Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

/ Thirty conyicts have escaped from the
Jackson prison during the last dozen years and
| not been recaptured.
-Hackmen in Baltimore, wanting to dis
courage Sunday funerals, have advanced rates
for this day so cents.
There were displayed the other day in .
| shop window at Leavenworth Kan, the re-
mains OF silk flag that was captured during
| the war by Quantrell, who tore it in two.
"A recent lawsuit in Dahlonega, origi-
| mating about a hen and chickens compelled
the defendants husband to sell the only COW
he possessed in order to get his wife out Of it.
Captain Dexter Cole, of Northport, l.,
was astonished the other day when he hauled
his rake up to fud among the oysters he had
captured one that was almost semi-circular In
shape.
The statement is made that at least
10 letters day miscarry because OF the SINH
larity of the names Of Oswego and 0wego. For
this reason each town wants the other TO change
its name.
A Berlin antiquary has discovered in
hollow cane the dagger with which Ravillac
assassinated King Henry ". of France. The
dagger was stolen from the Palace Of Justice
in Paris IN 1915.
The latest addition to the Hillman me-
nagerie is a cat with human hands on its front
legs This discounts the bear cub which claims
motherly old cow as parent ana Wnlcn the Do
vine is carefully rearing.
i. D. Rails, living in the vicinity of
Hannibal Mo-, has II ewes which gave birth
this spring to % lambs; and his neigbbor, Il. Q,
Heather, has II ewes which increased his mock
this spring to the extent of 81 lambs.
The Greensboro Workman saws a gen.
tleman of that place wrote letter to parties at
High Point, but by mistake addressed the let
ter to Summerneld. Sunday 1t was returned
to him-eIeven months after 1t was mailed.
DIR. Peters is travelling through Africa
at the head OF a caravan composed of heuten-
ant. so porters 10 soldiers, camel drivers.
boys. servants. 2 camels, doBkeys and 3lb
sheep, and is whipping the natives at every en-
gagement.
Bronson boys have little fun now and
| then. One of them told his companion he
| might shoot at him. which he did, the charge
taking effect IN his arm. The wounded boy re-
| turned the fire. and the left eye of the first
shooter is missing.
Murder seems to be the least perilous of
all the felonious pastimes kn own to this coun-
| try. Out of II, 7Ty murderers who took human
life in the six years from 1884 to 1889, only $50
| paid the penalty of their crimes by yielding
their own lives TO the law.
M. Pedrous, a physician at Nantes,
France, has the strange gift Of being able to
| see the color of sounds. lie says that human
voices are red, blue black, tan, slate and all
other colors, and that the color of some very
handsome women's voices is like bnttermilk-
During a storm at Hunnewell, Kan,
the other night, the lightning struck house
and FILLED one child and badly shocked two
others. The three children were sleeping in
one bed, and, strange as it may seem. the child
that was sleeping in the middle was the one that
was killed.
America is rapidly becoming a nation
Of knights. Even now you couldn't throw a
stone without hitting Knight of Labor, or q
Knight of Pythias. or Knight of Honor. or q
Knight of the Golden Eagle, or Knight Tenn
plar, or Knight of the Silver Horn, or
dozen or SO of other varieties of knights.
The Hon. Mrs. Watkins lie t Swansea
in her IO9th year. says Bristol paper printed
IN 1789. for London, for the express purpose OF
seeing Mrs. Siddons She saw her act nine
times. and during her stay she mounted TO the
whispering gallery, at ST. Paups. She returned
to GlamOrganShire accompanied by three OF
her grandchildren.
-Four years ago a travelling mans trunk
was stolen from the sidewalk in front of the
Byram Hotel, at AtchsUH. Kan, and the owner
claimed and received s5OQ for the loss, sayin is
was filled with cigar samples. The trunk was
found on sandbar near the city recently, and
was found to contain a lot Of printed stationery
and advertising matter.
B. F. Plummer, of indianapolis, has
weather without the use of ice, and has applied
for patent. He claims that he can cure meat
ready for smoking in 80 days, and that he uses
nothing except natural agencies. The pork
packers are very much interested in the mat
ter, and surprising results are promised
"A white and red robin astonishes the
fishermen of Quonochontaug. R. l. It has
built its nest IN shaggy reach of pasture near
the laundering ocean breakers. The birds
body is of a snowy white, even TO the tip of its
tail, excepting its breast which is of rosy red
The Boston Journal declares that "a red and
white robin was never heard of before"
Artificial coffee is manufactured on an
extensive scale in Germany. 1t is made from
lnseed meal roasted to a dark color and mixed
with some glutinous substance before being
passed through machines. which turn out the
compound in the shane of real coffee bean.
When tbe false bean is well mixed with the
genuine product only an expert can detect the
difference.
"A human form has been discovered It
Pompei1, under a doorway. which clearly shows
the sandals on the feet. and, what is extremely n
uncommon in such remains. pair Of trousers
A Naples arch8oog1st supposes iI to be one o.
the Alexandrian colony stationed at Pompett
dent that the man was flying with bundle, and +
fell sutfOcated.
"A Michigander, whose sister has just
died In Indiana has filed against her estate the
queerest bill on record. One item is sS5 for
board covering time when she was wishing
him Another is IS day for services when he
was visiting her. He also brings IN cnarge
for railroad fare to and from her funeral, and
for so cents an hour for services while he was
attending the same.
An Albany, Ga, man was pestered with
English sparrows. He soaked quart Of
hominy in strychnine and baited several places
in the yard with it. The sparrows gobbled it
Ii f11o u0rfh
100 of them turned perfectly snow white in a
very short while and became very pugnaclous
and quarresome and whipped on the other
sparrows as fast as they alighted-