Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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There are 1000 registered dentists in
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"A singular accident happened at Al
bany recently. horse being hidden was sud-
denly paralyzed and its hoofs gave way, turn
ing up to its fetlOcks, while the horse came
down on its ankle bones.
There is married man in Atlanta who
wears eyeglasses with gold rim. His wife
wears eyeglasses too, and the two pairs are just
alike. They are the parents of three children
the youngest being 10 years of age-and each
OF the children are near-sighted-so much so
that they wear eyeglasses too. Five pairs OF
eyeglasses in one family is rather unusual.
-Habitual beating down is one of the
very bad habits. Recently an Oxford county,
MAINE, man went into meat market to buy
small piece of liver. "How much?' asked the
man. Il VIII make YOU present of that" said
ing look, stepped back, rubbed his hands to-
gether, looked the butcher square in the eye,
ana said: "Ain't tnat rather high?'
"A Buffalo girl got rid of an undesirable
suitor in unique way. He proposed on the
way home from church Sunday evening, and
the fa1r creature who is ''o'er young to marry"
said YES" but added that she would not marry
him till he gained the consent of her father.
The young man discovered the next day that
the young lady's father died several years ago,
and the disappointed lover has emigrated to
Black Rock.
While excavating cut beyond Kincha-
foonee creek, near Buena Vista, Ca, the rail-
road hands took out wagonload of bones, and
among them was skull with a bullet hole in
the back of the head. Along with these bones
was a crude earthen pot made OF some kind OF
material which looked like mari. The presence
of the pot leaves the impression that they were
Indian bones, as it was a custom with the red
man to bury some kind of a trophy with the
dead. 1t was doubt graveyard made when
the creek was lined with redskins.
The queerest Sunday service held in
Maine, or perhaps in the country, is that Of the
Liberal fraternity which meets every Sabbath
afternoon in a hall in Portland, Me. Here inf
dels, agnostics, Spiritualists, Buddhists and
thinkers of various shades of heterodoxy come
together and do battle The service generally
consists of free discussion, in which every
man is invited to expatiate upon his creed: but
occasionally some clergyman or speaker of rep
utation is invited to address the assembly. The
strangest OF notions get an airing here, and
sometimes provoke heated controversy.
The curious story of the travels of a let
ter is told by the following: On April 8. 1887, a
letter, bearing nearly dozen pOstmarks was
received at Takoma, d. G. Where it had been
since it was committed to the mail at South
Waterford. Me-, on March ]. could only partly
be guessed: but a synopsis of the history OF
some of its travels may be given thus: March
turn eastward; March 10. received at Chicago
postotfice; March 10. mailed to Takoma, d. C.:
April 4, again mailed at Chicago postOf1ce;
April 5, received at Washington, ID. c., and
forwarded to Takoma, d. c.
The man VINO built the first rolling mill
in the United States is in Atlanta, Ga. In 1925
Major Walton built at Bunton N j., the first
rolling mill in operation in this country. He
was then young man, having been born on
the Isle of Man in 1905, and had just finished
his apprenticeship in New York. In the same
year he built at PumptOn n. j., the first blast
furnace, which is still there. In 1877 Major
Walton also built at Luckige, N. Y, the first
mill for manufacturing implements and arti-
cles sold in hardware stores. The Major has
been in the iron business ever since he was IA,
except such times as he was fighting Indians,
Mexicans, and the Federal soldiers
There is a man in Oxford county,
Maine, who claims great things for one of his
boys in the line of scholarship, and says he has
already ciphered from ambition to chemical
features" and is in hopes, before school closes,
he will get so to 'fuctuate in cancellation"
Having once a large rising on his neck, which
was very painful. he was persuaded by his
friends to have a doctor called in. The doctor
left ingredients for a poultice to be made and
applied to the neck. The patient swallowed
the poultice, declaring that he had rather it
would break on the inside. so there would be
no scar, and when asked by neighbor what
the doctor called the sore, he said it was a
tabernacle"
Society is fourishing in the north Of
Georgia. In a newspaper account of Christ
mas dance at convict camp the following oc-
ours: "John Towns. an active young man from
Fulton, who was hired several months ago BY
jewelry drummer in Atlanta to transport his
valise, the location of which he forgot when
the drummer found him with the assistance of
the police, danced with Miss Emma johnson, a
coquettish young hief from Bibb county. Mr..
Towns is spending five years at the camp, al
though the Judge offered to give him two years
off the time if he would be able to tell where
he carried the valise Of jewelry. He couldn't
remember, and 80 he will stay five years in
stead of three"
"A correspondent of Boston paper tells
this dog story: Last fall received letter
from my son saying that he and his wife and
daughter were coming to pay US a visit; he con-
cluded by saying: Kill the fatted calf and put
a bottle on ice.' read the letter aloud to my
wife, the dog ian Irish setter) sitting up beside
me and looking on so wise that / called my
wife's attention to him, saying: Look at the
judgep After had finished reading. he barked
to go out, and did not get home until quite late.
He came in the sitting room where was read
ing, and made such demonstrations that fol-
lowed him to the outside door, and in the porch
found the lower part of the leg of calf. He
wagged his big tail and jumped up on me, say
ing as plainly as he could: There's the calf,
now you attend to the bottleF"