Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


has the shortest name of any person in the
State of Maine.
"A woman buried at New Madrid, No.,
a few days ago, weighed $50 pounds. There
were 16 active pall-bearers.
"A census enumerator discovered FAM
lily of ten children in San Francisco who were
all clubfooted and knock-kneed.
The Maori women of New Zealand are
killing themselves trying to wear corsets since
they have seen them on the missionary women.
"A. Hunt sunk an artesian we'll $50 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
occasionally thrown out.
The clock recently removed from the
Exchange tower in Savannah, Ca. had marked
OFF time there for 81 years. 1t was removed be-
cause 1t had become too unreliable. A modern
timepieee is to take its place.
Mrs. Ambrose Haley, of Houlton, Me-,
has in her possession q treasured heirloom, a
slipper that was worn by her fathers grand
mother. on the occasion of her marriage, in
England, which must have occurred fully 175
years ago. IL is made of brocaded satin.
"A new stumbling block for bigamists
has been found by determined young Miss
Day, who was married by a Mr.. Roberts, he
having another wife at the time. When she
had 10 leave him she sued him for breach Of
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"A dock hand at Fall River, Mass, has
just met with a singular mishap. He laid
down on the wharf and fell asleep. The hot
sun beat into his face, totally destroying the
sight OF both eyes. In grouping about the
place when he awoke he fell into a ship and
was badly cut and bruised.
james Cusick, who discovered John G.
Heenan in California in 1919 or 1850 and
m Eaa tn 6obt vitb Iob
died at st. Luke's Hospital, in New York. on
Wednesday. By a curious coincidence his
cousin, Nicholas Landon, who also led sport
ing life died +he same day at Bellevue Hos
pital.
Some of the cattle out on the farms on the
Scottville pike in Tennessee are going blind
from some unknown cause. Many believe it is
the intense heat. Henry Dunn has had several
head to go totally blind, and nearly all
young feeding cattle. The eyes first turn pale
and in the course of day or SO lose their sight
completely.
On the T. A. Davis ranch up the
Skookumehuek river Wash, is a cedar which
is classed among the dwarfs in this country,
but in some places might attract attention.
The interior has been burned SO that circular
space has been formed. having a diameter of
II feet inches. The outside circumference is
AZ feet inches.
According to the Tribune the first
steamer ever chartered to carry produce from
New York to Australia was engaged Thursday.
She is the Prodane, and chartered by
Arkell q Douglass. she will be loaded in the
latter part OF this month. Hitherto produce
has been shipped from that port to Australia
in sailing vessels.
"A monstrous chunk of ore was taken
from the Mountain Consolidated mine at Butte
City, Mont, few days ago. 1t was too large
TO put on a two-horse wagon and fOur-borse
team was used. The ore is estimated to weigh
nearly four tons. and is nearly solid copper and
silver. 1t has been bound with hoops of iron
and boxed up. preparatory to shipment-prob-
ably to London.
"A brutal German sub-lieutenant stood
sword in hand over private soldier and COM
pelled him to keep his hand in boiling water
over a fire, under the pretense that it was the
doctors order to remove confusion. The
hand was ruined and the man crippled for life.
He has been Invalided and given pension OF
81 % a month. The 1nhuman officer was sent TO
prison for two months.
"A few weeks before the censustakers
began the regular census the citizens of Elm
Grove, w. Va, thought to enumerate their
population preparatory to Incorporating the
town. The following is the remarkable result:
Number of males over q years of age. lis; num-
Der of males uncer q years OF age. l4o; number
of females over is years Of age. l4S; number OF
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AT the public library at Macon is
barometer made simply of a thin strip of cedar
and thin strip Of white pine, placed together
and stuck perpendcularly in base rest Of
wood. When it is going to rain the strips bend
down with dampness, and when it is dry
weather they stand rigidly stiff and Straight. It
is saId to indicate coming storms Gnfailngly.
The device was made by G. G. Mlllar, Master
Mechanic of the Central shops in Savannah, in
1880. and was presented to the library by Dan
n. Gugel.
-Hydrate of chloral is very tricky
medicine. The first time you take it for in
somnia the modest little does gives you sleep
as soft and sweet and natural as that of a
healthy child; and you wake clear-minded,
vigorous and without any latter effects" So
with gradually diminishing efficiency the drug
works through succeeding experiments; but
by and by you find that to produce sleep you
must steadily increase the dose. And then, of
a sudden and without warning, the mysterious
fluid seems to reassert over the constitution its
pristine power. and the greatly increased dose
puts you so soundly to sleep that you never
awaken in this world.
The Boston Post tells of man return
ing from the West to visit his mothers grave
in a cemetery near Boston. Il couldn't find
the lot" he said in telling the story, "and when
got home asked my sister about it, and who
it was that had put up the big monument there
with the name Theodosia' on 1t. Why, that
was the place said my sister. But who is
IneOQOSla3 aoktu. -1ndI Is Sa1Q
she; 4 know it wasn't her name, but it is q
pretty one, and thought she would like il.
And did you see, John? l thought mother
looked lonesome in that big lot, and I had a
baby headstone set up near the corner with
Jennie" cut on it. You don't mind, do your"
Lemonade and buttermilk are as good
as anything drinkable that you can find for this
weather." said physician to a Cincinnati
Tmes-Star reporter. '1rhey both are great
things to quench thirst. They both act as a
pleasant tonic to the stomach and they have q
stimulating quality. But they should not be
drank ice cold-that Is, bits of ice should not be
in the goblet. Let them be as cold as the ice
chest or refrigerator can make them, but not
more than that. When you pour down your
throat a pint or so of fluid that is fresh from
the ice, temporary paralysis Of the stomach
follows. If a man happens to be very hot, such
a thing not nfrequently is as fatal as stroke