Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Our postage stamps are counted no
less than l3 times during the process of manu-
facture.
| Three Pendleton. Ore, farmers dug out
| l8 young coyotes from one den. The got 81 for
each scalp.
| 1t is said that only one colored man has
ever applied for liquor license in Wheeling,
W. va; His name is Hamilton Davis, and he
sPPiieu recently and was successful
Justice Manning. of Dixon, will not
mold court until he is satisfied that the lawyers
anu witnesses have deposited their shooting
irons and Arkansas toothpicks with the bailiH
PROF. Forster, of BresIau, states that 300
cases have come under his notice in which the
| eyesight has been affected by the disturbance
| lars.
1t has become the fashion in Chicago
Tor men to buy their wives bouuets. The mil
liners like the change, and say that as a general
thing man knows better than a woman what
Is suited for her.
French doctors are reported to have dis
covered that the essence of cinnamon. when
sprinkled in the room of typhoid fever patients,
Kills the bacteria within II hours and prevents
the disease from spreading.
Mr.. Taylor, of Prescott, Ariz. took
trip recently to the African diamond fields.
be wrote TO a friend that he had to nav tax
OF TO on each chamber of his revolver before
ne could step into that country.
"A usurer at Aschersleben, Germany.
has been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment, 1000 marks fine and five years police
surveillance for charging an army officer $50
per cent interest on money loaned.
"A prominent English electrician afirms
the value of lightning conductors. although
they are not always reliable. He said that there
Is almost as much danger of being hanged for
murder as being struck by lightning.
Last Thursday freight team arrived at
Bridgepart, New, the first for four months. A
merchant opened his goods when they arrived
and found an invoice of whistles, toys etc., or
dered for the Christmas trade last year.
"A high mill near Newport, XIV, had
slid quite distance as result of an excava-
tion made at its foot for railroad tracks. Five
dwelllng houses on the hill have been aban-
doned, and from 10 to 20 more are dangerous.
"A leading New York publisher en-
ploys at a large salary young lady who is use
ful to him alone on account of her memory
She has read almost everything in the range Of
nctlon. and can detect at once borrowed plots
and expressions.
"A travelling man from Bay Citv. Mich.
who has carried stiff leg for 10 years, in step
ping from freight train at Brown CITY. sus-
FAMED fracture OF the knee Joint, which the
doctor says will prove a lucky break and will
PROBABLY leave him with a leg as good as new-
Officer James Stanley has been dis
missed from the police force in San Francisco.
He had ordered a woman to stop choppin2
k1ndling wood on the sidewalk and arrested
her because she refused to go. He took her to
the station, refusing to allow her to get her
cloak or hat.
"A young physician attached to the
Chelsea Hospital for Women has invented and
used, it is said, with success a machine which,
in cases of cancer. will direct current of cleo
tr1c1ty against diseased cell strong enough to
Destroy IL, and at the same time will not injure
healthy cell.
David P. Thompson, who was recently
nominated by the Republicans for Governor of
OF his life. He said: "Im blacksmith by
trade, surveyor by profession and banker
by occupation" He was born in Cadiz, o., and
wert to Oregon In 1853
Jake Parsons, of San Lucas, Monterey
county, was tearing down an old adobe wall
last Thursday, when he found some pumpkin
seeuS encaSed IN one piece OF the wall. They
looked as if there was life IN them and Parsons
VIII experiment with them this summer. The
wall was built 100 years ago
Since the passage of the stock law, game
OF every kind is rapidly increasing in Sumter
county, Ga. Before the passage of this law
the hogs running at large devoured thousands
OF young turkeys, partridges and other birds
while yet too young to fly. besides eating the
eggs and destroying the nests wherever found.
"A valuable horse, while in play, kicked
at one of the half-grown colts in a Georgia
field. Unfortunately for the mare her heels
missed their mark and flew out into space.
wrenching her spinal column in such manner
as 20 render her useless. The animal fingered
n IT tUn ruhR
her suffering. The mare was valued at $500
There is a new use for hypnotism-
namely, as remedy for habitual drunkenness.
The drunkard, after being hypnot1zed, is in
formed that ardent spirits are nasty and the
object Of his particular hatred. If this is re-
Peated two or three times the habit of thought
becomes so fixed that the drunkard cannot
bring himself to drink drop of spirits.
In a social meeting in Bath, Me-. a
young convert was called upon to offer prayer.
In the midst Of his prayer the bells commenced
ringing for fire, but the young man kept on
praying until one of the old deaeons went nm
behind him, and putting his hand on his shoui-
der shouted, Say Amen ard run, Joe'-and
ice did, all following his example.
"A woman was found drowned in the
river at Lewiston. Me. A small bag was found
tied TO her neck by a slender string Physi-
clans opened the bag and found in 1t S74 s65 in
greenbacks and 50 in silver a pay envelope OF
one of the mills marked S13-an envelope or
bag indicating a firm Merrimac street
Lowell, and nothing moreno name. no al,
dress.
AT the close of fair in Boston the other
evening, the unsold articles were offered az
auction, and round lot of cream pies were
knocked down to q gentleman who seemed par
ticularly anxious to get them. my wife made
these pies" he said, 'and gave them to the fair:
but as she never makes any of this quality ex-
cept to give away my only chance is to buy
them" And then he sat down and consumed .
couple in silence.
The only unmutilated copy of the Gem
.,ry that gets into Russia is the one the Gar
reads every month. In all others
Remnants articles are smeared over by the Rus
sian postal authorities with some black stuff Of
4 very penetrating nature which it is quite i'm
possible to remove. even through chemical
process, without destroying the printing. Even
where only Kennan's name appears the same
;mearing tactics are applied
The statement in an Eastern magazine
hat butterflies have gone to the remarkable
height of 5000 feet in the Alps" has elected
rom Mr.. Maxwell, of California. letter to The
American. in which he pronounces
he trip as not at all remarkable He writes
hat last summer he encountered numerous
butterflies on a peak of the Sierra Nevadas ia
100 feet high, while on another occasion in
British Columbia, he saw butterflies at an alti-
ude of II. 900 feet-many thousand feet above
he line of perpetual snow.
THE LAUGHING PHILOsOPHERa