Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

+ "A Kansas bride received barrel of salt
az one of her wedding presents.
Miss frankie Raymond, an s-year-old
Chicago girl, has three lion cubs to play with.
An advertisement in the London Times
offers to cure nervousness and timidity in BASH
full young men "who design making proposals
| Of marriage"
There are in London 65 theaters and
about 500 music halls. providing entertainmens
for 325. 900 people every night, or lOOOOO,OOO in
the course Of year.
The multiplication Of 987, ,654, ,321 by 45
gives A, Al, ,444, 49, Reversing the order and
multiplying 123 4567S9 by 45 result equally
odd is obtained, 5,555, sos.
Mo less than four doctors will be always
on duty at the PARIS exhibition and viii be
found, when wanted, at the liked points ae
which 1t has been arranged to post them.
by law recently enacted in Denmark
a man found drunk is carried to his own resi-
dence, and the keeper OF the saloon where he
bought his last glass has to pay the expenses OF
the ride.
Arnold Lake, of st. Johns, Mich. has
colt that was born without eyes, and that
portion Of its head where the eyes should
be Is as smooth and firm as any other part Of
its skull.
Mrs. George Thomas, a Dubuque
WOuan. dkoSe IN bn0 nlgnb TO smut Dina, ana
her husband bobbed up after her and fred six
shots at the supposed burglar, not one of which
came within foot OF her.
Mrs. Todd LATHE, of Bronson. Mich.
who has been totally blind for Is years, sudden.
ly regained her eyesight few DAYS ago Tbe
first person she saw was her daughter, and she
exclaimed: my, how you have grown"
The evil effects of an atmosphere sur
charged with dust, in factories, have been at
tracing so much attention in England that the
factory acts are about to be amended, and q
bill is to be brought before the House Of Com
mons comprising an effectual means Of pre-
venting injury from the inhalation of dust
I'm Matagorda county. Tex, are aam-
ber of negroes who are natives of Africa. They
were pirated and brought there from Guinea
during the brief period Of the republic. They
savagery, use their own language among them
selves and retain all the superstitions of feti-
chism.
There are more miles Of railway in the
Australian colonies in proportion to the pop
ulation than in any other country in the world
with the single exception of the United States.
The total cost Of construction of the Austria
Ian railways is estimated at E855O3,2I0 the
average cost per mile for several years being
about E10,1O2.
-Bellinis piano, on which he composed
his earliest operas, has just been found In the
possession Of widow lady of Catania, whose
husband bought it for Ell los. The Cantanians
have petitioned the owner to present the piano
to the town, Bellinfs birthplace, that the relic
OF their townsman may be preserved as a SOU
venir, and not pass into careless hands.
AS we recollect, says Eugene Field, Sir
Walter Scott's poetry is full of rhyme that Is
not perfect, and the greatest of modern En-
glish poets Invariably careful and correctpdoes
not hesitate to rhyme hundred" with 'thun-
grandeur Of the theme, the nobility of the
thought and the magnifcence of the move
ment are such that to stop or to carp at that
bad rhyme would be proclamation.
Mrs. Catherine Schmidt, of Wichita,
widow with q family of three children, was
found guilty Of selling three glasses of beer
and sentenced to imprisonment for three
months, and fine of $500 was imposed. The
trial was witnessed by large crowd, and when
the sentence was announced there were many
cat calls and Kisses. 1t is said to be the first
instance Of a woman being sentenced to Jail
for violating the prohibitory law.
, CThe telephone bell rang suddenly in
the Elysee the other day just as President
Carnot and the Cabinet ministerstwere assem-
bling in council An official put his ear to the
tube and heard an unknown person ask if he
were in communication with the Elysee, as if
he had an important declaration to make. On
being answered in the affirmative, the unknown
applied his mouth to the telephone and de-
livered the following message verbatim: ''vive
Boulanger! You are all pack of robbers!''
AT jackson, Mich, a butcher in the
Central market, in hanging out quarter Of
beef was unable to let go for time and then
fell to the walk. Several others who handled
the meat were knocked down, and only one,
man, who had on rubbers, failed to be shocked
Another man touched one piece Of beef and
laid his hand on another, when he, too, fell to-
the walk. The cause was finally found in az
electric wire communicating current to the
iron market front, charging the meat with
electricity.
Two Akron young men, saws a paper of
that city, one of whom Is q thoroughly educat-
ed MATCHMAKER, have completed an electric
clock which promises to revolutionize the
clockmaking industry in this country. So far
as can be learned this clock is the most simply
devised thing ever invented and must not be
confounded with the so-called electric clocks
now made, which are only self-winding and
clock has neither, and in fact is so simple that
a little child can see into it. There are a few
details yet required, but in a short time COM
plete and elaborate description Of 1t viii be
given.
AS motive powers, steam and electricity
are threatened with new rival. NJ. de Susini.
a Corsican doctor, has, it is asserted, after 20
years perseverance,, constructed a motive ap-
paratus or propeller, of 20horse power, which
Is worked by sulphuric ether, result which
the doctor anticipates Will realize saving OF
IS per cent of the combustible material at
present employed for setting machinery in mo-
tion. Experiments with the apparatus have
beenmade before scientific men at Paris. To
pronounce any decisive verdict on the merits
of the new agent would as yet, however, be evil
IDENTIFY premature.
"A London lady lost diamond earring
Of great value. A gentleman who had Just re-
turned from the East professed his ability to
discover the missing gem by means Of an In
dian drug. Accordingly, he asked all the COM
pany to be seated, and presently, after leaving
the room, he reappeared with a colored glass
bowl containing liquid. He then announced
that he should ask all those present to dip
their fingers into the vessel, and declared that
should anyone have secreted the jewel for a
Joke the jester's hand would be tinged
rich blood-red After the ordeal was gone
through everyone's digits came out perfectly
white, but the earring was found at the bottom
Of the bowl