Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| -Oouglds cOuuty, Ore., Is turning Ous
| variegated marble of excellent quality
"A good horse-meat dinner can now be
| had in Berlin for cents. Americans will ind
no fault with the price
Joanna Furnace, in Berks county. the
| Oldest iron establishment in the State is out of
| blast owing to a defective hearth.
"A white woman, at Whitewater, No.,
| gave birth to triplets, two of whom are colored
| and the third one perfectly white.
Mr.. James Carbaugh, q collier living
| in the mountain near Mont Alto, Nd, killed 81
copperhead snakes q few days ago.
Charts have been prepared showing
that the eye has 729 distinct expressions, con-
Veytng as many different shades of meaning.
1t is stated that the German Electric
Company Of Madrid has in contemplation the
installation of plant for electric plowing on
large property in the central part of Spain.
The latest scheme for marking the
points made in playing cards on the cars is to
stick pencil between the Stats Of the window
blind, and the pencil travels up and down ac-
coroing to the luck.
because South Bethlehem Hungarian
with weakness for singing would not desist
in his warblings of lii An Rooney" on Sun
day night. his boarding boss knocked him In
sensible with hatiron.
M. Topping, of Plainfeld, Livingston
county, Mich, has been postmaster through
thick and thin for so years. He was appointed
by FRANKLIN Pierce and is doubtless one of the
Oldest Democratic postm asters in the world.
An American actress has sung 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner at the top of the EifeI
| Tower. l. now remains for French artist to
| don divers suit and warble Down Went Nc
| Ginty" at the bottom of the English Channel
"A drake owned by Neversink, Berks
1ol ayI A -. .Ira
| one day. During the summer 10 young chick
ems and ducks have been missed. and IL is safe
to say that they were gobbled by his drake
ship.
"A large chestnut tree, measuring Is feet
in circumference at the base, was struck by
| lightning IN Mr.. Mercier's pasture field, near
| Frederick, Mo-, last week, and split in the
| center from top to bottom. There was no
\ Storm at the time.
| -Abner Dorsett, a negro living in Hick-
ory Mountain township, North Carolina. has
| the largest head of any person in the United
States so far as heard from. 1t is 81 inches in
diameter. and gives Abner q decided "top-
heavy" appearance,
A house in Georgetown, D. c., has just
been shingled for the first time since 1903, and
| the carpenter says he has found sawed shingles
that had been laid within ten years in much
worse condition than the shaved pine shingles
which had been in wear 81 years.
AT the Tamarack and Osceola copper
manufacturing company's wire mill in Hough-
ton county, Mich, a coil of copper wire ~
miles in length was recently drawn. The fore
man of the mill says it is the longest ever drawn
in the world. 1t weighs "a tons.
"A patent was issued in Washington
last week for a steel fence post. 1t is to be
made of steel tubing, feet high, with a neat
cap, and with bands to hold the barbed wire.
I 1t is said that these posts can be furnished
complete for placing in position az "a cents
! each.
Away up 1000 feet above the Columbia
river, at the base of Mount Adams, six large
| ice caves have been found. One of these ice
| caves, the largest one, is used by the farmers
| as a cold storage warehouse for butter and
milk and certainly answers the purpose ad-
mirably.
| "A retired English army officer Of means
is on tour through the Western States Of
America When he sat down to dinner day or
| two ago he met with quite surprise. The
waiter who took his order was his son, who had
run away from home to scalp Indians some
seven years ago.
Mrs. Polly Downey lives at Thermal,
Fresno county, Cal. Although 20 years of age,
she IS a good worker. She acts as postmaster,
has cut and piled Al cords of stove wood. cut
the wood and tended a coal pit that paid her
$500, has crocheted three bed spreads, milks
daily two cows. feeds a lot Of poultry and takes
care of rs hogs.
A Pav Paw Mich man deserves the
,,,o5.I Co. aclIe-rn;ndsdnass EarIv this uaal.
he obtained license to be married to a local
DeIie. oometnlng nappeneu' anu III aoout TWO
hours he returned and wanted mrs; ANDERSON
the Incense clerk, 10 take DacK the Incense ana
refund the money. sne woui1 not 40 u, ana
advised him to try and fix it' with the girl.
He acted on the advice and Is now benedict.
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