Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Children are punished Tor coughing IN
school IN Brooklyn.
AT McKinney's station, Lake Ianoe, up
to the 9Th inst, there was registered 10 lncnes
of rain and AZ inches of snow.
"A North Carolina man got the names OF
SO of his relatives on his petition for post
office, and presented 1t to the President
The spread OF the English language IS
indicated by the fact that it was used IN the
framing of recent treaty between Russia and
China.
"A court at Kansas City, Mo-, has decided
that colored man can be refused admittance
not only to theater, but to hotels, puDhc
balls, etc.
Two boys of La Harpe, ILL.,, engaged in
banana-eating contest. One of them ate l675;
the other closed with I6 and is now under
physicians care.
Eight varieties of leprosy are recognized
In China and the disease is regarded as con-
taglous. infectious and hereditary but is said
10 disappear in four generations.
"A London confectionery store gives to
every purchaser of a shilling's worth ticket
emitting the purchaser to have one photograph
Oh nerself taken at an establishment upstairs.
Martin Corcoran and Mike Monigan
went out deer hunting few days ago near Ver-
non, - U Before the day was over the former
Henry Zimmerman was plowing in a
field near White River, Kern county, last
Thursday, when he turned up an old-fashioned
hint-lock muSket The barrel was nearly ruined
by rust.
AN English naval officer has invented
pneumatic line-throwing gun, very light and
portable, which fires hollow shell, bearing the
cord to a wrecked vessel, or into burning build
ings on dry land.
Runaway marriages are so common in
Georgia an exchange reports, that many
parents deposit injunctions with the licensing
officials forbidding the issuing of marriage
licenses to their children.
"A Parliamentary investigation into the
running of trains on railroads entering London
from the south shows that upon an average
only about GO per cent of all the passenger
trains enter the city on time.
Some Bay City young men have formed
Worlds Fair club. Their scheme IS to pay 30
cents week each into general fund until the
fair is held, when the money will be used by
the club to attend the big show.
AN English travelling harpist has been
discovered cheating the railroads by carrying
his little girl done up in the green bag with his
harp. He had Travelled so all about England.
and had paid no fare for the child.
The sudden appearance of mouse on
the floor of the English House of Commons a
few nights ago, upset the dignity of the emf
nent gentlemen near it, and led to a little panic
that made it necessary to drop business for
awhile.
"A wooden vase, charred by fire, that was
taken from the burned residence of Secretary
Tracy in Washington is an object that attracts
considerable attention in the window of
George L. Weber's crockeTy store, 1877 Gratio5
avenue.
Tobacco smoke quickly eoDtaminates
delicate fruit of all kinds. A few whiffs blown
upon box of raspbeIries will entirely destroy
the delicate flavor Of the fruit and render it un-
palatable.' The same may in degree be said of
strawberries.
"A native movement to break up certain
Hindoo customs has been started in Bombay.
BY it no sons are permitted to marry under IL
and no daughters under 10. No man is to marry
after 80 or marry second wife during the life
time of the first.
M. Nicolai, the engineer at the head OF
the commission that has been investigating the
question of Siberian railway for the Russian
Government, has reported that the whole line
can be completed by 1900, at an expense of
about $3.50, 100000.
The old-tlme practice of red ink cancela-
tion in the matter of back tax entries has re-
ceiyed severe setback in Detroit. The City
Clerk has discovered that the taxes on six lots
for 1882, 1888 and 1884 nave been cancelled Dy
some interested party.
Many Mormons do not accept their de-
feat very gracefully. as several respectable gen.
tile families have been notified to get out OF
their houses and in several cases they Aeve
been notified they would be thrown out if they
did not get out in time.
There are 100000 conveniences which
the traveller through older portions of the state
uses, and hardly appreciates. but at Atlanta,
Montmorenci county, every man. woman and
child knows that the first hotel register ever
used there has just been brought to town.
AS an instance of the growth of the
Australian colonies, it may be noticed that
during the last seven years the land under
tillage in Victoria has increased by 100000
acres, and the ratable value of country lands
has increased from E55 COZ to E95, 100000.
In Siam you can get good board for 45
cents a week, and this includes washing. the
use of two servants to run errands, tickets to
shows, three shaves and all the cigars you can
smoke. This sounds delightful until you learn
that it is almost impossible to earn As cents a
week in Siam.
Monday was washday for two gangs of
tramps who have established winter quarters
Just outside of Belleville, Mo. They live in
dugouts and keep big bontires blazing day and
night, and are well supplied with food. includ-
ing chickens. eggs, etc. On Monday they hung
out their clothes lines and the variety of their
apparel attracted the attention OF all passers.
Secretary Ballour, while in Dublin re-
Gently. met Catholic priest who did not belong
to the Nationalist party. Are the Irish people
as bitter against me as certain newspapers say
they are?r asked Balfour. "Since You have
asked me will tell you the truth, ~ answered the
priest. IF our flocks hated sin half as cordially
as they hate you there would be no use for
priests in Ireland"
William Mason, of Bluehill village,
Me-. thinks he has a gold mine on his farm
He keeps ducks. and the ducks spend most Of
their time in a certain newly-deepened pool of
water not far from the farm house. Several
ducks killed this winter have had bits of gold
in their crops, and William thinks this rich
food comes from the pool so he is going to dig
it out this spring.
"A Fairfield, Me-, pastor took for his
text last Sunday the words: Gold and silver
have not. but such as 1 have give unto YOU"
One of the pillars of the church listened at
tentiyely to the discourse, and when the box
was passed found that the text exactly de-
scribed his financial condition, so he wrote it
on a slip OF paper. signed his name and put it
into the contribution box.
"A farmer in Ludington, Mich, owns a
pig which is a marvel in its way The animal
is of the razor-baek variety. fleet as a gray
hound, and its peculiar usefulness lies in its
ability and skill as a rabbit hunter. The pig
always follows its owner on his rabbit shooting
trips and will chase the game with as keen
scent and round it up within gunshot with as
much skill as any dog huntar ever shot overn