Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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MANY of the best English jockeys earn
over $500 q week.
"A race TO be run at night under the
electric light is feature talked OF by the man
ayers of the Cumberland County Fair.
"A Japanese paper has been suspended
and its two editors sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment for '.menacing the peace of the
country"
| -Barnum's tattooed woman came down
from her perch and pounded Flint mans face
| bluer than her own because he said things un-
called for.
Fred Babner, of Reading, suddenly ex-
perienced loss of weight from 156 to So pounds,
and few days ago found the cause of it to be
| fve lizards that had been living in his ssom-
| ach.
"A huge catfish was found alive i'm
bedded in hollow log in mill dam at Martin
| dale. II swan in a small hole when little fish
and was unable to find its way out and grew In
the log.
"A new hotel is now being erected at
Fortress Monroe which will be second only in
cost and style to Mr.. Flagler's hotel at st;
Augustine, Fla, The new hotel viii nave IL
elevators.
1t is not often men enter suit for holes,
but three Taunton, Me-, citizens have managed
to collect 81 200 by that process from telephone
company that put eight postholes without per-
mission on their land.
Snow still remains on the ground in the
Yosemite region. Many mountains in the
Sierras are still covered 20 feet deep, and the
result Is that the melting snow Keeps the
| streams full, and the waterfalls are superb
Henry Frozer, of Caernarvon. Pa, a
tobacco grower, encountered large copper
| head snake, which was killed The reptile was
| cut open, when 35 young snakes made their
debut, which were also speedily dispatched.
Robert Webster is 81 years old and
| lives in South Haven. A short time ago he mar
| rled, but he lived with his wife only "a hours
| August he secured divorce and in less than
4 "a hours had taken out a license 70 marry an
/ other woman.
The late Jefferson Davis, while Secre-
tary of War under the United States Govern
| ment, recommended the introduction of camels
| for use on the great plains The suggestion
| was carried out and there are still some half
wild camels in Nevada
In the days of Columbus learned men
boldly asserted that If a ship should reach India
she would never get back again, because the
rotundity OF the globe would present kind OF
/ mountain, up which it would be impossible to
| sail even with the most favorable wind.
"A Jam OF logs on the Dungeness river,
Washington, has backed up body Of water
living miles below the dam are in great danger
| Of being swept away and their property ruined
When the break does come they say 1t VIII be
another Johnstown affair.
1t is not generally known that single
mouse turned loose in q grocery window will
catch more flies in a single evening than fly
| paper catches all day. And, beside, he eats
! Don't grudge the mouse his little mischief he
is good fly and roach extermlnator.
! One of the attractions of New York is
| the monkey market where hundreds of sailors
/ repair every week to dispose of monkeys and
/ parrots which they have brought from tropical
| countries. The Italians are among the princl-
pal buyers. Five dollars will buy parrot that
can talk In half a dozen different languages.
1t is not often that grain is found to
grow In mans boots, but such o case is re-
ported. A farmer brought pair Of boots to a
Guelph, Ont, cobbler to be repaired: When
| the shoemaker commenced operations on
them, he found grain growing to the length OF
several inches. Such is certainly curiosity.
The body of Myrtle Owen was found
floating at Carrollton, in the Saginaw river.
Sunday. Miss Owen was one Of the passengers
| on the Handy Boy Is weeks ago, when it
| crashed into a railroad bridge at Saginaw. It
is strange coincidence that the same steamer nss
on which Miss Owen was carried to her death
| brought her remains to Saginaw.
The Japanese ladies are In q worry.
Some years ago European dress began to come
| into vogue in Japan, but a reaction has set In.
The Japanese women are not satisfied with the
| ordinary dress styles of civilization, but they
/ are unwilling to return TO their old dress, and
hence they are now considering rational dress
| advocated by the various feminine dress re-
formers.
p. Thompson, of Pine Canyon. Cal, cut
| a bee tree last week. In taking out the honey
he found several hawks eggs incorporated in
| different layers of comb, The comb had been
/ built around the eggs In such a manner as to
| leave them in the center. Evidently there had
i been q contest as to the right of possession be-
| tween bird and insect, and the latter had SET
| tied the case without recourse TO the courts.
| The Shah of Persia has eight daughters.
His eldest daughter is called the Glory of the
Kings, the second the Light Of the Empire,
| No. 8 Is the Pride of the Empire and No. the
| Purity of the Empire. All these daughters
have married rich husbands, and the Shah has
| promptly seized the possessions Of his sons-in-
\ law with one exception. This son-ln1aw is
| chief priest of the Teheran, and he holds his
| avarlcious father-in-law in check through re-
hgioUs influences.
The following incident, which occurred
! In Cincinnati, shows that Cincinnati women
have more ready money than ready wits: A
| Mrs Nieland, living on Jane street, was victim.
| lied In an original manner Saturday afternoon.
! A stranger knocked at the door about II o'clock
| and told Mrs. Nieland that her SON had been
| arrested and that SIS was Immediately neces-
| sary as bail money for him. Without thinking
| Of the uncertainty of the mans identity Mrs.
| Eieland gave him the money. A O'Clock the
| son, who was supposed to have been arrested,
| came home, and it was found that there was
nothing whatever in the story. except S5 for
| the sharper.
"A peculiar looking reptile was captured
| at Cordele, Fla It was about three feet long,
! of a yellow striped color, but had scales all
| over its body like fish. Its eyes were exceed
| ingly small and an investigation Of its mouth
| showed an entire absence Of fangs, but instead,
| small. hsh-like teeth. When placed on dry
| land it squirmed and twisted about, but could
not crawl like a snake. The conclusion OF all
| who saw it was that it was hybrid-half snake
| and half fish. Nothing like it has ever been
| seen before in this county, and the Oldest in
habitants never knew that the waters Of Gum
creek contained such specimen Of the reptile
| creation.