Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Fla, an alligator with three eyes.
Bells were east near Warwick, Chester
county, Pa, in 1857, one of which is in Inde-
pendence Hall, Philadelphia.
"A simple-mindsd colored jailor released
two prisoners at Williamsburg. Va, the other
day because they wished to visit their counsel.
They did not return.
"A queerly matched pair have just been
married in Webster township, Ia The groom
weighs exactly 40S pounds. The bride is .
feather-weight Of only s. pounds.
Oil township, Perry county, Ind, en-
braces about 72 square miles It's limits and
there is only one place "a drugstorel, within It's
boundaries where whisky can be purchased.
There is at O hotel in Chicago a man
from Northern Michigan who wishes to buy .
whole town ready built He wants 70 be head
of the place and have his word acceptsd aslav.
"A New York dude was sitting in q
street car recently making eyes at pretty girl
and sucking the head of his cane, when it came
OF. slipped partly down his throat and almost
straDgled him.
I'm London q comparatively new work
engaged in by women is that Of lady fsctotumS
For instance. if a lady is delicate and unit for
domestic cares tie lady factotum fulnlls all tho
managerial duties. being regarded as de facto
mistress OF the mansion
An ignorant and demented man recently
composed. by the aid of printed alphabet,
series OF words made Of letters selected at ran.
dom. This strange epistle found its way int
the hands of a prominent olapuk scholar. who
promptly translated all the words except one
Two experts" swore in the City Court,
New York. yesterday that they had seen horses
with green tails. A lithograp her had made =
picture in which one of the horses had green
tail and the customer refused to pay. But
green tails won the day and the lithographer
won the suit
The sexton Of Salem Evangelical
Church, at Millersburg, Pa, is within four
months of being 100 years old, it Is said Not
withstanding his great age he attends 20 his
duties conscientiously. keeps the church build
ing in good order, rings the bell regularly and
superintends the care OF the grounds.
The lepers of India have a special pat
ron saint-Pfr Jahanyan-to whose shrine, near
the town of Muzatfargarb. in SIndh, the annual
pgrimages are made. After offering Innumer-
able prayers. the pilgrims smear themselves
with lampblack, and the natives declare that
cures often result from this simple treatment
in 1871 Japan had only 46 ships Of Eu-
ropean constructions; now she has lao. The
number of pieces handled bv the Japanese mail
service sweled from 81. COO 900 in 1863 to I500Oo
600 in 1889. There are now S.9S educational
institutions, with 81, ,032 teachers and 2050.58S
students, against l2597 institutions, 1900
teachers and l.3O0, 600 students in 1873
A lady applied to the Magistrate at
Higngate recently for aid in preventing gen.
tleman from looking at her. The parties had
been concerned in legal proceedings and bound
over TO keep the peace. Since then, the appli-
cant said, he had constantly stared at her.
She was greatly dissatisfied on being told that
summons could not be granted for this.
The expedition sent out by the Vienna
Academy of Science TO explore the Mediter-
ranean found its greatest depth to be something
over two and quarter miles, between Molla
and Cerigo. On the African coast, where the
water clearer, white metal plates could be
seen at depth of IA feet. Sensitive plates
were acted upon by the light at depth OF over
l,6Oo feet.
The German Government has just fur
nfshed Its female telephone operators with uni
forms, which are described as picturesque and
becoming. The summer waist Is made of some
light wooden stuff striped in white and blue
while the winter Jacket is of fine rricos cloth OF
position blue. The waists have a collar breast
revers and cuffs. bound in red, and they are
very natty and attractive
While hunting on the Arroyo Seco,
Cal, last Saturday boy aged l3 came ACROSS
wolf with six whelps. Before the boy could use
his rifle she attacked him. He was alone, and
knew his hfe depended on his standing TO the
racket like man. Using his rifle as q club the
boy faced the savage beast and beat its brains
out. He received some severe bites and the
stock of the rifle was full of splinters.
The other day it was discovered BY q
lady of Landisburg that pin. needle, or some
other sbarp-p0inted instrument was I'm bedded
in the muscles of the abdomen of her year-old
child. After examiua ration is was found that
the only way TO extract the same was to cut
down upon it which was done after ethsrizing
the child. 1t proved to be = needle three
inches in length. No one can tell how 1t got
there.
The Mayor of a small town in Alabama
was very anxious TO catch q slick confidence
man who had been victimizing the citizens.
The other morning he gave his officers str1cs
orders to he on the watch for the fellow About
an hour after the force had left = gentlemanly
stranger entered the Mayors ofics. got the
Magistrate interested and swindled him out OF
sl25 Now the people OF the town want the
Mayor to resign.
A Georgia man has quite an ancient
piece of cutlery, pocket knife of the barlow
variety, with the date "170o' inscribed in plain
figures on the side OF the blade. This monu-
ment to the Sheffield Cutlery Works was ex.
humed at point near Dubois, that State, not
long since. The wear and tear of ages have
tapered the blade to a keen point. but we think
it may yet remain in the land Of edged tools 20
celebrate its. second centennial nine years
hence.
An Antelope county, Neb., woman se.
cured divorce at Neigh the other day on the
ground of harsh treatment, bad temper, etc.
The lady had but one witness, aud she was =
young woman who had lived With the compile
for nine years She gave evidenc Is to the
husbands bad disposition and ungovernable
temper, and in less than "a hours after the di-
yorce was granted the divorced man and this
witness against him were made one for better
or for worse.
"A sawmill man of Dooly county. Ga,
noticed that one of his oxen had received
blow on one of its horns that knocked 1t down
a little lower than the other. The teamster
stoutIy denied it, but since that time the horn
has been growing gradually downward uatil
now the tip end touches his cheek The horn
does not seem TO be any more loose than the
other still it has grown. and continues 10 grow,
downward. 1t has already reached an unusual
length and presents y curious appearances.
AT Madison, Ga, in 1S47, while hotel
was in course Of erection the owner, still = res
ident of that city. put three bottles OF liquor
in three of the pillars In front of the structure.
A few days ago, after the burning of the hotel.
the man who now owns the property had hands
dig into the pillars and found two or the long
hidden bottles safe and sound, and mellow with
age-one of them containing rum and another
peach handy He has donated these two treas
iIres of antiquity to the Madison Home Guards,
and they will be raffied on. The liquor being ~
wears old Is quite curiosity.
Some two weeks ago a lady living near
Monongahela City missed fsvorite Cochin
rooster and thinking that some one had stolen
il, she purchased another. One evening about
two weeks later she went out to lock the coop.
and seeing box near the coop. determined
first to put il by to dry, that il might be used
when occasion required. On picking up the
box she was surprised to ind the lost rooster.
for Sir ChanticIeer stepped out as gayly as u
he had lived corn by the busneL Inc
chicken had not had one grain OF food Tor u