Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

-Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" will be
played by colored tragedians at Savannah
this week. "Othello'' win doubtless come on
later.
| Katie Faulkner is 16-year-old girl who
| has distinguished herself in Iowa as stealing
anything from money to boys clothing. She
donned the latter and went out for time
with the money.
There is spring in Bear Valley, near
Chambersburg, Pa, from the surface Of
which bubbles of sand and air ascend about
! ten inches and then burst. The spring Is
ten feet In diameter. The water is pure and
refreshing.
| The raisin importations amounted in
1885 to 3s,0O0,00o pounds, in 1887 to 100000
and in 1890 to 100000 The total production
in California for lss2 amounted to 100000
pounds, In 1887 to 1900 600 and in 1890 q total
| OF 70, 100000 pounds was reached.
| The largest man in the South died at
Elm Springs, Ark He was 70 years old, and
weighed $40 pounds. He had his coffin made
| two years ago, and has since used it as a
| granary. 1t held p bushels of wheat. It re-
qufred II pallbearers at the funeral.
"A remarkable freak that is making It's
way toward Paris, having originated in
Bohemia, is built on the Millie Christine
plan. 1t is a two-headed maiden, Joined at
the waist, having four arms. but somewhat
Handicapped by having only two legs.
"A Philadelphia surgeon says that by
three strokes of the lancet he could paraIyze
and thereafter any one could pull his nose,
cuff his ears and spit on his boots and he
would simply smile a soft, bland smile.
Not since 1882 has the price of eggs been
as high in this country during the spring and
summer months as at this season. In that
year they sold at 20 cents. Dealers explain
that the high price Of beef just new makes
cheaper diet.
The custom of clipping is declining,
| according to the testimony of the Secretary
of the Alnalgamated Society of Railway
| Servants before a parliamentary committee
investigating the hours oflabor on railroads.
People give less than they used to give, and
hence less is expected.
The American archeologists who are at
work at Platea, in Greece, have come upon
which apparently go back to the sixth CEN
tury, B. c., or within 100 years of the authen-
tic beginning of Greek history. Develop
ments of great interest are expected.
An Englishman has invented an ap-
paratus through which, he declares, he can
see the soul leave the body. He arranges
lenses that so magnify the particles of dust
passing upward can be detected How he Is
TO see those souls that pass downward is not
explained.
"A tall, heavy-set man goes around
| claiming to have been a monk for 30 years.
He visits Protestant ministers, usually Bap-
| lists, and, after making a profession of his
| faith, asks TO De baptized. He is known to
| have been immersed seven times, six times
| in Detroit and once in Newport, KY. He
borrows money.
Arthur II. Noyes and Will Prescott
went brook trout fishing in the vicinity of
Brant Lake, N. Y. They ished in Desolate
and other brooks and caught nearly 500
brook trout, some very nice ones, the largest
one weighing one pound. On Tuesday they
went trouting in Lake George and caught IL
| lake trout, the largest one weighing 5%
pounds.
Students passing through a ravine near
| the poor farm at Charlottesville Ind found
what they at first thought was dead man.
| He was only in q trance, and, as he disap-
peared five weeks ago from the pOorhouse,
| it is believed he was in the trance all that
| time. His clothes were rotted off, and he
was covered with vermin. He had eaten
nothing in five weeks.
The elevated railroads in New York
| City, which cost less than sl7,OOO,00O, are
stocked and bonded for more than $50, ,OOO,O 600
| The steam railroads in the country cost on
paper, 50, ,931, ,453 JAG, of which two-ffths rep
| resent water. The street railroads of the
| country, horse, cable and electric, have not
& cost over rs $1,000 per mile but t,Oa they are
The building of the contagious disease
branch of the Health Board, New
York City, becomes like O great nursery
during the afternoon. 1t is then that the
mothers take their babies to be vaccinated,
and there are babies everywhere-on the
staircase the steps in the hail. in the base
on the SidpVQlx-rhara bob biaa
| babies, babies, until one wonders where they
hail from.
"A colt was born on a farm near Rich
wood, o., which is certainly curiosity. In
stead Of having one eye located in the usual
| place at each side of the face, it has both
| eyes merged together in the center of the
| forehead and the mouth is cut in across the
face, more like human mouth than like
that of a horse. 1t was almost devoid of
anything like nostrils; otherwise it was we'll
shaped. 1t only lived about four hours.
"A tree grows from an immense splinter
near Nashville, Tenn. An old, hollow, black
ened stump of q tree that used to be, rises
about four feet from the ground, from which
one long splinter of the old tree rises foot
or so further up and then bends gracefully
over until its end nearly touches the ground.
Near the extremity of this another tree has
grown up until it is now about three inches
in diameter. Its bark is healthy, and its
leaves are luxuriant Moisture and nourish-
ment are carried to the sprout through
strip of bark which runs up the dry black
stump and along the splinter like rope.
The number of Hebrews in Poland is
l3sO,OOO in a total population of ,252, ,Ooo They
form 40 per cent of the population of War
saw and in all the other towns an average Of
30 per cent, while in villages it falls to per
cent. Trades and Industries in the city of
Warsaw are almost entirely in the hands Of
the Hebrew population. In the higher
branches ofcommerce the ratio is 16 Hebrews
to Christians, in the lower branches 10 He
brews to Christians, and in the agency and
brokerage business 43 Hebrews to l Chris
tian. OF the large industrial enterprises of
the city s. per cent are in the hands of He
brews and only Is per cent belong to native
Christians. But few of the race are common
workmen.