Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


There are five prosperous colonies Of
Mormons in Mexico
The College of New Jersey has received
as gifts during the past year more than $780,
The sale of farm machinery in Kansas
this season is about double what it was last
| year.
The coast line of Alaska is longer by
1920 miles than that OF all the rest of the
United States.
There is a carniverous COW in Randolph
county, Mo-, which devours young chickens
and goslings.
The product of gold in the United States
the last 16 years has aggregated the enormous
output Of s572, 0,000
The hailstones which recently fell at
Arkansas City were about the shape of q
common soda biscuit and nearly as big.
Mrs. John Singleton, living 81 miles
northeast of Avalon Mo-, while eating sup
per last Sunday evening swallowed her false
teeth.
"A negro, while plowing in the field on
Mr.. W. L. McElmurray's farm, about six
miles from Waynesboro, Ca, turned up an
old Indian tomahawk.
Emperor William has given out orders
that no person shall ride free on the rail-
roads unless they are actually engaged in
service Of the Government.
MIR. Millard Boyett, of the Grover
neighborhood, in suwannee county Fla,
has the brag little girl in the State She is 1
years old and weighs 6S pounds.
Time thins down the number. The re-
turns Of the pensioned veterans who fought
$50, as in 1888.
The United States leads the world in
the number aud extent of its Libraries. The
public libraries of all Europe put together
contain about q, 900, 900 volumes; those Of this
country contain about 5O,0OOO0O.
"A Camden, Me-, lady who pledged her.
self TO earn dollar in some unusual way for
church carpets, carried ont her contract by
digging worms for her brother-in-law to use
Tor bait on his fishing expeditions.
The women of England are not afraid to
pick up the trade of men. A London woman
announces that she is about to open barber
shop where all the BARRIERS shall be women,
and the newspapers speak favorably of the
scheme
Joseph Patton, who lives near Clifton
Hill in Randolph county, NO., still has the
pony he rode in the Confederate army. It is
now IS years old and is as fat as a mole, not
navlng Deem used any, or very little, for
SOmc years.
"A lady in the waiting-room on the
steamboat wharf in Richmond. Me-, was pet
ting Longs goat, when the creature snatehed
veil on her face and swallowed it without
wtnk1ng. 1t was the coolest performance OF
the season.
"A society has been organized in Califor-
mia ITO purchase song birds in Europe" In
the autumn the society will commission a
practical dealer TO select and purchase as
many song birds in Europe as the money at
its command will permit.
There was a man on the jury last week
in Osborne county, Kan, who had formerly
been in the insane asylum, and the strain Of
being compelled to SIT on the jury again un-
balanced his mind and he went home and
tried to murder his family.
-Foolscap is derived from corruption Of
the italian "foliocapo," which is q folio
sheet, size generally II inches by H. From
the thirteenth century till the seventeenth
the watermark of that sized paper was q
fools head, with cap and bells.
"A gsrgle of vinegar will dissolve small
bones quickly. Where large bone happens
to lie across the windpipe or throat, dex-
ferrous use of the finger will dislodge it when
other means are lacking, provided both the
operator and patient keep calm.
"A Northport, Me-, man received notice
a few days ago that he had won diamond
ring in a great rebus solving contest adver-
tised by certain paper, but as he was re-
quired to send IL cents to cover postage, he
concluded it would not be worth while"
History says the ancient Greeks used
olive leaves for ballots, and the Australian
voting system is a revival of the practice in
Home 1000 years ago. History repeats
itself. Modern improvements are often
only the revival of an ancient vogue of some
sort.
The majority of people die sooner than
they should. George E. Waring Jr., says;
"Disease is not a consequence of life; it is
due to unnatural conditions of living-to
neglect "huse and want" And DR.. Stephen
Smith 8. ): MAN is born to health and
longevity: disease is abnormal and death,
except from old age. is accidental, and both
are preventable by human agencies"
On a tombstone in the cemetery at
Attica, Kan, the following peculiar inscrip-
ton is found: Through this incription I
enter my dying protest against what is called
the Democratic party. / have watched it
closely since the days of Jackson and know
that all the misortunes of our nation have
come to it through this so-called party
Therefore, beware OF this party of treason"
"A Portland, Me-, gentleman is the for
tunate recipient from the poet of the desk
on which John G. Whittier wrote his earli-
est verses. 1t is q very old piece of furni-
ture. being an heirloom in the Whittier
family and having seen, possibly, 200 years
of service. OF course, the fact that the ear
liest poems of one of Americas greatest
poets were written on this desk gives it a
value that antiquity could not confer. For
perhaps 40 years past the old desk has been
out of service, q newer piece of furniture
taking its place in the "earden room" at
Amesbury. A Portland artisan has reno
waited the ancient desk without changing
any of lis characteristic features.
Talk about $50 gown as a wonder on
graduation day in the city! What will you
think when you are told that a lady up in
oxford county, Me-, protects her house
plants while out of doors from frosts with q
$500 coat. Early in the month during the
frosty nights q woman residing in beauti.
full village IN Oxford county took her hus-
bands old coats to cover up her plants. Sew
eral days later he inquired for his coat and
when told the purpose for which it had been
used. and that probably it was left in the
flower garden said he guessed it had better be
brought in as there was $500 roll of bills in
the inside pocket, which he had carried there
for some time.