Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| -Owego, n. Y, has population of 900
but only one death occurred there during Feb
| ruary.
AT wedding at Lancaster on Sunday
| night the groom was presented with a cemetery
lot by his father.
| A hotel keeper of Woodland, Cal. bas
been arrested for selling liquor to a smalLszed
| girl who went to his bar
| West Chester people were picking the
fragrant spring flowers known as Quaker
ladies" day before yesterday.
interviewing has been got down to a
| science by Partisan, who advertises that he
| will furnish for the provincial press interviews
with distinguished men, two a week, for SIS per
| month.
w. d. Saw, an Indian Government
official, captured AZ elephants in one drive az
Cbirangiri, in the Caro- Hills, on February l.
They made his total catch for two months
nearly 150.
james Rittenhouse, of Lancaster, while
hunting sassafras in the adjacent country on
Saturday found meath pile of leaves on a hill
side box containing suspicious looking ingots,
resembling "gold bricks.'
"A postal card was recently delivered in
England Is years after it had been posted, hav-
ing been found at the bottom of letter box,
where it had doubtless lain unnoticed ever
since it was first dropped in.
Mrs. Ann Leek, of Kiplin, Yorkshire.
has died in her l01st year. She was married in
1909, and had lived in the same house SO years
There Is another Mrs Leek living in the neigh
borhood who has attained the same age
The phonograph is to be utilized in pre-
serving the language of the Passamaquoddy
Indians, by plan arranged by the Massachu.
setts Society. The language used by some of
them Is so strong that 1t may strain the ma
chine
"A Western Tennessee colored girl is
trying to grow up and be happy under the name
of Cary-Ann Happy-Ann -Eliza-Scales
Blow the Bellows Potterfeld Rosa Ann
Thomas. The name Is hyphenated so that is
may be sung.
AT recent banquet at San Francisco
of the Undertakers' Association the menus
were printed on cardboard cut in the shape Of
coffin, and among the dishes were chicken
dressed la shroud, smelts on stretcher and
stewed tomatoes la grippe.
Some Western farmers have been re-
ceiving circular which opens as follows: ITO
Christian farmers-Do you want to get in on
the ground floor and keep the command
ments at the same time? If so, read this"
And then it unfolds a petty swindling
scheme.
"A Macon, Ga, man has a knife which
has been in his possession for years and years.
On the blade is stamped the date 176O. Enos
Furness, one of the oldest knife manufacturers
of England, was the maker. In spite of its 100
years the knife Is yet good for another 20 years
of usefulness.
"A Russian letter says the walters Of
Baku have a cooperative society. They pos
sess their own black swallow-tail coats their
own knives and forks, spoons, dishes and
glasses, SO that they are ready to organize pub
lie dinners, lunches, funeral repasts and we'd
ding breakfasts without the costly Intervention
of middlemen and al moderate charges.
Evan Adams, of fPleasantville, Nj, who
has had 126 housekeepers since the death of his
wife, about seven years ago, was driven the
other day to the roof of his house by his last
housekeeper who. armed with an az, had de-
manded her wages and letter which she
claimed he had intercepted. She recovered
her letter, but was compelled to leave without
her wages.
AN Athens, Ca, 14-year-old boy has ac-
complished that which, doubtless. no boy of his
age has ever done before. He has made a COM
plete dynamo, capable of lighting one large are
light, run by treadle. He has made a COM
plete telephone, and has made great improve
ment in the transmitter, which is said by eec-
tricians to work perfectly, and be much simpler
than the one now in use.
The number of foreign students at Ger
man universities has been larger this winter
than it has ever been before. Out of total
number of 29OT students, 1880 are non-Ger-
mans, 1884 being Europeans and 546 having
come to the seats of learning from other parts
of the world. OF these latter 496 are from
America. 80 from Asia (mostly Japanese), II
from Africa, and 9 from Australia
The worst case of ice fever" that has
been experienced to date appears to be that of
Pemaquid, Me-, citizen. He had big load Of
IS cakes last Saturday, and got about half way
down to the wharf, when his cart tongue came
nnf Nnt ns,fiR rayfh hiDrr ho kaur
right on driving his oxen, and Just before he
reached the wharf met team in rather bad
place He told the driver of the team that he
didn't know as he could get by him with his big
load. but OH being told that he would have no
trouble naturally looked back at his load to see
what the fellow meant. His surprise can be
imagined.
-"Photography properly dates from
1640," re marked Prof. Henry w. Farnam in
recent facetious lecture although several dis
coveries were made in the art before this time.
Still, everything can be shown to be old, and
propose to show that the Photographic art was
practced by Egyptians 1000 b. G. This great
pyramid must have been a Photographic labor
tlOnary defines dark room as a place in which
Photographic plates are developed. Hence the
Egyptians must have been photographers.
Cheops, the builder of this pyramid, was prob
ably the first amateur photographer.
1t is now believed that the mammoth
aDOunQeQ TO aS RreaI an extent upon Bne east
as on the west coast of Behring Sea. In fact,
mammoths have already been discovered in
Alaska, and news comes that a syndicate has
been formed for the purpose of procuring their
ivory tusks, which are now of great value and
which will undoubtedly continue to become
more valuable. as the elephant is being exter-
minated For about thousand years North
ern Siberia has exported a large amount OF
ivory to Russia And at present IL is estimated
that not less than hundred pairs of tusks are
found every II months and shipped to the Cars
commercial centers.