Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS


The town of Lee, Me-, has neither law
yer, doctor nor minister.
"A visitor at Santa Cruz tried to swim in
the surf. A wave was carrying him out to sea
when three girls rescued him. He presented
each with q silk dress.
Several of the large land owners of
Scotland have imported a number of reindeer
from Norway and turned them out IN the
hope that they may become acclimated and
increase.
"A lady pedestrians club is novelty at
Paw Paw. Mich. When at work they carry
canes, ornamented with yellow bows. Each
member is bound BY an oath as solemn as can
be to report ready for a dozen-mile jauDt each
wednesday and Saturnay morning.
In Nevada electricity runs the very
deep mines and has increased production Is
per cent. The men who work at 8 100 feet deep
they work only about two hours per day. They
get more pay than eighthour men. They work
10 minutes and rest 45.
Mr.. Charles Newman, of Albany, went
out on Raquette Lake on Friday afternoon Of
last week and caught, with a rod and reel. IS
pounds of black bass The next day he caught
81 pounds; On Monday he caught a lake trout
weighing l5A pounds. 1t measured 81 inches
IN length and lsA inches around belly or
breast.
"A remarkable instance of long-con-
tinued service in the employment of a single
concern Is furnished in the case of Smith B.
Freeman. who died recently on Staten Island
a. az the age OF S2 years, after having been con-
tinuously employed by the Staten Island dye
ing establishment since its organization in
1873. period of 20 years
The "nickel-in-the-slot" idea has been
applied in England to electric lamps intended
for use in omnibuses, street cars and railway
cars. You put penny in the slot of such .
lamp, press knob. and out streams the light.
by ciockwork machinery at the end OF half an
hour the light is extingushed and can be ig.
nited again only with penny taper.
-Lightkeeper Elliott, of Gasparilla Isle,
Fla, found a 160-pound bombsheil on the island
the other day, and proceeded to open it with
chisel. When he succeeded and saw that it
was filled with perfectly good powder his hair
the chisel as he chipped the shell would have
necessitated the appointment of new light
house keeper.
William Chandler, of Waynesboro,
Ca, says that he saw party of Il men, living
at and around old Ringgold, go fishing. each
one carrying with him fishing tackle in the
the ledges of rock covered in the water, and
the strong conclusion from the heavy blows
would stun the fish, and enable the fishermen
to gather them in.
For several years past learned, or ap-
parently learned, arguments have appeared in
Western newspapers to the effect that the level
Of the grea. lakes is lowering and that a period
of low water is beginning. These theories have
been upset the past month by a rise of the level
OF the lakes and the passage over shallow
places OF large vessels conveying big cargoes.
One propeller, the Corsica, has Just passed
through the lakes carrying the heaviest cargo
ever shipped on a lake vessel.
"A gallant young disciple of Blackstone
at Eilaville, Ga, finding business in the legal
profession rather dull at this season, and hav-
ing wife and baby to provide for, laid away
his law books, closed his Office doffed his stand
ing collar. congress CATERS and court house
clothes. hauled on his seediest garments, seized
q trowel, and sailed forth to earn bread by the
sweat of his brow until the law business picked
up. he had gotten job Of brick laying. and
earned over 500 before his friends missed him
out Of town.
Mr.. ]. L. Grant, of Mapping, Conn.,,
calls public attention to his pigs. There are
half dozen Of them and they know more than
all the rest of the pigs in Connecticut. Mr..
Grant was not aware how smart his pigs were
until, having noticed that one of his cows gave
less milk than she was wont to do, he investi-
gated the mysteG. He found that the pigs
were milking the COW regularly They were
only eight weeks old, but they are long enough
by standing on their hind legs to milk the COW,
which Is short, quite handIly. The cow does
not mind it.
Slowly the great falls of the Niagara
river are changing in shape, through the eat
ing away Of the shale rock which underlies the
hard rock that forms the bed of the rapids. It
Is almost a misnomer now to speak of the Cana
liam portion of the great cataract as the
Horseshoe Falls" and within a week this des-
gnation has become more than ever misplace.
n consequence of the fall of a large section OF
he bed rock in the very center of the falls.
So much rock fell that an eddy below the falls
near the Canadian & side OF @ the river @ has been been
steamer Maid of the Mist has less difficulty
han before in running into the curve of the
falls.
Fourteen years ago Joseph Buchtel saw
little fellow knocked down by horse draw
ng street car in which he was riding in Port
and, Ore. The drivers head was turned, and
3uchtel, grabbing the reins with one hand,
Wheeled the horse away from the child, and
With the, other grasped him just as the wheel
vas about to crush him. The father, VIC.
Johnson, was profuse in thanks, and the affair
vas apparently forgotten. The child grew.and
IN his 18th birthday Mr.. Buchtel was invited to
dr. Johnson's Office, where he found the fam
ly assembled. The boy made a neat speech,
nd handed his surprised rescuer gold-headed
ane. inscribed From W. Carey johnson. June
we !; soi you my boys life" The acknowledgment
7as little slow in coming, but it got there
ust the same.
The Texas and Pacific Company sank
ored well some years ago near Eagle Flat sta4
ion, Ala, in order to obtain artesian wate5
he well was abandoned when it had beea
ored 800 feet but the tubing is still intact inl
!. For II hours each day furious gust of airl
ushes into the tubing, and the next II hours
n equally strong gust rushes out. local
heory of the phenomenon Is as follows: "The
rell must penetrate into some large subter-
anean cavern whichicontains a large body of
far having w
passage, with the Gulf OF Mexico
+ the Pacific ocean. If this be true, 1t is very
lain that the suction and escaping of the afr Is
aused by the ebbing and flowing Of the tide.
8 the tide ebbs down in this cavern a vacuum
made underground, which is filed by the air
lshing in through this well, and, conversely,
hen the tide comes up, the AIR is forced out
trough the same opening The air while in
lis cavern may become mixed with various
ases, but not magnetized, as has been sup
osed."