Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Over 400 persons are employed in the
Census Bureau, at Washington.
The income derived by French people
who rear fowls. according to official returns 10
SS7, 10000 francs, of which 153, 500 900 francs
represent the value Of the flesh and ls3 60O, 900
francs that Of the eggs.
Cranberry picking has become so much
an established industry among the Cape Cod
cnlldren that it is proposed to arrange the
| scn9ol terms so tina. there will be no session
curing the cranberry season.
| AN ordinarily hard question for house.
wives TO solve. How TO clean gilt frames p
answered in this weeks Scientific american.
Inc metnod advised is simple too consisting
| Id Washing the frames with beer.
Recent very trustworthy calculations of
the population Of the Chinese Empire by Rms
sian authorities reckon it at 1872 600 600 and the
annual increase at 100000 Not one in TO- 900
ever heard of the religion of Jesus Christ
-Abner Dorsett, n negro living in Hick-
| ory Mountain township, North Carolina. has
the largest head of any person in the United
states 50 1ar as nearo rom 1t is 80 inches in
diameter, and gives Abner decided stop
heavy" appearance.
The oldest pensioner in the United
States is Mrs. Henry Ray. a eoIored woman.
liz years old, who lives near Glen Gardner. N
]. Her husband was an army cook during the
war Of 1872, and she draws life pension Of SI2
month. She Is in good heath, but nearly
blind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Padgett are the
proud parents Of a bright son. which was born
Friday morning. The mother is only 10 years
Of age, and is the youngest mother ever in
Crawford county, o. She was married a year
ago in Kentucky, her maiden name having been
Shupp.
The eyes of insects are immovable, and
many of them seem cut into multitude of
facets, like the facets of a diamond. Each Of
ot true eye; Lenenboeck counted 3,l6l OF
tnem In the cornea Of beetle, and over 5000
In that OF a common horsehy.
"A veteran athlete, known as "OId
Vetter Michel" /" although passed his s0th year,
recently climbed to the top OF the spire of the
parish church of Saar-Alben, Germany, which
is lS2 feet high and stayed there some minutes
turning the weathercock round and round, and
performing few gymnastlc feats.
james Groves, Is years old, plumbers
apprentice, while at work on new building in
New York City, undertook to slide down .
hosting rope. He fell four stories to the
ground, striking on a two-inch PLANK, which he
broke. As far as known he received no injuries
except slight cut on the forehead.
I'm Marion county, Ga, man dreamed
the other night that hogs got in his cornfield.
The hogs ran under an old gin house where
there was only one small hole as an outlet and
he was there kicking to keep them from COM
ing out When he walked he was standing on
the floor kicking the wall. with his big toe
broken and his ankle badly sprained.
Mrs. Marble, of Dixfeld, Me-, recently
broke a hen of setting. She did it in this way:
She shut the hen up in close Toom-and for
got her. It was % days later that somebody
happened TO find Mrs. Hen hungry and thirsty
hriO nd dyuifh
taste tor scratching for worms in the garden
than for sitting on eggs, even IN a stolen nest
DIR. Reuben Samuels, husband OF the
mother Of Frank and Jesse James. is one of the
best housekeepers in Missouri. He can cook
bake, wash and iron, and employs his time
mostly in the performance Of domestic duties.
He always gets the breakfast and supper and
Mrs. Samuels prepares dinner. There is not
cleaner house in Missouri than the Samuels'
residence, A person could eat off the floors.
in Chatham, ProviRcetown, it will be
noticed that there are SO many barns and many
our-buildings signs which, to the uninitiated.
are, of themselves, meaningless. They have
fantastic names carved upon them, such as
"Flying Cloud" Marguerite" etc. They are
all that are left of once gallant ships that have
been wrecked on the bars and shoals on
Chatham. Many there are of these.
Five hundred of the persons who paid
so cents fare on the New Haven road in order
to reach the Westchester track from New York
City when that course was first opened are now
suing the railroad for $50 each. They claim
that the fare paid by them was excessive, they
having been charged IA cents above the legal
rate Several persons have brought individual
suits and recovered $50 in each case.
Renting clocks is a new business in
New Haven. Over 1900 clocks of this kind
have been placed already in that city at
rental of IS cents a month. In some cases
- twas in FL ofn da-
mands careful adjustment an employe of the
company visits the place daily and regulates
the clock so far as may be necessary. Ordi-
narily the clocks are wound once IN SIX days,
and the company attends to that.
Mr.. B. s. Staples, of Belfast Me-, has
on exhibition at the Phenix House stable, a
steer calf with five legs. The fifth one starts
from the nigh hind gambrel joint and branches
down with perfect foot upon which he steps
the same as upon the others. In addition to
this freak of nature the calf is beauty. being
only six months old. and weighing 6l5 pounds.
His girth is feet inches. He was raised by
Freeman Atwood, of Monroe, and will be ex-
hibited at the Bangor fair next week.
W. B. Jennings, of Marshall, Tex, has
discovered very effective anu simple means
of getting rid of reaches. 1t is simply to put
toad IN any room that is infested with them.
Last summer large toad got into the post
office and remained there over night. After
weeks since, when they reappeared- Another
toad was placed in the room, and the reaches
again disappeared. Charles Doyle was greatly
annoyed by these vermin. He was told about
The remedy and placed a small toad in his sa-
loon, which cleared it of reaches in very
short time.
"A rat got caught by the leg in store
and squeaIed loudly for mercy, says Maine
exchange. The proprietor of the store watched
the rat which continued to squeal. Finally
another rat crept cautiously out and walked
up to his unfortunate companion and evident
ly took the situation IN, for they seemed to
talk with each other and arrived at the conclu-
sion that the captured rats chances were deS-
perate for the second one began to gDaw the
unfortunate rats leg of, allowing it to escape.
which 1t did, limping away on three legs, the
other leg remaining in the trap. 1t almost
seemed as if they had deliberated over the
case and had reached the only possible means
OF escape.