Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-Earls are dying off at the rate of 20 pc

-Earls are dying off at the rate of 20 per
annum.
"A resident of Parker's Ford, Pa, is
said to have a ring dove which is q years
old and has been in one cage all his life.
james Clark, of New Moorefeld, o. has
| a cat which has adopted an infant polecat,
| and Is as attached to 1t as to her own Kittens
"A large deer ran through the principal
| streets of Bangor, Me-, one day last week.
1t was pursued by crowd of men and boys
and captured.
There is man in Winsted, Conn, who
belongs to q secret societies. four volunteer
fire organizations, nine military companies
and three churches.
"A Partisan electrician has succeeded in
forcing violets by the aid of his battery, and
recently sent bunch of these fiedglings only
four hours old to the Empress Eugene.
I'm the 351 towns and cities of Massa-
chusetts 24s now have free public libraries,
and the State has lately provided aid for the
103 small towns and villages which have no
libraries
Three California lions were recently
killed by hunter in Fresno county. One Of
them measured fully eight feet from tip to
TIP ana is being stuffed. The other two were
nearly as large.
IhC tCo VI VI Odpdu Is COuStdHbly III
creasing while that of China is diminishing.
The increase is at the rate of more than g.
10000 pounds yearly. Most of the Japanese
tea is consumed in the United States and
Canada.
"A Sedalia, NO., china store exhibits as
sign SIS plates, 16 pitchers jars, 2 wash
bowls and l5-gallonjug. The plates have a
hole in the center and are screwed on boards
and frame work extending to the top of q
three-story building.
-Meissonier was proud of his shapely and
delicate hands. He said that his fingers were
so sensitive that he could with his eyes shut
lay on the exact amount of color that he
wanted on given spot if somebody placed
the point of the brush upon it.
Boston is the only city in the world
which preserves an exact record of the pro-
ceedings of its Common Council. Every
motion, argument and remark, no matter
how unimportant, is stenographically taken
down. The members are, therefore, very
careful of their utterances.
One great trust is about to go out of ex-
istence, having completed its work. 1t had
charge of the sale of $4,000 acres of land be-
longing to five railroads now forming the
Omaha Railroad Company. In II years the
trust sold $50, ,OC0 acres of land and brought
zoo, 600 people into Minnesota.
The Mad King of Bavaria sometimes
smokes as many as 100 cigarettes day. For
each cigarette he uses an entire box of
matches, touching of the others to see them
burn after he has used one to secure light
He has two new suits of black broadcloth
lnade Tor him twice every week.
Mrs Leavitt, who has been upon tenn
perance crusade around the globe, tells the
women of Chicago that the dailh routine in
India is: A soda with dash of whisky after
arising; a like drink before and after each
meal, and whisky with soda before retiring.
This system is known as "pegging away"
Two rival department stores in Chicago
had war over business the other day One
store began by offering to sell dozen BAN
anas for cent. The other offered three
dozen for cent and the rivalry waxed hot
ter until for an hour nice bananas were sold
at ten dozen for cent. Many fruit venders
bought.
-Crickets are bought and sold in various
parts of Africa. People capture them, feed
them and sell them as the natives are very
fond of their music, thinking that it in
duces sleep. Superstitions regarding the
cricket's chirp are varied; some believe that
1t is ominous of sorrow and evil, while others
consider it a harbinger of joy.
One Zimmerman, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids, Mich, was
sweeping the floor of a saloon near that in
stitution the other day when word was
brought to him that he had fallen heir to a
fortune of s66,OO0, left by a relative in Ger
Ina o 10 .h I.em i1" HT"n en9 otooni' IeaTLng
i+ ri IL Inu attio ~ 'ne anu mas mas
wealth.
A noveI ntan for ev+i,,,,,;sb;,r ,
cburcb ,ett hos, f,ao,, ti+ 49,, ~ STaIh,,71na
THO cI,,,-ch co-n-oi+tsa ~ ,as.r a 49,
He ~ ~ ..--inl -. -, % Sno
case may oo-u,vluo Cno so'al ueDe among
themselves anu each man lnsures MS nle LOT
the amount that falls to his share. The poll
cfes are transferred to the church, and the
annual payments on them are made out or
the collectlons. Ihen, OF course, as the
members OF the committee drop on, the
sums insured on thelr lives drop In, ana
later, when the last committeeman IS DEAD,
the last 1nstallment OF the church DEBT viii
be paid The plan mas the merlt-lf merit IL
bility for the continuance of the indebted
ness unou Providepce