Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| A Hillman Mich, man is accused of
selling his vote for two bushels of buckwheat
1t is said that the London edition of the
New York Herald has had II editors during
the past year.
There is a lady living in Clarke county,
Ca, who has never tasted or taken drink Of
water in her life.
"A former sheriff of Knox county, No.,
mas been sentenced to two years from Sedalia
Aor stealing 500 mule.
On May1 the last of Michigan's bonded
debt will mature, and the money, $4,000, is
ready TO pay the claims.
ANY corporation which will locate in
| Harrison, Mich, and employ so men for ten
years will rec eive cash bonus of 5000.
Perhaps it is because the son of Mrs.
Stoves ori ginal Uncle Tom" lives at Adrian,
| Mich, that the show of that name always packs
the big Opera House.
| "A civil list pension of S375 per year has
been granted by the English Government to
Ellen Isabelle Tupper, daughter of the late
Martin arquhar Upper.
| Miss A. Doll, of Hamilton, No., cor
rectly solved the problem of how to plant an
orchard containing ~ trees in nine straight
| lines with five trees in each row.
| On the 64O-aere farm of Ex-Governor
| GllCk, near AICulSOD, ID. I0ere is not single
| horse. The Governor believes in mule power
| and uses those animals exclusively.
| The first poet laureate was John Kay,
in the reign of Edward w.; the only perauis-
| tiles of the Office are $500 year and quantity
of wine taken from the royal store annually.
The Royal Geographical Society has in
| vited Tho mas Stevens the African traveller to
send paper to be read before the society de-
scri bing how he reached Henry N. Stanley in
Eastern Africa
Mrs. Humphrey Wards eldest son, Ar
nold who is only IA years old is said to be lit
erary prodigy: he recently sent an essay TO a
magazine and received check for $50 and a
letter of thanks.
Thomas G. Shearman, of Brooklyn, has
offered prize of $3.50 for the best essay on
State and local taxation, the essay not to ex-
Gee d 25 900 words. and TO be completed before
December J, 1880.
e. W. Cato, who lives five miles south
of Tinney's Grove, Ray county. Mo-, is the
owner of maidstone which he took from the
stomach of a striped-hoot deer that he killed 30
years ago in the State of Alabama.
old furniture still sells extremely we'll.
In Paris recently two Louis XIV. cabinets,
ornamented with ancient Sevres porcelain.
brought 15.00O francs. Louis XIV. chest OF
drawers $1,000 francs. and a jardiniere in old
Sevres porcelain 1000 francs.
-Ouida uses scent in her hair and on her
eyebrows that costs $50 an ounce; she can't bear
piece of muslin that has been starched, and
the touch of velvet, she says makes her flesh
creep; she hates the world likes to offend it in
her books and shock it with her manners.
AT the recent election in Stanley county,
OAK. 40 Indians marched up to the polls with
tickets in their hands ready to vote. They
were all challenged, but their tickets were re-
ceived and laid aside until decision can be
reached as to their qualifications as voters.
Between the Aral and Okhotsk seas
there is a spot half as large as the State Of
Michigan. which is frozen ground to the depth
of "a feet. That is, it has never thawed out
since the world was created, and probably never
will, and even if it should nobody would have
any use for it.
AT Ulysses, Kan, the Commissioners
have been arrested for swindling in the matter
of wolf scalps 1t is alleged that one man
would present sack of scalDs and get his
bounty. The sack would be left where another
could steal it, and this was continued until that
one sack had realized $4,000.
Elijah Watson, OF Rushville, No., has
doubtless held the office of postmaster longer
than any other incumbent in the United States,
having been apDoInted in 1912 on the establish
ment of that off ce. He is still vigorous, and
meets all trains with and for his mail as regu-
lary as he has for SO many years.
"A plump and blue-eyed baby boy was
left at midnight on the doorstep of the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Furnia of Eau Claire Wis,
who were aroused by rap at their window.
take care of the baby and saying that its
mother would at some time reclaim it.
Near Candy Neb., party of ranch
men unearthed den of young animals, which
are supposed to be the young of the mountain
lions that have been prowling around that place
for the past two years or else the young of the
bip wolf They found the den the
sand hills and had to dig some 80 feet before
they secured the little fellOws-ten in number.
Over dozen correspondents have re-
piled in a London paper to Lord Bury's invita-
ton to suggest convenient verb for electricity.
The following among the suggestions
offered: To motor. To mote To electricise.
To eectrise. To electrate. To trio. To run.
To speed. To squirm. To spark. To CLEAN.
TO flash. To cOulomb. To Vollce. 70 VoliZe.
To amber To Bury.
Thomas Congley, of Dover, England, is
said to be the heaviest of Her Maiesty's many
subjects He is an intelligent and respectable
citizen, AZ years old, having been born (of
parents not above the normal size) in 1913. As
baby he was considered small and not over
healthy. His present weight is 40 stone $3.50
pounds); height. feet q inch; measurement of
waist so inches, and of legs, %.
The reason a Hillsdale, Mich, busi-
ness man looked so ungodly during prayer
meeting the other evening was because he had
in his pocket reserved seats for a theatrical
entertainment and thOughtlessly had strayed
into the wrong hall, where revival was in prog
ress. The usher conducted him and wife to good
front seats. and the two never realized this
mistake until the services began They then
stuck it out.
The Mexican Postofhce Department is
about to adopt novel device. A Dhonograph
is to be placed IN each priDci pal office in the
country. for the accommodation of the numer-
Gus citizens who cannot read or write. The
illiterate Mexican will 60 to the postofice talk
his message into the receiver of the phono-
graph. and when the cylinder reaches its des-
IinatOn the person addressed will be sent for
and the message will be repeated TO him by an
other machine.
AT a lecture given in Fairbank, Ont,
by a citizen OF Toronto on the subject Of
'.Balaams ASS" and illustrated by magic
lantern, John Windlass attempted to turn the
proceedings to ridcule, and throw suspicion on
the verify of the story of the angelic voice by
counterfeiting the loud and discordant bray of
the unipspired animal. For this he was sum-
moned to appear before Justice Wingfeld on
TUESDAY night on the charge of disturbing
religious meeting. and was fined 81 and costs.