Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
oari. has 3 422 $50 inhabitants.

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Paris has 2, AZ, ,969 inhabitants.
-Four-headed snakes.are again reported
from North Carolina.
"A dove at Dana, Mass, set on hens
egg and hatched out fine chick.
"A Johnstown, Pa, pug dog has mania
for jumping on and OFF moving trains.
| Iron corrodes with great rapidity at. or
about the temperature of boiling water
After Beaver county man had burned
a log he found in the ashes lump of silver
worth $3.50.
Some valuable pearls have recently been
| found in mussels taken from the Salmon
river, New York.
In the gizzard of hen killed at Lebec,
| Me-, last week, was found small gold pin
lost ten years ago.
The thrifty Selectmen of Thompson
vile, Conn, hire out certain Of their insane
poor to the highest bidder.
"A Louisiana farmer is reported to be the
possessor of COW which is only the size ofa
good-sized Newfoundland dog.
Two prisoners in the Doylestown, Pa,
jail allowed to attend the circus the other
day, returned to their cells after their pleas
ure.
AN Ostrander, o., woman was caught by
the pilot of locomotive, the other day, and
carried three quarters of mile without sus-
tanning injury.
The word ''preface,'' used in the begin
ming of books, was originally word of well
come to a meal and was equivalent to much
good may it do you."
"A COW accidentally shut up in barn at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, stayed there four weeks
without food or water. She was not much
injured by her long fast.
The brass bands that are to furnish the
music for Boston Common this summer are
prohibited from playing anything but
sacred music on Sundays.
A tramp in indianapolis stole bar of
| soap, and the victim was so overcome when
| he discovered his loss that he followed up
| the thief and gave him quarter
while an Eagle Point, Mich, woman
was fondling pet dog her cat became 80
overcome by jealousy that it sprang Upon
| the lady and severely bit her in the arm.
In the public parks, reservations and
streets within the city limits of Washington
are more than 10000 trees and shrubs. These
comprise III genera, with 447 distinct species.
An Alabama cat has mania for stealing
| young chickens from their natural mothers
| and raising them herself. She is generally
| successful in making them fine hens and
roosters.
1t is singular fact that, while the ma
jority of the officials at the Maidenstone
jail, in Kent, England, are suffering from in
| huenza, thus far not one of the prisoners has
| been attacked.
"A Maine man has applied for divorce
from his four weeks bride on the ground
that she refused to learn her husbands re-
| cipe for fap-jacks and avowed that her
mothers way was good enough for her.
A Covington, Ga, hveryman has dog
4 l,ius
master, goes foraging for useful articles.
| Thursday he trotted into store, picked up
| fine curry comb and hurried to the stable
| with it,
The real bloodhounds and the donkey
were found insufficient by a theatrical man
| ager in the West to keep up the interest in
| "Uncle Toms Cabin" So he has introduced
| q balloon ascension and parachute jump,
and "Uncle Tom" goes on as merrily as ever.
The reports of the Russian insurance
companies for the year 1890 show large def
| cits in consequence of the fires that ragged
| in every part of the empire last summer.
| "Oficial investigation proved that more than
| one-third of those fires was the work OF in
4 cendiaries."
The mules of the coal mines, near Evans
vile, Ind, were hoisted out recently. Some
| of them had not seen daylight for eight
\ wears The smallest thing frightened them,
| flying bird causing them to jump, while
| upon seeing dog they would stand and
| tremble with terror.
| "A remarkable volume will soon be pre-
| sented to the Harvard University library.
] 1t contains manuscript copies of all the
| commencement programmes of the college
| from 1850 20 1880, and specimens OF the order
of commencement exercises at intervals
\ from the first graduation IN l642 TO the Reyo-
/ lutionary war.
| Intelligence received from Ambor, Ind,
gives the particulars of a peculiar and terri
| BILE misfortune which befell woman of that
| place. The other day she started to neigh
boris and had walked but 30 yards when she
| was stricken totally blind. She was taken
| back home and an hour later became raw
| ing maniac, and before midnight she was
| dead.
| The French Army budget for next year
| is larger by 7S, 600 900 francs than in 1891. In
accordance with the increased amount, S24
| officers, 1900 men and LOIS horses are to be
| added to the army. Two new cavalry regi-
| ments will be formed. The army OF France,
for time of peace, will then muster Is, 900 Off
GERS, 5l7, 900 men, $500 gendarmes and $4,000
horses.
| The '..angry tree woody plant, which
grows from 10 to 25 feet high, and was
| formerly supposed to exist only in Nevada,
has recently been found both in Eastern
| California and in Arizona. If disturbed,
| this peculiar tree shows every sign OF Yexa-
tion, even to ruffling up its leaves like the
| hair on an angry cat, ana giving IOrIn an un-
| pleasant, sickening odor.
For protection against fire the town Of
saltwater, Kan, has way that is quite
| novel one Every business man hasa barrel
of water in front of his store, which is so
| fixed that the bung can be easily knocked
| out, and, in case Of q fire, the barrels can
| soon be centered in one place At fire
| there last week they were successful in con-
fining the fire to one place.
Travellers on the Gotthafd Railway are
| Witnessing just now marvellous spectacle.
| The valley of the Reuss is one mass of spring
| flowers and blossoms, and here and there
| the scene is interrupted by the snow masses
! of the avalanches that are making their
| gruesome way from all the peaks, and thrust
| piece of icy midwinter into the midst OF all
| the beauty of Swiss spring
At Oueretaro, near Mexico, soap is the
currency of the place, and legal tender for
| the payment of debts. The cakes are about
| the size of common brown Windsor and
| worth IL cents piece Each cake is
| slammed with the name of the town where it
| ia current and of the person authorized to
| 1nanufactI1re and utter it. 1t is by no means
| the hands and face, and they never loose
| their current value as long as the stamp is
preserved.
An amateur bee-keeper of Penobseot
county, Maine, learned thing or two almost
| every day last season. Among other valu-
able lessons was this: While working
among his hot-footed charges he clumsily
upset q hive. He was shielded by netting
and loose overalls and could watch with
amusement the frantic jabbing of the 10000
heea that covered his ANATOMY. After q