Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Ireland has 2OO. 900 women lace makers.
The human race is increasing 50, ,0Oo, 900
yearly.
The United States imported 436, sos, 900
pounds of coffee last year at cost of SOC, 5OQ-
There are ], 200 persons of the name OF
Smith employed in the United States postal
service.
Statistics just published show that there
are ,272 soldiers six feet or over in height in
the British army.
"A peddler whose stock in trade consists
OF his own poems is travelling through Maine.
his business Is reported to be dull.
They are building a new meeting house
in Dover, Me, and the minister is making the
pews himself, he being skillful wood worker
Lyons, Neb., claims the champion wolf
hunter in the person of L. d. Higiey, who in
the past three weeks has killed 36 of the var
mints" The bounty on their scalps will net
the hunter S2I6.
In suit brought by wealthy social
organization, Common Pleas judge Of New
ark, n. j., has decreed that there is no element
OF sale IN private clubs bar business, and that
license therefor is not necessary.
"A man in Athens, Ga, dreamed three
successive nights of finding big pile of money
he went to the spot found the stone and turned
1t over. He found only black bugs under it,
and has lost his faith in dreams
An amusing story is told of a young
preacher in Texas. who astonished his audience
by announcing as text the seventh verse of
the third chapter of St. Charles. The slip Of
the tongue was understood soon after when
La.
Brady, son of Conductor Taylor, of the
Beech Creek Railroad, living in Williamsport,
swallowed cherrystone about six weeks ago.
Last Thursday he was taken i'll, and after sew
eral days suffering he died. A post mortem
examination revealed hole which the stone
had made in the bowel.
AT the conclusion of church service in
Cameron, Mo-, on Sunday night, a member Of
the congregation arose and announced that he
was agent for very fine brand of hair oil. He
then delivered quite discourse its good
qualities and after he had finished the eOngre-
cation was dismissed with the benediction.
1T has been discovered that the old COM
mon law lately resurrected in New Jersey under
which q common scold" is, or was, liable TO be
ducked on a ducking-stool, equally applied to
such incorrigible brewers and bakers as might
be found guilty of cheating in their malt or
meal. "Cucking-stool" was the original name.
The latest development of the automatic
machine is DIR. Cureall. in Holland. 1t is
wooden structure of man. with compartments
all over it, labeled with the names OF various
ailments. If you have pain find its corre-
spending location on the figure, drop coin into
the slot, and the proper pill or powder will
come out.
jackson Stevens, aged As, and Emma
Haynes. aged 20, both of Stevenson. Ala. were
married at Chattanooga the other evening.
The parties had never met until two days ago,
and the match was runaway affair. Another
q 1far 1ferhk
w. M. Lecroix, aged s. was married to Lou
Block, aged IA, Of Rising Fawn, Ga
james Leonard, a compositor on the
Times Democrat. Of New Orleans lately, in
seven days of seven and one-half hours each,
set and distributed l02, 800 ems-equal to about
10000 letters. He worked regular copy. and
In accomplishing this feat his arm, it is esti-
mated. travelled no less than Us miles.
AT The Hague recently General Grant
Wilson came across in the public archives .
letter addressed to the States General of the
United Netherlands by P. schagen, dated Am
sterdam, November T. 1926 announcing the
purchase Of the island of Manhattan by the
Dutch West India Company for the sum of S24,
or say f5. Two days later he was so fortunate
as to find the original deed. which had lain
perdu for 263 years among the papers of an
ancient Dutch family.
After Mrs. Levi Matthias, of Lanes
Valley near New Philadelphia, had done her
Mondays washing. she went into the kitchen
to get her clothes line. A vicious looking snake
had found its way into the house. and crawlcd
up the log wall, and lay stretched across the
clothes line. In reaching for the line Mrs.
Matthias got hold of the snake and came near
being frightened to death. Her screams
brought in the neighbors, who, after fight,
succeeded in killing the unwelcome visitor.
The industry of wood carving, accord
ing to a recent publication, was introduced into
Switzerland some 90 or 20 years ago by a native
of Br1enz named Christian Fischer. who used
to spend his spare time in making trifing OBJ
jects for sale. He started night school for
the benefit of the neighborhood, and thus laid
the foundation of an industry which now gives
employment to between 5000 and 5000 persons.
He first conceived the idea of making tiny
models of Swiss chalets, which at once found q
ready sale.
In ancient times the male element in
New England either combed its hair back with
no parting or parted it in the middle. A glance
at the statue of Horace Manu. on the State
H ouse lawn. or at any of his pictures, shows
that he followed the latter custom. A number
of prominent individuals might be cited whose
useful work in the world shows them to be any
thing but efeminate, are still accustomed TO
this style of hair dressing, thus indicating how
mistaken are the ideas of those who think the
habit trife unmanly.
John NJ. Callahan, ticket agent of the
Railway at Neenah, Wis, has
son named Willie, aged 311 years. who is a most
boy. He has marvelous:mental pow
ers. and can readily answer all the leading
questions in regard to American history, geog-
raphy and social economy. He can tell the
names OF all the Presidents down from Wash
ington and enumerate the Cabinet ministers of
each. He is well-posted on the Governors Sem
ators and Congressman OF the respective States
and to sum 1t up he is a bewjldering phenome-
non of facts and fancies.
"A couple Of young men living at Wells
vile, No., were rivals for the hand of ONE of
the fair Wellsville daughters. They were in
clined to settle the matter by duel. When she
learned of the affair she sent for them to meet
her at the hour set for the fight, and, after re-
minding them that duels were unlawful and
the victor would be fugitive from justice the
rest of his days. she suggested that they run
foot race, her hand to be the prize. The young
men accepted her proposition, and she umpired
The race and walked off the field with the
victor.