Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Paris walters want to be permitted to
shave Off their whiskers.
The custom of clipping" is said to be
declining on English railroads.
| "A Greencastle housewife found a silver
dime in a fish she was cleaning recently.
Jersey Farmer Joshua Grice, of Woods
town, has two-headed pig, with eight feet.
| I'm a recent French lawsuit a wife testi-
| fled THAT not only had she changed her own
| name to elude the pursuit of a cruel hus-
band, but had even changed the name of her
pet dog!
Chinese dent lists are said to possess a
wonderful powder, which is rubbed on the
| gum over the affected tooth; after an in
| terval of about five minutes the patient is
told to sneeze, whereupon the tooth falls
| out.
-Four old maids of FO'Fallon, No.,
couldn't agree on the color of their Joint
home, so they drew lots. for four portions of
the house and each painted a portion to suit
herself. RainbowS are not in it with the
| result
"A new cane for reporters use at night
is supplied with an electric light in the
handle, fed by a storage battery. The light
will enable the reporter to see the door num-
Der and to avoid the missiles which usually
greet midnight interviewers. ...,. .
People in a poor quarter of London, no
ticing no signs of life in the house of neigh
Dor, broke open the door and found the
mangled corpSes of the whole family. The
indications are that the man butchered his
wife and child and then committed suicide.
Long marches, or marches d'epre,1e, as
they are called, have been added to the train
ing of the French infantry They are also
exercised in the practice of boarding trains
for the transportation of troops, and the
rapidity with which they get in and out is
admirable
"A fisherman alone in asmal1 boatin Pan
anna Harbor harpooned a shark nearly 20
feet long. The fish towed the boat all over
the harbor, and Il men in seven boats went
to the first mans assistance. The shark did
not slacken speed and after an hours stru0-
gle with the fleet escaped.
There was exhibited at Jacksonville.
Fla,a few days ago an alligator IL feet II inches
long that had been caught by means of a
hook while lying at the bottom of river
He was kept alive for day or two, but died
from the effects of a wound made in his
throat by the hook. He was regarded aS-the
king of the saurians.
William Hester, of Spring Hill, Pa,
has large brown bat which he has trained
to carry messages like carrier pigeon. Mr.
Hester took the uncanny bird to his place of
business in New Castle, and havirg made
arrangements at home to note the exact
time of its arrival, let it loose. The bat flew
mile in 2754 seconds.
Prof Lombroso, student of criminals,
says that out of Al Anarchists whom he
studied in the Paris police Offices, 81 per cent
showed the criminal type of features Of4S
Chicago Anarchists the percentage of wicked
faces was 40. Regicides or murderers of
Presidents, such as Fieschi, Guiteau, Nobil-
ing, and historic evildoers like Marat had
nearly all the criminal cast of features
The annual mortality of England aver
ages L5O per cent, and comparative table
shows thefoilowing figures per 1000 between
the ages of 25 and So: Priests and ministers,
$50; gardeners and nurserymen, 599; farmers
and grazfers, 63l; agricultural labOrers 7OI;
schoolmasters, z. 10; miners (Derbyshirel 734:
lace manufacturers, Z55; legal men, AZ; medi-
cal men, IL22.
Perhaps the funniest thing to be told
respecting the antiquity of fishing relates to
the holy wars which were waged in ancient
Egypt over the inny denizens of the water,
the conflicts arising from the circumstance
that, as often happened, one tribe would in
sist with the utmost irreverance upon eat
ing up the fishes which the inhabitants of
an adjoining territory held in divine adora-
tion.
during thunder storm at Asbury Park
a few days ago an erolite fell. The ball was
twice as big an average-sized Florida,
orange. 1t was fiery red. 10 burst when it
was close to the ground, and there flew into
the surrounding air a myriad darts and
shafts of many-colored flame precisely like
what one sees when firewOrk bomb goes
off. Then there was tremendous thunder
clap.
"A freight train ran into a mass of rock
boring mollusks which covered the track at
Brighton Corners, near Syracuse, ". Y, the
other night. As the wheels rolled over the
mass a loud, cracking sound, like the suczI
cessive explosions of toy torpedoes, came
from beneath the engine. The enormous
number of these curious insects in the
stone quarries is thought to portend hot
summer
Women are quite as often deceived by
high-priced goods as by the bargain counter.
An importer tells of having sold for 81 30 a
yard n piece of sealskin plush to retailer
who promptly cut it into three pieces and
marked them respectively $40, $12 and Sl4
The highest priced lot sold first, and the re-
taller at once bought another whole piece,
marked it $l4, and sold it out before the SO
lot was gone.
M. Leygonie, the Paris Commissaire de
Police, is having great trouble with a
haunted house on the Boulevard Voltaire,
No. 123. In this establishment the beds shake
and dance, the tables kick like mules and
the walls give out unearthly noises The
policemen are slapped and slugged by in
visible hands, and altogether the place is
just about as uncomfortable for them as the
evil spirits can make it.
"A large speckled Cochin China hen
hatched out twin chicks of the golden
pheasant variety from a double yolk egg
much to the surprise of E. +. Wilcox, of
Bridgeport, Me. Mr.. Wilcox SAYS that his
experience in raising twins has been varied
Several years ago his wife gave birth to twin
babies. His vegetables seem also to have
caught the twin.fever, cabbages, etc, coming
up double. Recently he caught a double
headed clam.
"A travelling photographer in New York
has large monkey for an assistant In fact,
the animal does most of the work. Mounted
on a forlxed stick stuck into the ground he
inspects the position of the person about to
be photographed, burying his hairy head
under the cloth that covers the rear part of
the instrument. Then he stretches forward
his long arm and removes the cap. For, per- 9
haps, two seconds he holds it in his hand,
while he frowningly stares at the subject.
Then he covers up the lens, and the pfture