Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The railroads of this country employ
3,000, 200 people.
There are 15s, ,973, ,s73 watches in use at
the present time.
Fully $500 persons commit suicide in
Russia every year.
"A calf born without tail is one of the
curiosities of Dalton, Ga.
| The explosion of dynamite cartridge
to blow up an old ship near Mobile sent to
the surface fish that weighed more than
| 200 pounds.
"A clock In a Dalton, Ga, residence,
which has been out of repair and silent for
many months, mysteriouSly struck the exact
| hour the other night.
"A little Eastport girl who in reply to
the teachers question, where is the Golden
| Gate?r wrote, '1n, Heaven was both sur
| prised and grieved to find it marked as
| wrong.
"A man living near Thomson says he
knows all about an Atlanta killing that was
| done years ago, the facts Of which the public
| are ignorant. He keeps mum, though. He
| says the slayer is dead.
Electric light has been employed adj
| vantageously on board of a West India
steamer crossing the ocean to keep alive and
fourfshing certain plants which were being
| transported for acclimatization.
Two Milwaukee girls in their teens
climbed by means of outside ladders to the
top of the tallest chimney in that city, waved
their handkerchief to the crowd and de-
scended on the ladders. The chimney is rs
feet tall.
"A st. Louis man was recently arrested
and sentenced to serve three months in Jail
for entering burning building and saving
| a 6-year-old child. He was charged with OBJ
structing the firemen in the discharge Of
their duties.
At Chico, Cal, the other day, a cat
caught sparrow and was going with it into
store when half q dozen other sparrows
came to the rescue and made such vigor-
Gus onslaught upon kit that he was glad to
drop his prey and flee to the friendly shelter
of the store.
The boots which Daniel Webster wore
on his farm at Franklin, n. H., are owned by
the New Hampshire Historical Society, and
are on exhibition in a shoestore at Concord.
They are Of kip leather, pegged soles and
heels, with square toes.
There are II, 900 oil wells in the United
States, representing capital of $120, ,0o0, 900,
with an output of 1000 barrels per day.
The refining capacity of the country is l40-
900 barrels per day, while 1900 barrels are
consumed as fuel. surplus stock Is held
in tanks of more than 50. 900 900 barrels.
Lyman S. Low, New York dealer in
hundred medals presented to soldiers in the
English army from I79S to 1880 for deeds of
valor and conspicuous bravery. With but
few exceptions they were all pawned by
their owners to meet the necessities Of life.
"A curious advertisement in New York
paper suggests that there is no rest for the
weary in land where three minutes from
the station may be taken as a national
motto. The advertisements gives the at
fractions: For sale-A single grave in
Greenwood Cemetery; three minutes walk
from the entrance"
The substitution of camels hair, cotton,
paint and chemicals for leather in ma
chinery betting, is said to be meeting with
some success in this country. 1t was first
invented in England, and it is claimed for
the new material that it is stronger than
other betting, more durable, more efficient
and as low priced.
The gendarmerie of Buda Pesth sue
yceeded after several brave attempts in
taking q band of Gypsy robbers, numbering
80 men, prisoners. Among the captives are
several notorious murderers. The leader Of
the band strange to say, is the author of 8
dictionary of the Gypsy language, for which
Archduke Joseph wrote the preface.
"A romantic wedding occurred at Deni-
son, Texas, few days ago. Lee Anderson,
of Philadelphia, and Miss Sadie Micnael, of
st. Louis, met on a train near Muskogee, for
which place the young lady was bound, and
struck up an acquaintance. Being mutually
impressed, the gentleman proposed, was
accepted and it was agreed to get off the
train at Denison, the first place at which the
license could be procured.
A Rhode Island man is having a serious
time keeping track of his meals. He main
tafns that his first meal was his breakfast,
and that his subsequent dinners, suppers
and breakfasts should follow in order. Thus,
when he has missed dinner and supper on
one day, the first meal of the following day
was his dinner and the MONDAY meal his
supper. His reckoning seems little odd to
his neighbors, but he is sure he is right.
An Atchison man had nightmare after
eating lunch of cheese, mustard and dried
beef and had disagreeable dream that his
son was in great danger. Instead of being
unable to run from ghosts, as is usually the
case in nightmares, he was unable to get
ready to go to the rescue OF his son. Finally
he awoke and was SO impressed with the
dream that he went into his sons room
He found him out of bed and on the roof Of
the house, where he had climbed in his
sleep.
"A curious return has Just been printed
at Berlin. 1t shows how often German regi-
mental colors were struck in action during
the campaigns of 1854 1866 and 1S70, and also
how many officers, non-commissioned officers
and men were killed while carrying the
colors. The memory of these losses is touch
ingly preserved. Every staff that has been
clasped in action by dead soldiers fingers
is encircled with silver ring with the in
scription of the mans name and the words,
"Disd hero's death with this color in his
hand"
An instep pad is new fad Of those fair
women who are so unfortunate as to be pos
sessed of "1ow bred" foot. 1t is simply q
little linen pad fitted in place directly over
where the instep should be, but very often
isn't. If such fashion becomes general it
will compel shoemakers to keep a stock of
shoes with high insteps, and the moderately
low heels now demanded alike by good sense
and fashion. 1t is next to impossible now to
get O shoe with high instep, except one
made on what is known as the Spanish
last" and ridiculously exaggerated heel is
a part of the make up of these shoes.
FUNNY FELLOWS FANCIES.