Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-1ne 1arscst conungent OF recruits eVef
| demanded by the Russian War ONCE 10000
was fixed for the next enrolment by the latest
| ukase.
"A new lion hunter has arisen to sue.
| ceed the late Bombonnel in Algeria. named
| Gather, who invites not only men but women
| to come and hunt
"A stock company, with 500, 900 capi-
tai, has recently been formed for the pur-
pose of raising peaches on large scale in
Houston county. Ga,
during the financial year closing on
May 1 the German Government received
surplus of q, 000.0 900 from the imperial postal
and telegraphic department., and Of this $780,
900 from the imperial printing ONCE.
N. Y. Heide is an Ogden farmer who
had IA hogs sunstruck and the lard fried out Of
them ip three hours one day last week. Tneir
skins were blistered and scaled OF like the
paint on house. This is the story Mr.. Heide
tells.
Mr.. Drury during the rain storm Mon
day was in . small house on the place Of Mr..
Dickey at Bridgeport, and left it in time to es-
cape fash Of lightning which struck the
building. tearing part TO pieces and badly
damaged it.
The acreage of sorghum in Kansas Is re-
ported at 10,70O acres. against 1900 acres last
year. The crop is in good condition. and the
product is almost entirely contracted for by the
to $500 per ton.
"A German named Lilienthal, after ex-
perimenting for % years with artificial wings,
has succeeded in raising himself, Weighing 100
pounds, with the aid of counter weight lifting
SOpounds. How to raise the other 80 pounds
ts still beyond him.
"A new element, named "damsris," is
said to have been discovered in the crater OF
an extinct volcano in Damaraland. 1t is re-
ported WniUht 4
or half that OF oxygen, and therefore is Is the
hghrest known substance.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between st. Peters
burg and Boulogne, a distance of 2465 miles;
conVers alton was kept up Notwithstanding q
propose to converse by telephone over a distance
| OF Il 065 miles.
Adam Clark, in returning thanks at
the table Of another made use of the follow
| ing significant and pertinent words: Lord
bless these vegetables and this fruit and bread;
and II thou canst bless under the gospel whar
| thou didst curse under the law, bless this
swine's flesh Also"
"A young lady of Altoona observed by
the roadside a wild rose. upon one of the
branches of which was growing . small bunch
OF burs, healthy and perfect in every Darticu-
lar, as was also the rose branch 10 which they
were singularly attached A freak Of nature
winch is unexplanable.
MIR. Charlie Phinizy, of Athens. is an
unerring marksman and achieved a feat the
other day that required an extraordinary degree
of skill. He placed tiny piece of paper on
the head of a negro and shot it of with parlor
rifle. The negro evidently vas endowed with
iron nerves or was firm believer in predesti-
narianism-
AT last weeks sitting of the Academy
Of Medicine. NJ. Laborde. of the Paris faculty,
announced his discovery of a new ane,thetic.
which he calls crystallized narcein. A solution
Of this substance sends the patient into a sound
sleep free from vomiting or digestive derange-
ment and without subsequent torpor. So far
experiments have been confined to rabbits.
Colonel Colts old war horse, Frank,
| died two years ago at the advanced age of 81
He was buried in the public square in Water
ford, Erie county. On the last two memorial
days the grave was decorated. The town
Council ordered the flags removed whereupon
the q. A. r. and town people have become so
indignant that they threaten 10 erect . monu-
nent to the memory of Frank.
Henry Franklyn pleaded guilty in the
General Sessions in New York on Wednesday
to robbing Thomas Mcdonald of Is cents, and
was sentenced to IA years imprisonment
Thomas Mcdonald, an old man. was walking
through Pell street one afternoon, about two
months ago. when Franklyn and two others
held him up" and ritied his pockets of all he
had-l5 cents.
Great numbers of fre1ies are sparkling
in Staten Island every night now. They first
made their appearance week or ten days ago,
and they have null Itiplied exceedingly since
then. This is considered certain sign by all
veteran fishermen that the weakdsh will 6ises
may be between firefiies and weak1sh they do
not attempt to explain.
"A butler in London brought action
against his former employer for the libel said to
lie in reply to an inquiry about the butler's
character, which said: Il discharged John Walsh
for insolence." In consequence of this he lost
y subsequent engagement. The insolence had
been shown to the defendants wife. and was
not denied. The judge said that it was for the
plaintiff to show malicious misrepresentation
on defendants part, and the jury gave verdict
for the latter.
"A company has been formed to rent out
steamer chairs Tor 81 a trip across the ocean.
The chairs are supplied with little tables de-
signed to hold plate, tumbler and a bottle.
Several thousand of these rented chairs are
now in use, and the demand for them is con-
stantly increasing. The idea is that most
travellers would rather pay 81 for the rent of a
steamer chair than buy one and be bothered
with storing it when they get to Europe.
Here are few amusing blunders that
have just occurred in examinations in Boston
public schools One little girl said that. in l67o
the Pilgrims came to Massachusetts, for the
purpose of fighting the Battle of Bunker Hill"
Another said: I'm 1852 William Penn explored
Pennsylvania with a crew of Quakers." In an
other paper, a small boy, who had evidently
heard that the English people we're fond Of
meats said that, of all the countries, he had
rather visit England, because be would like to
see the Thames river and the Beef Eaters.
Sable Island is one of the most danger
Gus points along the Atlantic seaboard.
Wrecked men have sometimes been stranded
on the island for weeks without being able to
inform the world of their condition. 1t is now
proposed to import carrier pigeons from Bel
gum for use in the coast service, and quarters
for their reception are being prepared in Hall
fax. Some of the pigeons, having been accus-
toned to Halifax, will be taken to Sable
Island and when a disaster occurs one will be
set at liberty with a mess age attached to it.
The pigeons to be used in this service are very
rapid birds and will require but short time to
bring messages from that point into the city.
The average Indian has not much time
to waste in sentiment, but in pure practcalitya
Piute squaw in Nevada leads her race. Left in
charge OF her husband, VINO was an invalid,
while the young bucks and squaws were ENJOY
ing themselves at fandango at Paneca,
whittier her own inclination led her, she ar
rived at the (or herr comfortable conclusion
that as SeekabOo had but a few days to lnger
anyway it would be best to bury him at once,
SO leaving herself free to attend the fandango
and find another husband. Without waiting
for SO trifing a consideration as death she car
ried out her plan. and went joyously on her
way to Paneca. But fate, in the person OF
wayfayer. stepped in, resurrected Seekaboo