Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-DEOOhlyu SCAOOAo OPSANA AASSNSJ
$1,000 pupils.
More than 5000 men in New York do
business under the protection Of their wives
names.
"A Genesee, Mich, Supervisor sends in
his report to the County Clerk Of person dy-
ing Oh information of the BRAIN.
The Mayor Of Boston receives from the
west End Street Railway Company 5000 free
HcAe's weekly for charitable uses.
The 18-year-old daughter OF Swains
Kite, OF Madison county, died from lockjaw,
superinduced by the pulling of tooth.
Cyrus W. Field raises an acre of culti-
waited sunfiowers on his estate, Ardsey, near
Tarrytown. on the Hudson, for chicken feed.
Mrs. Jacob Benton, OF Lancaster, N.
H., has learned five languages while an invalid
in the last five years. She speaks and writes
Volapuk huently.
Jake Kilrain is going to star His play
is founded on an episode in Senator ConkIing's
life where he was knocked out by profes-
sional sparrer disguised ior the occasion.
"A Cobbville, Ga, man tells of a pig
which has been adopted by an old cat. She
had four kittens besides. and the old cat was as
much attached to the pig as if it had been one
OF her kittens.
"A scientist computes that with the aid
of a machine constructed on the. principle Of
the boring drilling and pumping apparatus Of
the mosquito. hole could be bored TO the GEN.
ter of the earth in less than q day.
1t is curious fact that when the police
men in Central Park, New York, undertake to
drive the public off the grass they dispose Of
the old women and children promptly, but
somehow the pretty girls are undisturbed.
Rev. Mr.. Gould, the Unitarian Luding-
ton preacher, has a wife as is one. He was
sick Sunday and the good lady preached for
him, and now the congregation is thinking
about calling her regularly if he remains i'll.
Rather a touching incident occurred at
the Boston and Maine depot in Biddeford, Me.
A man had been visiting his family there and.
though he intended to return in two weeks,
cried like one who was to be absent for year.
Alexander Sorden, of Harrington, Nd,
who died a few days ago, had long been source
of wonder to physicians because OF a peculiar
physical shrinking that followed sickness. caus-
ing his stature to become one foot less than it
was during health.
The Russian Government has ordered
that all medical and pharmaceutical students
shall be henceforth accustomed to the decimal
system of weights and measures, with the view
to making this system the only legal one for
prescriptions to be written in after the lapse Of
five years.
AT the General Grant cottage at Mount
McGregor, is kept a register of visitors and
among those who have within the past few
days affixed their sign manual may be seen
globetrotters from England, Scotland,
Sweden, Belgium, Egypt. France, Germany.
Hungary, Canada. Mexico. Brazil and Southern.
Africa.
-"Our next issue will be our last, writes
Georgia editor. 1--WE are satisfied the people
of this town can ges along without US, for we
have been getting along without the people for
six months past. There are some subscriptions
owing. but we will not collect them, as the
citizens will soon need the money to defray the
funeral expenses of the town."
The country people for miles around
Danville. N. j., are arranging for great double
birthday celebration at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Vreeland. The two old people were
born within one day of each other and are now
in the nineties. They have been married So
years. Both are still hearty and active, and
anticipate the approaching anniversary glee
day with much pleasure.
Bill Moore, an Atchison, Kan, farmer,
wanted to dig well, so he plowed lot Of land
and planted in it oats Every day he watched
the oats, observing the spots that showed the
greatest moisture. Finally he selected a spot
and sank the well. At "a feet be had fine
stream of water. 1t Is said to be the best
water in the country. Other farmers In the
same nslghborhood have failed to find water at
| 200 feet.
While blowing up the ground for the
new Central shops at Columbus, Ga, one of
| the heavy plows struck a six-inch water main
and broke it. The water spurted up in a solid
stream to a height Of about so feet, tearing up
the ground around with great force The
water ran for several hours, flooding the adj
jaeent space, until the Superintendent OF the
water works company went out and, with
assistance, repaired the break.
1t was developed at the hearing in Chi
cago of a lad of only IL, arrested for theft that
he belonged in Arkansas and had run away
from home and travelled all through Mexico,
| Lower California and the greater part of this
| country. His little brain had evidently been
| set afire by sensational literature. for, when
| brought into court, a big revolver was peeping
ont of his hip pocket. When arrested he was
boarding freight train for the West.
On returning from church Lafayette,
Ga, man saw what seemed to be two small
snakes about the size of lead pencil and eight
to ten inches long. They were barely moving.
On closer examination. instead of snake it
was a mass of little measuring worms, each
about three-sixteenshs of an inch long, and
each travelling on the layer of worms under il.
BY moving in this manner they escaped the
dust which would have been fatal to them II
they had separated.
"A heavy horse is all that saved Lapeer,
Mich, widow from changing her name TO Mrs.
Butler and not to Mrs. Clam. Both men were
promised her hand and bad secured their
licenses, but Clam had quarter horse and won
the stakes. The race down the country road
was terrific, and Just when Butler was con-
graduating himself that he was winner his
old horse stopped to cough, and Clam sailed BY
and had been gone 10 minutes with the bride
when his rival dashed up to her house, and was
safely wed at nearby parsons.
of taste, medical journal saws that it
is not equally distributed over the whole sur
face OF the tongue. There are three distinct
regions Of tracts. each of which has to perform
its own special ofice or function. The Tip OF
the tongue is concerned mainly with pungent
and acid tastes: the middle portion is sensitive
to sweets or bitters while the back or lower
nortion confines itself entirely to the havors OF
rich. fatty substances. This subdivision Of
facuIties In the tongue makes each piece Of
food undergo three separate examinations,
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