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


of human hair.
"A Pontiac, Mich, man is labor1ng un-
der the impression that he is the Messiah.
1t is so dry at Malheur, CAL, that
whisky barrels full of liquor are falling to
| pieces.
Paris bieyclists are required to obtain
licenses, which may be withdrawn in case OF
reckless riding.
"A fine flow of natural gas has been
STRUCK at Sacramento, Cal, at depth OF $40
IeeI Delow the surface
1t is estimated that the Washington
people will realize 81, 600 600 this season from
"neal, hops, lumber and coal.
-Chicago's gain in population in the last
ten years is said to be greater than the. entire
population of the city Of Boston.
"A negress, Juliana Alderetey Corrales,
has just died in San Antonio de los Panos
Cuba, at the reputed age of Us wears.
The population of London can be best
estimated by the not generally known fact that
it is greater than that of Norway and Sweden
combined.
AN inmatesof the Georgia Lunatic Hos
pital imagInes that he Is grain of corn, and
will not go into the yard for fear the chickens
will eat him.
"A vigilance committee was organized
by the people of Oakdale. near Spokane Fall,
and within 80 minutes every tough character
was driven from town.
"A lump of coal was sent from the Roslvn
mine to the Spokane Falls Exposition. 1t meas
ured 1l15 feet long, ~ feet wide and ~ feet
thick. The weight was "A tons.
MIR. Skelton, of Hart county, GA, owns
a hog IA months old and weighing 525 pounds
It is seven feet seven inches long and its back
lis almost as broad as a barn door"
There are 100, 900 children with impede
ments of speech in the German schools. The de-
fectiyeness of speech in most cases becomes
first perceptiDle in the second school year.
-Verese, photographer in Klausenburg,
Pennsylvania, has succeeded in photographing
the shades of color between deep red and
orange. but not yet to fix them permanently.
The German bark Rene Rickmers
reached Astoria, Ore. few days ago. from
Y Yokohama, after passage of 2S days, said to
have been the quickest ever made between
these ports.
1t is stated by pharmaceutical confer
ence that the growth OF the patent medicine
mania has been tremendous in recent years
and that the present generation is much more
credulous than the last.
"A family in Isabella was the possesor of
four kittens joined together after the manner
OF the Siamese twins. A cord fastened them
together which seemed to pass through the
four. They lived several days.
-Jumbo's stomach contained many En-
gIish coins, gold as well as silver and bronze.
The elephants skin was IL inches thick. The
skeleton weighs 2 400 pounds, and the total
weight of the body was over six tons.
-Pecan-nut farming is one of the growing
industries of the Gulf States. After the trees
have once begun to bear they involve no labor
or expense, and yield. it is said, an income Of
from $500 to 81, 900 an acre, according TO the
quality of the nuts.
Colonel W. T. Dennis, Fish Commits
sioner, has sent word to the druggists IN Indi-
ana to make a record of all the persons who
buy or ask for fish berries" an exceedingly
poisonous drug which kills fish in an exceed
ingly short space of time.
"A Los Angeles woman has sued the
Southern California Railroad Company to re-
cover s175,S05 damage to her property, caused
by the overflow of the Los Angeles river last
winter. She claims the railroad levee caused
the water to flow upon her property.
-Theopening of a unique thea.er in Paris
will take place shortly. Every play in the new
house will be exclusively pantomimie and will
be patronized, it is expected, only by deaf
mutes. On the first evening drama written
by a deaf mute, and entitled Love and Death"
will be produced for the first time.
The Whitney family, tent show tour
ing Michigan, gave the Lapeer spectators a treat
the other day. Right in the middle of the show
an Episcopal minister appeared in the ring and
the two acrobats marched out. leading two
blush1ng young ladies. The marriage ceremony
was read and then the newly-made Benedicts
went on with the show.
Gloves were, in 1416, often set with
precious stones and sufficiently valuable to be
left as legacies. The jeweled gloves of st.
Martial were said to have rebuked an act Of
sacrilege. The gloves of Bishop Grayesend,
worked with gold and enamel. were priced at
f5, a great sum in 1910. But the sturdier
Bishop Button wore thick yellow gloves at 10d
a pair.
In Washington, D., c., is lying at the
point of death Mrs. Agnes Rebosso. who claims
to be 104 years old Five generations of the
family live under the same roof. 'The old lady
was born at Port Mahon, on the Isle of Minor
ca" She speaks French and Spanish, and de-
lights in telling of her experiences during
wars. When IS years old she came
to this country.
"A Lapeer, Mich, man took home two
bottles of beer one day last week, and instead
Of drinking the stuff pus the bottles down on
the woodpile. BY some sort of hocus pocus one
Of the bottles got into the stove, and the ex-
plosion that followed wrecked the stove and
scared the man out of years growth. The
man promptly drank the contents OF the other
bottle and went out to buy a new stove.
Wayne o. Wheeling, who has just been
released from San Quentin. where he had been
imprisoned for killing William Tweedy at Lam
CASTER Los Angeles county. was met by his
family at the cars at Los Angeles. 1t was ru-
mored that the feeling against Wheeling was
80 strong that he would be killed, so his father
came to greet him armed with Winchester, as
was also his brother-in-law. and his sister and