Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| An auction sale Of cofins took place
| last week in Barlow. Fla.
One room in the Westinghouse Cottage
at Lenox cost $50 600 to decorate and furnish.
A Harlem bride received among her
wedding presents receipted gas bill of SIT
| from her father.
"A black and white crow was recently
captured at Beverly, and will be mounted and
exhibited at the Salem museum.
Many settlers In the Big Bend, Wash,
country have been driven away by the ravages
OF squirrels that swarm in countless numbers
in that region.
IF. A. Dewey, of Cambridge, Mich, Is
undoubtedly the oldest stage driver and mail
contractor in the State. He is So and drove a
stage out of Detroit co years ago.
The most valuable metal in the world is
said to be gaIlium. which is worth s3, go an
ounce Calcium brings 81, 800 pound and
cer1um 81, ,920 per pound. Gold is worth $40 a
pound.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars is the
price of the suite of rooms on the City Of New
YORK occupied by Mrs. Robert 7. Lincoln and
two daughters on their homeWard journey from
Europe.
Walter Brothers, Of Temesca1, CAL,
have taken from a single hive this season 150
pounds of honey, and they expect to take 80
pounds more from it before the season is over.
making 23O in all.
Trade marks were known in ancient
Babylon; China had them as early as 1000 B. c.;
they were authorized in England in 1900; Gut
tenburg. the inventor Of printing, is said to
nave had lawsuit over his trade mark.
One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. 1t Is situated between Ural and
the Okhotsk Sea. A well was recently dug In
hio aTi0r rubar. . flrr kHaka
OF ll6 metre es the ground was still frozen.
Peter B. Sweeney is trying to get New
York to undertake improvements along the
banks Of the Hudson similar to those in Lon
don beside the Thames. He wants a grand
driveway extending several miles to be created.
"A tree in Nashville caught fire from an
electric wire. One limb was burned entirely
of. A policeman threw water on the burning
limb with hose, and when the water struck
the nre be experienced severe electric shock.
Female slaves are still given to the
Sultan in old-time pomp. An exquisiIely
beautiful girl of 16. Georgian, that his aunt
sent to him, was taken to the Yidiz Kiosk in
gilt coach escorted by troop of gigantic
eunuchs.
The 1s-vear-old son of John Mimbs, of
Dublin, Ga, died day or two ago. -Four years
ago he swallowed a brass thimble of the end
of an umbrella which lodged in his throat and
there remained until his death. 1t is said
that the poison from the brass caused his
death.
Rather a unique invitation to merry
making was that issued by the Bristol County
Fruit Growers Association, to a clambake to
be held at Dighton, Mass, July 81. The invita-
tion was printed on postal card, of which it
occupied but one-half. The other half con-
tanned The business card of funeral director.
While walking through street of Dam
II.
poodle gazing intently into some bushes and
vainly attempted to attract his attention. Ap-
preaching nearer she discovered that a black
snake five feet long had charmed the dog. She
killed the snake with a stone as large as she
could lift.
The tract distributor who handed tract
on the sin of dancing to soldier who had lost
both legs has rival To fruit peddler who Is
without bands New Haven distributor yester-
ady gave tract bearing warnings against card
playing. The tract rested on the basket hang
ing from the vender's neck and. by attracting
attention. materially increased his sales-Net0
Hduen Palladium.
This year the French and italian artil-
Iery maneuvers took place near the boundary
of the two countries, in Savoy. The officers
met and fraternized. but, as neither had leave
to depart from his country they desigded din
ner at which the long table stood One-haf In
Italy, one-half in France, and red cord which
They had jolly time. each in his own country,
and good dinner.
"A Baldwin county, Fla, boy was SWIM
ming in the river a few days ago. He was seized
by an itching pain, which exhausted him IN
mediately, and had it not been for his play
mates present he would have drowned. After
coming out of the water his arms and body
comm enced to swell until the boy presented an
"inhuman" appearance. Physicians were sum-
moned, who were at loss to know the cause of
fI1 how ia liar hr1fc 0dol ha
in some way came in contact with something
poisonous. The sufferer continued to grow
worse until death relieved him Of his pains
which were very severe.
Chief of Police Crowley, of San Fran
cisco, who has been at the head of the police
department for IS years, has filed strong in
dictment against the Chinese of that city. He
says the Chinese there commit more crimes
against the law, in proportion to their number,
than any race or community, and the detec-
tion of the perpetrators of such crimes is more
difficult than the detection of criminals of any
other class, because Cinnamon refuse to dis
close the identity of their criminals. They
and are becoming more vicious and immoral
year by year. The chief favors the removal Of
the Chinese quarter
The Common Pleas Court for Mercer
county, O., has an enthusiastic fisherman for
one of its judges. At the May term there were
extravagant stories afoatabout an unusual run
and so thoroughly had these stories enthused
the court that a certain day at II o'clock NJ.
the judge said: "Mr. Sheriff, adjourn this court
until o'clock tomorrow morning, while the
Court goes a-fishing.' Thereupon the judge
and four others started in a farmers team for
the locality named, where they found such an
immense number of catfish that barrel was
quickly filed with them, the judge leaping into
the stream with a basket and catching them by
the score in that way.
Like the horses of Vienna and the cats
Of New Zealand, says a foreign writer, the
monkeys of Southern India are numbered
among the victims of influenza. A correspond
ent at Kurnul gives narrowing account Of
how the epidemic has spread among the
monkeys of the district The animals we're
quite conspicuous one day by their absence, SO
that everything left out to dry on terraces was
D an unusual experience.
Next morning they were seen in groups here
and there some coughing terribly, others reel
ing like drunken men, and then. later on, the
unpleasant stiffness that reigned under the
trcss which afforded them shelter, was often
disturbed by the crash of a heavy monkey
coming precipitately down to the ground to
die"
BREAKFAST TABLE LAUGHS.