Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

1t costs GA cents to run . train mile in
England.
Telephones are now being introduced On
board men-of.war.
The daily surplus of births over deaths
in the United Kingdom Is 1,5Oo.
1t costs the Government $3.50, 900 year
to priut the Congressional Record.
Leather covered frames are now the
favorite Enclosures for photographs.
AT present nine American women are
matrlmonially engaged to titled foreigners
The largest peach orchard in the world
is at Blownwood, Tex, which contains Il, 90
trees.
Cork, if sunk 20 feet in the ocean. will
not rise on account of the pressure of the
water.
-Manitoba -four is quoted at 81 per
barrel higher in Washington State than the
home product.
Mr.. Theodore Calf and family have petit
toned the Kansas Legislature TO have their
name changed.
An Oswego man has bought 10000
bushels of potatoes in Perth, Ont. for the
Philadelphia market
Capitalists who have the money pro-
pose to spend $50 0O06, 900 in under-riyer and
Underground railroads in Gotham.
The Michigan crop report states that
wheat is in good condition generally, with but
Few frozen places for lack Of snow.
Whisky labeled ''shoepegs" has been
seized in quantity on the premises Of BOOKSELLER
W. K. Dye, at Parkersburg. W. Va.
Ada Gray. Of Cincinnati, is ''the only
colored lady dentist IN the United States She
is said to be quite skilful in her profession.
Mrs. Sarah E. Uric pays $500, 900 to
Mrs. Matthew Baird as the price of the Has
tlngs property, nc Spring Lake Beach, N. j.
i. L. Purcell. a wellknown ,colored
lawyer Of Palatka, Fla. was admitted to the
Supreme Courtin Tallahassee on January Il
1t is said a society has been formed in
Southwestern Kansas by farmers for protec-
tion against loan and investment companies.
Il. G. Brooker, of Scots Bluffs county,
Neb., found q pair OF Texas horns the other
day, which measured feet Q inches from tip to
tip.
The late Duke of Bedford's income was
over 100000 a year. He was the richest man
in the peerage, except the Duke of Westmin-
ster.
The colored man, Prof. Carter, in
charge of the Colored State Seminary at Tai
lahassee, Fla. is the grandson of an African
King.
"A cat owned by Farmer Dykeman, of
Benton, Lackawanna county, Pa, attacked
fox and rode on Reynard's back for a dozen
yards.
After February 1 the "curfew" ordi-
nance will be enforced in Vancouver, Wash,
and all boys on the street after P. NJ. will be
arrested.
There is great anxiety in Ottawa over
the attitude Sir John Macdonald is likely to
take on the question Of reciprocal trade with
the United States.
Friday morning some dastardly fend
put poison into Vert Wickham's well. near
Battle Creek, Mich Three horses drank and
died an hour later.
The st. Petersburg Nouoe Treuyd an
nounces that Russia has issued her last per
cent loan, and that in future Russian loans Wll.
be issued at 8 per cent.
Spokane Falls has grown'rapidly since
the fire of a year ago. The population then was
1900, and the recent census gives the town a.
oO0. Seattle has about $4,000 people.
The smallpox scare in Savannah, Ca,
is growing daily. The negroes are especially
Yaccfnated and virus Is at . premium
There were 937 buildings erected last
year in Montreal. of a total value of So 30S. .6O6
a falling of of9 buildings and s2s9, $50 in
value as compared with the previous year.
This beats the record. A woman at
Bennington, Mich. two years ago, gave birth
to twins, a year ago paralyzed the record with
rriplets, and now twins again-seven children
in two years.
There is news OF serious Anarchist
plot at Leghorn. where, on Saturday, several
dynamite cartridges were exploded stimuli
taneousiy in the immediate vicinity of q
number of wealthy residents.
The authorities of the British Museum
have discovered among a collection of papyrus
rolls the text of Aristotle's treatise on the
Constitution Of Athens, which has hitherto
only been known in detached fragments.
Two French doctors, acting on the fact
that the goat is not subject to consumption,
recently injected the blood of one of those
animals into the veins of two cousumptivs
patients, it is said, with the most satisfactory
results.
Martin Grinning, of Surprise, Neb.,
chopped q red elm tree down for Mr.. Ezra
Paisley the other day that measured l3k
feet in circumference at the base. Martin
claims the tree is over 100 years old and badly
SCARED BY Indians with their tomahawks.
Oneida township in Kearney county,
says the Omaha Herald, INDUCED in grand
wolf hunt recently. An army of men and boys
with guns and Ditchforks marched half day
uttering unearthly yells; they finally mes in
Balls pasture and surrounded-two jack rab-
bits.
Ten years ago Detroit man was killed
in Rio de Janeiro. His body was embalmed
and placed in vault. Two years afterward
the remains were shipped to Gowanus Long
Island, and buried IN a cemetery. In 1885 they
were taken up and expressed to Santa Barbara,
Cal, and last week the body was sent thence to
Quebec.
Eugene Davis, of East Saginaw, Mich,
has arrived at Butte, Mon. He claims to be
the only legitimate son of the late A. J. Davis,
who died here year ago, worth SIS, 900.
Mrs. A. ]. Davis Eugene's mother, keeps
married to the Montana millionaire half
century ago in Maine. About 1850 they moved
to Iowa. and few years after Davis deserted