Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Seals have good appetites. It is circu-
lated that 100000 pounds of fish a day are
required to feed the fur seals that the United
States want TO protect.
In the Royal Library at Berlin are now
7y 14 bound volumes, of which 2O24 are
manuscripts. Berlin University has lS7,7s2
bound volumes and 53,S73 unbound ones.
The Florida Central and Peninsular
Railroad now awards premium of SO to each
OF its engineers running schedule trains who
get through the month without killing any
cattle.
Matilda Fromboy, deaf mute, was adj
mitted to the st. Lawrence county, N. Y. Poor
house in 1925 and has probably never been
absent from the house a day or night since.
She is now % years old.
Miss Mary Tillinghast, Of North Ston-
jngton, Conn, is an inveterate snake killer.
Since the 4th Of July she has settled the fate
of 90 snakes of all kinds, black, copperhead,
adders and rattlesnakes.
"A Danish young lady, first class pas
senger on a steamer which arrived in New
York on Saturday. refused to travel to Detroit
in parlor car preferring to 90 with her COM
patriots on an emigrant train.
Baseball is getting a terrific hold in
Cuba, and promises to unseat even bull fight
ing. 1t is said to be strange to hear all the
terms of the game used in English by people
VINO otherW1se speak only Spanish.
Three Chelsea, Mass, boys are under
arrest charged with train WreekinS by placing
heavy tie across the track. One of the boys
mas confessed that he put stones on the
track some time ago ito see the train jump"
About per cent of the postmasters in
the United States die annually. On the Both Of
June. 1889. there were $500 post offices in the
United States, and on the Both of June, 1890,
62,4Oo. During the year 6SS pOstmasters died.
-Leigham Court, Streatham, near Lon
don, comprising 66 acres has Just been sold for
100000 1t was for many years the residence
of the late NJ. ]. Treadwell. railway contrac-
tor, who began life as a navy. His widow
still preserves the pick and shovel with which
ne worked as a laborer.
The most extensive thermometer in this
country is in use at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; IL is known as Prof. Bowland's ther-
mometer, and il valued at $1,000 1t is an alb
Soiutely perfect instrument, and the gradua-
tfons on the glass SO fine that it is necessary
TO use microscope to read them.
-Kangaroos are to be imported into this
country to provide fresh big game for sports
men. now that the buffalo is almost extinct. A
number Of wealthy Americans propose to intro
ouce the kangaroos at the beginning Of next
summer and house them in the Yellowstone
Park until they become aeclimatized.
For its 125, 900 people Denver has 50
churches; 16 Methodist, Presbyterians, Con-
gregationalist, Baptist. Roman. 6 Lutheran,
Episcopalian. Disciples Of Canppellites. Q
Jewish, German Reformed Unitarian and
UniyersaIist The foreign population is not
relatively so large as in Chicago, but is better
represented In churches.
Miss Matte Hester is the United States
mail carrier over the route from Condar
Laurens county, to Lothair, Montgomery
county, Ga. distance of 40 miles through
sparsely settled region, which she traTerses
three times week. She drives her own nail
cart, carries a revolver and is punctuaI as the
sun at all seasons and all weathers.
"A lew days ago a gentleman killed a
large bald eagle, near Beresford, that had
brass tag attached to a copper wire fastened
around his neck. On one side of the tag was
this inscription: ''Sapelo High Point, May q,
IoIa" On the reverse side was stamped: Mag
nolia House, No. II" The first inscription
looked as though it had been cut with a
pointed steel or a knife.
The little English sparrows in New
York have learned new dodge since electric
lights replaced gas in the city parks. When
the current is turned OF at dawn the bottoms
of the globes are filed with hundreds of insects
which have been attracted by the light and
killed. The sparrows come around after the
globe has coOled Off slide down the carbons
and deVour the insects.
On the farm of Joshua Cloud. in West
town township, near Chester, a double-headed
calf was born, but it died in a few hours. The
two heads were perfectly jointed together and
there were but two ears. There were two
mouths, four eyes, two sets of jaws and had
the animal lived it would have been able to
use either set OF the last mentioned parts in
dependently or both at will.
"A driver of a beer wagon in New York
got roaring drunk the other day and poured
paris green into pot of coffee and ran his
wife out Of the house. When she returned
with an officer he was found writhing IN bed,
DE mad forgotten what he bad put in the coffee
pot and had drunk considerable Of it. The
doctors had a hard time pumping the poison
out and the victim won't forget the lesson
soon.
The famous Dunmow fitch of bacon is
claimed this year by no fewer than nine
couples, as reward for perfect conjugal har.
mony. However, the committee have only
CHOSEN two or the number to contest the prize,
all niddle-aged folk. 1t is nearly six centuries
and half since Robert de Fitzwalter firss
fitch of bacon to the couple who
could declare honestly that they had neither
quaTreled nor repented of their marriage for
whole year and a day after the union.
-Pleasanton, Mich, has queer case.
Fourteen years ago Daniel Clark bought q lot
Of land and moved there from Canada. Three
years later Mrs. Daniel Clark settled down on
! lot nearby, but did not seem to know Mr.
Clark, who appears had deserted her some
Years before. Nine years husband and wife
iVed within gunshot of each other without ex-
changing a word Last week Daniel Clark
vent over to his wife's house, and IN less than
lah an hour the two went back to the hus-
,and's residence and have been living together
,ver since. They are 20 years old, and the
women Of the neighborhood are just crazy to
earn what was the matter and how it was fixed
lp. Neither Of the Clarks is talking.
Prof. Marsh, Of New Haven, noticed
lorse with what seemed to be very singular
bone formation in one of its legs. The ami
nal was attached to dilapidated ash wagon,
lriven by an aged negro Prof. Marsh ac-
osted the man. and after making q cursory
of the protuberance, concluded
" saying, in half jocose way: when your
lorse dies, should like that leg for scientific
Bring it to my bOuse, and will
i've you So for it," Two hours later, on reach
ng home. be found long, awkward bundle on
he veranda by the front door, which, on being
pened, proved to contain the leg of the
Iegros horse. You see, sah," the driver OF
he ash wagon remarked, with peculiar look
n his eye, ''de ole horse he died"