Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

At present prices it is estimated that the
ivory collected by Emin Pasha would be worm
. million sterling.
by the resurvey Of the boundary line
bstween Nevada and California the latter gains
q strip over 200 miles long and thres-quartsrs OF
mile wide
There is advertised for sale in Worces-
tershire piece of property on lease which
& has LII years yet to run. Il was made Tor
1000 years In 1900
Two Beatrice, Neb., men have patented
portable corn husker, which Is dra En through
the fields and husks the corn a. clean AZ could
day.
"A spring Of petroleum has been disc0V-
cred on the iron range in Wisconsin By = we'll
known explorer, who found IL a few DAYS ago.
u has been tested in Ashland and found gem
Harry Bates, Of Esss Saginaw, owns an
active and able-bodied steer which has only
three legs. one Of its front legs being the ab-
sentee. The animal was born thst way and
moves about as readily as anybody's steer.
-On the 500 line near the Menomiues
river. tram struck a deer and broke It's leg
the other day, and the entire train crew abun-
doned business on the spot and set about catch
ing the game. which was finally Accomplished
desrs back and cut its throat after riding it
through the woods for half mile.
&C. L. Alexander has on exhibition sthia
store in Madison. N. D., very perfect little
specimen Of the fnny tribe. presented him by
his friend, Willard Laughlin 1t came forth
from lSoioos artesian well twenty miles
southwest OF Howard This weIl, il is said,
flows with. wonderful force. and throws out
small nsh freely during the spring and sum
mer.
They have an effective way Of dealing
with habituaI drunkards in Norway and
Sweden. They put them in jail and feed them
entirely on bread and wine. The bread is
stepped in wine for an hour before it is served.
The first day q man will take ii, but before
many more he wiz hate the sight Of it. After
an incarceration Of this sort many become total
aDstainers
What Is said to be the largest organ in
the world is building at the Roosevelt Organ
Works. Boston. for the Auditorium building,
Chicago. It viii be operated BY electricity.
Electric motors are now used for pumping the
organs in eight churches in New York City at D
cost of SO per month per horse power. The
water motor consumed too much water, and
the gas engine was TOO noisy
IA Western inventor is endeaVoring TO
interest capital In his electrical magic lantern
for casting OF rejecting advertisements on the
dark clouds that often hang low over city.
from several wellknoWn firms for displaying
their cards in this manner. If the idea Il fully
developed We may expect TO see some very
startling and grotesque effects.
"A novel cure vas effected By the use Of
the dynamo recently at Westgate-on-sea. En-
gland. A Mr. Brown was fitting false bottom
to CRATE, and while chipping it to make It at,
avery small splinter OF iron dew on and struck
him in the ere. An electrical engineer Who
met htm shortly after, seeing his plight, took
him to q dynamo that was working nearby.
Brown placed his eye as close as possible 70 the
machine. and the magnetic attraction was suf
hciently intense 20 withdraw the splinter Of
iron from the eye, which was instantly relieved
and which gave no further trouble.
-''If you wish to see medical Curiosity .
says Cincinnati paper. step into Appraiser
Klimper's ONCE in the Government building
and ask him 70 show you Chinese pill He
has dozen OF 80 Of them They are as big
as large marbles. in fact. they are just the
size Of crab apples. and are coated with semi
transparent augary substance covered with
flowers and gilt letters. some Of them have
this sweet covering broken and you can see be-
meath the pill proper, black as = ball Of India
ink, and the very thought Of masticating that
mass in order 70 get Il down j. an emetic- But
is must take an unusual amount OF moral cour-
age in Chinaman TO tackle . pin
"A great onfery has been raised in the
Swiss Canton Tessin against the prevalence
there Of bribery at elections. The political
workers are constantly rackine their brnins.to
devise new means Of buying votes The Mayor
Of small city near Locarno recenfly while
running for reelection. invited every nan Who
would promise 20 VUte FOR him 90 eat and dirk
~ hls expense tnr three months 4t c.l1.l
specified faYerns. The success Of his plani9
shown By the fact that he was reelected and
that his bills at the t1vern9 in Question
amounted % l40o0 francs Votes bought in the
old-fashioned wag cost from 20 cents to S. each
Even the clergy are said to bribo electors right
and left.
There are some good-sized families in
Maine today, but probably none 50 large as
one mentioned in the histories Of old colonial
days. It Is told on the authority Of Cotton
Mather that the first royal GoFernoS At Boston
was one Of family Of twenty-six children. and
was born in the woods Of Maine near the mouth
Of the KenneDec, in 1851. bis mother was left
widow when be was child and is said to have
had all she could DO TO provide for the wants
Of her family. IL Is hoped thar when the Gov
ernor got flO0O0Q . knighthood and goblet
valued At s.. .OO0 as . reward for finding span
ish treasure-ship that had gone to the bottom
half century before. be remembered his
mother and made her la1t days easier than her
earlier ones had been
"A family Of rats in Hartford, Conn.,,
have amazingly disturbed the family IN whose
sion the morning paper. which was left upon
the front steps Of the house early every morn
ing was missing. Complaints was made At the
office Of the paper. and it vas found thar il had
been properly delivered right along. Some days
later neighbor. who bad arisen early in he
morning. happening to lnok cut Of his win
dow, saw two large rats upon the doorsteDo q
the house opposite. He watched their move
menfs for q Wnile, and saw them take the morn
ing paper and disappear with II under the
piazza He reported what he hs| sen, and an
investigation showed that th4I1I had bar
roEed down from beneath the porch 80 the cell
lar and in = secluded spot. had built nest
The nest was constructed out Of Hartford
morning newspapers