Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| OOhAOOO OOhDbNOA 14O4t6s
Two Cinnamon robbed bank at Dalles,
Ore. of $4,000
| AN Ionia, Mich, man has raised cab
bage that weighed 39A pounds.
| "A Turk in costume is the leader Of the
Salvation Army meetings in North Lansing,
| Mich.
Eighteen and one-hslt tons OF celery
| were shipped from Kalamazoo in one day re-
! Gently.
"A new restaurant in Paris has eolored
| men walters, West Indians and others, stranded
after the Exposition.
IAN Atchison girl is earning money to
go to the Worlds Fair by doing all the darning
in the neighborhood
Homer, Mich, has a military company
composed exclusively OF ladies. Uniforms are
being made for them.
While walking along a street in De-
troit man caught up behind lady and
shipped of her luxuriant braid with a sharp
knife.
The ChurfurstlichpTiUileg Herzo-
Itch Beroischen ProvfnzfdL Zeituno is the
name of German publication Hard on news
boys.
AN Oswego young lady made 700 words
of the letters contained in Conservatory"
while her mother wrestled with the weeks
washing unaided.
"A barrel containing tomato catsup
burst with great violence in the Fulton market.
Sedalia, and besmeared the whole institution
and colored all the hucksters reddish yellow
Mrs. Nancy Carter, of Barre, Mass,
who died last week at the age of SO years, is
said to have been out of her house but seldom
Tor 20 years, and to never have seen railroad
train.
"A Bangor, Me-, policeman was riding
in carriage the other day when a highwayman
essayed to hold him up" The officer leaped
out, and, after tussle, overcame the criminal
and locked him up.
The force bill is needed in Columbus,
Ind. The colored people out there have taken
their children from the white schools and in
sist upon having separate building and teach
ers Of their own color.
The Methodist ladies of Salina, Kan,
pledged themselves to raise 81 each for church
purposes. Among them was a woman 70 years
old, who earned her dollar by making eight
baby dresses by hand.
There has been inaugurated in Paris q
novel development of the automatic fountain
invention. It is for the supply of hot water.
Automatic fountains are becoming one of the
features OF out-ot-door Paris
Some dudes, who were ANNOYING a
Chinaman at sedalia, No., where astonished
when he suddenly mounted one of their bicy-
cles and rode away, his queue streaming
straight out behind him, as II Old Nick were
after him.
The Penohscot river, the largest in
Maine, drains 7.4OO square miles, a region as
large as the State of Massachusetts,. From Old
Town to Bangor, distance OF IL miles, the
river falls more than 80 feet. giving several Of
the finest water powers in the world.
james Trefethen, a Kennebunkport,
Me-, farmer 90 years of age. until last week had
never been on a railroad train, had never
boarded horseear and was totally ignorant Of
electric lights and telephones. Nearly all his
life he has lived within few miles of the depot
at Kennebunkport.
The police at ChilIicothe, NO., are in
hot water An enterprising advertising firm
distributed wagon load of whistles to the
children of that place, and the noise they make
IS identical with that of the police whistle.
The result is that the kids have the police on
the dead run all the time.
The Buffalo Fire Department has lately
received novel fire engine, which has excited
much interest in that city. The carriage is
constructed entirely of papier mache. all the
different parts of the body, wheels, poles and
the rest being finished in the best possible man.
ner. While the durability and powers of re-
sistance possessed by this ma terial are fully as
great as those of wood, the weight is, of course,
much less.
in 1861. Thomas Moonlight mortgaged
his farm for $500. and used the money in raising
the First Kansas Battery. A year later Case
Broderick Joined this battery as q private. and
served in it to tho end of the war. The two
men are now, by singular coincidence. run
ming for Congress against each other. Colonel
Moonlight by-the-way, has never been reim-
bursed by the Government for the money he
spent in raising the battery.
The cords of the cash collecting mechan-
sm in the store of Forbes & Wallace, in Spring
field, Mass, were mysteriously cut several
mornings recently. and suspicion was directed
to the watchman. who was discharged. Next
day the cords were again cut, and further in-
quiry disclosed that rats had caused tie mis-
chief, the cords having blocked up their favor
fte passageway. The rats have been dispoS-
sessed and the watchman restored TO duty.
Mr.. Elliott, OF South Carolina, was in
ignorance of the vote that had been taken In
his case on Tuesday for nearly an hour after he
was unseated. He was writing letters at his
desk when Mr.. Lehlbach, of New Jersey, went
over 10 express Tsgret for having had % vote
lott: WHY, about unseating you" replied
Mr.. Lehlbach. Don't you know that you have
been unseated?' Then Mr.. Elliott locked up
his late desk and went out.
"A Bath, Me-, butcher noticed neat
harness in a friends possession-that it looked
better than his own, which he had NOT cleaned
since he bought 1t, and offered to swap and pay
So to boot. The friend accepted the offer. The
butcher took no better care of this harness
than of the other and it soon showed itself
rather poor article. Sometime after he met
his friend with very handsome new harness
on his horse and again offered to trade. After
handing over the old harness and 50 more he
went home satisfied with the bargain and all
unconscious that he had paid just $40 to have
his original harness cleaned.