Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Berlin women have formed league to
| wage war on the corset.
Thirteen thousand mules are sold at
| Marshall, Mo-, every year.
"A novelty in mems hats is fac simile
Of the "stove pipe" made Of straw.
About twice as much power is required
to stop an express train as to start one.
Rival sauires are marrying eloping
couples free of charge at Jetfersonville, Ind.
The mayor of Philadelphia receives
$12, coo year, the mayor of New York re-
cefves $4,000.
"A sensible dog at Auburn, Me-, regu-
larly disappears in the country on July 3,
and doesn't come back till the racket is
over.
George Schweich, merchant of Rich
mond, Mo-, owns the table upon which the
Book of Mormons was written He values
it at 5000.
George G. Curry has arrived at Van
oouver from Alaska in dugout canoe 1t is
said he is the only white man who ever made
that journey in such craft.
A club of whistling girls has been or
ganized in Brewer, Me-, and it is rumOred
that concert will soon be given, at which
the club will make its first appearance.
AT Butte, Mont, E. J. Thomas and his
wife, while in bed, were struck by lightning
and instantly killed. their infant, which was
sleeping between them, escaping injury.
in Douglas, Wyo., two servant girls
sued q woman who keeps hotel for their
unpaid wages. The case was tried by
women lawyers befor jury of Il women.
The life insurance carried by John
wanamaker amounts to 81, 100000, which is
distributed in 29 different companies. The
premiums on these policies amount to S60-
600 q year.
Sheriff West, of Camden, n. j., has
seized a cemetery lot owned by Jacob
Stanger, on execution issued at the suit of J.
J. Knight, who secured Judgment against
him for So.
Micb., lately traded her horse to a tinware
peddler for Is milk pans, two dippers and a
bucket, and her neighbors declare that she
got the best of the bargain
The New York girl who lost her en-
gagement ring in wash basin only to find
it two years later in the gutter, where 1t had
been washed from an open sewer, had mean-
time been married and widowed
Chicago, located upon the shores of
Lake Michigan. is just now so much in need
Of pure water that capitalists are preparing
to invest s1,O00,OO0 in piping water from q
Wisconsin spring to be sold in that city.
Sir William Siemen's method of apply
ing electric light to grow flowers and fruit by
night or on cloudy days has been employed
with good success on board q West India
steamer to- keep alive exotic vines and other
plants.
One of the prettiest shows in MARSHALL
1 Vile, Ga, in q peach orchard of 5000 trees
planted by the compass in squares, well
titled, beautifully trimmed and each limb
gracefully bending under the precious bur-
den of fruit.
While an Auburn, Ind, barber was
shaving customer a boy threw a lighted
firecracker under the chair. The explosion
startled the barber, the razor glanced into
the customers throat, and Il surgeon had to
be called TO sew the wound.
"A man walked into a Lowell, Mass,
barroom last week, bought 25 cents worth of
cigars and offered 81, 900 bill in payment.
He was somewhat taken aback when the
saloonkeeper pocketed the bill and counted
out for change 1893 Is in silver.
"A Battle Greek, Mich, man has
patented typewriter for musical compo-
sers. The copy which it makes can be pho
tographed and a plate reproduced for print
ing which is said to be much better than
plates made in the ordinary way.
Artificial grindstones, made of a mix
ture of pulverized quartz, powdered flint,
powdered emery or corundum, and rubber
dissolved by q suitable solvent, are now
by years any actual stone known
"A marble slab has been placed on the
house in which Paganini died in Nice. The
inscription concludes with: 1.-THE powerful
bow that drew forth magic sounds now lies
inert, but its supreme sweetness still sur
wives in the scented breezes of Nice"
"A horse at Irvington, Cal, that was an
noyed while taking his daily meal from
bucket by a flock Of hens especially by one
oh han dou frfrn lie hrroE E-a%
over on his tormentor and left her impris-
oned under it, where she remained tilt the
next morning.
The method of purifying water invented
by DR.. William Anderson, and now employed
at Antwerp with success, consists in passing
the water through a slowly revolving cylin-
der containing metallic iron in the form of
scraps or filings. The estimated cost of puri-
flying 100000 gallons in this way is about
"A horse in Macomb, Mich, has been
used to go to church every Sunday with his
owner for years. Last Sunday, for reasons
best known to himself he left the horse at
stood the faithful animal in his accustomed
place, by the church, waiting for him, but
without the carriage.
According to the "Annual of the French
Army for ls91," the standing army will con-
tain next year $40, COS men. and will show an
increase over this year of 324 officers, 7,4l0
men, and ,01s horses. The an nual gives the
total number of officers, doctors and other
officials of officers rank as $1,000 The esti-
mated expenditures for the army next year
is S134 100000
An old brindls COW belonging to an
Indiana man broke into another's field, and
in court the owner of the field proved that
the COW destroyed the following mentioned
property, to-wit: Two 4-year-old cherry
trees, apple. trees, pear trees, plum tree,
100 head of cabbage, Il rows of beans
rods long, row of beets u rods long, 80 to
100 sweet potato plants, l bed of onions,
grape vines and IA blackberry bushes.
Rev. DIR. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, says that
Haruce Greeley once told him that he be-
lieved that at the time of his young man.
hood in New Hampshire he was the only tee
totaler in the State. DR.. Cuyler further
SAYS, upon the authority of DR.. Ly man
Beecher, that in those times, when the Con-
gregational Ministers Association of Con-
necticut hel d a dinner, the place whore they
dined had SO much whisky in it that IL
arnellad like n barrOOm.