Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

| bly, cheerful men in Topeka, Kan.
! A somewhat celebrated temperance leo
| turer in Missouri is named Drinkhard.
| Three children born to different families
| in Minnesota this spring are web-footed.
"A New York Hebrew has sued news
paper for calling him Christian. He wants
There is only one saint in the Missouri
PenItenriary, and he IS of the Latter Day per.
suasion.
Ten ewes belonging to a man in Cooper
county, NO., have given birth this spring TO 70
lambs
The telegraphic revenue in England for
over 1889.
Justice is said to be blind, and Topeka
has elected Judge who has been stone blind
for 80 years.
Out of over 80. 900 volumes drawn from
the Portland. de-. public library last year only
four were lost.
"A technical school for mill ers is to be
established in Paris 1t will be the first of its
kind in the world.
An ostrich is said to have travelled from
New York to Philadelphia on the pilot Of .
LOGON olive recently.
The king of all the Holsters was caught
off Monhegan, Me-, last week. He was 30
inches long and weighed IA pounds.
"A Kansas City lawyer was so much
overcome when jury pronounced his client
not guilty of murder that he tainted
There as a pig at Junction City, Kan.
which weighs 1852 pounds. IL is believed to be
the largest hog in the world on four feet.
A farmer living near Erie is just eating
which he gathered from his orchard in septem-
Der.
"A pupil in a cooking school who was
asked how beef tea was made, replied, BUY a
tin of beef extract and follow the directions on
the lid.'
1t is costly to die in Mexico. The
American friends of man who died in that
country had to pay native undertaken S9Sl for
his services, which were only ordinary.
Sixteen Nashville, Tenn, policemen
started out to raid a disorderly house at .
o'clock the other night and returned at Il with
"a rubber shoe. 1t was placed In cell.
. -Russia's Health Department has issued
a statement that the empires population on
January l, 1882 was 2342 75S The births in
1883 were ., lie. 996, against 3351, SIS deaths.
-Hailstones marked distinctly with q
W are reported to have fallen IN Southern
Florida. Whether the letter means war or
water Is unknown to the people down there.
The number of inhabitants of British
India by the late census is 230 400, OO0 an in
crease of nearly p. 0OO 600 since 1881. The pop
ularon of all IndIa amounts to about 285, co.,
900.
-Ninetv-fve per cent of all the rum made
in the world is the product of seven distilleries
in and around Boston. They are all old estab-
llshments, some OF them running back to the
old colonial days.
AN electric motor is employed to oper-
ate plow on the estate of one of the Spanish
nobility The current is generated by means
Of a stream, of water at some distance from the
fields where the plow is employed.
"A New York society man, Wishing to
give q stag dinner, sent out IA invitations and
told each man how many others were asked.
Not an invitation was accepted, as each person
receiving one thought that he was asked merely
TO avoid having l3 at table.
A Philadelphia fish dealer finding him
self with a large stock of stale shad on hand,
by few skllful touches of red paint on the
fishes gIlls impaired a fresh appearance to his
goods. Persons who purchased the fish became
i'll, and the artistic dealer languishes in jail
The frst savings bank in America was
the "Provident Institution for Savings in the
Town of Boston," incorporated in December,
1915. and opened for business in January
February lslJ, and at present the leading saw
world.
in the Manchester, England, Guardian
the other day appeared two suggestive adver-
tisements side by side. One was for woman"
who was good cook to whom f45 year was
offered, and the other was for "a lady by birth
and eduaatIon," to act as nurse to a child at an
annual salary Of f2O.
okawo nh L.
English census had. of course, some amusing
experiences One householder handed in a
blank filled with the names of "AIbert Jenkins,
aged 407 years; Mary Ann Jenkins, aged 4Ol.
and Thomas jenkins, 20l" Inquiry showed
that Albert Jenkins was AZ years old, and the
others Al and 81
AT meeting of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal, at Calcutta piece of cable was ex-
hibited showing that the india rubber covering
had been pierced by a blade Of grass. Tho
piercing was SO complete and the contact with
the copper core so perfect that dead EARTH"
as it is technically called. was produced, and
the efhcieney of the cable destroyed.
"A curious juxtaposition of vessels was
noticed in San Francisco the other day At
Howard wharf was an ingiorions hay barge,
the George Washington. and near by the mag
nihcent American ship. the Valley Forge.
Alongside the George Washington was a COM
panion vessel, the Fourth of July, peacefully
Near Tacoma, Wash, last week, two
boys, while out in skiff fishing, hooked a man
eating shark, weighing 800 pounds. Their boat
was upset, sand they were thrown into the
water. Upon being rescued by some fisher
men, the veraoious ehrouicler records that the
lads righted their boat. which was being towed
by the shark, and. after 4 hard pull, they got
the boat and shark on shore.
"A bolt of electricity struck . residence
in Sedalia, Mo-, and ran down the iue into the
sitting room. where there was a stove around
which three or four ladies we're seated. The
stove was driven into the basement below SO
great was the force of the bolt but q young
lady who had her feet upon the fender was not
harmed in the least, while another seated sew
eral feet distant was severely shocked.
The Curator of the Academy Of Science,
of San Francisco, recently discovered new
species of hare. 1t is found upon the Island
OF Espiritu Ssnto, in the Gulf Of California, of
La Paz Bay. The hare Is rather larger than
those found In California or lower California,
but possesses all the characteristics of the
genus. The Smithsonian Institution, several
years ago, RECEIVED two skins of the species,
preserved in alcohol, but overlooked them,
and 1t has been left to the California Academy
to describe ana name the hare.
1t is popularity supposed that the lion is
the most courageous and powerful of the car.
niyora, or at least of the feIide; but on the few
recorded occasions Of a battle royal between
the lion and the Bengal tiger, the lion has
come off second best. One such combat Oc-
CURED recently at the Calcutta Zoo, between
an African lioness and a tigress. They were
exhibited in adjoining compartments Of the
same cage. and the door having been carelessiy
tigress rushed in and disposed OF her rival in
fight which lasted about ten minutes.