Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

\ ration rat nunl-
In South Dakota "speak-easies" are
called blind pigs"
"A New York restaurant advertises
''corned beef hash a specially"
| "A hog recently killed in Perry, Ca,
had three complete sets of lungs.
1t is reported that $40, OOO, 900 of British
capital are invested in Paraguay.
Hebrew women are said to live longer,
| on the average, than any other race.
A Barre, w., man is IS years of age,
and has 80 children, 81 of whom are girls.
Out Of the whole number of graduates
from Vassar about S6 per cent are married.
There is more snow in Southern
Colorado and New Mexico now than for 20
| years.
Butterflies futtering around above snow
three feet deep is the gist Of report from East
| Jordan, Mich.
"A resident Of Pottsville, Pa, has in his
possession an egg that was given to him on
| Easter Sunday, 1850.
"A Colusa, CAL. farmer recently re-
paired the floor of his granary and killed lSoO
! rats found underneath it.
One OF the visitors to the New York dog
| show wore a bearskin overcoar which he said
Is dogs helped him to get.
A Tennessee man has been fined $500
for kissing woman three times, and he is gall
liant enough to say he got of cheap
One more centenarian dead. A man
died at the ripe old age of 1S8 years. March !,
| at his home in Lincoln county, N. C.
AN 8-year-old tramp is in the Memphis,
Tenn, Jail. He began to travel when barely6
years old, and has been all over the country.
"A Nebraska competitor in a guessing
contest came within one of the exact popula-
tion of that State as given in the census re-
ports.
TO prevent train robbery a San Fran
cisco man proposes that every car shall be pro-
vided with signal rockets, to be used in case of
an attack.
The Washington correspondents won so
much applause by their outburst of song at the
adjournment of Congress that they are threat
enlng to organize glee club.
Foreign exchanges report that a sweet
produced, after many years of experiment, in
Turin. 1t has been named the Edison"
The GiIa river at Florence, Ariz., the
crossing ofthe Phanix and Maricopa Railway,
has, by reason of the recent food, shifted its
course nearly mile, leaving bridges high and
dry.
There are about 105 women to every 100
men; one-uuarter of the population Of the
world die before the age of II years; only in
1000 lives to be 100 years old, and only in 1000
reach 10
1t is conceded that the champion belt
for self-eontrol should go to the young lady of
st. Joseph. Mo-, who lay perfectly quiet in bed
and watched a couple OF burglars carry of her
jewelry and false hair.
The novelties of the bird show at the
Crystal Palace in London are water rail- a
white hedge sparrow, a swallow, white
thrush and talking blackbird, all birds sell
dom seen in confinement
In Eutaw, Ala, last week ten girl ba-
bies were born. while a boy baby has not been
born in the town in two months. This causes
the editor of the local paper to inquire,
whittier are we drifting%
1t seems hard that a man 137 years old,
who has been the husband of nine wives and
the father of IS children, must end his days in
the Chattanooga poorhouse. He ought TO have
the freedom of all Tennessee.
The cane has entered into competition
with the car-stoys. Two Morgantown, w. Va,
young men were out walking Sunday last when
one Of them slipped and was impaled uDon
cane carried by his friend. The injured man
died on Monday.
The county and city physicians at
Grand Rapids quarreled TO whose business
it was to doctor the sick jail birds, and the re-
suit was that the patients were locked up with
out any medical care and got well. The case
is to be investigated.
The latest statistics show that the sui
eide mania is spreading in Germany TO such an
extent that even children take their lives. Dur
ing the six years ending with 1883. 2S9 school
children committed suicide. Many OF these
suicides occurred in the elementary schools,
and were prompted by fear Of punishment
There is a hen in Eufaula, Ala, whose
of cop, mon al and shana tha ShelIa
being perfectly white. The white instead Of
! being white, is Jet black when boiled. There is
no difference in the taste from the common
hens eggs. The yek is of ordinary color and
the deep black color OF the whites only extends
to the outside covering, as when cut open the
egg appears to present the same appearance as
an ordinary egg.
"A little girl in North Carolina is named
Toledo Blade Wilson, after an Ohio newspaper.
In the same State lives Susan Arlesa Mary
Magdalene DiiIly Minerva Clementina Peck.
who probably has the longest name of any girl
in the United States. Some of her playmates
are Penella Caroline, Marget Dakorah,
Georgia Iowa, Mindy, Lithy, Geecreasy Lithy,
Zigcurtis, Rachel Geecreasy and Mary Tax
collector Huckleby.
"A Columbus, o., house recently bought
in England an invoice of tin amounting to Sl5,.
600. 1t was delivered directly to them in that
city. The curious thing about it is that they
saved about $50 in freight on the consignment,
the charges being that much less from Liver
pool to Columbus than from New York to Co
lumbus had the shipment originated in New
York. A good many shippers are trying to
figure out how such thing can fairly be-
If an Arab woman who has lost her hus-
band decides to marry again, she visits the
grave of her husband the night before her sec
ond marriage and prays him not to be offend
ed. As, however, she feels that he will be Of
tended she takes with her donkey laden with
two goat skins filled with water. The prayer
ended she proceeds TO pour water on the grave
to keep the first husband cool under the cir
cumstances about to take place and, having
well saturated him, Departs
"A Young woman in London, whose con-
science does not keep her awake, has found
new and profitable profession for those of her
sex blessed with phenomenal memories. She
attends first night performances of new plays
at the London tbeaters ana carries away every
line in her head. Within week the manu-
script of that play Is on its way to Africa or
Australia, much to the amazement Of the Lon
don dramatists and managers when they learn
of its production in the colonies.
There lives not far from Gioverville
lady who had three husbands during the year
1880. At first glance this appears to be very
simple matter, but it IS certainly an unusual
one. During the latter part of January. 1890
this lady lost her husband. He died from con.
sumption. About July, 1890, the widow married
a man who worked on the railroad near
Worcester. They were married two months
when he was killed. Finding herself WIDOW
again, she hired out in October to farmer Nv
inH near Worcester. He was widower. and
during the latter part of December they were
married. 1t will be seen that during the orler
span of only IL months this lady had three law
full husbands.
JEST FOR FUN.