Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


1T is death to any person in Siam .
mention the Kings name. This Is custom
that many other tribes rigidiy adhere 70
-Thirty-seven Maine men registered at
Chicago hotel on the same day. An were on
their way West to grow up with the country.
-Ho Yen Chong, q native Of China, and
. graduate Of the Columbia Law School New
York. has been admitted to practice IN the
courts of the Hawaiian Islands.
i'm Iceland the Good Templars have BE-
gun an agitation for prohibition. The whole
population Of Iceland is but 10000 to 5000, and
Of these several thousand are Good Iemplars.
"A Memphis policeman, who was called
on to shoot dog. managed to hit = boy IN the
leg. man In the foot and a horse In the head,
bullets along the street, the dog trotted Of.
British Government s125, 900 year for the pri-
ment on the postage stamps. the advertisements
to be put on at the time the canceIling Is done
and by the same machine.
There have been settlements on the
Kennebec river in Maine since 1924 and it was
only the other day that the discovery was made
that there is coal in the banks Of the stream
A local geologist says that considerable quanti-
ties of it are washed ashore on the beach at the
mouth Of the river.
Mrs George W. TowIe, Of Kezar Falls,
Me-. recently got letter. The letter was not
an ordinary every day sort Of eDistle. but
one that has travelled. 1t left the postof1ee at
Granger. N. Y. October 8 1878, and has been
somewhere on the road ever since, Just EheZs
few days ago.
-On Monday John German shot q carp
at Evans Lake, N. J. It measured 80 inches
long and 20 inches around the body. The
weight Of the fsh was IA pounds u ounces.
German has since been patroliing the pond
and Thursday discovered another carp nearly
in capturing it and took it to Philadelphia,
where it win be placed on exhibition.
"A steamer arrived at Philadelphia the,
other day with a cargo of fruit and number
Of tarantulas on board. Members Of the crew
were often obliged to keep watch at night and
sweep the vipers into the ocean as fast as they
crawled mp on deck. The vesse; was loaded 70
its hatchways At times the deck was literally
covered with them, and some were as big
around the body as good-sized orange.
"A London paper states that the other
night the marchioness Of Bristol the ladies
Harvey, and few OF their friends went
through the streets and squares Of BeIgravia.
singing and playing ON guitars and mandolines.
They tried to suit all tastes and sang 20 Bella
Italian and 20 Dem Golden Slippers with
equal vigor. The proceeds Of the nights work
are to be given to the hospital Sunday fund.-
"A very extraordinary society, called
1.-THE Order of the Mystic Circle" has just been
organized in Philadelphia, and viii soon be
duly chartered. Its objects are the protection
and relief of unfortunate husbands. And only
those men are eligible for membership who
have wives who make their lives unhappy. The
society already numbers 200 members. and. It ts
said, it will soon have membership OF 5000.
-Winslow, Me-, must be good place to
grow old in. Mrs RoxaDna Simpson, Of that
town. 90 years old last January, makes her own
bed and walks around the neighborhood to the
distance of one half mile or more. Mr. and
Mrs Gullifer, of the same town. are aged %
and 96 respectively, and have been married II
years last November. Mr.. Gullifer does the
chores about the farm while his wife does the
housework, and after the labor Of the day they
sit together and smoke their pipes
"A runaway couple from Virginia were
married Thursday evening on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry.
They were George s. Houses and Mary 81.
Mohler, both of Eules Switch, Jefferson county,
W. Va. They attended the fair at Shepherds
town in the morning. and there decided to wed.
there sought the Rev. Mr.. Isaac, who, in the
presence of a few of the bystanders, made
them one.
"A wealthy gentleman who died in
Vienna not long ago, in his will left the whole
of his property to person whom he had seen
every day for years. This was a young lady
who lived directly opposite his own lodgings
OF this young lady the old gentleman knew
nothing whatever except her name and q
grateful fact that tor several years, as heS
passed to and fro. she lad greeted his com
and going with pleasant, friendly SMILE.
was very lonely in his elderly bacheaorhooC.
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grateful. No tie, indeed, seems to have bound
him to any human being except to the fair
damsel who thus silently frightened his soli-
tary life.
AT Madison, Wis, the other day, Miss
Kate l. Pier, of Milwaukee, made an argu-
ment before the Supreme Court. She is the
first woman lawyer in that State who ever did
such a thing, Miss Pier is a beautiful young
brunette with magnificent raven hair, which
hung in prodigious braid to within foot Of
the floor. Her opponent was John ]. Sutton,
of Columbus. one Of the biggest and gruffest
lawyers in the State, but who on this occasion,
wore a singularly subdued mien. The case ar
gued involves several hundred dollars, and
decision in it was reserved. Miss Pier gradu-
ated from the law department of Wisconsin
University year ago. Both her mother and
father are lawyers, and the trio practice TO-
gether in Milwaukee. Another girl in the
family is now studying for the bar.
-Colonel OnarleS L. w uSon, henbucky
State Agricultural Commissioner, has rabbit
foot with history to it, which he intends to
present to the next Speaker Of the House Of
Representatives, with the request that it be
handed down in the direct line of succession,
each subsequent term Of the Legislature. The
rabbit had but three legs and was caugh in .
cemetery at the dead hour of midnight by
one-legged man. Before he got it the whole
neighborhood had been praying for rain to save
the crops. But when he took the rabbit foot
in his hand, rubbed the fur and made o few
mystic signs, to his astonishment in a short
while the great clouds began to pour a deluge
of water over the thirsty land. Colonel Wilson
had it tipped with silver for a talisman to be
suspended as a watch charm and used by the
Speaker of the House like the magical ring in
the Arabian Nights.