Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A limited liability company mas Deen
formed in London TO build a new crematory.
"A London magistrate has decided that
a servant cannot be discharged summarily for
reading in bed.
Various American summer hotels have
added dark rooms for amateur photographers
to their attractions.
One car building company in Pennsyl-
vania has on hand orders for 20 900 freight cars.
The largest order is for 10000.
Frederick s. Parker and Jessie s. Beals
were married by verbal contract in a restaurants
at San Diego, Cal, q few days ago.
There is a woman at Sedalia who be-
comes thoroughly charged with electricity
every time she rides on the electric road.
"A South Carolina paper contains an
advertisement for bids from undertakers who
will agree to conduct funerals "reYerently."
The reason why ireerackers are always
covered with red paper is that red is the festive
color in China. and that firecrackers are used
chiefly on festive occasions.
The longest day of the year has 10 hours
at st. Petersburg. II hours at Hamburg. 161l
hours at London, I5 hours at New York and
three and one-half months at 5pitzbergen.
Nearly 1000 heads of families in the
Province of @ uebec alone have made applica-
rion for the state bounty of 100 acres of land
voted to Canadians who are the fathers Of II
children or more.
Carriage wheels are now being made
from cold rolled steel. The spokes are tubular
and adjustable. The wheels are SO put together
that any part can be replaced without taking
OF the tire or felloe.
"A. Hunt sunk an artesian well 18O feet
two miles from San Bernardino recently. The
water rises 80 inches above the top of the
casing, and stones of Is pounds weight are oc-
casionally thrown out
"A queer white and red robin astonishes
the fishermen of Quonochoutaug, R. l. It has
built its nest in a shaggy reach of pasture near
the laundering ocean breakwater. The birds
body is of snowy white. even to the tip of its
tail, except its breast, which is of rosy red.
The taIlest school girl in the world
lives near Riednand, Austria. She is IL years
old and six feet high. A Vienna Snowman
tried to add her to his collection, but her
parents declared that they would not part with
their maderl little girl) for any amount Of
money.
g. W. Osborne, of MontcIair, Fla,
planted the past season half an acre in cueum-
oers, shipped the crop and netted $500 The
same land now has n crop of corn on it that will
yield Is bushels From one-fiftieth of an acre
planted IN sweet potatoes he gathered 10 bush.
els, which is at the rate of $50 bushels per acre.
Miss Eppie, daughter of Mr.. Robert
Munro. OF Tallahassee died on Saturday night,
Two weeks ago she wore bunch of daisies al
her throat. and a spider or some other poison
Gus insect crept therefrom and stung her.
Eryslpelas set IN and went to the brain. She
suffered untold agonies The best medical
skill was called in, but to no avail.
The largest single log of poplar ever
cut in West Virginia was cut a few days ago in
Logan county 1t measured SO feet in length,
81 inches in diameter. I,O90 cubic feet and q to
70 feet board measure. This log alone is large
enough to build good sized frame house It
VIII be run out for the Cincinnati market on
the first water of sufficient size in Guyan river.
MIR. J. G. Reese 731 Aisquith street,
has at his farm at CarrolPs Manor, Howard
county, Md, threelegged calf just four weeks
old. The two hind legs are perfectly natural,
but there is only one fore leg The front leg is
placed very nearly in the center of the body,
and there are no indications of a fourth. The
three-legged curiosity manages to get along
very well by hopping.
Smack Martha brought strange fish
to Hamilton, Powers & Co.'s market Tuesday,
which the oldest fishermen cannot name. tits
similar to bluefsh in shape, trife stouter,
has the tail of mackerel and the mouth of a
porgie. Along its sides are beautiful stripes CT
bright red and brownish green. Some fisher
men pretend to recognize II as native Of the
waters about Bermuda.
Distracted parents who lose their
children in the crowds at public resorts on
holidays would be glad if curious Berlin
custom were adopted. At the Berlin Geological
Gardens. any keeper finding lost child takes
the little one in charge and blows a trumpet.
Hearing the note, the mother or father In
search of the missing youngster at once makes
for the spot, and the search is ended
The children of G. W. Meadows, Of
Ga, have four living great-grand-
mothers and two living grandmother. The
youngest great-graDdmother is 78, while the
oldest is 90; the youngest grandmother Is So and
the oldest is 5S. There IS a Deculiarity con-
nectod with the eventful life of these Oldest
grandmothers. and that is that each one of
them has had her right arm broken. The ladies
are all widows.
AT Bristol, England, are two young
artisans who are the prize twins of the world.
They are of the same height and weight; have
eyes, hair and complexion OF the same color;
walk, speak, laugh, sing exactly alike; follow
the same occupation: have the same religious
persuasions and likes and dislikes; are both
and have the same number of chill.
dren, who are of the same sexes-three boys
and three girls each.
Among the bequests of the late Will
lam Gale Coles, of Cleve Wood, Downend
England, was one of 100000
to his daughter, Mary Chetwynd Coles, ''if she
shall have ceased to be member of the Sister,
hood of Clever or other religious house or
similar institution, and shall have returned to
the world and resumed the ordinary dress of
ladies' in her station of life" otherwise she ID
to have only 81, 900 year.
AT the palace of Bangkok the other day
! performing leopard was brought in for the
amusement of one of the young Siamese
princes. In one princes retinue was young
girl of about IA years of age. The leopard
Jumped on her breast 1t was merely in play,
said The animals caretakers who begged her
not to be frightened, but in another moment
he leopard had seized the girl by the throat,
md she died in sight of the Mortified specta-
orS.
"A coffin inscribed with the date 1898
vas recently opened in the graveyard of st,
lanes Church, C1erkenwel, and, to the sur
,rise of the workmen, there was little abouu
he corpse to show that it had been buried a
hundred years and not few days. The flesh
Gems to have turned into kind of wax. The
,ody was that of a finely formed woman of 25
The features were perfectly distinguishable
he teeth were in place, and the lines Of the
,ody were firm and clear.