Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Georgia will ship melons by june lo'
Great Britain has 5S, 900 women trade
unionists.
"A Marshall. county (Mo.) man has q
mule that is "a hands high.
One million dollars of gold coin weighs
a6S5 pounds of avoirdupofs; OF silver coin,
81, o,920.9 pounds.
There were L, 100000 banana punches
imported by the United States last year, an
increase of 3,5O0,OOO.
Daily photographs of the sun taken since
1857 show conclusively that that luminary
makes a complete revolution in IL years
Pennsylvania girls marry young. Dur
ing the past year % girls were married at the
age of H. los at ID, 353 at 16, BIG at II and 1888
at Is. A
"A Delaware heifer belonging to Farmer
Hess, of Abingdon, ate a flock of ten gos-
lings, and liked goose flesh so well that she
tried to get more.
"A Wheeling mail carrier has success
fully delivered a letter to a man with the
name of George Schwifferwitzerenonth
helm, resident of the North End.
Thomas Rowland brought to the Times
Office ut Stroudsburg, Pa, a limb of an apple
tree on which grew a rose 215 inches in di-
ameter and perfect in shaBe and color.
C. f. Bramhall caught 22-pound lob
ster in Penobscot bay and the Smithsonian
Institute authorities who are to get it say
that it is the biggest'shellfish on record
AN action has been brought by Boston
woman against a mother in Saeo, Me-, to
recover 500 for "chaperonage." Chaperones
are not quoted in any market at present
Two men in Clyde, Mich, have been
paying taxes on the same piece of land for
the past seven years. fhe wrong man is now
trying to find out how to get his money
back.
When the body of 4. NJ. Haskell was
disinterred after 20 years burial at North
field, Mimi, it was found that he had beard
% inches long. He was smooth-shaved when
buried.
"A calf that has but three legs-one in
front and two behind-is curious freak Of
nature belonging to Mr.. Christian p. Bros
enne, well-known Doughoregan, Delaware,
farmer.
-Hailstones that fell in TayIor's Bridge
township, N. c., during recent thunder
storm were so large that after being carried
IN a basket for a mile they were still as large
as turkey eggs.
The postmaster. at Clearfeld tore open
a letter addressed to the Louisiana State
Lottery, utinstead of the name and address
OF law-breaker he found simply the express
sive word: "Rats."
AT Las Vegas, to demonstrate that he
could crawl into very small hole, Tony
Cobletz, who weighs 225 pounds, forced him
self into square hole l2xl2 inches. Its not
stated how Tony got out.
An East Indian prince has lately had q
bed made for him in Paris at cost of 81, 900.
Its mattress is a huge musical box and its
canopy is supported by automatic figures
that wave fans to cool the air.
Sampson Hall, an eccentric old farmer
living near Linden, Mich, invented a device
for catching cut worms. To prove it full
filed its mission, he shipped 10000 of them
to the state Agricultural College.
The proprietors of Maine hotel have
bought a tract of land which they will plant
with berries and fruit for the pleasure of
fashionable guests who like to spend part Of
their time in agricultural pursuits.
There are millions of crickets in the
Clover Creek country, Idaho. They cover q
stretch of country ten miles long by three
miles wide, and are travelling nOrthward,
and many more are coming from the West.
"A curiosity in the shape of a petition
was presented to Judge Mill er, in Denver,
by one George Badger, asking that he be al
lowed to change his name from that Of
George Badger to Badger George" The
petition was granted.
The little son of Mr. Deverce, of AL
pharetta, Ga, who was bitten by frog last
week, is in a dangerous condition. A dog
that was bitten by the same frog shows signs
of hydrophobia. Frogs are as much feared as
rattlesnakes in Georgia !.
On the road leading from Atglen to
Cochranville, Chester county, two good
sized streams meet at right angles on almost
level ground, each having heavy fall in
reaching the point The streams cross each
other and continue on their way in separate
beds.
A most curious clock is displayed in the
window of tobacco store in Philadelphia.
The frame is made from cigar boxes fitted
together. The round dial is marked by
coating of smoking tobacco. Two clay pipes
of different lengths serve for the hands. and
the figures are made of cigarettes.
There is an unpretentious shOpkeeper
in New York whose business is mending UNI
brellas and canes, and he has sign outside
which has brought many smile from those
who pass by the place. The sign reads ''Um-
brella Hospital" The words suggest to you
at once that you have some "sick'' umbrellas
at home which might be made quite respect
able by a little "doctoring." SO you take
them to the "hospital," you save the price
of a new umbrella, and the shopkeepeP
grows prosperous
"A man who is the father of eight BOYS
finds that they cost him a suit of clothes,
from hat to shoes, once q week. Children
cost money, and most parents find it is only
a question of how much they can or Will
spend on them. But there is in New York
mother who has upset the rule. She mas
little boy with an angelic face, and she keeps
him before the camera half the time posing
as u cupid, as q Fauntleroy, or as a choir
boy. The sale of his photographs nets her
$500 year, and the worst OF it is she does
not need the money.
The Chinese Government is strictly OPP
posed to obscene literature. A law was re-
Gently promulgated to the following effecti
"Au Governments officials who allow inn
moral books to be published within their
respective jurisdictions shall be discharged.
Every private person pu Dlishing such 3
book shall receive 100 blows and be banished
from his place of residence to a distance Of
q 600 lees The seller of an obscene book
shall yet 100 blows Within 20 days from the
issue Of this law all the obscene books of
the empire shall be destroyed, beginning
with those now in print"