Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


! cars.
"A baccarat club has been organized at
Mexico, Mo.
Toronto proposes to have regiment
uniformed in Scotch kits.
The Italian Government will revive the
| medieval Venetian custom by wedding all
its future warships with the Adriatic.
The Mayor of Waterville, Me-, has for
hidden religious services at the poor farm on
the ground that it excites the paupers.
"A swarm of bees got loose in Michigan
Central smoking car. near Saginaw, the
other day, and the profanity of the occu-
pants of the car is said to have killed yege-
tGtiOn in that vicinity.
Little Willie Hawkins, while in SWIM
ming in the millpond near his home at Bur-
rowtown Pa, caught four minnows in his
mouth and swan ashore without swallowing
or otherwise losing the fish.
"A New York City parrot has had over
90 owners, and has scared each out Of his
wits by screaming "Firer' at an early hour
in the morning, and never desisting until
the whole house was aroused.
Cincinnati has the tallest policeman in
America The man who enjoys the unique
distinction is John Hanlon who was re-
Gently appointed as sub-patrol Mr.. Hanlon
is IS years of age, is feet 81 inches tall, and
weighs POS pounds.
"A small boy entered Buffalo black
smith shop with small pony, which he
wished shod. The blacksmith could not get
down conveniently, so he picked the pony
mp and put him on an old box, where he
could pick up his corners more readily
An Arizona boy who has a tame HARM
less snake tied his little brothers rattle to
its tail the other day, and when two tramps
f,io6 TO hra L MT Eitphpn
frightened nearly to death, supposing that
HendersOn-whichi is the snakes name-waS
a Tattlesnake.
"A queer suit in equity has been brought
against Philadelphia dentist. He has on
his premises an electric plant, with which
he pulls teeth. The engine, dynamo and
machinery make too much noise for the
neighbors, and they have petitioned the
court to have the nuisance abated-
The location of tumOrs on the brain can
now be detected by instantaneous pho
Biography. A tumor on the brain causes
violent spasms by pressing on a nerve
center, and while the patient is in the midst
the nerves affected determined by the con-
tortions shown on the picture and the tumor
located
The popularity of the new naval vessels
is attested by the number and variety of the
photographs of them which are displayed in
many shop windows. These seem to in
crease rather than decrease. The Boston,
the Chicago Newark Atlanta, Baltimore,
PHILADELPHIA and Yorktown have been pho
tographed in many styles, and the people
purchase these pictures eagerly
"A Lehigh Valley car cleaner at Potts
Vile found a package containing $4,000 in
bank notes. The money had been sent from
Mahanoy City in the custody of clerk, who,
in order to divert suspicion from his i'm
n mission q M Ia In,
pocket of his coat. In the ear IL worked out
of his pocket and became fastened under the
edge of the seat. Schu restored the package
unbroken to the clerk.
Paris is preparing to be the best lighted
city in the world. The municipality has its
own central plant for illuminating public
buildings, and has divided it's territory into
seven sections. Each of these have been
placed in charge of private corporations
who represent the various American cleo
trio systems. The city reserves the right to
extend its mains into any or all of the Sec
tions, in order 70 regulate prices by compe-
tition.
Two twins of Orion, Mich, recently
frightened barber out Of a weeks growth.
One was a resident of the town, the other
visiting him. The visitor went to the barber
and was shaved and walked away. few
minutes afterward the brother came in and
claimed that his beard had not been proper
ly shaven off. With startled, frightened
look in his face, the barber was about to
swear 9f, when the brother appeared and
everything was explained.
Two Cleveland burglars who attempted
to saw their way out of jail used rats SEN
tinels. At night, when they were ready to
begin operations, they sprinkled bread
crumbs in front of their cells and collected
a drove of rats. Whenever a turnkey ap-
preached their section of the jail the rodents
scampered away, thus giving the alarm. For
r,irrf1f hnxy roh thot rporr nd
though the turnkey heard the saving and
went about on tiptoe, he never could locate
the noise.
An officer of Somerset county, Me-,
while driving along highway ran over q
bears cub. Its mother, attracted by his
cubship's howls, sprang from the bushes by
the side of the road She didn't stop to con-
slider ordinary difficulties but tried to climb
into the officers carnage. He didn't care
for her company, and, lashing his horse,
put out for civilization. The bear pursued,
nor was the race abandoned until the man
reached house.
Between 60, 900 900, 900 and 1OO, 900, ,OOO,-
600 codfshes are taken from the sea around
the shores of Newfoundland every year A
single cod yields something like 3,500OOO eggs
each wear, and over 5000, 900, 900 have beeu
found in the roe of O single cod. herring
of six or seven ounces in weight is provided
with 30 coo, ,OeO ova. After making afl reason
able allowances for the destruction Of eggs
and of the young it has been calculated
that in three years a single pair of herring5
will produce 154 100000.
A rugged old man is passing his declin-
ing years in retirement near Quincy, ILL.,,
practically forgotten by the political world
in which he was so prominent figure q
generation ago. This is General James A.
Singleton, long a member of Congress- and
an intimate friend of Douglas, Lincoln and
Browning. In the early days OF Illinois he
was pioneer railroad builder and his
knowledge of fast horsefesh made his name
famous on the turf when horse racing in
America was young. He is now bent with
age, and rarely appears in public. but when
he is sought out he bubbles over with inter
esting "reminiscences of the great political
leaders of the early war times.
A direct observation of hail in the pro-
cess of formation is recorded by Prof.
Tosetti. who, in the afternoon of a squally
dav, looking eastward through the window
of a house in Northern Italy, which, with
two others, fnclosed the court, saw the rain
which streamed down from the roof to the
right caught bya very cold wind from the
north, and driven back and up in thick
drops Suddenly a south wind blew, and the
drops tossed about in all directions, were
transformed into ioeballs. When the south
wind ceased, this transformation also ceased,
but whenever the south wind REQUIRED tho
was reproduced and this was
observed three or four times in ten minutes.