Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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doctors
oil City has 10 churches and church.
going population of 5000.
West Branch, Mich, was infested so
badly by wolves that the berry crop was left
almost untouched.
The number of newspapers published in
al countries is estimated at A, coo. 240OO ap-
pearlng III Europe.
The report that Garibaldi's widow is
ABOUT to remarry is confirmed. The wedding
aay Is not YET fixed.
-OVer 1000 children were refused admis-
slon to the public schools of Philadelphia be-
| cause Oh the lack of accommodations.
William Ellis, lad caught stealing
from his emplorer, Norristown jeweler, in
vested an MS stealings in perfumery and mus
| ical instruments.
-Doyiestown, Pa, ducks are addicted to
| dissipation. They eat the tomato refuse from
| = seed establishment which has underpoue fer.
| mentation and get beastly drunk.
The number of failures in England and
| Wales gazetted during the week ending August
| %, was 1874. The number in the correspondino
week of last year was 150, showing a decrease
of 16
"A New Haven gentleman has a couple
Of tame wasps. They have built a nest in his
parlor and live undisturbed and undisturbing.
This is the third season the insects have oc-
cupied the same quarters.
William Riley, whose family has
mourned him as dead for many years, and for
whom a stone is erected in bingham (Mass)
cemetery. has written from NJ aine in regard to
getting out pension papers.
A scientist computes that with the aid
OF machine constructed on the principle Of
the boring, drilling and pumping apparatus Of
tine mosq utto. q hole could be bored 10 the cen.
ter OF the earth in less than day.
While attending the fair, Miss Kuhn,
the charming daughter of ]. H. Kuhn, of
thought serious until Tuesday night, when
Jock-law set in, and soon resulted in a very
painful death.
Farmers in Fayette county are alarmed
over peculiar disease prevailing among cattle,
especially among calves. The trouble is first
noticed in the stiff ening of the joints of the
fore legs, the whole body of the animal finally
becoming useless.
-Incandescent lamps placed near the
ceiling will cause 1t to blacken, contrary to
general belief. The blackeniDg is not due to
unconsumed carbon, but to a current of hot
air which deposits black particles on contact
with cold surface.
The Naval Exhibition to be held in
London next year will display the progress and
evolution of the navy from the earliest times.
Inc guarantee fund IS already mounting to-
ward EOS 600. and the Queen and the Prince Of
wales take part as patron and President
Arrangements are being made for send
ing out to Australia from London toward the
end of November protected party, principally
OF single girls. under the care of the Church
Emigration Society's matron. The society's
offices are at l9 Victoria street, Westminster.
General W. H. Enochs, who is running
for Congress in the Twelfth Ohio district, was
one of the youngest enlisted soldiers in the
Army of the Potomac, and one of the youngest
Generals, too. He is said to have commanded
in battle more than 4, 900 men when he was but
Y years old.
"A Seattle girl thoughtlessly told q
friend that the names of the donors would not
be displayed with the presents at her wedding.
OF course the news got abroad, and when the
day came not even the presents were displayed.
They consisted of SO plated sugar spoons and -
salt sprnklers.
William j. Joseph, of Newtown Viii
lage, L. T., being unable to sleep the other
night on account of an attack of rheumatism,
got out of bed and went downstairs. and as he
entered the parlor observed a burglar coming
in the window. The rascal quickly jumped
back and ran of.
Among the incidents of the late Grand
Army reunion in Boston was the meeting Of
two brothers, natives of Maine who had not
seen each other since the war, and each of
whom supposed the other to have been killed
In that conflict. OEe now lives in New York,
the other in Vermont
1t is proposed to put 500 to 1, 900 steel
tubular frame eight-wheel wagons, fitted with
automatic brakes, on the Government railways
in Natal, and that they shall be paid for by
one-half the annual savings made by using
them in moving freight, as compared with
the COST OF moving an equal quantity on ordi-
nary wagons.
"A Snowman billed a small town in
Georgia some time ago with announcements
that he would distribute luck stones gratis
at each performance. These proved to be
painted Deans. Dut the recipient of one of them
has since sent him $780, with the news that
he had been notified the day after he got his
luck stone" that deceased uncle had left
him 2.OOO
j. Price, of Savannah, Ga, has a curl
osity in the shape of young mocking bird en-
tirely white. Price purchased the bird from
negro trap2er on the Waters road, who brought
it into town the other day. From the appear
ance of the birds bill it cannot be over weeks
old. There Is no doubt of the bird being a
mocking bird, as it has all the marks of the
species except the color, and has the peculiar
chfrp OF the young mocking bird. white
mocking bird is great rarity.
"A authenticated case of human nose
in a medical paper. Operations of the char
acter are often heard OF, but almost invariably
the reports lack confirmation. The patient
was young man employed in cotton mil,
and the operation was performed by Dr.. Kelley,
of Griffin, Ga. The organ was cut cleanly OF
by rapidly revolving belt and had remained
where 1t had fallen for about an hour. 1t was
washed carefully, and every antiseptic pre-
caution used, and healed in tAe course Of
week.
A curious wager, with fatal results, was
decided at Siepring, in Bavaria A
notoriousIy strong man, named Freytag, bet
that a horse could not move him FROM the door
Of his house. The horse was brought, and
Freytag put his hands and feet against the
door posts. while Stern, the man with whom
the bet mad been made, fixed a rope round
neck. At the frstpull the rope broke.
A new rope having been brought, Stern piled
MS whip with all his might. when Freytag gave
. scream and, letting 60 was dragged along for
,ome yards. His neck was broken.