Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| OF Japan during the month of November.
| Cigarette smoking has become alarm
ingly prevalent among Bosron's fashionable
| women.
There are 377.77 grains of pure silver
| in Mexican dollar, and BIZ grains In an
American dollar.
In Lake county, Tenn, a short time
since young man of q married widow Of 40,
| vino has IL living children.
Several Of Hart county, Fla's., SUBJ
Alliances have organized joint stock COM
| pany for the purpose of erecting guano ware
| house.
Within 81 years Mexico has had "a
Presidents, one Regency and one Empire, and
nearly every change of Government has been
effected by violence.
Georgia pine is becoming immensely
popular IN the West indies, where much build.
| ing is being done. Every fruiter that goes to
Brunswick loads big return cargo OF Georgia
pine.
w. r. Gregory was sent to Jail in Kan
sas City. Mo-. the other day for stealing red
hot stove" the oven of which was filled with
biscuits He sold it ar a secondhand store,
biscuits and all, for So.
Rev. Benjamin Herndon, aged " years,
and his wife Hulda, aged 70 years. died near
Shorterville, Ala. within q few moments Of
each other last week. They were buried in
Shortervilie Cemetery in the same grave.
The Hancock County Mutual Wind
Storm Insurance Company, of Carthage. ILL.,,
was organized by farmers, and a charter will
| De applied for Twenty-Five farmers have
agreed to insure to the extent Of $4,000, and
the list is increasing.
The new irrigation canal company, for
| supplying water to the FL Paso Valley. Tex,
| has constructed laterals to water l5 900 acres,
| OF which 1000 acres have been opened for con-
| struction. The canal Is 81 miles long and has
| capacity for irrigatiug $4,000 acres.
M. L. Levi, near Newtonville, Ind,
has an apple tree which bore three crops in one
season. This led to newspaper comment a
i paragraph fell under the eye of Mrs. Lou Cliff
| ford, of McCordsyille. his sister, whom he had
| not seen or heard of for 30 years, and they were
| reunited.
| MIR. John Blank, of Prescott, Ark, has
| just reached Brunswick, Ga. He left Prescott
one year ago in buggy, determined to see the
| South and settle there. He took his own time
| about it and with his buggy in a somewhat
dilapidated condition, he arrived at his destina-
| ton on Sunday last.
"A steady flow of gas at a pressure Of 20
pounds to the square inch is obtained from the
well of Mr.. A. Scholz, of San Antonio, Tex.
The gas is being utilized for heating the boiler
| of the steam engine employed in sinking an
| other we'll about ~ feet distant where a
stronger How Is expected.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois recently
decided, in the case of the people against Nor
gan, that it is not the privilege of defendant
| charged with felony to waive trial by jury.
| Notwithstanding the distinctly expressed wish
| OF the felon to be tried by the court and not by
a jury. his conviction is set aside and he is to
have new trial
"A letter from the family of the Rev. T.
| D. Christie, who left Beloit recently to resume
missionary work att Marash, Turkey in Asia.
tells of the terrible cholera scourge in Turkey.
| At Marash town of TO- 600 people, L5O0 deaths
| occurred in six weeks. There was much less
| fatality among the converted Turks than
| among the natives their Christianity and civil
ization helping them in their sanitary affairs.
"A cattle dealer from the Indian Terri
tory purchased last week of Mrs. King, of Cor
pus Christi, the Texas cattle queen, 1900
2-ysar-old steers for sS2,0O0 This is probably
the largest order filed in Texas at any one
time for CATTLE and the King rancho is said to
be the second largest in the world. It Is taxed
at $500 900, including 10000 horses and cattle.
| Mrs. King owns several others in other por-
tions of Texas.
| MIR. Martin Sumpter, of Shiloh town.
ship lives within six miles of StatesYile, s. c.,
but has not been to town in q years. During
these q years he has rarely been further from
home than Watts mill, which is about two
miles distant. MIR. Sumpter is man of char
acter and intelligence. He is a Republican in
politics, but has not been to the polls but once
since the war. in 1872, and then he voted the
Democratic ticket.
This is the way the people who live in
the Isle of Skye are said to describe theiT
| weather:
DIRTY days hath September,
| April, June and November;
4 From January up to May
| The rain it raineth every days
All the rest have 81,
Without a blessed CLEAN of sun;
And if any of them had and 30
They'd be Just as wet, and twice as dirty"
MIR. w. P. Whelp,es, of Waycross, Ga,
has genuine Cremona violin. He bought it
from a turpentine negro going through there.
1t was old and somewhat dilapidated. He saw
in it the words "Antonius Stradivarius, Gre
mona. faciebat ammo 1890" He asked the negro
what he would take for it. The negro did not
appreciate the value of it and he fixed a small
price upon It. 1t has a sweet sound and when
1t is worked on somewhat it will be q very yalu-
able instrument.
About 100 society women of Memphis,
Tenn, have organized company and will
build free hospital for women and children,
to be known as the Woman's Hospital of Men,
phis. They propose to raise the money by SUBJ
scrlptioE. and the expenses of the institution
and dlspensary will be deflayed by dues.
Membership In the association costs So year,
| and the indications are that every girl and
woman in Memphis who tries to keep in the
| swim will be a member.
Farmer Bartmess was seized with an
ambition recently to get on the police force Of
Springfield, Ill. some friends, for joke,
brought him before bogus board. which put
| him througha physical examination. both tedi-
Gus and ridiculous. He was then sent home to
| await his commission. but the letter that he
| longed for never came. The story leaked out,
| greatly to the farmers discontinue. He
brought suit against the jokers for 5000 dam
| ages and was awarded $35 and costs.
-"Dred" Cook, Clayton county's noted
mooushiner and burglar. Is in Jail at Summer
| VILE, Ala. Cook is the same man who, for sew
eral years, ran an Illicit dIstillery in cave un-
der a milLdam, in the northern part of the
| county where he was successful in evading the
| officers of Uncle Sam until about two years
| ago, when he was arrested and fined. few
| days ago he returned to Alabama to visit old
| friends and proceeded to ply his old trade
\ burglar!ziDg several residences in the vicinity
| of Poplar Springs which led to his arrest.
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