Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A seven-pound silver trout has been
captured in Ell Dorado county, Cal
| -Ofthe rs marriages in Vineland, N. j.,
the past year the grooms of only 35 were Vine
| land men.
| Monroe, Mich, has a cucumber 81 feet
long. which weighs eight pounds. and it is to be
picked In paregorlc.
Of the 26 braves who signed Magma
Charta all but three had to make their mark"
| Delng unable to write.
"A colored woman has sued Texas
newspaper for slO0 damgeas for having spoken
Oh ner as ! white woman.
1t is said there are only two red slate
quarries in the United States-one in Vermont
and the other in Virginia.
AN Oil City milliner has a very unique
novelty in the shape of broom made from the
wings OF the English sparrow.
The latest thing "a pen-wipers, accord
ing to an acknowledged authority, is a silver
pig whose back is thickly covered with natura
bristles.
The schools in the raisin districts of
San Diego county have been closed for six
weeks, SO as to permit the children to pick the
grape crops.
"A great deal of the human hair of COM
meree in England comes from Canton, China,
and is taken from the heads of beggars, GRIM
inals and corpses-
Captain Meade, who has charge of the
naval exhibits for the Columbian Exposition,
proposes erecting structure representing
modern battle ship.
Some miners near Yakima, Wash,
threw a lot of dynamite into field near their
cabin recently. Some cows browsed in the same
place, and 15 died suddenly.
AN Alliance girl who was having
A1IfI .eF,
car in Canton because she persisted in smoking
cigar in violation of the rules.
-Wardens and keepers say that as
rule. 2O-year prisoners don't survive their
terms. and that as a rule, also, they are the
best behaved men in their charge.
"A Missouri family left the cars at Sa-
lima to take In the town and the train went on
having the sleeping baby on board. There was
squally time until the family got together a5
the next station.
Ben Cook, one of the Oldest printers in
Georgia, died at his home in Baldwin county,
last week, at an advanced age. He was one Of
the men who helped to print ''JOe Browns
Georgia money" in ante bellum days.
In Bloomfield, N. j., a few days ago,
was buried Adam Metz, a well-known citizen.
In accordance with his dying wish his funeral
procession was headed by a brass band and Il
societies and about lou coaches followed.
During the six years comprised in the
period 1883 to 1888 less than 2S9 pupils of the
public schools in Prussia have committed
suicide. A large number Of these suicides was
inspired by the fear Of not passing examina-
Iions.
"A flock of quail flew into Uniontown
and attempted to roost on the slate roof of the
new jail, but could not stick and slid in a
foundering way TO the caves. where the spout
ing caught them and where they rested until
frightened away by a workman
DIR. John G. Berry, who is in Asia on a
vacation, mailed letter and postal card to
Dr. r. D. Bibber OF Bath, Me-, on the same
day, sending one westward via st. Petersburg
and the other east via San Francisco. The let
ters reached Bath in the same mail.
One of the oldest houses in New En-
gland, the Low mansion, at Essex, Mass,
which has sheltered six generations Of that
family, is being torn down. IL is one of the
colonial lean-to roof style of houses. Its yaBn-
ing freplaces occupied space IL by 2Ofeet.
Nearly every farmer in the eastern part
of Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland
county. and in the northern end Of Bullskin
township. Fayette county, has gone into an
agreement TO prevent the killing OF all game
for the next five years. The signers Will prose-
cute all trespassers.
A boy named Brown climbed on top of
a passenger coach at Creston Ia, to steal
ride west. In passing under bridge Browns
head struck rafter and he was instantly
killed. A young companion of he dead boy
held on to the body for several miles before
the train stopped and was almost dead from
fright and exhaustion when found.
"A Philadelphia just from Asbury Park
tells the latest antl-prohibition dodge. An in
dividual entered a drug store aud presented an
order for pint of whisky, signed with his own
name and the letters N. d. You're no
say was" "Wel what does NJ. ID. meanT"
asked the clerk, to whom replied the indi-
vidual briskly: 1T means mighty dry?'
"A st. Louis genius, says Police Captain
Boyd. of that city, has invented a rubber billy
for policemen and watchmen. 1t is made of
heavy rubber, such as is used in hose is hexi-
BILE. vet very solid, and has the merit of stun
ming a person without breaking the scalp and
causing the flow of blood 1t is also guaranteed
not to fracture the skull. Anything to amelio-
rate the sufferings of policemen's victims and
protect society from the brutality so often
shown should be hailed with joy.
A unique feast is to take place in Brook
Iyn soon. member of the Limerick Mems
Society of that city, now in Ireland. writes that
he will bring to Brooklyn a Limerick bonham-
a young pig-called in this country "roaster."
and some Limerick pipes and tobacco. The
Limerick men have decided TO have great
time with these things They are going to in
vite Irishmen from other counties TO help them
put away the bonham, smoke the Limerick to-
bacco sing, dance, play, and do lots of other en-
joyable things.
On train from Aurora to Chicago the
other day, strange incident occurred. A poor
man, accompanied by three children, was
bringing the corpse of his wife to the city. He
was provided with ten-trip ticket and said he
had been told by the station authorities at
Aurora that the fare for himself and children
and the body of the wife could be punched
from the trip ticket. The conductor insisted
upon full fare for the corpse, land inrimated
that if he did not get it he would have to pue
the body off," A disinterested passenger
thought the man had sufficient sorrow without
being compelled to argue with the conductor.
and paid the fare.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIES.