Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

on Saturday last.
The Chinese gamblers in New York ars
taxed $, 900 week.
1t is said that there are two counties in
Ohio where there is no saloon-Geauga and
Harrison.
The New York City Board of Health
destroyed last year 5000 quarts Of adulterated
milk, and over 1,0O000O pounds Of fruit and
food.
1t is said that the Florida Central and
Peninsular road, although it has been running
seDger.
An inmate of an insane asylum in
Georgia fancies that he is a grain of corn, and
Will not go into the yard for fear the chickens
may eat him.
1t is said that in Oklahoma when q
man is charged with horse stealing his lawyers
attempt to secure an Indictment tor the less
serious crime of murder.
Mrs. Wuchter, the White Hall (Pal
faster. is still alive. She has passed her one
hundred and eighty-third day. and SAYS that
the grace of God has held her up.
Rachel Hole, who lives with her son.
Prof. Hole, south of Damascus, is 90 years Of
age, and reads without glasses. She Is prob
ably the Oldest person living in Columbiana
county.
Zion Bradwell, who went at type-set-
ting at the age of ii years. is still at the case at
the age Of II years. in Southern printing
office. He traces relationship TO ex-President
Cleveland.
"A grand jury at Toronto recommended
that poor families of prisoners incarcerated in
the central prison should receive 40 cents per
day. which is the average earnings OF men In
the central prison.
George Eliot wrote TO a friend after
reading Cardinal Newman's Apologize II
know hardly anything that delights me more
than such evidence of sweet brotherly love
being reality in the world"
According to the law Of New York
barrel of potatoes contains 172 and sbushel OF
potatoes 80 pounds, respectively An effort is
being made to have all fruit and vegetables
sold in that State by weight.
lin the opinion OF real estate men the
recent cyclone at South Lawrence. Mass, has
had the effect Of improving the district nearly
10 per cent In value, by reason OF building inn
provements which followed.
The horse that General Grant last used
in the army is said to be leading comfortable
existence on farm near st. Louis, to which is
was sent by Judge Long. of that city, to whom
General Grant presented the animal.
While tishing one day last week near
Anona, Fla, two men captured shovel-nosed
shark which measured IL feet In length, %
inches thick, and IS inches across the head. 1t
was curiosity to even the oldest fisherman.
BARRIERS on the French steamers arriv-
ing at New York are said to have regular
patrons among the compatriots, who visit the
steamers upon every arrival bent upon having
their boards kept trimmed in the ultra fashion
OF the boulevards.
-Bonne Lerre was startled by freak in
the streets of st. Louis. He hailed from Cald-
well. Tex, was named James Keith, and wore
a plated beard done up in silk, which was
seven feet long, and trailed two feet on the
floor when unreefed.
"A Brooklyn jury has given Alexander
Ellis verdict of $50 in suit brought against
druggist who furnished extract Of carbolio
acid when solution" was called for. Ellis
put the stuff on bunion, and gets this $50 as a
salve for his feelings.
Earnest L. Angel is probably the
largest boy of his age in Rhode Island. He is
feet 81 inches high, 40 inches around the
chest, Al inches around the waist and weighs
l49 pounds. He i5 healthy and strong, and was
10 years old September a
A Mohammedan woman has Just closed
her medical studies in Odessa with brilliant
examination. Her name is Kutoiarof- Hanum,
She is the first Mohammedan woman who has
received an NJ DIS diploma, and the State has
granted her special permission TO practice her
profession.
Since 1857 England's small wars have
cost her about ooO0 The war with China
N IS5762 cost her $50 600 900; the Abyssinian ex-
petition 1s67-70 81, ,500. 900: the South African
var IN lS79S0 s14 900 900; the Nile expedition IA
SS4-5. IS, $4,000. the Afghan war, between lSod
ISS6, Sl5,OOOOO0
On her way to AK les Bains, where she
Is now going through the cure" Nilsson met
with an accident which even more deeply dis.
tressed her. Stepping out from the railway
carriage at Dijon her pet dog fell ont of her
arms onto the rails and the train moving on q
few PAGES. it was killed.
Miss Mary Franz, OF New, York, has
brought suit against physician for making an
report on her case to q beneficial
society of which she was desirous of becoming
4 member. Several doctors have certified that
her health Is good, and it is expected that the
,uit will develop interesting legal points.
Two Augusta, Ga, LADIES' have been
thrown into convulsions by the bite Of ths
buffalo worm, an insect which. viewed through
. microscope, resembles q buffalo, being heavy,
md in color having much the appearance Of
hat animal. Its bite is inflicted by a pair Of
incIsors, and the poison injected is Of
,xtreme virulence.
in round figures, $4,000 square meals
,ave been served in the House Of Commons
his session, namely. 1900 dinners and 10000
uneheous. Members have had IL 900 dinners
md 5000 1uncheons. In the strangers dining
'oom l lbs dinners and LIZ luncheOns have
been served, and there have been Lois dinners
md 325 luncheons in the terrace dining rooms.
The man who likes his toddY is destined
% have hard time in this world, II the signs
# the times are worth anything. In Missouri
le must stand up to drink. while in Massachu-
etts he must sit down. In Kansas he must
wear that he is afflicted with glanders or pink.
ye, and In Iowa he must commit perjury and
ndanger his soul, while in Nebraska 1t Is
ohense to treat ones neighbor.
Ralph Blood, of Waterbury, Conn.,, q
euarkably well-read man, is slowly starving
Iimself to death, the victim of a singular mono.
mania. Two years ago he was afflicted with q
light mental alteration, from which he speed
" recovered under treatment, but not until he
ad attempted to stab himself with a penknife,
nficting a slight wound in the breast He
links this wound has not healed and under
he direction of the spirits. as he believes, he
as refrained from eating or drinking Tor near,
, two weeks In order that he may be cured. He
lys he has not suffered from hunger, but thas
o would be willing to give 81. .0O0, 600 TO take Q
ood drink of water. Within this time he has
,st over 40 pounds in weight and appears "a
ears older.