Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Triplets born in Newman. Ga. hay,
been named Red. White and Blue.
AN Ashland divine has patented an air
brake which can be applied to all vehicles.
i'm nearly all Russian factories the en-
ployes are required to work l3 hours per day.
| The most enterprising resort this sum-
I mer advertises that messenger boys Will use the
bicycle.
"A miniature whirlwind carried off the
clothes of three boys while they were swimming
at Lancaster, Pa.
Lancaster county, Penns ylvanfa, has
produced a two-ounce strawberry measuring
six inches in circumference.
The national council Of Berne, Switzer-
land. has almost unanimously adopted the prin
cipIe of state insurance against illness or acci
dent.
"A young merchant in Berlin has mar
ried the woman that nursed him when babe.
She was then II years old. He is well of in
worldly matters.
The old monitor Saugus which fought
at Fort Fisher. and has in its turret 80 dents
made by Confederate shot, is to be broken up
and sold for old iron.
oil bearing rock is said to have been
discovered under Big Rapids. Mich, but as
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hole and telegraphed the stockholders
John Wilson, who lives at Buckhead
district, Fulton county, Ga, has hens egg on
which is a clearly defined snake embossed on
the shell. The snake is an inch and a half in
length.
Two Wiscasset, Me-, doctors recently
removed from the jaw of man In that town
eight teeth whose combined length was ~
inches. One cuspid measured over II inches
one of the longest on record.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is expert
menting with a shaking CRATE on its freight en-
gnes. and the result is said to be satisfactory
An engine equipped with crate ran over i've
days without clogging. and the fre continued
brisk. No blower was needed.
General Albert Pike, the head of Amer
ican Masons, is "a years old. He is in many
ways one of the most remarkable men in the
country, de has a wide reputation as scholar,
and his contributions to the English magazines
and reviews are always well paid for.
The narrowest dwelling house in Brook
lyn is to be built this summer. 1t will measure
719x5O feet: The lot upon which the building
is TO stand is in one OF the best streets in the
city, and has been thought by many to be al
most worthless because Of its small SIZE
"A dumb woman at Martha's Vineyard
owns and manages a small schooner, living in
it with kitten and huge Newfoundland dog
for company. She supports herself by fishing.
and her lobster pots, and by peddling thread
and buttons and such small wares along the
coast when the fishing season is over.
"A troupe of about 30 Persian singers,
dancers, wrestlers, boxers eonjurors and
equestrians, nearly all of whom have been
forced from their native land for highway
manTy. are about to make q tour through
Europe, starting from Odessa. Their perform
anees are said to be quite wonderful.
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Gently discovered at Kahun was evidently part
of medical treatise, and contained this pre-
scription: Treatment of a woman who is
panied in her legs and in all her limbs as one
who is beaten. Do with regard to her thus:
Let her eat grease until she is eured.'
The most aristocratic society Of women
in this country is the recently formed Colonial
Danes of America" composed of women who
are descendants in their own persons Of some
America prior TO 1776, and rendered worthy
service in the building up of cur country. The
object of the society are social, patriotic and
historical.
Preparations are being made to take out
a section Of big redwood tree In the man.
moth forest Of Tulare county CAL, for exhibi-
ton at the worlds fair in 1893 This will be the
largest section of any big tree ever taken from
California, it is said. The tree measures 30
feet in circumference. and the section to be
taken will be feet in height and 30 feet in cir
cumference.
1t is said in New York that If the chap
pies dog carts are hung much higher they will
be able to shake hands with their friends in
the seeond-story windows of Fifth avenue
houses, and the branches of the trees in the
park will have to be cut. The fashionable
height of these vehicles has been carried TO the
extremes that make one think the demented
have not all expired yet.
"A depression has been discovered in the
Egyptian desert which is all that remains OF a
reservoir constructed by the Patriarch Joseph
for irrigation purposes when he was Pharaoh's
prime minister. 1t is proposed to reopen il, and
it has been estimated that this would add 3200,-
600 acres to the 6.0OO0 600 acres now under cult-
Yation in Egypt. The reservoir originally COW
cred $50 square miles and was go feet deep.
The Baroness Klara Won du Decker, of
Tifis, has entered upon prodiglous undertak-
ing. She requests that all the beautiful women
in the world send their photographs to her.
A committee Of artists is to be appointed, who
will examine the hkenesses, and those ap-
proved will be placed in the museum at Mos
COW in an album to be entitled, Types of Fe-
male Beauty in the Last Years of the Nine
teenth Century"
"A cow owned by W. L. Evatt, Of Ches-
ter. Fla. brought forth monstrosity a day or
two ago. The body was that of a well-formed
calf, but the head and neck were exactly like
those of an English bulldog. In the jaws were
long incisor canine teeth and the ears were
complete in their resemblance to a dogs The
feet were hoofed, but the legs were very stout
and short. only or 10 inches long. The ami
NAL did not live.
During the Franco-Prussian war Bis
marck returned one evening to his quarters at
Meaux and found baby on his bed. A slip Of
paper said: "My husband died at Sedan.
have no bread" That was September l6, 1870.
The Prince reported to the King. Sire" he
said now 1 have had a child left TO me-" His
Majesty replied: I'm war times one takes every
tlink, even a child" The boy was sent 20 Ber-
lin, raised at BIsmareks charge, and is still in
his household.
Joseph Duvuette has been in the Mich
igAn prison for % consecutive years. He was
convicted Of murder in Sanllac county, in 1883,
and condemned to solitary continemeutfo life.
For a number of years (how many he himself
cannot tell, he was isolated from anything IN
the shape of a human being. He never saw
human face or heard human voice for long,
weary months at q time. His food was brought
20 him on a tin plate, and handed through
wicket but he never caught glimpse OF the
convict who waited on him. For 80 years the
only sight of the sky he ever got was from
within the four great wallis He has never
stepped outside the gates. No friend or rela-
tive has spoken to him in all that period.