Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

National gas has been discovered in the
Argentine Republic.
-Th eRiver Seine has been restocked with
10000 California salmon.
An Iowa girl has ruD away from home
to avoid playing the piano.
"A Maine woman, SO years old, who has
used tobacco all her life. has suddenly sworn
| Russian peasants will be prohibited BY
| law shortly from selling or mortgaging their
lands.
| Montreal has the cheapest telephone
service on the continent. Twenty-Five dollars
year is charged.
The Senate of Arkansas has passed
bill to prohibit the giving of a mortgage on
crops, either pl anted or prospective
Clay county, Mo-, will be represented
| at the Worlds Fair by a span of mules l8hands
| high, and which weigh $500 pounds.
With the exception OF Spain all the
countries of Europe have laws against the use
| OF castiron wheels under passenger cars and
| locomotives
"A Hartford, Conn.,, youth has deve loped
relish for iron filings, tacks, ten-penny nails.
live bullfr ogs and fish, all of which he swallows
| with avidity.
"A jackson, Mich, man, recently mar
ried, cele ebrated the event by treating his
friends to bread tickets. He passed them in
stead of cigars.
"A spinster who died in Westminster
Englan d. two weeks ago aged so years, had
been in the habit for some years Of using half q
| pound of tea day.
This is curious: A young woman,
| member of a theatrical company playing in
| Chica go. tainted because che was embraced by
| a ma n at the stage door.
Many railroads are introducing brake
| shoes on both sides of the wheel, the claim
| being made that the braking power is thus
| more efficiently employed.
The Grand Trunk Railway is to build
a rolling mill plant at Montreal, and the ofH-
cials claim that the road will save at least S30-
| 600 year by rolling its own iron.
"A 2-year-old girl who died at Mas
CO utah, ILL.,, weighed II pounds, exactly what
| she weighed when born. She never got an
| ounce heavier during her short life.
In Paris the drivers of the cars on some
of the street railways are placed on top of the
car. thus giving them better control of the
horses. while gaining additional space for pas
sengers.
"A new mineral has been discovered, to
which the name sanguinite has been given. It
is bronze red in color by reflected light. and
upon analysis is found to contain silver, arsenic
and sulphur.
Some of the sub-alliances in Minnesota
are undertaking TO order boycotts of news.
papers which venture to take different view
OF public questions and exercise their right to
criticise Alliance utterances.
"A rope company in st. Louis recently
made what is claimed to be tine largest ship
ment of cable ever carried by one car. Two
| reels of wire. weighing 10000 pounds were
shipped on special four-truck platform car.
One German school child in every hun
dred Is a sufferer. The BOYS are more liable
to this defect than girls. Ernst Keil, who has
collected statistics from all German schools.
finds that there are 59S5 suffering boys TO 2 233
suffering girls.
An expert says: According to the
monistic hypothesis, every mode of kinesis has
its concomita1t mode of metakiDesis and, when
the kinetic manifestations assume the form Of
the molecular processes in the human brain.
the metakinetic manifestations assume the
form of human consciousness"
"A fre-hose supporter was tried in Bal
timore the other day, the invention being
contrivance to lift the fire hose and hold it in
mldalr so that cars and other vehicles may pass
benea tn during fires. The supporter is de-
| signed to overcome stoppages on cable lines as,
having grip, the cable cars cannot jump the
!, hose like horse cars The experiment is said to
have been successful.
"A gentleman of Milledgeville, Ca, the
other day saw something fall from the clouds
| and bounce like ball in his yard. He went
out to discover what It could be, and found ft n
live terrapin, which had evidently descended
with the rain from the clouds. This little ami
NAL was about IL inches in circumference, was
a dark green on its back and str1ped-some-
thing like king snake-underneath.
1t is reported that Chilean is living in
Tacna, Peru, who is Isl years old. according to
his own statement; but his neighbors assert
that he is older, and document is in. existence
whic he signed 142 years ago. He still works
in his garden and is in good health. He at
tri butes his long life to his simple and frugal
ha bits He eats only plain, nourish1ng food
an eats it cold. He rises early takes his bath
regularly, never INDUCES In intoxicating
liquors, and does not smoke.
The long and flowing beard and bright
red whiskers of the 2 Postmaster of Wilton, Conn.
having proved OBNOXIOUS to the aesthetic tastes
OF the worthy inhabitants of that town, they
sent him letter with skull, cross-bones and
cofins marked in blood warning him to divest
himself of his hirsute facial adornments or
take the penalty. He took the penalty. and
was seized at night in the woods by deter
mined band of his fellow-citizens. who reduced
his luxuriant growth Of hair to a stubby beard.
"A bachelor tradesman who has Just died
in Hamburg adopted novel method of re-
venging himself on the woman who once Tilted
him, In his will he left her legacy of 1900
marks, but also indited the following letter,
which he ordered to be handed to the lady, who
is nowia widow, with the money. Madam:
Some 30 years ago was a suitor for your nand
in marriage. You refused my offer, and .
consequence my days have been passed in
peace and quietness. Now requite your good
ness"
In the Third precinct of the Second
ward, Detroit a lady went to the polls along in
the afternoon yesterday and the outside ticket
handlers presented her with the Republican
and Democratic ballots for School Inspector.
"Can you tell me what their religion is?' in
Quired the lady, and she was answered: 10 we
don't mind religion at elections" 1--WE ought
to-" said the fair voter. There should be an
amendment to the law to show what church they
belong to-" To satisfy her inquiry was made,
and when she was told that one was Baptist
and the other was ar Episcopalian she was
ready to vote.
French gardeners are now obtaining the
same results as the Japanese in the production
of dwarf trees, which are in great demand,
their fruit being just as perfect as il ir had
grown on = full-szed tree. Their methods are
kept as secret as those used in Japan, where
one sees trees 200 and 300 years old which have
growth and to prevent them from attaining
height of more than two feet at most. Their
trunks are gnarled and twisted by age, but they
bear 10 trace of the pruning knife. and they
constitute an exact representation in miniature
of the grand old sycamore, oak, cedar or apple
tree which line the magnificent 50-mile avenue
which leads up to the sacred shrines Of Nix
ko."
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