Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


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-Palatka, Fla, boasts Of turnip thai
weighs 2211 pounds.
An Englishman named Laird, who has
a YEARLY income of $4,000, was arrested at
London for knocking down and kicking
woman.
BY the new rules Just issued, no one
who owns to more than 23 years Is eligible to
admission as a student of the Royal Academy
schools.
ALI the tramps in the Battle Creek,
Mich lookup were offered 81 day to 90 out
to Goguac Lake and cut ice, but every one of
them declined.
-COlored men of Boston are organizing
Crispus Attucks Club, in memory OF one OF the
black martyrs who fell before King Georges
mln1ons in Boston streets 10 years ago.
"A Michigan paper, speaking OF the
death of an esteemed lady, says: "She leaves
husband who did everything in his power to
save her life, and gave her an elegant funeral"
The landlord of public house at Bir-
minSham has canary bird that can speak sew
eral words distinctly, having learned them
from parrot with which it had been brought
| up.
The belle at a recent dog feast on an
| Indian reservation in Dakota wore jacket
trimmed with teeth from 15O elks, which she
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the chief of the tribe.
-Beerbohm Tree, the London actor, gave
dinner TO number of friends recently at
which. instead of nosegays, false noses were
furnished to the guests, which they were re-
quested to wear during the banquet.
"A GraysYille, Ga, young man who ad-
vertised in the Cincinnati Enquirer for lady
correspondent received proposal of mar
riage from mulatto girl, who described her.
Admiral Albini, of the italian navy.
says that the man-of-war of the future will
have double screws and a helm at each end, so
that it can turn around without losing any
time. Its sides, he says, will be unarmored
"A bridge across Eagle creek, Ore, was
finished recently by Baker county Taxpayers,
who paid 81 6O0fo it. Before it was a week old
a drove of cattle were driven upon it, when the
whole structure collapsed and 30 animals were
drowned.
President Allen, of the Lette Carriers
Association, of New York. has been presented
with a banner on which are shown the photo
graphs OF over 700 letter carriers belonging to
the union in Brooklyn, Newark, Philadelphia,
Boston and Washington.
"A couple of st. Louis, Mi ch., men have
invented a concern to use up sawdust as fast as
mill can turn it out. The invention takes the
dust from the saw and shoots it straight into
third of the coal or wood usually burned.
The Chinese merchants of Phoenix,
Ariz., contributed 500 in money a wagon load
of provisions and hired physician to go to the
relief of their countrymen who were injured
by the accident at Hassayampa. If any bodies
were found they were to be given decent
burial.
"A return has just been issued showing
that Az, $40 English ladies are entitled to vote
in County Council contests. this number in
cluding g. l61 women voters in London alone.
In municipal elections the total plumber of
ladies entitled to . vote in the borough5 of En-
gland and Wales is 243, AS.
The Princess Letitia, the late Amadeo's
widow, is living in Rome, where she is already
said to be prospecting in Napoleonic way for
a new and young husband. She is very young
uncle and only did so at the insistance of her
mother. who wished to please her faVorite
brother.
While the officers had Henry Wallace,
of near Oxford, Mich, IN the Oakland county
jail the other day they found among his per-
sonal effects receipt showing that he hadn't
married his wife in the ordinary way. but had
acquired her from one Fisher by right of pur-
chase, 70 cents being the price of the woman as
set forth in the document.
The number of gondoliers at Venice
has been much diminished since the introduc-
tion of steam launches in the canals, which form
its thoroughfares. The few gondoliers left in
service, however, are not complaining, as they
receive better wages through lack of competi-
tion in their own special lIne and their skulling
Is much in demand by visitors.
M. Vile, a professor of chemistry at
Paris. announces that he has discovered new
compound. consisting of a mixture of phosphite
of chalk, carbonate of refined potash, and
sulphate of chalk, which, placed around the
roots of the vines, will defy the attacks of the
phyloxera. and will at the same time greatly
increase the abundance Of the crop.
The Landgraf of Hesse Is about to con-
tract marriage with a young and beautiful
actress of the Frankfort Theater. The lady is
of noble descent and the daughter of distin-
guished officer. The Landgraf is an accom-
plished musician, and much beloved III society.
He has been totally blind from his birth.
Charles John Gay, an English cartman,
after good record of IA years, has Just been
sent to prison for a month for stealing two
oranges worth l penny from some goods he
was carting for large firm of jam makers.
The Court solemnly announced that the gravity
of the otfense did not lie in the value of the
goods, but in the breach of trust toward an en-
ployer.
The man who blows out the gas has q
rival. He recently stopped over night at a
Michigan hotel, and the smell of burning cloth
prompted search for him. After rapping up
several guests this man finally peered out OF
the darkness of his room and confessed that he
had tied towel around the electric lights and
it had scorched it. Il tried to blow 1t out" he
said, but it wouldn't go out"
"A soldier was court martialed last month
at Venice for breach of discipline and con-
demned to six months imprisonment. When
informed by the Court that he could appeal he
contemptuously tore off his number and other
insignia, threw them on the floor and shouted:
Cursed be your armyl You are lot of assas-
sinsp' For this he was condemned to seven
years close confinement in prison.
Away back in the dim and misty past
somebody poisoned Mr.. Drew's cattle, down in
Berrien county Mich. He thought it was his
neighbor, Mr.. Sheppard, and Mr.. Sheppard
was arrested. The case has been dragging
along for years. has cost the county about Sl0,-
OO0 and may not be settled yet as the jury dis
agreed last week, notwithstanding the over
whelming evidence of the accuseds innocence.
The English Countess of Carloty recent
Iy died in Paris at the age of 20 in her room
where she lived alone and apparently in power
ty She was found dying in her chair by the
ianitress, and the police were summoned, as it
was supposed that she was utterly destitute.
In removing her from the chair a bag fell to
the floor and in it was found SIC, 600 in gold:
$40 900 in notes was afterward found in drawer