Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A pocket typewriter weighs four ounces.
"A Frenchman makes pulp from forest
leaves.
wheeling, W. Va. has the worlds
largest nail plant.
AN enterprising citizen of Johnstown,
n. j.. is applying for pension, divorce and =
postofice.
Several Caro- Mich. gentlemenrecently
saw large rat carry hens egg on its back.
They say that it twisted its tail around the egg
and carried it safely until it was mt with
stone
Woman fogging exists as . punish
ment in the TraDsvaal- All the South African
press is violently opposed to il, but only re.
Gently woman was sentenced to receive 70
iasnes Tor using obscene language
There is colored man in Quitman
county. Georgia, who has a son named David,
one named Jacob, one named Napoleon, ane
named Christopher Columbus, one named Fer
dinand and one named James Monroe.
Charles Wilson, of Cedar Key, Fla, is
10 years of age. 81 feet in height, and weighs
2os pounds. He has two brothers-one II years
OLD, feet tall and weighing $50 pounds, and ths
other 10 years old. and already giant.
"A capitulation of considerable moment
has been that Of London to French landscape
art Thenew rage is described as fast and fu-
Ilous. Inere mas never YET been modern
French landscape in the National Gallery.
"A man in Rothschild, Neb., dressed
himself In a shroud and laid himself carefully
into coffin, which he had purchased. In this
position he went to sleep. When his friends
discovered him, some hours later, he was dead.
William White, of Barlow county,
Georgia, has an old French coin that here
ceived for two gallons of whisky. a few days
after the battle Of New Orleans. There is no
date on 1t, but by tracing out the historical
characters it is found to be 100 years Of age.
1t is not often that such little matter
as three minutes stand between man and the
penitentiary. Yet that was the case in Toledo
the other day. when it was shown that theft
was committed Just that period before sunser.
and hence was petty larceny and not a bur-
glary Great is the ingenuity Of the Toledo
lawyer.
"A local paper says that at church party
recently held in McDonoagh, Chenango county.
N. Y, 40 young women were put up at auction
and sold to the highest bidder. A hayseed be-
heved the sale was bona hde, and put up all his
cash, " 40 on the prettiest woman bid OF. It
took considerable persuasion to convince him
that he could not remove his purchase to the
paternal ranch.
The little town of Newark, in Cali
fornia, has some good young men. They rode
drunken and abusive husband and father
named Uhase, out of town on a rail, and then
quartered the wife and children in the princi-
pal hotel until they had raised money enough
to send them to Louisville, KY, where the
w1fe's parents reside.
"A severe hailstorm, followed by aheavy
fall of rain, is reported from Murray county.
Georgia. The falling hail. by cold and force,
benumbed the fish in Sugar creek The fol-
lowing rain washed the helpless fish out of the
creek, leaving thousands of them high and
CltlZeQS surrounding al cd
hundreds OF pounds each Of the tsh for table
use.
Last week man named Hagan, while
at work in his field in ScriYen county, Georgia,
found gold coin about the size of a silver half
dollar, round, but not near as thick On one
side was the profile of man, and the inscrip-
ton "JosephUs L d. g. Port. eft. AIg. Rex"
side was q coat of arms, surmounted by
crown This coin was evidently lost during the
Revolutionary War, or, it may be, is stray
piece Of some hidden treasure.
-Aphasia in most extraordinary form
is at present under treatment by DR.. Charcot.
A Frenchman, aged 60 learned English
through living II years in North America, and
then Spanish after his marriage with Spanish
woman. He lost his command of these Ian
guages in the inverse order. First he was una
Bile to speak Spanish, then English went from
him. and lastly his native tongue, French. The
dulCblOu was dscI1DeQ 10 b1e SOILeul06 OF LQ6
third left lobe of the brain. and by method
1cal practice In conversation he regained his
normal ability, recovering the languages in the
order Of French, English and Spanish.
AN old-fashioned housewife in Cliff
ton, Pa, farm house will never permit her hus-
band to be without at least one black sheep in
his flock. She has got notion that 1t fs not
healthy to wear stockings with any kind Of aye
in the wool, and as she dislikes to wear white
hosiery all her stockings are made out of
natural black wool. She cards the wool into
rolls by hand, just as people did three or four
generations ago spins the rolls herself, and
knits her own stockings. Once a tree fen on
her only black sheep and killed it, and her hus-
band had to hustle around and find another.
1t took him three days and miles Of travel, but
he finally came across black eve lamb 10
miles away and boughtit.
j. j. T. Blackshear, of Dublin, Ca, had
a very singular incident with a moccasin the
other day. He was down on the side of the
branch near his house, when he discovered his
snakeship beside deep embankment and in .
narrow part of ditch leading to the branch.
Having a long handled spadein his hand he de-
cided to cut his head OF and jabbed the spade
at IL, which went into the sand about foot
deeper than he calculated upon. and Mr..
Blaekshear lost his balance and fell in on the
enemy. There was q general scuff1ing going on,
during which Mr.. Blackshear was endeavorTng
to get up, and finally succeeded after turning
over. He then began to try the embankment,
which proved too much for him for some time,
falling back on the snake for the first two or
three efforts His pants were badly torn in
but he does not think it was done by the snake.