Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Ithaca, Mich, has one-pouDd baby.
Lexington, Ky., indies have organized
an anti-slang society.
Australia is the largest tea consuming
country in proportion to its population
"A pet coon attacked and nearly killed
his mistress at Piedmont, Wyo., few days
ago.
AT a newspaper exhibition in Paris
there are 5000 specimens of journalism from
all parts of the world.
Girls are no longer to be fogged in the
Such is the order Of the local government
board.
-Yale's Oldest living graduate Is said to
be Edward McCrady, Of Charleston, s. c.,
who came out in the class of 1870 with Presi-
dent Woolsey.
Seven countries of the size of Belgium
could be laid down within the borders Of
Kansas and yet leave 400, 900 square acres for
the coyotes to howl in.
There is but little demand for yachts in
England just now and an unprecedentsdly
large number are in the market. A boat
which cost f4,5oO to build was sold lately Tor
only s640.
"A Topeka girl refuses to marry man
who had paid for license because her
father was too old to support a son-in-law,
and the girl herself had too much sense to
obligate herself to support husband.
"A jeweler at Pleasanton, Cal, has .
live tarantula in glass jar, where he has
About two inches of dirt is all there Is in the
Jar, and how the creature lives is q mystery.
He seems as frisky as ever.
An Atchison woman who could not
afford TO buy mourning when her husband
died, wore the usual colors until he had
been dead about six months, when she sue
ceeded in saving enough money to astonish
everyone by appearing heavily covered
with Grape.
Foreign papers say that an American
named Hofting won 10000 francs at Monte
Carlo lately. The fortunate man, it is added,
was intoxicated at the time. The success
however, brought him to his senses as he
departed for Paris on the same day to the
great regret Of the croupiers.
The South Metropolitan Gas Company,
OF Salisbury, England, Is conceded to have
the largest gas holder ever constructed, and
the company is planning to build one even
larger. The one now in use is about 256 feet
over 100000 cubic feet of gas.
Following the suggestion of DIR. Varin-
court, OF the Department Of Agriculture in
Russia, large number of farmers have put
their cattle in blue spectacles to protect
tnelr eyes against the terrible light of the
snowy steppes. About 600 pairs OF the blue
spectacles are thus actually in use.
The number of cattle in Australia is
estimated at 100000, an increase of more
than 2,50o, 600 in the last Is years. Sheep have
also increased from % 900 600 to 90 900 600. The
people of England view these figures with
great satisfaction, inaSmuch as they indi-
cate an increased meat supply for the
mother country.
-Bartholdi has just completed two fe-
male figures, clothed in Alsatian costumes.
for the monument of Gambetta at Vile
d'Avray. One is bowed down with grief.
while the other seems full of hope. They
are intended to represent Alsace and LOr-
raine seeking refuge at the altar of France.
"A man named Hutch, living in Fancy
Bottom, near Weston, Mo-, last week stole a
wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary Bland, a
widow, and started to town with it, but got
stuck in the mud before he was a mile away,
and had to abandon the corn and wagon.
both Of which are now in the possession OF
the widow.
During the afternoon performance of
Terri1l Bros circus at Bushnell, ILL.,, black
bear broke loose from it's cage in the
menagerie and ran into the circus tent. Il
seized little child of George Fry's and
ably die. The brute was chased into the
country and captured.
North German Lloyd steamships in 1890
covered sl1 ,224 sea miles between Bremen
and New York, s64 S92 between Bremen and
Baltimore, 604, 500 between Bremen and South
America, S04,6sO on the East Asiatic service,
345, 900 on the Australian, "A, 200 on the Hong
kong, Japan, Sc, 900 on the Sidney-Samoa and
A, $50 on the Brfndisi-Port Said. Total, 3,63O,-
476 miles
"A little baby of Litchfeld., Mimi, has
an eye for figures, or rather has figures on
its eye. When the baby was about months
old '1'' was discovered just above and at
the left of the pupil of the baby's left eye.
Just below the figure a." and few daHys dHysseo ago
u figure %" became visible just below the
figure ''2".
-Workingmen in Springfield, Mass,
have formed a cooperative plan to secure
the best medical attendance and sanitary
inspection. Chicago has such an associa-
tion, which, 1t is said, works well. 1t is a
sort OF private hospital and sanitary corpo-
tion, whose objects are first, to keep from
getting sick, If possible; and secondly, to
keep from dying, If possible.
Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace, Of
Newcastle, Pa, were out hunting frogs the
other day and captured a creature not de-
scribed in the books. It is "a frog with
wings and q tail something like fantail
pigeon. It weighs exactly nine ounces.
The wings are composed of elastic-like skin
and when stretched out measured nine inches
from tip to tip. When the frog bird is in the
water the wings and tail fit closely to the
body and are hardly noticeable"
The practicability of telegraphing with
out wires has recently been demonstrated
by the success of several experiments Not
long ago Mr.. Preece, the head electrician Of
the postal telegraph system in England, sue
ceeded in establishing communication
across the Solent to the Isle of Wight, and
telegraphed also across the River Severn
without wires, merely using earthquakes at
q sufficient distance apart. 1t is now pro-
posed to make n practical use of this system
In communicating with lightships.
Children are born mimics as everybody
knows, but there happily is something
unique In the pranks Of two Portland, Me-,
babies, each under years old who recently
got a hammer, broke in a square of glass
and crawled through the hole thus made
into Portland residence and there amused
themselves by lighting matches and rum
mapfng over drawers and boxes, finally
emerging with q gold bracelet in each of the
iuvenfle pockets. When their mothers called
for an account of their movements, they
calmly announced that they had been play
ing burglars.