Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Damascus has 1000 inhabitants and
neither gas nor street cars.
Women have got 65 per cent Of the 329-
600 divorces granted In the United States In the
past 20 years.
In Paso del Norte, Mexico, they have
inaueurated a series of Sunday bull fights to
raise money with which to purchase a town
clock.
Dentists in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are like
| ly to have an opportunity to 60 fishing. An
Indian doctor visited the town. and duIinga
! lew days stay extracted nearly 1OOU teetn-
The results lust published of the census
taken on December l, 1888, show the populs-
| ton of Switzerland at that time to have been
| 1880
"A California paper remarks that it's
hkeiy, II santa Cruz gets new jail the pres
ent practice of the prisoners climbing out and
gong down town to ind the Sheriff when tney
want MIN VIII probably be discontinued
"A dog at Fosters Meadows, L. L, after
being absent from home five days. was found
with another dog which was almost frozen to
| death, on the step of his masters home. He
had dragged the dog from some unknown place
| and saved its life.
The meanest man in the world is named
Brown, and he lives at Moberly Mo. He sold
his neighbor Jones half interest in y COW and
then refused to divide the milk, maintaining
that Jones owned the front hall of the cow.
The cow recently hooked Brown, and now he
is suing Jones for damages.
"A gentleman was arrested in New York
day or two ago for assault. His defense was
that he had merely defended himself from an
assailant who had threatened 60 kick lung
further explained. Il ups and hits him In the
rib" On this showing the rib-hitter very
properly was discharged.
Memory hoops" are the latest fad in
Kansas City A memory hoop is about 10
inches Ia diameter and will hold from 30 to 40
bows or knots. And the thing for the male
friends Of young: lady to do do is to give her
on the hoop. The girl who covers the most
hoops in this way is considered the reigning
belle.
DIR. j. NJ Edmunds, in paper in
dental monthly, advocates the implanting
metallic roots in the jaw, and the building of
artificial teeth upon them. He believes that
tistry. By planting two metallic capsules in
the rear Of the jaw and two in the forward
portion, he thinks it practical to lay founda-
ton for complete set Of permanent teeth.
The United States pays 100000 year
for its weather service, Great Britain SS0,000
Germany $4,000, Russia $65 900, Austria $40 Co.,
Switzerland $1,000, France $4,000. And, though
no European nation attempts to do as much as
we do, or takes general observations more than
once day, the percentage of verihcation Of
predictions is rising there, which is hardly
the case in this country. Our weather service,
with its great cost and thorough organization,
ought TO be the best in the world.
The small legacies which William
Parker, Of Keokuk, Iowa, left to his seven
children have just been explained by the large
bequests he made to another family of eight
children he had in another county. How he
carried on his dual life so long without de-
lection puzzles both sets of children. Among
other eecentricities he once changed from s.
a-week boarding house to g 50 one: he would
walk 20 miles to save. car fare, and at the age Of
rs he began counting the girls.
Elias Hafsas, of st. Paul, went to an
asylum after severe illness, thinking he
might be a little crazy. The doctors thought
so, too, and kept him until his sausage busi-
ness was ruined and his wife took up with an
other butcher, whom his little daughter was
taught to call papa" When at last he con-
vinced the doctors he was not crazy any more
he tried to straighten the domestic tangle with
a revolver, and now he is infa fair way of going
back to.the asylum, while all the others con-
cerned are happy.
The following are the latest statistics
concerning Niagara Falls: The outline of the
American Falls is about 1000 feet, and the
height about 165 feet. The descent in the
rapids above the American Fall is about 40
feet to the half mile. The outline of the
Horseshoe Fall is about 1900 feet the height
about 155 feet, and the descent in the rapid
above about IS feet to three-quarters OF
mile. The volume of water passing over both
falls about Is 600 600 cubic feet per minute. or
about one cubic mile per week, or 81 cubic
miles per year.
"A short time ago H. Herman, of New
York City, sent an agent to scottsburg, Ind,
to purchase large white oak tree, which
measured q feet in circumference. He paid
S75 for it, and at once set to work to get out as
large board as possible. The tree was ripped
up by means of a crosscut saw, and Friday
board 10 inches thick, feet ~ inches wide at
butt, and feet wide at top, and % feet long
was hauled to the depot and loaded on fat
car. 1t required two yoke of oxen and eight
horses a whole day to move it one ~ miles on
a broad tread wagon. The board will be shipped
to New York.
AT Tientsin, China, two neighbors. who
had been on the most intimate terms, had a lit
tie spat and afterward one Of them, Mrs.
Wang, threatened to commit suicide. The Stih
Pa0 which has the curious story, tells of what
followed in this manner: Mrs. Feng, upon
hearing of this threat, and fearing lest she
should be helplessly implicated should her enc
my carry her threat into execution, resolved at
once to take time by the forelock and steal q
march upon her enemy by taking her own life,
and thus turn the tables upon her. She ac-
cordingly threw herself into deep ditch with
the intention of drowning herself Fortu-
nately q countryman who was passing by res
cued her, and, taking her back to her home. at
tempted to AFFECT reconciliation, with but
partially successful results.