Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,


Bedford, Monday.
-Ingham county, Mich, has paid S.
261 40 for sparrows since the fool law was
passed.
j. A. Cunning and wife drove 400 miles
from Portsmouth, o., to Muskegon-fn "A
days. Their carriage was drawn By single
horse.
Mrs. Huldah Arnold, Of Mendon, Mass,
who celebrated her s9th birthday anniversary
few days ago, said that ''she felt a. well as
when 18."
j. Van, of Macon, offers a big prize of
s20o0to the homeliest woman in Georgia to rids
on his float during the trades display parade as
the State fair.
old Mr.. Hoffman was found dead in a
spring near Moline. He had fallen into shall
low water and was drowned with the back Of
his head out of it.
Another youngest soldier has been
found and his name is Wallace Riley of Bu-
chanan. He enlisted in New York regiment
when only IL years old.
George Sheridan, son of General George
Sheridan, orator, soldier and man of the world,
is printer on the Americas Recorder. His
sister is an actress who Is Just now all the rage
In Boston, Mass.
One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. Its situated between the Ural and
the Okhotsk Sea. A well was recently dug in
TINS region, when it was found that at depth
Oh 110 meters the ground was still frozen.
The police made a raid OF a rendezvous
for tramps in New Haven, arresting a number
Of outcasts On one of them, named Dunn,
were found three bank books, showing deposits
aggregating s., $50 81. It Is thought Dunn Is
insane.
Several newly-hatched chickens ESQ the
story goes) were recently found in a bale of hay
at Belfast, Me. The owner of the bale thinks
that the eggs were probably pressed into the
hay when it was green, and were Matched by
the heat generated.
"A big pile of money goes through the
hands of the Controller of the city of New
York. For the quarter end ed June 30 he re-
eeived over s17OOO. 900 (including balance Of
el,bOO, OOO from the previous Quarter), and spent
it all but about 81, 0O0000
One of the features of an electrical ex-
hibition at Frankfort is to be the transmission
of power 600 horse) distance of IA miles. It
is not pretended that this can be done econ
omically, but the mere doing of it will be one
OF the wonders of the exhibition.
Even great metropolitan journals slip
sometimes. A writer in the London Daily
Newman "had said about Charles Kingsley"
After the sentence had journeyed over the
cable and through the New York HeTdLdS
composing and Drocfreading rooms it came out,
the best things he had said about Charles
Kings Leg"
"A novel use Of the electric light il made
on the st. Lawrence river near the Thousand
Island resorts. One of the lights has been
placed at the end of a Yardarm on the steamer
st. Lawrence, which has dynamo aboard.
The light stands in front Of a powerful re-
Hector. and as the boat steams about at night
among the islands the search-light is cast upon
them, revealing, with startling distinctness,
their beauty, and the beauty of the landscape
Miss Elizabeth Pittman, daughter Of
Alfred Pittman, of Chetnole, Dorset, Englsnd,
arrived on the Teutonic at New York, and
went Immediately with Mr.. Francis Sparks
Olivier, an agent OF the Equitable Life 1nsur-
ance Company, to Calvary Episcopal Church,
wnere they were married They had not seen
one another from the time they were in their
teens, since when Mr.. Sparks has been all over
the world. They kept up q correspondence and
became engaged by letter.
"A shepherd dog fell into a dry well in
Oglethorpe county, Ga. A young man went to
the canine's rescue, and as soon as the animal
heard his voice. went into raptures of delight.
The man procured a rope long enough to reach
the bottom of the WELL and lowering It was sur.
prised to see the dog grasp the end firm in his
top. The dog had received no serious injuries,
and, being given hearty meal, was as frisky as
ever.
Mount Sir Donald, in the Canadian
Rockies, has at last been assembled. The sue
cessful climbers were Messrs. Huber and Sui
zer both Swiss, and members Of an ALPINE
club. They accomplished their climb In seven
hours from their camp, half way up the mount
ain side Both state that the Governments
estimate of this peaks height is too small By 20
feet. A full report, together with photographs,
will be made for Surveyor General Deville.
They report the ascent to the top Of Sir Donald
as more difficult than any they have ever made
at home, not excepting the Jungfrau.
AN Episcopal clergyman of Indianatells
this as a true story: Recently one Of the proni-
nent members of his parish died. After the
funeral the widow found great comfort in tell
ing her neighbors about the many virtues Of
her late husband, even mentioning that he
took the greatest delight in playing cards as
an innocent pastime. She must have been
thinking Of him as he appeared in his "cus-
tomary attitude" for she said: Jacob looked
so well when they opened the coffin at the
church. He had not changed one particle.
There was, o. such a heavenly expression on
his face. He looked just as though he held
four kings"