Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

-Mavor-elect Rucker. of San Jose, is
only 25 years Of age.
San Francisco shipped eight Chinese
lePers home last week, leaving six-an white
IN her hospital.
Fool burglars spent two sleepy hours
drilling hole in Sturgis, Mich, safe which
wasn't locked.
"A contemporary, which has been look
ing into the matter. reports that fewer daily
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The submarine boat Goubet, in its last
trials at Cherbourgh, cut the cables of five
bnoys, cutting some of them while at full
speed.
The Supreme Court Of the United States
Is three years behind in its business which Is
piling up at rate that is likely to set the court
still further in arrears
1t is reported that in the past Is months
u 900 negroes have left North Carolina. It Is
stated that this estimate made on reliable
data and npon careful investigation.
John McFadden was plowinz a field
near Ventura when he unearthed portion of
was rusy 1t was easily seen to be the breast
plate of an armor.
-Sedro, on the Skagit, Wash, is four
months old and has about 40 houses 1t will
soon have a national bank and fine hotel
three stories high, 50x94 feet-is to be COM
pleted within go days.
"A Parsons, Kan, produce man saws
that Kansas eggs stand much higher in the
Eastern markets than Missouri eggs. The
hens in the latter State are smaller and inferior
in every way to those IN Kansas
The directors of the Provincial Bank of
Ireland have issued a decree that no clerk in
their employ receiving less than ESQ year
shall be allowed TO marry. A similar rule is in
force in some of the principal London banks.
During 1889 the Auditor of Montana
signed warrants for bounties TO the amount Of
sS.O99 The following is the roll of victims:
2ST coyotes, $50 wolves, 1Ol wildcats, noun
tain lions, n bears and 81 lynxes. Total, 4,09O
animals.
The biggest edible oysters in the world
are found at Port Lincoln. in South Australia.
They are sometimes more than a foot across
the shell, and the oyster fits the shell well he
does not leave much margin. 1t is also said
that their flavor and delicacy are proVerDial.
In readmitting a disbarred attorney to
practice, on petition Of 81 members of the Cum
berland bar in Portland the other day, Judge
Walton remarked that it was the first instance
in the history of the Maine courts where q dis
barred lawyer had been restored TO his former
privileges.
The record for the largest amount Of
butter produced by COW in one year has been
broken by COW owned by D. F. Appleton. of
Ipswich, Mass, who, with three days TO spare,
produced 9l pounds II ounces. The previous
record was 938 pounds lSs% ounces, held by
Landseer's Fancy, owned by DIR. William Nor
row. of Nashville, Tenn.
An Augusta citizen took a queer way
TO collect bill lately. He went to q man who
owed him IS for board and asked for the
loan of his watch TO wear to his, the landlords,
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the article, and the owner went to the police
station to make a complaint An investigation
brought out the board bill and settlement
was effected.
A petition is being circulated among the
students OF the Georgia State University. the
object of which is to change the custom Of
making Saturday a half holiday and carry on
the regular recitations through that day and
make Monday holiday instead. As 1t is now,
students are compelled to study on Sunday in
order TO prepare for their Mondays recita-
tions.
Not long ago Florida minister went to
Perry county to hold services and soon after
arriving at the church an old hen jumped out
from under his buggy seat, and went away
cackling at high pitch. The man was some
what surprised at carrying hen to preaching,
and was greatly surprised when crowd OF boys
went to the buggy to look for the hen nest, and
found two eggs and bottle OF whisky under
the seat.
State Entomologist Lintner, of New
York, has received from lady at An Sable
Forks samples OF peculiar fly (which frost
cannot kill" He says: "They have been living
by thousands all the winter on the windows of
a room without fire. She first saw them eight
years ago, and each year since then they have
made their appearance, first on the brick wall
outside, in the month OF August and later in
the house, and always In this one room.
Obstinate nose bleeding is frequently
one Of the most difficult things to check
Several aggravated cases have lately occurred
at the hospital Of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. AS a last resort DR.. d. Hayes Agnev
tried ham fat with great result. Two large
cylinders of bacon were forced well into the
nostrils and the hemorrhage ceased at once.
This is q very simple remedy, and one which
should be remembered for cases of emergency
in the country.
james M. Rice, farmer living in Indi-
ana, is trying the experiment of raising wild
geese aud ducks, He has half dozen Of each,
which he has on ponds on his farm. They were
caught on the Kankakee river last fall, and
he keeps their wings clipped. They have be-
come quite tame. but it remains TO be seen
whether they will become Thoroughly domesti-
Gated and breed. Two wild ducks have been
living on an adjoining farm for three years, but
have never reared any young.
"A school boy in Edinburgh scalded his
left leg and foot from knee to toes so badly
that the skin peeled of, and the flesh liberated.
There being no signs of healing, the surgeon
obtained greyhound puppy, seven days old,
ehloroformed 1t to death, shaved its body
closely, skinned it and with the skin grated
the skin of the boy so as TO cover all the ulcer
aJed spots. The result was surprising. The
leg rapidly healed, and when the patient was
discharged, 1.-THE color OF the grated skin was
uniform, and very similar to that OF the norman
skim"
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