Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

$50 widows.
The Michigan University has 25 jap
anese students this year.
"A Wisconsin packing company has paid
out s26.500 for cucumbers this fall.
Over 5000 men in the United States
Struck during the month of September.
There are 81 millionaires in Denver, and
% men worth, on the average. s5OO.OOO each.
The submarine telegraph system of the
world consists of 07O nautical miles of cable.
"A Western cowboy committed suicide
because lSyear-oId girl refused to marry
"A Georgia man has raised a Mexican
green citron.
The name of Wayne is the title or part
than any other.
"A Du Bois man has in his ward a palun
tree In blossom, and plum tree on which
plums are now growing as large as nuts,
AT Holly Springs Ga, dog fell into
well and staid there IA days before his owner
found him. He was taken out and is doing
well. N'
"A Michigan county farm, which ex-
ported 900 barrels of apples last year, did not
produce enough for home consumption this
season.
The sixteenth child of Wisconsin
couple arrived the other day and preparations
were Immediately begun for the reception Of
the seventeenth.
The principal of the New York State
Normal School has forbidden young lady
students from wearing garters. He says gar
ters cause Varicose veins.
"A Michigan hunter attempted to use
his gun for a cane. He will neither hunt nor
walk for some time to come. although the doc
tors expect TO save his life.
This seasons sensation at Cadillac,
Mich, is a 75-pound squash. Last year it had
horse which climbed upstairs each morning
and kissed the chambermaid.
Two centennarians have died in Barry
county, Mich, since the census man started on
his rounds, but Miss Anna Demund, 1O2 years
old, and the Oldest of the lot, still lives.
One of the sights near Nebraska City is
massive stone temple built By the Mormons
in honor of Joseph Smith after their expulsion
from Nauvoo. 1t was also used as a fort
"A drove of hogs in Hudson, Mich, be-
came intoxicated by drinking the scum from
sorghum factory and in the orgies which fol
lowed one hog was drowned by the gay de-
bauehes.
The building of a Free Methodist
Church In Chicago, is causing no end of trouble
in the neighborhood in which it is located.
For shouting and noise it beats the Salvation
Army out of sight.
"A lewd woman at Butte, Mont, was so
affected Dy seeing Clara Morris in the role of
Camille that she reformed married a young
man who had previously tried in vain to WIN
her over in the paths of rectitude, and is now a
happy, Virtuous wife.
"A Maine girl, finding it inconvenient to
carry chewing gum with her. established sta
tions in various parts of the town, where she
sticks her quids. One is in drygoods store,
one in the church choir, one in her own dining
room, one at school, and SO on.
"A Cincinnati man travelling out West,
fell from the platform of a train on which he
was riding. and his coat caught in a rod con-
nected with the coupling. Thus suspended,
head downward. he was dragged for number
of miles. finally escaping with only a broken
leg.
The common phrase, "When Greek
meets Greek then comes the tug of war;" is
the most common misquotatiOn in tho Ian
guage. Correctly it should read, when
Greeks Joined Greeks, then was the tug of
war 1t was first written by Nathaniel Lee in
100.
Great disappointment is expressed in
naval circles at the remarkable loss of speed
exhibited by our ocean cruisers The Baltimore
averaged only seven knots an hour on her visit
to Sweden, and on a run from Hawaii to the
Pacific coast the Charleston barely made eight
knots.
"A Kansas paper says a leading ques-
tion asked young lady. who was making final
proof on a quarter section. by one of the clerks
in the Larned United States land office was:
(which Is the most direct road leading from
Larned to your piece of land, and will you be
at home If should CALI"
Al
House in Augusta. Me- on Wednesday, not a
single person appeared to bid. By telegraph
and letter, however, five bids were received
and 20 lots were sold. This absence of bid
ders in person rendered the sale the most
novel in the annals of the State.
An aged blacksmith of Roxburg, has a
young wife, who seeing sometime ago that her
husband was becoming too feeble to keep up
with his work, volunteered to help him at the
forge. From that day onward she has worked
in the shop, and has become hrst-class black
smith, both in strength and skill.
Policeman Patrick Stark, of the Third
precinct New York City, found the champion
man the other day while acting as
census enumerator. He was J. Grinker, of No.
76 East Broadway, who refused to give any in
formation. as in his opinion ut was reflection
upon the United States Government"
Not many years ago the abandoned
timber lands in Aroostook county, Me-, away
up near the British Province, were almost
worth less for agricultural purposes Later on
Swedes and other industrious foreigners
moved in, and now ArOoStook county is the
greatest potato growing county iu New En-
gland.
Emil DeIwich, of Bagley, Mich, In
vIted two friends to take drink with him, tell
ing them that it was the last time they would
drink at his expense, as he was going to die
that night. They laughed at him and one of
them, H N Snow, accompanied him home.
Delwich invited Snow to 60 IL and see him die,
and Snow accepted, thinking that Delwtch
meant suicide and he would be on hand to stop
it Imagine Shows surprise when Delwich
calmly sat down in a chair and in less than ten
minutes was dead.
AN eccentric farmer near Salamanca,N.
Y, notorious for his needless slouchiHess of
attire, determined to surprise his wife by buy
ing new SUIT of clothes. While returning
home in the night, his bundle safely slowed
away in the wagon, he thought it would be
good idea to make his wife's surprise more
complete by greeting her in his new apparel.
He halted and quickly disrobed, throwing each
Of the abandoned garments into the river.
Then he felt in the wagon for the new duds,
1ut failed to find them, and he was obliged to
lrive home minus outer clothing. Needless to
say, bis wife's surprise was complete. Next
however, he found the bundle safely
attached to the vehicle by its own string.