Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

CUklUUS CUNUENoAIlVnSs
AN Illinois man who bet that the world
was round and failed to prove 1t had to pay
over SIS.
On the bill of fare of . temperance
restaurant in Chicago, there appears nst Oh
l3O temperance drinks
"A large bear, which weighed 800
pounds, was killed on the beach opposite So
bastian, Fla, last week.
"A man BY the name of kirkland, living
at Spring Gardens, Fla, has eaten five pounds
of honey at one sitting. and is still there.
"A Topeka society lady recently issued
invitations for breakfast and three-fourths
Of the guests were on hand before she was out
of bed.
"A cloud burst in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two miles
square to form lake of ten acres in extent
and ten feet deep.
In one Of two stone sarcophagi found at
Rome in the Pratt di CASTILLO the skeleton of
girl was found along with a wooden doll with
jointed arms and legs.
Ten years ago a man near Lexington,
KY, had "A sheep bitten by dogs. Since that
time he has poisoned and shot over 800 CANNES,
and is still engaged in his glorious work.
Take the railroads of the North and
South mile for mile and we have three acci.
dents to their one, and some of the railroad
publications are wondering why this is SO.
"A wildcat fell into cistern the other
day at Myers. Fla. The water not being deep
enough to drown it, 1t was beaten until insen-
sible. and then taken out with rake and pur
to death.
Surgeon Parry, of the Medical Depart
ment or India, says that he once saw the jet
black hair of rebel Sepoy turn gray in half an
hour through fright caused by a judicial ex-
animation.
There is q woman in West-of- England
town who makes good living by killing cats.
She advertises that if people who are about to
go away for the summer will send their cats to
her she will kill them with chloroform.
The Princess Imperial of Brazil has or
ganized corps Of negro troops whose Office it
is to act as an imperial guard. AS they are all
men Of good character, the meaning Of the
word "blackguard" will have to be revised in
Brazil.
Eighteen Cincinnati grocers offer their
customers 8 per cent discount IL they viii carry
home their purchases. They can AFFORD to do
even better than this as some of them have to
keep as many as eight horses, wagons and
drivers.
"A fond parent in Massachusetts, wishing
to assist his little son to make up purse for the
Fourth, agreed to pay him cent for every po-
tato bug he would capture. At the close of the
nrSt uay the cnllQ nad 04O bugs. Inc farner
paid the s6 40. but the contract did not con-
-tinue.
1t is stated that patent has been taken
out to abolish sand in casting pipes. Pipes are
cast Tin super-heated or gas-jacketed metal
molds," and are said to have many good quail
ties. Beyond not being porous the pipes are
uniform, sound and true, as If turned or bored
by lathe.
-Twenty-eight iron girders, said to be the
new American Museum of Natural History in
New York. Each girder measures about 81
feet In length, and weighs 10000 pounds. Great
difficulty was found in their transportation
from the river front to the site Of the building.
A New York jeweler has two jewels, ap-
parently diamonds, in his window, with the
simple inscription over them: (which is genu-
iner' Two young men, after holding a heated
discussion on the question. made the jeweler
the umpire of a wager. The latter was COM
PEELED to acknowledge that both were genuine.
It was merely an ingenious advertisement.
The Sanitary and General Purposes
Committee Of the London Council have been
instructed ito take into consideration the
causes of the fogs which trouble London during
the winter months, and the increased DEATH
rate during their prevalence. in order to put in
force existing powers for dealing with them,
and obtaining increased powers, If necessary"
From Lexington, Ill. comes a strange
snake story; Mr.. Kennedy, formerly supervisor
and the cashier of the Lexington Bank, one
day last week opened the different doors of the
vault, and finally reaching the cash box opened
that, when. to his alarm. q long garter snake
crawled quickly out. The snake was pursued
and killed. and it measured three feet six
inches It must have crawled into the cash box
the day before andin closing up was imprisoned.
The first street railway was operated in
1882 from New York to Harlem. 1t did not
appear in Boston until 1856 The first "horse
carr line was opened on the Baltimore and
Ohio line prior to the introduction of the steam
engine. but was not designated as street rail-
a vast enterprise has sprung up; to-day there
are % 000 cars IN in the streets of cities in
the United States, requiring the services Of
$50 900 horses.
1t is said that a prominent merchant on
Clayton street in Athens, Ga. has adopted the
following novel plan of determining the price
of his chickens. He has four coops. In them
he has a half-inch. a one-inch, an inch and q
half and two-inch auguer hole. All the
chickens he can squeeze through the first he
the third 20 cents and the fourth Is cents. He
is making money.
"A party Of young men, curled and
dressed to visit their girls, were standing in
front of q hotel at Atlanta. Ga, when large
roach wriggled out of a crack and perambu-
lated across the sidewalk. One of the young
men, who is known to be far from total alb
stalner, noticed the insect and called his COM
panions' attention to it. All looked where
he pointed and then looked at their friend in
an inquiring way and denied that they saw
anything at all "A frightened look came over
the youths face. He looked doubtfully at the
roach for a minute and then turned his back
on it and said "Of course you couldn't see it;
how could you when there was no roach there.
was only joking" But he continued to look
Iearfulls over his shoulder until the party
broke up. then he went home, sent for q
doctor and swore never to take another drink.