Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Electric cabs run on the streets of Stutt-
gart.
"A mirror brought to this country in
1776 stands in the window of a Chester, Pa,
furniture store.
The county Jail at somerville, N. j.,
was entered by burglars the other night and .
| pocketbook stolen.
Two society women Of Albuquerque, N.
| NJ, are said to have become insane from the
use of cosmetics on their faces
| "A Lancaster, Pa, man recently re-
| ceived $50 through the mail, with letter stat
ing that IL was stolen from him 40 years ago.
"A citizen of. Cedar Bluffs, Neb., had
the novel experience, the other morning, of
shooting wolf in his dooryard before break
| fast.
"A resident of Jasper, Ga, killed Q
hawk few days ago of great size. 1t meas
ured 8 feet aud inches from tip to tip Of its
WINGS.
"A Wellington, Kan. couple, who were
married in two weeks after they met, were
separated In Just two weeks after they were
married.
Mention is made OF a child born at
Hartford, Conn, last month which weighed only
two pounds and three ounces when it was
days old.
There is movement among the society
young men of Jefferson City. Mo-, to have just
one more dance before new onions appear in
the market
natl elected the following forms of compar.
ison: Ill, iller, illest; ILL., worse, better; III,
worse. dead.
While the Canadian Dominion is con-
trolled by the Conservatives, every province
except British Columbia will have a Liberal
Government.
What island was discovered BY Colum-
bus on his first American voyage is still ur-
known The popular idea that Cat Island was
the one was exploded long ago
"A few years ago the great Selkirk
glacier in British Columbia was pure water.
Now 1t is grimy from ashes scattered by the
wanton burning Of forest trees.
1t is mistake to suppose that polar re-
search has cost enormously in human life.
Despite all the great disasters, 81 out of every
100 explorers have returned alive.
The first person to vote in the Fourth
ward at Leavenworth. Kan, on Tuesday was
Mildred Ann Clay colored woman los years
DID, And she stuck in Democratic ticket, too.
The lowest body of water on the globe is
the Caspian Sea. It's level has been gradu-
ally lowering for centuries, and now it is s5
feet below the level of its neighbor, the Black
Sea.
The expedition of the National Geo
graphic Society last year knocked about 1000
feet off the top Of Mount St Elias but Euro
pean scientists refuse to accept the result until
after further investigations.
The election judges in one OF the wards
at Wichita, Kan, had to wait five minutes on
a woman voter until she had fshed her ticket
out of her pocketbook, and then she handed in
receipt for making sweet pickles.
"A petition was recently brought before
the German Reichstag to enable women 70
practice medicine. The petition was unsuc-
cessful; and one of the arguments brought
against it was that in Russia the privileges ac-
lutionary doctrines.
"A lady came to the polls in Fort Scott,
Kan, who refused ticket from those doing
them ont, saying she had her ticket already
prepared. She was allowed to have her own
sweet way and when the ballots were counted
out, her registration certificate with her name
in big letters, turned up all right
1T is a mistake to suppose that the
weather Is colder the farther north one goes
The northern pole of Greatest cold is only about
800 miles northeast of Yakutsk. Siberia. where
the mean annual temperature Is a little lower
than in the highest latitudes reached BY Mares
and Greedy, LOCO miles farther north.
Wooden nutmegs were Yankee notion,
but the manufacture of artificial coffee beans
is q German industry. These beans are IN
tended to be used in trade for mixing with the
genuine article 80 that fastidious customers
may have the whole roasted and ground be-
fore their eyes without suspecting the fraud
The Germans have sent to Germany
few African chiefs whom they wished to i'm.
press with their power. The most amusing
delegation which has yet gone to Europe from
A f-fn NhaN Kava< NJ. H. -
the southern slope OF Mount Kilima-Niaro.
They saw nothing in Berlin that seemed 10 them
half so grand as their own country and they
were constantly drawing comparisons between
efgn which were not complimentary to the Ger
man ruler.
The telephone is put to a new use in
hotel at Tampa Fla. Instead of an electric
press button, every room will have a telephone
connected with the office. Guests will be able
not only to communicate with the office, but
with their friends in other rooms at will. The
great orchestriOn, which was one of the mar
vels Of the Paris Exposition, IS 20 be placed in
the music room of the hotel. 1t has been ar
ranged that any guest in his room can, by
merely telephoning to the office, be connected
with the orchestrion and have the music trans
mitted to him in full volume.
"A German cobbler, who was reputed to
be one of the LATEST and most worthless men in
Leadville. dug hole in his yard and salted it
with ore and showing the pit to the representa-
tives OF a company he was able to sell out for
81, 50O During the carouse which followed he
boosted publicly of the way in which he bad
fooled the capitalists. but before the purchasers
of his property heard of these remarks they
had sunk the shaft four feet deeper and had
struck one of the richest veins of carbonate in
LeadvIlle. The cobbler learning what had
danced about the edge of the pit and
swore that he had been swindled. The nine
yielded about 81, ,000,0O0.
A South Dakota farmer during: the
severe slorm of February and lost two
turkey hens. He had long since given up look
ing for them, and thought he would find them
dead when the snow went away this spring
The snow had drifted high at one end of his
barn. Last Friday the farmer, when running
over the drift broke through and fell into a
hole when, behold, there were the turkeys
One of them was alive and as frisky as a kitten;
the other one had evidently been dead few
hours They had lived on snow for six weeks.
The turkeys were fat when they were impris-
oned, but very poor when found. The live hen
Is enjoying life again. but. on being liberated
from its strange prison. was afraid Of every
thing and would run away from any live ami
gal