Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

l. 1t takes about three seconds for mes
/ sage to go from one end of the Atlantic
/ cable to the other.
/ "A woman at Sabinsville, Pa, counted
the stitches as she knitted quilt. There
I were nearly 100000
"A thief with amania for stealing loco
motives is under arrest at sacramento,
Cal, after having stolen three.
On dark nights white light can be seen
farther than any other color; on bright
nights red takes the first place.
AN Atlantic City colored woman was so
frightened by a thunder storm the other day
that she died before it was over
New York has professional rag picker
with gold bowed glasses, which he dons when
he wants to investigate the contents of an
ash barrel.
"A Buyallup, Cal, COW was seen to cross
stream the other day with her young calf
on her horns The calf was safely deposited
on dry ground.
The first theater in America was built
in Annapolis, and was opened June Is, l752,
with ..'The Beggars' Opera" and farce
called HThe Lying Valet"
"A shipment of sea island eotton-seed
has been sent from Savannah to the island
Of Borneo for planting, at the request of the
Governor of British North Borneo and
Lebuan.
"A Chicago barber charged Scotch i'm
migrant 50 so for shave and ahair-cut. The
man told policeman, who succeeded in get
ting back s. 20, leaving the barber 81 80 for
his services.
-Spearfsh, S. Oak, has a barber doing
active business in that city whose youngest
granddaughter is 81 years old. His age Is 81
and he handles the razor with skill and
dexterity of a man of 25.
-Colored men digging the foundations for
a hotel at Canton, Miss, the other day, dis
covered O large Jar containing over $4,000 in
gold. The treasures supposed to have been
buried during the war.
"A New York paper, in premature mo-
ment, last week published a picture ofthe
Charleston blowing the Itata out OF the
water. The claim was made that the picture
was sent by new telegraphic process.
"A haIfbreed Shoshone Indian who
passed through Chattanooga, Tenn, the
other day had features the exact counter
part of those of a bear. Otherwise he is
/ human, his hands and feet are shaped like
those of man, and his body is not hairy
like that OF an animal
"A Mississippi boy sent to Louisville for
medical treatment is abnormauy fond OF
water, although previous to an accidental
shooting he had as strong an aversion TO it.
For the past two months he has been sitting
in O tub of water, ana screams as II IN the
To show how deadly nicotine is, it is
told that two men found an adder in 3
Wfkesbarre cemetery one day last week.
One held the reptile to the ground with q
stick while his companion ran a timothy
stalk through the stem of his clay pipe and
deposited the nicotine in the snakes mouth
In three minutes the snake was dead.
The Kaffirs of South Africa have very
queer names They are baptized on their
arrival at some town by their first employer.
He gives them whatever name may first
enter his head. some are as follows: Six
pence, shilling. Dollar, january, February,
He'll and Blazes, Two For Sixpence, etc.
Sixpence is the fayorite, however.
The existence of cholera demon is still
firmly credited in certain'districts in India.
a native in village near AIlahabad recently
assured an Inspector of Police that the pre-
vious night his home had been visited by the
cholera monster, with head like large
! earthern pot. He and his brother drove
away the spirit with bamboo clubs and fired
| a gun to complete its defeat, as the creature
fears noise.
The London Board of Education has
appointed six women at salary of 300 each,
to visit schools. Heretofore lady visitors
have been regularly employed but witheut
remuneration, the position being honorary
The visitors win be expected to put in as
many hours work as the teachers and to
furnish weekly reports to the board ac-
counting for every hour of service during
the session.
"A Kansas paper announces that it has
in its possession an Alliance dollar bill which
bears upon its face the following declara-
tion: "This is to certify that the beerer has
produced to the amount of ST. and is, there
fore entitled to an equivalent" It further
states that the bill is copyrighted, which
leads one to infer that the author does not
propose to allow anyone to borrow his idea
without paying for it.
Three doctors recently joined secret
order in Omaha At the door of the lodge
room they were met by three fellow physi-
clans. The outside sentinel was a life insur-
ance agent; the inner doorkeeper was d
druggist; the oath was administered by a
minister. The escort was an undertaken
and tombstone dealer, and the treasurer was
q city bill collector. The whole affair was
exceptionally appropriate ndappropriately
lugubrious. 1t was the Omaha way of doing
things right.
The condition of the public teachers in
Spain is not to be envied. The payment Of
their salaries is almost always far in arrears,
and u case came up the other day of man
who had not received a cent OF money from
the Government for II years. The total
amount of back salary at present due to
teachers is about 100000 In some cases the
sufferers are sustained by charity, and in
others are compelled to send their children
out as servants. Many schools have been
closed altogether.
While the Moerlein brewery was burn
ing in Cincinnati the other day the specta
tors stared in open-eyed wonder when En-
gine No. bustled upon the scene. Each
member of this company was respondent in
spotless linen white necktie, polished shoes
and button hole bouquet. Mud, smoke, water
and fying cinders dfsfgured their fnery in
short order. The firemen were about to
attend flag presentation and banquet when
the alarm came in. Toward midnight they
returned to the house and the festivities OF
the evening began.
Along the north fork of the Blaekwater
river, in Tucker county, w. Va, half mile
from Hendricks station, ON the West Vir-
ginia Central and Pennsylvania Railroad,
there is a cave one mile long, which has, as
vet, only been partially explored. An arched
channel, varying from to 80 feet in height,
leads throughout the entire cavern, that has
a subterTanean stream of pure water con-
stantIyl flowing through the main way and
all the recesses so far discovered. Half q
mile from the entrance there is an opening,
where many snow-white pillars almost blind
the ewes, and throughout the cave is fascin-
atfngly beautiful and well worth further ex-
ploration.