Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

"A Louisville physician few days ago
married his sixth wife. He is 81 and she is 40
years younger.
"A large sturgeon with a chain Eve feet
| long attached to him has been caught OF the
coast Of Oregon.
AT an equality Of age the male is gem
orally heavier than the female, except toward
the age OF Il when the average weight in both
sexes Is about the same.
"A West Virginian recently veneered a
black oak log with walnut bark, and sold it to q
confiding Ciucinnatian as a genuine black wall
nut log, and got s106 for It
Farmers in outlying sections of North
ern New Jersey report superfuity of rabbits
this year. That game has not been so plentiful
before in Is years, they say.
Lincoln, Me-. has blind man who is a
clever croquet player. He plays by information
as to direction and by measuring the distance
by walking to the object ball.
"A negro drayman while driving q dray
heavily loaded with merchandise, at Macon,
Wednesday. lost his balance and fell of, and
the dray passed directly over his neck. Strange
to say it was not broken. but the negros in
1uries were serious.
Edwin ChecKley, q young New York
physician, in order to know the sanitary value
OF bicycle riding. is going to ride to Chicago,
starting August 9. He will journey through
Soutnern pennsylvania to Columbus, u, and
thence Dy the straightest line.
"A lady of Bremen, Me-, has parrot
and also cat named shag. She has taught the
parrot to spell cat, cat dog. dog, and a few
such words, and the other day Polly electrified
the household by spelling very loudly and
plainly "c-a-t" and then pronouncing IL "Shag."
Perhaps Polly can't think.
AT a breakfast given BY Ward McAllis-
ter to Newport fashionables. the scene being .
platform in q shady grove, the table presented
a pleasing appearance Most noticeable were
six sheaves of Scotch wheat standing about four
feet high, tied with sashes of scarlet ribbon.
In the tops of these nestled scarlet dshlias.
While roofer was at work on the roof
OF school at Greenville, L. l., the other day he
was overcomelby the heat and rolled down the
roof and over the edge. His suspender strap
caught on q hook in the roof gutter and keps
him from falling to the ground. He hung in
midair until his fellow-workmen rescued him.
MIR. J. E. Wingate, of Houlton, Me-, has
some very ancient family heirlooms in his posses
sion, among which are powder horn bearing
date 1859, which went through the French and
Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War; copy
of commentary on the Bible, printed in London
In 1877, and pair of razors over 100 years old.
"A negro was killed near Greensboro, n.
c., by Richmond and Danv1lle train, and
though cut so near in half that only shred Of
musCl0 Qelu bQe Two pdTL5 IOR6buoT, Ldhh6o
nationally of his injuries for an hour. Those
present say It was a most wonderful exhibition
of nerve and a resolve to live until his family
could get to him.
AS the law of Aberdeen required it,
cab-driver was prosecuted, convicted and fined
five shillings, or three days imprisonment for
smoking pipe on his cab not while driving
fare. but while he was standing on the lookout
for one. By the municipal law and regulations
of Aberdeen the smoking Of pipe by cab
driver is a criminal offense.
of all the queer losses lately reported,
one of the most exasperating must have been
that Of Wilton, Me-, woman who went berry,
ing the other day and Just before she was
ready TO start for home lost the 10-quart pail Of
raspberries that she had so laborously filed.
An hours search failed TO bring to light the
missing pail and she had to 60 home without
it.
The prize of 40, 900 francs offered by the
French Academy for some certain test OF
death, looking to the prevention of being
buried alive, was given to a physician who an
nounces that on holding the hand of the sup
posed dead person to a strong light, if living. a
scarlet tinge is seen where the fingers touch,
showing that the blood continues to circulate,
there being no scarlet when the subject is
really dead.
"A 5-year-old child in West Camel is Of
the following dimensions: Height 4 feet;
weight III pounds. circumference of abdomen,
4211 inches; waist 3711 inches; chest, 81 inches;
neck, IA inches; head, 2215 inches; thigh, %
arm. l0H inches. He is very healthy; eats all
he can get and is fairly intelligent. The parents
are by no means corpulent, and their other
children are Of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims to
have devised an apparatus by the adoption OF
which the smoke nuisance will cease to exist.
The process removes from the products of COM
bustion all the Dlack carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and a remarkable and important
thing is the entire absence of sulphur in any
form after the dense volumes Of smoke gener-
ally seen issuing from chimney SHAFTS have
been forced into the 'annihilator."
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is a sad and lonely
woman, with silver-streaked hair, 4 careworn
face and stopped figure, who frequents Lincoln
Park in Chicago with her grandchildren. Every
pleasant morning in the year she goes to the
pleasure ground but is seldom recognized and
never seen speaking to any Que. She lives with
her married daughter, who contributes 70 the
family income Dy water-color paintings, many
of which are very lovely in conception and
treatment.
A curious an@sIhetic used BY the
Chinese has recently been made known by DR..
U. Lambuth in his third annual report of the
Hospital. 1t is obtained by placing
frog in jar of -four and irritating it by rrod-
ding 1t. Under these circumstances it exudes
a hquid which forms a paste with the -four.
This paste dissolved in water has well marked
anRsthetic properties. After the finger has
been immersed in the liquid for a few minutes
lt can be cut to the bone without pain being
felt
"A strange aerial phenomenon was re-
Gently observed at Neu-Munstsr, in Eolstein,
England. At a considerable height current
Of air was moving with tremendous velocity
from east to west. Somewhat lower there was
IN opposite and much slower current After
his had continued for some time the two cur
rents suddenly developed into waterspouk,
which did immense damage, raising from the
ground and destroying large barp, and tear
ng great trees out of the earth as if they were
only SO mony stravs.