Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Boston eat has just died at the vener-
able age of "a years and months
Illinois pearls are worth picking up.
Four found in the river near Galena last week
were sold to Chicago jeweler for s4OO
"A Manhattan, Kan, livery firm an
nounces that it has ordered a fine new hearse.
and that its motto is Live and let i've"
"A new electric brake recently experi-
mented with in England stopped car travel:
ing at a rate of 30 miles an hour in 200 feet.
"A bell cast recently for the Kharkow
cathedral contains 68 per cent of pure silver 1t
weighs 646 English pounds and its vibrations
last several minutes.
Two Philadelphia physicians were re-
Gently arrested on a charge of cruelty to ami
mails, the charge being based upon the fact that
they we're in the habit of practieing vivIsec-
tion on dogs in the course Of their expert
ments.
Five boys, hardly more than babies,
were arraigned in the Bangor Me-, court on
the charge of breaking and entering stores and
larceny from them. The oldest of the boys
was but II years of age, but they were armed
with revolvers, dirk-kniVes, etc., and had
named themselves "The Black Avengers"
"A family by the name of Moore, living
six miles west of Columbus, Ind, has peculiar
and distinguishing family mark running
through three generations. At reunion. held
on Thursday of this week, It was learned that
out Of T persons pres ent, which represented
the three generations, 10 had six toes on each
foot.
An English woman resident in Syria
reports the discovery near Beyroot of bedstead
made of gold and silver and inlaid with precious
stones. An inscription upon it in English
characters states that it belonged to Eleanor,
Queen of England. The bedstead was discov-
raH i,, ia "a
placed there for security when Edward l. left
the East.
"A Saco, Me-, man hunted for dentist
who could not be found, and in his wanderings
he finally turned up in shoemaker.s shop.
The mans foreeps were not Of the best. for old
shoemaker's pincers are not what dentists use
nowadays; but by aid Of muscular force the
SON of st. Cr1spin ''got there" and the molar
with him. Besides the other fellow saved half
dollar.
"A queer history attached to Portland
young woman. When but 5 years old away
of on one of the South Sea islands. she was
sold by her own people. who are eannibals. to
Portland sea captain, and the seller firmly be-
lieved that she was bought to be eaten as food.
Shes been educated and treated kindly and
earns her living as a servant in the captains
family, realizing every day, no doubt, how
much better it is to eat than to be eaten.
A yellow catfish weighing SO pounds
was exhibited in the Palace market at Eighth
and McGee yesterday, says the Kansas City
Times. 1t had been captured day before at
the mouth of the Kaw. The fish was over five
feet long, and if il had been taken with hook
and line might have made some fun and posi-
bly, news item; but IL had mean advantage
taken Of it by being caught in a trap and
slugged on the head before it had time TO fairly
lash It's tail.
An American missionary from India
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bay for number Of bright, skilled American
dentists. Madras is city of 800 900 population
and has not single American dentist People
sometimes travel from there to Bombay, near
ly LOCO miles, in order to have tooth filed.
There is only one good dentist in Bombay, and
he refuses to I'LL teeth with gold, using sort
OF cement that is not lasting. He charges 81 80
for pulling tooth.
"A novel summer resort enterprise has
been started by a Bennington CVt.) man. Re
has secured a large tract of land in a woodland
valley above the historic town where he has
erected hotel and several cottages, and
stocked all the streams with trout. Anglers
are required to pay so much pound for their
catches. There is mountain lake mile
above the place, where \ hatchery has been es-
tablished. and year by year the streams will be
supplied with 'leaping trout"
-"When will be able to get nv bounty,
pension and arrears 2' writes an Illinois ex-sol-
dier to his Congressman. Il enlisted in 1862
staid with my company till 1883, and then, when
they wouldn't give me leave, 1 went home on a
little furiongh. But Joined another company
the next year and staid with 1t for nearly eight
months. I then went home another fur
Iough and before could enlist again the war
was over. That was not my fault, and don't
think the Government ought to be mean
enough to beat II out Of my bounty and PEN
sion on that account"
A Woods Holl man writes to the
Boston Post: ''One of my neighbors keeps a
store quite near the harbor, and lately he OBJ
served his cat bringing in small fish, which
he laid upon the floor and retired. He soon
returned however, bringing a second, which
he also laid down, as if to give them to his
master, The next day he repeated it, and then
his proceedings we're watched, and 1t was found
that he went to the shore and watched for a
school of fishes to approach, when he would
strike out like flash, fasten mis- claws into one
Vt them, convey it to his mouth and scamper of
with it. He seems to think it an amusing and
useful performance"
While Sims Powell was sitting in his
library at his house at Prospect Hill, Parkers-
burg, one evening lately, he heard a noise as of
the rattle Of wings against a window. On lay
ing down his paper and looking up, much to
his astonishment, he saw a beautiful snow
white owl perched upon the back Of a chair
and blinking at the light. Mr.. Pow ell captured
the bird and will keep it as a curiosity. 1t is
snow white and IS beautiful spe cimen of the
strix nivia, and is the only specimen of the
kind ever seen in this section Of the country.
1t Is believed by some to be a member Of a
species found in the extreme North, or Arctic
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