Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


In some Northern city.
"A surveying party has discovered that
one of the Hudson's Bay Company stations is
on American territory.
Huntington, Ind, has a 1O-year-old
burglar. He went through a window by taking
out pane of glass, and did the job like a vet
eran.
A. Rinaldi, of Orlando, Fla, has one Of
the oldest coins in that city. Itis 25-cent coin
of Spanish denomination, dated l773, and is
worth considerable as a relic.
"A traveller in Japan writes that the Ja-
panese pay more attention to personal cleanli-
ness than any other people in the world. High
and low hathe all over at least once day, and
sometimes oftener.
Experiments prove that the Atlantic
breakers have a force of three tons to the
square foot; thus a surface of only two square
yards sustains blow from a heavy Atlantic
breaker equal to ffty-four tons.
photographs Of 78 old couples and the
same number of pictures of brothers and SIS
tiers of a similar age are said to show that the
former are more like one another IN appear
ance than the brothers and sisters.
AT the meeting of the National Council
Of Education one of the speakers said that not
young men knocking for admission into Vassar
and other young ladies' seminaries.
"A negro in the neighborhood of Hollen-
vile. a suburb of Griffin, Ga, went to town
and spent all his money for Winchester rifle,
and at night, while showing the little negroes
how it worked, shot his left hand completely
of.
The French Minister of War lately Of
fered prize for the swiftest bird in a fight
from Perigneux to Paris, Sl0 miles There
were 2746 entries. the winner doing the dis
tance in hours and "a minutes, or at 43 miles
an hour.
The biggest plate-glass factory in the
world is soon to be established at Irwin, this
State, on the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, by syn
dicate of English and American capitalists,
which, It is reported, has capital oil soO,OOOOOo
at its disposal.
The locomotive telephone signal enables
two trains approaching each other to eommu-
nicate by closing the circuit when two miles
apart. The ringing of gong warns the engi-
neers. who can converse with each other over
the telephone
1T is reported that the petrifed remains
of n man have been found on Jack creek, 90
miles from Rawlins. The body Is that Of a man
seven feet in height, and proportionats build.
Tho find will be unearthed and taken to Raw
lins, Wyo, and will finally bo sent to the Smith.
sonian Institution.
Down In Florida q negro tried TO steal .
ride on eoweateber. The engineer did not
see him until the train ran into COW on tho
track, when tbe COW new on one sue hha q. tne ~
,1sss bsseas he h,t me grenud lie was isft 10
keep the bovine company
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ulgslhB INTO ths nah oi ths Siipuit S'u's ''''''
he uncovered glass jar which contained three
$50 Confederate bills. The jar was covered
with hard mud and had evidently been
buried by some One VINO had faith IN the es-
Establishments of the Southern cause previous 70
being placed where II has been hidden the last
twenty-five years
The Freneh are certainly great on mover
IDEAS A new clock contains a novel appliea-
tion of the magnet. The clock Is shaped ike
tambourtne, with circle OF flowers painted on
It's head Around the circle two Dees oI1wl,
the larger one requiring ~ houIs 70 CON ~ hpioto ~
us elrc1it, WhlIe tse slnaiieI one % - hl
hour. DiHerent movers represent tne noutJ
and the bees, Which are OF iron, arc IhoYou
by the magnets beblnd the head oI Lne IauA'
BOURNE.
Owing to the fact that the lands OF tne
West are being rapidly taken mp, Denver
paper predicts the abdicaton OF tho catsio
King and the extinetion oil tne co"Doy' Va ,s sHo
latter Is said; "Ihe COWBOY WIN SS IsssiinSS
spurs ms leather tousels, MS isII sonn ian The
nas snH n's us LII Itar 5Sa scout rhe tranper
staSo M uIiveL, ..o orsr IN tha nrocessIon
,h.. ,nnvas raIncta,tIv no the duiet. peaceAbIo
cnnsnonnIacs ygovs ~ IIfe.n
"A Waterville, Me-, feline mas Breas
fondness for the flesh of birds and In order to
nooIa re- oues, for the same successful. EN-.
nIa,,. s,ratocon, EvidentIv understanding
iects number of the same and buries them in
the ground. She then takes her place IN a
convenient place OF ambush ana when % the
Dlras ailgnt 70 seeuie men od oTncss
nnnn Them Manya bird thus falls a prey to
nnssyis shrewdness
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u. "A. Oneney' OesfOit uaSeiluS '"ie
man. Is equal TO any h0tel gulde ever pun
lished. He can tell any one the names OF all
the hest hotels in almost every CITY on earth.
u ha, trovoIod oil ovar tho world and as he
Tao 80, .s,ro- 49, orI car, he
recalls one hotel aIter anotneI noL only c.sii
call the names OF the proprletors SuS thS5s -
the clerks. ne lens you .iS sILo ~ sIS ~ aa
ent hotes. ana remembers sne nlIlSel " t
room ne mas stopped IN curing 'ne paSs sHH S
years and tne hotel tne room H was H hotais IA"