Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-22
CURIOUS CONpENSATlONS.

buying land for new parks.
Mrs. Eunice j. Jose, 91-year-old Saco
MEL woman, is cutting her third set of teeth.
"A mountain of aiabaster is supposed to
have been discovered $50 miles north of Dem
yer, Col
Fish Commissioner Stanley, Of Maine.
believes that there Is more than enough gold at
swift river, Me-, to pay for the digging.
Decorations at summer resort entertain
ments include American flags tennis racquets
baseball bats. croquet mallets and spoon oars.
The art Of veneering was known to the
Egyptians more than 1900 years ago. The
sculptures of Thebes are said TO illustrate the
process.
Mrs. McGill, of Salt Lake City, went to
market and bought a cockerel for her Sunday
dinner. She found IN its crop nugget Of virgin
gold that she sold for s..
Ninety barrels of the yolks of eggs were
an odd importation from Syria to Paris The
yolks are to be used in the preparation of
leather of d very fine quality
"A bill will be introduced into Parlia-
ment next session which proposes to restrict
the public performances of hypnotic expert
ments. According to medical testimony much
science.
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mas clock which was make in 1872 The works
are Of brass and the clock keeps as good time
as as II dld when 1t was made l58 years ago, but
kept in 1882
Salaries in the different departments
under the municipal administration in Paris
range from $3.50 to $500 per annum, and the ap-
plications are almost ], 900 for one There were
alSS applications for three yearly vacancies as
messengers.
The Russian Government proposes to
substitute soldiers from the railway battalions
Tor the original engineers and fremen of the
strategical railways. The men will be in
structed in the rudiments OF mechanics and
engineering.
One of the features Of an electrical ex-
hibition at Frankfort is to be the transmission
Oh power t5OO horse) distance of IA miles. It
is not pretended that this can be done econom-
lcally but the mere doing of IL will be one Of
the wonders Of the exhibition.
"A novel team passed through Athena,
Ore. last week. 1t consisted of two horses and
yoke of COWS, driven by an elderly man with
the woe begone countenance of a Kansas
farmer. About dozen children, dirty faced
and ragged. added to the attractiVene5s of the
outfit
One ofthe latest appliances ofeleetricity
appears in the form of an electric soldering
iron. 1t Is hollow cone of copper containing
metallic plug. between which and the inner
surface Of the cone is coil Of fne wire
separated from the plug and the face Of the
cone by means Of layers Of asbestos
"A Mexican was running moving ma
chine in field of alfalfa near Las Cruces, N.
NJ, when he uncovered colony of skunks. A
number were killed by the mower, and the
Mexican called for help to assist in extermina-
ting the colony. The fight was kept up with
pitchforks and clubs till 50 skunks were
slaughtered.
Miss Elizabeth Miles, of Colera, Ala,
is the victim Of remarkable deluslon. She
imagines that she is Mrs. Grover Cleveland
and that her husband is still President. Miss
Miles met Mrs. Cleveland three years ago and
became attached to her. She fell from her
morse year ago, since which time she has been
possessed Of the hallucination. She was taken
TO the State asylum yesterday.
"A Dubuque woman who has been liY-
ing in East Dubuque for some months past the
other day decided to move back to Dubuque.
She attempted to cross the high bridge with
her goods and chattels. but while en- route
three attachments were served on her prop
erty. She knew her business, however, and
had stock of readymade replevins on hand,
and managed to reacn the Iowa shore safely on
time.
"A baby has been born at Lancaster,
N. H., which weighed only 2h pounds, and
which has not increased in weight since its
birth. 1t Is so small that an ordinary finger
ring can be put on to its arm to the shoulder.
and common tea cup can be put over its
head to its shoulders. The child is doing well
and in the opinion of the doctors stands as
good chance OF living as the average baby of
its age.
John Carroll, Of Rockland, Me-, is the
envy of amateur farmers for miles around as,
at the close of his days labors, seated beside
his modest cabin, he reads his paper protected
alike from showers and the burning sun by the
friendly branches of huge potato stalk that
towers near by. Mr. Carroll planted whole
potato. just ior the novelty of the thing. and
the stalk has reached a height of nearly four
feet and is still growing.
"A novel use of the electric light is made
on the St. Lawrence river near the Thousand
Island resorts. One of the lights has been
placed at the end of q yardarm on the steamer
St Lawrence, which has dynamo aboard. The
light stands in front of powerful reflector,
and as the boat steams about at night among
the islands the search-light is cast among them,
revealing with startling distinctness their
beauty and the beauty of the landscape.
-Urben Getchell, of Limestone, Me-,
witnessed novel sight on Thursday last, while
two miles from the village. He came on seven
bears unawares, three of them full grown, and
four cubs quite large. The old ones made for
The woods but ne cubs had their gambols out
before they followed. Urben says it was nice
tight, but his hair seemed to grow very fast
Ind raised his hat from its usual place. The
bears were seen by two other persons.
Like many other insecIs, house flies are
'ubject to the attacks of q parasitic fungus
which destroys great numbers Of them, espe-
tally toward the end Of autumn. When you
lee the corpses of flies glued to the window
oanes in the attitude of life with legs widely
pread and wings raised as if in preparation for
light but with a white halo Ola the glass all
'ound them, and with bodies pale. unhealthy
ooking and distended, you can attribute their
lntimely end to empusa muscs, the technical
lame of the deadly fungus.
The skeleton of large amphibious ami
nal was unearthed at ShellVille, Cal 1t meas
lred Il feet from the Uranium to the tip of the
all. The jawbones are four feet long The
ore legs are five feet in length, but the hind
EGGS measure but Is inches, and are jointed
,nly at the hip. The toes are five inches long.
Two strong tusks project from the upper Jaw,
md the skull are two horns of three
branches each. The skeleton was found in
tratum of clay 20 feet below the surface Il
vas impossible to preserve it entire.
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