Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Texas has 40 county seats destitute Of
gospel preaching.
A Grand Rapids, Mich, reporter has
sued the editor of a rival sheet for ridiculing
his work and thus doing him injury.
In France juggling is taught for the
benefit of the health. 1t brings the muscles OF
the arms and chest and back into play.
That Rockland, Me-, schoolma'am has
paid her election bet by selling peanuts in the
postoffice all day and made $l, which was gwen
TO local charity.
Some forms of dyspepsia are caused by
deficiency of water in the system, as the
drinking of too little water is muen more n-
furious than the drinking of too mucn.
Thread from the fiber of the nettle IS
now spun so fine that 80 miles of it weighs only
~ pounds. The same fiber has for some time
Deen used in Europe in the manufacture OF
ropes.
"A man in Craig county, Virginia. has
three children whose names are, respectively,
Jailey Green Bird Mayfower Brickey, Oregon
Texas Georgianna Briekey and Molina Truxllla
EutaW Sebllla Tootater Brickey. The names
Bible.
"A strange negro while visiting Ty-Ty,
Ga, a few days since, became quite boisterous
and got himself into several "sputements'' with
other negroes. Finally he got quite exhausted
and lay down for nap. When be got to sleep
somebody poured kerosene oil all over him and
set fire to 1t. He was badly burned, probably
fatally. 1t was thought the deed was commit
ted by other darkies.
"A cat upon the Tomlinson plantation,i in
Lee county, Ca, committed suicide on account
of the loss of her kittens The young felines
were drowned. In the afternoon the cat went
around in great grief, and that night ended her
life by placing her head through large crack
i'll the crib and moving along until she got to
narrow place and then letting 90. She was
found in the morning hanging, stone dead.'
"A youth who went into a Buffalo store
and asked for socks, not knowing the proper
size, was told to hold out his hand. The Gus
toner held out his hand and doubled up his
fist as directed. The clerk took sock from
box, wrapped the foot around the fist and guar
anteed perfect fit. Il am Just as sure IL will
fit you as though | had measured your foot"
said he, "as the distance around the list Is
always the length of the foot"
"A daughter of Editor Mortimer, of New
Bloomfield, Pa, brought up out of the cellar
large head of cabbage to prepare for the FAM
ily's Sunday dinner. She cut it open and i'm
mediate1y began to scream loudly. A member
of the family ran in and found snake nearly
two feet long, squirming about on the table.
1t had been snugly coiled around the cabbage
head under the outer leaves. where it had
probably been making its quarters all winter.
An amusing misadventure happened
the other day to a well known artist in Paris.
He had purchased an old helmet in a bric-a-
brac shop, and when he got home the idea
occurred to him to try it on. 1t went on easily
enough, but when he wanted to take it OFF he
found 1t impossible to do so. Finally he was
forced to go to a neighbOring gunsmith's to
have 1t removed. His appearance on the street
wearing this medieval relic produced decided
sensation.
England has been very backward in ap-
plying electricity to modern needs but the
latest news is that in one direction the English
have proven alive to the possibilities OF the
new force There is running in London an
electric bus. 1t carries II persons, and is man.
aged by driver who sits just where he would
if he had to manage a team of horses. The
bus makes six or seven miles an hour. but it
has not yet been run in the daytime, when the
streets are crowded.
Nancy and Sallie Severns, two maiden
sisters, aged respectively 81 and SO years, who
have lived from time immemorial in little
frame house opposite Grace Episcopal Church
in Hulmeville, Bucks county. have passed
away within a few hours of each other, Nancy
having died on Monday and Sallle Tuesday.
They were known to everyone in HulmeViLle
and the surrounding country, and during the
past few months, in which they failed rapidly,
were kindly cared for by many friends.
-"Bill'' Mathers, the hunter and nimrod
of Writ county, West Virginia, caught a coon
in a box and took it to the county seat. Calling
all the dogsi town, many of which had never
seen q coon before, he turned the coon loose on
Court Square, where it licked all the dogs
around, from the poodle dog up to the fox
hound, after which it took up shade tree,
where it quietly picked the dog meat from its
teeth. There being no more dogs in town to
snare the coon was shaken from the tree and
bill" the nimrod, ended its life with a club.
1t was the Sullivan coon Of West Virginia
"A story comes from Europe to the effect
that the two vessels, one loaded with silver,
which went down in the Gulf of Finland more
than a century ago. have been found. Both
hulls were completely covered with seaweeds,
which were partly cleared away, when the
divers recovered the remains of apples, eucum-
bers and shoes, together with numerous corked
bottles, which burst the moment the air
reached them. One of the vessels lies some
animation of it was interfered with by great
heavy stone which rested on its deck. The
stone constituted part of the crafts cargo.
"A gentleman at Martins Ferry, Ohio,
has huge Newfoundland dog which has a
great deal of good sense and discretion and a
keen appreciation of the fitness of things. The
gentleman has two small boys, one, however,
being smaller than the other. One day last
week the boys got into quarrel, and. natural
y, the larger boy was getting the best of it.
The dog, which is heavier than either boy,
came to the rescue at a very appropriate time,
Ind, standing on hiss hind feet, parted the bel
igerents with his fore paws and then dragged
The larger boy away without in the slightest
degree injuring him or showing any i'll temper.
Mr.. A. D. King, wellknown lawyer
If Orilla. Canada, lost his life on the Grand
Trunk Railroad a few days since. He had
,een away on business, and on returning got OF
he train while it was m motion. Instead Of
,etting off at the station side he took the wrong
ide of the train, and hardly touched the
round when he slipped and fell so that his two
egs were run over by the Pullman car He
tied IN q hours. The accident took place at2
'elock in the morning. and at daylight
,rother of the dying man drove few miles out
rom the station to tell Ills father OF the sad
business. To his surprise he found his father
I'D and dressed awaiting him. where's
)aniel?" eagerly asked the old gentleman. II
aw him about 2 o. clock or q little after. He
anne to my window and raped at it. saw
i'm three times and spoke to himp' The grief
# the father on learning of the sad affair was