Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A large oak tree known to be 140 years
old has been felled at Flint. Mich.
The Justices of the United States
| Supreme Court pay 500 each for their silk
| gowns.
Geneva, o.. thinks it has the only
horse in the world that can turn a complete
| somersaulL.
In London 1 woman in every 20 Is .
pauper, in every l3 is illiterase, and in every
| 80 Is a gin drinker.
Fourteen Germans and Russians living
| in Hamilton, Ont, took out naturalization
papers one day this week.
t-There are in use nearly 81, 900 gas stoves
which are let on hire by the gas companies who
| supply the British metropolis.
The wife of Mr.. c. Beaupre, of st. Ray
mond, Quebec, has presented her liege lord,
| who Is % years old, with twins
Grand Rapids leads the world in its
percentage of divorces to marriages. This year
the ratio was one to i've and last year one to
| six.
"A runaway horse attached to q meat
wagon dashed through the plate-glass front Of
drugstore at Toledo, o. The horse was badly
cut by the glass.
Hundreds of weavers in Thuringia are
| emigrating to America in the expectation Of
obtaining employment in New York mills,
where they expect to be well paid for their
| services.
"A very explicit Connecticut statute pro-
| vides that no man shall kiss a woman against
her will, and behind it is still more rigid old
blue law that says a man shan't kiss his wife on
the Sabbath.
| Several ministers of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. South. have been suspended by
\ their conference for becoming candidates for
| political Offices and leaving their churches to
| 60 on the stump.
AT Portsmouth o., Ray Lyon, Of Cord
ing. that State, visited physician to find out
| the exact location of his heart, and then pro-
ceeded to gunshop. purchased a revolver, and
| deliberately shot himself dead.
Carrie Lane Chapman Gait said in her
recent speech at the suffrage convention in
| Des Moines: "But it isn't easy to get hus-
band. There are not enough men to go around
at least decent ones. There are great many
| thousand-dollar women now. They can't be
| expected to marry l0cent men,"
| Each of the Justices of the Federal Su-
preme Court is allotted body servant, who is
paid out Of the contingent fund of the court.
These servants report promptly every morning
| at at the residences of the Justices, whom
! they attend constantly during the day. They
shave the Justices, do their errands and oc-
casionally act as cOachmen for them. Each
Justice is also furnished with a private secre-
| tarY.
| Returns from 1868 districts of the Metho-
| dist Episcopal Church OF the vote on the ques-
| tion of changing the constitution so as to ad-
| init women as representatives to the General
| Conference have been received at the Metho-
| dist Book Concern. The total vote of these 1858
districts is 3I4 602 of which 1863 were cast in
favor and 1854 against the proposed amend
| menr, showing majority to date of 9,254. The
| districts heard from comprise about thrse-ffths
| OF the districts in the United States.
/ Paft;a To- of ill H. 81
wealthiest colored person in Virginia. There
| are few of her race in the State credited
| with being worth $4,000. Just what portion of
| the estate will be paid to the six eminent law
| yers employed by Bette Lewis is not known.
| None OF the attorneys nor John Lewis will
| divulge the secret, but they will certainly get
/ good slice. The $4,000 which falls to the heirs
| at-law of Thomas will no DOUBT nearly all go
to pay the eight lawyers who represented that
side.
There are many people who, about this
time of the year, make a trip to the Sandwich
Islands. which furnish delightful places of
| abode in the winter. When there one can
dream of Paradise while enjoying it. The trip
from San Francisco to Honolulu can be made
in week, and at slight expense. Some Wis
itors to the Islands have been disappointed
when they found that there were American.
residents IN nearly all parts of them. They,
had hoped to get far away from their own race
of mankind.
The peculiar and pungent odor that
arises from the person and garments of habit
ual cigarette smokers is offensive to many
Iad.sc, who discern it when passing these
smokers in the streets, when. sitting near
them In the cars, and can hardly tolerats it in
| ihe house. Some ladies, it seems. find the fumes
| of the cigarette more disagreed Bile than those
| of the cigar and more sickening even than those
| of the pipe. There can be no doubt that these
facts should be brought within the knowledge
of all concerned.
DIR. Orsi has closed his campaign at
LocrI by excavating the whole front of the
ancient walls facing the sea, the line of which
was hitherto unknown. He has discovered four
towers on the heights overlooking the city. II
the Italian Government would return to the
work he thinks it might be rewarded by discov.
ering remains Of legal inscriptions Of the time OF
| Zalueucus who is said to be the first to have
given written laws TO the Greeks, viz, at Locrt
| in the seventh century & Q. Greek inscrips
rions in Southern Italy are still very rare.
The variety audiences in America are
gradually being educated up to the point OF
the people who attend the music halls in
London. They now Join in confidently in
cboruses of certain songs and speak the replies
which are expected from them by the singers
| with great cheerfulness and vigor. A number
of popular variety stage singers, particularly
those of the feminine gender, have recently
| imported songs which require good deal OF
| vocal activity on the part Of the audience, and
| the regular attendants Oh bne variety LneaLeI9
| now talk back and sing back as though they
had been accustomed to it all their lives.
The National Exposition at Toxic,
which has recently been brought to close. af-
fords interesting but painful evidence of the
change which is passing over the fine arts of
Japan. of the l 800 diplomas and prizes dis
| trIbuted among the $500 exhibitors. only one
| was awarded for lacquer, product in the mag
| nifcent manufacture of which Japan has al
ways held the pre-eminence, and even in this
| case it is for a Western adaptation. Photo
| graphs table cloths and alcove ornaments bear
| away the palm from native manufacture
| whose death knell was sounded when cheapness
| and rapidity of fabrication became sine qua
| non of its acceptance IN the markets OF the
| world.
Mrs. Francis Scott Key is the very
| latest. She is wel-known in Baltimore
society. and she is going on the stage. Mrs,
Kew isl granddaughter of the famous Mary
! land statesman,e William; Pinckney. who in
| his dayl was regarded AS one of the most bril-.
| liant LAWYERS IN this country. Some time ago
| she married Francis Scott Key, who is grand
| son of his namesake, the author OF The Star
| Snaneled Banner" Mrs. Key was Miss Tiffany
| bsfore her marriage, and Is related to the Rev.
| DR.. Tiffany of New York. She is a Handsome
| blonde with a beautiful complexion and ex-
| nressiye ewes. She possesses a sweet contralto
| voice highly cultivated. and she takes the
| nresent step because the glamour of the foot
| lights has permeated her very soul It is stage
or nothing with her.
PERT AND POINTED.