Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A colored man at ALBANY, Ga, has
served no less than 2l terms in jail for fight
| ing.
"A young woman at Madison, Ind, be-
ing frightened. screamed loudly, dislocating her
Jaw
! Mrs. Houghton, a real estate dealer at
| Spokane Falls Wash, is said to have made SEA-
| OOO in four years.
| "A paper recently started at Julian.
Idaho, has for its motto Grasp for all in sight
| and rustic for more.
! "A counterfeit dime, heavily plated with
pure silver on a body of German silver. has ap-
! peared in Goshen, Ind. 1t is dated 1889.
The Vineland grape crop this year will
be an almost entire failure. where few years
ago over 5OO.OO0 vines were fruiting and yield
ing heavily.
Somebody who has been looking up the
matter says that there are now only five States
in the Union in which a schoolmaster can le-
gally fog pupil
There is a mad-dog scare at Brunswick,
Me. and the town has voted to kin ali dogs sup
posed to have been bitten by mad dogs and to
muzzle the others.
"A bigamist under arrest in Akron, o.,
is said to have no less than seven wives. They
live in various parts of the country and he has
married them all within the past ten years.
"A cowboy named Charles Morris was
bitten on the nose six weeks ago by skunk,
while living asleep in camp, near PRESCOTT. A T..
and few days since died in great agony Of
hydrophobia.
One of the attractions at Augusta, Me-,
| on the Fourth of July will be grand horse
parade The object is to bring together for
public exhibition in one grand display the best
horses in that part of Maine.
"A painter arrested in Litchfeld, Conn.,,
while at work, walked along quietly for few
minutes, when he suddenly turned and dashed
his paint brush into the SheIiff's eyes. He then
escaped. The Sheriff is badly injured.
"A prize of 500 was offered by the
Washington Post to the person guessing near
| est the population of that city. and remarkable
to say: three persons hit exactly the number,
| ZZS,'so. Ihey have agreed to divide the money.
Robert Gunyon, 73 years old, of Mil
waukee, didn't let his advanced age deter him
last week from diving into a river at Mt
/ Clemens, Mich, and rescuing the lad who was
drowning. 1t is said that he was the only per-
son of the crowd on the bank Watching the boy
| drown who didn't lose his head.
Oregon City has darkey bootblack who
| has seen the world In lS48. he says, he landed
| in Constantinople as steward of an American
clipper He went short distance into the
| interior, met Boston man he knew who was
Keeping public house, and made SIS exhibit
| at the sight Of a colored man.
"A farmer near St. Louis has a nest of
owls in his barn, and they keep it free from rats
and mice. The birds lay up provisions at night
| Tor the next day. The farmer marked the
Dod1es OF the mice he found by cutting OF one
foot with pair of SCISSORS. At night all the
| marked mice would be gone. and the next
| morning there would be a fresh supply.
The Government of Morocco lately sens
| ten Arab horses of the purest and finest blood
| as gift to the King of Belgium. When they
reached Brussels King Leopold was not greatly
| struck by their beauty, and on an investigation
| being made it turned out that the original ami
| mails had been sold by some INSCRIPTIONS off,
cial and that inferior ones had been substi-
| tuted.
There was pathetic scene in a Sixth
avenue elevated train. A drunken man, lead
ing little 6year-oId boy, stumbled into the
rear car. After finding seats he gradually
| leaned further and further over, until he fell
| asleep with his head on the child's lap, and
every few minutes the little fellow, wide awake
at midnight, would tug at his fathers coat and
say: please sit up, papa"
Says a dispatch from Sidney, o.: "Some-
thing remarkable happened here to a COW.
There were two large trees close together on
the edge of clover field. A fence touched
either tree, but the gap had no fence. The cow
squeezed into the gap, and without passing
through, began to browse. She soon began to
swell with gas generated by the green clover,
and to get her out one Of the trees had to be
cut"
Last winter Luman Foote ascertainad
that it would cost him SIS to fill his ieehou
with ice, therefore he filed ir with damp SNOW
well trodden down, at a cost Of 81 25 Tb
snow has kept very well and half of it yet
mains. OF course he cannot use the snow in
his refrigerator and ice pitcher. but he places
meat, fish, milk, butter. ETC.. on the snow in the
icehouse, and such articles keep as well as they
would on ice.
"A pretty sight often seen on st. Charles
avenue New Orleans, is little boy riding his
bicycle with his black-and-tan dog standing be-
hind him. The dog holds on by resting his front
paws on his masters neck, and appears to have
no fear. no matter how rapidly they travel The
Ptcdyure says that the other day the dog grew
weary of the sport before the boy, SO. without
any ado, he tucked his head down on the boys
shoulder and went to sleep.
AN English officer who recently trav-
eled on the public service says that he sent in
in his account of travelling expenses the entry,
PORTER, shilling" His accounts were
turned with the remark that porter could not
be allowed, but that if the entry were intended
for the conveyance of luggage it should be
noted as porterage. The alteration was duly
made, and a query added as to whether a cab
should not be entered as cabbage" The reply
was that correspondence on this subject must
cease"
"A snort time since prominent physi-
clan of st. Helena, Cal, received from the East
some new medicine that was intended for a
patient. In order to test its strength the doctor
injected little of it into his own arm. The
effect was sudden and startling. His arm began
to swell to large proportions and other alarming
symptoms appeared OF the worst KIND Oh blood
poisoning He called in his brother physicians,
and they in turn sent to San Francisco for a
third, and for some days and nights they stood
watch over the unfortunate patient. At pres
ent he is out of danger, but it will be weeks be-