Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The authorities in Holland have de-
creed that women cannot serve ON school
board. In Sweden it has been decided that
they can.
Minnesota has passed law providing
for executions before sunrise, and allowing the
condemned to invite three persons to. witness
his taking off.
"A disease commonly known as yelIows
is attacking fruit trees in Oglethorpe county,
Ga, and in some orchards Is playing havoc.
The leaves of the trees begin by whiting, turn
ing bright yellow, and in 4 week or so the tree
is dead.
-Twenty-six head Of fine steers in herd
fattened at Abilene, Kan, have been killed be-
cause they had hydrophobia. A mad dog bit
one OF a herd of 200 few weeks ago. RABIES
spread rapidly. 1t became necessary 70 shooe
the maddened animals.
"A heart-broken mother was not allowed
TO see the face Of her dead child in Easton lass
week because she had been separated from her
husband. An officer was summoned, but the
brutal husband placed the lid on the cofin and
couId not De induced to remove 1t.
There are not as many shad caught in the
Susquehanna river during all the season now
as were caught by Captain Tom Stump, at
haTre T qe Grace in the spring Of 1877 in one
TIME seine when drawn in contained 10, 100000
shad.
MIR. John Helton, of Smithboro, Ga,
VINO has just passed his 9Ist birthday started
ont at o'clock the other morning, walked ten
miles, cut and split 12S rails and % stakes
ploughed up an acre Of ground and walked
ernoon. They. do tell the truth sometimes
down In Georgia.
"A tramp entered the house of a man
named Kirkman, at Cloverhil Miss the other
day, and with drawn pistol demanded his
money. The negro went to his trunk, ap-
Parently to get the money, but got a pistol and
fired at the tramp, who shot at the same time.
The tramp fell over on the negro's bed dead,
and the negro walked out the door and fell
dead on the steps.
The Port Monmouth, N. J., elammers
have discovered new hard-cIap bed near the
Southwest Spit Buoy. The clans are very
plentiful, and some Of the sloop owners gather
30 bushels day. Most of the clammers are
Germans who take dogs along with them on
their trips The dogs are mascots, they say,
and "the elammers seldom fail to make good
catches when accompanied by them"
Although attempts to mine coal at the
mouth of the Kennebec river have heretofore
been unsuccessful, yet every time lump is
washed ashore it excites some one with a desire
to investigate farther. A Portland paper tells
of a lump weighing about 26 pounds that re-
Gently was washed up on Popham beach. and
thinks that 2 Portland syndicate will make
another EFFORT this summer to find the source
whence these pieces have come for the last
80 years. The opinion is frequently ex-
pressed that the Jumps are broken from q rich
vein beneath the sea.
"A correspondent of a French paper
hints at very tragical use to which the Eifel
Tower in Paris may, and doubtless will be put,
suicides, he says, will avail them
selves OF it, and make it handy substitute for
the Column Vendome, which. it will be rememI
bered, was largely patronized for this dread pur.
pose of suicide. But added to this comes
another rehection-the effect of the dizzy
height upon ordinarily sane people. It is well
known to doctors that a great height induces
an extreme form of g1ddiness in people, and
from that to throwing themselves over is only
a step.
MIR. Newton Cruce, while in Fulton,
KY, the other evening lost his poeketbook com
tanning $50 in currency. Later in the evening
Bob Bennett, eoIored. delivered the pocket
book and money to gentleman who owns
grocery store, stating that he found it near tho
back door of the grocery. Bob was arrested
and taken before the magistrate TO answer the
charge of stealing the money. The preliminary
examination was held the next morning, and
the court after hearing the evidence. felt that
it was sufficient to justify him in holding the
prisoner to await the action of the grand jury,
which he did, fixing his bond at $50. Is virtue
its own reward?
"A sensational case has recently excite
son-in-law was charged with cruelty to h
child-wife. The facts adduced in evidence sho 4
that the husband was AZ years old and the wifi n
J. The accused had already been married
lines. The father Of the child sold herfr
Rs.20 a month. She was seen on the parapet Of
house. greatly agitated, and threatening 70
throw herself down into the street. When
policeman entered the house she stated that
1er husband had beaten her, and threatened to
Kill her II she failed to undo knot in his hair
within i've days. Eventually the accused was
acquitted, as the evidence was deemed INSULT
sient to prove habitual cruelty The facts of
his case still further illustrate the iniquitous
cruelty of the existing practice of child-mar-
rage, and show the imperious necessity, in the
interests of common humanity, Of an early re-
form of Hindu marriage customs
The life of railway men does not seem
70 be very healthy nor yet very enjoyable
,ne, if any reliance is to be placed on the OBJ
ervations Of medical men who have given
ome attention to the subject. According to
v. Duchesne, railway men improve in health
Turing the first four years, but at the end Of
en- years they are tired out, in 10 they ara
Ietual sufferers, and very few can remain in
he service after 20. These general Conclusions
rave been supplemented by DE-. Lehtenbag. Of
3uda Pesth. who found from examination that
'ut Of $50 railway employees 81 or more than
bird, suffered from ear disease. Engine
lrivers are especially liable to rheumatism and
and after some years service a eer-
ain proportion of them become dull of sight
nd hearing. Others suffer from a mild form
# spinal conclusion, muscular feebleness and
ontinuous pains in the limbs. They are alsd
pit to develop peculiar mental state-a sort
p carnhral irritatiOn-Eifh axcpSsiva nprvOuS.