Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Portland is shipping iron pipe 10 CaII-
fornia and China.
AN Adrian, Mich, man was fined S. 70
last week for swearing at nsighbor.
Drums were beaten for the first time on
the entrance of Edward Ill. into Calais, in lo47
There are q States with over 1,O0O, 900
were 19.
A Harper county, Kas., man makes from
goo to $50 carload on watermelons and is ship
ping 6O cars per day.
An Atehison, Kas., girl is keeping
company" in .parlor which was furnished with
the pfoceeus OF strawberry patch.
-George Blust swore so frightfully at
Mrs. Charles Graham, near New Albany, Ind,
that she went into conyulsions and died.
"A singular sight near Tulare CITY was
noted by the Register. A large band of cattle
was driven TO town, each one having its tail
ornamented with a white rag. This showed
they were Vacclnated TO prevent taking Texas
fever.
Mr. West Mitchell, of DeKalb county,
Ca, owned q mule that disappeared mys-
teriously He thought that it was stolen, and
sent men to principal points to catch the
thieves, but by hunting in the pasture found
the mule in gully with its throat cut
A Biddeford (Me.) man offered TO pay
his barber 20 cents if the barber would shave
him in less than minute, provided the barber
would do 1t for nothing if the operation con-
sumed more than tnat time The job was done
IN 81 seconds. The victim paid the barber the
20 cents.
Says an eminent physician: $50 long
as men uncover their heads in theaters, halls,
ETC., just so long eatarrh will be national all
ment, and men suffer neuralgia and bronchial
anectlons- There is no more sense in man
removing his hat than there is IN woman lay
ing aside her Donnet.
An American millionaire has astonished
the natives of West Midland county England,
where he has taken country viearage for two
months, by the magnitude OF his establishment,
to accommodate which large extra house has
been hired. 1t includes 30 servants, 20 horses,
IL dogs. cows and IA cats.
Mrs. Daniel Damn, of New Milford,
Conn.,, 75 years old. died in a singular and
fnghtfui way day or two ago. She was SINCE
ing chicken at the kitchen stove when gust
OF wind drawing down the chimney shot a
blaze into her face. Her clothing took fire. she
ran, the wind famed the flames and she fell en-
Veloped in fire.
DIR. JuDker, who learned in Central
Africa to relish fried ants and lived for years
on negro bill of fare, expresses decided views
in his new BOOK on the way to get along in the
Dark Continent. He goes so far as to say that
himself to native food will keep in better
health than If he enjoyed the best of European
cookery.
The average life OF a rabbit is put at
about nine years. The doe may have young
eight times year, averaging eight each time.
The first litter is produced when but months
old. The progresslons based on these figures
lead to astonishing results. For three years the
possible progeny of two rabbits has been caleu-
lated at over 13,OOO.000, and for seven years az
,5O0O00000
"A $1,000 bill came into one of the Port
land (Me.) banks last week So rarely are bills
of that denomination received that one of the
tellers connected with the institution for 20
years, had mover before seen one. AS might
naturally be expected, it was crisp and new in
appearance, NOT bearing indications of having
passed through many hands in the years since
it was issued.
There is curious illustration of the
ups and downs of life in a workhouse near
London, where one of the inmates was the
original proprietor of a noted cattle food,
which from first to last must have brought in
millions of money The poor fellow commenced
his downward course with a lawsuit which cost
100000, and since then he has drifted inte
absolute poverty.
The following "ad'' recently appeared
in Liverpool paper: "Will the lady wearing
spectacles who, on Thursday evening, the 7th
instant, drove dark pony and four-wheeIed
phaeton, with groom behind, along lakewood
road, and injured valuable riding-horse BY
not taking her side of The road. kindly get a
better pair of glasses and take driving lessons
before she ventures out again?'
"A newspaper man, who gets to bed so
late that he sleeps until 2 or 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. awakening the other day and look
ing at the clock, saw that it was o'clock. As
he had an engagement at that hour he fairly
lao NaIi iarO I,tan nIO apd
house. to find that it was o'clock, but 6 A. NJ.
He had slept Just one hour. He wasn't
mad" because he felt too foolish.
Certificates of character given to serY-
ants are sometimes misused. Not long since 4
lady was speaking of having taken a girl who
was highly recommended by a well known
lady. To her surprise her friend informed her
that girl with the same name, recommended
by the same lady, was living with her. Upon
investigation it was found that the written
character had been used by both parties.
"A woman so years old, who resides near
Princeton Factory IN Clarke county, Ga. was
reared near her present dwelling place. and
since her marriage, some 80 years since. has
never been 200 yards from her home. She Is in
perfect health. and her stay-at-home propensi-
ties cannot be attributed to lack of energy.
She 1ust don't care 10 go anywhere. and would
ming Of the trains, but has never seen train
of cars, an engine or railroad track, and yet
lives within three miles of Athens.
AN interesting spectacle has recently
been seen in the Orkneys. 1t is probably the
first of it's kind ever authenticated in living
memory. A correspondent writes to a cotem-
porary: what IS said to be mermaid has
been seen for some weeks at stated times at
Southside Deerness. 1t is about six to seven
feet in length. with little black head, white
neck and a snow-white body and two arms. In
swimming it appears just Ike a human being.
At times it will come very close inshOre and
appear to be sitting on a sunken rock, and
will wave and work it's hands. 1t has never
been seen entirely out of water. Many persons
who doubted its genuineness now suppose il to
be defOrmed seal"