Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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[ Robert Winter, young artist Of San
Francisco, lost his eyesight By looking with bid
naked eye at the eclipse onNew Years Day.
Fourteen hundred emigrants were
landed in Castle Garden ON Friday from three
steamers, the largest number ever landed In
one day
In 1883, R124, ,6O3, ,939 were spent for in
toxicating drinks in England against 8l24.SH,.
369 in 1887 The largest amount OF money was
spent for beer.
-Lucie Lefrance lived ten years next
door to her sister in Montreal without knowing
it. and then the pair became known 10 each
other through their grocer.
AN Irishman named Casey died re-
Gently in Albuquerque very wealthy. BY his
will he left to General J. A. Williamson Of
Iowa, nearly 100000 for favor 70 casey long
ago forgotten.
In an Iowa murder case two witnesses
swore to seeing the defendant 40 rods on draw
his revolver, when it was proven that they were
SO near-sighted that they could not tell pistol
from bull pup 15 yards away.
"A lady who lives near Lagrange, Ca,
ordered her servant girl to fire mp the stove
| preparatory to baking some potatoes. She did
as she was directed, but when the stove door
was opened the house cat was found baked 10
| turn.
"A camping party near Paxton, ind,
were alarmed by dark object that struck
their fire with a force that threw the embers
IN an directions. 1t was an immense wild
goose which they killed before it could re-
| cover itself.
-J. I. Fletcher, Of Jenkins Bridge, Va,
was in his grave and men were bricking It mp,
when they heard groan. They opened the
coffin and found Fletcher's heart beating He
was taken home, but died two days afterward
without regaining consciousness.
Three German children, aged 8, and
10 years, landed in Castle Garden on Friday
with tags on their clothing stating that they
were to travel to Flatonia, Tex, where they
will meet their parents. The authorities put
| them In the cars and forwarded them to the
destination indicatedby the tags.
| An italian ragpicker in Springfield,
Mass, saw a little girl with her clothing IN
flames, Yainly trying to get out of a room.
| With one spring he jumped through the win
dow, seized the child, bore her outside, and
| rolled her in the snow. She was SO badly
burned that she died within q few hours.
"A freight brakeman on the Lake Shore
road, the other day, stood on platform as a
train Of cars went by at moderate rate Of
| speed and remembered the number of each
| car without writing them down When he re-
ported them to the conductor an investlga-
| tion was made, and it was found that he was
| correct,
| "A New Jersey bird dog went into
room where parrot was at liberty, when he
stopped and pointed. The bird approached.
looked the dog square in the eye, and said,
| you're a rascalp' The dog was so surprised
at hearing a bird speak that he dropped his
| tail, wheeled, and ran away, and from that day
| to this he has never been known to point
bird
The boys in Atlanta, Ca, gave Cover
nor Gordon a severe snow-balling as he was
| going to the capitol last Thursday morning.
| The Governor begged hard to be let off, but the
boys said no. One boy said to him: I'VE can't
| let you off, Governor. As you haven't done
| any running since 4, you will have to hustle"
And the General hustled while dozens Of balls
took him in the back of the neck.
Benjamin johnson owns a farm In Rush
! Valley, Utah, upon which he has Just discoV.
| cred a mine of natural shoeblacking. An ar.
| alysis of this peculiar material shows that it
contains 16 per cent carbon, "a per cens
aluminium and the remainder clay. When
| taken out the material is moist and soft, and
when used as shoeblacking produces fine
polish which is not easily destroyed. Eastern
capitalists have been sounding Mr.. johnson re-
| garding his price for the mine.
"A larger quantity Of strong drink per
head Is consumed in New South Wales than in
any of the other Australasan colonies. While
last year the reven ue from spirits In that colony
increased by E46.T23. and wine and beer by
e. 600 there was q decrease on tea of E5960 A
correspondent of q Melbourne paper in de-
scribing the murder of an English family by a
native says the Maoris are terrible gamblers,
gambling and intoxication being two of the
worst vices they have derived from civilization.
The washerwomen of Paris, to the num-
Der Of 10000. fully qualified and duly accred-
tied" have agreed to form themselves into q
syndicate for the purpose of looking after their
interests in an official manner. They resolve
to have market of their own, where they can
go in order to be hired for work. and to make
thaIr The maQtiOO n wa harxu
at which the resolution relative to the syndi-
cate was carried was addressed by female
president, who spoke like practical debater,
and hxed the wages to be demanded by her
coworkers at 81. 75c. a day. or about IS cents.
Martin Palmer, of Windsor, Conn.,, iss
fox hunter who had followed one of the ami
mails long distance last week. He came out
the woods onto the track of the Connections
Western Railroad and found his dog excitedly
shifting at the rails. He tried to call him OF.
but the dog kept following the rail for a rod or
more, and then stopped and barked vigorously.
Mr.. Palmet was puzzled and at first indignant
that his dog did not answer his summons Fin
ally he yielded to curiosity and examined the
point where the dog kept his nose, and discov-
cred that the fox had been walking on the rail,
and one foot had slipped off, leaving its Imprint
out how far this had gone on, and the dog was
allowed to follow the weak scent on the rail-
For over two miles they kept on the track and
found no place where the fox had slipped
again. At last, little further on, they found
where the cunning animal had gathered him
self together and made side jump from the
rail a distance Of over five feet and had made