Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

OUhIUUO CUNUENOAl1Vn
They had canary birds flying about dur
ing recent New York dinner party.
Philip Grifiths, of Easton, Pa, broke
his leg a few days ago by suddenly turning In
bed.
-Muskegon. Mich, ladies are to havethe
privilege of the Y. NJ. O. A. gymnasium twice
a week.
1t is computed that there are now about
IL 900 nickel-in-the-slot machines in use in this
country.
An Atchison man is soon to marry the
woman who stood sponsor for him when he was
baptized as baby.
The water to operate the mill at Monroe
City, No. is hauled from Palmyra in an oil
tank At a cost of S. car.
The underground system of telegrsphs
of the German Empire. it is reported. has q
total length of $500 miles.
-Boston's system of parks includes 1,o42
acres, and the city has expended upon them for
the purchase of land and construction about
s6.OOO.OOO
IT A. Mann, Of Minden, Neb., becom-
ing enraged at a COW. tied her in stall and
sawed her legs of. He was compelled to fee to
escape lynching.
When the carpet has been soiled by ink
instantly apply plotting paper, then nilk, then
blotting paper. and so on until the spot is out,
asst will be. Don't rub.
There has been heavy fall OF snow in
the lnmber regions of Northern Wisconsin,
which is worth hundreds of thousands Of dol.
lars to the lumber trade.
AS Howard Hall was starting an cleo
trio motor in Bridgeport. Conn.,. few days ago,
"a bright blaze shot out from the dynamo and
burned his mustache off,
The German navy will have 81 more
vessels in active service this year than last year
The total number to be assigned to duties last
ing from three to ten months is o.
DR. Sullivan Whitney, the first Ameri-
can physician to manufacture homeopathic
remedies, died at Newtonv1lle Mass, on
Wednesday at the age Of 50 years.
Mrs. John Knox, of Portland, Mich, is
dying of paralysis. She was first afflicted three
| ical aid, being firm believer in faith cure.
There is said to be a railway in Mexico
| on one section of which the ties are mahogany,
| simply because in thai part of the country ma
| hogany is the cheapest and most available
| wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Wohlford, of
Roanoke, Ind, celebrated their golden we'd
| ding the other day, and among the guests were
five who attended the original ceremony half q
| century ago.
John McQuay, of Talbot county, Nd,
brought to Baltimore this week terrapin found
| in WYe river. 1t weighed six pounds. At the
market rate it would sell for SO 80. 1T is the
| largest terrapin seen IN Baltimore in recent
| years"
1t is proposed in Paris to do away, as
! far as possible, with lunatic asylums, and to
place insane persons who are not prone to
violence IN the homes of county people, who
will be suitably remunerated by the State.
Charlotte Scott, the colored woman who
contributed the first SIS paid toward monu-
| ment for Abraham Lincoln IN Washington, and
| whose name is on that account inscribed in
bronze on the base of it, died last Saturday.
The discovery of freak in the shape of
a wonderful boy contortion1st at Bucksport,
| Me-, who "can tie himself into knots that
would astound professional Is the latest
Maine contribution to the multiplied wonders
| of the world.
There died in Wixom, Oakland county,
Mich, Tuesday morning. Mrs. Lucy Wixom,
widow of the late Abijah Wixom. She was 81
| years of age in October last. Her twin sister,
| Mrs. Wood. died about a week before in Port
| land, 1onia county.
"A Chinese laundryman at jackson,
Mich. has in his window a Chinese water lily
received few days ago from the Celestial
| Kingdom. The plant looks like the blue Dag
and on the end of each leaf bears a cluster Of
frag rant blossoms
| -Chesaning, Mich, has a religious
fanatic who goes into frances and converses
with the angels. While in this state he can be
lanced to the bone without bleeding the wound
| healing in a few hours. His name is KaiEsr
| Hoffman and he Is a Roman Catholic.
| Turkish soldiers are said to be very
poor marksmen. Recent target contests in the
| Turkish army 'demonstr ated' that not one
| IN,
target about four feet in diameter, placed 30
rods away. was hit on an average only once out
of go shots.
Miss Louise Littell, of Saginaw, has
heroically sacrificed portions of her skin for
the benefit of her sister Sarah, who was horri-
of skin one inch wide and seven inches long
have been traDsplanted from one sister to the
other with every indication of success.
Edward Lennon, who carried pike in
the Irish rebellion of l79S, died few days ago
IN Brooklyn at the reputed age of los years.
According to papers and records, which he had
preserved for many years. he was born in
| County Derry, Ireland, some time in l7S5. He
was a mere lad when the rebellion was in prog
ress, but he went to the front and was placed
IN garrison.
Near Tanga, in German East Africa, an
important series OF staIactite caverns has been
| lately discovered. They are in a system Of
Jurassic limestone and. it is said, the cayerns
surpass any similar ones in Europe. both in ex-
| tent and size. Millions of bats seem to be the
| only present occupants of the interior. Africa
| already possesses one of the cavernous wonders
| of the world-the stalactIte caves of Wonder
fontein, in the Transvaal.
"A strange accompaniment of recent
snow storm at Deerdeld, Me-, was the appear
ance of multitudes of little black bugs thas
| spotted the surface of the snow as If shaken
| from a pepper box. They were from one-six-
teeath to one-eigEth of an inch long, with two
| feelers and six legs They skipped about like
| fieas. and seemed to enjoy burrowing in the
soft snow" They were hrst observed an hour
after the storm ended. and disappeared during
the night.
The schooner D. K. Baker sailed for
New York from Charleston, s. c., on Tuesday
with her crew in irons. The men deserted the
preyious day. The captain secured police as
| sistance arrested them and took them aboard
| He hired an extra crew to 60 across the bar
and set the sails for him. When the sails were
set and drawing, the captain put the extra
crew aboard tug and sent them back to the
| civ remarking that hunger and mutiny
wouIdn't sail In the same ship, and they would
| get nothing to eat till they went to work."
A CORNER IN SMILES.