Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

\ CURlUUS CUNDENSAIlUNS.
| Women are employed as hodcarriers in
Austria and ges 20 cents per day for it.
| In the interior of South America choco-
| late, cocoanuts and eggs are used as cur
| rency,
| -Double-decked street cars have been in
troduced in Washington and seem to work
! all right.
| "A strange monster unearthed in Chi
cago by Eugene Field is called Padiwhack.
| 1t has eyes in its sides.
Frank Smeltzer, of Van Buren,, Ark,
has a strawberry patch of IS acres. He en-
| ploys 600 hands to pick the berries.
London uses AZ gallons of water per
head for extinguishing fires, or $500 gallons
E4o.
The census returns show that the pop
ulation of New Zealand, exclusive of Maories,
numbers SIG, 600 an increase of 10000 since
| 1856
The causalty record of the English foot
ball season just over shows IL cases of death
directly attributable to injuries received in
matches"
Charges and fees paid bv the late DIR.
Magee to pass from the Episcopate of Peter.
borough to the Archiepiscopate of York
oihOoheCo W @oJJo0'
"A foreign matchmaker has patented a
device by which, an hour or two before q
clock runs down, the word "Wind" will ap-
pear at an opening in the dial.
His Majesty of Greece has the smallest
income of any sovereign, viz, $4,000 and
this includes 5000 each allowed him by
Great Britain, Russia and France.
I'm Memphis, Tenn, the other day three
white women were locked up to save them
from imaginary medical students who, they
supposed, wanted to dissect them.
A bear that had been caught in trap
near Shepherd, Mich, last week managed to
extricate itself by eating Off one of its feet,
which it left as memento of its visit.
The custom of distributing costly souve-
Mrs among the dancers at cotillons has
been abandoned in Paris Ladies are given
bouquets and gentlemen buttonhole orna-
ments.
An exchange says: Texas has Hogg
for Governor, a Pig for Judge, Lamb for
Senator, a Durham for Representative and
q Buffalo for Sheriff. Texas is great stock
State.
The Quadruple Delivery Machine Com
pany, just being fioated in England, offers
for penny your weight box of sweets
and an insurance policy. The latter, which
is for ELS, lasts for 2l days.
"a prominent cnuFCD III w est HnlIa0el-
phia displayed the sign outside its doors Oh
Sunday, much to the amusement of passers-
by: I'VE do not close our doors in hot
weather. Always cool"
The city of Jacksonville, Fla, protects
catfish in the river as scavengers. 1t is s5
fine to catch one of them, and the fish seem
to know it. The river is full of them, and
they vary in size from baby to a 3C0pound
man.
oil
crop of Southern California at e2JOO car
loads. In the four counties OF Los Angeles,
Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego these
would net the growers at present prices
about 100000.
"A tramp detected at Port Jervis, N. Y,
in the act of attaching TO the trucks of rail-
road car a novel contrivance for stealing a
seated on the contrivance he had journeyed
over 500 miles.
When the Scotch-Irish congress opened
in Louisville, KY, some time ago, there were
on the platform II college professors, five
editors, four Supreme Court judges, Is dis
tinguished divines and no end of great bank
ers and merchants.
"A notice in the window of postofice
in Georgia reads: "When you Kun for Yore
Male hav Pashuns Know Shootin around the
Postoff1se duren bnsneis ours by oarder OF
the Postmaster his sine and Seal Chickens
bot on Kommission.''
The societies for the protection Of ami
mails IN Sweden, Norway and Denmark have
petitioned the Queen of Italy to exert her
influence in protecting the Northern birds
which migrate to Italy in winter and are
killed there in vast numbers.
"A 5-year-old boy fell into deep water
from a bridge in Seattle, WASH, and it was
25 minutes before men brought him to the
surface with graphing irons. He was rolled
over a barrel, and ut the end of two hours
was pronounced out Of danger.
Herbert Spencer, writing to DR.. James.
OF the Brooklyn Ethical Society, observes;
'In my earlier days 1 constantly made the
foolish supposition that conclusive proofs
would change beliefs. But experience has
long since dissipated my faith in mems
nationality"
"A loving couple from the rural districts
of Moose river went to Bangor the other day
and got married. After the nuptial knot
had been tied they made a tour of the town
In the electric cars, took in view OF the
baby carrfa~e >, their only purchase.
The German East African Company has
a big scheme on its hands if the report is cor
rect that it has decided to spend 5000, 900 in
building a railroad from Tanga to Karagwe
Tanga Is a little seaport about so miles north
west of Zanzibar. and Karagwe is distant
lIO" bnO SOdEOILS pOih1 hDOub OzD ulleS.
Blacksmith Ripper, of Iglau, Moravis,
had attempted suicide several times and
been interfered with; so he constructed a
box like clock case, seven feet high, the
door of which could be fastened with pad
lock inside. Then he put strong hook in
the top board, entered, locked the door, and
comfortably hanged himself inside. He is
dead.
The perspective view of the ''transpor-
tation building to be erected on the Worlds
Columbian Exposition grounds is in itself a
study. Here in this long, low immense struct-
ure will be ranged exhibits of every known
Development in the science of transporta-
tion From the least pretentious street car
model to those of literal palaces on land and
water there will be shown the accumulated
skill of the age in everything pertaining to
rapid and safe transit.
The man who gives as he goes along is
not likely TO die Croesus. An Indianapolis
paper says: "Owing to the generosity which
characterized his whole life, Senator Nc
Donald died comparatively poor man. The
firm OF Mcdonald & Butler has been the
most prosperous in this city for years and
McDonald's income from his law practice
has not been less than $4,000 q year for the
past ten years. He did not possess the
faculty Of refusing any service TO a friend,
and the result was that he was frequently
that he made was expended in this way.
HIS property in this city is worth only about
s3s 200, consisting of real estate which yields
a lair rental"
PLUCKED FROM PUCK.