Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


1t costs 81 to protest q note in Los
Angeles against 81 SS in the East
IT is said that at sale of farm stock in
Womelsdorf, Pa, 5000 persons were fed.
German cavalry officers hereafter will
have to include steeplechasing IN tneir seuoieA
"A cat 10 years old is to be seen in the
family Of N. B. Shaw, Area, Greene county,
New York
lowing to cut rates q man recently rode
from Dayton, wyo. T., 70 St. Louis. 2OOO
miles, for 81.
Fourteen lawyers have been President
of the United States. Mr.. Cleveland was the
unlucky thirteenth man.
1t is estimated that there are 800 col
leges in the United States, 4s56 institutions OF
learning and 50, ,7l8 students in them.
The State Of Michigan makes 1t i'm
possible for poor man to aspire to the Gov
ernorship by pntting the salary at SlOOo
year.
Samuel Cummings, of Boston, while
leaning against rail in his grain mill. began
sneezlng, and sneezed so hard he dislOcated nis
Female physicians are allowed to prac-
rce Ill Turkestan, but there Is so little demand
I1r % tnelr services that they pay patients to en-
The English Treasury Department il
contemplating the issue of s1 notes as q reme-
dy Tor the depreciation of the gold currency By
constant use
-Californians are beginning to think the
oandel1on nuisance. A few years ago it was
introduced from the East and now it threatens
10 crowd out everything else
1t has just been discovered that out Of
5000 native Kanakas in the Island of Noumea,
4OOO are afhicted with leprosy of the worst sort.
Efforts to stop the scourge are under way.
One DR.. Terc, In England, is advocat-
ing the sting of bees as a remedy for rheuma-
tism. He declares that he has treated with
success l73 cases and has given in all 5000
stfngs.
Scotland has gold fever, the discovery
of a bit of gold in the gizzard of duck re-
Gently killed on farm in Forfarshire having
been followed by the. finding of gOld-bearing
quartz in the same neighborhood.
AS afording some idea of the amount of
light gold now in circulation in London, it is
stated that recently financier accepted E., 900,
largely made up Of half-sovereigns. and, on the
amount being weighed at the bankers, it was
found to be short by E19.
Two postal cards sent from a German
town to the German consulate at Yokohama,
one by Canada and the other by Brindisi, and
opposite to that in which it had come have ar
rived in the German town again, having been
around the globe in little less than three
months.
The Baldwin pony that has been COM
ing down from the top of London circus tent
every night, apparently by means of para
chute, recently fell suddenly when the descent
had just begun and was badly injured. The
wire by which the lowering had really been ac-
compllshed had broken. The act is now omit
ted from the programme.
The commander of the French National
Military School at st. Cyr has issned an order
forbidding card playing He defends the order
by asserting that playing for money was so
fortune had frequently mortgaged their pay
Tor i've, six, and even ten years after leaving
the college to pay gambling debts.
"A story comes from Georgia to the
effect that an immense wild cat entered far
mer's house at Good Hope, snatehed an infant
from the cradle and ran of. A short,time after
ward the child was found beside a high fence
on the farm. The cat was one that had been
proving around the neighborhood for some
days. and had been seen halt a dozen times or
more by farmers.
The ladies of Texas are making a huge
map, drawn on canvas, with all the 264 counties
Of the State laid of. One county, Tom Green.
is larger than the entire States of Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut combined. The
name of each county will be worked with some
beautiful product made in the county The
map VIII be exhibited in the Texas Spring
Palace TO be built at Fort Worth.
Two Texan women are the largest in
dividual sheep and stock owners in the world
One of these, the Widow Callahan, owns $1,000 2
sheep, and when Along train of wagons starts
out each spring and fall for market, loaded
down with the wool of her sheep, it is a sight
worth seeing The OfbQr ia
great herd owner Of Southwestern Texas who
is worth about 81. 100000. Mrs. Rogers owns no
carriage, preferring to ride on horseback in the
free and easy style of the cowboy.
Some time ago two German girls landed
in New York. bound for Chicago, and were
told by runner. one of their own countrymen,
that they could get tickets SO cheaper outside
the Garden. They went with the runner and
each paid him so. He took them up to the eIe-
waited railroad station, gave them two scent
tickets, and bade them goodby for Chicago
Neither girl could speak word of English and
when they got to Harlem it was some time pc
fore they could be made to understand that
they had been swindled.
Electric refining has been brought into
such bad odor by the fraud connected with the
electric sugar scheme that people will natur-
ally be disposed to look askance at all state
ments on the application of electricity for such
purposes. Yet, If the ChTOnique IndIStrieHe
Is to be relied upon, the method of NJ. Moebius
for refining silver cy electricity is likely to be
brought into extensive use. 1t is especially
suitable for the treatment of auriferous silver
containing about II per cent. of gold. In an
ordinary electrolytic bath, composed of weak
solution of nitric acid at per cent, Mr. Moeb-
ius employs anodes of argentiterous matter
and a thin plate Of pure silver as cathode. The
anodes, which are about II millimetres in
thickness, are placed in muslin bags, which re-
tain the gold, platinum, peroxide of lead, and
other foreign bodies contained in the matter
The current employed Is of 15O amperes with a
difference of potential between the plates of
one VolE During the whole operation brushes
pass and repass over the surface of the cath
ode, and cause the silver deposited to fall to
the bottom. If the matter contains copper it
dissolves In the nitric acid, but it Is not de-
posted on the cathodes.