Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

&C. s. Chapman, of Waterbury, Conn,
has a clock which has ticked on the time with
out stopping since l7SS.
There will be 300 foundations for houses
started in Pittsburg, Kan. during the next 10
days if rock can be obtained to lay them.
Uncle Jerome Smith, of Loyington, Mo-,
Is 81 years old. He has been married three
times, and is now looking for fourth wife.
"A shipment of 80, 900 pounds of salmon
from Westminster, British Columbia, to Ham
burg. will be made about April l. The fish are
10 be packed in ice and sent forward py sne
carload.
Since the oldest woman Of Vienna died
short time ago, most animated competition
has been in progress for recognition as her sue
cessor. This competition shows that the Aus
TRAN capital has several women over 100
AN electrical sheep shearing machine
has been brought out in Australia. 1t is said
that by the new method a sheep may be sheared
In from 81 to minutes. From to 100 shears
can be operated at once according to the power
used.
A jeweler of Rockford, Wash, recently
presented the public school with clock. This
was followed by a more expensive one by
rival jeweler, and by the time the enthusiasm
had subsided every room in the schoo had
clock.
Last October Mrs. H. 7. Holdridge,
who lives near Bangor, Mich broke one of her
ankles and has never been able to walk without
a crutch since. The other night she slipped
and fell, breaking the other member in the
same place.
AT low tide the clam-diggers are busy
on the fats in front of nwaco. Wash, where
the clans are numerous and fat. A few years
ago no such thing as clam was to be found in
Bakers bay, while now the supply seems to be
inexhaustible.
Charles Lucht, step-son of William
Lupke, a Mequon, Wis, farmer, has forced the
latter by law to keep promise made to him in
boyhood that if he would remain at work on
the farm he would at some future period deed
to him 40 acres of land.
One farmer of Big Bend Wash, lost all
his stock, except one cow. He keeps her alive
by feeding her with flour. A mail carrier from
that country reached Walla Walla recently
and said he did not believe there was 100 head
left in the whole country.
Mrs. Hanna Davis, colored, died at the
residence of her son. near Lincoln University,
one day last week at the age of SO years. She
was the mother of II children, and lived to see
"a grandchildren, 66 great grandchildren and 3
great great grandchildren.
during the trial of Nicholson, the Bad
axe, Mich. saloon keeper for the murder Of
Woodrow sensation was produced by the in
PRODUCTION Of the murdered mans skull
1"O Uau fractures were SHOWN, elLQer OF WHICH
was sufficient to produce death.
The crown of the late Sultan of Perak
was sold recently at Sinapore, by order of his
estate, after having done service for long line
of Malay Sultans. 1t is of gold, studded with
thousand jewels, and was valued at s37, 900, but
the price 1t fetched was not announced.
Farmers in the neighborhood Of
Hutchinson, Kan, propose to salt the earth
this spring for the purpose Of increasing the
yield of crops. They will buy crude salt by the
carload, and scatter it over their fields. They
expect to get some remarkable results.
"A humpbacked man at Chicago gets a
living by selling the time of day. He has
chronometer and it is warranted time. He has
certain territory which he goes over, and fur
nishes the housewives in that territory with
the time of day once week. He gets 10 cents
from each patron.
William Wallace, of st. Paul, has
drawn a wife. He advertised for one. and the
candidates were to respond by numbers. The
numbers were placed In a hat, and he drew one.
It bore the number of ~, !" and the name of the
ambitious young woman proved to be Miss
Annie Williams.
"A jackson county woman brings divorce
proceedings against her husband, who lives in
Clinton. on the ground that 25 years ago he
drove her from her home. She's seen him once
since then. and alleges that one of the reasons
she did not speak as they passed by was that
she didn't know him.
David Crawford, living three miles west
Of MarysYille, Mich, was compelled to watch
his wife for three hours as she was being
burned to death. He is paralyzed, and his
tending to household duties, and she died be-
fore assistance arrived.
"A number of Salt Lake women are
making money by dealing in real estate, both
as agents and as buyers. They are called the
"Rubber-boot Brigade" One of the most
daring operators told reporter that she was
bampered by husband whose caution pre-
vented her from clearing up sl50,000 on one
deal.
The advent of lot of ballet girls Of
Barnum Baily's circus in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
has caused two corset factory girls to lose their
situations. DESTROYS of emulating the high
kickers they practiced during lunch hours and
were surprised by the shocked foreman. He
dismissed the offenders with the remark that
mo kickers were wanted there"
The ex-soldier, John McKeough, who
was accustomed to stand guard over the Burn
side Monument in Providence, R. l., with
drawn saber. saying every now and then: I
followed you at Newberne and will not desert
you now" was killed by railroad train last
Thursday night He was perfectly sane with
the exception of this eccentricity.
Justice Lamar, who never accepts a
pass OE pEeseuL VI any kluu, L6ilS OF QlmSen
this one: "Down in the locality call my home
lives old John Dillard. Some years ago John
presented me with very fine Alderney cow L
said: John never receive presents 'Well,'
he replied, Lamar, just give me your note, and,
as you will never pay il anyway, you will be
nothing out and COW ahead
The champion fine hand writer of the
world is believed to be Mr. Ria Kitteridge,
who resides in Belfast. He is 7S years old. but
has written the Lords Prayer six times re-
peated on the space covered by silver scent
piece which Is at the rate of 8, 6U0 words or q
postal card He has written the Lord's Prayer
once on a space of 3-16 of an inch, and says he
will come under a contract to put 890 600 words
on a postal card. Mr.. Kitteridge does not use a
microscope in writing, but one is needed to
read what he writes.
A man died in Baltimore who had had
the unusual experience of having been buried
alive for three days. His name was Josiah w.
Johns, and at the time he was engaged with
other laborers in working an iron ore bank in
Baltimore county. The bank caved in, burying
the men, two of whom were dug out within q
few hours. After three days John was missed,
and search was made for him. He was finally
dug out and strange to say, life was not ex-
tinct. As result Of his burial he contracted a
cold which in the course of time developed
into consumption, which finally caused his
death.
An old convict, just released from the
Auburn penitentiary, boasts of the fact that he
was conducted to that institution by Grover
Cleveland. He was convicted of murder, and
sentenced to imprisonment for life at Buffalo
in 1871. "Grover Cleveland was Sheriff at the
time of my sentence" :" he says, "and instead Of
sending deputy to Auburn with me he went
himself, saying that he had never been in the
State prison and wanted to improve the oppor-
tunity. believe am the only man in the
world who das been escorted to prison by q