Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| A centenarian who just died in En-
gland spent 90 years of her life in the one
house.
| One of the new buildings of Tacoma
will have four plate glass windows each III by
| l30 inches.
The Portland Oregonidn says Mr.. Bing-
ham, of Crabtree has lost LOCO head OF horses
| by starvation.
The people of Quincy, Plumas County.
Cal. have had no mail from Oroville Since De-
| cember l. 1889.
There is one township in Lancaster
county that has never had barroom, liquor
| store, brewery OF dlstillery within its limits
On Friday, March Z, 1890, the clearing
house receipts at Tacoma were sl24, l9S r.; For
the same day in 1889 they were only s6s' 4SO w.
H. X. Snow, of Colonia, Ventura
County. CAL, intends to plant fifty acres Of
peanuts this season. Last year he gathered 400
sacks from l3 acres.
-Maryland's new cigarette law requires
the seller TO pay extra tax of $50, and to
make affidavit that the cigarettes he sells con-
tain no injurious drug.
MIR. Kerr, of Yakima County. Wash,
has sent to Japan for 4 large quantity of tea
cuttings. He intends to see what can De done
with that plant IN his own country
Nine Patti has made a contract to build
at her castle Of Craig-y-Nos, in Wales, a win
ter garden covered with glass l04 feet long
and 70 feet wide, with high curved roof As feet
high.
"A cat in Millville, n. j., finds pleasure
in swimming, and often catches fish in shallow
water with its paws. 1T has been known to
swim in pursuit of dock rat clear across the
river"
A Paris thief stole the horse out of the
oF +t,a r;,r
mounting it, was riding oil. ana would have
got away If passing citizen had not wakened
the driver.
MIR. K. /. Young brought to the office of
the Press, at Middletown. Pa, glass of apple
butter that was made by his mothers grand
mother in the year 1S26, making it "a years old.
1t is a little tart.
Several wild dogs have been killed by
cattlemen in the Upper Cuchara county, Col.
They had killed large number of cattle The
most savage dog was tan color. and wore
heavy brass collar.
Tiger hunting is a pleasant pastime in
Georgia. The man who wants to engage in this
dangerous sport can find good, healthy tigers
in Bullock and Newton counties. IL has not
been settled how the tigers got there. ALI the
same they are there.
Prof Swing insists that Chicago must
secure for the Columbus Exposition the follow
d
oration; Senior Emilio CASTELAR,, as the guest OF
the city, and -the best orchestral music that
money can possibly secure"
The following sentence contains all the
letters in the alphabet: "John p. Brady gave
me black walnut box of quite small size"
The following sentence is much shorter. and it
likewise contains all she letters in the alphabet:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"
A remarkable coincidence in eonnee-
ton with the death of the President of an
electric railway in Ohio is that he was killed
while violating a rule he himself had made
forbdding passengers to get of OF on the
front platform while the car was in motion
An autograph letter Of Richard III.
was sold i'll England recently for about s. Is
per inch of surface. 1t was written at Barnard
Castle in Durham, August 4 14SO, or about
three years before the crook-back Duke OF
Gloucester, then Constable and Admiral Of
England, came to the throne.
There are to-day royal and imperial
orders in the world, with a prodigIous assort-
ment Of collars. crosses. stars and other fancy
insignia, laid up for the tickling of human
ambition. The oldest is ST. Andrews order,
first instituted in England in 49, dIsused after
ward, and re-established in 1540.
Emperor William still retains the
French cooks that ruled the kitchen of the
imperial palace under his late grandfather,
but he positively refuses to allow their French
draw up the days list of dishes under their
French names, and these are translated into
German for His Majesty's table.
The Hagenville (Mich.) postmaster
runs . restaurant, grocery, hardware dry
goods, boot and shoe. and produce store, all
under one root, and still finds time to farm,
run a sawmill, dicker in cedar buy and sell
pine lands, manufacture shingles, conduct \
blacksmith shop, practice medicine in a small
way, mix drugs. act as justice OF the peace and
go to church twice on Sundays.
In Chicago two young men were arrest
ed for personattng women advertising for hus-
bands They found many dupes throughout
the land. Photographs usually accompanied
the replies. and the swindlers then pretended
that the applicants were found suitable, and il
railroad fare was Forthcoming they would 20
and be married. The prisoners were held for
trial on a charge Of fraudulent use of the mails.
"A New Zealand paper reports some
thing entirely new In the sporting line. At
horse race the course lay across the sands at
Okaroa bay, and, through delay, the tide rose
SO Eigh that the horses had to swim some dis
tance before the winning post was reached.
The result was that one of the animals. which
would otherwise have been beaten, came OF
victorious on account of superior natatorial
powers.
"A firm at Bolivar, n. Y, is busily en-
gagged manufacturing gas from crude oil. It IL
claimed it beats old nature. Under Q new
vice the gas can be sent to any reasonable dis
tance required. Inc owners claim they can
show more fire for heating purposes than any
other gas plant in the world and at lower cost
than any on record: or in fact cheap as nat
ural gas. For a portable gas work tor hotels as
watering places it is said it cannot be beaten,
Last November, Edward Collins, of
Pomona, Cal, who had been an inveterate
chewer and smoker of tobacco since about 1851,
was prevailed upon to quit the habit. He is a
little skeptical now to the enervating and in
furious effects Of the use of the weed, for dur
ing the past four months he has had more ill
ness than in all his life. He has had siege of
the grip has had an old-fashiohed attack Of
the measles, and now is laid up with the
mumps.
"A meteor weighing several hundred
pounds fell in the yard of 8. H. Hargis, ten
miles northwest of Gainesville. The object
had the appearance Of gigantic flint rock and
was accompanied by roaring sound like dis
Iant thunder asIt came through the air, which
was noticed some seconds before the great mass
struck the earth. Just before reaching the
surface the body exploded with report like
cannon and scattered fragments of rock for
several rods around, many of which have since
been picked up and are retained by the people
of that community as natural curiosities.
HIGHLY HUMOROUS.