Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Ethan Allen, the once famous trotting
horse: still lives at the age of 80 at Byeld Par
isb, Mass.
Captain R. Ureclc is the tallest man in
Colorado. His height is feet and inches.
According to Denver paper an eight
foot vein of kaolin has been found at Golden,
"A thousand colored people passed
through Birmingham, Ala, the other night, en-
route to new homes in Kansas, Arkansas and
Texas.
In Raleigh, n. c., lately the cold was
SO intense and travel, in consequences, so light,
that the street cars were tiled up" shortly
after dark.
AN offer of $500 was recently made for
maidstone owned in Charlotte, N. c. The
stone has record of having cured more than
lOO cases OF mad dog and snake bites.
The prize offered by the French Aead-
envy Of Sciences for paper on the transmits
sion of power by electricity has been with
drawn, no paper of sufficient merit having been
received.
During the past week hunting dogs
valued at $500 have been poisoned in Hunt
ingdon, L. l. More than SOsetters and pointers
nave met their death at the hands of unknown
miscreants.
"A domestic in Bangor, Me-, who was
given physicians prescription to have filed,
misunderstood her instructions and mailed the
paper, and In due time it reached the doctor
who wrote it.
AN enterpriSing resident of. Langres,
France, who had been arrested for shooting at
his sweetheart made love to the jailer's
daughter. She assisted him to escape, and the
pair then eloped.
"A Baltimore barber makes the assertion
that a mans beard grows faster in bright
weather than in cloudy. He thinks that the
sunlight has the same effect on the hair Of
mans head and face as it has on plants.
The Largest" locomotive ever built in
Massachusetts viii be shipped this week from
Taunton, Mass, to the Mexican Central Road
The engine has 56-inch steel boiler, 54-inch
driving wheels and 20x24 cylinders.
Upper Stratford, Conn, has a hermit
He is young man, and, according to accounts.
began the life of recluse because of disap-
pointment in love. He lives in a cave dug be-
meath large rock, and his only companion is a
mink, which he has trained to obey his COM
mands.
"A singular case of illness, and one
which puzzles doctors, is that of John McKin-
non, ST., Of Castine, Me. He has no control
over his right arm and leg, which move about
spasmodically, and at times violently. At first
he seemed to have but little pain, but now he
shows signs OF suffering, and is losing strength.
AN inventor named De Force, of Sioux
City. has perfected an apparatus which he
claims has solved the problem of perpetual mo-
ton. The plan of the machine is at present
kept secret. 1t has already turned a heavy
gr1ndstone 10 days without letting 60 its grip.
A patent has been applied for.
The thrifty Washington tradesman
knows how to make hay while the sun shines
and money while the rain falls. A grocer last
Monday charOod n PhiIadalnbfan oaDfa for
four crackers and two red herrings, which is
about on par with the old cost of 10 cents for a
California hot lunch" one cracker and pepper
sauce.
The Siamese King has put his court
etiquette aside and has started his sons to
England to complete their education at pub
lie school there, They are Princes Kilyakara,
Rabipatanasak Provitvatimoon and Chirapro-
vat, and their ages range from 13 to 10. Their
schoolmates will soon find shorter names for
them, and names that will probably please
them better than their own.
Two young men who keep bachelors
hall in Heard county, Ga, went home late the
other night. As they were about to enter the
house they hearda low, gurgling sound, which
so frightened them that they ran half mile to
neighbOr's house. A party from there armed
themselves with axes, scythes, pitchforks and
other deadly weapons and returned to find that
the noise had been made by a dog that was
choking to death on bone
"A member OF the Legislature of Ar
kansas recently had occasion TO nominate
young lady for the Office of enrolling clerk. He
is reported as having met the responsibility Of
his position in this superb manner: II shall
not say that the one name is as beautiful as
the angels are, for have never seen an angel
and know not how beautiful they are, but I
will say that if angels look like the lovely
maiden whose name put in nomination the
angels are beautiful indeed.
ciety of Edinburg John Aitkin submitted a
paper on Improvements in apparatuses for
counting dust particles in the atmosphere, and
explained that he had made a number OF ex-
periments in the open air at Colmonell, Ayr
shire. He there found that the number of
dust particles in the air ranged from 500 to
5000 per cubic eentimeter. He tested the air
of the meeting room and found it to contain
100000 dust particles per cubic centimeter,
while the air near the ceiling was found to
contain $500 900 particles per cubic centimeter.
An operatic manager who was about to
give a. grand opera in Rio Janeiro engaged
three different men as first tenor IN Paris Dur
ing the voyage this fact came out, and the
three men Indignantly demanded an explana-
tion from the manager. Gentlemen" he
said in suave tones, lit will be all right. am
an old manager in the Rio Janeiro business,
and either one Of you would be perfectly sat
iSfactory to me: but, we shall not be there
week before two are certain to fall victims to
the yellow fever, and the one that IS left Will
be my first tenor for the coming season. have
tried it many years. and never knew it to fail,
so there Is no use quarrel1ng about it at this
early day"
An exciting marriage took place the
early part of the week, at a museum in Mem
phis, Tenn. The bride was an Albino "curio''
and the groom an attache of the establish
ment. As the ceremony was being performed
by the Justice of the peace the Albino's brother
aau "a bridoorOOu1 hv the nd
groom grasped him by the hair. They waltzed
around the hall in hostile embrace, the bride
clinging to her chosen and the Justice following
law BY the time the circuit of the room was
the justice announced that the
twain were man and wife, and then began to
separate the irate husband and brother. The
newly married compile left the hall under the
protection of the law.