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

-Creosote is proposed as fuel for tor
pedo boats.
A military pigeon station has been
established in Switzerland
Eugene Moore, Of Waukeenah. Fla,
killed 500 alligators this season.
The recent frost has destroyed over one
fourth of the grape crop of New York State.
"A Buffalo physician says that there are
times when every man has suicidal tendencies.
There will shortly be a public test at
Anneston. Ala, OF shiugle machine which IS
guaranteed TO make 5000 shingles per hour-
I'm a small town in North Carolina the
gentlemen were seen on the streets one day
last week with oVercoats over their seerSueAers.
The Judges of the Lackawanna county
tPennsy1Vania) Court, recently adjourned to
the ROADSIDE to try a case. TheJudges sat on
log.
The new powder that German soldiers
have in their shoessto prevent chafing is said
to contain parts salicyIic acid, 10 Of starch
and 81 Of pulverized charcoal.
Baseball is going up in the world. An
American sculptor has a statue under that
title in the ParIs salon. representing young
man in the act Of throwing a ball.
-Leprosy is increasing in Russia. Dur
ing the last ten years 40 patients were treated
in the St. Petersburg hospitals, half of whom
were natives of the city. The Baltic provinces
suffer most from the disease
in Leavenworth, Kan, man must sign
certificate setting forth that he is sick before
he can get drink at a drugstore. The highest
record of sickness in any one month was
reached in June, 1885, and the number of SICK
men was 1900.
I'm Paris the saccharine, or sugar made
from COAL has been unanimously condemned
by the medical profession. because it seriously
troubles digestion. In Consequence of their
recommendation law has been enacted pro-
hihiting the use of coal sugar as an article OF
food.
One of the simplest forms of shoes is
that worn in Singapore and India. 1t is merely
wooden sole with raised heel and toe and
peg or post in front The shoe is adjusted with
this peg between the big toe and its neighbor.
and the shoe is held on by a muscular effort Of
the toes.
"A Montgomery farmer has a colt that
has learned to ring the farm bell by catching
the rope in his teeth and prancing back and
FORTH He knows, too, when to ring it-at day
break, to awaken the farm hands, and at noon,
to call them to dinner, and is never five min
utes late or early.
Minnie Moses is sentenced to be hanged
at birmingham, Ala, on June II. The crime
for which she was convicted was highway rob-
berry and an attempt to murder an old woman
peddler. The old woman is still alive, and if the
sentence is carried out Minnie will be hanged
for highway robbery.
Near Summervil1e, La, a lady went
into the woods and caught small green snake
by the head. Covering it up she went into the
house where she was boarding and asked the
man: Don't you want pretty?'' Yes said
he She threw out her arm. The mans wife
was standing by, and was so alarmed at seeing
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dead.
Rev. George W. Murray, of Wilcox
county, Georgia, met his death in a strange
way recently. He had gone to a neighbor to
have his horse doetored for Iameness in the
left foreleg. He got through with his visit and
departed for home, and that was the last seen
of him alive. About 20 or 80 minutes afterward
the neighbor went out to the gate and found
Mr.. Murray lying there with the horse on top
OF him and his life crushed out. The horse
was lying with his head pressed against tree,
having fallen in such Wav that he could not
get up. 1t is supposed that when Mr.. Murray
went TO mount, on the left side of tia horse,
the latter's lame leg gave way and be fell on
Mr.. Murray with such force as 20 Kill him. IL
is probable that he was instantly killed, as
there were number of men shearir- sheep in
the lot who would have heard him if he had
made any cutlery.
Clarke county, Georgia, has always
been noted for having a man that could eat
more than any other one man in the United
States. His name IS Colonel Chancey and he
is now living five or six miles west of Athens.
A quarter of mutton baTbecued would harflA
furnish a lunch for him. Five pounds of che
with three pounds of crackers wouIdn't tenn
him to throw out his tobacco and take a snaf '
Twenty-six old-fashioned ginger cakes would -
whet up his appetite. But this is not magxer
to the new eater lately discovered. AJpeek of
Irish potatoes with two pounds of salt seems to
uraf inn in nOUfi a nd hroa If A
half bushel of onions have been known to dis
appear when sitting in front of his store.
Spring salad is a faVorite pastime, and two
bushels would only make him a lunch. Raw
potatoes ground peas. almonds with an occa-
sIonal cocoanut thrown in, strawberries, onions,
cabbage, pickles, all serve to make the big
eater of Athens ready for business, and give
him a relish ior his meals.
The old Roman wall of London, laid
bare by the excavations for the new postoffee
at st. Martin's-le-Grand. becomes daily more
interesting to antiquarians as further portions
are uncovered. A London paper notes the
fact and then goes on to say: From the bet
ter view now obtained, it is evident that the
Romans dug down about feet into the Lon1on
clay, filed up the trench for feet with mix
ture of clay and fints, surmounted this struc.
ture with feet Of the hardest concrete. and
then laid the tiles in sets of three courses each
separated by feet of stonework. Apparently
the wall was feet s inches high. A bastion
mas Deeu AOuuu dt In5 nOIlHWeSS corner o. the
ground, exactly coinciding with that marked
on the map Of Strype's edition OF Stow in I7j6.
but seemingly of later work than Roman
times-probably mediBval. Many pits have
also been found filed with animals bones.
which may either have been used for the rub
bIsh of the city or for the refuse of the slaugh-
ter-houses in the butchers colony which, from
Saxon times, existed close by in Moorsate
street, etc. When the site Of the French Prot
esrant Church is excavated, 1t is expected
that complete section of the wall and the
ancient town ditch may be discovered.