Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

ried water for circus and thus got inside the
tent free.
"A hearse ran into a street car at Detroit
the other day, the corpse and the passengers
being badly shaken up in the collision.
General w. W. Loring, Florida's
favorite warrior. lies buried in St. Augustine
with no headstone to mark his last resting
place.
"A Jewish synagogue to be erected in
of pure Byzantine architecture in the United
| States.
The agricultural college professors have
figured 1t out that two little sparrows in ten
years Will produce an ancestry of 275,7I6 9S3 698
| birds. Well, that isn't more than bird or two
| out of the way at most.
Electric traction is said to be fairly
booming in London. In few weeks line Of
| omnibuses run by electricity is to be started,
| They will be driven by storage batteries and
will have seating capacity for 26 passengers.
Lady Annie Blunt, Lord Byron's grand
daughter, her husband and their daughter are
living on the borders of the desert in Egypt.
about six miles from Cairo. They have adopted
the Arab Dress with the primitive customs Of
that race. and live life Of simplicity.
"A auick-fring gun, the invention OF Mr..
Thronsen, was tested recently at Finspong. in
Sweden. The results showed that ten shots
Cdu D0 UTeu W1CnDO 70 6eCOuuS WHICH 10 "a SuOLo
a minute. All the shots were true. and hit the
target within a space of nine inches long and
SIX inches wide
"A Gallitzin, Pa, man recently bought
pair of mules in Clearfield county for $40, and
discovered while taking them home that one Of
them had plaster of paris hoof-the false work
coming OF and sticking in the mud He re-
turned the mules and demanded his money
back. but didn't get it,
The body OF Martin v. Tuck, of East
! Winn. Me-, was raised at Madagascar Lake on
the morning of the I'D inst. by the of heavy
charge of dynamite exploded from rock on
the shore of the lake, about 40 rods distant
| from the spot where he sank. The body had
been in the water about 25 days.
| Charles G. Barnard, 56 years cid and
leading business man of Lansing, Mich, was
| married to Mrs. Lizzie Jackson, a negress.
| Barnard has a respected wife and large fam
| lily, but the Jackson woman was made to be-
] lieve that Mrs. Barnard was Barnards sister.
| Barnard will be prosecuted for Digamy.
Adrian, Mich, has a young photog-
rapher named Charles II. Fairbanks. There
has not been an evening in ten years that he
has not devoted to good solid study on lam
guages. The result is that this photographer
Hnguist can give you negative in 20 Ian
guages. He speaks seven tongues huently.
The sarcophagi of the late Emperor
William and his wife, modelled by the sculptor
Encke, are to be sent to Carrara for treatment
with the figure of the angel which is to stand at
its head. German sculpIors are vexed that the
preparatory work is not to be carried out in
Germany, where it has been proved that it is as
well understood as in Italy.
AN insect pest called the "aDhis" has
been causing great destruction on the Pacific
coast but now it is discovered that the ladybug
(adalia bipunetata) is very busi1y engaged in
eating up the aphis. The Iadybug is a charm
ing creature, well known to literature and to
folklore, and it is especially pleasant to learn
That IL has gone into useful business,
Mrs. Mary Frohman, of New York,
put out a big washing" the day her husband
| died. AfterBard she had the parlor window
shades drawn up. and placed in the window
pictures of herself and husband draped in red,
white and blue. In the basement window were
olsplayed pair OF scales and a bologna
sausage, also draped in red, white and blue.
"A correspondent of Calcutta paper
says that a neem tree was recently the scene Of
curious gathering. IL appears that the tree
has a number of white spots on its trunk and
branches. The people of the neighborhood
adorned it with red powder, and offered fruits.
goddess of smallpox had taken up her abode
IL.
The Shah's favOrite wife is blind Two
court physicians recommended that she be sent
to two famous oculists in Vienna, who have
performed on her eyes the delicate operation
OF lr1QeCCOmy, receiving from the O0al SO,UUU
for their services. In the meantime the court
physicians who recommended the operation
nave been locked up, and if the patient dies
they will be put to death
The lady managers of the Western Fe-
male Seminary, of Hamilton, Ont, some time
ago forbade the students of Miami University
to visit the girls of the seminary. Tuesday
evening three of the female teachers drove to
Oxford, when their $500 horse and carriage
were taken out into the country and the horse
killed. Four Miami University boys have con-
fessed to President Warfeld that they did the
deed.
Prof James G. Waite, of Geneva, O.,
who became engaged to six of his pupils, mar
ried one of them and then skipped, has been ar
rested at Chippewa Lake. Mich. and IS behind
the bars at Geneva. Two weeks ago White
married pretty widow at Pioneer but desert
ed her after a weeks honeymoon. 1t is learned
that the fellow has no less than six wives in
different parts Of the country, and he's not
very old.
Philip Diefenwierth was wounded by .
sting ray at Clear Water Harbor. He was
the bay after fish. and, catching this one, pulled
it into the boat, and proceeded 10 cut out the
harpoon. While doing so the ray struck him in
the arm and also IN The foot, the latter being
most painful wound, For some time his suffer
ing was intense, almost producing spasms, until
finally the wound was smoked with burning
wool and sugar, when relief was experienced in
few minutes.
"A peculiar style OF advertising, WHICH
still exists in many towns and rural districts il
the 'card of thanks" After man has passed
through some severe ltribulation, such as the
illness and death of a near relative, he inserts
in the local paper a card. formally thanking his
friends for their kind attentions The Hous-
ton Tex Tribune thinks that the business was
rather overdone by man who caused card
to be inserted thanking the undertaken "for the
pleasant and satisfactory manner In which
that functionary buried his wife.
One of natures strange freaks may be
seen at the farm of Jones Stanford, four miles
north of Flora, Mo. 1t is colt, not unlike
other colts except a mark in its face Begin
ming on a line with the lower part OF the nos
trils and extending to point Just below the
ewes is a perfect outline of a rattlesnake. Its
month and ewes are perfectly formed. On its
tail seven rattleS and button may be dis
tlpctly seen: and stronger still, the outline Of
the snake is raised, being about as large a.
lead pencil and not a hair on 1t.
The famous St. Bernard dogs are very
carefully trained. A traveller who visited some
of the monasterles of the monks of st. Bernard
a few years ago found the monks teaching their
dogs from the earliest stages Of puppyhood-
Not only is physical and mental training in.
cluded in the teaching, but spiritual culture is
bv no means neglected At meal time the dogs
sit in a row, each with tin dish before him
containing his repast- Grace is said by one OF
the monks; the dogs sit motionless with bowed
heads Not one stirs until the amen u
spoken.
SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.