Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


Brazil has prohibitory tariff on hand
organs and monkeys.
in France experiments are being made
with cork car springs.
A hat measuring s5S inches has just
been finished by firm in Bethel Conn. It 10
for Chicago man.
"A hard-up Georgian endeaVored to
raise money at Americus the other day BY
mortgaging 2Syear-old mule.
The Dacca Shdkti-an Indian paper
AYERS that there is living at Baruda, near Dacca
. Yogi who is more than 150 years old He il
strong and able-bodied. He talks with all.
"A negro at Daytona, Fla, went to sleeu
last week with half-dollar in his month, and
swallowed it and it came near choking him to
death before it could be poked down his
throat.
About 5000 brakes have been invented
and patented. One Of the latest Is described
as beautifully SIMPLE in its working. Push =
button and the brakes are set on the entire
train.
"A Chicago man went into q bookstore
the other day to buy copy of BEN She" and
got mad when he was told there was no such
ben Hur.n
Among some old papers in London,
recently, a genuine likeness Of John Bunyan as
he appeared in his prison cell at Bedford has
Just been discovered, for which the owner de-
mands 600 guineas.
Detroit, Mich, is about to undertake Q
flower show, and some citizens of Florida pur-
pose sending there gratis carload of choicest
blossoms in token Of gratitude for Northern
help IN their time of fever trouble.
"A peculiar accident happened to VIM.
Fisher, Lima, o., youth. He was standing
H.
looked upward to see what was the matter,
when a large fragment OF glass hit him in the
eye, cutting the ball nearly in two.
"A little boy who lives at Sparta, Ga,
met with a singular accident. In running after
q robin he stepped on some object which gave
his foot a sudden twist. This caused the bone
in his leg to split, from the consequences Of
which he has suffered very much. II was some
time before the cause Of his troubles was found
out
The fine compact sand which gives such
firm footing upon the beach of Anastasia,
Fla, is scarcely half an inch in depth. Below
it lies bed of loose, broken she'll Under the
ocean bottom is transformed into a myriad Of
grottoes towers, and minarets, built of glitter
ing crystals and gems of every hue.
j. Odom, while firing the woods near
Reidsville, Ga. recently, found rattlesnake
over five feet long near a gopher hole. He
sent his boys to bring his gun while he kept
the snake away from the hole. In the mean
time another rattler of about the same size
appeared and entered the hole. He shot the
first, and procured assistance and dug out and
killed the second.
I'm the largest jewelry shops in New
York. where S, 900 worth of gold is used a day,
the gold is not weighed out to the workmen,
and nothing but the honesty of the employees
prevents loss. But while the gold is allowed to
haf fnT1oa fOha Iao 20 ko Ir-oIroA
because it has been found that the man who
would not steal grain of his employers gold,
would not hesitate to appropriate his neighbor's
tobacco.
The chair back has gone through almost
as many evolutionary stages as the animal
kingdom itself. Originally designed as a pro-
lection from sudden attacks in the rear. it
became, from protecting even the head of the
house. reserved for those holding the highest
rank in households or courts. When the long
white wig came into use the chair back had to
be sacrificed to the eXigencies of fashion, since
which time its significance has been lost.
Among the hereditary jewels belonging
to the Duke of Cumberland are Queen Char
lotte's pearls valued at $4,000, and about
which, for 20 years, Queen Victoria and the
Hanoverian King quarreled with majesterial
dignity The Queen maintained they belonged
by right to England. The King insisted they
should have been sent to Hanover in 1897 on
belonging to the Duke are valued at s. 100000.
His gold and siVer plate weigh Il tons.
There are at present some 1000 women
employed in drug stores throughout the coun-
try. When the Woman's School of Pharmacy
was first organized at Louisville there were but
two women engaged in the business and both
of these were in the laboratory of one of the
professors. During the last term more appli-
cations for graduates to I'LL responsible posi-
tions in drug stores orlaboratories of manufac-
turing chemists have been received at the
Louisville school than the total number which
the school has graduated since its commence
ment.
In the Elberton (Ga.) fire John Bailey
lost over s.. 400, including two $500 bills, Mr..
Bailey collected the charred fragments and
ashes of this money and sent them to the
United States Treasury. Last week he re-
ceived check from the Governments for 500,
with statement that if he would make an
affidavit to his possession of the unredeemed
$500 bill that it could also be paid. He is happy
over the recovery of goods that he once sup
posed lost beyond redemption. The night Of
the fire he offered his interest in this money for
$500.
"A GAINESVILLE (Ga. writer says: ST heard
a truthful, religious old lady say that when she
was little girl she was sent to pick cornstalks
with a child of a areputed witch. Growing weary
of the work, the child of the witch mother pro-
posed to collect the stalks without further
labor. A few minutes later the wind began to
rise, furious whirlWinds made their appearance
in different parts of the field, the stalks were
lifted in the air and were being rapidly whirled
into large heaps here and there over the field
when my informant, becoming very much
frightened, begged that it might be stopped.
The witch child waved her arms the wind SUBJ
sided and the stalks were left in their disar.
ranged condition.
An old Dutch doctor named Sturhe Set.
zer, who lived in Franklin county, Ca, was the
subject of strange visitation. His house was
situated about half mile from the graveyard,
out of which a brilliant light would rise night
after night and passing over the tree tops set.
tie over his house aad remain stationary for a
time, when it would again rise above the trees
and sweep through the air u the direction
from whence it came and sink into the earth at
the graveyard. On the night of Setzer's death
1t shone more brilliantly than ever before-it
hoYered over the house for long time, and as
the dying man drew his last breath it arose in
the air, and, like flaming meteor, moved
swiftly to the graveyard, sunk into the earth
and was never seen again. There are many
who witnessed this strange phenomena and saw
the blazing specter on the very night that old
Dutch doctor died.