Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Turkey quills constltute Plon'SNo
Southern export.
Fifty coIored men are studying for the
priesthood in Rome.
Electric snow plows are 70 De useo 'N
the electric railway in Boston
There is said to be sulphur enough IN
Lower California to supply the world
"A medical certificate for a Buffalo quack
tells of a man being cured of rheumatism OF VI
years standing.
1t is said that this is the first winter Tor
80 years that teams have not crossed SunaPee
Lake, New Hampshire, on the ice
An iron drawbridge at Bridgeport,
Conn, will be turned by electricity, and Is
believed to be the first of its kind in the coun-
try.
The ratings between the Cour de Car
rousel and the courtyard of the Tulleries- In
Paris, have been sold for $50 francs TO Prince
Stirbey.
"A Poughkeepsie man has been placed
under bonds to keep the peace. He drew
cigar lighter on a man, the article being mis-
taken Tor revolver.
strawberry picking has begun in Flor
ida. The crop will be large. Early vegetables
are IN the market. Green apples nearly large
enough for sauce are on the trees in Nevada
county, California.
AN Augusta (Me. man had bill for
little more than 81 against the War Depart
ment. After writing for it several times he re-
ceived an official reply stating that it would be
paid as soon as convenient.
Among the famous cases of existence
without food or drink Is that of fast of 66 days
just completed by sheep on a. farm near Tus-
cola, III. The poor animal was imprisoned all
that time beneath q straw stack.
H,r,a boz hoo,,
San Diego Cal. It extends 50 miles from the
western slope of Cuyamaea Mountain, where
there Is reservoir containing four years
supply of water at an elevation OF 500 feet. The
cost was $900,O0O.
While man at Carlisle, Pa, was run
ming planer his coat tail got tangled and was
fortunately torn of. A bit of wood in his
pocket blocked cogwheel and saved his
life. The wood was q piece of John Browns
scaffold.
Ben Butler is the champion mascot of
the nineteenth century, By the admission Of
the new States the Government is obliged to
purchase 5000 National flags with 40 stars
apiece. and Ben, as owner of the United States
Bunting Company, will be $500 900 richer by the
transaction.
"A man while eating lettuce in Boston
restaurant came upon piece of gravel so sud-
denly that it snapped tooth Off He sued the
The Judge gave the case to the jury. The lat
ter found out what an entire set of new false
teeth would cost and made that the figures of
their award.
"A Chinese farmer at Kinkiang was
robbed on his wedding night by clever burg
lar who had concealed himself in the nuptial
chamber and removed everything so COM
pletely and conscientiously that the unhappy
pair hao to send and borrow some clothes from
the neighbors before they could make their ap-
pearance the next day.
-Luella Christy, the 1S-year-old daugh-
ter of a wealthy farmer in Kentucky, padded
skiff across raging torrent while her father
stood on the bank she had Just left, with
pistol in his hand, threatening to shoot her
lover, who was on the opposite shore. After
several narrow escapes from fOundering she
reached her lover, and they hurried to a neigh
boring town, where they were married.
An advertisement in an Edinburgh
paper might be copied in this country: "Serv.
ant-Wanted, by a family living in an Edin-
burgh fiat, a general servant who will kindly
superntend her mistress in cooking and wash
ing, nursing the baby, etc. She will have
every Sunday and two nights out in each week
and the use of the drawing room for the re-
ception of her friends Address A. F.. Scots
man office"
Mayor Stewart, of Texas, says that
Boston has more lecture halls lyeeums free
IDIdE1cc, Acdulu5 EOOllS, CHdIAbdOlc SOCAcblCS-
monuments, paintings, Jwo-wheeled public
carriages short narrow and crooked streets,
rosy-oheeked and handsome yet fatigued-lo0k-
ing women and more young men who keep
their seats in street cars when Gray-haired
ladies are standing up than any city of its pop
ulation on the globe
"A Topers' Club is a novel organization
of Kyoto. Japan. 1t has % members, each of
whom before being admitted to membership
had to prove his ability to drink seven bottles
of any intoxicant at one sitting. At a recent
meeting, it Is said, member drank during the
initiation ceremonies eight sho Of sake (Suffi-
cient to fill about 20 brandy bottles). and his
associates think he deserves 20 be made Presi-
dent of the society.
To the euriosities of Paris belongs a
plaeard on the wooden shutter of a bakers
shop in the Rue de Rennes. It was posted in
1871 at the time Of tie commune, and exhorts
the soldiers of the Versailles army on their
return to Paris to throw their guns away and
to come and sit down at the hospitable hearth
of the Communists. The shutter being only
put up for few hours during the night it has
never been taken down. and the rain has only
effaced few words of the interesting docu-
ment.
George Hamersley, of Franklin, N. J.,
does not take much stock in secret societies.
Some time ago a number of Georges friends
formed an organization of a rather mysterious
character, known as the Friendly Brothers.
They invited him to be one of them and he
concluded to accept the honor. A little initia-
tion ceremony was provided for the entertain
ment of the new brother. He was blindfolded
and conducted to a strange house, then gagged
and stripped of his clothing, after which he
was plunged in a bath Of ice water raised to
the ceiling by a rope tied to bis feet lowered
into a barrel, head first, rolled about the floor,
and finally told to sing and dance Jig. This
latter request proved too much for Hamerslev
and a general fight ensued among the Friendly
Brothers. Hamersley got home more dead
than alive, and is now looking for his former
associates with gun.