Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

I'm Valparaiso August is the first month
Of spring. Flowers bloom there even in mid
winter.
"A Roman aqueduct has been lately
cleaned and put iD order at sahelies. Spain.
and now supplies the town with water.
"A deer hunt on the main street Of the
town created excitement in Middleboro, KY,
last week; The animal was run down, captured
The Lake Shore Railroad casts aside
two worn out cars day. It requires about $50
new cars year to maintain the equipment Of
5000 cars.
Some one broke into the undertaking.
establishment Of Colonel Thomas Simmons. sr
Monticello. Fla, last Thursday night and stole
small coffin.
Mrs. Alexander Oderin, Of Hillsdale.
Mich, g8 years Of age, has been blind for seven
years. The other day her sight came back for
two hours and then she became blind again
Out of a population of 100, 900 II is
estimated that. with the most liberal deduction,
there are in New York million non-church-
goers- They are. as compared with the church
people, two to one.
Herr R. Fricke. the African traveller,
says that travelling in the Dark Continent is 50
per1lous, owing to the cannibalistic t.ibes that
captured.
"A skillful cork cutter can produce from
-5O0 TO 1000 corks day. his only tools being
TWO sharp braod bIaded knives Machines
nave Deen introduced which can turn out
ABOUT AOOV corks an hour, but they are useless
ror the cutting Of the finer qualities.
1t has often been reported that the
British army is largely composed Of undersized
frFa afn1r -
do not bear out these statements. OF 20276l
men only y, ,596 are under 10 years Of age while
"a per cent are over feet inches IN height.
The French servant girl is no better
than the American, and the French countess
has her troubles with them the same as Mrs.
John Smith. One Of the nobility Of France
was hauled into court and fined 81 the other
day Tor losing her temper and boxing servant
girls ears.
-California will make 5000, 900 gallons
less Of wine this year than last This is because
50 large q portion Of the grapes went not to the
Juice, but to rafsins. The willy vfneyarders
found they could squeeze more money out Of
dried grapes than By squeezing wine out Of
the fresh ones.
About 500 Highlanders are going over
to Paris under the chieftainship Of Mr.. David
White, Of Abbey Craig. who has parriotically
thrown down the gauntlet to the world With
the object Of proving that for athletic skill.
swiftness of foot and manly beauty there Is no
nation in the world Like the Scotch.
"A young German student Of Assyriology
has been experimenting with soft tiles and
stylus and concludes that the Assyrians wrote
their cunilform lines with cubs-shaped in
strument having . pointed end, which was
It very easy to write cunilform as rapidly as
German with such stylus.
The oldest Of all the obelisks is the
beautiful one Of rosy granite whicn stands
alone among the green fields upon the banks Of
the Nile, not far from Cairo. It is the grave
stone OF . great ancient city which has van
was the Bethshemesh Of the Scriptures and the
Heliopolis of the Greeks.
"A gentleman was out shooting near
Totnes, England, the other day, when he had
the misfortune to shoot his dog. For . moment
he was too much overcome to see what damage
he had done, and before he had recovered him
self the animal, black retriever, had come up
to him, bringing in its mouth its own tail,
which had been shot clean OF.
What is considered one Of the most un-
accounted for sights in Utah Is . mountain
about IS miles northeast of Salt Lake City, oc-
cupying an area Of about 30 acres, and COM
pletely and thickly covered with oyster shells.
The mountain is between 800 and 400 feet high,
and situated over 40O0 feet higher than Salt
Lake City, which is 300 feet above the level Of
the sea.
while in the act of getting into his
buggy at his residence in Macon, Ca, DR.. W.
G. Gibson noticed covsy Of parfridgss hutter-
ing in some rank weeds in lot adjoining his
residence. One few up into 4 tree. Dr. Glib
son, with rapid motion. secured his whip and
struck at the bird, never for . moment think
ing the bird would remain. To his surprise the
partridge tumbled from his perch to the
ground, and after moments huttering. died.
Not bruised place could be found on It's head
and body. ana the only reason that could be
given was that the bird died from fright.
AN Atlanta dispatch states that q won
derful revolution in -four barrel making fs
promised by patent which has been granted
for the making Of barrels ont Of cotton duck
instead Of wood. The new material Is fnper-
vious to water and resists IRE for q long time.
1t weighs to the barrel about Is pounds less
cent cheaper. The cotton duck barrel can be
rolled up into small space and returned to the
mills for freanent use. The hour merchants of
Atlanta pronounce ir success
"A London paper announces that .
Worcestershire village from the fact of its Being
called Broadway, first attracted the attention
and then the visits Of Americans. and now
there Is quite an American season and small
artist colony which Is six miles from railway
station. The American artists have estab-
llsned . Broadway school at this spot, which,
with its ivy and creeper-covered Worcester
shire houses, Is regarded by them as the mast
typical Of English villages. The object OF Mr..
special journey 70 this favorite
resort was to paint some wild roses growing in
. cottage garden.
-Brannerite Is the name OF new mineral
recently discovered in the northern part Of
Arkansas by Prof. W. Albert Chaplain, Of Lead
Hill, and named IN honor Of Prof John G.
Branner. the Arkansas State Geolog1st. TWAS
found on the property known as the Coon Hol-
ow Mines in Boone county. and Is an outcrop
,f more tEan two feet in thickness and Of ledge
form. The examination causes It to be ac-
,epted as q new and undescribed species Of zinc
IRE, and one commercially considered Of great
Importance, both because of its occurrence in
quantity and the possession by it Of certain
'eatures having an important bearing on its
eduction and utilization In the man1facture
If zinc white. It Is anhydrous Carbonate Of
inc, milk white. luster dun to slightly glisten-
ng. It Is infusible.
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