Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28
CURIOUS CONDENsAnOES.

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from Ia grippe, sneezed almost steadily Tor %
hours.
| What are supposed to be the first play
ing cards used were recently found in the POM
| peiian excavations, and are now in the posses
sion OF collector in Philadelphia. The caroS
| are perfectly square.
1t pays to be a subsidized enthusiast in
France. M. Fournier. the chief clsquer at the
| opera and sundry other Partisan theaters, has
just passed away. after beoueath1ng to his heirs
upward of 100000.
"A Well-dressed young man asked at a
Detroit theater box Office for two tickets. Upon
Delng informed that there was nothing left
except standing room" he replied: "An right;
gimme Two together"
The Windham county, Conn.,, Court
House is'owned by a Chicago man, who in
herited the building and site. His ancestors
pequeathed the property to the town of Brook
lyn on conditions that have not been lived up
10. But the Chicagoan doesn't propose TO be
mean and take the building away from the
town OF which he was native.
There are lGany curious customs OBJ
served by the Brazilians. Funerals are nota-
Die In that for a young unmarried lady coffin,
hearse, and the livery of the driver must be
bright scarlet, the four white horses drawing
the hearse must be covered with scarlet nets,
anu scarlet plumes must deck the horses
neads No women go to the cemeteries The
CT unta rf1inf Elar -saR
| in public. 9
Judge Thomas T. BouIdin, of Charlotte
county va, owns the plantation on which his
grandfather and great grandfather are buried
anu "hlcn has been in the family 148 years and
although he is II years of age, he sleeps in the
same room he was born in, and upon the same
Deussead ne was born on, Judge BouIdir
sno"e3 tne correspondent the spot where stood
Ine CABIN which his ancestress, who came from
Maryland, had erected in IVA and the tradition
IS tnat sne Wept because she found no place for
her gold lace hat.
The height Of an olive tree is usually
20 feet, but it is sometimes as high as so feet
and it reaches an almost fabulous age. One
lately destroyed at Beaulieu had a recorded ape
OF five centuries, and was SO feet in circumfer-
ence. Inc olive tree is exceedingly prolific
under cultivation; the fruit yields about 70 per
cent OF its weight exclusive of kerneD in oil.
tSy od5 dS ls SAID to produce 80 and France
1,OO0OOO gallons of oil annually. The tree does
NOT Yegetate readily beyond 1000 feet altitude
or 40 degrees Of latitude.
"A Missouri farmer with a turn for sta
tlstlcs has furnished a communication to his
county paper on the subject of Official salaries
IN which he states that an official who receives
$4,000 per year salary absorbs the price OF 28668
bushels of corn at Is cents per bushel, or of
oo66 bushels of wheat at so cents per busheL or
1858 bushels OF oats at II cents or the priee Of
oO good farm horses. He also estimates that a
1arm hand at S13 per month would have to work
tne year round for a quarter of century to
ga earn the same amount, and adds that in 1867
%, aOout 100 to 5000 bushels of corn would
have footed the bill, or 1900 bushels of wheat.
Jacob Horn, aged 81 years, a farmer
OF Lowrytown. Pa, left his home Wednesday
morning to cut bark for his distillery He
tailed to return at night and searching party
found his body two miles away in the Woods
He had often told his friends that in the event
ans anti aT,r, -,
was done Thursday by Weatherly physician
and the examination developed the astonishing
fact that the heart had been abnormally devei-
oped, having become four times its normal size
and that it had become hard, eartilagenous-
ike body, which attached itself to the sur
rounding walls.
The altitude of the Stevens mine on
Mount Mcclellan (Cal.) is $500 feet At the
depth of from 60 to 200 feet the crevice matter,
consisting of silica, calcite and ore, together
with the surrounding wall rock, is solid frozen
mass. Mcclellan is one of the highest eastern
spurs of the snowy range. 1t has the form of a
horseshoe with bold escarpment of feldsparic
rock nearly 1000 feet high, which in some places
is nearly perpendicular. In descending into
the mine nothing unusual occurs until depth
OF 30 or 30 feet is reached, when the frozen ter
ritory begins and continues for over 200 feet
There are no indications of a thaW summer or
winter.
1t is said that Canadians are stealing
billions Of feet Of American lumber from the
great pine timber belt in Northern Minnesota.
The lumbermen of the region centering about
the little British post of Hungry Hall num-
Der OF years ago discovered q way Of piling up
immense fortunes. The United States gov
ernment exacts 10 70 20 per cent tariff tax from
the consumer each 900 feet of lumber cut
OF manufactured in Canada, while it allows the
Canadian lumbermen of that section Of the
Dominion bordering on the Lake of the Woods
to cut and carry off from the unsurveyed tim
Der lands of Northern Minnesota millions upou
mlll1ons OF Ieet Of pine timber each year prac-
900 feet of timber and logs, every foot of
which has been cut in Minnesota 20 past this
post and down the Lake of the Woods every
year.
John Mylchreest, of MiddIetown, Conn.,,
is queer chan, and as adroit in some ways as
he is defective physically. John is 13 years old
and has no arms; he never had any. He makes
his feet do the chores ordinarily intrusted to
the hands by other folks and he does some
feats that would be notable if done by persons
who have hands as well as feet. For instance
being fond of horses. he has learned to drive
them expertly, and he manipulates the reins
entirely with his toes. He lOlls back on the
wagon seat, gathers ND the lines deftly with his
toes, sings out, "Glangp' and rattIes aWay
cracking his whip and having a grand time.
The reins he holds IN the flexible toes Of his
left foot the whip IN the cluster Of right foot
toes and he plies the lash if necessary, and
saws the lines if the steeds cut up, and goes
through town at a rattling gait with the skill of
an accomplished and two-handed whip.
Frank A. Paddock, prominent lawyer
of Glens Falls. N. z, died on Wednesday last
aged 81 years. His death was the result Of a
singular hallucination. Three years ago, while
Mr.. Paddock was at his country seat in Delhi,
Delaware county, he one day read Rider Hag-
CARDS romance ALLAN Quatermain" The in
cidents narrated in the book made such vivid
impression upon his Imagination that that
night he dreamed that he was in the sea SWIM
ming away from reptiles. He thought he saw
his brother standing on a rock stretching out
his arms to save him. and imagined that he had
to dive to save himself from some approaching
monster So real was the dream that he rose
to his feet and dived out of bed. striking his
head on the floor with such force as to cause
severe injury. Paralysis subsequently set in
IS the result of it, and although he returned to
the practice of the law later, he never fully re-
covered from the nervous shock occasioned by
his dream, and to which his death is directly