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


Last Sundays Atlanta constttution
contained S. pages.
"A rose 1871 inches in circumference was
plucked in Sanford, Fla. recently.
The gold mined in Australia and neigh
boring islands in 1883 was valued at f5,5o855a
The receipts in the Office Of the New
York City Tax Receiver were s5 900 900 on Mon
The Pekin Gazette asserts that I 800 Of
its editors have been beheaded. The Journal in
question claims to have been in existence for
1000 years.
"A lion in the Philadelphia zoo suffer-
ing from the toothaehe, his keeper admins
safely extracted the offending molar.
A watchfu1 terrier in a Chicago jevslrv
manufacturing establishment aroused the
Waterman the other night just In time to pre-
vent thieves making on with valuable plunder.
The owner Of the ostrich farm in Lower
California paid 81 900 each for his birds, and he
has quite a number Of them. Twice a year
their feathers are plucked, and each plucking
is worth 500.
"A young lady of Columbus, Ga, has
made crazy quilt out Of Louisiana State lot
terry tickets that tailed to connect with the
prize wheel. The numbers are worked IN silk
The vein Of ore in the Treadwell mine,
Alaska, is 464 feet wide, and extends along the
mountain nrodn islhnresquartsrs Of mile The nine
Psoonces 100000 in gold bullion monthly.
ABOUT ~ per cent Of which is profit.
The two college girls who ran news
paper In Jersey have tired Of the work. They
succeeded better than many men could have
oone- When they decided little while ago 70
aDanuon tnelr business there was great regret
on the part Of their subscribers
"A submarine bridge is proposed between
Elsinore and Helsingborg, to be fncased in a
double tube, having the outer skin iron and the
inner one steel, the space between the shells to
merge the bridge sufficiently deep to allow ships
to pass over It.
Bird seed forms q considerable item in
the export trade Of some Of the Moorish ports.
Thus from Laraiche last year in total export
valued at f607yI the bird seed exported was
valued at f5g70. and the quantity was 3457
quarters. In 1881 the quantity was 40lS quart
AN oldobserver of Washington life saws
that each new President begins his term BY
spending more money on hospitality during the
first year Of office than during any Of the sue
ceeding ones. The expenditure decreases gradu-
any IL Is said, until the fourth year. when the
ordinary President begins to think more about
saving money for the coming rainy day than
about spending it for dinners and receptions.
The Chinese pupils of the New York
Sunday schools have opened clubhouse for
their mutual entertainment. An the Chinese
newspapers win be found there and the services
Of lawyer have been retained to give FREQ
legal advice to the members. Chess. checkers
and Backgammon will be admitted in the club.
but the insidious Fan-Tan will be strictly
tabooed- It is 3 club for Hgood" Cinnamon
only.
"A singular feature Of the past fortnight,
following the recent heavy storms in rural
southeastern New England has been an epi-
demic OF hen hawks, which has extended along
the coast from Cape Cod to Long Island. The
farmers in many towns, where bounty Is paid
for hawks heads, are making neat sums at
shooting them. One town last Wednesday paid
out SO % to two young men. the same being the
% cent bounty on 197 hawks which they had
shot within three days.
"A man of Letters, who went West this
sumper TO study the various features Of com
munity and isolated life presented between
here and San Francisco and up and down the
California coast, was gone for three months.
but in that time did not once have 20 unErap
macintosh. He had his family with him, and,
out Of regard for their comfort. did not travel
. single mile by night He says that for pure
comfort this Is the bestway.
The Bishop of North DAKOTA Is having
a car built in which to make his episcopal Wis
ftations Spare beds and accommodations for
stangers are so scarce in his district that he
fnds it necessary thus to initiate the actors.
and find himself in bed and shelter The
Bishops travelling car is to be q chapel on
wheels as well as an itinerant house, and he
have it the social meeting place OF the more
members of his flock. - .s
"A gentleman living in Richmond, Va.
owns . violin which Is associated with the early
history of Virginia. II is one Of four violins
with tho early history of this section
Of the country. 1t is marked, algicolaus
Amati fecit, Cremona, 1851" This violin was
brought to this country by Robert Bo1linz the
husband Of Jane Rolfe the granddaughter Of
mighty Indian King Powhatan, of Virginia.
The violin is of superior tone, volume and nm
Ish, and has been used BY many prominent per-
formers during the past century.
The greatest wheel Of its kind in the
world, very wonder in mechanism, stands in
themain shop Of the Dickson Manufacturing
Company, in Scranton. Il was built for the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Of Lake
Superior, Mich, for the purpose of lifting and
tischarging the "taflings,n waste from the
copper mines, into the lake, and its diameter is
a feet while its weight in active operation will
but its extreme dimensions are "a feet in diam,
,ter Some idea Of its enormous capacity can
Do formed from the fact that it will receive and
elevate sufficient sand every "a hours to cover
IN acre Of ground foot Deep
The historic locomotive General will
oon be pulling log train from Dublin to EN-
,ire, Ga. It was the old "GeneraP which
Igured in ''Anderson's raid" brief sketch Of
which is as follows: One day, in 1853, a train
rom Atlanta stopped at Big Sbanty. This en-
ane was attached to it. While the conductor
md all the train men were inside eating. Cap
ain Anderson, . Federal officer with several
nen, boarded the engine, detached it from the
rain, and ran on with it toward CHATTANOOGA
Japtain Anderson's intention was to tear up
be track and burn all the bridges on the West
ru and Atlantic road between Atlanta and
chattanooga, so as to deprive the Tennessee
Of communication with Atlanta.
Ifter run of about 40 miles the fuel gave out
bout ten miles furtner the steam gave out,
nd as the conductor, Captain Fuller was close
pom the party with another engine, Captain
anderson and BIS men took to the woods. All
ut three were captured and taken to Atlanta
nd hanged as spies. Anderson was among the
umber That was 26 years ago, and the engine
as been In use at times ever since, althoughit
as been several times repaired.