Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A divorce can be obtained in ST. Helena
for the sum equivalent to s3
| A case is reported of a somnambulist
who walked Is miles in his sleep.
Out of 24O. 900 domestic servants in
London, 10000 are always out of employment.
Two men, aged 75 and 80 years, were
arrested at Tarboro, N. c., last week, for
stealing hog.
in India the native barber will shave
you when asleep without waking you, so
light is his touch.
The yearly consumption of milk at the
| Hotel Metropole, London. is 1900 quarts,
and of water 100000 gallops.
A Houston county, Ca, man has a SOW,
| 6years old, that has been the mother of l7s
pigs, and now has a litter Of II.
Headache almost always yields to the
simultaneous application of hot water to
the feet and the back of the head.
In the Old Testament, although great
numbers of women are mentioned, there is
but one-Sarah, Abrahams wife-whose age
is recorded.
"A fine has recently been imposed upon
an English woman who permitted her two
dogs to draw her baby carriage on the pub
lie highway.
Siberia is one of the finest undeveloped
countries in the world, and it is really diff
cult to exaggerate the enormous wealth of
this gigantic region
The Legislative Assembly of Styria, in
naonia - nao pa1' ~itn". % ooiaI S:op poos
from the authorities.
Oitizens OF ferry, ua-, are wondering
at young chicken owned by one of them
which has four legs, two of which are wh ere
Tue 'ah leatnerS ougn' 10 DC.
"A man living IN New England, who is
feet inches in height, has beard feet 8
inches in length or inches longer than
himself The beard began to grow I2 wears
ago
TIL. e.,.: IL,
nae ~ nrtn+.rs, int r. n,,h1isbes e, vssbI1
newananera and five roo,tbIv roaoazines
with q total annual circulation of 5000 900
copies.
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Iho Uerhan mercnanS marine stanus
next to that of England. In 1889, the latest
year for which figures have been published,
S a1 oos 80 laue "a ooo'4 voyages carry
w omen are not permitted 10 ht IN tne
pouv OF the Iemple Church OF Lonoon, De-
cause many hundreds OF years ago the seats
were reserved for the monkisn knights, for
whom the church was built.
-Even Enrone,n birds sean, tanacious Of
precedent. Migratory birds do not cross
the Mediterranean at its narrowest point
but an examination has proved that the
point at which many do cross was at ono
time the narrowest part OF the sea.
-Iondon has the destination of beino tb.
- - -, Tn,iS - 80 ~
~ nie. oisy " use Ia. ms was IN 'ne la'ter
part OF the tweiItn century. lts use was
and one man was actually executed for yio..
lating this law.
father died in AndersonvilIe nrison dravs
a Government nension ON that acconnt and
she n eeds it, she is onIy % wears old hut
her chest measure is 65 inches. waist 81
inches and she weighs AIS pounds She il
unable to stand longer than a minute or two
Bertha M Prior. of Bristol. Me. 2k
years old, knows the alpeabet entire, what
State, county and town she lives in. what
the LARGEST citv in Maine is. who IA the Pres
ident of the United States can tell her name
and how old she is and can count to le and
spell nine words. four of which contain four
letters each.
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at Eastnor. Me it annears that in 1877 to-
bacco was sold bv the ward in that settle-
ment The imited nnrcbasinq mower ~
davis wages at the period is shown by the
price of nails-1s 211d pound. A DAYS
dfnary wages would pay Tor about four
POUNDS OF nails
emaPk
,,ioh o-rir,od ~, por,,o,d tbe otbar DO,
,1, h1L 20 ~ -,
that landed on the island Jnna1and wss
cantured bv fishermen. On one of the bird's
wings were the figures 1880, while each leg
was encircled by SILVER band, one with -,
u. y b. T., ana tne otner 1ne same ngures as
VIZ
-Anotner story, illustrating tne tenaclty
or custom in European communities, Is that
of the sentinel at a certain point in public
garden in London Nobody knew WHY he
was stationed at that narticular noint until
60 d.Ir-i.cr l., 81, raoorJs disoor.-ad
tbot aenera ti6ns batore q SentinaS had baen
placed there TO warn neonle off a newly
painted bench.
1.-THE German Society for the Preven-
tion of Wholesale Slauohter of Birds for the
Pnrnose of Millinerv,, is nrenarino O sioned
netition tn he nresented to the Queen Of
italy during her visit to Berlin in June.
begging her to use her influence to prevent
the constant slaughter OF small birds in
Italy, wnere some OF Ine lnosS Oeau1lui
'Pooio' aio
One of the most successful mlsers on
record died recently at Charlottenburg, Ger
mapy having accumulated more than $50 600
MARKS The old man lived in the meanest
NO :, ~ +be town in n rnissrab1e room and
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