Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


baked.
One hundred and fifty million corkscrews
are made yearly in Jersey.
Altogether in the world there are about
SOC, ,OOQ, 900 followers of Buddha. In Franco
alone there are 10000.
"A Superior, Wis, man is on trial for
stealing gold watch. a pair of diamond ear
rings and two rings from his wife.
One of the curiosities found by the censuz
enumerators in Madison county, Ga, is boy
9 years old who has never been gwen even a
name by his parents.
Whole cloves are now used to extermi-
nate the merciless and industrious moth. 1t Is
said they are more effectual as a destroying
agent than either tobacco, camphor or cedar
shayings-
AN increased liveliness was added to
dance at Bath, Me-, the other night when a
pug dug joined the dancers on the floor and
went up and down the hall without regard to
the figures
Mrs. Maria Beers, 102 years old, Of
Cheshire, Conn.,, can repeat without break, It
is said lines of poetry she learned 75 years ago.
and she can write her name without the aid of
spectacles-
Ed. G. Falloon, of Clarion, Pa, has q
pear tree in full bloom. This is its second crop
of blossoms. In the spring it unfolded with
the rest of the trees, and now it has new dress
OF fragrant flowers
Mrs. H. G. Abrams, of Franklin, Ga,
has monstrosity in the shape of chicken.
A peculiarly shaped egg did not hatch, and was
broken. 1t contained a chicken with four well
formed legs and three wings.
1t is estimated that the regular insur-
anee companies of the United States will dis
burse during 1890 the sum of SS3 100000 in
death, endowment and dividend claims. 1t is
an average of $1,000 for every minute in the
year.
The late j. j. McElhone, StenograDher
of the National House of Representatives.
could report equally well with either hand, and
in taking long speech in the House he would
frequently shift the pencil from one hand to
the other without interrupting his speed.
One of Horace Greelev's nephews is a
barber in little town in Warren county, Pa
In personal appearance he is not unlike his dis
tinguished uncle. He thinks Horace might also
have become a great barber if he had not got
switched off in another. direction when he was
young and immature.
While the heavy rain and hail storm was
passing over Mars Hill. Ga. lightning struck
small oak tree under which six horses were
tied The tree was completely shattered. but,
strange to say, none OF the horses were hurt.
Several persons were also near, but they re-
celyed only slight shock.
BY a new regulation recently made by
the senate of the University of Vienna stu
dents on matriculating must present the dean
of the faculty which they wish to enter with
their photographs. These works of art will be
used to identify candidates when interesting
questions as to signing up" etc, arse.
-Poe's Raven" has found counterpart
at Gainesville, Fla, where a monster owl has
taken up his abode in the residence of DIR.
Phillips. where he called very early one morn
ing and perched himself on top of the frame of
a picture hanging on the wall. He looked wise
and said nothing except when poked with a
stick. At last accounts he still remained a
guest OF the family.
When the appraisers were making an
inventory of the effects of the late Alexander
Smith, of Young township, this State, they
were shown a silver watch, made in Belfast,
ireland, which Mr. Smiths father had given
him when boy, and which he had carried con-
stantly for "a years. The watch Is now the
property of Mrs. Mary Broadhead, and IS still
in good running order and good timepiece
The trousseau of the Archduchess Marie
Valerie of Austria is now on exhibition, and
occupies no less than four so-calIed ''saloohs''
in the Imperial palace. while fifth is crowded
with wedding gifts, over-whieh sentinels stand
constantly on guard. There is a gorgeous dis
play of jewelry, including three magnificent
diadems, splendid laces, gold and silver plate,
and a limitiess profusion Of costly gifts of all
kinds.
An Oshkosh young man visited Chicago
last week, and among other things that he did
he went to the Eden Musee. A great cOllec-
ton of wax figures are on exhibition. some of
them being well executed that they
appear quite lffe-like. The Oshkosh young
man sat down on railing to rest after he had
looked around for awhile, and presently
couple of ladies came TIP to where he was and
began to comment on his life-like appearance.
So dumfounded was the fellow that it was some
time before he moved. When he did however.
the ladies nearly tainted.
"A curious incident occurred on Wash
ington street. Albany. Ga. A countryman had
a load of melons and was trying to sell them.
He stood there for about half an hour, and at
last one of the boys came up and priced them.
The countryman turned and put his hand on
melon to lift it out and show it 70 the Gus
toner. When the countryman touched the
melon he gave yell that could have been
heard to the depot and danced around like a
crazy man. shaking his hand. The melon had
laid in the sun so long that it was red hot, and
hand when he touched it.
"A fish of most peculiar appearance, the
like of which has never been seen by any of
the many old fishermen who have inspected 1t,
was recently exhibited at Pensacola, Fla. It
was caught in the gulf with hook and line, and
is about five feet in length. The body is similar
to that of a dolphin and it has bill like
needle fish. The tail is forked, and has two
immense fms rising from the back. They are
of soft, bony substance and are Of such
peculiar formation that they give the fish the
appearance of having flowing name. 1t IS q
rare fish, and, if possible, should be preserved
as a curiosity.
The proprietor of circus which en-
ploys Indians says that he finds it very hard to
get the men to attend any religious service on
Sunday. If they happen to spend Sunday in
town in which any one denomination is un-
represented by place of worship, the braves
declare first, that they are men,
bers of that particular denomination. and Sec
onuly, that it would sOrely wound their con-
sciences to go to any other. And il a Sunday
s spent in a town where all the denominations
have places of worship, they declare that they
are agnostics, with conscientious objections to
all churches.
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