Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-hea0lng, mlcn., mas girl IL years OH
who has been married four years.
The census men have found three citi-
zen, of Taylor county, Fla, who own 13 dogs
each.
Albany, Ca, has female jeweler, fair,
young and pretty. and can hold her own with
any matchmaker in the state.
--Columbia is the wealthiest of American
universities. and Harvard comes next, with
property valued at SIS, OO0OOO. and yearly in
come amounting to 1906, I'll
Hattie Stephenson, of Marine City,
Mich, was struck Dy lightning week ago and
has been in commissions ever since. There is
not a mark on her body showing where the bolt
struck her.
If razor is in fairly good condition
and not in need of the oilstone, it may soon be
whetted to fine edge on the palm of the hand
or the inner side of the forearm. The latter Is
best If it is free from hair.
AT the convict camp on the Scufae
plantation, Florida, number of the conyicts
were leaning against a wire fence when the
lightning struck the fence, killing one of them
instantly. and stunning several others very
severely.
John Thayer was employed at the
Canadian end of the st. Clair tunnel. working
in the compressed air chamber. When he left
the tunnel Monday blood began to come from
give him any relief, and he died Wednesday.
They have a curious custom at the burial
of unmarried women IN Brazil. The coffin,
hearse and the livery Of the driver must be
bright scarlet, the four white horses drawing
the hearse must be covered with scarlet nets,
and scarlet plumes must deck the horses heads.
The train which went through Range
Creek bridge, near Collinsville, Tex, last Sun
day. was loaded with beer and liquors. The ma
long in learning how much liquor was gong to
waste, and In n few hours nearly the whole
township was drunk.
The British Medical Journal, consider
ing the danger Of kissing the usually greasy
Bible OF the law courts, recommends that q
clean wrapper Of paper be put on from time to
time. This was done for tho benefit of the
Duke OF Fife, q recent witness, aud IL is ap-
proved as desirable practice.
"A young lady at the home Of John
Struble, of Galesburg. Mich, heard burglars
down stairs. She shouldered gun, cautiously
slipped below and before the men knew what
was going on. they stood looking into the black
depths Of blunderbus She thereupOn called
for help and now has her prey in jail awaiting
trial in the Circuit Court.
The recent disastrous accident Of the
Northern Pacific at Drummond, Mont, was
caused by "sun kink" in the rails. Heat ex-
spaces between them became entirely closed,
and there being no more room for expansion, a
curve was formed and the ties and rails were
thereby forced out Of position.
Mrs. Nancy Sullivan has seen 1O5 sum-
mers and says this is the hottest starter she re-
members. Her home is near Inlay City,
Mich. and she boasts of being the oldest per-
son in the State. She was born in Dublin has
proofs as to her age and is as sound mentally as
ever. She has a son y years old who lives in
the nelghborhood, and her daughter-in-law is
10.
"A kalamazoo census enumerator named
Gage not only asked all the fool questions
on the blanks, bur also inquired the politics Of
every person he canVassed He took the DO
htical census in a little book and now wants to
realize on the information obtained by selling
the book. He says he was ordered to ask the
political questions by Supervisor Don Hender-
son.
"A man down East, selectman of his
town by the way, bought pound of nails
which were wrapped up in piece of brown
paper, and placed them in bright new tin pan
which he left on the seat of his wagon for a
short time in the sun. When he came out of
the store again he found his bundle of nails in
flames, the rays of the sun having set the paper
on fire.
1t would seem that Mr.. W. E. Wander
bilt does not confine his investments to railway
stocks, nor does he find these by any means as
profitable certain other gilt-edged enter
prises with which he IS connected. It is stated
that Mr.. Vanderbilt owns so per cent of the
stock of the Coney Island race taaSk and that
he recently received a dividend o. 6 per cent
upon his capital.
The Superintendent of Public Instrue-
tion of New York State has announced tho vote
for the State flower as follows: Gcldenrod. ST.
5O8; rose. 1865; daisy. 33,6O3; violet 81, ,l76;
pansy, 2. .202 lily 16 43S; lily of the valley, H.
scattering. q, 9,045; total, 3lSO79 The scattering
votes were distributed through III different
Varieties.-Ne1O York Tribune.
"A large hawk caught very large black
snake, and the snake, in self-defense, coiled
around the hawk so that the hawk could not
fly. A negro came along, crossed the hawks
legs and tied them. Then the negro hit the
snake ana killed him, and released the hawk
and he flew Off with the long string flying like
a streamer. to a tree top. The string got
wrapped around limb and the hawk swung
down. The negro cut the tree down and re-
captured the hawk, which he cooked and ats
next day for dinner.
Battle Creek, Mich, has a smart boy.
The muzzIne bylaw is now in force and one of
the principal citizens had to go the pound
three times in one week to get the dog out. He
wondered how 1t was as his canine but rarely
left the house. The pound keeper told him
that the same boy brought the dog each time
and received his so cents. The citizen watched
and caught his own son doing the dog catching
act As it cost the parent 81 each time and the
boy only got so cents, the father strapped the
son and then compromised by hiring him TO
let the dog alone.
AN habitual drunkard in Sweden and
Norway is treated as q criminal in this sense,
that his iDordinate love for strong drink ren-
ders him liable to Imprisonment, and while in
confinement it appears, he is cured of his bad
propensties plan which. though simple
enough is said to produce marvellous effects
From the day the confirmed drunkard is in
carcerated no nourishment is served to him or
her but bread and WINE. The bread, however,
it should be said, cannot be eaten apart from
the wine, but is stepped in bowl of it and left
thus to soak an hour or more before the meal
is served to the delinquent. The first day the
habitual topper takes his food in this shape
without the slightest repugnance; the second
day he finds it less agreeable to his palate and
very quickly he evinces positive aversion to
it. Generally. the doctor states. eight or ten
days of this regimen is more than suthelens
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