Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The Empress of China has Just ennobled
three generations of Sir Robert Harris ances-
tors, although they are all dead
Samuel Kaufelt, though 80 years old,
enjoyed skate last week on the river near his
home, IN York county, this State.
-Adelborontiphoscophorniostikos is the
classical name OF locomotive owned by the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company at scran.
ton.
Lizzie O'Donohue, aged 10, who was
buried yesterday in Jersey City. died from IN
juries received while roller skating three weeks
ago. She was unconscious for II days.
{ "A farmer in York county, Me-, recently
shipped twenty barrels of apples to Liverpool.
After freight charges and other expenses were
deducted he found his fruit had netted him
8 cents barrel.
For long time the fox hunters Of
Montgomery, N. Y, have been annoyed By
farmers who shoot foxes from in front Of the
mounds, and make away with them. 1t Is very
demorallzfng on the dogs and exasperating to
the hunter.
The other day teacher in Boston
school showed a little girl picture of fan
and asked her what it was. The little girl
didn't appear to know. What does your
mother do to keep cool in hot weather. asked
reply OF the little girl.
Two 6-year-old negro boys near Daw-
son, Ga, playing with the 1Smonths-old brother
OF one OF them, shot the little fellow and buried
the Dody In fence corner. They refuse to tell
which fired the shot with the gun they had
Iound IN the housa. No attempt was made 70
punish the little murderers.
Athens has paper called in Greek the
WomaTs Journal. 1t is edited by Mime. Callir-
hro -.
Greece the rights OF woman are almost nil
Tor secondary instruction has not yet been de-
creed, and we can only ask and work for the
moral and intellectual enfranchisemeEt Of
Greek women"
The records of the Association Of Col
legiate Alumn8 show of the 5A members IL
physicians. Journalists 8 authors, Slibrarians.
5lawyers, 8 artists, 8 printers, 2 each of school
principals, musicians, elocutionists, and private
secretaries, and one each of lecturer, chemist,
typewriter. Government clerk and merchant.
Others are engaged in bookkeeping, dairy
farming, stock raising, insurance, biology, the
drama, and one is the editor of an agricultural
paper.
George Story, of San Francisco, is go
years old, and attracts attention on account Of
his remarkable growth of hair, In 1849 he left
Nantucket for California, expecting to return
in year or so. Before leaving he told his
friends that he would not cut his hair OF shave
until he returned. He kept his word, and "a he
has not been home since his hair now repre-
sents a growth of 40 years. Notwithstanding
his great age, his hair and beard are coal
black.
AN 18-year-old girl, in New York, was
greatly frightened the other night by loud
snoring in her chamber, and looking under the
bed discovered young man, sound asleep.
She summoned her brother. and the stranger,
being aroused, said he found the basement
door open, walked up to what he took to be .
spare bedroom on the top floor. and went to
sleep. He was handed over to a policeman, to
whom he explained that he was Is years old and
without home.
AN outbreak of yellow fever is reported
from Versailles France. The infection is said
to have been brought in the feathers of certain
parrots imported from South America. This Is
bad news indeed. The world has lately heard
on high authority that the familiar, domestic,
diphtheria is often due to poor pussy and her
inquisitive investigations into neigeboring
premises: but it is much more startling to hear
that such far-otf foe as Yellow Jack may be
lurking in the plumage of pretty Poll.
Joseph G. P ParkinSon, of Chicago, is
said to be the only deaf and dumb lawyer in the
country He is associated with his twin
brother who does not share his disabilities
When Mr.. Parkinson was q years old he was
chief examiner in the Patent Office at W ashing-
ton, place he held for six years. In 1879 he re-
signed and soon afterward was admitted to
practice before the United States Supreme
Court. He now RANKS as one of the most sue
eessful patent lawyers in the country.
When Terence Loughlin was arraigned
on Tuesday in Justice Naeher's Court, in
Brooklyn, and sentence was suspended, a local
account states, he leaned over to the Judge
and whispered, It signed that check last
night" An explanation was at once demand
ed, and Loughlin said he was visited in his cell
MnndqV nlrlt DrOtleT-ln-laW-
Callahan, who said that Unless he signed
check for $500 he would be sent to the Inebri-
ates' Home. Callahan said that Justice Naeher
had told him to compel Loughlin TO sign IL.
Callahan is bartender at the Astor House.
He says Loughlin is well-to-do, but does not
provide for his family On that account Calla-
han tried to get $500 out of him for the use Of
his family.
The jail in Morris county, New Jersey,
boasts of a dwarf less than four feet high, who
probably drinks more water than any other
man in the State. Formerly he was the cham
pion whisky drinker of his district and for
habitual drunkenness and disorderly conduct
he was committed to the jail some weeks ago.
At first the sudden cutting of of his customary
allowance of strong liquor almost prostrated
him. Recently, however, he has developed .
passion for water that is more pronounced than
his old craving for whisky. He drinks IL is
said, gallon every night, and aceosts the first
keeper he sees in the morning with a demand
for more. During the hours Of daylight he re-
quires from eight to ten quarts to assuage his
thirst, and still complains Of dryness of tho
tonsils. He says he never felt in better health