Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Over II, 900 live Holsters were shipped
from Eastport. Me-, one day last week.
--"Telepher" will in all probability be
adopted as an aobTeyiation for electric motion.
&C. NJ. King. the singing Saline, Mich,
gravedigger, has spent q years in the business
and planted 492 bodies.
Thomas Carter, Of Au Sable. Mich.
who was a member of Mosby's band of
guerrillas during the war, is dead and his body
is In the Dotter's field.
Speaking of brief names, there is a
family in France named B, onein Belgium
named o. river in Holland called the and .
village In sweden named A.
Nathan Harvey, of Topeka, has suit
Of clothes made S. years ago which shows the
handiwoTk OF oliver 2. Morton, Schuyler Col
fax, General Burnside and ex-COngressman
Shryock.
"A Cedar Rapids, Ia, gentleman recently
wrote a letter to the postmaster ar South
Blendon, Mich. and, not knowing his name,
addressed the letter ITO the postmaster" etc.
week later the letter was returned unopened
and stamped 'uncalled for"
Private Richardson the only Manchester
man now surviving Of the Gallant Six Hun
dred." served IL years. has no pension, is nearly
blind and drifts from workhouse TO workhouse.
dozen other survivors OF BalaklaVa are pau
pers either in or out of warehouses;.
&C. W. Wallingford, near North Bend,
Neb., recently discovered rabbit about three
weeks old enjoying the companionshtp OF .
nest of kittens. The little fellow was made
welcome and takes nourishment from the
mother cat the same as the rest of the family.
An Akron, Ia, boy attended school the
other day IN company with bottle of whisky,
and after imbibing education and the contents
of the bottle at regular intervals for some time
ahI ha cDhn Inv HriU
and the other scholars from the room with the
stove poker.
Sumter county, Ga, is scourged with
millions of fieas, from the attacks of which
small animals and chickens are said TO be dying
by hundreds. The flea is of the Mexican
variety, brought here by the hundred OF Texas
and Mexican horses scattered over the country
of late years.
The Paris old soldiers home, the
Hotel des Invalides. will very likely soon be
closed. The number of inmates has sunk from
1900 to $50. and the Government thinks Of clos
ing the half-empty buildings and letting the
old soldiers shift for themselves on pensions OF
300 or 400 francs year.
Last year 81 persons in the Loochoo
Islands of Japan were bitten by the poisonous
habu snake. IL Of whom succumbed andI55 re-
covered. Forty-two of the victims were males
and % females, but the greater portion of
deaths occurred among the females, seven out
of the Is cases ending fatally.
"A peculiar shaped mound was dis
covered near Mitchell, Dak., the other day.
and in digging into it the skeleton OF an Indian
was uneartned, with the trinkets and weapons
usually found in Indian graves The mound
was covered by heavy sod, and everything in
dicated that many years had elapsed since it
was made.
One cause assigned for the healthfulness
of Chinese cities is that the people boil all
water intended for drinking. They never drink
cold water The national beverage, tea, is al
ways 'on tap" even in the houses Of the poor.
Every little hamlet, too. has shop where hot
water can be bought for trihing gum at any
hour of the day or night.
Farmers in Iowa have been greatly an
noyed by wolves. who have made repeated on.
slaughts upon their stock yards. In order to
ranged for grand wolf hunt. The plan Is to
surround section of the country and drive the
wolves upon a certain tract of land, where the
animals will be leisurely killed.
Auburn, Me-, has a thief who is ap-
parently unable to keep from business under
any circumstances. He was let out of Jail the
other day where he had been confined for
some time. 1t was about 9 o'clock when he
was released. BY 10 o'clock he was drunk. and
by noon had lifted a silver ladle. Before
night he was back in his old quarters again.
"A cure for stammering has been discov-
cred. 1t consists in keeping silent for ten days.
Then speaking IN whispers for ten days more
and finally returning to the ordinary voice
theory has not as vet been able to obtain dis
ciple of the fairer sex to experiment on. At
the first step in his treatment there was gen.
eral mutiny.
A new feature adopted for the lighting
Of the new hotel at Tampa, Fla, is the use of
carDons, by which the light can
be turned down dim if desired in a sick room,
or f or other purposes. This is the first hotel in
the world lighted in that manner. The new
discovery has been used in some instances Tor
footlights of opera houses. There will 1900
lights in all.
Here are some interesting criminal sta
;istics: In the last ten years 672 persons were
for trial in England and Wales for
The crime of willful murder. Ofthese 299 were
to death. 231 acquitted and l42 adj
ndged insane. OF the 29Y condemned to death
of the 299 so were women, Of whom
nine were hanged.
Mrs. Laura II. Knight, wife of George
W. knight. of Bellefontaine. o.. gave birth
Sunday morning to three handsome children,
.wo girls and boy. The combined weight of
The three is Is pounds. the boy weighing seven,
me girl five and the other four. Mr.. and Mrs.
Knight are each % years old, and have been
married. two years and have four children. The
oldest is boy year old.
Pat McGrath, of Woodford, KY, pos
esses a remarkable cat. 1t was born with only
hree legs, and as soon as the kitten became
arge enough to leave its mother. Pat con-
itructed 4 wooden leg and successfully ad-
usted it to the little stump that grew out
where pussy's fourth leg ought to have been.
Pussy now trots along on four legs with as
much ease and comfort apparently as though
he wooden limb had been placed there by
nature. But here is the wonderful part Of the
tory: Instead Of killing rats and mice with
olo, fe a lr In n ad
O use her club leg for this purpose. and 1t is
aid to be a very amusing sight to see her run
I'D to q rat and knock him into insenslbility
With her wooden leg.