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

in a Paris restaurant recently included the
item: PAS de desert, 8 francs-no desert,
francs"
A prize of $500 was offered for the best
design for soldiers monument in Iowa. 1t
has been awarded to a woman, Mrs. Harriet
A. Ketchum.
&C. j. Jones, OF Garden City, Kan. sold
a pair OF buffaloes the other day to the Presi-
dent of the First National Bank, OF Ft wayne
Ind, for 81 900.
The driver of hook and ladder company
OF Chester, Pa, has unearthed bell 70 years
oiu, ana attached it to the truck. IL has an
excellent tone
The Circuit Court in Mercer comfy has
decided that there is no s1ch game as "cards;"
that cards are simply pieces of pasteooard
Will "nlcn various games are played.
AT recent ball in London the electric
light was arranged to vary in color, being alter
nateiy red. blue, green and yellow. The ladies
didn't like il. as it ruined in alienation tho
effect OF all their costumes
The rich magnetic iron near Dahlonega,
Ca, continues to excite much interest. Thou
outside capitalists, who propose developing is
when the railroad Is completed
"A Sydney, Australia, paper saws that
one Of the wool companies there has burning
machine. recently imported from America,
winch effectually removes all burrs and other
foreign matter from sheep skins.
Captain j. NJ. Johnston, of Macon, Ga.
owns a large plantation on the line of the
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railway, in
Southwest Georgia. which he is stocking with
partridges brought from Connecticut.
AT recent duel between two Young
men at Warsaw. both fired and lit, but the
I,,,UI n
case Of the other, and the bullet of the other
was turned aside by the pocket knife of his
opponent.
&C. S. Allison, of st. Johns lost a number
of chickens recently. among them a rooster
whose crow Mr.. Allison knew with his ewes
shut. He made detour Of the city, heard the
rooster, insisted upon an examination and found
every chicken.
Orlando, Fla, phosphate hunters found
piece of petrIfied red cedar in q creek. The
grain of the wood is so naturally preserved that
it looks as If it could be cut with knife. but it
is solid stone and the red color of the wood has
been precipitated in bright carmIne spots.
job Biggs, the mail carrier on the Camp
bell, N. c., route, delivers his mail to the offices
on foot, walking "a miles one day and 81 miles
next day. During year he steps over 8.454
miles, and at this rate would cover the circuit
OF the globe in three years. exclusive of Sun
days.
The grip had novel effect upon POST
master Haire, of Lexington, Ga. Since his
attack he has been unable TO take chew of
tobacco. though he has been a user of the weed
Tor many years. The least crumb in his mouth
now will give him such a spell of coughing that
he has been forced to eschew it altogether.
considerable excitement exists in the
neIghborhood around Souls Chapel, Lumpkin
county, Ca, on the finding by John Chapman,
of a crystaliZed stone, believed to be a dia.
mond. 1t weighs ~ ounces, and is said to be
beauty of the c-ystalized quartz family.
Large topazes have been found in that locality.
The rat plague in Lincolnshire con-
tinues in spite of the enormous destruction of
the animals by the farmers during the past few
months One farmer, who scatters poisoned
barley about his yards every night, gathered in
one day crop Of 1900 rats. Three hundred
rats were killed from one stack of grain in an
other place.
Living on a claim eight miles north Of
Rocky Ford, Col, is Emma Aiken and her
three daughters. All three ladies are widows.
The mother is 80 years of age. the eldest daugh-
ter 8S and the youngest 81 Not man has ever
been employed about the place, and during
their two years residence they have done all OF
their own work and truck gardening.
Two wealthy Massachusetts women,
sharing the common impression that women
cannot understand business left the manage
ment of their property to a nephew. He man
aged it so well that in short time he had
forged their names to the amount of $4,000,
which the ladies paid rather than have a scan
dial in the family. Able financier that.
"A Knoxville barber shaved a man re-
Gently who resides in the Smoky Mountains,
and whose beard had been growing since the
battle of Chicamauga. The man, whose name
is Harmer, was in the Confederate Army, and
oIorra Nfrr 30 hof0 I1sNu ia A,A
shaved since. He said he had got tired of wear
ing so much hair and wanted 1t removed.
The widow of a merchant and her
daughter arrived at the Russian town of Orel
and put up at hotel, registering as follows:
Merchant widow from Dmitrowsk, accom-
panied by her unmarried daughter, Jasha. 10
years of age. 10000 rubles dowry, of fair COM
plexion, with light hair and blue eyes, turned
nose, dimpled cheeks. No other bodily defects
or special MARKS"
AT Marquette there is horse that has
more sense than some men. The animals
driver, finding he could not urge him to draw
heavy load on the ice beyond a certain distance
from shore. tried brutal means, whereupon the
obstinate creature turned about and
pulled for the shore" which was reached Just
in time to prevent horse, load and blockhead
from being carried far out into the lake on
suddenly detached cake of ice.
-"Arkansaw," the alligator slayer OF
East Orange. Fla. recently killed one of the
'varmints' that had three of its legs bitten off,
q portion of its jaw had been eaten by
stronger kinsman, and holes were found in him
where he had paid the penalty of pound OF
flesh simply because his opponent was the
stronger. Arkansaw states that aligators feed
upon each other to the extent that regulates
the supply TO the demand, and that il they
were to cease from their cannbalistic habits
they would soCn abound in sufficient numbers
to pile alligators four feet deep all over the St
Johns river country.
One Of the leading churches of Mime
apolis has adopted novel method of increasing
It's attendance. Each Saturday evening eom-
nittee of gentlemen visit the hotels anG take
off list of the guests who are domiciled there
over Sunday. Neatly printed invitations to at
tend service in the church are inclosed in en-
Yelopes sealed up and directed to these guests
They are left with the clerk with directions to
place them in the boxes in the morning. As
each man comes down to breakfast Sunday
he finds letter for himself. Opening
it he discovers the invitation. 1t exeites his
curiosity, and in many cases the invitation is
accepted. The plan has been in operation a
short time only, but thus far has been found TO
work WELL