained-glass window to General Cor
/ don, of Soudan fame. has been very severely
criticised for perperuating the hero in kncker-
| bockers and q cork hat Where to draw the
| line it is difficult to see,
The Russian secret police in Western
| Europe has four divisions, with headquarters
at London, Berlin. Paris and Zurich, respect
| iyely The chief of all is the Russian Consul
General in Berlin. Each of the four cities
| mentioned, however, has its assistant chief,
| who has charge of some % or 30 spies. Al
| though of course, all four divisions are in con-
| slant and close communication with each other,
| thew are otherwise almost Independents of each
| other In view of this organization, the Paris
| dailies deny conclusively the truth OF the
| mort that four detectives were sent from St
| Petersburg to Paris to look for Padlewski
/ The Russian police in Paris were entrusted
/ with the mission.
NAH HUMOROUS WAY.
| He-Didn't you regard the medium as .
/ very pretty girl!
| Shelter face was certainly comely enough. but
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