Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


to have 65 miles of electrical railway in opera
ton by the close Of the summer.
The town of Roswell, Lincoln county,
N NJ, is ZIG miles from any railroad. No other
place in the United States can say as much.
Albany, N. Y, is said to have an ice
company which will sell the product at 40 cents
per 100 pounds. 1t is now selling at cent per
pound.
The. people of Tombstone, Ariz, have
become convinced that their name is "hoo-
doc" and are agitating for a change to that Of
Richmond.
DIR. Charles 7. Parkes, of Chicago, who
went to San Francisco to attend a lady having
cancer Of the face, received fee of $4,000 and
all expenses.
"A 4-ioot vein of block coal of the finest
quality has been found at Mecca, Ind, on the
land of S: l. McCune. and vein of fine bitum-
inous coal has also been uncovered.
dead Head HilI," the famous eleya-
tion near New London, from which the friends
of Yale and Harvard have watched many boat
races, has been graded out of existence.
N. f. Sykes and wife, of Weed Patch
Hill, Brown county, Ind, are the parents of q
boy years old who is only Is inches in height
and weighs but % pounds. The httld shaver
enjoys good health,
C. w. Cannon, of the Twenty eighth
district OF Sumter county has combination
knife, fork and spoon which he traded can
teen for on a battlefield during the war. 1t is
still in good condition,
j. T. Westbrook, of the Twenty-eighth
district of Sumter county, has pearl-handled
knife. about one inch long. which was given to
hIm AZ years ago by Mrs. Mann, grandmother
OF II. e. and d. W. Bagley.
AN old negro was in Athens Saturday
whose in inchRS thick
and extended two inches over his under lip.
He seemed to be proud Of his deformtty, and
showedit to every one he met
Henry Warren, of New Haven, who
sells papers on Connecticut railroad trains, is
doubtless the Nestor of newsboys. He is in his
ozd year, and has the further distinction OF
third set of teeth, now well through.
Alfred Clark, of Big Rapids, has sunk
81, 500 and gas well, and has faith TO keep at
the work as long as his money holds out If he
can't get gas, Mr.. Clark will compromise on
coal, oil, salt, or almost any other mineral
George W. Hancock, who killed q
young man named Jones 80 years ago. in Utah,
has been sentenced to serve ten years in the
penitentiary at Provo. A stay of execution
was granted and he was released on $4,000
bail
"A man named Fields, who had just died
near Danvllle, KY, never, it is said, though 81
years old, slept a single night out of the house
in which he was born, and never ate but one
meal away from home He was outside of his
native county but twice, and then only Tor an
hour each time.
j. Irwin Steele, a young farmer Of
Douglas county, Kan, in plOwing ground for
potatoes last week, turned out nearly enough
sound peachblows. which had been in the
ground all winter, to plant his crop. Unless a
Kansas man has a chance to go to heaven he is
very foolish to leave that State.
While John Juker was plowing on his
farm near Berwin, Custer county, Neb, the
other day he unearthed the skeletons of three
grown persons child and the skull of q dog.
About a mile and q half from the find there Is
every indication of an old battlefield: d. A.
Heman, who settled in that locality IL years
age. says that indications of rifle pits were
plainly defined at that time.
An unknown man, who gave his name
as Joseph Bradley, called on the San Francisco
Chief of Police a few days ago and gravely in
formed him that the country would soon be
OVerrun with Chinese and that millions OF Chi
nese were in the Pacific Ocean swimming
toward the California coast. He wanted the
police to go down to the Oakland mole and
Knock each Chinaman on the head as he
climbed up the piles.
An experienced barber declares that
amateurs wear all the temper out of their razors
by excessive strapping. He adds: The only
razor that scrapes and cuts the skin and give it
a good rest Then use it again, and in all
it will be in good shape. Some Of
the modern shaving sets have as many razors
as there are days in the week, and on the
handle of each is engraved the name of q day.
If the rotation is kept up very little sharpening
is needed.
John Deutsch, 13 years old, is employed
at basket factory in Baltimore, and during
dinner hour, while taking pull at his coffee
ir1f fbn hv
suction SO that, try as he would. he could not
get it out. 1t was drawn further and further
in until the flask was forced into his mouth.
The tongue to make matters worse, began TO
swell, aud, after vainly trying to get 1t loose
himself, he hurried to the hospital. DIR. War
field. after some difficulty, released the dls-
figured member.
Little Annie Rooney" is the eupho-
nious name of an alligator that was brought
home by some Florida tourists this year. it
lives in the bathtub, except when that Is In
use and then the baby saur1an has its quarters
transferred to a wash bowl Raw meat cut in
little bits does not suit its palate. 1t demands
flies or angle wormI, and the boys nave 10 hustle
to provide food for it; but it seems untamable.
1t still Kisses like a snake when anyone comes
too near it, notwithstanding 1t has been In
at least two months
An intelligent dog in West Chester
plays hide-and-seek with its owner, little girl
named Amy. She taught it the game. and they
both, it is said, find much fun in playing it.
AMY will tell the dog to remain in certain
place until she hides. She then calls and the
dog starts on the search, finding Amy every
time. no matter where she hides. Then the
dog will wag his tail, show his teeth as though
and HE away to the place originally
for him by Amy, while Amy hides
again. only to be found in an instant atterWaro
by the dog"
Itch verstehe klein Englisch," was the
reply of a coal-black negro who was asked his
name in New York police court on Tuesday.
and a court interpreter found that the only
language the man knew was German. His
name is Joseph Steinmetz. and ne mas lived all
1is life in Berlin, where he was brought from
he Congo in babyhood. He came to this
country recently, and fell in with some natives
from the Fatherland, and the good time" they
rad landed him in the police court, but the
Justice was so astonished that he let the colored
herman citizen depart at once.