Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Vt, dropped dead while standing at the grave
Female pallbearers were feature Of the
funeral Of colored man at Augusta, Ga But
one man was present at the funeral-the sexton
OF the cemetery.
Emperor William has suggested that
every high school in Germany should be
equipped with phonograph. as q sort Of vocal
mirror, IN which the speakers can perceive
their own vocal imperfections.
Great catches Of eels are reported from
Connecticut story comes from Norwich
that fishermen at the GreenvilIe dam caught
4IW pounds weight in two nights last week
fne NORWICH paper estimates that 10 tons Of
eels are yearly sent TO the New York market.
"A. N. Bisbee, who is the Chinese dele
gate to the maritime conference at Washing
ton, is an adventurous Yankee, born and bred
on Cape Cod. In his travels he drifted across
the continent and over the Pacific, and he Is
now Coast INSPECTOR of the Imperial Maritime
Customs Service Of China.
"A poplar tree of unusual size was
felled on the farm Of DR.. D. n. Combs. in Utica
township, Clark county. Ind. and as it struck
the ground large limb broke on, in the heart
OF which was found the antlers OF deer, .
cows horn and number OF curious shells.
The mystery is how they got there
What is known as ''distillers' slop" has
bushel; but the Distillers and Cattle Feeders
Trust has Just resolved, owing to the immense
new crop Of corn, TO reduce It to cents in Chi
cago for cattle feeding One distiller in that
CITY says he has made S34 900 in a single year
selling slop Tor this purpose.
The Hopes Manufacturing Company,
OF Springfield, o., have Just completed and
shipped an exhaust steam feed-water heater,
10 feet long. 6s inches high and 38 inches wide,
and 1t has total hme-eatching and heating
surface Of 576 square feet. It was especially
designed and built to remove the mud from the
boiler feed-water at the plant Of the Southern
Cotton OIL Company, at Gretna, La.
"A farmer at Scott Hill, Conn, who
thought the boys were stealing his melons,
watched for them at night with loaded gun.
About midnight he says he saw his big black
big melon, into which she sank her teeth. Then
she began to claw the melon open and in 4 few
minutes had finished all but the rind- He did
she eats apples pears and other fruit.
William Walsh, q young cooper, is
lying at the San Francisco Hospital suffering
from fractured skull, the result Of the ex-
plosion Of vaporized alcohol In an old wine
cask. Walsh was recoopering old wine and
alcohol barrels yesterday. He partly filled cne
barrel with boiling water and began to shake
il, when there was q deafening explosion, the
barrel was blown to fragments and Walsh was
found lying as II dead IN cloud Of steam
The strike Of the Scottish school boys
which began in Havick has spread TO Glasgow,
Govan, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and other
places in the west Of Scotland. and also into
formed regular labor-like parades, with banners
aud cries for shorter hours-n The strike has
also spread into England The other day 100
malcontents paraded the streets Of Barnet de-
ma nm of "a n
school, less parsing. and no home lessona"
The family at Roscof, Finistsrre, Of
which fve generations are living, are named
Tanguy, and this is the list: Marie le Mar,
month old; the mother, Marie rHostIn, % years;
grandmothers Jeanne Mironnot, q years and
Marie Menu, 50 years; greaf-grandmother Hen
riette Guyadre, "a years, Annette Guyadre, 78
80 years. The whole crowd were present at the
baptism Of the baby Marie in the church Of
Roscoh
"A schoolboy in England hit upon .
novel method Of obtaining the answer 10 an
arishmetical problem. He dropped into gro
GERS shop on his way to school, and said he
wanted certain commodities at certain prices.
After exhausfing his list, be said: Nov. II
give you half sovereign, what change shall
get backfn The grocer told him, whereupon
he thanked the shopman and turned to go.
/ "Wait for the thingsn called the grocer; and
his disgust can be imagined wheDthe ingenious
urchin told him be was late for school and, as
adopted that method OF getting the sum
worked for him.
The principal method on the Delaware
river Of catching sturgeon Is called 'gllling-"
An immense net from 900 to ZOO feer long Is
stretched across the deepest part Of the river
A system Of floats attached to = line support
the top OF the net At the height Of man under
the surface. The lower side drags on the bot
the bed Of q river. The mesbes OF the net are
eight inches square. Near high water one OF
these nets Is paid out over the stern Of = boat-
As the tide rises the net drifts up stream. The
huge surgeons, failing to appreciate the OBJ
struction. swim right into It The impetus
carries their gflls througha mesh. but there
they stick. Their breast fms viii allow their
bodies to 90 no further. At slack water the
fishermen, hauling In the nets from one end to
the other, find the monsters tangled in the net
A deft dipping Of the boat simultaneous
native element forever. Sometimes four OF
surgeons are caught At one haul That makes
. boatload. The surgeons caught In the Del
aware average in rough weight from 400 20 600
pounds. They afford, however. but IS TO 80
pounds Of solid meat The roe Of each stur-
geon is worth nearly $40 for the making OF
caviare.
The residents Of Clarendon, Ont, are
greatly excited over the doings Of what they
believe Is . supernatural hand, which for some
days has been operating IN the household OF
George Dagg. . prominent man Of the town.
Mr.. Dagg recently discharged young lad
named Dean, and the latter vowed vengeance
upon the family, Invoking the aid Of the splrits-
A few nights after Deans departure the WIZ
dows in Dagg's house commenced 70 rattle and
nearly every pain OF glass was broken The
house has twice been set on fire. and one night
all the bedroom furniture was removed TO the
parlor, that from the parior being taken up
stairs. Mr.. Dagg says the most mysterious
part Of the business was the discovery IN an
outhouse OF an ink-boffle which had bean Sc
curely locked IN cupboard It was restored
to the cupboard, and. although the latter was
closely guarded, It was again transported 70
the outbufIding. Dean wasarrested. and. after
Mr. Dagg had consulted the witch Of Plum
Hollow in whom the neighbors have great
faith he was released, the old lady having In
formed Dagz that the msnifestation8 were the
work Of a-Woman and her tW0 children, through
the medium Of -black art" and that It would
not cease until November The house Of the
Tor hou IN ~ much