Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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| Cincinnati used 81 ,999, $50 crackers to
make an noise on the Fourth.
"A horse dentist Is reaping harvest up
in the northern counties of Michigan
Horses up in Keneenaw county are SUI
fering from clearly defn,A lung fever.
Henry Cannon feeds 80 human mouths
on his farm near Camilla, Ga. and yet he raises
| meat for all.
"A mess of FISH cost three Tekosha,
Mich. young men 500. The game warden took
hand in the sport.
"A foreign company representing s1o,-
900, 900 Of capital is about to establish an iron
and steel plant in San Francisco.
"A Jackson, Mich, father gave three
boys who saved his daughter from drowning Q
cents, TO be divided equally among them.
New York City has 294 millionaire in
dividuals or firms, and probably over Lo0000o
Of individuals who are not worth s294 each.
1t cost 81, ,962, ,346 to maintain the frs
department of New York City last year. There
were 3,2l7 fires. and the losses were s., 4s5.92
"A man with an artificial cheek, eye and
palate has been attracting attention at an En-
glish watering place. 1t is said that he eats
without dificulty and speaks distinctly.
AN enterprising merchant in Chicago
displays In front OF his store lamp, to which IL
attached card reading: This lamp will bs
sold"
In st. Patrick's Church. Hartford,
Conn.,, and st. Johns Church, Middletown,
Conn.,. colored people rent and occupy some OF
the best sittings. other sittings in the same
pews being rented and occupied by white
people.
Three Muskegon, Mich, men caught
string of fish over 25 feet long in six hours the
other day, with ordinary hooks and lines
water, but Muskegon whisky has great magni-
flying power.
Over q building in One Hundred and
Twenty-nfth street. New York, there Is q
broad wooden sign covered with crow tracks
that are puzzle to many Of the people who
see them. Its the Lords Prayer in shorthand
that is painted on the signboard.
An old man has been bcthering the
Muskegon. Mich, police for the past three
weeks, asking them to shoot him, as he was
yet but If he comes around much more they
think they can accommodate him.
Peter Malcom, q Scotch sailor, fell
overheard In the Indian Ocean 800 miles from
land. He was reported drowned, but after two
years bobs up to claim $4,000 legacy and to
report that after floating two days ne was
around the world.
"A new way to scatter a crowd has been
discovered. A man who found himself hemmed
IN BY dense throng near the corner of State
and Washington streets yesterday morning
while the circus procession was passing pulled
a bottle Of ammonia from his pocket and
spilled the contents promiscuously about He
had tbe entire sidewalk to himself in less than
o minute.
AN alligator and an English sparrow
were seen to engage in o battle near Darien
Ga, the other day. The gator provoked the
fight by swapping at the bird, which in turn flew
furiously at Its ugly antagonist, aiming with
precision at the saurian's eyes. The gator
finally gave up the contest, and sought safety
from the sparrow's attacks by hiding itself un-
der water.
There is on q lot in Lexington, Ca, a
sour cherry tree that seems to have gotten out
OF its usual order of doing things. At the proper
time It ploomed and bore a full crop of fruit
and since its first blooming it has continued to
bloom and bear. 1t now having q pretty full
crop of green fruit on its branches though the
first crop ripened and was gathered some weeks
since.
Some papers do not like the English
habit of emitting the article "the' before the
names of yachts. especially in the case Of
yachts named after women. The omission does
seem unfortunate when it makes such state
ments as these possible: Cora proved slow in
ana Alice careened and staggered under her
heavy load"
-Workmen doing the grading on a rail-
road near Atlanta, Ga. witnessed the sight the
other day Of a snake feeding its offspring. The
baby snakes were secure in the roots of an old
tree, and the mother which caughr flies by
springing at them, would, when possessed of q
fly, rapidly glide to the young snakes. which
came pell.mell. helter-skelter to meet her. She
caught ny minute and was watched secur-
ing them for over two hours
Whenever there is offered in the United
States prize open to the whole country for the
family that has the greatest length; breadth
and thickness, Walker county, Georgia,
through the Coulter boys, will be sure to take
1t, journalist in that State thinks. or the six
boys, going up by steps and commencing at the
lowest, James Is D feet 4, Mac is feet Q, VIII is
feet 9, Tom is q feet 7, Oscar is feet and
Richard feet IL Their weights run from 200
to 262 pounds, making a total of 367 pounds,
and an average of 22S pounds.
Cheap pirated editions of American
books are said to be among the best selling
books offered at the railway stations in India.
A correspondent says that he has bought Lew
Wallace's "Fair God" for 10 cents. Anna
Catharine Green's 'Leavenworth's Case'' is Of
Tered for Il cents and the works of Uncle
Remus are for sale in paper covers. All of
Bret Harte's books are pirated. and Mark
rwain's books are sold for song. Longfellow's
poems can be Lad for a dime and Emerson's
ION Burnett's novels are sold at one-ffreenth
he p rice they bring in America.