Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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-Sedalia, No., has park which nobody
can get to.
The tallest man in Parsons, Kan, ID
named A. Short Inch.
1t is estimated that every seal consumes
about n-pounds of fish daily.
"A young Philadelphia fellow advertised
| for wife and his sister answered.
I'm 20 years there has been no counter
feiting of Uncle SANS postage stamps.
| During the past ten. years 43 railway
mail clerks have been killed by accidents
| while on duty, and 479 we're injured.
Thirteen more women than men voted
at the municipal election in Cawker City,
Kan.
"A COW belonging to farmer near Mar
shalltown, Ia, is the proud mother of triplet
| calves. ..-,
"A Baltimore man had earaehe contin-
ually for IL years. Finally he recovered and
delight drove him insane.
During the past year there were over
100000 pieces of matter withdraw from
the mails because of incorrect or insufficient
addresses.
in the text of the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA there are 10000 words which have never
been formerly entered and defined in any
dictionary.
"A Newton county, Ga, man is to be
tried by his church for interfering with the
will of God, because he put lightning rods
on the house.
"A distinguished Egyptologist has re-
Gently unearthed with lot of his mummies
will probably made 4, $50 years ago, but,
curiously, quite modern IN form.
1t keeps three large Chicago factories
busy to manufacture the locomotive head.
lights and railroad lanterns that are used in
this country. The factories give employ
nient to !, 100 men and boys.
"A Detroit policeman has been acquit-
ted upon trial for not entering the church
upon his beat in which a mad dog was cre-
ating q terrible cOnmotion. He swore
that he thought they were only electing q
deacon.
I'm France the Government still levies
tax on doors and windows. To the peas
ant in his small hut this tax amounts to a
little more than francs year, but in the
small towns 1t rises to II francs annually for
each family.
"A fuu-grown wild boy, aged about IS
years, has been captured at Enoch's Point,
Australia. His body is said to be covered
with hair about four inches long, the hair of
his head being four feet long and his nails
five inches long.
Object glasses for microscopes are now
made in Germany of glass that contains
phOsphOric and bOrarie acid 1t is stated
that with lenses made of this glass an object
one-twenty-thousandth of an inch in dame
ter can be distinctly seen.
What's in name? Thomas Lawless is
in st. Louis hospital on account of a bat
tering he got while trying to save young
girl from insult by couple of rowdies, and
James Thoroughbred has been sentenced to
death in Delaware for felony.
"A beautiful piece of sculpture from an
cient Ephesus has reached the British Mu-
scum. The relic forms part of marble bull,
the head being exquisitely carved, while the
figure of goddess appears on the body. 1t
is supposed to be 1000 years old.
1t is asserted that the idea of the slot
machine is very old. In an inn in one of the
rural districts of England the tobacco for
the guests was kept in box which was
opened by an English penny; this box was
certainly, SO the landlord averred, 15O years
old.
Here is decidedly queer advertisement
which appeared last week in Liverpool
newspaper: Wanted, Immediately, in eoun-
try, a Christian home Clergyman or doctor
preferred) for q lady (Protestant), baby, and
child. Lady of Incorporate habits. Address,
stating terms (modernte), c lO6.
"A Columbus, o., man owns very
yonug chicken and very old dog. The
little chick follows the dog around the yard,
refusing to run with its mother and the rest
OF the brood. The dog I'm return seems de-
lighted with his feathered companion, and
will watch over the little chick as If it was
of his own kith and kin.
The public debt of the United States
shows gratifying decrease within the last
ten years, the burden per capita having been
reduced from s3s SO in 1880 to sl4 63 in 1890.
The Indebtedness of the States and Terri
tories has also decreased $67, ,2ls, $50 during
the decade, reducing the per capita from
S. 9 in 1880 to 1886 in 1890.
Lexington, Ga, has a town marshal
well equipped for his duties. A few days ago,
it is said, he had occasion to arrest three
evildoers in bunch. He gathered one
under each arm, their legs dangling in the
air, and drove the third along in front, and
in that way proceeded to the ealaboose,
VIII ere all three prisoners were locked up.
"A West Virginia man has mule that
when thirsty unties his halter, pulls out q
pin to open the barn door, goes to the pump,
and taking the handle in his teeth, works it
until he fills. the trough, quenches his thirst
and returns to his stable, shutting the door
after him. He then enters his stall and
brays until his owner comes to fasten the
halter
1t is a curious fact that the lobster
land will solve itself in a few years. 4
lobster grows for seven years. Not long ago
three Holsters were sufficient for can; now
seven are required. This shows that the
Holsters are being caught in such quantities
that none can attain maturity-a fact which
points to their speedy extinction in Eastern
waters.
The Indebtedness of the world for 1890
and 1880, as far as it has been possible to col
lect the data for the present bulletin, with
the amount of increase or decrease, is as fol-
lows: Foreign nations, debt, less sinking
fund-1s90, $2j 636 075 s40 1890 $23 4Sl, ,572 1s5.
The United States-ls9O, $9l5 062, liz; 1850,
a ;g22, ,5l7.364. States and Territories-l390,
1928, 107 ss3; 1880, $3.50 6,643. Counties-1S90,
$l4l, $50 S45; 1850, Sl24, l05 OF.
There have probably been 40 patents in
as mady years of the water CRATE, as used on
hard coal burning locomotives, and few
that burn soft coal. To those who think that
to them belongs the credit for the original
Id ea il NAV be of interest to look back q few
years. At the MuseO BOrbonicO, Naples,
Italy, there are carefully preserved many
copper and bronze tools and utensils, ex-
humed at POmpeii and among them a small,
vertical boiler of copper; this has a fire box
md a smoke fiue through the top, door on
The side, and water CRATES composed of
small tubes of copper crossing the fire box
1t the bottom. Poinpeii was destroyed more
han 800 years ago.