Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

that Jay Gould is the brightest man IN America.
Three pounds and half is the combined
weight of twins presented to happy couple at
Topeka, Kan.
The hen OF the United States was worth
to this country on her own personal account
last year $500 OOO OOO according to the Bureau Of
Industrial Statistics.
Lebanon is having novel walking
match. Two cripples. one having two crutches
and the other a crutch and cane. are contest
ing for purse and the championship of the
county.
"A curious use has been found for the
phonograph. 1t was produced at the funeral Of
clergyman in order that sermon OF the de-
ceased upon himself might be heard BY the
mourners.
Adam LeFever, Of Hayfeld township,
Crawford county, aged 50 years, has never set
foot on railroad train. He has been out of
that county but twice in his life, and then but
for short day trips.
In Peterboro, Ont, two men watching
corpse were terribly surprised by the appear
anee of ghostly figure at the window. Ii
proved TO be woman who was walking IN her
sleep. She was half dead from the cold.
The Empress of Germany has under
taken the proteetorate of the Berlin soup
kitchen, the late Empress Augusta having for
mead OF these institutions.
Shares in the Rerue des Deur Nondes,
which paid per cent dividend in IS4S, are now
returning a profit of $50 per cent per year,
making the journal one of the most profitable
publications in the world.
In library in Paris, the largest in the
world, is a Chinese chart of the heavens made
about 600 years before Christ. In this chart
,46O stars are found to be correctly iDserted as
rAIN oAa1 Ns-~t- -
day.
White county, Ark, claims the cham
pion big girl. Her name is Nellie Arida Ma
lone. She was 9 years old on August Il, 1882
and now weighs 23O pounds. Her father is dead,
but she has two sisters and brother, all young
er than herself.
Harry Burgess, 10-year-old living at
Martin. Allegan county, Mich, can draw a
caricature almost equal TO Mast, and Olive
Williams. 6 years old, living in the same town,
can reproduce anv piece of music she hears,
no matter how difficult.
Chief Justice Fuller stubbornly refuses
to shave of his mustache. Ever since he was
appointed to his present position he has been
urged on all sides to take this step, but up to
the present time he maintains on his upper lip
flowing hirsute adornment
The famous old mountain fortress of
Asirgarh, which was formerly regarded as one
of the principal defenses of Central India, is to
be dismantled. 1t stands on the summit Of an
almost inaccessible mountain. and has many
interesting historical associations.
There is good Methodist in Connecti-
cut, according to religious periodical, who
boxes the compass every time he writes his
full name and address. He is Crandall ].
North, New York East Conference, No. 80
West avenue, South Norwalk, Conn.
oc n L.,
which. is known by the neighbors as the solar
spectrum" From the tip of its tail to the end
of its nose there are distributed all the cOlors
OF the rainbow, Its nose shines like a car
bunele, and there are several shades Of violet
on the fore legs.
"A unique dinner party is soon to be
given by one of the leading society men of
Rome. Ga. at which the young ladies will at
tend, IL in number and will wear gowns of diff
ferent colOrs, with flowers of the same shade.
The souvenirs will be handsome fans, imported
for the occasion.
"A young woman who was married in
Stokes county, N. c., a few days ago discovered
that her husband had taken drink of whisky
Just before marriage. She was an ardent tenn
perance woman. and believed her lover to De a
teetotaler. Finding that she had been deceived
she refused to live with him.
-Rebecca Schwab, of Bradford, was
standing in the cloak room at school and was
engaged in removing her rubbers, when she
slipped and fell to the floor. AS she went down
her hair, which was braided. caught on one of
the hooks on the wall. and one braid of her
laxuriant tresses was pulled from the scalp.
In honor of the young Duke of Orleans
il is intended TO make the gamel1e, or private
soldier'spannikin the fashionable receptacle
for Easter eggs in Paris. At the chief confec-
TONERS shops quantities of orders have been
n-1xro For Co,p lIa For
use in silVered cardboard, silyered tin and cop
per.
The records of deaths in the city of New
York show that there were killed by street cars
during the year 1883, GA persons; by omnibuses
and wagons, S., and by illuminating gas, %;
making the number killed by the electric cur
rent (5) insignificant compared with the deaths
of individuals from any one of the other causes
named
The Coronerof certain county in Geor-
gia owned potato patch, and the other night
he caught a man stealing the product thereof
and shot the thief dead. He was arrested. but
secured his liberty on a writ of habeas corpus
and proceeded to hold an inquest on the dead
thief. The verdict returned exonerated the
Coroner, and the Coroner signed it.
I'm Canada there is a company which
has a nickel mine. The ore Is mixed with cop
per and after the dross is taken of the alloy is
called matte, winch contains about 20 per cent
of nickel and 80 per cent of copper This is
shipped to Germany and Swansea, in Wales,
where The secret is jealOusly guarded of the
process by which the two metals are separated.
Mrs. A. f. Wood, of Kennebunk, Me-,
a lady who had been lame for several years,
went to the barn loft 20 gather some eggs. and
in sliding down upon the hay with her lame leg,
hearing something crack. she felt she had
broken some bone. She called to her husband
for help, and when he came and helped her up
she found she could walk better than before.
The ligaments which had adhered to each other
by non-use were broken apart, improving her
lameness.
The carpenters, in clearing away the
rubbish from the old Postoffice building at
Waycross, Ga. preparatory to laying the foun-
dation for Mr.. Wilson's new brick building,
discovered package of old papers, and upon
they were found to be old register
envelopes which were opened and rif1ed when
the postoffice was robbed. The thief had buried
them under the building, hoping thereby to
cover up his tracks more thoroughly. Mr.. Nor
gan now has the papers and envelopes in his
possession.
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.