Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Stone Mountain, Ga, people are engaged
in killing mad dogs.
John Christie, Marion, Kan. man,
has field of oats six feet tall
Asa Williams killed Sidney Goff. IN
Macon, Ga, the other night for cents
There is movement In Canada to abol-
ish the wearing of black for mourning.
"A colored man at ALBANY. Ca, has
served no less than q terms in jail for fighting.
"A petrifed tree was recently unearthed
at Farmingdale, N. J., l6 feet below the sur
face.
I'm q section q few miles square about
McRae. Ga, there has not been heavy rain
since April IA.
"A prisoner in a Kentucky Jail at
tempted TO commit suicide BY eating two dozen
pads of blotting paper.
The new Boston Directory for 1882 Just
published, contains 1883 names as against
19l, ,753 names last year. showing an increase Of
only 1.l00 names.
In the Paris circus trained lion Is at
present being exhibited who rides on horse
back. jumps through hoops and over bars. fires
of pistols and performs a number Of similar
tricks.
Realism in art will have an extrsor-
dinary revelation in New York, when lion,
painted by Boston artist, is placed in position
The owner of the picture, a hotel man, will
Illuminate the Lion with electricity and place it
behind row of real bars.
M. Sopinard. the great French anthro-
pologist. has been led by the shape of the leg
bones of the ''men of Spy" to the conclusion
had their lower extremities half bent like those
anthrophoid apes that inhabit trees.
The White Fruit Gamers of the Pacific
Coast are to hold meeting this week to con-
slider the advisability Of boycotting the Chinese
fruit Gamers. According to the San Francisco
papers, Cinnamon are going into this business
extensively, and are underselling their rivals.
"A real estate dealer of Chicago hit upon
a novel way to advertise his business and to
celebrate the national holiday. July he held
jubilee on his allotment and fired into the air
a skyrocket to which was attached quit claim
deed for lot. The man who found the deed
gets the lot.
1t is to be presumed that London
paper has made its computation with accur-
acy when it says that all the people now living
in the world or about 400 600 OOO could find
miles square, and, by the aid of telephone,
could be addressed by single speaker.
"A new shaping tool has been invented
a machine in which two fat surfaces, acting
vertically or horizontally and moving id oppo-
site directions, with sd Unstable dies fixed upon
them. roll in one motion a piece of metal, regu-
lar or irregular in shape, and of almost any de-
sired pattern. At single stroke of the me-
chanism may be obtained a sphere, a cone, q
chair screw, a bolt with thread and head-in
fact, an endless variety of mechanical FORMS
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is attracting eonsiderable attention. because Of
several inscriptions on its walls This is the
House That Jack Builtr stands out in bold relief
near the ton of the structure. At the second
story is the sentence, a. N Smiths Building;
Commenced 100 Years After the Inauguration
of George Washington assFirst President of
the United States" A third inscription, cut
in stone at the top of the first story, reads
paul Says, Owe No Man, Let Posterity Take
His Advice"
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tHe eouSresa'ion VI tlinIt! Onulens
Buffalo, N. =, has been quite disturbed re-
seryice Within the last rwo months mot less
than tbraa of the yonncer SINGERS have bacona
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reason ior tne tr ouple. Inc vensnasion OF tne
cnancel mas peen severely crltlciseo, ana, IN
Iacrtne arcnltect mas Deen strongy conoemneo
tor negieStlng 70 attenu 70 snis aeIeet IN 'ne
maln pooy Oh tne churen. ActIng un9er IN
sructt1s, tne Iustees iatey alrangeu IoI
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tnus 70 remeuy tne trouoie. 1et tne poys nave
contlnueo 70 IanI anu tne autnorltleS are AZ
SO Iar as 70 say tnat tneir cnlldren snaii not
sing tnere: anu tne cnolr Is nRely 10 De serious
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