Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A boy in Atchison catches English spar
rows in q rat trap.
Only about 80 per cent Of English
clergymen are teetotallers.
The most turbulent member Of the To-
peka City Council is named LulL
"A boy in Washington State caught 81
| wild pigeons with one swoop of his net.
London proposes to build structure
that will throw the Eiffel towerin the shade.
Lake vessels exceed in size and number
all coasting and river craft of this country.
The largest forest fires in Michigan have
occurred q decade apart-in 1S7l, 1881 and
1s91.
AN adult laboring man wastes five
ounces of muscle in the course of his daily
labor.
I'm proportion to its population, Austria
liza is the largest tea-consuming country.
England comes next.
Military experiments in Russia prove
that the strongest walls are snow walls. No
cannon can batter them down
"A Grand Rapids lover was mean and
ungallant enough while counting his fance
one evening to steal her watch.
Evangelist Wills, of Detroit, is adver-
Using the Worlds Fair by predicting that It
will wind up all earthly affairs.
"A new occupation for women in London
is that of conversation crammer," whose
business Is to coach up ladies for dinner par
ties.
Gold Beech, with its river warehouses
and wharves, is now high and dry, an inland
town. A recent flood completely changed
the course Of the Coquille river
Montana Is larger than the Empire Of
Turkey. Texas Is larger than the whole
Austrian Empire by 30,0OO square miles, and
New Mexico is larger than Great Britain and
Ireland together.
"A large and curious fish, recently caught
at Calhoun, Ca, had head that resembled
that Of a snake, and had teeth like a human
being. 1t is of a variety unknown to the
Oldest fishermen of the place.
The latest novelty in ferns used in Lon
don is one Stimulating rose. When closed,
It looks like a bud. When opened it resem-
bles full-blown,rose: and, as it is scented
with the perfume OF that flower, the illusion
is complete.
Black ants are crowding the guests out
of Ludington (Mich.) hotel, and the pro-
prietor advertises for an exterminator. One
guest watched solid procession of them a
foot wide crawl up the side OF his room for
six consecutive hours.
Chocolate should be taken at early
IuOAh, WIN nO InOT0 SOl1Q dCcOmDdQ1I0enG
than piece of bread; it should be so thick
that spoon might stand upright in it, and
Immediately after its devastation glass of
cold water should be drunk
The tallest trees in the world are the
gum trees of Victoria. Australia. In some
districts they average 800 feet high. The
longest pr pros.trated one measured 40 feet.
trees of California must take back seat.
Wilder, the Western humorist, says that
in approaching good jokes a crowd of news
boys Is the quickest and most intelligent he
ever met. No point gesture or shade of in
Election escapes these alert little non1ads,
while on the other hand many fashionable
assemblages are chilly and unrespons1ye un-
ell you break the crust of reserve or indiffer-
ence as II with sledge hammer.
"A whirlwind which occurred at Shell
Bluff, Ca, recently was so severe and of such
a dry, parching nature that it destroyed be-
| tween four and five acres Of cotton. After
| the wind passed the cotton weed, which be-
| to powder in the hand whom touched. The
| immense cloud of sand and dust raised
| frightened good many persons.
| "A new method of ventilating railway
| carriages and preventing dust from enter
| ing with the air has appeared in France.
The more quickly the train moves the more
| rapidly the apparatus works. The air is
made to traverse q receptacle containing
/ water, which cools it and relieves IL of dust,
| after which it goes through another filter
| ing before entering the carriage.
The eurrsnt bushes near Bloomingt on
| Ill, are infected by a peculiar parasite
| which covers almost completely the green
fruit, and whose poisonous qualities have
/ occasioned good deal of excitement. A
child died, as the doctors assert, from eating
i the parasite-infected green currants. The
lad died in the most intense and horrible
/ a0onv suffariu0 as If Affiliated with biaa
| A lobster recently caught in Belfast
Bay, Me-, weighed % pounds and measured
| 81 inches from the end of his tail to the end
| OF the longest claw, 20 inches around the
body, and IL inches around the large claw
Barnaoles adhered to the claws and body.
| The monster was too large to enter the trap,
but as the trap was drawn up became en-
| tangled in the heading and was safely landed
| In the boat.
Two of the German Emperor's favorite
dogs recently ran away from the stables at
Potsdam without leave and without their
muZzles, which Is necessary article of a
dogs attire in Berlin and its neigh borhood.
Elk" and "Schnurchen," after a days en-
joyment, were taken up by the police, but
were eventually restored to the royal stables
after payment Of fine of marks each bv
the Emperor.
"A jury at Spokane, Wash, after being
out "a hours, could not agree, when the
Judge ordered them back into the Jury room
to remain until they reached a verdict He
also instructed the bailiff not to give them
anything to eat until they had found a ver-
dict of guilty or not guilty in a highway rob-
berry case In ten minutes thereafter the
jury returned verdict finding the prisoner
guilty as charged.
AN immigrant girl arrived at the Barge
ONCE at New York the other day, suffering
from that terrible scourge of poorly-fed
people in hot countries, eiephantiasis This
girls case, however, would be peculiar one
even in countries where elephantiasis is at
its worst, for the disease has attacked her
nose, and has enlarged it to such an extent
that the Barge Office carpenter was called up
to measure it. He found it to be 51s inches
long,