Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

An octogenarian in Morris county, N.
J., has begun suit for divorce
Southern California fruit growers are
importing orange trees from Cuba in large
| numbers.
! The sweet potato crop on the eastern
shore Of Virginia is expected to be the largest
ever known.
Mrs. Dougan lives at Niles, Mich, and
she comes to the front with a iye-pouud bass
| caught in Barron Lake.
Over 10000 carpenters are said to have
been benefited as the result of the recent eight
| hour fight in New York.
"A Kansas man who went to Washing.
ton to secure a foreign appointment is manipu-
lating grip on cable train
"A Spartansburg, Pa, man eats his
meals in Erie county and sleeps in Crawford
county, all IN the same house.
"A new Indian battlefield has been dis
covered. It IS on farm near Bridgeport.
Conn.,, and many relics are being secured.
The rascal who succeeded in cracking so
many safes in Peoria, ILL.,, has at last been
captured, and turns out to be the son Of a local
millionaire dIstiller.
The Ceylon pearl fishery, il appears,
was failure last year, the number Of pearl
oysters collected not more than covering the
cost OF obtaining them.
After living happily together for more
than 30 years, John Fraser and his wife Ma
tilda died Tuesday at their home in Brooklyn
within one hour of each other.
"A young bald eagle was recently found
by Mr.. Daniel Kuhn, of Wilmington township,
in field near his residence. It had not doffed
us pin feathers, and had been dropped by its
mother during flight.
Three brothers, who started in the boot
hus in hav
so well that one Of them has bought ont
cigar store and the other two are to embark in
the retail grocery business.
One of the strange sights in Storm
Lake, IA, window Is a cat with a combination
family Of kittens and young rats. The cat be-
slows the same motherly attention on the
young rodents that she does on her own off,
spring.
-Yuen Lung, Traver, Cal, Chinaman
of more than ordinary intelligence, had his cue
cut OF recently. and Sunday was baDtized in
the Christian faith by the Rev. Mr.. Hawkins
he has adopted the name of Charley del Zante
and runs the dining room of a Trayer hotel.
"A curious trap at the Patent Office is
an imitation rat that has a piece of toasted
cheese stuck on the end of little spear that
projects from his nose a short distance When
real rat comes up to nibbe at the cheese the
spear jumps out about six inches and impales
the unfortunate.
Last November a young girl was
locked up in the jail at Sunbury, Pa, on ac-
count of being an important witness in case,
as it was feared she would not otherwise be on
hand when wanted. The case was disposed OF,
but the girls imprisonment was forgotten until
she had been Illegally detained for four
months.
"A Marcellus, Mich, man wrote the
following self explanatory note to a school
teacher there the other day: "Mey the 8 1890
when my Bows are Staing away from School
have Work For them; and when They are dare
you Teach them, and when They to home,
that is non of your Bsness you hant rening My
Shenty Not by dem Side, at my home"
"A large Belgian poodle dog astonished
promenaders in the corridor of the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel. New York, the other night by stroll
ing lesurely up and down and putting with ap-
parently intense satisfaction at a small pipe,
winch ne held tightly in bis mouth. Max
Somerville, wealthy Philadelphian, bought
the animal in Paris several years ago.
"A photographer in New York, who
loaned an Italian boy his watch and chain to
wear while sitting for a picture. afterward
founu he had been too o6liging. for the custom
er ran off while the photographer was in the
darkroom developing the negative. He had q
tolerably good picture of the rascal however,
and through it the police succeededln arrest
ing the lad.
james Macarthur lived alone and abso-
utely denied himself the meager necessities
of life, in Grat1ot county. He wore rags. and
barely had sufficient to live on He died the
other day In his old cupboard was found a
deposit certificate for $500 and sum Of money.
His estate is easily estimated at S. coo, and no.
body knows of any heirs, and the old Scotch
man left no will. bad wife, divorced and
married again is largely responsible for this
bit of pathos.
Several weeks ago the schooner Helen
NJ. Tredick picked up a dead whale and towed
it into Portsmouth, N. H. The crew stripped
it of the blubber, towed the carcass out to sea
and set it adrift but the current drove il ashore
at Odiorne's Point Rye and now the Select
men of the town are trying to get rid of the
unwecome visitor by burning it. Several cords
of wood, barrels of kerosene and tons of hay
have been burned in the attempt, but the car
cass still remains
BY a new method of cemcnting iron the
parts cemented are SO effectually Joined az to
resist the blows even of a sledge hammer. The
cement is composed of equal parts Of sulphur
and white lead, with proportion of about one
sixth Of borax. When the composition is to be
applied 1t is wet with strong sulphuric acid,
and thin layer of It is placed between the two
pieces of iron, which are at once pressed to-
gether. In five days it Will be perfectly dry, all
traces of the cement having vanished. and the
work having every appearance of welding.
"A freak of lightning occurred at For
syth Ga. During the passage of a small cloud
which became fully charged with electricity a
bolt of the same entered the Western Union
telegraph wires and continued along them for
about 1000 yards. destroying q telegraph poles.
Every post save four, which were split open,
was literally shiVered into splnters and broken
into two pieces. At one point in its passage
along the wires the electricity jumped over 30
feet to a good-sized pine tree and streaked the
bark of it from top to bottom, and at another
point it jumped about the same distance to an
,ak tree two feet or more in diameter. splitting
he tree through the center and loosening the
park more than half round it
"A fox was discovered in the woods at
Walnut, Ga. The dogs gave it about two
,ours' chase when the fox returned to large
og lying in the woods. and was seen TO go right
N, making the chase three different times
)ne of the party decided to station himself at
he log in order to determine what the peculiar
.ctfons of the fox meant. Shortly after he had
AIKEN his stand he saw the fox coming. The
OK leaped into the large end of the log. Just
IS he Jumped into the log another fox was
cen to come out at the other end. And on ex-
animation the log was found to be entirely full
# foxes 10 in number. and when one would
ump in at one end he would punch out another,
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