Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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home this year.
The roller skating mania has again
broken out in London.
-Dr. Hammond says that thin soles are
theworst propagators Of disease among women.
The capacious nav of the dead letter
office receives over 100000 of letters annually.
"A Georgia plantation has pear tree
measuring 10 feet in circumference and over 8
feet in diameter
The Sioux of South Dakota are dying
rapidly OF consumption and other throat and
chest diseases.
In the Gila Valley district of Arizona
Territory is is proposed to plant 5000 acres to
oranges this fall and winter.
"A YORK county, Me-, man caused the
arrest OF two men for stealing his waller, and
then found 1t Just where he left it.
In the French Jardin des Plantes is a
peculiar South American lizard. resembling q
flying toad" which coils itself up like hedge
hog when disturbed.
An instance of Just retribution is found
in the case of the man who invented the nigs-
In-clover puzzle. He has been sent to an insane
asylum In st. Louis.
Through celebrating the coming of the
harvest moon" by imbibing their own booze,
the stills of four Arkansas moonshiners we're
discovered and raided.
The entire daily and weekly mail edi-
tions of the Griffin NetDs and Sun we're seized
at the Griffin po5toffice because the paper con-
tained a lottery advertisement.
Russian baths are recommended by a
sufferer from rheumatism. AFTER several
trials one should lake the steam as hot as be
can bear it on the afflicted part of the body"
The papers of Micager Hancock, Of In
diana, for whom the Senate Pension Commit
tee has recommended pension of SIS for his
services in the War of 1872, show that he is IU2
years old.
AT Union. Ia, Charles Rever and Miss
Minnie Flagg have Just been married. Over
the parlor door of the BRIDES house was hung
the words: "a union of hearts, a union Of
hands, and the Flagg of Union for Rever."
"A crook at the Kansas State Fair picked
o womau's pocket and found in her purse
three samples of dress goods, a recipe for max
Ing angel food. hairpin, two bread tickets, a
package of court plaster and a nickel with a
hole in it.
The cotton gin down South appears to
be as treacherous as the buzz-saw up North.
The Atlanta papers of the last few days con-
tain frequent accounts of mangIed hands and
arms due to these members being drawn be-
tween cog-wheels.
Platinum jewelry, it is reported, is in
danger of becoming thing of the past The
Ll1S year is about
half OF that OF last year. The advance is at
tr1buted to the large number of electric works
now In operation throughout the United States.
AT Tampa flash OF lightning struck
W. 8. Myers residence, situated on the rsser-
vation near the Florida Central and Peninsular
Railroad. shocked a small child into momen-
tary inseDsibility, shattered every window in
the house, set fire to one corner and then
leaped to the cistern, completely demoIish-
ing it.
--Cowhide horseshoes are reported to be
growing in favor in England and other parts of
Europe. They have the advantages of hight
ness, great durability, superior adhesion and
avoidance of split hoofs The Japanese are SAID
to have used straw horseshoes for centuries,
the straw being treated by an unknown chem
ical process.
"A scientist has been investigating the
luncheons served bY the various restaurants in
the New York shopping district to their female
clients. He finds that pickles. fruit cake, ice
cream, soda water and hot maple sugar are the
viands most affected by ladies for the midday
meal. and there have been no deaths reported
up to the present time from such indulgence.
The telephone has been brought to such
perfection that by its use it is not difficult to
transmit the sounds of music many miles and
give them forth so that sets of dances may
move to the measures Successful experiments
of this character have been made with New
FORK as the base of operations and Morris
hOWu, W. Jy anu SdEdLOk1 dS I6CeiNluk pOlnLS.
A colored man made a reputation as a
steeplechaser the other day on the farm Of
Captain F. W. Green, on Whites creek A
fox that had been captured in a trap was
turned loose in the face of pack of hounds
and body of horsemen for a chase. The
negro joined the chase and actually out
stripped both horses and dogs and captured
Il te fox alive with his hands.
Rochester, Ind, is vain of prodigy
years and half old, distinguished for his won
derful pronunciation" "marvelous gestures
and remarkable mimicry." He delivers lect-
ures by DR.. Talmage. recites funny sketches by
Mark Twain, and is an all-rOund elocutiOnist.
1t will take more than this to shake the conf
dence of Philadelphia mothers in the genius
and "cuteness" of their offspring.
The champion hen resides at Bath, Me.
When dog of about 35 pounds fighting weight
approached her domicfle for the purpose of
having little sport with the puIlets there,
this old lady rose to the occasion aud met him
considerably more than half way. There was
short scene, rather noisy and exciting, the re-
suit being dog proceeding hastily on his way
and hen somewhat ruffied and clucking over
her victory.
The new silver notes are palmer looking
than those now in circulation, but the work
upon them is finely executed They are
headed with the new title. The United States
OF America" promises tn pay, and: under the
amount appear the words ''in coin" This may
be gold or silver. at the option OF the Govern
ment, and the note Is made a Illegal tender"
which was not the case with either the gold or
silver certificates.
-Carlotta Patti, the young daughter Of
Adelna PATHS dead brother Carlo, is living in
squalor and wretchedness on Canal street, New
Orleans. During one of Nine. PATHS visits
South she hunted up this child and took her
with her to her Welsh CASTLE Some months
after this the little girl mysteriousiy reappeared
at her old home in New Orleans and has since
lived there apparently cut off from all COM
munication with her rich and famous amt.
What is there about the figures feet
inches that is so attractive to policemen Did
you ever notice the description of drowned
man who was not just that tall? Maybe you
have but Just notice and see If the vast major
ity of them do not conform to that rule. and
also are reported as wearing Congress CATERS.
Whether men measuring 8 feet inches high
and wearing Congress CATERS are more prone
to drowning than others, so far as is known,
has not been determined, but it Is an odd sug.
gestion which comes to the mind of many who
watch such cases.