Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

premium in Buenos Ayres.
| Nearly /, 500 of little hot tomalis, Mex
| lean sausage are sold upon the streets OF At
| lanta, Ga, every night.
The constitution of the New State OF
| Washington limits the session of the Legisla-
| ture TO 10 consecutive days.
There are 26 monarchies and 25 re-
| publics in the civilized world to-day. Sixteen
republics are in South America.
"A teacher of mathematics says that the
simple tearing up or cutting of paper is a great
relief to the mind after mental labor.
The widest plank on earth is on exhibi-
rion in Humboldt, Cal. 1t is 16 feet in width.
1t will be among the Humboldt exhibits at the
Worlds Fair.
Elizabeth M. Proctor, who died at
Salem. Mass, few days ago. aged 100 years.
had been for 40 years President Of the Sea-
mems Orphan Society.
A crab was caught in the harbor Of
Victoria. B. c., that was three feet six inches
around the waist. 1t was presented to the
Museum Of Natural Science.
1t is stated that 1, $50, 900 Christmas par
cells have been delivered by the British post
Office of which Lll6000 comprised turkeys,
fowls. game and Christmas puddings.
"A small leather bag was kicked about in
the streets OF New York recently by pedestrians
which, when opened by a hotel porter, was
found to contain $1,000 worth Of diamonds.
"A change in the channel of the river
Stour, at Sandwich, England, mas revealed the
wreck of vessel believed to have sunk at
that spot during the reign of Henry VIII.
Arthur Wuillmeau, of Detroit, has
started on a starvation campaign OF 46 days.
He wants to beat Succi II he succeeds he will
get 81 500; if he is alive in 30 days he gets OO0
70 ha fofa
missioner of Railroads. 7,0lS73 miles of railroad
in Michigan. The gross earnings for the year
1890 aggregated s96.92S, OIL 62; net income sSl,-
500, ,Z79 81.
John McCloskery and Lawrence Mer-
| sereau have just died at Sunbury county. N.
| B., the former aged SO and the latter SO. Both
were somewhat addicted TO the use Of tobacco
| and spirits
Near Liberty, Kan, one day this week
| Mr. Garvey and her child were attacked by a
pack of wolves Mrs. Garvey escaped with
| slight injuries, but the boy was fatally man.
| gled. The wolves were finally beaten OF by
men.
The high tides did 10000 damage in
| Digby county. N. s., on Monday. Wharves
were covered. stores flooded, hundreds of
| cords of wood earned away, roadways washed
| out. flour and meal destroyed and other damage
| done.
| Mr.. John Robb, of Kingston, suggests
to the Ontarion Minister of Education that all
! public school children of Canada should wear
| outer garments of the same material, thus
securing uniformity. and checking the dispar-
| iry between the rich and the poor.
| Down in the basement of private
boarding house in Washington street there is
to be found the youngest married couple in
| New York without doubt. 1t is Yussef Gosn
| and his wife Malacah, aged respectively 16 and
| II yerrs, and they arrived from Beirut on
| Sunday last.
| "A Bath, Me-, man says the reason he
| doesn't smoke is because he can't find pipe to
| suit him. He smoked one meerschaum steadily
| for IL years, and then left it on the rail of a
| steamer on which he is engineer. and somebody
| knockediI it overheard That was IL years ago,
and he has remained so constant TO the memory
| of that pipe that no other would take its place.
On their return from their holiday vaca-
| ton the Cornell students found at the entrance
| to the college grounds a snow bust of Prof.
| Corson. 1t was more than eight feet high and
| an excellent likeness. 1t was the work of Prof.
H. d. Williams and Mr.. Willis, of the depart
| ment of industrial art. Two years ago Prof.
Williams constructed similar bust OF Shakes
| peare.
| The Pope has appointed commission
to study the religious stu alton of the South
American republics with the view to reorgan-
izing the episcopates on a system similar to that
| prevailing in Brazil. which is based on common
law and religious liberty. He is OF the opinion
! that the era of concordats has passed, and that
| the Church has everything TO gain by claiming
simply a reign of liberty for all.
| The rise in the price of meat in Ger
many has not only increased the general con-
| sumption of horse flesh. but in Western Ger
| many has led many OF the peasants, who have
| had TO forego the meat market altogether, to
1 draw blood for blood sausages every Saturday
| from the living swine. The blood Is let into
Il rirlyI Iad Faf nd ffar
| having thickened, is eaten with sauerkraut for
the Sunday dinner.
Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, has
ordained in his official gazette that every one
| OF his active warriors shall plant during 1891
2O0 grapevines every brigadier must plant 20;
| every commander and under commander of a
| battalion. 10; every drummer or color bearer, o.
| Every guide, moreover must plant two olive
| trees, and every corporal one. The gazette
calculates that in consequences of this order
| Montenegro will have 200 grapevtnes and
/ 20 coo olive trees on next January L
The grand jury at Baltimore reports
| that the high license law, as at present framed,
| is a complete failure so far as it prevents the
| sale of spirituous and fermented liquors on
| Sunday, and it suggests that the law be amend
| ed so as to require an unobstructed view from
| the street to barrooms: that only one entrance
| be allowed to barrooms; that clubs furnishing
| liquors to their members be required to have a
| license. and that the police be allowed free ac-
4 cess TO All plaCeo HucIo ID Inc law -
| being violated.
Baron Haussman, whose death is an
nounced. reconstructed and decorated Paris in
| the grand style, not possible under any other
| than an imperial autocraric government
| and resisted even there. He determined what
| should be DONE and then did it. without regard
| to cost the Inconvenience caused to people
| whose homes were destroyed In his memoirs
| he states that the reconstruction OF Paris cost
5000 O0O COO francs-a billion dollars. But it
| made it the handsomest city in the world, and
| probably paid in the end
| One little indian boy who attends school
| at Indian Island, Oldtown, Me-. takes an in
| relligent interest in his lessons and does not
simply learn them by rote. The teacher had
/ been giving instruction in punctuation, and
| closed by saying emphatically: Now when you
come to a period you must stop" A little
| black-eyed girl then commenced to read and
| went on IN a reckless manner. regardless of the
| period in question, whereupon the fat and
| bright little Indian boy poked her in the ribs
| and electrified the school by yelling Justify,
| whoa He grasped the situation.
| JUST FOR FUN.