Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Three wife murderers will swing in
Memphis. June "a
Two Michigan young men recently won
a wager by each eating five pounds of honey az
| sitting.
There has been organized at Atlanta,
| Ga. the first negro land company in the world
capital $4,000.
Railroad authorities predict that the
fare between Chicago and st. Paul will be re-
duced to 90 cents before the present railroad
troubles are settled.
When President Garfield was dying he
ate peach and. the pit thereof he gave to
Grand Rapids man, who placed it near the
g. r. & general office. 1t grew and has de-
veloDed into blossom-covered tree.
"A rock as large as good egg, was cut
from the Jaw Of Carrollton, Mo-, horse, The
formation began about 10 years ago and has
been gradually growing all the time. DR.. Ed
Yates pronounces IL creture, whatever that is.
The use Of the phonograph among GER
tain Indian tribes leads to the conclusion that
the main characteristics of their language can
be recorded and permanently preserved either
for study or demonstration with this inssru-
ment.
In Macon county, Ca, day or two ago
farmer named Rider went to the cradle where
his little 2-year-old child was sleeping to kiss it
before he went 10 the field to work, and, ind
ing it lying on its face. picked it up and found
the child dead.
Woodland, Mich, goes to extremes and
State. ages considered. Clark Mack, aged ID
years. weighs 285 pounds, and Johnnie Landir,
aged years, has to grunt to make the scale
register Y pounds.
-Superintendent Rees says that every II
months the motor men of the electric railway
OF Americas Ca, make a trip around the
world. The distance Of round trip on the line
is five miles. and in IL months the motor driver
makes his $500 miles.
While chipping some kindiing wood
out of the heart of an old pine log in Vienna,
Fla, that was at least 211 feet in diameter, a
man found three balls that must have been
there since 1872. They were firmly imbedded in
the wood near the center of the tree.
The stage running from Mariposa to
Merced, Cal, was held up by a masked high
wayman. At the muzzIe of the revolver he
forced the driver TO give up the express pack
age containing some valueless papers, and Sc
cured 40 cents from the only passenger.
"A colored dentist in Macon uses no in
struments except his fingers in extracting
teeth. By means Of long practice his fingers
bave become as strong as forceps, and he
claims that he can pull teeth faster and with
less pain than any dentist with instruments.
The Geological Park in Washington,
for which ground has already been broken,
will be the largest zoo in the world. It will be
situated on Rock creek which runs between
Georgetown and Washington and will be q
splendid addition to the attractions at WASH
ington.
"A strange, coppery brillianey marked
the setting of the sun recently in Macon, Ga
A gentleman who was at Seven Bridges at the
time said he saw mirage of great distinct
ness. He said that the river, the trees and even
the buildings were mirrored in the CLOUDS above
with startling effect.
Seldom has there been a season in
which the seals have come so far up the river
as the present one. They come almost to the
mouth OF the Willamette, Ore, and are greatly
destructive of salmon. 1t is not much what
they eat as what they wantonly kill andmuti-
late that makes them SO destructive.
"A stone coffin in a tomb in Canterbury
Cathedral on being opened was found to con-
tain the body of an ancient archbishop fully
vested. 1t is thought to be that of Cardinal
Stephen Langton who sided with the barons in
extorting Magma Charta from King John. Al
though buried six centuries ago, the features
were still perfect and the vestment quite
sound.
"A singular fatal occurrence is reported
from England. A coal dealer named Jackson
drove his horse into the sea for the purpose Of
washing the animals leR. The cart in which
jackson and three boys were riding, suddenly
disappeared, it is supposed, into hole, the re-
suit being that the man and two of the boys
were drowned. Up TO last accounts the team
had not been found.
Two lawyers have arrived in Cleveland
from Amsterdam in quest of Hubert Won
Bamber, whose brother recently died. leaving
to Hubert an estate worth 100000 marks.
They have ascertained that bamber adopted
the name of Edmonds in this country and set
tied in Cleveland. Edmonds died in the in
firmary last February from consumption. and
his body was turned over to a medical college
for dissection.
"A well was dug to the depth of 20 feet
in Brunswick. Ga, when water was struck.
As the well was dug deeper the water became
warmer until the men who were at work in it
were compelled to leave it. Captain KenDon
and others went to work to find the cause Of
the heated water, but failed. Great crowds go
to the we'll to see the boiling water. Six hum
dred gallons are being pumped out daily but
the water still boils.
A New Haven man placed pigeon on
nest of eggs short time ago. A week later
a.hen flew into the nest, drove the pigeon away,
and after destroying the eggs, laid one Of her
own. The pigeon returned and kept the hens
egg warm for "a days, and day or two ago q
little white chicken was found in the nest. As
the pigeon found some trouble in feeding the
chicken, 1t was placed in a brooder, and now
the pigeon is heartbroken.
Probably no simple aggregation of
figures gives such wonderful idea of the sd-
vance in modern warfare as the description Of
the new Krupp gun, which has just been Or
dered for Cronstadt. 1t throws ball weighing
200 pounds distance of II miles. The gun Is
Al feet long and it can be fired twice minute.
Every time it goes-of it costs the Government
81 sou 1t will not be used for the purpose Of
firing Government salutes.
DR. Lancaster, London physician and
surgeon, recently analyzed man and gave the
result to his class in chemistry. The body
operated upon weighed 1914 pounds. The lee
turer exhibited upon the platform 23l pounds
of carbon, % pounds of lime, 223 ounces Of
phosphates and about one ounce each of
sodium iron, potassium, magnesium and sill
con. Besides this solid residuum DR.. Lancaster
estimated that there were 5,595 cubic feet Of
oxygen, weighing q pOuEds;. l09900 cubic feet
of hydrogen, weighing l54 pounds. and 81 cubic
feet of nitrogen in the mans body. All of
these elements combined in the following: One
hundred and twenty-one pounds of water 166
pounds of gela inc. 1.32 pounds fat. 8S pounds
fibrin and aIbumen and TT pounds Of phos-
phate of lime and other minerals.