Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

You can get 100 acres of land in Samoa
for 81 81 and the taxes will be only SO cents a
year.
The money annually spent for cosmetics
by the women OF this country would pant
1900 houses, allowing SIS for each house.
! Miss Olive Buchanan, of st. Louis, is
the first woman in the United States to hold
the office of United States Deputy Marshal
"A resident of Hartford Conn.,, who is
stone deaf" declares that recently by the ard
| Of an ear trumpet he heard heavy clap Of
\ thunder.
There were found in the Golfers of
Henry IL after his decease, 600 600, beside
plate, jewels. and other valuables; an immense
treasure IN those days.
"A town Councilman at Horitz, in Bo-
hemia, has been sent to jail for two months be-
cause he refused to rise while the Mayor read
resolutions on the death of the Crown Prince.
School teachers in Brooklyn can now
lose ID days year through sickness without
having anything deducted from their salaries.
the board of education having decided to thas
effect Tuesday.
-Zenas and George Mayo, at Hancock.
N. Y, married two sisters simultaneously. and
last week. just as simultaneously, the two sis
ters obtained divorces from the brothers for
cruel treatment.
"A Matilda A. Scott, living in North
May street. New York, has kennel and dog
farm, where she raises toy terriers that net 500
year, and she pays all her expenses with the
proceeds Of the canine sick ward.
An electric typewriter is being con-
structed which will write letters in New York
as they are transmitted from Boston, and vice
versa. the communications being transmitted
simultaneously over four separate wires.
"A lad of II years died lately at Pomona,
Cal, from the excessive use of tobacco. He
was known to have smoked in one day so CIGAR
cites and two three strong Mexican cigars.
Ihe doctors say he died of narcotic poison
"A novel way of raising money to build
church has been adopted by congregation in
an Iowa town They borrowed $4,000 and
gave life insurance on number of members,
winch is to be applied on the debt as fast as
death ensues.
"A Leavenworth man proposes to wager
any sum between $4,000 and $4,000 that within
70 days he can walk from Leavenworth to juno
ZION City, and never take his feet feet off mort
gagged ground, except when crossing a public
road or railway.
AN accepted authority says the spring
onicn is a great sleep inducer, and about equal
to quinine for malaria. 1t is kept out of its
most useful province by the prejudice against
the odor. This may be overcome by hypnorIsm,
While digging hole in his garden, pre-
paratory to planting a tree, Mr.. Perry B.
Moore, Sr., of Palmyra, Mo-, came across a
cannon ball two feet in the ground The ball
had evidently been in the ground long time
and how 1t got there is mystery.
The most prominent experts in dogs in
this country are firm in the belief that
thoroughbred dogs are less intelligent than
mongrels. Nearly all the dogs exhibited on
the stage are cross-breeds and dogs of low line
age, IL they can boast known parentage at all.
"A Chicago man has in his possession a
United States half dollar having an eagle on
each side. 1t bears no date, but it was issued
in 1872. He has another dated 1877, which bears
the same eagle. One face of this coin is like
all others Upon the reverse. however the
eagle and the lettering are indented and re-
coin.
There is said to be a plant in Arabis
with flowers of bright yellow, and with seeds
which are like black beans, and these dried and
powdered, and taken in small doses cause a
person to dance about. and behavelike lunatic
I'LL he becomes exhausted and falls asleep.
When ne awakes he has not the smallest re-
membrance of his ridiculous behavior. The
plant is called Laughing plant"
"A few days ago dog rushing into a
Boston restaurant stirred ND terrible excite
nent some Of the kitchen employees Jumping
rom the windows, while all the guests mounted
he tables and the proprietor chased the animal
With chair. After quiet had been restored il
was learned thar the poor beast wasn't mad at
III. as had been supposed, but only frightened
through having been chased by a crowd OF bows
md men.
Warden Brush, of Sing Sing, says for
very execution in such a great prison-sing
Sing, having l,6O0 inmates-ten men are driven
insane. They succumb to the demoralizing in
luences of confinement, aggravated by their
wn morbid fancies. One man, committed for
burglary, went insane the other day simply
rom brooding over the uses Of the dynamo
Vires, which he was stringing in connection
With the electrocut1onal plant Of that prison.
"A tradition has been handed down
mong the Caffres similar to superstition en-
ertained by the Burmese. The Burmese
'riests foretold that as soon as vessel without
ails or rowers should be seen in the Irawaddy
liver, Burmah would fall. The Caffres relate
hat prophecy exists among them to the effect,
That when sea wagons steamers with paddle
Fheels) shall make their resting place in the
mouth of the Buffalo. Caffre Land shall die"
"A man living near Griffin, Ca, is IA
ears of age, has resided in the same neighbor-
ood q years. never was intoxicated, never
mokej pipe or cigar or took chew of to-
acco, nor has he ever known one card from
he other. Himself and wife have been keep
ng house 40 years, and have raised seven sons
nd two daughters, seven of whom are still liV-
ng, with 81 grandchildren. His wife is 66 years
age and she never hired washing done or
ought pound of laundry soap.
-Sadawaga Lake, in Whitingham, Me-,
as remarkable island within its borders. The
,land is larger than any farm in the neighbor-
ood, containing over 150 acres. Its peculiarities
@ in the fact that it daily shifts its position,
eing first on the north, then on the south, and
hen on the east or west borders Of the lake. It
known as ''the Floating Island, !" and has kept
D its aberrant voyage since time out of MEM
ry 1t has many trees upon its surface, some
which are from 20 to 80 feet in height, be-
des an immense thicket OF cranberry bushes.
The innumerable sinkholes near Benton
I'd Glendale, in Missouri, (which for time
spt land there at a low figure" are now re-
lrded (according to the st. Louis Post-Dfs-
1tch) ''as great blessings, as into them all the
Irplus rainfall is drained, and many houses
I'VE pipe connections to them for the convey
ice of sewage. Everything that goes into
em is carried away, and experiments made
ad to the suppositiOn thai the holes are con-
,cted by passages through the limestone to
lderground streams and the River de Peres
resident of Glendale has had in mind for
me time plan for thoroughly exploring the
opposed passages. Near his home is a hole in
tich the murmur of flowing water can be
,ard at nearly all times"
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