Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


1t is estimated that American women
pay So, 10000 annually for cosmetics.
George Washington still lives. His
name is found u times in the New York city
directory.
u. B. Staten, of Oscogee, Ca, has
planted 45 acres Of tomatoes this spring. He
has been offered 81, 500 for the crop on II acres
Of the field.
"A Windsor (Me. } philosopher says that
a man can live forever on a diet limited to
parched peas and spring water. He knows,
because he's tried 1t.
"A Southern paper tells the story Of
mouse which fell into pan of milk in Texas
dairy. and kept up such lively swimming that
he churned it into butter and was enabled to
leap out and regain his freedom.
Mr. Jacob Houser, of Housewife, Pa,
has in his possession q watch which has been
in the Houser family for 300 years, it having
been brought over from Germany by an an
cestor who migrated to this country. 1t is in
constant use and is good timekeeper.
"A Steubenville man thought some
thing was wrong with his nose. It was nearly
stopped up. After suffering from this annoy
ing ailment year or so he went to the doctor,
who removed a shoe button from the base part
of the nasal cavity. The man now breathss
more easily.
Some tricky youngsters in Belfast, Me-,
put one Of their number in the bottom of .
bag, covered him with old iron, rags. ETC.,
dragged the whole into shop, had the bag
weighed and were Just settling with the man Of
the shop when the hidden boy sneeZed and
spoiled the trade.
The bones Of mastodon were unearthed
on the farm of C. c. Tremble, near Windfall.
Ind. One Of the teeth was inches long and
inches in diameter, and a tusk of the monstrous
animal measured nine feet. When the air
struck the bones they erumbled TO pieces, and
but few of them were saved.
AN impartant suit has been decided by
the Supreme Court of Michigan. 1t was suit
against life insurance company and origi-
mated at Adrian. The insured took his own
life by cutting his throat, but was at the time
deranged. The verdict in the lower court was
against the insurance company and this verdict
was sustained by the Supreme Court.
Several months ago a Troy girl en-
ployed in box factory wrote her name in the
bottom of a box which reached the printing
house of Tuttle & Co., Rutland, where press
man named Alfred Henenshaw saw the name
and addressed letter to the girl A eorre-
spondence ensued and few days ago Alfred
met tho girl at Troy. fell madlyin love with her
and they are to be married shortly.
A dispatch from Dubuque declares that
speculator IS buying cats there at so cents to
tl edC0, 10 lake 10 OdkObI 10 sell 70 the 4ATIneES
as protection against rats When be gets
good carload of cats let him go 6O OF 20 miles
north of Dakota, in AssinabOia, Manitoba, or
Alberta, where there are no rats, but where the
pioneers are so lonely that they will give as
high as s. for cat or dog merelyfor the sake
of companionship.
Captain G. NJ Conley, who resides near
Palestine. Writ county, w. Va, is the owner
of pig that IL indeed a natural curiosity. It
hae al 1uoll. .forrao 1a0a md ufw II haa
seven toes on one foot and ten on another. Is
is about months old. and Captain Conley says
it Is as thrifty and hearty pig as he ever saw.
1t seems to experience no especial incon-
Yenience from its nun erous feet, but gets
around as lively as any pig.
"A citizen of Carthage, Mo, has in his
possession an original price list Of slaves, the
property of JEFF Davis brother before the war.
The list embraces 1O6 names of both sexes,
ranging from infants to the aged patriarch.
Babies are quoted at 500. children of II years
$500, able-bodied women $500 and thrifty farm
worth but 500, while an old blind woman was
set down at zero. Husband and wife are
quoted separately. The document Is queer
reading to the present generation.
An elderly unmarried woman in
Clifford village, near Scranton, has II full
grown pet cats on her premises. She has owned
more than that number at times, and occa-
sionally less. Last fall she had q, but dogs
and cruel neighbOrs have slaughtered half .
dozen of them since then. Her horde OF cats
are well-fed and fat, and they have the freedom
OF every room in the house but one. That one
room is the lparlor. into which the sunlight
never enters, because the curtains are always
down. Many ofthe cats are beautifully marked
and very handsome
Near Shiloh, Ca, in modest cottage
lives Captain Jane Smith, who has won the
title by the courage and Independence she has
shown in working farm of 100 acres. Left on
rented land with only q mule, two cows and
four hogs when her brother went to the war.
she and her sister have, out of crops Of their
own tillage, supported themselves and their
aged mother, bought the farm and built a COM
Portable dwelling. Rising at o'clock, summer
and winter, they worried field till after sun
set and fed the stock IN the dark. From supper
time till 10 o'clock there was constant clack
and clatter Of the loom, with the humming Of
the wheel rising above it. They spun and
wove all the cloth for their garments. Their
brother was killed in the war, but they are
now beyond danger of want.
Frederick Schultz sues August Michel
to recover damages suffered in novel way.
Michel is the proprietor Of St. Paul hostelrY
at which Schultz put up on the night of July
8, 1883. Michel and Schultz were old and fast
friends. After Schultz had retired and gone to
sleep, Michel went up stairs. and removing the
quilts from his sleeping guest, Michel painted
his friends body from head to foot with spots
black and red alternately. Schultz did not
wake up while this operation was in progress,
but only came TO his senses when he heard 80
uproarious boarders laughing and making a
disturbance over what Michel termed his
spotted gyasticutis." Schultz did not take
the matter good-naturedly, but proceeded to
clean out the house. He now sues Michel for
81 500 damages for that nights picnic, and
claims that since he was decorated he has suf-
fered great ridicule.