Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Wichita, Kan, clergyman has been
asked to resign because his sermons are TOO
long
1t is said that when he is busy in
roundup" single cowboy will tire out six or
eight horses in day.
George Routledge, the London pub
Usher who died the other day, printed and sold
6Oo,OOO copies of Uncle Toms Cabin"
"A young physician of Fall River, Mass,
Is laid up with disease of the tongue, at
trlouted to excessive cigarette smoking.
American apples are sent to England,
Germany France, Italy, Spain, Australia,
Asia, Africa, South America and Mexico.
The Eskimos are naming their children
after by Thunder" "Go to Halifax" and
other expressions used by English sailors.
The number of adherents of the Roman
Catholic Church in America has increased
curing the past century from 1850 to SOOOOOu
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, has
provided in his will that his body be cremated
night.
New York crowds 200, 900 Inhabitants
into 81, 900 houses, while Philadelphia has to
have l79,OOO houses to accommodate $4,000
people,
In Carroll county, New Hampshire, q
considerable number of forest men, tired of
waiting for snow, have begun hauling timber on
wheels
The Maltese cat in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, drug store, suddenly developed an appetite
for leeches, and while the druggists back was
turned ate 80 of them.
"A special train will leave New York
next month for the scene of a great bull fight
somewhere in Mexico. Twenty wealthy young
New Yorkers are said to be arranging the ex-
cursion.
A Piedmont, s. C., clergyman married
q couple and published notice to that effect
before he learned that the contracting parties
were men. They wanted to have little tun az
the minister's expense.
There is discrepancy between the
statements of George Waterman and the au-
thorities of Lorensberg, Kas. He claims to
have. stolen l29 horses, and they declare the
number to be 13O This tri1ing difference may
get him into State prison.
Frank Thornton, of Elberton, has in his
possession acouple of eggs which are cur1osi-
ties. They have two shells; the yolk Is in
closed in the smaller one and the white around
1t in the larger. The eggs are as large as
goose egg, which they closely resemble.
The new American navy, when COM
pleted, will consist of q vessels. ranging from
the armored cruiser Maine, carrying "A men.
down to a irst-class torpedo boat, carrying
officers and Is men. There will be 57S6 men
on board the q vessels-5O0 officers and 5,2S6
sailors and marines.
"A 16-year-old boy in Kansas Citv at
tempted to steal and carry away a sawmill one
day last week. He first stole horse and
wagon, and was busily engaged in taking the
mill to pieces, preparatory to loading it upon
when
the scene and gathered him in.
The agricultural professors tell US that
the raising of 80 bushels of wheat to the acre
will remove from the land 81 pounds of nitro
gen, "a pounds of phosphoric acid and 81
pounds of potash. This could be replaced by
go pounds of sulphate of amonia, III pounds OF
super-phosphate OF lime and IS pounds OF
chloride of potash.
j. D. Cox, who is operating among the
coal fields of Alabama made a singular dis
covery a few weeks since. A force of hands
were at work at the bottom of a shaft $50 feet
below the surface, when they came upon the
petrifed remains of sheep. 1t was in so per-
feet state of preservation as to be readily rec
ognlZed, and was kept intact for several days,
after which it was broken and the pieces dis
tributed among the miners as eurios.
George H. johnson, farmer living q
few miles east of Honey Grove, Tex, has
mule that is natural curiosity. The most
prominent feature about his muleship is that
he is just exactly 1815 hands high, or feet
inches, so that man who stands feet IN his
stockings standing by the mules shoulders
just lacks two inches of being as high as the
animal. and he weighs in proportion TO his
height, tipping the beam at 1,6l9 pounds.
-Thers was poplar tree at Clyde Sta
tion, Haywood county, North Carolina, so
large that it made plank enough to build a
church so feet long and 3S feet wide. II feet
high, and supplied weatherboarding. ceiling
and flooring. From the same tree fence was
built on three-quarters of an acre around the
church, and there were three logs left over.
The remaining three logs are enough to build
another church of the same dimensions as
above.
The latest nickel and slot device is
sortof big stereoscope which has been invented
and manufactured in Paris. You drop in your
nickel and apply your eyes to pair of protu-
berances like the eye pieces of an opera glass.
Pictures are then displayed in rapid succession,
one picture lasting seven seconds, until the
contents of the box are all exhibited. The
pictures are shown in the glare OF an electric
light, which is extinguished when one has had
his cents worth
Those who go down to the sea in ships
frequently have strange experiences. Any one
who doubts this should read the log of the bark
Professor Mohn, which has been on a voyage
from New York to Callao. Her log was re-
ceived Saturday by the New York Hydro
graphic Office from Callao, and contains the
interesting entry under date of Janu-
ary H. 1888: ''In latitude 400 33 south, Iongi-
tude 4So So west, passed through patch Of
water of a dark red color of several miles in ex-
tent. Hauled some on board in bucket. and
found it to contain millions of small red ami
mails about the size of flea with white spot
in 'front.' which looked transparent. They had
two long feelers in front, and long tail split in
the end, and numerous feet like a lobster. The
entire body had slight resemblance to that
animal in miniature