Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A young burglar at Bangor, Me-, aiter
breaking into house. contented himself with
stealing some candy.
The wolf recently hunted at Littiz was
stunned" with a club before the dogs got Att,
and it will be hunted again as soon as it sufa-
ciently RECEIVERS.
G. S. ReviIIe. of Columbia county, Ca,
has an infant daughter y months old that
knows every letter in the alphabet, and can
count as high as 100.
An eccentric old lady, living near
Dresden, Tenn, has purchased her burial
robe. She is 20 years old and insists that she
cannot last much longer.
AT Tallapoosa Church, Ga, last Friday,
Mr.. Anthony Crumley, who died aged IS, and
his sister, Mrs. FerreIl, who died aged 80, were
buried in the same grave.
mo money paid or being given at this
office for votes" is the notice which Reading,
Pa, Alderman. who is candidate for re-elec-
ton, has posted in his office.
Eight different brewers in Cork have
amassed fortunes exceeding s6,OO0OOO each,
and most of the money has come from the men
who buy by the glass or pint.
"A Cincinnati man who has preserved
record of $40 railroad accidents happening in
this country in the past year, finds that only 13
out of the lot occurred from causes beyond
human control
"A Burlington, N. j., couple started
few nights ago to row across the river to call
on some Bristol friends, when the fog de-
scended around them and they were lost.
Ihey dr11ted on the river all night.
John Mclaughlin, of Crescent City,
was walking along the bush a few days ago
when lie picked up a piece of quartz at the
of a oil II
that he took it home and extracted IS.
AT recent great ball at the Russian
court all the ladies appeared in white, without
any other ornament than diamonds, pearls and
their own beauty. The Empress herself was
present and danced in nearly every dance.
Prince Albert of Monaco is said to in
tend to devote the $500 per year that he gets
from the gamblers to the completion of the
Cathedral and other public improvements. He
is very wealthy him self and has an enormously
rich wife.
"A widow in New York has, 1T is said,
brought suit for damages against well
known neurologist for taking her husbands
brain, and also for violating alleged con-
tract to give her 81 600 for using her husband as
medical object lesson.
w. S. Rawles, of Peru, has a silver
spoon which was among the plunder taken
from British gunboat by party Of American
soldiers among whom was his grandfather in
17S1. and the spoon has been in the possession
of the family ever since.
The postage on letter from the United
States through England to India is cents The
postage on letter mailed in England for India
is 10 cents. On account of this the English
business public is making big kick against the
English postal department.
The authorities in Berlin have just dis
n 70 OH
vent the law prohibiting the importation of
American hogs into Germany. American hams
are now taken to Holland, where they are
smoked and then sent over the frontier as
Dutch hams.
-Vaqueros driving a band of cattle to
Sierra City, last month were overtaken by the
great snow storm. They knew the locality of
haystack, however which they reached by
sinking a shaft % feet in depth through
the :snow and by that means secured feed for
their live stock.
The latest attraction of the London Zoo
is a collection of monitor lizards, the largest
animals of their class. They so large and
strong that it is said in India burglars some
times make use of them, seizing hold of the
lizards tail and being drawn by it to the upper
windows of house.
One London belle who IS going to at
tend the carnival at Nice has ordered her
black satin evening dress to be trimmed with
jet snakes. These snakes are to be Hfe-szed
and they will cost deal of money. They are
to be cOiled about the bodice and SKIRT in as
natural a manner as possible.
The first mosquitoes of the season were
seen in Jersey City on Wednesday last. Tues
day, it will be remembered. was unusually
warm and muggy. and Wednesday began with
a dense fog and a May temperature When
the sun broke through this fog about 10 o'clock,
mosquitoes were seen in every part of the city.
English stoats and weasels are being ex-
ported to New Zealand from England in large
numbers to kill off the rabbits, and the rats,
which have been food for the stoats and
weasels in England. are increasing enormously
in some districts. There is talk of a movement
to prevent the expectation of any more rat de-
stTOyers.
"A few days ago John Ball, of Rochelle,
Ca, had a log rolling, and about Il o'clock,
while the men were at dinner, an old hen came
in the house, jumped upon the bed, deposited
an egg, which one of the small children took
to carry to his mother, and on the way he acei-
dentally dropped the egg, which was broken,
and to the astOnishment of those present, it
was found to contain a chicken fully developed.
An italian rag picker, arrested IN
Springfield. Mass, for stealing some lead pipe,
did not have much trouble ayout bail "HOw
much you wanta?" he queried, as he fumbled
in his ragged clothing and produced two 500
bills beside other greenbacks of high denomi-
nations. ''Guess one of those will bring you
around to court in the morning. remarked the
clerk, and the Italian Immediately handed oyer
SlO0.
w. G. Lewis, of Braidentown, Ga, has
two very pretty pets, and those, too, which are
seldom, If ever seen alive. They are male and
female sea otter, about half grown. They
were captured near Mitchellyille, are about Is
inches long, including the tail. The food given
them is fish, and almost anything frOIp the
table. The strange cry that they make is
rather mournful, but they appear to be at
home in box, and appear to know Mrs. Lewis,