Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| "A New York man has just taken his
| first mouthful of food in seven months. He
! was nourished by mechanical means
There is sign on one of the side streets
of Atlanta. Ca, that is at least expressive.
| 1t reads: "Going out to do whitewashing
| done here.''
"A ieweler has invented device for use
| in sleeping cars that promises to become
| popular. 1t is a ladder composed of tubes Of
| leather that provides easy access to upper
berths.
| The prisoners in the Ohio Penitentiary
were searched few days ago and about two
bushel baskets of knives were found con-
cealed on their persons.
An inventor living in Black Rock, N.
Y, has attached an automatic musical in
strument to a bicycle, and applied for q
patent. The Instrument will play so long as
the wheel is in motion.
"A Philadelphia woman complained the
other day against being detained by the
local Coroner to testify regarding the sudden
death of her mother, on the ground that she
she wanted to go shopping.
"A town in Michigan has an art museum
which has met with some discouragements,
but hopes to get along better since putting
up this notice: 'Please do not cut any Of
the pictures out Of their frames.n
"A 2-year old girl fell from the fourth
story window of house in Newburg, N. Y,
killed, and an hour after the fall was playing
as though nothing had happened.
Since 1900 there have been retired in
France 60 Ministers of Justice, 81 Ministers
of the Interior, 70 Ministers of Foreign AZ
fairs, "a Ministers of Finance, II Ministers of
War, and 50 Ministers of the Navy.
in the East women and men are refusing
to take parcels from the store where they
are wrapped in papers containing the mer-
chants advertisements. Public opinion
seems to justify them in their refusal.
"A Louisville couple were to have been
married in the church and great prepara-
tions to that end had been made, but when
the time came their timidity SO overeame
them that they stole away from their friends
and were quietly married in minister's par.
Ior.
Upon learning about the sale of the
famous whipping-post of that city to a
speculator who had meant to exhibit it at the
Worlds Fair, the people of Wilmington,
Del, went in body to the yard where it was
kept and with axes and saws reduced IL to a
mass of kindling wood.
Travellers from California, Arizona and
New Mexico say that the regiments of tour.
lists that follow each other through those
regions are all armed with kodaks and that
the Indians are mortally afraid of them and
make vigorous protest against being aimed
at by the amateur photographers.
"A working girls club at jersey CITY
has disbanded. 1t was a sort of Adamless
Eden for two years, but a proposition to
have reception once a month to which
young men could be invited, caused divi-
sion Of sentiment and two new clubs have
been formed out of the ruins of the old. One
is Adamless, while the other is not.
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forced to sue his church for nearly 500 owed
him ever since February ], 1857, when the
church clerk gave him due bill for the
amount, Sl46 &c. The church set up the
singular defense that the debt was barred
by the statute of limitations and the Ghry
was, therefore, uncollectable.
We are now producing six timg as
much native wines as we export. The nums
ber of gallons of foreign wines imported last
year was only 5,060S73, whereas the number
Of gallons Of home production was over 3O,a
100000. The fmportations, moreover, are
only 30O,OOO gallons more than In lS4O, when
we produced only 125,Oo0 gallons Of wine.
Two fashionable young ladies in New
York are making great deal Of money in 81
novel way. In their youth their father taught
them to play chess, and now they teach thei
mysteries of the game and. earn between
$4,000 and $4,000 year apiece. They tutor.
Glasses, and these are generally formed OF
six persons, who pay never less than SIS eacb
for course of dozen lessons.
AN Atchison woman has been informed,
that she cannot live two years. She has
therefore resolved on making the most OF
her time, and has entered on q career of
merrymaking and gayety. Another doctors
informs her that If she will saw OF on high
living and go slow in her merrymaking she
can recover rec her former good health. The
the death warrant OF doctor No l.
France in 1889 had a debt per capita or
SIG IS, and It is understood that this does
not include certain annuities of an unstated
but great amount. Great Britain, though
slowly decreasing her debt, had burden Of
ss7 80 per capita; Russia, $50 70; Austros
Hungary, $40 81: Belgium, $63 10; the Neither
was but s14 IS, and of its indebtedness nearly
one-half was made up Of non-interest bears
ing notes.
Several young women of Charlottesville,
Ind, gave select DANCE the other evening.
The feature of the event was that the young
women went after the young men and es-
corted them to the hall. They secured three
large drays, and, after stretching rope on
the pins around the sides, the young women
got on the drays and went after their ess
corts. After securing all their gallants, the
drnys paraded through town to the hall
where the dance was held. The parade was
D novel s1guG, anu WdS tuo CduS6 OF mucQ
amusement.
An enterprising young groceryman of
Buffalo, N. Y, read few days ago in a news.
paper that radishes are good for grip. He at
once made out a conspicuous placard to the
effect that "a celebrated physician declares
that radjshes are a preventive and cure Of
the grip" This he placed outside his store
on the green grocery shelf and piled punches
Of glowing radishes high about it. By noon,
30 fast had they disappeared, that he
doubled the price of them, and still pur-
chasers came, and before 5 o'clock in the
afternoon he hadn't radish in the place.
Two Frenchmen appeared at a linen
factory in Jaroslav, in the Volga, four weeks
igo and told the manufacturer that they
we're French Government Commissioners
with an order for a cloth case in which to
wrap the Eiffel Tower in winter. They pre-
,ented so many sealed documents and letters
With the signatures of celebrated French.
men that the manufacturer swallowed their
marvellous story and agreed to tske the
luge contract. The commissioners" re-
luired from him 81 200 as an earnest of his
Intention to turn out the towers new
lothes, aud left him with directions that he
hould go to Paris at once to communicate
ufther with the city officials and tb measure
he tower. He went, with severalassistants
rho were to help him determine the details
f the undertaking, and thereby spent $500
more to learn that he had been sfindled.