Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

England from Australia.
Bancroft, Mich, will have a mardi gras
celebration on Washingtop's Birthday.
"A Manchester, Mich,, man found live
caterpillar crawling around on the snow the
other day.
AT Nantwich, England, several days
ago. ~ school children were trampled by .
rampant cow. No deaths.
Owing to. the frost, water has become
scarce in Versailles. France. and yeuders are
selling it at four pence gallon.
The Spanish Cabinet has decided 10 do
away with all treaties of commerce with other
countries, except that with Morocco.
"A disease resembling influenza has be-
come epidemic in Berlin. Those affected show
a tendency to inflammation of the bowels.
-Palatka, Fla, has a dog which takes
trips alone on the trains His last trip was to
Sanford, where he was found and sent back.
-Ra:ifcations are being exchanged be-
tween China and the foreign powers. The port
Of Chun-K Khing will be opened to foreign ves-
sells.
Mrs. James Butler and four children,
Of Kalamazoo, Mich, who were made blind by
an attack of la grippe, are now recovering their
sight.
North Cardinals Legislature tele-
graphed, few DAYS ago. to South Carolina for
tne loan Of cannon to drive on oyster pirates
from the North.
AN Italian miner fell 200 feet in the
Lake Angelina mine az Ishpeming. His princi-
pa injuries we're fractures of the hip bones.
He may recover.
AT dinner given in New York the
other night TO SO persons, the bill was Sc 500 or
Just about 500 plate. That will do for reck-
d, ess gorgeousness.
"A farmer in Holt county, NO., has
26living children, none of whom are married
and all Of whom are at home There are IL
pair Of twins in the family.
The steamer st. Ignaee, which ferries
cars over the Straits of Mackinac, is to be
housed in so that the cars will not be exposed
to the weather while on board.
"A Swedish engineer has invented
machine for making horseshoe nails out of
iron rods. 1t makes 140 strokes per minute,
eacn stroke producing two nails
"A farm at Pithole, this State, which was
bought some years ago during the oil excite
ment by Chicago spectators for 81, 500, 900, was
soid recently ar = tax sale for s100
The faro games of Baker CITY, Ore,
were closed last Monday for the first time in the
history of the city. Outside sports were in
luck, and all the games went broke"
There is woman in Atchison who sets
chair at the table every day for her husband,
VINO died over year ago. In his plate she
never fails to place little bouquet of flowers.
Mrs. Lucy Cook went to sleep at Bur-
gin. KY. Sunday. in front of an open fire, with
newspaper in her hand The paper caught
fre, ignitlng her clothing. and she burned to
death.
One OF the industries of London is the
selling of sea water, which is delivered at the
purchasers house for pence a gallon. It is
Drought TO town every night by the railroad
companies.
In decision Monday the United States
Supreme Court decided that the meat inspec-
lntertered with commerce among the States.
This is a victory for the dressed beef men.
The prisoners at the Jail at Deadwood,
s. Dak.. issue paper giving the pedigree OF
those confined there and the items happening
In the jail. 1t Is issued every Saturday, and the
subscription price is half pound Of tobacco.
AT Cedar Rapids, Ia, the Sheriff ad-
vertises a stock Of liquors, seized to satisfyia
hne, TO be sold at auction. This Is the first in
stance OF liquors being offered at sherif's sale
In prohibition State, and a test case is ex-
pecred.
The citizens of Kalama, Wash, are
OF that place. They appointed committee TO
wait on the Cinnamon and tell them they must
20, and that whatever property they owned
would be paid for by the citizens.
Irwin Stiles, an Ionia, Mich, boy, went
out skating two weeks ago, and cut a stick
wherewith to play shinny. He now wishes he
hadn't. for the stick proved to be poison
sumach. The child's body is swollen TO nearly
twice its normal size, and he is in a precarious
condition.
"A bark that recently returned from the
tropics brought fat bottle of about half pint
capacity. picked up on the beach on November
IL. In this bottle was small rectangular piece
of paper. somewhat stained and very much
crumpled. on which was written In pencil:
This bottle was thrown from the s. s. Cepha-
lODia, of the Cunard line, on November "A. 1851.
by VIC. Ldpard, about 4O0 miles from Boston"
The records show that the Cephalonia on her
voyage from Liverpool reached Boston on No
overheard. In the three years voyage that the
little bottle took 1t travelled about $500 miles,
as far as can be estimated, and judging from
what is already known of ocean currents.
I'm Millionaire Plans big hotel Fat
Tampa, Fla, instead of an electric press button
every room will have telephone connected
with the Office. Guests will be able to COM
municate not only with the office, but with
their friends in other rooms at will. The great
OrcQeStrlOu WHICH WAS Ono OF Inc n3rV6l8 OF
the Paris Exposition is 20 be placed in the
large music room of the hotel. 1t has been ar
ranged that any guest in his room can, by
merely telephoning to the office. be connected
with the orchestrion and have the music trans
mitted to him in full volume. In fact he can
put in actual practice one of the most wonder
full of Bellamy's conceptions. and every night
If he likes. go to sleep listening TO the finest Of
harmonies.
The Jail at Ocala, Fla, consists of big
iron cage set In a room about 20 feet square
and 10 feet high. The cage is made of fat bars
of iron about three inches wide which run in
both directions, while the spaces between them
are no wider than the width of the bars. The
whole cage is about Is feet SQUARE and 7 feet
high 1t is divided into little compartments.
"a ch less than 80 inches wide and half the depth
of the cage. Each compartments holds two
prisoners Two iron shelves, one above the
other which at night are suspended from the
ton OF the cage in each compartment. serve as
beds When the beds are hung of course they
practically fill the entire compartment. When
visited the other day 20 prisoners were confined
in this cage Six of them were murderers
awaiting trial. The swarming cage looked like
a torture pen filled with victims ready for some
sacrifice.