Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Opals that sold for 5000 have been found
in Oregon.
Queen Elizabeth started the style OF
wearing silk stockings.
Marie Antoinette instituted the custom
OF wearing feathers in the hair.
The deposits in the savings banks Of
the Dominion declined IS, 200 900 last year.
Water in which orange peel has been
soaked freshens and softens the complexion.
"A factory near Athens, Ga, has been
closed on account of the prevalence of the grip.
The number of suicides in the United
STATES in 1890 was 2,640, while in 1889 it was
2,224, and in 1888 l,4S7.
The French and 10 centime pieces, it
is said. are hereafter to be coined with holes in
them, like Chinese currency.
The Indian Office in Washington has
decided to introduce kindergarten training and
materials as part of its school system.
The business men of Galveston, Tex,
have organized a stock company for the estab-
lishment of the ramie industry in that State.
Going to sleep with one hand tucked
under the cheek is not wise. 1t makes fold in
the soft skin thar by and by helps the wrinkles.
Our method of dealing with the Indians
has brought about the death of 65 West Point
graduates by Indian bullets since the close Of
the war.
The Government in Basle, Switzerland,
offers the inhabitants of that city the choice
between being cremated and being buried when
they die.
"A professor in the Lemberg Polytechnic
Academy processes to have discovered a sue
cessful method of photographing by electro
magnetism.
Recent statistics show that French rail-
mn m
red. while in England q OO0,O 900 are carried be-
fore meets a violent death.
-Tehama county, in California, paid out
sl95 for scalps in December. The lot included
lions, 1O8 coyotes 63 wildcats, 1852 rabbits 50
crows, 10 bears and eagles.
The London general postoffice was
saved $1,000 last year in the sick-leave account
by the substitution of electricity for other
means Of lighting its buildings.
"A study of the sea bottom, currents,
temperature, and life of the Adriatic Sea
shows that there is vast growth of marine
alg % at the depth of 600 meters.
One hour in the open air, one dose daily,
is better prescription than half the sufferers
get who have colds or the winter languor from
breathing too much heated, indoor air.
An organization has been formed in
London, Ont, under the name of the London
Temperance Union, with the object OF pro-
noting the cause of national prohibition.
L. K. Tannock, OF Pratt Mines, Ala,
jumped into well go feet deep. There was not
enough water in it to drown him, and he was
taken out alive but badly bruised. Tannoek's
wife says he is insane Cd free masonry.
"A steam phaeton has appeared in Paris
resembling an ordinary phaeton. 1t carries
under the body of the carriage boiler which
cannot explode, with a funnel bent down and
QlSclarQInO smoke under
In Switzerland every man is his own as
SCISSOR in that country. After mans death
the Government carefully investigates his es-
tate, and if he has been defrauding the treas
ury it collects the back taxes with interest.
Unity, Me-, has a population of less
than ], 600 100 of whom. by recent count. have
reached the age of 20. Is have seen four score
years. eight have reached the age of s. and one
is past 80. Eighty per cent of these people are
| in vigorous health
"A Buckley (Wash.) man, while hunt
| ing, discovered al deer behind fallen tree.
| Thinking the animal was dead. he undertook
to turn it over but at the first touch the animal
| jumped to his feet and bounded away. 1t had
| been taking nap.
| William j. Miller, of Labon, y. j.,
/ has brass spectacle case over 400 years old
/ The outside case on top and bottom has a ten
| years calendar (from l47S to 1870 engraved
i thereon, Win INSTRUCTIONS IN OuLCu, the UBuIeos
J letters, ETC., being quite legible
| The following advertisement recently
appeared in a Texas paper: IAN all around
/ printer who has passed the wildcat season Of
/ life, desires a situation in some good country
| paper in Texas (southern part preferred) either
as composItor, Job artist. editor: or willing TO
fill all in one combination Wages must be
] satisfactory"
| John Hessian, who escaped from the
/ Ratau Roupa Ia durinc
| cember, returned voluntarily last week to the
| institution. 1t appears that while in Jail he
1 learned of the grave illness of his mother, and
| he determined to go to her. He nurSed faith
| fully at his mothers bedside until her con-
| valescence, and kissing her goOdby, went back
| to serve out his term. Several policemen knew
\ of Hessians whereabouts while he was out,
| but they were aware of his mission, and, as one
| of them said, didn't have the heart to give
him away"
| Most of the salmon canning factories
operating plants in Alaska and having main
| offices in San Francisco. are preparing for the
new season, which will begin early this month.
| Of the 40 odd canneries In Alaska not over 80.
| it is expected will be worked this year. The
| fleet of vessels, usually numbering over 50, will
i also be less in number. The canning industry
! last year gave employment to nearly 3,OOO men,
| including seamen clerks, fishers and Gamers,
but it is estima ted that less than 1000 will be
worked during 1871.
-Four years ago the portly Sultan of
| Johore was regarded quite an Englishman, but
| now it seems that no invitation, however press
| ing, can induce him to quit Germany. He has
| exchanged Carlsbad for Frankfort, where he
finds as many financial friends as he did in Lon
| DON and it may interest those who formerly
| acted as his socIal sponsors to know that his
| latest achievement is to become an Odd Fellow
| in the Ole Swan Hotel where the peace De-
| tween France and Germany was signed.
| TO mark the rapprochement between
| France and Russia. the former Government
| is, it is stated, providing a special palace for
| its ambassador at st. Petersburg. for which
| a special credit of 100000 francs was recently
voted and for which furniture belonging to
/ the Dalaces of the Empire and Kingdom IS
| beinr sent to Russia by the Republic Carpets
| from Fontainebleau, furnishings from ST.
Cloud and ornaments gathered by Napoleon
| III are being loaded at Havre, in Finnish
| shin. Tor shipment to St. Petersburg.
| The German Emperor is evidently anx-
inns TO guard against all possible eventualities
| He has arranged that his only brother, Prince
| Henry shall divide his time equally between
| saiIoring and statesmanship. and pass exactly
| half the wear in Berlin. He is at first to be at
| tached temporarily to the Home Office, and
| will afterward be initiated by the Emperor
| fwho curiously enough, constantly talks of the
| Uncertainty of human life in general and his
own in particularly into the duties of his position
| during minority.