Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The moon is to be weighed from the TOP
of the Eiffel tower.
There are $4,000 New Yorkers out of
town from June to September,
New York will spend 81, ,681 900 this
year forpaving and repaving streets.
"A banana trust is advocated by fruit
dealers in Hawaii, according to intelligence
from the Pacific coast.
"A Chinese leper was discovered in the
Sacramento jail recently. He had been sent
4 there from Folsom for refusing to pay poll
| tax.
Jack Jackson married few DAYS ago in
| Columbus, Ga. An hour later he was locked
upfor theft and his wife's relatives want her to
sue for divorce.
Negroes at work on the big warehouse
in Washington, Ca. went out on strike be.
cause their foreman wouldn't let Us 60 to
work late and quit early"
DIR. Chaille states that the average life
of woman Is longer than that Of man, and in
most parts Of the United States womans ex-
pectation of life is greater.
"A Detroit paper prints the following:
1t rained young goslings on the farm of Fred
Hutzel, of PIttsieId, recently. For further
particulars write to HutzeL This paper is not
given to lying.
Two bad boys in Georgia placed bar
of iron across a railroad track, and then
free ride to the next town as a reward for
Saving" the train.
-Enoch Townsend, of Saco, Me-, is cred-
tied with accomplishing the feat of riding from
Boston to, Portland on bicycle in a single day,
having let the Hub" at 5 A. N. and arriving at
Portland at 8 P. M
Belgium Is poor place for physicians.
A writer to medical journal published there
says that they have the care of three-fourths
of the population, ct nothing at all from one
half Of their patients and very poor pay from
"A monster rattlesnake, supposed to be
two or three feet in circumference, judging
from his trail, is causing considerable excite
ment among the residents in East Hill,
suburb of Pen sacola, Fla A grand hunt is
proposed by som or the anxious ones.
-Four years ago man named John NJ.
Brosins landed in Atlanta. Ca, with $50 in his
pocket, and chest OF tools which were made
in 1S48. The same man to-day is worth over
100000. The fortune was made on two patents
AN axle for wagon and sewing machine.
"A Decatur, Mich, man advertises to
keep everything that any purchaser wants, and
the other day, when they killed blue racer
snake three feet long in the store the merchant
admitted tn at he had no more in stock. and
didn't want to rob the saloons of their snakes
anyway
Judge John Bell and Mr.. Harry Tur-
ner surely take the blue ribbon as champion
fishermen of Emmanuel county, Ga One day
last week they caught with hook and line nine
trout weighing 35 pounds, and one of which
weighed IL pounds. The l2pound tr0utwas the
largest ever caught in the county.
The private detectives of railroad COM
pany must be constantly shifted, so that their
faces may not become familiar to the en-
ployes and arouse suspicion. The cost of Sc
cret service to railroad is often very large but
can never compare with the proportions OF
adroit and successful freight robbing.
Natural gas has been struck in full
flow at Pompang Valley, Conn.,, by the COM
pany which has been boring for oil or coal for
the past nine months. Some days ago, at the
depth of LOO feet, the drill broke off. and. in
order TO remove the broken part it was necessa-
~ to take away the piping, and when about l.
900 feet had been brought out there came a
rush of oily water, which gave every indication
of pure oil at greater depth. When the pipe
was removed spout of almost pure oil fol.
lowed, lasting for Is minutes, and then came a
rush Of gas, which has since poured in steady
stream.
Thomas Cunningham, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, called on young married lady there the
other afternoon and requested her to playupo
the piano for him. She played, Nearer to
Thee sit is beautiful piece he said, when
the young lady had finished. "and guess am
as near my God now as shall ever be-" Sud-
denly springing up from his chair. he drew
from his hip pocket a small revolver. and;
the trigger. The landlady of the house into
which the would.be suicide had entered unin-
vited, happened at that moment to 60 into the
room, and, jumping forward made clutch at
the revolver Just in the nick of time, and the
bullet flew harmless.
. The cantonal authorities Of the districts
around Mount Pilatus, Switzerland, have un-
der consideration proposal for the eonstruc-
tion of anovel kind of road which has been
to them through the Central Gov
ernment at Berne This road would connect
the socalled Oberhaupt, or highest point of
Pilatus, with the Klimsenhorp. The object
would be to make the assent of the mountain
easier on the northern side and to shorten the
ascent for tourists coming from Hergiswyl.
The difference in level between the two points
is set down at 1874 metres; the distance between
them at 465 metres. The road apparatus would
consist OF six wire cables quite independent Of
one another on which six light pulley wheels
will move and from these wheels a small om-
Dibus capable of carrying eight persons will
hang. The omnibus will be drawn by a ropo
attached to steam engine to be placed on the
Oberhaupt.