Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| in Chicago. His first name was Elijah.
Three sisters named Cuvelier have COM
mitted suicide at Vesinex, on account of losses
in betting.
Mrs. G. F. Neggesmith, wife Of Har-
lem, N. Y, policeman. has IA living children,
and Is but AZ years old.
"A. M. Britten, of Bancroft, Mich, is
the owner of pear tree which is now ripening
its second crop for this season.
A judge down in Tennessee has instructed
bis grand jury ITO indict all persons who pub
licly express inidel sentiments
The fashion of women wearing the sim
gle eyeglass has been started in London. 1t is
chiefly affected BY theatrical people.
"A genuine Stradivarius violin 168 years
old is in possession of Thomas Williams (col-
ored). of Chestertown, Md. Its value is $1,000
"A London journal states shirts of chain
armor, which cost about slOO are now worn by
more than one distinguished person on the
continent
Out of 246 men passing along Main
street in Cincinnati on a recent afternoon, 30
had lost one or more Of the hind buttons OF
their coats.
M. de Freycinet has issued commits
sion to inquire into the feasibleness of employ
ing swallows to carry war messages, in lieu of
carrier pigeons.
There are altogether about II, 900 Arabs
in this country and not 10 per cent of them
have settled home or any other means of sup
port than peddling.
The six hours which make the working
day of the British civil service will be extended
to seven II the recommendation of the Royal
Commission is adopted.
There are over 600 one-armed men in
the State Of New York, and not over 20 of them
were crippled in the war. The railroads and
saWmills are responsible for the rest.
"A Pasadena (Cal.) letter carrier uses a
bicycle to make his rounds while gathering I'D
the mail from the boxes. The other day he
went over his circuit, II miles, in'an hour and a
half.
One hundred and thirty thousand per.
sons sleep In the New York station bouses
during year. The larger number of them
were. in previous years. men; now the majority
are women.
The motto Of successful retail mer-
chant in Cincinnati has always been: Never
deceive customer" And yet a woman is
suing MIN for selling her cotton table cloth
for all linen.
The King of the Belgians has invested
over s3,OO0OO0 Of his private fortune in the
Is why he wants to visit the region and ascer-
tain how the development Of it is progressing.
Two violins formerly belonging to
Alard have recently been sold, Stradiyarius
for f2,OO0 and Stainer for f28O. A third vio-
lin by Quarnerius the one AIard generally
played on, was left by will to the Paris Con-
servatoire.
1t was Boston schooiboy who thus told
the story of the first Inauguration: THE oath
OF office was administered to President Wash
1ngton on the balcony of Federal Hall by
Robert r Livingston, ChauticIeer of the State
Of New York"
For every trunk carried 500 miles by
rail in the United States. one is smashed to the
extent of S. There has been no improvements
in the matter Of handling baggage from the
Time the hrst trunk was unhInged and splis
from top to bottom.
Miss Anderson, Of Chicago, and Mr..
Charles Seller were married on Pixies Peak, az
an altitude Of 5000 feet above the sea level, a
Few days ago. A road wagon and four horses
hauled the wedding party to the summit, where
the ceremony took place.
The Goethehaus at Frankiort-on-the-
Main being in danger of injury by the erection
OF factory at the back of it, the Society Of
the F'reie Hochstift purchased the ground for
7o,OOO marks, and the Town Council unani-
mously agreed to make up the sum themselves.
"A 13-pOund colored baby lately born in
Rome, Ga, has been named Benjamin Harrison
Huggins. A relative of the Higgins familyi
formed the President of these facts and re-
ceived letter from the Executive Mansion
expressing the Presidents best wishes for the
welfare OF his namesake.
+. An Arizona paper says that at Proc
tors Well, Santa Rosa the shells of I7-year
locusts were brought up from a depth of 763
feet. to which depth the piping extends. It
says: There was quite quantity of them.
The entire shell was perfect; also the limbs and
hairy covering OF the back"
The Marquis Carlo Ginari, of Florence,
has bought the island of Monte Cristo, so cele-
brated in Dumas great novel as the source
where Edmund Dantes got his treasure The
noble Marquis will build palace upon the
island and endeavor to keep up the grand ira,
ditions of its former legendary owner.
During a recent fire at Dansyille.
Mich, Miss Orrie Heald worked hard in re-
moving property from burning store, carried
out show case full of valuable goods which
two men could not remove, ran up a ladder
and put out the fire on the roof Of her fathers
house, and then saved the barn. Her tremen-
dous exertlons, however, were too much for
her, and she Is now seriously i'll. Miss Heald is
Dut ~ years old and decidedly good looking.
Two men who were examining an old
and long since abandoned coal bank near Bell
view, Pa. last week, were thoroughly frightened
at what they presumed to be robbers or ghosts.
The prospectors were gropng their way into
the black depths Of the old mine when sudden.
ly there was a commotion within, Ghostly
forms scurried past them, and retreated into
the darkness. Without waiting to investigate
further they made a hasty retreat thinking
they had Stirred up nest Of wild animals or
robbers OF phanroms The owner of the mine
explains the mystery in this way: He SAYS his
sheep are in the habit of going into the mine to
seek a cool retreat from the hot weather and
dies, and that it was no doubt some of his
SouthdoWns that frightened the miners