Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


elusion Of the Chinese.
The estimated yield Of wheat for Mich
igan this year is 24UOOOOO bushels.
Mr.. Mudd is real estate dealer in one
OF the towns of Southern California.
Two of the albums sent TO the Inter-
national Exhibition of Stamps at Vienna are
insured for sl2, 600 and sl500O
"A bolt of lightning recently struck
house in Kansas, setting it ON fire and at the
same time touching of the fire alarm.
"A large amount of ammonia escaped
from the Fort Wayne ice factory into the st.
Joseph river, and thousands of fish were killed.
The Humane Education Society of Bos-
ton offers $3.50 for the best essay in favor Of
vivisection and $3.50 for the best essay against
it
1t has been proposed to put the regular
London eabmen in semi-military uniform. The
Jehus are very much opposed to the "blarsted
scheme"
OF 81, 900 guesses of the, weight of big
cake of soap on exhibit in Detroit only four,
strange TO say, were correct The weight was
LIZ pounds.
james Jeffries, of Russell county, KY,
has 10 children, including pairs Of twins. He
also has 10 brothers married, and the II families
nave 81 pairs OF twins
An average of 5,OOO. 900 glasses Of beer
is consumed in Chicago every day during this
hot spell. and that means S250,000 or 100000
month for the breweries.
"A woman who died lately at st. Martin,
near Montreal, at the age of 90, was married
when IL years of age. and had II children, l46
grandchildren and 2S6 great grandchildren.
by the side of the main road, about four
miles from Canterbury. the following curious
notice may be read: Traction engines and
other persons taking water from this pond will
be prosecuted"
The famous Hindoo god. Lingham, is
now owned by an English gentleman named
Spencer, who paid 200 for it at an auction
sale in London in 1888. This curious relic
stands but l213 inches high.
Judge Beach decides town has per-
petual and everlasting interest in factory it
bonuses, and consequently tells a. Dutton, Of
Port Austin, that he has no right to move his
grist mill, and so enjoins him forever.
The locomotive telephone signal enables
two trains approaching each other to commu-
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.
The acting Mayor of Montreal has re-
CclfSu icbLcE "Oc-U6SOu6 DdCuclOE III
Bismarck, OAK, who writes for himself and a
number of other miners. asking that marriage
able young ladies be sent out there. The miners
have from s.. 900 to s., 900 to commence house.
keeping with.
Stephen and John Cumming are a twain
of twins IS years old. They both live at " ixom,
and Stephen is strong and healthy. while John
is feeble: Stephen is the man who has used
tobacco 20 years, and John has always been re-
ligiously temperate, which makes this an in
temperance lecture.
MIR. Bodeen, at Lamanda Park. Los
Angeles, has 10 acres in peaches, apricots, pears
and similar fruits. He has paid all the labor
incidental to curing and shipping his fruit. has
sold it all and has S7hO0 the net profits of the
season. That is S466 Sc per acre. The fruit
growers are the people this year.
Councilman Study, of Tyrone, electro
cuted his big black dog the other day. He had
outlived his usefulness and the Kemmler mode
was applied to him. Wet sponges were placed
on his head and at the base of his spine and 500
volts applied through the death dealing wire.
The dog died so instantaneously that he hadn't
time to even think what hurt hIm.-CLfHton
Democrat.
There is a curiosity in Carrolton, Ala,
in the way of an eyeless mule colt. The colt is
three or four months old. 1t is very well de-
veloped in every other respect. but il has no
ewes and no place for them. The face where
Its ewes should be is as smooth as Its Jaws, yet
it has eye muscles, for the hide contracts regu-
larly as if batting its eyes, but it has no eyes
and no eye shape.
Two policemen, at 8 o'clock Monday
morning, found one of the doors of the post
office in Newark, N. J., open They entered
the building but found nobody One of the
| officers went to the house of Postmaster Conk-
| lin. who proceeded to the office and, after
| searching through its departments, found the
night watchman sound asleep in a locked room.
| The watehman was discharged.
A ''geod" story is told about certain
farmer living near Orlando, Fla, who was
badly flicted with rheumatism. One day he
| went out to his stables and stepped between a
| horse and mule for the purpose Of bridling
| them, whereupon the aforesaid horse kicked
| him, hitting his hip the afflicted part. Strange
| to say, and here is where the good part of the
affair comes in, he has not since suffered with
rheumatism.
Bricks impregnated with tar are said to
be hard, durable and perfectly waterproof.
The process of impregnation is extremely
simple, ordinary bricks or, still better, machine
brick being boiled in coal tar for "a hours.
Bricks thus treated are claimed to be especially
we'll adapted for paving workrooms, depots,
ETC. They are also recommended for the con-
struction of sewers, eesspools, the insulation OF
foundation walls and similar purposes
Such filthy water was furnished the
tanks by the Michigan State Fair management
that the Fish Commission have lost about 3OO
of their fine exhibit. All the fine specimens OF
brook, brown and rainbow trout were lost
after being few hours in the water, together
with numbers of grayliDg carp, goldhsh, pike.
blue giIls, sunfish and pereh; everything, i1
fact except the dogfsh, catfish. eels and bull
heads, and even some of the latter were Killed
Through the stupidity OF an engrossing
clerk, unable to write the English language
dramatically or spell correctly. the laws re-
Gently passed by the Legislature of New YORK
are full of absurd blunders and contradictions.
They are disgrace TO the nrst STATE OF TN; iHe
Union. and will, no doubt, result in costly lltl-
cation. A specimen blunder is an amendment
TO the charter of Saratoga, which declares; mo
contract for sprinklng shall, however, Oe
made for longer period than four years. ex:
CENT horses and more than six sprinkllng CARTS"