Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


"A Howell, Mich, justice of the peace
recently sentenced man to Is days in the
county jail for stealing an umbrella on rainy
day.
"A colored woman of Adairsville dropped
dead from heart disease Wednesday from the
effects Of applying snuff to her gums with q
tooth brush.
-Ninety-five cremations have taken place
in the crematory at Cincinnati, the latest one
last week. The crematory has been built only
!. two years.
"A cat at Tombstone, Ariz., is rearing
three young wildcat kittens that were captured
in the wooos by her master. She takes the best
OF care of them.
George Moss, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, mur-
! dered his wife and the jury says he must hang.
The condemned man says he is glad he was not
sentenced to prison for life, as he much prefers
ha"g gng.
Fred Simpson, of Ann Arbor, Mich, has
bob-taled cat which has inflicted her lack Of
tail on a litter of offspring The faculty Is at a
loss to explain the freak, and the kittens new
q ceaseless tale of woe.
The largest single dock in the world was
opened on March II last 70 the waters of Port
Jackson in Sydney harDor New South Wales.
It has taken in one steamer OF 69SO tons and
had room TO spare
AT meeting of the Central Labor
Union in New York yesterday it was decided
not to admit Socialists as members. The So
cialists were characterized as foreigners,
usurpers and nation wreckers.
Important revelations are expected when
the prisoners who have just heen released by
the Mahdi reach European civilization once
more. Among them are doubtless some who
have long been mourned as dead.
Maurice Dupont, young member Of
| af for, of fall In,
love with an Irish barmaid in Queenstown and
married her. He took his bride to the paternal
mansion and was royalty received.
A crazy man attempted to commit sui
eide in New York by hanging himself to a
moving cart yesterday. He was driven away,
| and then made vicious attack upon the people
| in the street. He was finally captured.
AT Fernandina, Fla, child, aged 18
months, of James Hazelt1ne, gave evidence Of
strangulation and putting a hand up to the
| mouth pulled out of its throat worm about
ten inches long and fully half inch in circum-
| ference.
| Every lobster has his name on him.
Look at one of his claws when he comes out Of
| the water. You can see it better than when he
| is older and has been boiled. He has his name
or the year he was born or something always on
| his claw.
"A fellow calling himself John the Bap-
tIst. but who is probably some other person al
| together has been swinging around the circle
| in Sanilac county, warning people to hee from
the wrath to come. He carries blue cotton
umbrella and wears a cockade.
Randall Drake, of Kalamazoo, is 81
years old, but within two months he has built
SO rods of fence, digging 70 postholes. and laid
a floor IN barn. Many of the sprndle-legged
| bicyclists of Kalamazoo of q and under, could
| take lessons from this patriarch.
The sands along the banks of the Co
lumbla river in Oregon. is an obstacle to rail-
way traffic, almost as difficult to overcome as
the snow blockades during the winter. Nearly
| every train is delayed on account of the ever
shifting sand hills covering the track.
Mr.. L. F. Strahler, of Waverly, o., has
in his possession three squirrels recently cap
tured in Pike county, that are regarded as rare
curiosities and are attracting great attention,
| One is an albino of the purest white in color.
with pink eyes, while the other two are jet
| black.
Postage stamp dealers are in all large
cities on the earth. ]. B. Moeus, Of Brussels.
Belgium, is acknowledged to be the leading
dealer and philatelist of the day. He has an
| immense establishment in the Galerie Bortlere
| of the Arcade Madelane and his investment In
| the business must be upward OF million francs
| j. W. Powers, the cotton king of Web
| ste county. Ga, proposes to grind up 100 bush
els of peas, the balance of a great crop fed to-
| his stock, and use the material as fertilizer
| for his cotton crop. The peas are worth from
| IS cents to 81 per bushel but he expects TO get
| better return from them in the manner indi-
Gated.
| "A number of women at Washington, az
| the suggestion of Susan B Anthony, have
| formed an organization called the Vino
| daughsis. with capital stock of coo in 50
| shares. Its object is the education of women
in political science, in art, literature and ply
| sical culture A building is to be procured for
| the use of the association.
A young Alderney COW on the farm Of
| John 3arger, in Seal township, o., recently
gave birth to twin calves which present the
| characteristics of two different breeds. One is
a deep red in color and has all the marks OF q
shorthorn. The other is black and resembles a
Holstein. They are regarded as a very strange
freak of nature among stockmen in that vi
cinity.
"A daughter of General Lyon, the Con-
necticur hero who served il the Mexican and
Civil Wars, and who left all his property to the
| Government to assist in carrying on the latter
war, has been found serving as a cook In a
graders camp near Denver, Col, where her
stated, also, that the wife of LincOlns first pri-
vate secretary, Frank Milton. is a cook on the
steamer st. Crolx, on Western river.
Gases of lead poisoning among the JAG
ouard weavers in a Swiss factory were traced
to the dust from leaden weights which are used
| by the weaVerS to carry the tnreadS OF tnelr
warp. After the varnish has been rubbed OF
from the weights the lead begins 10 wear away
and falls in fine particles among the dust on
the floor. In some cases the dust was as much
as S. sS6 per cent lead and even when the ut
most care had been taken or 10 per cent Oh
lead was found in it.
One of the marvels of electricity, and
one of the most striking of the Edison exhibits
at the Paris exposition. was the little instru-
| ment which enables the operator TO sign
check 100 miles distant. The writing TO be
transmitted is impressed on soft paper with an
ordinary stylus. This is mounted on cylinder,
which as 1t reVolVes, ''makes and breaks" the
| electric current by means of the varying In
| dentions ON the paper At the receiving end
| of the wire similar cylinder, moving IN ac-
| cnrate synchronism with the other, receives
the current on a chemically prepared paper. on
which it scribes the signatures in black let
ters on a white ground.
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.