Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


salt Lake has lost 9 per cent Of its salt
ness in the last Eve years.
The month OF Nav, in England, in
1883, will probably take rank as the wettest on
record
Thirty soldiers were lately required to
keep the crowd in order at the Wild West show
in Paris.
| "A mouse nest, made Of old-fashioned
shin pIasters, was found in drawer of a bank
In Flshkill few days ago.
Boys digging in sand at HaVerstraw one
day recently came upon bones supposed to be
those Of aReVolutionary soldier.
Fourteen young foxes we're dug out Of
h9les and killed in the vicinity OF Ih1Ompsons
Ridge Orange county, one day recently
Three of the richest merchants in the
maker is 81, Marshall Field, of Chicago, So. and
Phil Armour, S.
| Nevada had "Dead Horse" postofhce.
1t was ordered to take new name, and 1t took
that OF Live Horse" The department.
wouldn't have it, but changed it to Rosedale.
Mr.. Benjamin Jones, of Chicago, il
| endeavoring TO win a bet that he can witness
the performance Of Little Lord Fauntleroy"
for 30 consecutive nights without losing his
mind.
"A woman at Covington who applied for
/ NAHSAOO bOAO VIC y u0bc budG sue QdQ Deou %
years trying to get her courage up TO the point.
Meanwhile her husband had been pounding
and otherwise maltreating her.
The grandmother Of the Emperor of
China Is SO years old, blind, deaf and cripple,
and the other day her loving grandson pre-
sented her with 500 singing birds, 200 silk
dresses, and lO0 musical instruments.
Mrs. Todd LATHE, of Bronson, Mich,
who has been totally blind for Is years, sudden
ly regained her eyesight few days ago. The
first person she saw was her daughter, and she
exclaimed: My, how you have grown"
"A company has been formed in Glovers-
vile with capital stock Of $4,000 for the pur-
chase and sale Of eggs, separating the yolk
from the white, and preparing the same for
commercial purposes, and drying eggs for do
mestic and culinary uses.
The English company who are working
the Nacoochee mine in Georgia took out the
other day nugget of gold weighing 300 penny
weights and was valued at 2,5OO Not long ago
they took one nugget that weighed 30 penny
weights and another of 5O pennyweights. Such
finds as these are calculated to make fellow
feel rich strsaks run up and down his back.
g. T. Williams, of Montezuma, Ga,
evidently is the owner of one of the most sensi-
BILE Texas ponies on record. At noon one day
this week, he pulled his fat up to the bank. but
failed TO tie It. and repaired to the shade of the
bT6cS on bne Dill IOF q nap. w men ne dWOk6. uo
was astonished to see his pony aboard, the fat
carrying it across the river, where the fields
were greener and the grass grew higher.
"A London paper says: There is some
probability Of our having India rubber road
ways ii the metropolis. Two German engi-
neers have come over to consult with the au-
thorities on the subject. and should the Coun-
tY Council be agreeable. there is no reason why
London horses should not soon enjoy the lux:
ury of soft and firm foothold especially Il
they are shod with the shoe that is intensified
with India rubber.
"A breathing we'll has been discovered
near Eagle Flat station. no miles east of E1
Paso, Tex 1t is an abandoned artesian well,
800 feet deep, but the tubing is still intact in it,
For II hours each day furious gust Of air
rushes into the tubing, and the next II hours an
equally strong gust rushes out. This occurs
with the utmost regularity, and, so far, no
break has been noticed in the regular occur
renee.
"A French electrician has submitted
proposal to the Municipality Of Paris with
view to supplying the electric light in a novel
manner, which would tend to conciliate inter-
ests, which at present enter into the question
namely, by obViating the necessity for laying
down conducting wires. The originator of the
idea has, it appears, invented miniature gas
motor, which he proposes to NIX in the lamp
SLanQ2rQ, ana ABOVE OF DelOW, L06 same as
dynamo would be placed, to actuate an arc
lamp on the top of the column.
A German technical authority has ex-
pressed it as his opinion that four-ffths of the
entire number of steam engines now at work
throughout all parts of the world have been
constructed within the last Is years. France is
believed to possess as nearly as possible about
49, 300 locomobiles and stationary engines, 1000
locomotives, and 1,S5O marine engines; Ger
many about 900 locomobiles and stationary
engines, 10000 locomotives and ,7OO marine
engines; while the number owned by Austria
Hungary Is said to be about 200 locomob1eS
and stationary engines and 2,SOO locomotives.
is estimated at 100000 marks for the United
States, 100000 marks for Great Britain and
4,5O0,000 marks for Germany
"A scientific paper recently offered a re-
ward for the most correct answers to certain
scientific problems. Among others was the old
scientific 'conundrum," Which weighs the
most, pound of feathers or pound of leadf
Of course a pound is a pound, no matter of
what substance, and when the simple or
thoughtless person answers that pound OF
lead is the heaviest, everybody laughs. Mr..
Charles Pitt, In answering this question,
claims that the pound of lead would weigh the
heaviest because the feathers would be buoyed
up by weight equal to the amount of air
which they displace-Just as cork is buoyed
refrain from laughing at the FOOLS answer, as
practically it Is correct. OF course If weighed
in vacuum pound Of any two substances
would weigh alike.
In a family in Renfrew, Canada, there
Is cat which is much petted. One day the
lady of the house sat down for moment, and
either to relieve her feelings or as a bit of in
nocent diversion, gave vent to a little whistle.
Immediately the pet cat sprang up to her lap,
and with its sheathed paw struck her a blow in
the face. The lady thought this strange, but
at first hardly connected it with the whistling.
However, a little time afterward, in another
room she happened to repeat the whistle, and
Immediately the cat sprang up and struck ner
again. This time the lady thought it must be
the whistling whichwas giving pussy offense,
and so, with malice aforethought," whistled
again. Sure enough, the cat chastlsed her with
another blow, square in the face About the
only possible explanation is that in the whistle
it faneied call was being given to the pet dog
and was Jealous thereat.