Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A curiosity in Lancaster county is
newly arrived colored man who can speak only
German,
"A system of electric homeopathy is said
to be successful in curing leprosy. II is used
in India.
"A club in Guatemala offers premium
of 81, 900 for the best hymn for the Central
American nation.
AN aged lady died suddenly in hotel
at Birmingham, Ala, and in her hustle s2OIO
was found secreted.
Parties pulling down an old house at
Staunton, Va, found about $500 in gold and
silver coin of very old dates hidden in a recess.
/ "A great mass of worms, measuring three
feet in length and one foot through was seen
moving along over the ground at West Chester.
"A company to place advertisements on
the ceilings of barber shops for the perusaI Of
men getting shaved has been formed in New
York.
AT q birthday celebration at West
Chester all the guests brought the host pres
ent of a pitcher. She received 81 of these
articles.
Frances census of carrier pigeons shows
that in time of war the Government would
have at its disposal upward of quarter of q
lulllOn OI tnem.
John Van Dam slept himself to death
at Grand Rapids. Mich. He closed his eyes II
days ago Some time ago he took nap which
lasted eight weeks without break.
AT indianapolis, during storm, ball
Of fire the size of an egg came off the telephone
in Attorney General Miohener's house. graZed
that gentleman's ear, and exploded
"A boy only years old, who can only
talk French and Latin, and who cannot tell
his name or where he lives, has been found
astray in the streets of Philadelphia.
The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church has forbidden the use of liquors ard
tobacco by church members. No one will be ad.
mitted to membership who uses either.
There is colored man in Galveston who
is worth over $780, 900. He has fine house in
the most desirable residential portion of the
city, and his wife employs none but white serv-
ants
Seven Waterloo veterans will celebrate
the approaching seventy-ffth anniversary of
the battle, at Haarlem, IN Holland. Six out of
the seven are without penny of their own in
the world.
Steps have been taken to establish in st.
Petersburg society for the insurance of crops
against climatic mishaps. The Agricultural
Society of the metropolis has initiated the
movement.
In 1889 800 elks were shot in the forests
of Norway. Most of them were killed by En-
glish sportsmen, who. as VoItaire once .,i inti-
mated, are never happy unless they are killing
something.
In New Zealand a Mormon convention
has inst closed its sittings at which it was Off
cialIy reported that there are 5000 Mormons in
that colony, and that 500 converts were made
during the past year.
"A lively opposition to Chinese immi-
grafton has sprung up Mexico The miners
and other laborers fear the competition of the
pigtail wearers, and the local newspapers are,
actively backing them.
"A Harvey county, Kan, farmer cap
tured a swarm of bees the other day which he
found hanging to the branch of an apple tree
They were the first bees that he has seen during
residence of Il years in Kansas.
"A rather remarkable feature of liter
airy society's picnic at Ringing Rocks, near
Pottstown. the rendition of Home, Sweet
Home" which music was extracted from rocks
as they lay imbedded in the ground
"A Biddeford, Me-, boy found three
eagles eggs in a nest in the woods about three
weeks ago. He brought them home and set a
hen on them. Saturday last the eggs Matched
and the young eaglels are now doing well.
Wilkes Levergood, of Lancaster,
stopped IN an icecream saloon on his way from
nesia when suddenly the bottle exploded,
knocking the spoon from his hand and causing
a stampede among the ladies present
"A funeral was in progress at Kicking
Grove church, near Dashyille, Mo-. the other
day when lightning struck barbed-wire fence
to which many horses were tied. Twenty-one
were knocked to the ground and four killed.
Mrs. Robert Rigre, in the church, was shocked
insensible and badly burned about the face.
1t is said that there are 30 kinds of
granite in Maine, each one of which possesses
distinctive characteristics readily recognized
by workmen acquainted with monumental and
building stones. There are all shades of what
are termed white granite, the most beautiful of
which is the Hallowell, together with the red
granite of Red Beach and the black granite OF
Addison.
"A widow of Miller county, Mo-, who
lives on q farm, gave another woman SIS to Sc
cure her q husband. The man was secured
and warranted all right in every respect. but
the next morning after the marriage ne licked
his bride, in the afternoon stole the $50 she had
saved up, anG in the night silently stole away
to No Mans Land. and now there are two
women III that neighborhood who don't speak
to each other.
-Chas. Sharpnack, young mineralogist,
spent portion of last fall Drospec ting for min
erals in Murray county. Ga, remaining some
time at the house of John Brackett and wife,
the famous moonshiners- Recently he went to
Atlanta and while there was arrested by
United States officers, charged with illicit dis
t1lling and tried before Commissioner Ha1ght-
1t took some hustling work for Sharpnack TO
prove that he was not moons hiner, but
"A remarkable woman is Mary Wing,
wife of Thomas Wing, of Fayette, Me, She IS
so years of age, and during the past year has
done the cooking, washing, ironing, sewing.
knitting, etc. for a family of four. Last fall
she cleaned her house throughout, and, in addi-
ton to all her other work, has made since last
October 800 pounds of butter "She Is able TO
ride out 10 or Il miles in day, appears as JoTlal
and happy as any young person, and Is in the
best of health"
AT Rome, Ga, while horse was loose in
the stable one of his hind feet got caught in
his mouth. 1t is supposed that the animal was
rubbing the flies from his nose with his hind
foot when by accident the foot passed into the
mouth The hoof was shod with a heavy iron
shoe ahd the sharp corners of the shoe and
boof Gu very painful wounds in the mouth
The animal fell TO the ground and continued to
truggle without relief When lie was dis
covered he was covered witt foam and showed
every sign of 4 fearful struggle. His master