Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Three pounds and half is the combined
weight Of twins presented to q happy couple az
Topeka
The increased cost of wood and ivory is
said to have increased one-third the cost Of
English pianos.
-Ebon 7. Marshall, Of Rincon, Cal, suf-
fered so from corns on his little toes that he had
the toes cut OF.
The Rev. j. h. Weber, of Eugene, Ore,
elected Young man from his church, but the
exercise cost AS so
The OLDEST Odd Fellow in the State, DIR.
Hugh Arters, of MeadViIle, is i'll. He was
made member 90 years ago.
"A London publisher at . recent dinner
to Toole, the actor, had the name of each guest
written upon the table cloth at the place he was
TO occupy.
A bill before the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature will abolish fines for bad weaving. In
some cases men have been fined So so out of .
pay Of S6 80.
There are 1000, 900 organized farmers in
the alliances, principally in the South and
West They run cooperative stores, mills,
warehouses. etc.
1t was discovered at a recent banquet in
New York city, which William Lloyd Garrison
attended, that no ne Of the negro walters had
heard the name before.
"A Cadillac, Mich, man owned a hen
which got the grip few days ago. sneezed vio-
lently for several hours and at last became in
sane, after which it died.
james @. and Ann Tomlinson. of Plain
field county Ind, lately celebrated the seventy
first anniversary of their marriage. The hus-
band is 100 and the wife 80.
AT Beloit, o., tramp jumped from a
slowly moving freight train, seized gold
headed cane that was standing at the door Of
residence, got back on the train and went his
way.
"A French count now in London claims
to have made an electric apparatus 80 delicate
that the needle in it can be made to revolVe one
way or the other at the will Of the person hold
ing wire connected with it.
"A travelling dramatic company per-
formed 80 execrably in an Indian village in
Michigan that the audience chased them from
the exhibition building, but held on to the
orchestra and spent the evening in dancing.
1t il said that in the depths of Africa the
natives still retain the memory Of Sir Charles
Baker, and especially Of his wife. who travelled
there with him many years ago. They call him,
it is said, "Longbeard." and his wife Morning
Star"
w. NJ. Brooks, of Roxbury. Mass,
who is SO years old, is the champion "old sub
scriber." He has taken the Boston Journal
thirty consecutive years, the Christian ReotS-
ter slxty-fVe, and the Eastport Sentinel seven
ty-one years.
An electric plant vegetable plant) is
said to have been discovered in India which has
the power Of Affecting the magnetic needle at
distance of 20 feet when the weather is favor
able. In rainy weather 1t has no electric in
huence whatever.
The prince Of gourmands or cranks will
be at New York museum this week His
name is Manning and he viii eat 100 raw eggs
swallow IL eggs &C each Uf the six shows given
daily at the museum.
There is an establishment in Sedalia,
Mo-, at which J, 500 turkeys are killed daily. It
employs Is hands, and ''pickers" make from
81 80 to So day. The turkeys are killed by
running the blade of knife through the roof
Of the mouth into the brain. They are shipped
to New York.
One of the most remarkable old men
is Prot. Frank Stouch, a dancing master well
known to several generations Of people in
Berks and surrounding counties. He is 50
years OF age, and has been teacher Of dancing
for "a years Of his life and is still at it conduct
ing his classes as successfully as he did 30 or 40
years ago. He now has seven classes in Read
ing a1d Lebanon with 160 pupils, and during
his career has taught over "a 900 young people
the mystery and art Of dancing.
An interesting contest has taken place
in north London collegiate school for girls
between two factions which have been actively
divided on the question of corset wearing.
Arguments and discussions simply added fuel
to the flame, and iE was finally decided to settle
the discussion by an athletic contest consisting
Of high leap, q long leap, tug-of-war and a
foot race. There were is 6competitors, eight Of
which were laced into whalebone girdleS and
eight wore simple blouses. The nOn-eOrset
faction were easily VictOrs, their champion dis
tancing all rivals with q leap of II feet
Not many Eastern people, unless they
are acquainted with the forests Of the Missis-
sippi Valley, and more especially those found
on the higher Allegheny Mountains, know
what really large hickory tree is. The she'll
barks Of Southern Indiana are sometimes l5O
feet tall, with trunks four or five feet in d..
ameter; and bare Of limbs for seventy or eighty
feet, and even larger trees can be found in the
still almost untouched forests Of Eastern Ten
nessee and Western North Carolina. But those
large trees are doomed and before many years
have passed every hickory tree Of sufficient
size and proper quality will have been sacri-
iced to supply the ever-increasing demand for
the wood.
"A TOXIC correspondent gives some
amusing specimens Of English as it is written
BY the Japanese. Among them are these from
\ library company's rules: "The Profession OF
BUR Company is supplying the all Japanese
Classical and Modern Books or Chinese and
English Language Books to Readers for recieV-
ng duly Lending Price" THE object of our Ii
orary Is for the Reader who desired to Read
many book at one time for searching useful
natter. Therefore all book which is ready in
,ur Company is permit to Read; but the pre-
s,
20 be lend from the procedeur of sending"
Who has read the Book OF our Company
IboYe Three month by the Polish way of the
'eading, thought Of our Company will send
he Signature of Special and may be lend by
paying Lending Price that mitigating LILO Of
Some interest has been manifested in
he recent statement that the Illinois agricul-
ural report shows the corn crop of 1889 in this
state to have cost nearly $40 600 more than
e. total estimated value, which is placed at
So LS37. .O49, and the total cost or production at
IS. 272g72 The items entering into the cost Of
reduction are IL: Use of land, blowing, har-
owing, laying OF, planting seed. tending. gath
ring, cutting. shslling and marketing. The
Igures upon all these are obtained by sending
properly ruled cards to trusty correspondents
D all parts of the State, and from their estl-
nares the totals and charges are made up. It
, TO be observed that the result attributed to
ult similarly obtained on the last 30 corn
rops Of Illinois, shows loss upon 16 and a
roft upon Il and it is peculiar that the total
ost per acre as given in the table stands at ex-
city SO so an acre from 1850 to 1882. thence il
eclined to So Is for the crops Of the last two
ears. The use Of the land Is figured at an
Verage of Z per cent on its cash value.
MEANT TO AMUsE.
Mrs. Bloodgood-What! not an open fire.
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