Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Wet tobacco will relieve bee or wasp
stings.
"A New Yorker paid g, 500 for a brown
diamond.
The wild eurrant is suggested as the
State flower of Oregon.
| -AIIegan, Mich, has an oil well, but ita
production is only "a barrels daily.
st Joseph, Mich, has pair of twins
which weigh less than i've pounds.
The 1st of May was Chicago's moving
day, and 1900 homes were changed.
The tide of immigration is rapidly
turning toward the States Of Washington and
Oregon.
The center of the spruce gum industry
is st. Johns N. B. The crop is the most profit
able Of any in the farmers category.
AN Idaho newspaper has been ex-
changed for mule. In explanation the new
editor states that the mule was old.
The prisoners in the city Jail at Atchi-
son became so interested in a discussion Of the
Scriptures that they came TO blows.
The citizens of Athens, Ga, beseech
their Council to pass an ordinance for the
muzzling of cats. The animals are too noisy o.
nights.
"A quail flew straight through heavy
glass window in the Hannibal (Mo.) postefice
the other day. It was moving with such ve-
Iocity that 1t made hole in the glass very little
larger than its body.
Among the recent inventions is q cal
endar that will register for the next 200 years,
besides telling any date figure within that
period A gum moistening apparatus for post
age stamps is also an invention.
"A Kansas woman boasts that she never
appeared on the street twice within the same
week in the same dress. Her husband is wearing
asuiJ this spring which he bought four years
ago, and hat of the vintage 1885.
"A new motor, utilizing ordinary gas as
well as petroleum. is announced, compact in
form, requiring little space and no expensive
foundations or attendance. In one-half min
ure's time starting can be accomplished.
-Ornithologists tell us that when feed
ing the stride of the ostrich is from 20 to q
inches; when walking but not feeding. 26
inches, and when terrified, from 1l1& TO IA feet,
or at the rate of about % miles an hour.
The failure OF the 81. s. Mail" which
went to pieces after bad week at Niblo's The
ater New York, has not discouraged the owners
of the play, Hobart Brooks and Max Ibmsen.
They will have it rewritten, and put 1t ON the
road again next season
-"Her beautiful womanhood, nv love,
and 81" was the consideration named in a deed
of conveyance which was fled on Tuesday in
the Registers office in BROOKLYN. The deed
was elaborately engrossed. and the separated
pages were tied together with blue satin rib
bon.
The COW of farmer near BeldIno.
Mich, swallowed her owners watch last year.
She was killed the other day and the time
piece was recovered. When taken to a jeweIer
he pronounced it good condition and proved
his words Dy setting and winding it. 1t has
"A young woman of West Union, o.,
filed up pan with cornmeal and playfully ran
her hand through the contents. She felt some-
thing on her finger. and on drawing her hand
out found fine gold ring, worth So encirc!ing
hersthird finger. 1t is an elegant one. but how
it came in the meal is q mystery.
Ones first impression on seeing an
ostrich is that he needs another prop under
him. The feeling is heightened when he goes
to walk. and he himself seems conscious that
his center of gravity is a long way above
ground. for he goes teetering along as though
exercising great care to keep his legs well under
him.
AN eloping couple were traced recently
in a peculiar way. boarder had run away
with his landlady. and the husband of the
woman, knowing of the boarder's fondness for
onions. gave that as a part or the description.
When the couple were identified the man had
him.
Vegetation in the Alps recedes down.
ward from year to year. Formerly Alpine roses
grew at an altitude of 1900 feet. Now they are
seldom found higher than $500 feet and are at
that height stunted- Beeches have gone down
], 200 feet Various berries. which once -four
isbed 1850 feet above sea level do not grow in
higher attitudes now than $500.
"A Florida woman has canary bird
that is highly priced for Its beautiful singing.
About three weeks ago, during a high wind
storm. the bottom of the cage dropped ont and
the bird was gone. Nothing more was seen Of
it and it was gwen up for lost. when one day it
made its temperance in the family circle.
The door of the empty cage was open and birdie
voluntarily entered
AT Fort Augusta, in Jamaica, one Of
the defenses of Kingston Harbor on the oppo-
site side of the inleE of Port Royal, is shown
the tomb of a negro who in a great earthquake
was swallowed up. and apparently buried alive
IN a chasm which was opened under his feet.
A moment later another convulsion threw him
but on the surface again, undamaged but for q
few bruises. scratches and scare, and he lived
for many years aILerward.
"A certain little girl, who is Just learn
ng to read short words, takes great in
erest in the big letters she sees in the news
papers. The other evening, after she had kept
her mamma busy reading the advertisements
n the newspapers to her, she knelt down to
ay her prayers. Dear Lord" she lsped,
make me pure" then she hesitated, and went
m with added fervor. a moment later, make
ne absolutely pure, like baking powder"
Two months ago an engineer on the
New Orleans and Texas road, on
he Jackson division, Mississippi ran over
.oose. Since then its mate runs around the
ngine and expresses, to the best of its ability
reat animosiry for the engine. The engineer
avs that whenever his engine signals for the
tation the old gander knows the whistle, and
n spite of attempts to scare it off flies at the
ngIne as though it were its deadliest foe.
Attached to every Chicago tailor shop
the first-class is man whose sole duty it is
D find out and correctly report the relations
xistiug between each fills de famille and his
papa He must know exactly to
hat extent such minor Of a wealthy
ather may draw on the purse of the latter
-ithout encountering opposition. He must
now the allowance made the boy-if any there
by his indulgent parents. and he must know
-hether the old man was ever known to kick at
rices or at the size of bills presented in behalf
the son.
s-TTTE AND COMTCAT.