Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The Vatican is to have piano to eose
300 gtineas.
This year is the centenary Of the dis
covery of the Columbia river.
A Central American offers the Worlds
Fair management poem of $500 stanzas for
5000.
The Columbia river is so clear at low
water that salmon fishing can only be sue
cessfully conducted at night. ~
Cincinnati has restaurant man named
&C. Supper" His window sign is the press
ing Invitation, "Come to Supper"
"A Minneapolis inventor claims he can
fiy TO st. Paul and back within Is minutes BY
the aid of his new tangled machine.
After getting new hearse, the peopls
of Temple, Ca, could find no shelter for -
until q public-spirited citizen built q hearse&
house and presented It to the town.
When young Chicago street car con-
ductor suddenly sickened on his trip the
other day, his sweetheart donned his caH
and collected fares until relieved at the end
Of the run.
AT the Lebanon (Pa1 railroad station
q man who had dropped nickel In the slot
was holding his hand for a cake Of chocof
late, but instead live mouse was deposited
In his palm.
There Is mocking bird in Eatonton,
Ca, that can talk, and whistle Johnny
Get Your Hair Cut and, in fact, any simple
tune which any one huns or whistles to 10
as an example.
On Oregon town has been enjoying
some Queer foot contests. One foot race
over plowed ground and another over rail-
road ties, each for large stake, are among
the unique events.
-Germany's squadron Of evolution will
be sent out In two divisions Of three battles
ships, dispatch boat, and seven torpedo
boats each. They will be manned by go
officers and 5000 seamen.
When the postal officials sent to Adrian,
Mich, the pay due young man who was
killed in the recent Lake Shore accident
near Cleveland, they deducted 25 cents for
the unfinished part of the run.
There is q family in Lithonia, Ga,
which consists of husband, wife and four
children-no twins-and the total weight Of
the family is less than 800 pounds. The wife
and mother weighs IS pounds.
There is curiosity near Cordele, Ga,
In the sha pc of pine tree. 1t begins from
the ground as two separate and well-deyel.
oped trees and continues so for distance OF
u feet, when they join and go upward as
one.
The longest suit of hair in the world
is perhaps that which grows on the head Of
Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gainesville, Tex,
hers trailing on the ground, when she
stands, nearly four feet, measuring in all 10
feet inches.
i'm one day last week, 456 petitions were
filed in the Dominion Parliament, the bare
list occupying seven pages of the journal.
Five pages are taken up by petitions Tor the
passage of prohibitory liquor law and labor
Organizations monopolize the rest.
"A New York wholesale merchant says
that he cheerfully puts up with the sharp
practice of his travellers, who pad their ex-
6urar Pemse arcGu ~ iH tSet rssnect as rule. the
more custom he brings to the house.
G. g u..o,,..o-, - por,;, bo,,a
Mn Va ..S o'onoo s,..-ai 80. tt,os..
lntroduceo pneu1natlc enlsel thto 'ner N,r
spring-like apparatus with both hands, and,
as he slides il over the surface of the stone
or metal, the chisel, making 10000 or 1900
revolutions minute, chips of particles.
A magistrate of Philadelphia, after
uniting young couple, refused to give them
| a certificate because the groom proffered
only 81 for fee, the magistrate wanting s5.
| The groom thought 81 was all il was worth,
| and, as the magistrate couldn't take the
| ceremony back, the groom and bride left.
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-Sometnlng OF curiosity Is ON eAniOt-
ffon at Casper, Wyo. lt Is an imprint OF
monster pain . leaI LEA causea py sns neal iSs
The rock was found on salt creek and indi.
Gates that ages ago when the big coal beds
were being formed, Wyoming possessed q
tropical climate.
-For br,zan faced liars America has
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always nelu the oanner' uu' 1oheYa' |" S"i'Aei
iano, mas 1urnlsneu the Worlo Wltn tne IhosS
picturesque votary of Annanias of which
we have ever heard. He is a bank teller
VINO was nn e ais Mim @ tSa. 70 wbis ess m
| ing through a field, the package containing
| the money blew out Of his hands. He
chased it, but it rolled into the river.
| An of +bo +,,,,b,s favor in Na,u yo,Lr
| al " tuo '! Pnuo Nv - ~" = ~
| may be traced TO the tenement houses on the
Eastside. This section OF New York is more
crowded than any known in the world
China not excepted When East London
| was found to contain I73,0OO persons to the
s9nare mile, the public rose up ,r, ana sac, sald,
sida ~ Na VIZ Sso noo ,,arsons IN
| tba aonora mile
IL. ,1o-.o1-
-1he sclehtlnc gentlehen "no uhuertook
| to study the vagaries of London fogs last
| winter report that they extend furthest in a
dfstance az 20 miles from their soIrce their
afFecta bave been noticed in the bnds and
bowers of sensitive orchids. They do little
harm to foliage so far away, although in
son some lnSiances s,i - tney were iouhu W ues'roy
WIG -, " ,'' -,-..
"A CITIZEN Oh fallnyra, ~, dcculnula'es
considerable money and makes business Of
dividing IL among his children at intervals.
CO. ,,,.al- 1,o d{,,;dad s15 nOo with ,1revio,,s
d;yis;ons this MAKES SI1s oO0 he has dis
tribnted annono his six children He does
NOT think it hest for man to get too rich,
and has adopted this means to keep his