Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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"A Mr.. Coffin is engaged in the under
taking business at Bolivar, Mo.
-Iu 1889 there were 153, ,937 dogs in Kan
sas; in 1890, 92s; decrease, 6,OOs
"A Bethlehem Pa, ,saloonkeep prohibits
| gaming in his place on Church holidays
There are 500 different shades of sewing
silk In the complete stock of New York mer-
chants.
-Eighty-three per cent of the inmates of
Norristown. Pa, Insane Asylum had the poetry
habit before being sent there.
AT a Baptist sociable to be held in
Bristol, Pa, the attraction will be nail-driYlng
contest between four girls.
"A Fairton, N. j., man locked his wife
in the hencoop because she had not gathered
enough eggs to satisfy his appetite for dinner.
There lives at Fonda, Ga, man feet
inches tall and whose reach between finger
tip and finger tip when his arms are outspread
is II feet.
Bay county, Mich, has paid for SO, ,O95
sparrows since the sparrow law went into effect,
and it is claimed that these birds are getting
decidedly scarce.
"A 12-year-old boy carries the mail
from Tucson to La Pas, Ariz. The distance 10
IS miles and the trail is through one Of the
widest portions of the Territory.
"A little boy living near Lexington, Ga,
though hardly years old. can spell from =
book almost any word and pronounce it, and
can read as glibly as many q child twice his
age.
I'm Maine, where prohibition has been
the law for generation, Judge of . munich
pal court has just been removed from Office by
the Governor and Council for continued
drunkenness.
"A farmer near Brookville, Ind, has
hen which has laid two eggs of the soft-shelled
variety. each large and fully developed and
connected by band like an old-fashioned pair
of saddle bags.
"A Jersey Central Railroad brakeman
fell from his car and was dragged, five miles
over the stones and ties, clinging to the brake
chain, and, wonderful to relate, sustained no
injuries beyond few bruises.
The extension of the use Of the type
writer is shown by the fact that in one single
building in New York City there are 100 type
writer operators at work from 8 o'clock in the
morning till in the afternoon.
"A queer custom which prevails at no
other court than that of Great Britain is the
solemn announcement at the beginning Of each
course OF the Queens dinners of the name OF
the cook who has prepared the dishes served
One hundred and fifteen servants is a.
great number to do the work of one house. but
that is the size of the staff of the Manhattan
Club New York, since it went into the Stewart
mansion. Walters there are paid S45 month
and board.
For the first time in the history OF Sa-
vannah, Ca, a colored man was the other day
admitted to practice at the bar after passinga
most severe examination. A leading member
ofthe bar, prominent in social life, advocated
his admission.
The stability of the bicycle is due to
turning the wheel to the right or left, which
ever way the leaning is, and thus keeping the
point of support under the rider, Just boy
keeps upright on his finger brOomstiek stand
ing on Its smallest end.
The fact that manv of the houses Of
Portland, Ore, and San Francisco are built OF
redwood is given as a reason for the few de-
structive fires that occur in those cities. The
wood is almost uninfiammable. and, though a
fire will smolder in it, it never blazes.
"A resident of Camden, opposite Pbils-
delphia, had nightmare and yelled "burglarsr'
and "murderr' SO loud that he drew to his
house two letter carriers, who were promptly
pounced upon by policeman who thought they
were the burglars, and he marched them OF.
The following amusing advertisement,
evidently written in good faith. appeared re-
Gently in West Coast paper: Il want to let
my furnished house shootable for legations or
any other man. And il it does not shoot the
legation, can shoot himself elsewhere. Apply
to -
An absurd case came before the Ninth
Criminal Court of Paris recently. A chemist
some time ago made some imitation bank notes
to prove the possibility of initiating a new
issue. For this the Bank OF France is now
trying to prosecute him. The case is adjourned
to some future date.
"A Wheeling journal announced that
the people of that town would soon have the
pleasure of seeing a certain actor On his great
role of King Lear in Macbeth" The paper
has, however, since stated that it was misin-
formed as to the particular role, and interest in
the approaching event has abated.
The Indians in North Carolina ta.
They have recourse to North Carolina laws
save in particular cases where the matters in
dispute are between them and the Interior
They receive no aid from the
State but do receive it from the National
Government. There are about LOO of them,
and they reside mainly In jackson and Swain
counties.
If an Egyptians eyes ache or hurt he
looks out for blonde woman named Fatima
begs fl ON her bit of bread and information
as to where he Will find six more Fatimas, that
be may ask the same favor of each. For
tunately for him they do not all have to be
blondes, and a wise Egyptian father, seeing the
value of the Eame, is apt to give it to one of
bis daughters, SO there are plenty Of Fatimas.
"A Leadville jury recently becoming dis
yusted with the sass administered to them
selves, as well as the lawyers and witnesses, by
he Judge, ordered the Sheriff to lock the lat
Ter up for q couple of weeks and, to His Hon
1rs great evaporation, he was incontinently
ugged off to jail and placed in durance vile,
while the case went on smoothly with the most
popular barkeeper in town occupying the
Judicial chair.
Sellers of gloves and shoes have been
to mark their goods with false sizes
n order to please certain women who are vain
lbout the hands and feet, and that accounts
'or the astonishment Oftentimes felt by girl
Who Is innocent of this when friend having
larger hands and feet, gives con-
elusive proof by showing the marks the
lrticles themselves, that she wears both
mailer gloves and shoes.
AS an incident of the exciting munich
,al election in Chicago. the Tribune relates
hat last Sundays issue of Der Westsn con-
aimed an editorial in favor of Carter HARRISON,
2 lines in length. which was reproduced upon
he first page in "a languages, occupying seven
olumns English, German, French, Italian,
spanish, Portuguese, Russian. Finnish, Polish,
hungarian, Bohemian OF Czcekish, Dutch
swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Flemish, Turk
sh. Armenian, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese.
modern Greek. Latin and Hebrew. besides
yolapuk and in eight dialects, as follows:
;erman dialects of Plattdeutsch, Bavaria,
'alatinate, Wurtemberg, (Schwabisch) Swift
srIand, Austria, Luxemburg, and of the
Hebrews of Germany.