Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


rabbits.
-sportsmen in Florida complain Of
scarcity of alligators
The crown of Charles IL, made In l66O,
is the Oldest existing in England.
Its said of certain cranky clergyman
in Ohio that he always has either row or a re-
vival in his church.
Some Japanese chestnut trees at santa
Rosa, Cal. yield enormous fruit. One dozen
nuts weigh pound.
A paper read before the Historical So
eiety, of New York. states that there are 0s0CO
lawyers in New York.
Fencing has become so popular among
ladies upon the Continent that many converts
include = IN their curriculum.
-Exhibitors' tickets of admission to the
Paris Exposition will have their photograph
affixed to the pastboard to prevent transferring
them.
"A Kentucky woman laments the loss OF
purse, a thief having carried it of, which she
burial.
The English Admiralty is experiment.
ing with system OF electric signaling be-
tween commanders and engine rooms Of war
vessels.
"A ghost with the lock step is one of the
rareties Of spiritualism. but that is what they
say has been heard near the old prison at Al
ton, Ill
-Tuseumbia, Ala, was excited the other
day over negro who could drink whole pail
fuls of cold water and eat glass with an evi-
dent RELISH
Madame Tussaud's museum, in London,
has just been sold to joint stock company for
s565, 900. Four hundred thousand people visited
it last year.
The Emperor of Germany has semitic the
Emperor of Morocco Is fine horses in acknowl-
edgment Of presents recently sent from Moroc-
CO to Berlin.
Paris women now have a whim for nat
ural flowers. They are worn on the shoulders,
epaulette fashion, where they are in no danger
Of being crushed.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts gave as
many stalls in Savoy Theater as there were
years to her age at theater party in honor Of
her latest birthday.
"A st. Louis man believes that the num-
Der of his home should correspond with that Of
the year, and to carry out that hobby he has
moved every year since 1868.
Mr.. Smith, of Falls township, o., being
of an unusually prudent mind, has purchased
his coffin and tombstone, the goods to be de-
hyered on the day of his death.
AN oyster recently dredged up in Eng
lish waters measured seven inches in length,
the same in breadth, and 2O1& inches around
the outside edge, and weighed 81 pounds.
"A whale 90 feet long, the first seen
there in 20 years, lately went ashore in the Co
penhagen Sound, and was killed. Its skeleton
IS to be forwarded to the Copenhagen museum.
"A Grand Rapids man, who was arrested
for gambling, alleged that he had lost all his
I,o1 Hok oIO Tock 81, 4
was sleeping in the gambling room for shelter
when pulled.
The borough of Pottsville, Pa, wanted
bridge across the Pennsylvania and Reading
railroads, which run side by side 1t taxed each
company SIC, 600. built the bridge for SIS 932 O8
and was over 81, 600 in pocket.
Hereafter in Kansas a grand jury can
only be drawn on petition of 100 taxpayers and
not then If the judge of the district shall de-
clare month before the beginning of court
that there is no necessity for it.
-G. W. Papot, of Orlando, Savannah,
hired couple of negroes to work on the
streets, but when they found that their fellow
workmen were Italians they refused to work.
The line had to be drawn somewhere.
AT Columbus, s. c., the other day the
ten pail bearers at the funeral of the Rev.
Thomas B. Clarkson, an Episcopal Minister of
high standing, were all colored men. Such a
thing had never before been seen in the South.
A rope little more than half an inch
in diameter, S5 feet in length, and mads of
strands Of shoe threads, has been purchased
by the Sheriff of Utica, N: Y, for hanging VIr-
gil jackson, in case he is called upon to pr
form that task
Princes Kilyakara, Kabipatanasa1,
Provitvatimoon and Chiraprovat, sons of ths
King of Siam, ranging in age from 13 to
years. are about to come to England to com
plete their educations. They already speak
English f1uently.
AT the marriage of Lady Indina Nevil
to Mr.. Brassey, in England. the bridemaids
wore cricketing costumes, the colors being
carnation pink, green and white. Their Dou-
quets were pink carnations and green orchids
tied with white ribbons.
"A silver pipe, inscribed on which was
the inscription, Presented by Major General
Harrison, u 8. A, on behalf of the United
States, to the Shawanoese tribe of Indians,
1914" has been presented to President Har-
rison by gentleman who secured the relic in
Indian Territory.
The ballet pantomime, ''The Belle Sofia"
now being produced at Cassel, pictures Bulga-
ria and introduces the Emperors Of Austria
and Russia the Sultan the Kings of Greece
and Italy, and Bismarck. In the final scene the
Emperor of Germany sits on his throne, sur
rounded by dancing beauties, with Bismarck
by his side.
An Englishman named St. John has
been travelling in the West He got 50 tired
explaining to everyone that his name was pro-
nounced 'Sinjun' that he finally hired man
to do it for him, and at last accounts the man
had got into six fights with groveling hotel
clerks, who tried to persuade him that he didn't
know how to pronounce his employers name.
AT the last presentation of "Adrienne
Lecouvreur," by Sara Bernhardt, in Milan. she
was called before the curtain at the end to re-
ceive a gold medal from the Dramatic Society
of Italy. When about 60 accept it she was
seized with an attack of Mysteries and for over
an hour was in the hands of the doctors. The
audience waited in sS1te of great excitement
until it was over.
An extensive postage stamp show will
be held in New York city next week. Nearly
all the old "Postmaster's stamps" will be on
exhibition. including the only one in existence
that was issued in New Haven, Conn. 1t was
not an adhesive stamp, but was Joined on the
envelope. From the fact of its beingithe only
one known it is valued at fabulous sum. No
price has ever been fixed on IL. It ID Of dark
rod color and issued in 1875.