Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

/ Several mountain peaks in Idaho have
settled from Is to % feet within a few years.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as dura-
| BILE as asphalt and cheaper, are being tried
in Germany.
"A newly-married Susquehanna, Pa,
| couple have separated and reunited three
| times in four weeks.
A German 1O3 years old, with his son,
| aged TO- and his fourth wife, aged 40, landed
| at the Barge Office in New York the other
| day.
A theater for colored actors will prob
| ably soon be erected in Philadelphia. 1t
will be the only playhouse Of the kind in
| America.
An eminent physician says that mems
| stiff hats cause badness and cataTrh. An
| other doctor claims that soft hats produce
| catarrh and badness.
of all the queer things in Georgia, the
| queerest is a young lady who never ate q
plate of ice cream nor drank glass of soda
| water lemonade or milk shake.
One of the sights at Dexter, Me-, the
\ other day, was pair of Salvationists on the
roof of a three-story building preaching and
| throwing down tracts to the crowd IN the
| street below.
| Most people will be surprised to Know
| that the Southern States furnished 5ol,5O
\ troops to the Federal armies during the late
| unpleasantneSs. Only one-fourth OF theSe
| soldiers we're colored.
| "A Brockwayville, Pa, boy, just out OF
| knee-breeches, has been offered $4,000 for q
| fire escape he has patented. Like sensible
! boy, he is going to take the money and give
| himself good education
"A perfect sapphire is one of the rarest
gems, and, consequently, when found COM
mands very high price. 1t is curious that
| a test of its perfection Is that 1T shall snow
| red in q strong artificial light.
While an oak log was being converted
into lumber in a sawmill at Seymour, Ind,
the saw struck horseshoe firmly inclosed
| in the heart of the tree. There were 20 dis
tinct yearly growths over the outside OF the
| shoe.
The New York State hospitals for the
insane utilize the services of women physi-
| clans, and announcement is made that an
| open competitive examination for physi-
| clans will be held in the Capitol in Albany
| June IL
I'm Oldbury, Worcestershire, England,
| life insurance club has been uncovered
| where the offices of President and Treasurer
were held by an undertaken and that OF Sec
retary by his daughter. 1t is charged IL was
so managed as TO put premium on murder.
A woman living in small village near
Allentown, Pa, notified to come to
Reading to sign of her interest in an estate,
which was 90 cents. She declined to go, be-
cause her inheritance would not pay the car
fare. The eamount goes to the State unless
the lawyers GOV er 1t In fees.
1t is said of a magistrate at Biddeford,
who is a great believer in muscle, that it is
q common thing to find him at his law office,
with his book on q high shelf level with his
| ewes, busily reading law and swinging five
| pound Indian clubs, or taking some other
exercise, without interference with his
| studies.
"A local journal at Fulda, Mimi, notes
4 ..I,% Hr,f fl,a off iaka
a hens egg which measures u inches in
| circumference the smallest way, and inches
| the largest 1t was boiled, and upon opens
ing it a smaller, perfectly formed egg, with
| very thick she'll, was found, surrounded
by the white of the larger egg.
The candidate on the Democratic tickeb
was recently elected Town Treasurer Of
ClarRsvilIe, Ind. He has refused to file his
: | bond not because he is unable, but because
he is conscientiously opposed TO going on
anyone'S paper, or allowing others 70 DO tno
same for him. He is well-to-do, and man
} of the strictest sobriety.
? 1t is passing strange that nobody has
thought before of moving canal boats by
, electricity instead of with mules. This
I thing is soon to be tried with the trolley
, system of overhead wires The boats, 1t IS
, thought can attain speed OF from SIX 10
ten miles an hour, which would make the
time between Albany and Buffalo 30 hours,
instead of seven days. 20
"A Philadelphia chicken exhibits rare
Intelligence. A baker who supplies the fam
, lily with bread is met every morning at the
, front gate by this chicken as soon as she
hears the baker toot his horn. She then
commences to cackle, and Is given her GUS
D tomary meal of bread crumbs. If the baker
| happens to be late in the morning she VIII
i | walk sometimes half q mile to meet him.
She never shows herself at the gate on sum
day mornings.
"A New Yorker fell the other day from
the top floor of flve-story tenement house,
{ and, after breaking the balusters on two
Z floors in his descent and bounding on his
head from one floor to another, landed all in
O heap on the ground floor. He then got up
and walked to the street. Two boards In the
floor on the spot where he stopped were
broken by his fall and his feet went through
a panel of door in the lower hall. Beyond
breaking his jaw he suffered no injury.
, The climate of Hindoostan goes a long
way toward explaining the religious scruples
which would make millions of Brahmin5
starve rather than eat meat stews, but less
} intelli9ible is the prejudice of Japanese
peasants, who cannot be persuaded to drink
. cows milk. The Abyssinian highlander5
would shrink from neither alternative, but
; would promptly cut the acquaintance OF
, neigbor who should defile himself by broil.
ing a rabbit. Moses, too interdicts rabbits
flesh, which constitutes the only luxury OF
the snow bound Jakoots, who would scorn
to waste c9pPer coin it on Chess dcoctoT Tea If DqS %
, toadstool The Tartar emirS scandaliZe
American missionaries by their fondness for
milk brandy CkOumiss), but are, in their
turn, amazed at the caprice that makes
their pious guests prefer pork to horse flesh.
: After all, there is no disputing about tastes.
; "A curiously addressed letter lately
passed through the postotfice of Madrid,
which was deciphered and correctly deliv-
ered Notwithstanding all difficulties. The
address wat perfect rebus At the left
: hand side was the figure of lady; it was
clear therefore, to which sex the recipient
t should belong. Over the lady's head the
sun was rising hence her name was inferred
to be Aurora For her surname stood a hill,
| with a castle at its foot which gives US
| "NIontes v Castillo" Next comes the town,
4 for which the plan of city was drawn, on
| which the Alhambra was legible- This tndi-
Gated Granada, but in order to leave no
l | doubt possible, a pomegranate was drawn
, beside the plan. TO complete the address
number was indicated in one of the streets
/, of the city plan. The postal authorities
took three days to study this curiosity, and
then triumphantly delivered the letter to
fSenorita Aurora Monies y Castillo, Azac-
ayas No. 20 Granada" and, so far from CEN
surfing the sender, they had the envelope
photographed and copy printed in the
Madrid papers proof of the intelligence
OF the department.
SANS SERIOUSNESS.