Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A practical joke was PLAYED on Cover
nor Hill at Normandie-by-the-Sea on Fourth OF
July night. A photographic doll had been
placed In ms PEG Wmcn kept saying: II want
The New York Central Railroad Conn
pany Is renumbering all Of its locomotives of
which r has over 800. Those from TO 24e win
be switching engines, from ESQ to zoo frei0ht
en- ngines, and all above the latter number viii
be passenger engines.
An Indianapolis woman who has been
eight times divorced is 81 years old, and comes
of family noted for its divorces. Her mother
euth husband. An uncle and two aunts have
been married fye times. They are still young.
The number OF murders and murderous
assaults recorded in Michigan, Ohio New
York, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa
since January are two for every one in the big
south this summer the North AMI Wast ~ bsn me
had three.
The great Bear River Canal in Utah.
for the construction of which 81, ,0OO, 900 has.
been provided, is expected TO be one Of the
most extensive irrigation works in America.
10 get the river along the side hill along Bear
creek e, canon and out on to the plain near
Plymouth will necessitate moving 20 900 cubic
yards OF solid rock.
Wind observations at the Eiffel Tower
show that at low Velocities Of Is miles per hour
OF less the velocity of the wind at the top of
the tower Is from four to five times as great as
az the top OF an ordinary building SO feet high
put as the velocity Increases this difference de-
only as two to one.
When the wife of the Shah of Persia
arrived in Berlin the reporters made prodieious
EFFORTS to get glimpse of the lady's face But
their efforts were in vain, for on all occasions
tne laoy wore ven extending from Just below
her eyes to the hem of her skirt The Shah's
wife is of short and chunky stature. She
dresses IN quiet fashion.
Ralph Woodman, workman in the
Cushman Shoe Shop, Auburn. Me-. risked his
own life to snatch from in front of an on-com-
ing train little three or four years old child
who was walking on the track unconscious Of
1ts danger. As Mr.. Woodman snatched the
child from the track the engine snatched his
hat and carried it under the wheels.
Prof. Samuel Cushman, apiarist of the
Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station.
maintains, as the result of personal observation
that bees do no damage to growing Or fair
fruit. The juice of fruit is, in fact, injurious
to them, and they do not attack sound fruit
but only bruised fruit, or that which has been
previously injured by other insects"
AN eight wheeled railroad church has
just been finished at Tihis, in the factory of
the Transcaucasian Railway Company, for use
a
one end, and at the other there Is a handsome
belfTy with three bells. Beside the church
proper 1t has apartments for the priest 1t can
comfortably seat 70 persons The altar was
made in st. Petersburg.
The estate of Marwood. the famous
English hangman, is in bankruptcy. It appears
by his books that his business although very
active, was by no means in a nourishing condi-
ton at the time of his death. MarWood was q
shoemaker by trade. In HorncastIe Lincoln
snlre, where he lived. the people thought he
was wealthy and they were surprised to learn
tnat he had died insolvent.
Betsy Arnold, a sister of Benedict
Arnold. lived for years and years after her,
brothers disgrace, in Norwich public
charity. When she was 80 years old she was
taken to the almshouse by old Sheriff E. g.
Ihomas. Betsy made great how-to-do about
II and was so grieVed thar she lived only few
months. She was a strong old woman and had
much of her brothers temper.
johann Martin Schleyer, the retired
Roman Catholic priest of Baden, Germany, who
gave Volapuk to the world, is quite satisfied
with the progress the new world language
has made in its first ten years. Houses all over
the world are conducting their correspondence
in it, it is stated and there is now a library Of
over ], 500 volumes in Volapuk. while millions
have become acquainted with its use.
james B. Swigert Of Carlisle Springs,
Pa, is the possessor of an, old turkey gobbler
which is now doing the duty of fowl Of the
feminine gender. Mr.. Swigert few days ago
missed the gobbler, but subsequently found
lim in a field Matching nest of eggs. The old
elbow sat very contentedIy. and seems greatly
'leased with doing the duties of q mother The
Ter Is hatching ia now laying in anothe- nest
MIR. Rila Kittridge, considereu the
hampton microscopic postal card writer OF
he world, has just finished writing Presidents
last message containing 10000 words
n postal card, being about 20 dayssin dong
he work. In writing he uses nothing but a
air of common specJacles- 1t would seem al
most incredible that ANYTHING done with a COM
non pen could be deciphered after being
i'd Of a microscope every letter and word
tands out in bold relief and are very distinct.
In an article on the aborigines of Aus
ralia, W. 7. Wyndham speaks of the skill with
which the natives use stone implements. ''They
urn out work." he says, "that you would hard
y believe possible with such rough imple-
nents. They show great ingenuity, particu-
arly in making their harpoon heads for spear
ng dugong and fish; instead Of shaving the
Vood up and down with the grain, as a Euro
'ean workman would do, they turn the wood
or shear head round and chip it on across
he grain, working it as wooden boxes are
urned on a lathe. have often sat and watched
hem dong this"
One interesting development of theatre
al lawsuits is that the names Of entirely un-
.nown men are nearly always brought out BY
hem. The unknown is usually the hacker OF
he enterprise and he takes half Of the stars
arnIngs. Even the most successful theatrical
1en have these silent partners They have
othing to do with the profession, and are. as
ule. business men who are conservative oy
abit but who see the large financial gains
ossible in theatrical enterprises. The other
ay the fact was brought out that Nat GOOD.
1in, who is a rich man and who was supposed
o own his own show absolutely, had partner
f this sort
The case CT Ovid White, of Salem, Ind,
or the murder of Jacob johnson, proves to
ave a strange fatality attached to it. First
White managed to evade justice for seven
ears and was only recaptured through being
verheard in Mnneola, Texas, relating his
rime to another man. Next Governor
doyeys private secretary Roberts, badly COM
promised himself by attempting to beat the
salem authorities out of $3.50 for alleged de-
ective service, disgorging however, when
,lnned down. White was then brought 70 trial,
md the Judge became insane and died. Last
week his trial began at PaolI, but had no sooner
,egan than Judge Pearson became III. and tho
ase was again continued, and this evening tna
leath of Indge Pearson is announced.