Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Electricity is now used to deter chicken
thieves.
The warmest place in Europe is said to
be Malaga.
Detroit will be 100 years old on July
"a, this year.
The name of Philadelphia debutants
is Miss Sybil Pine-Cofin.
There is an average of 1854 ties to q
mile Of railroad in this country.
"A sensational novelist in New York
turns out four novels year for $4,000.
One person in every ten who died in
New York in 1889 was buried in potter's
field.
"A Chase county, Kan, farmer has a
cornfeld in which the rows are three-ffths
of mile long.
London has muscular thief who has
pleaded guilty to stealing the entire plant Of
printing Office.
"A resident of Tioga, Pa, has an old
tomcat that he wants to back against any
fighting dog in the country.
London consumed in April, 1891, an
average of sac, 1853 gallons of water day
moro than it did in April, 1890.
"A Shawnee county, Kan, girl was so
anxious TO marry that she eloped with SC.
Louis man and took her grandmother with
her.
-Twenty-three thousand bushels of an
pies and pears made the last and greatest
cargo of fruit brought to London from Tas-
mania.
"A mammoth king snake with a double
crown, which has appeared annually at
Strausstown, BeEI1s county, Pa, for many
years, has just been seen again.
Members of the Weather Bureau should
know that the oldest known journal of the
weather was kept by a fellow of Merton Col
lege, oxford, during a. ID. 133744.
"A farmer of Winterbottom, Ga, re-
Gently, it is said, picked a dozen straw.
berries from his patch that weighed moro
than pound and overiowed pint meas
ure.
An italian immigrant who landed at
the Barge O1fice few days ago was so over
joyed at finding himself free American
that he dropped upon his hands and knees
and kissed the ground.
"A Member of Parliament proposes that
the Scotch deer forests should be bought
and converted into popular farms and pleas
ure grounds. The present rental of these
areas is about $4,000 year.
The Williams Bridge, N. Y, Board of
Trustees met on Monday evening, and the
President finding the meeting getting lit
tie ahead of him, drew a revolver and soon
had things going smoothly.
"A remarkable exhibition was opened at
Berlin the other day. The exhibitors are
the undertakers of Berlin, 50 of whom are
represented, and the exhibits are confined to
collins and funeral furniture.
AN artesian well near Albert Lea. Mimi.
which spouts both oil and water, often
changes the programme and sends out a
stream OF small minnows which are wholly
unlike any known species of fish found in
that vicinity.
"A strange and terrifying beast is prowI-
ing about Woodland, carrying off cattle and
soaring the fiercest dogs. No one has got
sight of it yet or identified it, but its tracks
have been measured and are about Is inches
long and broad, with long claws.
The wearing away of the cliffs on the
shores of England has of late attracted con-
siderable attention and the problem is being
attentively studied with the view of pre-
venting the erosive action of the waves as
well as of the streams that trickle down.
-Germany's new dispatch boat, Meteor,
is, excluding the torpedo boats, the fastest
craft afoat. Her length is 262 feet, width 81
feet, draught 13feet, with $50 tons displace-
ment. Her engines develop 5,000-horse
power, and at full speed she goes "a knots an
hour.
"A physician who kept nightly record
of his pulse for five years reports that every
year it falls through the spring until about
midsummer, and then rises through the
autumn to November or December. Then
comes a second fall and a second rise Gull
minating In February.
The managers of Brooklyn cemetery
advertise: Graves finely situated, sur
rounded by the beauties of nature, COM
a.
meeting every requirement of the human
family. People who have tried them cannot
be persuaded to go oelsewhere."
The witnesses for the defense in a libel
suit at Montreal testified that so high did
the character of the plaintiff stand that it
would be impossible to libel him. No one
would believe his traducers, and hence his
business standing could not suffer. On this
ground the jury returned a verdict for the
defendant.
Insanity among Hebrews is increasing.
In the lunatic asylums Of Prussia the num-
Der of Hebrews is said to have nearly quad
rupled in IS years. According to the Sta
tistics of the German Empire there are 3s9
insane Hebrews in every 1OO. 900 of their mum
insane Roman Catholics in the 100000.
The pastor of the Methodist Church in
Conn.,, has succeeded in getting a
clock for his church and in a very novel way
A week ago last Sunday he preached a very
long sermon, and at its close apologized for
the time consumed, explaining that where he
was before stationed he had clock to look
at occasionally. The hint was taken and
now a clock adorns the front of the gallery
The death of a Chicago woman the other
day is said to be the result of blood poison
ing, caused by wearing a pair of new silk
gloves. The first and middle fingers of her
right hand had been slightly pricked with
needle while she was sewing a few days ago.
In this WY, It is believed, the deadly poison
in the coloring chemicals used in the gloves
entered the blood.
The oldest freak in Connecticut this
season is double-headed duckling, belong
ing to resident of the Connecticut river
village of Essex, that his old duck Matched
on Sunday morning. The young duck is one
of large brood, and quite as hale and frisky
as the rest of the young ones. The heads are
united at the base of the little ducks neck.
He can eat twice as fast as the other duck
lings, and can '1ook two ways for Sunday" or
any other day.
When a new Bedford, Mass, grocer
entered his store the other morning he
heard a noise behind the counter, and upon
found that clam had seized
q mouse by one leg. and the rodent was
making desperate efforts to escape. The
grocer thought he would put the curiosity
in the window. but, on returning after Is
absence, found the clam had al
lowed the mouse to escape.
-Kittanning citizens are frightened over
, solar phenomenon seen at that place the
1ther day. While the sun was shining o
very large circle, comprising all the colors
Of the rainbow and entirely inclosing the