Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

fore found impossible.
"A movement is on foot in Florida to
cultivate Japanese bamboo. not only for its At
tractiveness, but for Its utility.
"A census enumerator discovered FAM
ily of ten children in San Francisco who were
all clubfooted and knoekkneed.
According to the Wilmington Every
Eyentng nail was found in the heart of
COW that died near there recently.
The general manager of the Magazins
du Louvre in Paris gets salary of $4,000
year, with percentage on the profits.
The colored women of Atehison have
organized a woman's exchange and everybody
who desires them can now obtain corn bread
and fried catfish.
"A gentleman who drew out his pipe for
an after-dinner smoke in the Grand Hotel,
Paris was Immediately told that the rules of
the house did not allow pipes.
The employees of the British Admir-.
atty, War Office and Post Office have begun
the formation of union of governments work.
men. for strike or other purposes
"A recent hail storm at Alusa, Cal, ex-
posed the fact that bats live in the green foliage
Of trees during the summer. The hailstones
Knocked good many to the ground.
Robert Pihgey, good farmer near
Marshall, hurt his finger with rusty hay fork
the other day and died Wednesday of blood
poisoning. He left widow and several chill
dren.
w. s. Williams, Of Cherokee county,
Ala, is the father of 2S children, the eldest Of
whom is 40 years old and the youngest d. Mr..
Williams Is in his 10Th year and is still hale and
vigorous.
Potter Palmer patronizes his own hotel
and restaurant occasionally, and when he does
be pays his way the same as if he were guest.
He has the check handed 70 him and pays 1t to
the waiter. whom he never tips.
During a marriage ceremony in a
church a. Christianburg, Va, recently, goat
walked in and broke up the party by giving the
groom grand send-oH with his head. The
bride fed to the pulpit for safety.
While baby was sitting in the middle
Of the street at Oxford. Me-, nursing from its
bottle. a teamster drove over it, Fortunately
the horse stepped little to one side and the
baby passed between the wheels uninjured.
"A man who was in the woods near Daw-
son on last Saturday saw a small rattlesnake
faseinate bird almost into it's mouth. The
bird. in flying circles, almost reached the snake,
when it suddenly fell to the ground dead, no
doubt from terror.
II. M. S. Blenheim, just launched,
will be the king Of cruisers. She is of 1900
tons displacement 2O,OO0 horse power, u knots
speed for four hours, unarmored, with steel
deck 6H inches thieK, two 22-tons guns, and
other small arms.
ALI through New Mexico, Arizona and
some parts of Colorado, and also in old Mexico,
no rain has fallen for months, thousands upon
thousands Of range cattle are lying dead in the
parched valleys, and thousands more are dying
Tor want of grass and water.
The town clock at Sarnia, Ont, stopped
recently, and its custodian, in seeking the
cause, found that the hands had been securely
Tied down by strands of twine and grass by a
pair OF English sparrows that had selected the
angle formed by the hands az site for a nest
"A cane, with which Bill Nye has been
presented. brought over from London, has
carved on the handle head and face of that is
said to bear remarkable resemblance to
James WhItcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, who
used to be partner of Nye's in the lecture and
general lyeeum line.
"A young lady of Altoona observed by
the roadside a wild rose, upon one of the
branches of which was growing a small bunch
of burrs. healthy and perfect in every particu-
lar, as was also the rose branch to which they
were slngularly attached, freak of nature
which Is unexplainable.
When a gang OF men were trenehing on
Washington street. Bradford. they struck
which was four feet under the ground and
was covered with wide board. The tarrel
was intact, but it was empty, and how iI was
buried in the center Of the street and for what
purpose is a conundrum.
The ''fattest girl ID Paris" Victorei
Fantin. died Sunday and was buried Thursday
with great eerem ony. She was OILY I9 years
IF age, and weighe d 40 pounds. She was en-
gagged at the Eden Fheater, but her size was
such that she made very few appearances. It
required seven strong men to assist her from
her house to the stage
The smallest newspaper in the world is
published at Arp. Banks county, Ga. 1t is Tx
inches. 1t is named The Boss, and is edited
BY W. A. Harris, who claims, in his salutatory
that the paper is perfectly normal product.
yet it appears to be the representative of a
literary club. labratory an alliance, broom
factory and flying machine.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropics find It
10 beneficial that they often retain it in all
attitudes. 1t is simply broad band Of flannel
worn night and day the year around tight about
'udden changes in temperature. It is an excel
ent preventive Of stomachic disorders.
Perhaps the most wonderful currant
,ush ever seen is owned by r. Lonhen, Of May
lille, N. j. He found the bush growing wild
n the woods, brought it home and planted it
" the side of the house, The bush has grown
ID the side of the building to the height of
bout 20 feet, and is about seven feet wide,
,eariDg currants as large as an ordinary cherry.
AN English woman resident in SYRIA
eports the discovery near Beyroot, Of a bed
tead made of gold and silver and Inlaid with
,recious stones. An inscription upon it in En-
lish characters states that it belonged to
eleanor Queen of England. The bedstead
vas discovered IN a cave, and Is supposed to
ave been placed tn ere for security when Ed
gard left the East.
A novel race is soon to come off In
Vest Chester. Each contestant is to wear
aced shoes, and all the shoes are to be taken
# and placed in barrel. The runners then
tart from mark, run Is yards to the barrel,
lick out their own shoes, put them on, lace
hem up and then run 100 yards to a mark. The
nan who gets over the entire route first. with
hoes properly laced, will be the winner.
BY the English law heirlooms are ex-
mpt from probate duty. so the Duke OF Ham
lton paid nothing on the treasures of his
alace when he came into possession in 1853.
But when he sold them they ceased to be heir
ooms. it appears, and the Board of Inland
Revenue has shocked His Grace with sudden
et1and for ElS0O0, or per cent, on the f300-
Oo realized from the Hamilton palace sale.