Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| BY the new directory nSures Los
Angeles has 5000 inabitants.
One of the big life insurance companies
of New York intends to put up building in
Salt Lake City that will cost Sl5OOOO0
The new avenues and streets opened in
Rome and Naples bear the names of Victor
Emanuel, Cavour, Garibaldl and Mazzini.
The bits of carbon removed from
arc lights are believed by some credulous
| persons TO have Mountaineering qualities.
Emile Zoda has cleared 500, 900 from
MANA" first issued in a newspaper in 1879 1t
has been translated in every European
| language.
In Utica, n. Y, tradesmen of all sorts
not only sell their delinquent accounts at
| public sale, but advertise them at full length
| in the papers.
| "A strange condition OF affairs exists at
Hydetown, Pa. The village has three churches,
and only one solitary member of any of them
| lives within the borough limits.
English capitalists have secured options
on every Columbia river salmon packing es-
tablishment except three, and the deal, if
consummated, will take sl,0O0,C00.
"A young man in Chambersburg, Pa,
made journey to Hagerstown to meet a girl
whom he was to marry, and when he arrived
there he found that she had lust married
another man and fled.
Boiled potato parings mixed with
crushed oats was the midday meal of one fam
lily of six at Wilkesbarre. family next door
was in comparative luxury. 1t had rye bread
and molasSes for dinner.
At Screven, Ca, place of perhaps $50
people, there are eight or ten young men who
are of manageable age. and very few girls
The boys keep bachelors hall. and do their
own cooking, darning, etc.
Chief of Police Donovan, of Hoboken,
has held his present place over 20 years. He is
now in the prime of life and. it IS said, has held
the office of Chief Of Police longer than any
otEer officer in the country.
Battle Creek, Mich, is threatened with
a curious law suit. DR.. ]. H. Beidler contem-
plates bringing suit for damages because he be-
lieves the city water works are lowering the
water of Goguac lake SO much as to spoil his
summer resort there.
On the Westside OF New York is a
wealthy furniture mover who owns hundreds Of
vans and horses and whose wealth is in the
millions. He finds however. his chief enjoy
ment and delight in dwarf horse and a six
legged bull that are on his country place
Two sons of Mart Frain and COM
panion killed a grizzly near Shovel Creek,
Shasta county, Col, last week. The boys got
reward of 500 from the stockmen, who have
suffered for three years by this dangerous ami
NAL 1t weighed, dressed, 80 pounds
Major Thomas Howard is reasonably
spoken of as the Oldest ship builder in this
country, since he is in the 1O2d year Of his age.
He is also q veteran of the war of lSl2, and,
since that time, has always lived in Brooklyn,
Mass, in winter and spent his summers in
Bath, Me-
"A House bill passed the Ohio Senate
Wednesday morning providing that all railroad
employees who have worked "a consecutive
hours shall not resume until they have had
eight hours rest. The fine for violation is $50
in each case. Twelve hours are to constitute a
days labor.
The festive jack rabbit is a strict vege-
tartan and will not touch grease of any kind,
nor will he tackle vegetables that are seasoned
with grease. Orchardsts Colorado take ad-
vantage of his fastidiousness and protect their
trees from his incisOrs by rubbing the body of
the tree with bacon rind.
The King of Samoa is prohibitionist,
as witness the following proclamation: mo
spirittous vinous or fermented liquors or in
toxicating drinks whatever shall be Sold gwen
or offered to- or bought, or bartered by any native
Samoan or Pacific Islander resident in Somoa,
to be taken as beverage"
Morgan Rose, a school teacher of Clay
county, w. Va, expelled Perry Goff. 16-year-
old pupil. In the afternoon Goff returned
with his father and two friends, and attacked
Rose with club. Rose drew q knife, and
general row followed, in which Rose and the
elder Golf were seriously hurt.
"A prominent society lady of New York
has Just returned from Europe with beautiful
pair of cut glass one-pound dumb-bells in her
trunk. This is said to be the latest wh1m Of
aristocratic athletic EnglishwOmen- They are
made in sizes from four ounces to two pounds
and are as clear as Japanese crystal
William Benjamin Rowland, a cart
man. recently died of phthisis at London
hospital, and when the doctors made post
mOrtem they found steel knife blade run into
his skull for an inch and broken off there. 1t
had been there long that the bone had
healed over the spot where it had entered.
"A curious sight met the eyes of those
who passed through the Capitol grounds at
Washington the other morning. Thousands of
worms of all sizes covered the walks. Some
people thought there had been a shower of
worms, but none were visible except on the
walks. BY the afternoon they had all disap-
peared.
Word comes from Burlington, Ia, that
a professional bird catcher is at WORK in that
city, and has for the past week captured and
killed large number of beautiful songsters
He claims to be under oDtract to furnish East
ern wholesale millinery houses with red blrds
which are his favOrite prey. He says he has
made as high as $500 in one year trapping
birds.
"A wealthy citizen of Osaka, japan,
who is the owner of rich copper mine, has
celebrated in a rather peculiar manner the two
hundred and sIxtieth anniversary of the mine
coming into the possession of his family. On
that occasion each of his 800 or more employees
received as memento of the occasion swal-
low-tail coat
-Godfreys has postmistress whose only
offense is Schweinfurthism. To each patron of
the little Office she addresses. each visit the
nuestion. Are Won sayedY' AlDena county
seems to be the only place in Michigan where
this pretender-to-be be-the-second-Christ has Sc
cured many followers. One or two very prom
ising young ladies have left their homes and
gone to Join SchweinfurIhs garden of Eden
crowd at Rockford, Ill
"A noted character 40 years ago was
Friend Adam Mott. the Maine Quaker. He
was much heavier than ordinary men, and his
second wife was a very large woman. His
weight was $50 pounds and hers 24O pounds He
had a carriage made especially for their ac-
1t took quite strong horse to
draw this vehicle when freighted with $40
pounds of humanity. He travelled much about
the country, his size making him quite a Curl
osity and picked I'D his living as he want along