Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The Chicago police gathered in 206 lost
children recent Sunday.
"A lively Maine young woman has de-
veloped much skill in snaring Maine song BIRDS
and does quite business at caging and selling
them.
A German scientist has discovered that
trees the trunks of which are covered with
moss or Hchen are the most liable to lightning
strokes.
The water supply in Toxic, instead of
being taken directly into the house, is led into
wells, which, as rule, are only on one side OF
the street.
There is Baptist church at Mendon,
Mich. but no society, and a Baptist preacher
occupied the pulpit last Sunday for the first
time in more than 20 years.
The thickest octave volume in the
world known is the latest edition of Whitaker's
Reference Catalogue of English Literature
This book weighs II pounds and is IL inches in
thickness.
MIR. E. G. P. Smith, the Government
keeper at Little Diamond. has unearthed what
appears to be an old Indian idol, weighing half
ton, and the Maine Historical Society viii
examine il.
An old man, going into liquor saloon
in New York the other night, boasted he could
give those present "some pointers on dane
ing and started in to do so. He danced five
minutes and fell under a table dead from heart
disease,
Jane Simmons, little muIatto woman
living in MilledgevilIe Ga. is said to be the
first woman in the South to become a butcher
by profession. She can kill, clean and cut
up more hogs in day than any man in the
county.
The remains of Ann Rutledge, the early
love of Abraham Lincoln, were removed the
other day from the obscure country graveyard
at Concord. where they had lain for nearly %
years, and reinterred at Oakland Cemetery, in
Portland, III.
Mrs. Huling, a Rhode Island woman;
being thrown into the water by the filling of a
boat in which she and two lady friends were
rowing, escaped drowning by clinging to her
dog, which swan with her to the shore. Her
friends were drowned
In Bangor there is a one-armed man,
the right one having been taken off at the
shoulder in the Gettysburg fight, who has
spaded up a quarter of an acre of land, carried
dressing to it and planted garden. He
whistles and sings, too, as he works.
"A Western paper saws the German
language is fast giving way to English in parts
of the West largely settled by Germans, be-
cause the baseball reports cannot be under
stood in the German language. which has no
equivalents for the technical terms used IN de-
scribing the games.
Little Jake Seligman has bought fiat
iron block in Saginaw and he is going to make
it feature of the city. He will erect hand
some brick and iron block on the site, to be
surmounted by tower. In that tower he will
place S., 900 clock. and upon the top of the
tower ife-size bronze statue of himself.
There is no country like France for
starting journals. During 1889 no less than $50
new newspapers were brought out, of which
not one remains in life. On the other hand the
Petit journal now claims q circulation of
1,O95, 600 copies daily. During the same period
there were printed in France over 5000 new
books including 5000 new musical pieces.
AN exhibition illustrating in 230 pic
lures the costumes of the French army from
1883 up to now will shortly be opened in the
Palais des Beaux Arts of the Champ de Mars,
Paris. NJ. Jacques Wachenheimer is the or
ganiZer of the exhibition. and after its close he
proposes to sell it to the French Government.
AS man was walking along the Ham,
mersmith road, near London, carrying tame
fox under his arm, mastiff approached from
behind and so startled the fox that it sprang
from the mans arm and darted along the road
at full speed with the mastift in pursuit A
dozen other dogs joined in the chase and the
fox eventually was run to earth In drain
hole.
George Sheldon, second engineer of
the steamer City of Milwaukee, died of rheu-
matism at Mt. Clemens Sunday night. Four
years ago Sheldon was on the iee-bound
steamer Michigan, in Lake Michigan. He
walked ashore 30 miles and then returned and
piloted the crew ashore, after which he re-
turned to the steamer and remained with her
until she went down.
According to a Virginia paper the Oldest
person in that State, if not in the nation, Is
Sarah Gaddess, a colored woman, of Oreide,
Taylor county. She was a slave in an old Vir-
ginia family when the Revolution began, and re-
membered distinctly circumstances OF that
her age at 130 years. She lives alone, caring for
herself with the aid of neighbors, who erected
a small house for her, the whole community
to her support.
-"When you are ready to put away furs
and woolens and want to guard against the de-
predations of moths pack them securely in
paper flour sacks and tie the latter up well.
This is better than eamphor or tobacco or snuh
scattered among them in chests or drawers.
Before putting your muffs away for the sum-
mer twirl them by the cords at the ends so
that every hair will be straight. Put them in
their boxes and paste strip OF paper where
the lid fits on"
Count Punonrostro, prominent Spanish
nobleman, has Just died IN Madrid. He was
called Count Fist-in-the-Face," and got the
name oddly He was once a game-keeper. and
being called liar by Charles V. for having
claimed to have killed a certain bird, he slug
ged his Majesty in the face. The king doomed
him to DEATH but afterward finding he was
correct and admring his pluck, said: II not
only pardon you but attach you to my person
and make you Count of Punonrosrro (Flst-in-
the-Face)."
While exercising a horse at Fort Col
lins. COL, the animal became enraged and at
tempted to bite its leader. The trainer sue
ceeded in preventing the furious beast from
iniuring him until the halter broke, when the
animal picked him up by the shoulder and
threw him to the ground with great Y1olencej
then burying his teeth in the flesh OF the pros
trate man the brute trampled upon him. The
trainers chest was crushed, three ribs were
broken and the flesh on all parts Of his body
was bruised and crushed.
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