Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Last month over 5, 500, 900 people crossed
the Brooklyn bridge.
"A colored woman nearly 100 years old
was baptized day or two ago at Atlanta. Ga.
! The Port Huron tunnel is now $50 feet
under the river bed. The bore is tWo-thirds
| done.
"A Webberville, Mich, man stole a 81
pair Of pantaloons. and on conviction was fined
| The largest cabbage ever grown in
Florida weighed sG5< pounds, which is ~
pounds heavier than all competitors.
Pullman, Wash, small boys are reap
ing a rich harvest by catching little land tur-
ties, which they dispose of to the Cinnamon.
Hoo Lee, a Port Huron laundrymau.
has changed his name to Sam Lee and declared
his intention to become citizen of the United
States.
Mrs. Holland, who died in Virginia
last week. had been a member of one church
for over so years. She lacked but one month of
being centenarian.
Among the employees in the service of
Queen Victoria is the Queens ratcatcher"
who receives the modest remuneration of Els a
year Tor keeping the palace free Of vermin.
In one Iowa town that was without a
half-dozen prisoners in Its jail at any time
since January /, there were few days ago no
less than IL All had got full of original pack
ages.
Francis E. Willard, in her walks about
Chicago, has discovered women who make
shirts for75 cents dozen. and furnish their
own thread. She also finds children working
II hours day for 81 a week.
The United States Court at Grand
Rapids has decided that insurance companies
must pay the actual damages sustained BY
property insured. and the profits that would
accrue on such property as we'll
There is man in Southern Illinois who
laughs at the idea that marriage is a failure.
He has just married his sixth wife. Each sue
cessive spouse brought him farm, and he is
now one OF the largest land owners in that part
OF the country.
"A man who was working in field near
Gallatin last week took refuge under horse
to protect himself from sudden storm The
animal was killed by lightning and the man
was knocked insensible, though he was not
seriously injured.
-Inexhaustible quantities OF red snd vel
low ochre have been laid bare by landslide
five miles south of Drain, Ore. 1t looks like
rock, but dissolyes readily in water and gives
a fine color on wood. 1t is believed to be an
extremely valuable find.
"A freight car which passed through
West Chester, Pa, Monday. contained the fol-
lowing notice on the side, written with a
pencil: $50 Reward-The above will be paid
for the arrest and conviction of the man who
invented work, by Camp No. !, Sons OF Rest,
Keokuk, Ia"
One by one the old New England in
stitutions are dying out Now the candy
wagons" whose advent used to be hailed with
delight by old and young. are TO be withdrawn
from service. The confectioners have decided
to adopt the more modern methods of the
drummer instead.
Z NoNa ~ Kha IT, -
Pennsylvania, has collection of paleontolog-
ical vertebrates gathered while in the Govern
ment service and on which he says be expended
E5.OOO OF his own money. Secretary Noble has
ordered him to hand the collecuon over to
Uncle Sam, but he refuses to do so.
Mabel Mason, IA years old, daughter of
the Manitou lightkeepor, was notified Sunday
that man was struggling for his life off Fight
ing island. mile away. Mabel launched a
boat and reached the drowning man Just in the
nick of time. He was taken to the lighthouse,
fed and clothed and sent on his way rejoicing.
The uays of grandeur have departed
from the river steamboats,. There are no longer
thronging crowds, gambling, dancing, music
and all those things which made steamboating
great few years ago. Travellers have for
saken the easy pleasure of steamboat journeys
for the more rapidif less comfortable railroad
TRAINS
AT the end of the services at the Presbyl
terian Church at Hannibal last Sunday a couple
stepped out from one of the pews at signal
from the preacher and were married in pres
ence of the astonished audience. It took the
congregation so completely by surprise that |
not half dozen women in church could re-
call what the bride had on
Colonel 81 Hawkins of the Covington
Enterprise who went to Cuba with the Georgia |
editors, brought back Is cents of the money I
used on the island. One piece was scent bill /
and the other l0-cent bill. The money is Of a
rich yellow color and is issued in perforated
sheets like postage stamps, and when you want
to spend any of it you tear of piece. It looks
like revenue stamp.
Some time ago the teacher of a River
side Cal, school instructed her class how to
act in case of emergencies. such as drowning,
gunshot accidents, etc. A day or SO after the ,
lesson lad named Haight went home and 1
found his baby sister given up for dead, after
being picked out of canal. There was no
doctor to be had, and young Haight went to I
work to apply his lesson, and IN little while !
the baby was all right.
An Americus, Ga, farmer is a dreamer
from away back He says that all of the dreams
of any value to him come in his slumbers Of
early Sunday. He had large cancer on his
neck and dreamed of the things to cure it. He
got M fixed up the medicine and it is cured.
He tried it on an old lady who had severe
cancer and she is now improving. Nathan Veal
had a cancer on his face as large as hen egg;
Cannon cured 1t IN two months, and he says he
can cure any cancer that comes under his
notice.
The fame of the Bridgeport, Conn.,, Sui
eide Club, whose members have nearly all fol-
Low ed out the conditions that some one MEM
Der shall commit suicide each year, has gone
beyond this country it seems. The President
of the club who it is said, is at atpresent the only
survivor, last week received applications for
mem bership from four men of Caen, France.
They stated that they had been unfortunate in
business and seriously contemplated the taking
of their lives. According to the Springfield,
Mass, Republican, the necessary papers have
been forwarded to them.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.
HD,ua ace any spots on me?" demanded