Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Pins are made 200 per minute.

Pins are made 200 per minute j..
We have 1000 women drug clerks.
Diamond scales weigh even hair.
ireland has 200, 900 women lace makers.
"A big Sharon, Pa, iron mill is run by
water
Belfast, Me-, has a>woman machinist
apprentice.
Sanford, Fla, sells alligator hides for
rs cents each.
"A Bridgeton, N. j., woman, 76 years
old. took her first railroad ride last week.
Massachusetts, has just passed law
against clipping horses or docking their taiis
Artificial ice is cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article is in the North.
The value Of church property in New
York City amounts to not less than $50, 100000.
"A prisoner in Kentucky Jail attempted
to commit suicide by eating two dozen pads Of
plotting paper.
Russian military authorities state that
they can in "a hours put ls0, 900 soldiers in the
field prepared for war.
Russia has fixed doctors charges. Physi-
clans making $50 per year will get 40 cents per
visit: others 25 cents. In country towns IL cents
is the usual charge.
Although there are 70 different Ian
guages and about 500 dialects spoken by the
American Indians. the sign language is equally
understood by all the tribes.
1t has been found that nickel-plated
bullet will go plump through a man. where one
without will stop short and England viii here
after nickel-plate all her bullets.
The "scow," sea bird, familiar to the
Georgia coast, has become so numerous that
them on the houses with short sticks
The latest medical pronunciamento 10
that smoking after meals is injurious. Since
it is already esta blished that smoking before
meals Is injurious the only refuge is to stop
eating.
"A stingy hunks of Burlington, VT,
drew up some valuable papers and used ink Of
his own make to save expense The other day he
in a loss of 5000.
The court decided against st. Louis in
q suit against the Western Union for IS each
per year for poles. 1t was decided that the city
cannot impose the tax, although it can regulate
the placing Of the poles.
The duck is to China what the Goldfish
is to the rest of the world. They eat duck raw,
cooked, boiled. fried, baked and every other
way. and they worry over the duck crop the
same as we do over wheat
England has over 81, ,000, 900 invested in
the manufacture of idols for heathen countries,
tinually calling for more money and more mis-
sionaries to suppress idolatry.
Raw ham and bologna sausage had for
years been favorite articles of diet with Joseph
Palmi, aged "a years. of New York. Last
Wednesday he died at Bellevue Hospital of
trichiniasis. His muscles were literally alive
with the parasitic worms.
Judge Schley, of Paulding county,
Georgia, drives to his buggy mule that Is
perhaps 35 years old and yet sprightly and in
fine condition. He bought the mule in 1865 as
a l0-year-old from a man who had picked him
up running at large after Sherman's march
through that section.
Out in Nevada electricity runs the very
deep mines. and has increased production %
per cent. The men who work 3l00 feet deep
live about two years, Notwithstanding the fact
that they work only two hours per day. They
get more pay than the eight-hour men They
work Is minutes and rest As
The emancipation of slaves in Brazil il
said to have one very curious consequence. that
of exhausting the supply. and gieatly raising
the price, OF corsets. All the negro women
liverance from bondage, although in so doing,
they resign themselves to another bondage.
Engineer j. c. Griffin, of Townsville,
Ga, has a couple of interesting pets, They are
two young wild turkeys. He found II eggs
while out on his run and set them under COM
mon hen. They all Matched, but ten of the
little fellows died. The two he has now,are
quite large, and bid fair to be raised.
The habits of the crow form an interest
ing subject for the study of the ornithologist.
The crow has alarger brain than most birds,
and all his energies are directed toward pro-
curing food. Crows will destroy the nests of
quail and other birds, taking the young from
the nests in the absence of the old birds. The
favorite food of young hawks is frogs.
There is a remarkable specimen of
deformed humanity at Paradise. in the north
ern part of Clay county, Missouri. His name
is Jos. Jesse. He weighs 200 pounds, has no
hands, feet, elbow joints or shoulder blades;
but notwithstanding these drawbacks. he en-
Joys life Immensely, walking about his
chair, talking well, writing with q pen in his
mouth, singing, Growing, barking, and in fact
an entire museum in himself. He
hold his breath for three minutes without any
apparent Inconvenience.
A queer trout story comes from Kineo,
Me. A party of fishermen were angling from
rowboat, and one of their number was feeling
for a small trout, when, In the clear water, a
big ten-pounder was observed tn start, OPEN
after the smaller fish. The little
fellow forsook the bait and swan rapidly round
and round the boat, hotly pursued by the big
fish. When two or three circles had been made,
and both fish were nearing the top of the
water, a man in the stern Of the boat suddenly
put his dip net in and neatly scooped the ten
FOUNDER out. 1t was queer way OF fishing,
and that was probably the most surprised trout
in Moosehead Lake.
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