Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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out the other evening to put out the moon
"A 4O-pound drumfsh caught at Cape
May. couple Of days since, had half . dozen
soII smell crabs in its stomach.
"A Philadelphia school teacher has been
forced to resign her position for alternating the
aneetions OF Mrs. sallis Smiths husband"
AT the rate of increase in the past few
years the wool crop Of Colorado will soon ex-
ceed In value the output Of her silver mines.
"A. Rambo. of Big Pine, New, tried to
pull loaded shotgun through fence last
week. The doctors say the left arm via have
| to be taken OF.
The telegraph operators Of New York
are to appear as actors October 81. Robert
sons aCasts" is the play in which they win
make their bow.
AT California fair, the other day,
Plumas County man ate forty-three eggs for
supper. The next morning for an appetizer he
partook Of nine boxes Of sardines.
The painting '.L' Angelus," which has
arrived at New York, is 2l1 <x251< inches in size
The customs duties on it amount 70 sa2,500
which must be paid or It will be rsturned to
France.
-Roommstes quarreled in Salem, n. y,
and one drew all the bedclothes away from the
other. The other then dropped his hand care
lessly on the ones nose. and there followed
SUIT III court over the broken member.
james Blackert, q colored man who
dances in dime museums on broken glass with
his bare feet struck . man in the eye with
piece OF glass in Philadelphia the other day for
carelessly throwing the glass on the stage on
which Blackert was standing.
The Chinese titles for California railway
stations are many of them striking IL not in
telligible. Lamanda Park is for them Lemon
I Bernardino IN the Mongolian pidgin Yernacular
becomes SS Bedino and so on
While sitting at his desk in the library
Of the White House few days ago the Presi-
dent was surprised at the intrusion Of big
gray rat, who deliberately crawled upon side
table and dragged OF q piece Of fruit which
had tempted him from his hiding place.
1T is proposed to substitute wooden clap
pers for the iron ones now IN use on locomotives
running into New York, and which are 50 often
complained of as nuisances. The sound would
still make noise enough to be heard where they
should be, while the neighborhood would get
q rest.
The grading of fresh fruit before it is
packed or sent to the cannery from orchards
and vineyards in the far West is done cheaply
and successfully By several rival machines.
Raisins are stemmed and graded 6y machinery.
contriyance In use, IN most Of the orchards.
The parers, corers and various kinds Of knives
used are nearly all Of the Pacific coast styles
James Shields, OF Creston, Ia, arrived
in Kansas City the other evening with his
bride Of week. Leaving his wife in the ladies'
waiting room Of the Union depot, be went
across the street to find hotel When he re-
turned his wife was gone. he speEt several
matter to the police. The missing woman is IS
years Of age. Shields who had never been In
Kansas City, went there to reside.
The transfer Of bees, from one hive or
locality to another, may be made In the fall.
but it must be done before warm weather il
over in order that the bees may mend and re-
pair the comb and seal up with Dropolis, but
the transfer is better made in the spring, as
early as the weather win permit; The combs
honey. No process in apiculture gives better
introduction to bees OF more confidence TO self
than transferring. After this is successfully
done, no man or boy has any fear OF bees.
MIR. Henry Exall, of Richmond, Va,
claims to have suggested tower similar to
that now known as the Elffel tower as long ago
as 1875. he says: II have yet my plans, and
only last year proposed to the Mayor of Chicago
70 put them in the hands of some of the rich
and euterprisipg men in that city where the
tower would make grand show near the edge
Of the lake. and over large extent Of country.
The Mayor replied that the city governments
could not enter on such scheme and he did
NOT nropose to favor II SO much as to propose it
70 the citizens"
-Sit Edwin Arnold, lecturing upon the
Mahabharata, said: This Is the great epic poem
of India It contains over 220, 900 lines, beside
suupIem emit of about Is 600 lines: ueh 20 make
eight times as much as the niad and Odyssey
Combined. with several Virgils thrown in
Some phiiolooists have derived its name from
words imeaniio abook Of weirhfp fndicarfn9
that the rods preferred Il above all others: buf
this is fancifrI- and its real origin is from
words meanine arreat war of Bharata-1 The
poem "a hi~bIv valued-it might almost be aid
vworshinad- ron 1hont India The natives
sidsr that everi n have heard Il IL sancfifv
inc and to have read Il throngh frees one from
s;5' sif5' $40 y - ts7~ =
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"A certain Lewiston, Mes, woman Is IN
luck. Recently she sat counting some bills to
tba a,no1nt If sso yvbicb she had inst taken ont
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Oh ner pocketDook, Hesr A. nana was mower
stand, and noticing some dead leaves on her
pIants sha picked them OF. and mechanically
ecrumnlino them and the hills In her hand