Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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"A steel bridge across the English Chan
mel is proposed.
AT Atchison, Kan, potatoes sell for Is
cents per busheL
An electric engineer says 200 miles per
nour VIII be made by electric trains.
"A pair Of eandelabra once owned By La
layeste brought $50 at a New York auction
sale two days ago
1t Is proposed in New York to set up
DICE machines to receive Worlds
ralr contributions
"A machine that cuts matchsticks makes
loOO9VOOa day. They are arranged over vat.
40 ,,s ns5e t9e heads put at the rate OF s000-
wv per o4y oy one man.
w. A. Rice exhibited 20 onions At the
arroyo Srande, Cal, fair that weighed 100
Pounos- MT, Young showed a Abound cab
Dage and l9pound carrot. while MI. BercelIos
took Lne cake" with a beet five feet long tbat
scaled l54 pounds
"A Futnam (Conn.) man succeeded the
other night in eating ~ squash pies IN TX
minutes. winning prize The pies were an
.,. a. .nSu s-J @ nalI thick. Six men entered the
their services were needed.
Africa requires 100000 blankets to
supply the native population alone Besides
tnls mere Is demand for wooden clothing for
sne eVer-lncreasing white population. This
os ne ~, 70 Pe impoIted although the Cape wool is
Ol 1ne pest quallty In the world.
-Experlments are now being made in
ltaly upon this years vintage in the elsetridea-
ton OF wine. Fifty different sorts Of wine
have already been experimented upop and the
iesqlIs nave been very satisfactory The wine
IS CHARMED, acquires a 'bououern and is said
journeys by sea.
For 90 years Christian Fegley, Of Sha-
mokIn, has worked in the coal mines of Panr.
syIvania. He is the oldest miner In the stata
but he does not look it. Although silver locks
adorn bis head, his eyes are keen, his carriage
erect and his arms are braWny. The average
life OF miner Is 40 years yet this man Is as
born in 1872 and entered the mines AZ the a1s
OF Il -
"A company has laid . main in Fulton
street, New York, and viii begin next week to
supply the butchers Of Washington market
with cold air. The supply may be regulated bv
3 cock. The air is made frigid by the ammonia
system. The butchers viii use the space form
pany intends to supply restaurants ana saloons.
and possibly summer resorts in the city, Just as
soon as It gets its pipes laid.
"A man in Bangor, Me-, who tarried in
a cemetery after dark in order to finish : lob
OF digging, had an encounter with ghost Il
Wss Of the regulation Whitsness, and groansd
just as did those encountered in similar places
BY some Of our great grandmothers. The
but managed to run against the ghost and both
tell 70 the ground together. It was an innocent
Nnite calf that first recovered its feet after the
collision.
Into Butler Bates house, at Webster,
Mass. . partridge dew. 4 day or two ago, and
nImble George Tracy caught il as ft careered
= H. - -
partridge drove at lightning speed through
the town hall, going in through pane Of glass
on one side and, without an instanfis delay 90
ing out through window glass on the opposite
two broken panes we're exactly opposite each
other, so the bird had varied hardly hairs
width in her straight arroW-like course.
AT Chester, Conn, one evening, q
farmer was shoveling cut feed from the feed
trough into his horses manger. when he heard
= f1uttering in the hayIoft and thinking his
chickens were in trouble he set his lantern on
another rustic and hutter and down from the
loft tumbled big partridge on the floor. II
was stunned for moment and the farmer
caughtit. W. p. Skinner, Of Higganum, got
partridge in the same way bus it cody walked
into the house Sunday morning instead Of dodg-
ing into the barn.
Francois Chaynot, Of Cornwall Hollow,
among the Cornwall Mountains, in Connecti-
cut, has been searching for three years for iron
ore on his farm. For the past year he has
been employed in digging q tunnel about six
feet square into the side Of mountain. He
blasted for long way through solid rock, then
came kind Of clay OF yellow color, and next
he found red substance resembling ochre,
whole length OF his queer mine. which be IL
working alone. Many springs have been found
that g1sh forth pure, cold water. Mr.. Ch1gl1t
~ 1ru
quantities Of iron, and his dnds are richer a. he
proceeds inward.
Every county in the United States is
supplied more or less with ladies' cloaks made
In the city Of New York. Experts estimate the
total value Of ladies' cIoaks produced in the
United States at $40 900 900 to s5oO 900 year.
About three-fourths Of the manufacturing Of
these cloaks is done IN the city Of New York.
Chicago comes next, Cleveland next Boston,
Philadelphia and Cincinnati de stlll smaller
cloak business. In the last II years the cloaks
have driven shawls steadily out Of the market
until they have almost disappeared. There Is
about IS 000, 900 capital invested in the ladies'
cloak business Of the United States About
men. To make $50. 900 900 worth Of cloaks uses
up about SIS 100000 worth OF domestic goods
md trimmings every year.
"A useful application Of the telephone 70
military, railway and other purposes has been
,ffected by firm Of telegraph engineers in
Berlin. This apparatus Is contained in 4 case
2 inches long by inches wide and inches
leep, which, for general purposes, is slung By
strap in front OF the user. The case contains
dry cell battery q magnetic bell and an in
Iuction coil. In some instances where it Is de-
irable that the sound Of the bell should not be
leard, the Neef hammer is substituted for il,
nd is used as a means Of calling Attention be-
ween the communicating parties. The case
lso contains a combined receiving and trans
hitting apparatus which Is fitted with micro
hone as 4 transmitter, the apparatus beng
conveniently made for application 20 the ear
md mouth. For held purposes an outpost
foT1t MS Telephone being ii communIeafion
y 4 wire with that Of the field watch, the lat
er being again in communication with head
uarters to the rear.