Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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John Terhune, Of franklin, Ind,
taken out license to marry his mother-in-
| Mrs. Richardson.
"A rat and match set steambo
fire at Brunswick. Ga. the other night
blaze was soon extinguished.
"A woman in Maine, speaking
/ sudden death of her husband. is report
| have said: Before he died he ate q gallo
| oysters for 500, and cleared SS5 for his fan
his funeral only costing SIS"
-Chattanooga has received eva.
phone" This is an instrument shaped like
| ordinary iron rod. which, when placed on
stopcock. will convey the sound to the ear =
case the water is running In this way it can
be determined whether or not the water Ia
| shut on in q house without entering the house.
AT the fair at Terre Haute the other
day Mr.. James A. Hall ana Miss Rocka Heyen
were married by the Mayor in the judges stand
of the race track, and in the presence OF Is. 600
MUM of SO. and merchants In the city gave
them various household articles, in all amount
ing to 500 in value.
"A local brass band plays all day long in
a room at the Edison laboratory, in West
Orange, N. j.. for a phonograph, and large
numbers of duplicate cylinders containing the
hibtion. The manufacture and shipment OF
the cylinders will continue so long as the exhi-
D1tion remains open.
The following advertisement appeared
in a recent number of the London Tablet: ITO
Parents-Unruly boys and eirls of any age Wis
tied and punished at their homes by thorough
disciplinarian accustomed to administer cor.
poral punishment. All bad habits cured by one
or two attendances. Fee. shillings for two
visits. Address .Birch.'"
The petrifed body of a woman was un-
earthed in the cellar of the old African Metho-
dist Church, Sixth and Lombard streets Phila-
building. The body was in a coffin which was
inclosed in lead-lined box. 1t is in a perfect
state of preservation. and is supposed 70 have
been buried over 100 years.
-"Grand Trunks is phrase which has
perhaps puzzled more than one French trans
lator of English. 1t has not, however, been so
literally rendered, so far as appears. as it was
the other day in a Parisian periodical in an
article on Mr.. Edison. The Grand Trunk was
metamorphised into "Grande Valise du chemin
de fer" or 'big railroad valise."
There is one terrible circumstance in
connection with the Venetian glass industry,
and that is that after many years of work, when
these good people are between 40 and so years
Of age, they begin to lose their sight. and after
short while are wholly blind. The blindness
is caused by the excessive heat and also by the
glare of the never-ceasing flames from the glass
furnaces.
Mr.. John M. Stearns, of Brooklyn, was
united in marriage on Friday to Mrs Katie
Vesper, of Thomaston, Me. Mrs. Stearns is
the veteran lawyers third wife and he is her
third husband. The latter he's bsen a widower
for two years and half, and TIE former has
cultured woman. fairly advanced in years, and
the groom is Is.
There are 48 geological gardens in the
world. Of them being in the United States,
located as follows: Philadelphia, New York,
Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis and San Fran
cisco. These institutions are supported by the
cities or by local enterprise instead of the ma
tional Government but IN Europe there Is an
entirely different state of affairs, nearly every
nation supporting its own garden or park, and
some OF them support several.
According to French paper sea
monster, such as no fisherman has ever seen
before, has been stranded on Bancais Rocks,
situated to the west of the island of st. Honorat
near Cannes. The creature measures 51<
metres in length, and is metres round the
thickest part of its body. 1t has beak
sembling that of parrot and two horns on It's
head; its eyes are at distance of one metre
from the extremity of the beak.
An enormous yellow spider in an i'm
mense web which was found in the back yard
of Deacon Porter. in the South Chester colored
settlement, raised a great commotion among
the ignorant neighbors the other day. Some
how some of the more superstitious colored
people believed they saw the words The world
Is coming to end' in the outlines of the web,
and the colored population fiocked to the place
in great numbers and were greatly frightened.
frederick Sohwatka writes as follows to- :.
a Chicago paper; when the announo3fESEtc1
my discovery of cliff dwellers in NorthtChihua-
hua was made some months ago, the question
was raised Pto the relation these living cliff
dwellers sustained to the extinct tribes whose
dwellings are found in Arizona. l have exam
ined the cliff dwellings here and find them the
same as those in ihuahua. This supports the
theory that the cliff dweliers. driven out of
Arizona by the war-like tribes. found safe
refuge in the Sierra Madres. where found
thousands of them few months since.'
One of the --LATEST men in the country is
John Curtis. who is serving three years sem
tence in the State prison at Salem, Ore. Curtis
worked in the foundry and about three months
ago took of his boots on the plea that they hurt
him. and then burned his foot severely tbat
he was laid up. When the burn was healing he
put vinegar on it and aggravated it to prevent
its getting well. The prison physician threat
ened him and managed to cure the wound.
Curtis was set at work again. He worked four
hand. 1t took two blows. One cut through the
deshy part of the hand the other clean through
the wrist joint. He confessed tina he did 1t 70
avoid work.
Edward Kennedy, employed on the
Samuels farm, in Windsor. Conn.,, has un-
earthed IN one OF tine nelus an ancient silver
coin bearing the colonial stamp Of Massachu-
setts. 1t is bright and the date and inscription
are as plain as ever. On one side Is the word
s.Massach usetts, !" with tree in the center. and
on the other 'New England, 1852, VIZ (shill-
ings). The coin one of the rarest of the
colonial pieces. At the time it was struck the
colonists had but little coin, because they had
to send their money to England to buy SUD-
plies. Trade was carried on by barter, wampup,
indian corn and even bullets being frequently
the mediums of exchange. Finally, in 1850, the
Massachusetts Legislature authorized the coin
ing of Pine Tree shilliDgs. like that found BY
Kennedy.
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