Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

| Joseph Sheetz, OF Germantown, Pa, ID
81 years old, and is about to wed young woman
| Of q.
Palmer Cox's Brownies, familiar to the
readers of 81. Nicholas. have been purchased
| by patent medicine vendor and set to work in
his service.
"A Mrs. Marshall, of Dubuque, Iowa,
laughed so immoderately at q joke she heard
that her jaw became set and q doctor had 70
oreak the bone to get her mouth closed.
"A cat in Santa Cruz, Cal, has become
SO expert in climbing up the door and raising
Lhe latch to get in that the carrying Of big rat
| does not now interfere with her performing the
feat.
The Biography and Letters of Sarah
Bernhardt. lSS4-lS89" by an old and well known
military officer, is soon TO appear in Paris. The
Dook Is to contain preface written by a man
now dead.
-Lemuel Case, of Ironton, Wis, is said
to be unable to drink cup full Of almost any
liquid without having it effervesce from his
mouth as though be were an animated mineral
water syphon bottle.
Runaway marriages are so common in
Georgia, an exchange reports. that many
parents deposit iniunctions with the licensing
o5fhcials forbidding the issuing of marriage
licenses to their children
The statue Of Rev. Mr.. Beecher, which
Is 70 De placed In Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Is
now being cast in bronze 1t is to be of colossal
proportions. feet high, and representing rha
great preacher in soft felt hat and cape
1t Is not often the case that man passes
his entire life in the home in which he was born.
oqt such was the experience Of Samuel Bauley.
hlghly-respected citizen of Porter's Cornera
81 years u Ss9N
Tine Northern Arapahoes Of the Indian
Territory are greatly excited over some mys-
terious appearance seen by portion Of the
tribe in the Rocky Mountains. The medicine
men and chiefs have become imbued with the
them
The most valuable book in the world,
according to the Riuistd Tlpoorafed. is the
Hebraic Bible at the Vatican. In l5I2 the
Jews OF Venice tried to buy it of Pope julius
II Tor Its weight in gold. 1t would have cost
them 100000 if the Pope had not refused 70
negotiate.
Mrs. Longmsn, widow of the late Mr..
Thomas Longman, died in London recently in
her 10Th year. She was the last of the genera
ton of the house that published for Scott,
Smith, Mackenzie and Macaulay. She took
keen interest in all the great literary projects
with which her husband was connected.
Annie Besant, the English Socialist,
who is about to visit New York, is tall, thin,
sad-faced woman, with wavy, dark hair and ''the
pluck of famingoJ' she edits labor paper
called the KITE; is sister.in-laW Of Walter Be-
SAINT, the novelist; has lately figured conspicu-
ously and unsuccessfully in an action for libel,
and is anxious to investigate for herself how
roman rule Is working in Kansas.
1t is rumored that DIR. Knorr, of Ger
mAay, the discoVerer of antipyrine, the great
grip remedy, has made considerably over q
million Of dollars by the winters epidemic. The
medicine sells at 81 40 an ounce, and DR.. Kporr
Sold The demand everywhere was something
tremendous. Five dollars per ounce was FIRE.
quently paid for the drug. and it was often un-
attainable at any price during the height of the
visitation.
"A Cleveland artist SAYS that genuine
artist is very much like a singsd cat He is
better than he looks. In speaking Of artists in
general he says that the artist Of ability does
not differ IN appearance from the ordinary
man. He says that in Munich when the student
begins to draw from the antique he lets his hair
grow long and carries paint box around with
him. When he enters more advanced class
he cuts his hair reasonably short, and leaves
the paint box at home. When he gets down TO
genuine painting he wears his hair in the Ordi.
nary styles and dresses like the ordinary
mortal.
The paragraph in q New York evening
paper announcing the sale of the stallion Ko
the King at Lexington for S31, 900 caused not q
little inquiry on the part Of horsemen as to the
identity Of the horse but on the other hand il
was the source of good deal of amusement to
telegraph operators or those who understand
the Morse alphabet "Kon is the term used by
Efficient telegraph Operators 70 denote 'lcoIonn
just as .si' is the mark transmitted for q semi.
colon. The young man who copied the dispatch
announcing the sale Of Tho King, the famous
son Of George Wilkes. bravely put down the
"Ko" and the copy reader graVely inserted il
in the head line.
"A Newspaper man of Pennington, Me-,
visited remarkable family the other day,
Calling at the home Of Jonathan Scott Ellis he
found Mr.. Ellis, who is IS years old, seated by
the stove and reading a newspaper without
glasses His wife's sister, Miss Lydia Ballard,
who will be 81 years old in April was seated IN
q rocking chair near by and knitting vigorously.
Another sister-in-law, Miss Hannah Ballard, "a
years old next October, was cleaning up the
dinner table and washing the dishes. Mrs. Ellis
died three years ago at the age Of 81. The old
folks prefer to live by themselves and do all
their own work and Father Ellis yet Iefers to
his sisters-in-law as "the girls"
"A Kalamazoo lumber dealer is said 10
be feIicitating himself on having beaten the
railroads. He received q carload of lumber
and paid freight charges thereon Not having
unloaded it,Eithln the required p hours, the
railroad charged him demurrage, which he re-
LuScu pay 110 was bOAA bLak ne GOdlu uOb
have the lumber until he paid the demurrage
charge. That did not scare him. He pro-
eeeded to break the seal, open the car, take
out and cart away his lumber. The railroad
agents sued him for an unlawful seizure, and
the case went to court. The result was that
the law justified the dealer. This goes TO indi-
cate that when railroads charge demurrage
under the name Of car service they are exceed
ing their legal right in the premises.
AS one passes along the main travelled
fof fI,a nd 0f fbo frfo
about mile distant from Praine du Chen. he
can see bit Of ground enclosed within pile
of rock and debris on the righthand side of the
way If ones curiosity should lead him to in
Testigate this lonesome spot, he would find the
ruins of a tomb of once prominent and in
1uential character in the great Northwest, and
leader OF the British troops under Colonel
Mckay, who captured the American fort and
'orces at Prairie du Chen in 1872 The tomb Ia
hat Of Jean Joseph Roulette. A heavy mar
Die slab, oVerrun with weeds and underbrush
md half obliterated, marks the spot where
leeps the hero Of many hard-fought battle.