Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Western man has discovered proc
ess of making whisky out of beans
"A working philanthropist at Grass VAL
ley, Cal, saws wood for poor women of that
place free OF charge.
An imported cat was sent present to
an Allentown man. but neighbor mistook it
for wild animal, and hissed his bulldog on it.
SOMEONE has footed up and computed
the requirements of the bills introduced in
Congress and makes a total of over 81 ,600, ,000,-
0GO.
AT Johnstown a Hungarian was thrown
headlong from fast freight train, and gather
ing himself up he started after the train to Sc
cure his dinner-pail.
-Meddybemps, Me-, boasts of 6-year-old
boy who spelled over 400 words on examination
day without missing L Evidently the spelling
book Is not neglected in that school,
M. Chauteloup, an extensive brass
founder in Canada, who died last week, is re-
ported TO have left his vast business to three
iorelnen. with capital for carrying it on, and
MS fortune ESTIMATED at $500 000), with the ex-
ceptlon OF few thousand dollars in charity, to
.nose who were associated with him in making
"A nest of mice was found in Penob-
scot county, Me-, mans overcoat after he had
nung 1t up in a Bangor hotel When called on
70 explain the man said he hadn't put on the
overcoat for two years till he took it down 10
wear to Bangor that morning. All will he for.
given II ne didn't carry away in the same coat
anything more harmful than mice. when he
lefl the hotel.
The girls in ''The Gondoliers'' have set
the fashion in long pendants for watches.
Some of the ehatelaines measure ten inches at
the end of which bangles watch set in a rock
crystal that. as rule, keeps everything but
time. The fiat chain is not recognized nor ia
the fob. You must have a single cord cable or
round link OF the modest watch-c cham pattern
in gold, silver, platinum or a combination If
two.
"A st. Louis paper tells this seemingly
incredible story, that at party few nights
ago young man, while out upon the veranda
for Il smoke, overheard his fiancee acknowledge
being in love with the man she was then with
saw him kiss her and then heard her promise to
marry him. When they left he was SO stunned
tnat ne stayed where he was until ne was
startled by another couple coming to the same
window.
John Darby, farmland employed bv
F. w. Stout, near New Brunswick fell from a
haymow Tuesday and injured his neck. A
nelghboring physician was called in, who dis
covered that Darby's neck was unjointed, and
ne said that the man could live only a. few hours.
Darby disagreed with the physician, however
and said that he would get well. He was alive
at last accounts, and was quieting his nerves by
smoking cigar.
Theodore NJ. Brown, of the "Caspar the
Yodler" Company, describes road experience
that must have been rather peculiar. At Mans
Held, O., the company had to rise at A. NJ to
catch 4 train. The people in the hotel where
they stopped positively refused to get break
1asr. The actresses of the organization there
lore arose from their little beds. girded them
selves with aprons, and. entering the kitchen,
cooked meal for all the company.
Private Secretary Halford, who took
quite an interest in finding the cruel "joker''
who sent colored preacher. named Powell.
from Barton. Ala, to Washington, on forged
telegram promising him a position at S1O0 a
month, has been gratified by receiving dis
patches from Chattanooga, announcing the
arrest there of an Alabama postmaster for the
onense. The Chief Inspector of the POStofiee
department. worked the case personally.
"A Fairfield, Me-, pastor took ior his
text last Sunday the words: "Gold and silver
have not but such as have give unto you."
One of the pillars OF the church listened at
tenrivey to the discourse, and when the box
was passed found that the text exactly de-
ser1bed his financial condition, So he wrote it
on a slip of paper, signed his name and put it
into the contribution box. 1t is said to be the
only text he ever reGe mbered until he got
home.
browning was at dinner at the house of
friend last Summer when he saw the phono-
graph for the first time. He was greatly inter-
ested in it. and started to repeat to it THE
Ride from Ghent to AK" When half through
cracionsi I've % forroE the ie resTr' Tbe nboD@l
graph dutifuliy repeated all he had sald, in
Guiding the exclamation at the end, ann the
film upon which the poets language was i'm
pressed is now preserved as precious relic.
AN historic tree, on the old Elder Win
SON farm in Johnston, r. l., has been felled. 1t
W. n nad bopO n Inv tha
Dorrites in tine exciting times of the Dorr war
as a hiding place for guns" 1t stood in an open
field on the farm. The trunk which was 9 feet
4 inches in diameter, lad been hollow as long
as anyone living can remember" and a tall
man could enter and stand erect, with several
inches to spare above his head. One of the
limbs measured four feet in diameter. The
tree was cut down because there was danger of
its falling.
"A cannon, even though a small one, is
not usually regarded as necessary part of an
explorers outfit Such weapon has, however,
been trundled into Northern Thibet by the ex-
pedirion which the late General Preje7alsky
headed. According to Russian reports this
is expected to serve the very pacific
purpose of determining the rate at which sound
travels through rareted air at heights of l20G0
feet and upward. Like firearms made for the
African trade its chief function will be to make
a noise, and it has the unique distinction of be-
ing a cannon with purely scientific purpose.
"A very laughable event occurred one
evening recently at the residence of newly
mai ried pair in New ork. The husband being
in Boston and not expected home until the
theater train at midnight, the bride and some
friends, who had dropped in to pass the even
ing, thought it would be great fun to have
some table tippings and spirit rappings. The
first question was asked by the young wife,
where is my husbandF' and the dreadful raps
spelt out the letters '.D-r-u-n-k k" The climax
was reached few minutes after when q teie-
gram came from the absent husband reading as
follows: Dear E.-Have missed the train and
shall not be home until tomorrow morning."