Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

In a churchyard, not far from Dawson,
| Ca, is thorny rose bush which was planted IN
$500
"A mute at the Flint Mich. } Institution,
has issued challenge to fight any other mute
in the United States
| The Shah o. Persia has commissioned
his Ambassador at Berlin, to engage engineers
| and workmen to go to Persia to put up gas
works In the larger cities.
1t is estimated that only II per cent Of
the population OF Russia can read and write.
| The number of primary schools is g, 700 for the
population of over lO0OO0,OO0
Alexander Shaw has been sentenced to
six months imprisonment at Montreal for
stealing S24OOO. He was formerly society
leader in the land of the boodler.
Fishermen say that Rush lake in Mont
morency county, Mich. has been overstocked
with white fish by the Fish Commission, and
that they are starving to death by scores.
Mrs. Harriet E. Wright, Of Oneida, n.
Y, is the proud possessor of butter ladle be-
longing to her great-grandmother. This old
ladle is l40 years old, and is rare curiosity.
Mrs. G. W. McGinn1s. Of AIpbaretta.
da.' mas breed of chickens that she saws will
eat only six months in the wear. tbsv fac. the
ouer SIX, and are as fat at the end of their fast
as they were before VI 'AA A@''
Two eagles were seen fighting in a pine
tree on the farm Of Mr. J. 3. Williams near
nashville Va. One of them struck the other
such blow that it cut his neck half in two and
he died Immediately.
"A herd of deer roamed through the de-
serted streets of DownievilIe during the late
snowstorm. No one injured the Door animals
put they were allowed to eat whatever was
thrown from the cabins.
Sam Bailey, of Nashville, Mich. came
across three rats in the road some time ago
and all OF them had hold of a straw travelling
along. On closer investigation be found that
the TWO outside rats were leading the center
one, which was blind.
AT recent banquet at San Francisco
OF the Undertakers' Association the menus
were printed on cardboard cut in the shape of
a cotfin and among the dishes were chicken
dressed a la shroud, smelts on stretcher and
steWed tomatoes Ia grippe.
"A Belgian has lately invented musical
shirt, on the cuffs of which fragments of a
score are printed. so that if the instrumentalist
pc nutlst harpist or eornetist he has his
entire part under his eyes, and need not carry
any further music about with HIM.
Two English army officers were recently
killed while following the hounds both being
thrown by their horses refusing to lump
high fence, and both had their necks broken.
In speaking Of the accident an English paper
says; They cast quitea gloom over the meet"
An English electrician has invented a
material that he calls alterion for the preven-
tion of corrosion in engine boilers. The in
terror Of the boiler is coated with the prepara-
tIon. and from time to time electrical currents
are sent through it 1t has been pronounced
decided success by machine experts.
Mrs. Owens, OF Lee county, Ca, has an
old negro woman who does not know that she
is free. When freedom dawned upon the
negroes, and they all started to leave. this one,
who is deaf and cannot talk well, could not be
made to understand IL, and she has not found t
out to this day, and is still living on the old
| plantation.
Judge Frierson committed suicide at
Alfalfa, Hlllsborough county, Fla. His wife
| had been washing that morning and he had
| helped her. While she was outside he went
into the house and sat down on the bed. tied q
| other end of string to one of his toes, and by
| this means blew his head off.
The singular spectacle of a man walking
along the street eating greenbacks was pre-
| sented in Duluth, Mimi. the other afternoon.
He swallowed SIS IN fiYes, twos and ones when
he was caught by the police and taken to the
station house. A search revealed S607 between
| his inside shirt and skin. He suffers from the
hallucination that people are trying to steal his
| money.
| On Tuesday three women and a small
boy started to drive to Marysville, Col, in
| spring wagon. When mile or SO from town
| their team stuck fast. The women jumped out
| and were held as If in wise A tramp offered
| to help the women and he got mired and then
the unhappy folks were forced to stay three
hours in the mud before anyone could dig them
out,
The man who runs the passenger eleya-
tor in the St. Louis Custom House is General
j. H. Coates, who won his wav from the station
of private to that of Brevet Brigadier General
during the Civil War. 1t is stated that his
salary has been cut down from $40 to 5000 Q
year. and the official who did 1t was formerly
the captain in one OF the regiments under his
command.
An amusing incident comes from Ham
ilton, Canada. 1t appears that the location of
the wires that were originally put into the base
ment walls of the City Hall, connecting with
the switch board in the upper hall, has been
lost through some carelessness during the
building operations, and cannot now be found
without ripping up the marble pavement and
mutilating the walls. and even then the search
might prove fruitless.
Christmas Mrs. Judge Z. +. Lawson, of
Waynesboro, Ga, was presented with a case of
champagne, and it was carefully slowed away
A few days ago Mrs. Lawson opened the case
and out jumped several mice. fat and sleek
One by one she drew out the bottles of spark
ling fluid, until to her surprise three empty
bottles we're found. the sealing having been
taken of and a nice little hole made in every
cork and the champagne gone.
AS locomotive No. 120 was going along
the Grand Trunk Railway one day last week,
Levi A. Noyes engineer, dove flying across
the track was struck by the locomotive. and
the force of the blow was sufficient to break
the glass of the headlight with which the bird
came ill contact, letting it into the lantern,
where it remained until the engine was stabbed
at Gorham, N. H. when it was taken out un-
injured and carried to the home of one Of the
men employed about the yard.
During the late war R. D Cole, Jr., Of
Newman, Ga, secreted box of silver between
the ceiling and roof of the residence then oc-
cupied by the family. After the war the box
could not be found, though dilgent search was
made for 1t. A few days since Mr.. Cole was
making some repairs on the old house, and had
occasion to tear away some of the interior
frame work As he removed one of the lower
partition boards a silver coin fell out and
upon looking further Mr.. Cole was rewarded
by finding every dollar of the long lost money.