Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| GUnlUuO VUNUENO NOAllVth
1t will require $4,000 cars TO haul OF
the Kansas wheat.
Topeka is going to try vitrifed brick
on one Of its streets.
Eighty highway robbers were executed
at Pekin on April 26
-Woolen mills at Bennington, VT, which
cost ssOO.0OO, were sold last week for $4,000.
"A petrifed tree was recently unearthed
at Pennington, N. J., 16 feet below the sur
face.
The great sheep-raiser, Mr.. Mitchell, OF
Elko, New, will have a wool-clip Of 50,0O
pounds this season.
Prof. E. M. Shelton, of the Kansas As-
ricultural College. has produced q variety Of
wheat which yields AZ bushels to the acre.
When the spire at the First Baptist
Church, at Waldeboro, Me-. was taken down,
few days ago, chew of spruce gum. covered
by copper cent was found stuck to the top OF
the vane.
The huge cantalever bridge over the
Firth Of Forth has been completed, all but the
bridging Of the S50-foot gap between the Sec
tons. The connecting 2 grid er will be 50 feet in
depth, and will weigh 300 tons.
j. M. Ball. Of Pierce county, Georgia,
killed rattlesnake near his wood rack the
other evening. Mr.. Ball shot it four times with
his Winchester, and when killed it was found
that 1t had just swallowed two large rabbits.
The end-gate of a wagon came out at
Leavenworth the other day, spilling 400 beer
bottles on the ground, and then, when the
crowd which rushed to pick them up found
that they were empty, 1t looked for a moment
as II they would lynch the driver.
"A short while since negro woman near
Centerville, Wilkes county, Ga, named Har-
rfnf Ewar harr ~
at church. got to shouting and pounding her
child. She beat ft so severely that several Of
it's ribs were broken and the child died in few
days from the injuries.
Brooklyn at present is becoming over
crowded with young dentists who are trying
each one to beat the other in building up i'm
mense practices. A few years ago the Brook
but now the rates have been so cut, owing to
the spring graduations of the dental colleges,
that the price has been changed to Is cents
tooth, or two for % cents.
The occupants of street car in Louis
vile had an unpleasant experience the other
afternoon about o'clock, when they encoun-
tered swarm Of bees. The insects first lit on
the mules, which evinced their displeasure by
kicking and attempting to run away with the
car. Five or six people were in the car at the
threw some dust into a tree and the bees set
tied there. They were finally hived.
"A few days ago an ambitious Maine
rooster undertook to lunch on some bees, and
called the hens to take part. The bees gath
1,eu Iounu anu one ssuns ninn on the "astles
th e iunpeu IN 'ne ar anu Vigorously atacked
him in an instort anJ th. nrord S11' Gu sPon po
streaking around the corner with an angry
crowd of bees in full chase He won't under
take to gobble up those flies again.
Frogs covered the streets in the neigh
pornood OF Twenty-nrst and Bank streets in
Louisville the other morning during the hard
rain. They came down with the rain and an
area of ,hort for, s,,,aro. - ,.an 81
them The froo sboTer fas+eo ohon, h.,r n ~
bonr ,nd .s so,n. oT a. snoo.tit; yus nal 1 az
we're nnable 10 acconrt for * rrnsec ~ Ih
rentiles for a time considsrah,e Ian rra, Sne
vailed in that locality. A greatmany of Louis
vines naro drinkers tnougnt tney mad em,
Much SCIENTIFIC interest, If not CONNER
cial value, attaches to the recent production
OF chemical sugar in the laboratory of the
University of Wurzburg. Glycerine was used
as the starting point in the experiments. After
accommodation and treatment with var;ous 70
AGENTS a coIorless svrnn was obtained whicb
unlike saccharins, appears to be a gunuine
smear acting in every resnect ike ordinarv
natural sugar. except in being incanable OF ro
tatinc a ham of nalarized i7oht The Jisoov-
erers, Fischer and Tafel, are now Continuing
lacking optical activity to the new nrednct'
which fbey have named acrose p-0NT
"A steamer which arrived at Colombo
recently from BOMBAY. via coast norts renorr.
that az Cannanore. where she Law two milss
from the shore. a large swarm of bee, humber
ing some tens of thousands settled ON her fore
ward. forming a cluster about three feet tlonobv
Is inches In depth. It was considered inadyisa.
BILE to attempt to dislodge them before the ar
rival of the vessel at Colombo. as at each Of the
coast ports she lay some miles from the shore.
Dut seveIai nignts aIter tne tnliu omcer. en-
vsioPed IN Dlankes ana armed with nose,
oimoeu tne mass anu gave tne dangerous VS.
1ors uose OF SAT- water. Inc lnIurlatea pees
new ABOUT tne snip az nlgnt IN search OF their
ulstIIper; ; Dut nos nmT1lng nlm N tne morning
cVnciuoeo 70 quG Iaey were last see making
Decline ior the northern suburb Oh Colombo.
A blackspake in an up-couutry town In
orsersIand w,s oyned bv a doc,or vh-, -.
"-o ~ uOIsoi' VIZ reps
IL cnleny IN oroer tnat IL might eat the Mes
which infested his establshmeut-dfe pafn0