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


in Pennsylvania
There are six Siamese students at West
minister College. small institution at New
Wilmington, Pa
The Yale Museum has Just received a
skeleton of a saurian. prehistoric monster Of
which but two complete skeletons are known.
"A significant educational tendency OF
the day IS the increased interest," in the study Of
history and politics at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity.
Quite number of whisky wagons were
in Gainesville, Ca, last week. 1t is not an un-
common thing for whisky to be retailed on the
public square there.
The electric light of 1000, 900 candle
power in the lighthouse at Hanstholm, coast Of
Jutland. said to be the most powerful light in
the world, is now lighted for service.
The royal baron of beef placed on the
Queens table on Christmas Day was cut from
Devon OK fed on the Prince Consort's Shaw
farm. Windsor. The joint weighed over BOO
pounds.
The Pope has ordered the enlargement
of the reading rooms and other improvements
in the Vatican. The new Leonins Library will
soon be ready, and in it will be placed about
300 000 books.
In Germany they are making coffee
from linseed meal roasted to dark color and
mixed with some glutinous substance before
passing through machines which form it in the
shape of beans.
Statistics show that in tie most north
ern cities of Finland and Norway the annual
mortality from tuberculosis is from % to "a in
Lo0O living inhabitants, while IN Southern Italy
1t Is but IL in 1,000
The Egyptian Government has decided
to allow private persons to excavate antiquities
on condition that half of what they discover
goes to the museum, the latter having prior
claim to any unique objects.
"A cow belonging to Mrs. NJ. E Marin,
OF Lncolnton, Ga, went mad on Saturday
last. The COW ran everybody of OF the prem
lses, eus she fell into a ditch and broke her
neck before doing any damage.
Electricity has been put to driving
drills One is in use the warship Maine,
building at the Brooklyn navy yard. A three
quarter inch hole IL three-quarter inch plate
can be drilled in less than minute.
"A large stone sareophagus of the Roman
age has just been found close to the railway
station OF Hadra, in the suburbs of Alexan-
dria. 1t is richly ornamented with sculpture,
but is not sufficiently disinterred to be opened
Sir John Lubbock sticks to the princi-
pie of his shop holiday scheme He has reintro-
duced his bill providing that when two-thirds of
the shopkeepers in defined district wish to
| take a weekly half-holiday the remsining one
third shall be compelled 10 do so.
Earrings with drops are again to be
seen, but the drops are dainty and small. An
exceedingly attractive pair OF earrings consists
of pear-shaped pearls pendant from diamond.
Thtstles in diamonds, just the flower falling
| downward, afford pretty ear ornaments.
The Australian cannibal has a dis.
eliminating taste. He does not like the flesh
of white man, because it is too salt The
flesh of the Chinese, whose food is chiefly rice
| and vegetables, is highly priced by him. The
natiVaS do N eat Mt rhair ouvn friH
"A wealthy Canadian is travelling about
the country with mission. That mission is to
save shoe leather to the world. He insists that
if everybody would cover three inches more at
every step the saving in boots and shoes in
America alone would be s27. 100000 per year.
The desk in which the manuscript of
"Waverley" lay neglected and almost forgotten.
till Scott came upon it in looking for some
tackle. has lately come into the possession Of
Mr.. John Murray. Jr. 1t was given by Scott to
Daniel Terry, and its history since that time is
quite clear.
j. d. Carter of Birmingham, Ala, who
killed Rube Burrows. the Southern outlaw aud
train robber, has received ST. of the 81 500 Of
fered by the railroad and express companies.
| The various State rewards have not been paid.
Carter is a cripple for life from wounds re-
ceived during the fight
The two young sons Of r. r. Vande-
mark, who lives near Starrucca. Wayne coun-
ty Pa told their mother a few days ago that
tbev had been nIavino- with a black sbeen The
o,I1 ebaor +b.t she Irray of in the 1icin,f ,vsra
white, so she proceeded to investigate She
found that their playmate had been black
bear Farmer Barnes who was close at hand,
-rrineess "hneiuIha mas oeen plo-
CLAIMED Q2een Oh tne Netnerlanos' ana Is rne
youngest hVlne sovereign except Alpnonso
AilI.' hlng oi spain nne ne'le Queen Is
pretty anu cniie " ~, "no LAS oeen
orought up WIZ aIHosS 0Pdltan ngoL uy ner
CONSCIENTIOUS motner. On ont occaslon wneh
the two were drlVlng Iogether Gne noIses LOOK
fright, ran away, ana Droke tne carriage. as
soon as another coua pc procureo queen
Emma resumed ner ariye win sne same same HORSES.
Wnen @ s pinnaIn boI,Id L fht
monstrate, Iest tne IincesS snVIu s oe 6Lsul-
ened, ner moIne5 repheu: a tusure t 0ueen zen
must not know ene meaning ol iear' II Is Ior
that reason tnat we go on
Clubs composed of foreigners exist in
all the bio cities of the world. They ara nearly