Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| "A Shipment OF 1OO,UOO eggs OF INC Oo
lumbia river salmon was sent TO France lass
week.
An engraver named Heck has been ar
rested In Berlin for producing fictitious note
book of Martin Luther.
The richest man in Prussis is Herr
Krupp. the great gunmaker. He pays tax OF
$4,000 on an estimated income of 81, 100000.
The average yield of corn In the United
States last year was 2O.7 bushels; of wheat, Ill
bushels, and Of oats, 1873 bushels TO the acre.
The demand for the new French rentes
has been enormous, enough money being
| offered for shares TO cover the loan 10 times
over.
La grippe has caused the death of five
persons in the vicinity Of Woodville. Miss.
during the past few days, each Of the victims
being over 20 years Of age.
The number OF reports adversely CRITICS.
| ing the Koch treatment, has caused the Ger
| man Government to delay the introduction OF
| its bill for the manufacture Of the lymph.
The oldest clergyman in the Church Of
England, the Rev. John Elliott vicar OF Rand
wick, began his hundredth year on December
10. He has served in Randwick for more than
| 70 years.
Joseph Douaghue, the young amateur
champion skater, is now in London, England
Arrangements are being made for him 70 az
4 OA@Ss@1b
| distances.
jacob Kahn, a Cleveland shoemaker,
claims that he has invented and will have in
operation in so DAYS a compressed air motor
that will propel a street car 20 miles an hour at
cost of cents.
Sir Morell Mackenzie objects to large
hospitals on the ground that the added yirul-
ence of germs from the bodies of many patients
Is as dangerous as that of those emanating
from dead bodies
"A man in Jonesboro, Me-, is the proud
owner Of a plow that has been In use for So
years, and only three new points have been
bought for it in that time. Its owner says 1t is
as good as new now.
The vestry of ST. Sepulchre's in Lon
don has voted to restore the monument Of
CAPTAIN John Smith-he who smote three
Turks to death and was saved from Powhatan's
tomahawk by Pocahontas.
The body of captain Of the secret po-
lice has been found in the forest near Shornof.
in the Province Of Kiel, stripped and tied to
tree. 1t was awfully mutilated, and pinned on
the breast was q bit of paper bearing the fol-
lowing words: Death of spy by the liberators
of Russia"
AN officer sent out by the Provincial
Government of Quebec to investigate the un-
explored forests of the Northern Ottawa region
reports his discovery of about 2 500 square
miles covered with the finest pine spruce and
other valuable timber, with excellent streams
to float 1t out.
-Anastasius, the chief Of the famous
Greek brigands whose cheerful habit is to kid
nap harmless travellers and keep them on short
commons till ransom is paid. is described as
a type of perfect Greek beauty. q very culti-
waited man. who speaks four languages, and
has the manners OF courts.
An arrangement was made between the
Russian Government and the Porte for the re-
| b,yT ,f
Mussuman emigrantS from the Caucasus TO
settle in Asia Minor. The fourth batch of
these people, numbering altogether over 800,
has just arrived at Constantinople.
Mrs. Elizabeth d. Tomson, who died in
Philadelphia last week, made provision in her
will that $3.50 should be set aside for the maIn-
tenanoe of her faithful dog Jack. The bene-
ficiary has no particular pedigree, but was
deared to his mistress by his faithtulneSs and
the possession OF good, heavy bark.
The Duke of Nassau and Grand Duke
of Luxemburg is a very rich man, as, in addi-
tion to his enormous estates in Germany and
Austria, he possesses very large fortune. He
is the owner OF the finest cellar of German
wines in the world, and has all his life ex-
pended a large sum every year in maintaining
his stock.
The Fellowcraft is perhaps the only club
| in New York whose restaurant is conducted on
a paying basis. The experiment of running its
own cuisine which has been on trial for the past
, two months shows that the farming out of the
restaurant, while it seemingly takes good deal
of responsibility off the club really takes good
deal OF money from its Golfers.
The power of reforming certain lost
parts really is common to all living things. The
| willow twig planted in the ground forms new
roots. In ourselves cut will heal over, and
new skin develop to close it. In lower animals
the power exists to an almost incredible degree,
and is sometimes taken advantage of in
wonderful ways for protection.
I Mrs. Calkins, described as a handsome,
innocent looking woman, with beautiful bright
eyes, confesses to drugging her husband and
then dumping him out OF boat in the river az
; Goshen, lind. She had only been married to
: him for three days, but had, in that time, in
duced him to make will in her favor and in
sure his life for 5000. or couse she had con-
: federate.
The analysis of the brain of Laura
.. Bridgman since her death in May. 1889, has
been carried on at Clark University, Worces-
ter Mass, under the direction of President g.
Stanley Hall, and the first report. just pub
lished in the american Journal Of Psychology,
shows but slight variation from the brain OF
the ordinary person. This difference, though
! slight is the apparent explanation of Miss
Bridgman's lack of sight, hearing. and speech.
There IS a shrinkage and deformity noted in
those parts of the brain which are believed to
bear a direct relation 20 these faculties.
The will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Perkins Fogg, of New York. liberates another
fortune for institutional purposes Some of
the objects were: Union Theological Seminary.
$40 600: Childrens Aid Society. s55 900; National
Academy of Design. $4,000: University of the
City of New York, S20.O0O; Harvard University,
$500 600 for an art museum, with 100000 collec-
tion of Japanese and Indian jewelry to start it;
Yale University, $4,000. as fund TO aid poor
theological students; Berwick Academy, OF
Berwick, Me- $4,000. Mrs. Fogg disposed OF
| over 5000 900 in this way. She was the widow
of William H. Fogg, New York merchant in
the China trade.
One of our sweetest pastoral poets is, so
it is reported, about to marry Sioux Indian.
The lady is Elaine Goodale. Government
! School Inspector in Dakota, and the man is ID.
Eastman, a graduate of Dartmouth College,
and now at Pine Ridge Agency. Miss Goodale
spent her childhood at her mountain home in
BERKSHIRE county Mass. At a very early age
| she began to write verses, as did her likewise
| talented sister Dora During the last ten years
| both sisters have contributed much beautiful
| verse 70 the magazines. Four or hve wears ago
| Elaine was appointed Government day school
teacher in White River Camp, Lower Brule
, Agency, Dakota.