Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-10
CURIOUS CONDENsATlONs

Twenty thousand people live in Alex
apdria, Va, yet during the month of March not
wedding occurred.
A spelling bee Is an absolute necessity
in Buffalo. A Judge of the Municipal Court in
describing q gun called it ''singel barrell."
The ghost of murdered Peddler Seide-
mann is said to hover over Nash's mill pond at
TurnerviIIe, N. j., and few Of the country folk
will 60 nearit after sundoWn.
Man can be afflicted with !, ,145 different
ailments known to medical science, and on top
of that his dog may die, his wife run away and
his home burn down without insurance
Egypt is booming with railroad e1ten-
sions. The Financial Committee Of the
Khedives government has under consideration rat on
1Ve new lines which it will cost nearly S4,UUOOOO
to construct.
Elizabeth Smith, SO years of age,
walked most Of the way from Wheeling, W.
Va, to Bridgeport, Conn. She was on her way
70 worcester, Mass, where her son hyes, and
started with only Sa
"A couple Of jackals have been added to
the Philadelphia Zoo" These little animals,
which are known in their native country as
non providers" had hardly been placed IN
tnelr cage, in wing of the lion and tiger
house, before the lions set up roar Of well
come.
Perhaps the most novel organization in
in the State Of New York exists in Pough-
keepsle. 1t IS military company composed
entirely Of girls and drilled by Major Han.
oennestei a senior officer of the National
Guard. The young ladies in every instances
belong to the best families in Poughkeepsie.
Observations upon the SWAY of tall
chimneys during high winds show that one Of
lis feet in height I'D feet in total diameter at
the top waved 20 inches during a heavy gale,
and another l64 feet high but with 81 feet
diameter OF hue, moved through an arc OF only
~ inches.
There is COW in Douglasville, Ga,
that is said to have gone to a tree and knocked
OF her horns 20 that she could get her head
under buggy seat 1t is said also that when
she hnds bucket under seat she will take
on the top and eat what the bucket contains,
then replacing the lid walks complacently on
TO hunt other depredations.
AT the ball and supper of the Sehwamm
Druber, in New York, sponge hung at the
door of the Opera House where the festival
was held, and q little sponge was handed to
everybody who came In. The meaning of
schwamm druber Is sponge it out" All who
went there sponged out of their recolleotions
all other occurrences and gave their whole at
tention to the ball.
"A company has been formed under the
laws Of New York State to develop large depos-
its Of ozokerite, natural paraffine wax exist
ing in the Wasatch Mountains Of Utah Terrific
ry, about 113 miles east of Salt Lake City.
These mines are said to contain the only depos-
its OF this mineral known to exist, outside OF
Galicia, Austria, whence the entire worlds
supply Of this product has until recently been
obtained.
Dublin has had a remarkable dog case
in one of its courts. Two men claimed the
same dog. One, to prove his ownership, told
the animal to fetch his cane. The dog obeyed,
The other said that he had owned the dog IN
Asia, where he had heard only Hindostanee
spoken. So in that language he told the dog to
fetch his hat. The dog obeyed. No report Of
the decision Of the Judge has yet been received
In this country,
"A wife's affection NAV be legally ex-
cessive, according to the argument in a will
case in Liverpool William Evans lived in
great happiness with his wife for Il years. when
he died, after q months illness. Mrs. Evans
was by her husbands side constantly, and
about a week before his death he made his will
Dequeathing all his property to her. A second
the ground of undue influence" during the
period of illness.
AT the academy at Albany, Ca, day
or two ago the juveniles wanted to play ball.
Some of the boys were the proud possessors Of
time pieces. The accordingly selected small
boy who did not care to play and left their
watches with him to hold. No sooner had the
ball players gotten into their game when. as ILL
luck would have it, the mild looking small boy
got into a fight. There was lively tusSle for a
while, and the children's watches were perfect
wrecks before the cessation of the struggle
1t is asserted that the smallest screws in
the world are those used in the production of
watches. Thus, the fourth Jewel wheel screw
is the next thing to being invisible, and to the
naked eye it looks like dust; with glass, how
ever, it is seen to be a small screw, with $50
a1a kNk kfa aoIa Init. orrT,7
the threads may be seen quite clearly. These
minute screws are 410O0th of an inch in
diameter, and the heads are double; it is also
estimated that an ordinary lady'S thimble
would hold 100000 of these screws.
One Of the most interesting natural
curiosities of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania,
is situated in Rose valley about SIX miles from
Trout run. It consists of seven natural wells
extending almost straight downward to depth
unknown. Large stones cast in some of these
wells 60 rumbIing down, making a coarse, rasp-
ing sound at first as they strike against the
sides OF the well, growing fainter and fainter
until lost by the distance. Near these wells is
a cave, the mouth of which is large enough for
horse to enter. Several gangways lead on
from the main entraned to large, separate
chambers, and from these other passage ways
lead of probably to unexplored chambers.
Gus NJ. Setter died few days ago at
China Grove, Rowan county. N. C. He was
pronounced intidel. believing in neither God
nor future Of any kind. Two weeks before
his death, knowing his demise to be imminent,
he went to tree near the yard, and under il
marked place for his grave, giving instruc-
tions as to how 1t was to be dug and his mode OF
burial. He wanted layer of cedar brush at
the bottom of the grave, to be filed up with
dirt. He said that when decomposition set in
the sap of the tree would draw him up the
limbs, and he could perch on the top of the
tree and view the surrounding scenery of ages
to come. Setter was perfectly rational to ths
last.