Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

AN English statistician estimates tho
worlds indebtedness at e15o, ,0o0,0ooooo.
"A Gadsden county, Florida, farmer ID
only % years old, yet he Is the proud father
of 30 fine, healthy children.
"A colored woman 105 years old Is work.
ing daily In the cotton fields near MARSHALL
Vile, Ca, for 10 cents per day.
A novel legal procedure the other day
In New York wns the calling Of Juror from
the box to testify for the defense.
1.-THE status Of women in the United
stutesr IL an optional study added to the
course OF the University Of Kansas.
"A sturgeon which weighed 375 pounds
was caught Wednesday In O net between
Castleton and New Baltimore, N. Y.
"A Viennese professor says that the
figure OF the average human male Is muoh
nearer perfection than that Of the female.
Lone Of the peculiar customs Of the East
Indian coolies called Lascars is the putting
OF u ring on the great toe when they marry.
The pastor Of the German Lutheran
Church ut Hartford, Conn.,, has just had his
salary raised $50 year solely because he
could drink lots Of beer.
"A red fox guards the barnyard Of
Butler county farmer and does the work
well. Chickens and geese are perfectly safs
AIOIu bnicNcS nnc1 NO 10 uTOuhus
There Is now a character known as
"Jack the dude kicker" who inhabits 81.
Louis. He has assaulted dozen fancifully
dressed young men during the past week.
"A resident of Minneapolis has fallen
heir to three big fortunes, all within the last
Is days. The smallest of the three is more
than $75, ,0O0 and all are from relatives totally
unknown to the lucky man.
"A middle-aged Russian, who arrived
the other day from Europe on the steamer
Elbe, wore long beard, one half of which
was pure white and the other half brown It
was striEngly curious SIGHT.
The English Parliament is about to pass
q bill authorizing any one magistrate to
order youth under 16 years Of age TO be
whipped by policeman If he stole an apple
from tree, or played at pitch-and-toss.
-Oroville, Ala, has bone1ess boy. He
is years old, weighs 25 or 30 pounds, cannot
stand" as his bones seem to be like
soft rubber; but he can scratch the base
Of his head with his feet, or roll himself into
q ball.
. The recent cold snap makes an "oldest
inhabitant' tell of the May of 1910 Ice
formed an inch thick ON river and streams.
Birds and flowers were frozen. The entire
corn crop was killed. Frost, ice and snow
extended into June and all attempts to raise
vegetable products failed.
I'm the lime region on Guinea Hill, town
Of Coxsackie, n Y, there is a lar1ze stream
of water that flows through an urifjervronnd
cave, a distance Of about f2 miles. TRADITION
says that an Indian once went in. the "hole''
for the purpose of making an exploration,
and he IS "exploring" yet
"A new trade, which promises to reach
extensive proportions, has sprung up lately
in the importation Of butter from distant
New Zealand. The butter is found to keep
HraI4r
pounds and upward and kept at temperar
fure not greater than 45 degrees.
"A Buffalo, N. Y, boy has broken two
black cats 20 harness. Any one who has
tried to break cats and teach them to stay
between Shafts knows what hard job It Is,
and the boy must have been extremely pa3
ebie barnass M, and down M t Street e.ar
dev'
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some interesting ngures showing the
cost Oh some OF tne guns used IN pne br1tash
lanu ANU anu sea selsce are 1.. -, " le-
cehe parlalleii'ary ~; iesurn. sIoin 'rls -
pears ~ onas % nanS n sums ast ~ sss ods
The 1o.inch er,is cost sss4S6 each. and tha
kinch - si0
=,
The dwellers around Negombo Lake,
near Ceylon. have a curious method OF
fr,,ltanfno fisb int, tho nat xvrfcII "a ba1d
.-sa.. - ~ ,,,a,, M, @,,,a,s ,,-o -
f.inra. ~ EAR, ,,fantafy1 1aavaa az. cocoe.
,,ai,55 s,,SfJar To tfosa which are hing M "a
decorations'at decor any festival. The dsh thus
alarmed jump netwards.
: "A wellknown actress who has been
an totr dririnr the mast season. bourht a
niokei.in.ths.slos accident insurance policv
for berself and for every member of hev
COMPANY every time she made Journey,
The organization was O singularly lucky
one and the well-knOwn actress reaped no
reward for her outlay, Not dramatic bone
was broken-not a theatrical drop of blood
she'd
:,
, Ill we may trust tne scientists, tne cave
dwellers wore gloves. The word itself
IA 90 old that fts roots 20 back To
.,,r,,,itive 1anouaoe nrIandshoe,, the
Germans call 1t: Among the Greeks,
homans anu s,sns9 Oy \ IgliI'arleS I.,n. 1ltS
Nv t,,se SioJ,e tenure and faith piedsed bv the
glove. The saxons set up as gloyemakers as
early as the seventh century.
The more the cigarette Ia lecislated
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lncrease vi o,VoO'Ho' LII i"foi 0i 1h@iOh VI VIZ
eurreh' year.
AN important discovery of Roman re-
r,eafr hna at hp8 m in