Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

in Australia. 1t weighed 23S ounces, and the
value of the stamps on it amounted to S05.
Mrs. Langtry does not believe that a
corset closing in front is of any use to the fg-
ure Hers are made in Paris. and cost $40
apiece before the duty Is paid on them.
-Lincolnton has a fat rabbit that runs
about the street unmolested by anyone. The
boys play with it, the girls kiss it, and the
merchants feed it with all sorts OF good things
Lebanon is to have a novel walking
match. Two cripples, one having two crutches
and the other a crutch and a cane, are contest
ing for purse and the championship OF the
county.
South Georgia BARRIERS have rule that
is universal. A stranger is required to pay 10
cents cash for a shave while a resident paws 10
cents, and can even get credit if he wishes 1t at
that rate
Perhaps the most powerful electric
light in the world is in use in the Hcustholm
lighthouse on the coast of Jutland- 1t is OF
ZOOO,OOO candle power, and IS visible at dis
lance of 40 miles.
The following curious advertisement
appeared not long ago IN a newspaper in Paris:
"A lady having a pet dog whose hair is of
lIcn M manogany color desires to engage 1oot
man with WhlSkerS to match"
Although Connecticut is but 80 miles
long and 70 broad it is so well supplied with
railroads that you can travel in its cars close
upon LOCO miles, it is said without crossing Its
borders and without repeating"
About half of the electric clocks in
Danbury. Conn.,, stopped a morning OF two
since. Investigation showed that the circuit
had been destroyed by man who cut off a
piece OF the wire to tie up his stove pipe.
AT the Carlisle Indian school, the de-
batting club of the Indian students recently
argued the subject of woman suffrage The
committee voted at the conclusion that the
young women had the better of the argument
AT Auburn, Cal, a woman was watch
ing her hens which were scratching in the gar
den, when she saw them unearth O bright
object and try their bills upon it. She took it
into the house and it proved to be chunk of
gold worth s57.
DIR. S. W. Webb thinks that natural
gas may be found in Vermont, and he proposes
to sink an artesian well 1000 feet on his estate
in Shelburne, believing that when the well gets
down between 800 and LOO feet natural gas
will be reached.
Stanford Crapo, OF Flint, gets the credit
Of clearing $50 900 out of this open winter. He
went East and sold an immense quantity of ice
and then travelled to Northern Michigan where
he contracted for the stuff at terms to make
the profit named
"A Boston book canyasser named Daniel
D. Blake has received information that he is the
sole heir to the estate of the late Sir Henry
Blake, of Norfolk, England. and that 81, 90. 600
is at his disposal. Blake is 40 years of age and
has wife and daughter.
Elizabeth Peister, of Sidney, o., was
taken sick and the doctor was called He pro-
nounced her dead, and her relatives were sum-
moned. While they were talking about the
suddenness of her supposed death she revived
spoke. recovered and is out OF danger.
For nearly a century there has existed
in New York City a society for the ''relief of
poor widows with small children" 1t was
formed by some of the foremost people of the
city, and for three generations the daughters
have taken the place of the mothers IN It's man
agement.
Fifty shillings an ounce was the price
paid in England the other day for an Irish
toilet service in silver of the time of William
and Mary. 1t was not very highly ornamentej,
but it sold for 81 $780, All the glut of silver
from all the mines in America cannot alter the
price of good work.
During the late snow blockade 800 pas
sengers at Reno, New, to amuse themselves,
issued handsome little paper entitled. The
SnoBbound, Souvenir Of the Sierra" 1t
contains very handsome illustrations of the
place. and recites the efforts made to pass the
two weeks of waiting.
The police rules of London forbid an
officer to arrest drunken person unless the
latter is trying to do someone an injury, and it
is not an uncommon thing for an officer to have
six or eight "drunks" asleep at intervals along
his beat. They may all sing, whistle or shout,
but he cannot arrest them.
TO prevent your glass jars from crack
ing when putting in hot liquid stand table,
spoon up in them. There is prevailing idea
that this process has something to do with
electricity, but the true solution is that the
spoon absorbs some of the heat, and also car
ries some of it out into the open air.
"A woman who signs herself 'Tckbri-
kova," has written to the Gar to tell him that
unless he modIfie5 his reactionary policy he
will share the fate of Peter I'LL, Paul !. and
Alexander II. A copy of the letter was sent to
each of the Ministers of the Empire. The
police are searching for the writer.
Two foreign women, noted for their
prowess as huntresses, are travelling in this
country-namely, Lady Marie EIDE Won Ame-
line, famous as a tiger killer, and Lady Eva
Wyndham Linn, who slew six man-eaters dur
ing a visit to her uncle the Governor of Ne
paul. Lady AmelIne killed four tigers in
India and has their claws and skins.
The Government Printing Office is now
engaged in filling one of the largest orders in
its history This is for Is 900 blanks for the
use of the 10000 enumerators Of the eleventh
census, who will begin work in May. 1t will
take Is, 900 reams of paper and 20 presses will
have to be worked % hours each day for six
weeks before the order will have been com
pleted.
A Hartford hardware merchant named
Hill is responsible for the invention of the
American lawn mower. He sent a number of
the clumsy English mowers to a Philadelphia
man and overcharged him IS cents for boxing.
The Philadelphia refused to pay for them, and
sat down and invented a lawn mower OF his
own, which has driven out the English con-
triYanCe.