Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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In the handle of the newest tennis
rackets is a place for tiny bottle of smelling
salts, which the fair players use to invfgorats
themselves.
One Of the Berlin hotels was lately
robbed BY two persons In the garb of nuns.
They were subsequently apprehended and one
OF the women" was discovered to be man.
"A Charlestown lady became quite sick
the other day and vomited a email live nsh.
She does not know when it passed down her
throat, but su pposes 1t did SO with drink OF
water.
Captain Tillman, the leader of the farm
ers' movement in South Carolina. is 49 years of
age. blind of one eye. pays taxes on l,SOO acres
of land, runs 20 plows and has a dairy supplied
by 40 thoroughbred Jersey cows.
"A big herd of camels has been seen on
the plains near Harrisburg. Cal. One Of them
was caught and taken into a camp. but had to
be killed, as every horse and mule went crazy
at the sight of the strange beast
This is the way the great beast of Africa
goes to his extinction. An ordinary elephant
produces 40 pounds of ivory. worth $500. En-
gland consumes $50 tons, for which 1t Is neces-
sary to kill 12OOO elephants year.
There is large farm in Mississippi in
which there is only one old whip. and that 10
not used. The owner will not permit the whip
to be used on any Of the stock, and the farm
does well and the animals work with Will
without feeling the lash.
The Russian saloon for tea drinking is
an interesting feature OF life in Russian cities.
The walters are attired in white from head to
foot, with alarge black purse at the waist. and
are all men. Tea is drunk alone or with lemon,
and the sugar eaten from the hand. Eleven or
10 cups are not too many for an old tea drinker.
Alexander Jacques, French fasting
man, has begun an attempt to beat tie record
in London. He proposes to remain for AZ days
without any food, except powder of secret
composition. He saws he sustained himself
and his comrades for many days on this pow
der while he was soldier and the Germans
were besieging Belfort.
Dissatisfied with the census enumera-
tion, the Business Mems Association, of Han
nibal, Mo-, employed two competent men to
make recount of the Second ward, the small
est ward in the city. The Government enum-
orator returned the population of the ward at
1875 The recount, which was concluded on
Thursday. makes the population z 4oo, gain Of
1921
-Weldless tubes of steel are now made
in Germany by the MannesmanD process, out
of solid bars. A pair of rolls revolve at the
rate Of 200 or 300 revolutions minute. A bar
of hot and therefore plastic steel is delivered
Co them, and by their action it is stretched,
and a hollow is made in the center. The tubes
made by this process are peculiarly strong and
light.
"A warning against undue physical eI-
ertion by those not accustomed to it is con-
tanned in the remark of the chief surgeon of
the National Soldiers Home at Dayton, o.
This physician SAID that of the B. 600 soldiers in
the home fully 80 per cent are suffering from
heart disease in some form or another, due to
the forced physical exertion OF their cam
paigns."
A Scotch writer SAYS that he has
sprinkled wasps and bees with rose-colored
powder and has found that thus handicapped
they could with ease keep up with the fastest
trains. They were not carried along by the
rush of air caused by the train, but would en-
ter and leave the cars by the windows, some-
times disappearing for minute or more and
then returning.
An argument IN favor Of the Pasteur
inoculation against hYdrophobia is supplied by
the ca ses of four persons who we're bitten by
the same dog at Stalybridge, England. Three
were treated by NJ. Pasteur, and have appar-
emily recovered. The fourth was treated by
the chief constable of Clitheroe, who claimed
to have a remedy for the disease, and he has
since died of hydrophobia.
Some time since, while woodsman was
engaged IN cutting sawlogs a few miles from
Oakland, Nd, he felled a tree in the center of
which, about te feet from its base, a live frog
was found VIII ich, when liberated from its
wooden prison, hoped on as lively as though
it haa not been prisoner for perhaps p years.
The tree was more than foot In diameter
where the frog was found.
The owners of all cabs in Paris have
been notified to supply their vehicles with
counters before April next. The counter Is
to indicate at every moment the distance
travelled. the hour and the amount due. When
the cab is in motion the fare will increase in
fho a ArUfa
the vehicle is standing still it will rise as If the
cab were travelling eight kilometres an hour.
"A retired plumber thus gives a point
for the gratuitous relief of householders: Just
before retiring at night pour into the clogged
pipe enough liquid soda lye to fill the trap or
bent part of the pipe. Be sure that no water
runs in it untilNShe next morning. During the
night the lye will convert all the offal into soft
soap, and the first current of water i'll the morn
ing will wash it away and clear the pipe Clean
as new."
The Dawson Lnde1 tells about Harland
Moore who brought up from the cellar a pan
of potatoes, and when his wife began to pre-
pare some of the tubers for the next mornings
breakfast she saw the head of a snake protrude
from those 'taters. She promptly decapItated
his snakeship and threw the writhing remains
out of the window, and did not go into faint
over the adventure. IL proved TO be rattler,
eight feet long with seven well developed
rattles.
A young woman in Parkersburg, W.
Va, recently advertised for husband and re-
ceived numerous answers, to the writer Of one
of wnich-a st. Louis man-she became en-
gagged. A time was set for the wedding, but
before it arrived the groom met with an acci-
dent by which he lost leg. But she was
woman of her word, and after his recovery they
were married. She recently wrote home thas
her husband was engaged in steady employ
ment and was good man.
"A clever swIndle is being practiced in
Conn.,. by means of double foun-
tain pen one end of which is filed with good,
substantial ink, the other with ink that fades
away in day or two. The sharper writes his
agreement contract or wha teVer particular
lay he may have chosen with the ink that
fades and his victim signs with the other end
Of the pen the ink that lasts. In few days he
has q slip of paper with nothing on it but
good signature, over which he writes any sort
Of note that he can most easily turn into
cash.