Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Warren, N. h, has record Of 42 bears killed.
AN s-year-old lad. Richard Freeman,
of st. Louis, while trying to see how long ne
could hold his breath, burst a blood vessel, and
a few moments later died.
"A Toledo woman, who has twice been
divorced from the same man, married bin TWO
weeks ago for the third time. Altogether she
has been married six times TO three men,
There is only one prisoner in the jail OF
Hughe county, Dakota, and he would %
promptly released If 1t was not necessary 70
keep the insurance good by having somebody
in the Jail.
Electric power has been utilized in the
Galician forests to fell trees. The work Is done
by means of drill, operated by an electric
motor mounted on a carriage, which Is bropgns
up close to the tree and shackled to 1t.
There is living near Sycamore, Mass, .
family that occupies farm that is said to have
been handed down from father to son for six
generations. When the father Of this line,
1nomas Upper, settled on the land IN 1624, the
place was an Indian village known as Shaun
The body of man found hanging to
tree in Missouri had this card pinned to it: II
die because l am too burned lazy to live. IL
the rest of you feel as do you viii let me
cOrd.n
1.-THE curfew tolls the knell'' no more in
Mons. From this week forth the eurfew bell
will cease to be rung at IL o'clock 1t is be-
heyed that Mons is the last town in Belgium
to have kept up this ancient way of warning
the citizens to retire to bed.
The Calling Company's new factory in
England can turn out 100000 cartridges .
week, and 1000 machine guns year. Thirteen
hundred is the full complement of employees,
and the company, which has secured from DR..
'Gatling the right to supply the Eastern hemi-
Is OH
with nearly all the Governments Of Europe and
Asia.
Prof Shaler, of Harvard College, who
has given much thought 60 a scheme for pro-
viding the necessities of college life at the
lowest possible price. has, with some other
instructors, organized the "Econom1c Club"
which will provide board sor So so week, and
textbooks and other things at low prices.
About 100 students have decided to go into the
scheme.
They tell of a cat in Lee county,
Georgia, which actually committed suicide.
Her kittens were drowned, and she went about
for hours in great grief; then, climbing up on
the corncrib, she stuck her head through
crack, and moving along until she came to
narrow place in the crack, let go with her
claws, and hanging, slowly chOked to death,
without struggle or any effort to save herself.
The tell of Judge in Bennington, Vt,
who, having spoken of buying a safe, was inter
viewed by two rival agents, each of whom had
so much to say in favor of his own particular
safe that the Judge was quite at a loss to de-
eide which to buy. In a happy moment he
thought of Burglar Price, whom he had himself
sentenced and going to the Jail he obtained
this expert safe breakers opinion and then
gave the order.
"A curious noveItywi be introduced in
Washington during the Inauguration to help a
man md his cab in the wilderness Of the
vehicles. A stereopticop screen will be erected
on one of the corners of the building, and
when gentleman desires his carriage he will
give his number to the operator, who will flash
it ont where all the haekmen can see it. If the
line is too long and complicated, messenger
boys will be stationed at intervals to repeat the
announcement
"A fish story, which makes up for any
inactivity there has been of late in that line Of
literature, is furnished by Bangor. Me-, paper
Here it is: Two fishermen at Pushaw Lake
who baited a line with sinner and put it
through the ice, noticing great comnotion
presently, took it from the water, when it was
found that a white perch weighing about half
a pound had first swallowed the bait, and then
an enormous pickereI had swallowed both the
perch and its prize.
Last spring lady living on Mounts
Bowdoin found II four-leayed and 1 six
leaved clover, all on one plant. It was growing
on rocky soil, and she pulled it up. took it
nome anu SET II OQD IN leT 5dTueQ. IL
but did not increase in size, the roots refusing
to spread. All summer it bore four-leaved
clover, and in the autumn it was transplanted
in small box and taken indoors. Since that
time it has bore 81 four and dozen fve-leaved
clover.s
Mrs. Richard Perkins, of Boston, has
presented to the Bostonian Society three-
page letter that John Hancock wrote from Lon
don on March 2, 1861, to the Rev. Daniel Per-
kins, of Bridgewater. In it Hancock said: Il
shall with satisfaction bid adieu to this grand
place, with all its pleasurable enJoyments, for
the more substantial pleasure promise myself
in the enioyments Of my friends in America
The greatest estate in England would
be but poor temptation to me TO spend my
days here"
An Chic newspaper tells this story
about Horace Porter son of the General
When he was in Princeton College (he gradut
ated in the class of 's7) he was ill for some
days. While he was stretched out on a couch,
in his room there came a rap at the door.
who's tnere?" ne shouted. Its me, DR.. Me-
Gosh, /" was the answer in hard Scotch Drogue.
You're a liar" replied Porter, who really
thought it was classmate. "If it was DIR. Nc .
Gosh. he would say, 1t is l." There was no
answer to this but the shutting of feet down
the corridor. Young Porter ran to the door,
cautiously opened it, looked down the hall,
and saw the back and tall, stopped form OF Dr.
MeCosh disappearing. The President Of Princes
ton never spoke of the incident; nor did Porter
until he had his sheepskin.
The estate of Miss Catherine Peirson, Of
Richmond, Mass. has been inventoried. and
has proved great and pleasant surprise to her
relatives She was thought to be rich, but no
one supposed that she was possessed of a per-
sonal estate of almost $4,000. nearly all in
Government boncV. bank and irst-class rail-
road stocks. Among her household goods and
apparel were 80 bonnets. dating back as many
wears: 70 shaWls, some of them very valuable,
and 500 small glass walls that had some
time contained medicine, but were now empty
and wrapped in white tissue paper and packed
away There was also q surprising collection
of silks and satins. Miss Peirson was one OF
the noted characters of the county, and always
attracted much attention at the cattle show,
which she annually attended, dressed elabor'
ately and wearing many diamonds.