Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-30
CURIOUS CONDENSATlONS.

"A snake two feet long wriggled out of Q
mail box in Bridgeton. N. J., Monday.
| "A Kentucky mountaineer who sold his
| vote for 80 cents has been fined sl75 and dis
franchised,
"A bank in Springfield, Mass. received
for collection Saturday draft from Chicago
| upon large corporation for cents.
The phrase "Zenith City of the Unsalted
Seas" which made Proctor Knott and his
Duluth speech famous few years ago, isn't in
the speech at all.
Gloves with webs between the fingers
are recent invention. intended to aid SWIM
mers in getting better purchase on the water
than the bare hand gives.
One of the New York Census Superin-
tendents says that the women enumerators did
some splendid work. The men frequently got
tipsy, but the women always had their census
about them.
In Florida sugar cane grows luxuriantly
without fertilizing. and the average cost of
preparing and planting sugar crop there Is SO
per acre, as compared with SIS in Cuba and 81
in Louisiana.
1t is on record that the Vanderoilts
once gave a check for 10000 in a tremendous
railway transaction, but that record is now
beaten by the check for FL, 100000 said to be
9raWn In London by the Indian and PeninsulaR
An interesting fact just ascertained BY
Government observers is that at the extremi-
Ees OF Long Island Sound the tide begins to
now inward near the bottom one and one-haIf
hours before 1t begins to flow in the same di-
reetion at the surface of the water.
The new census report of religious
bodies in the United States shows that there are
1S4 sects, with 25 COO 900 members. The Method
ISIS number 5000 900; the Baptists, 100000; the
Roman Catholics 40O0 900; the Presbyterians,
SVooVVO, and the Episcopalians. 100000.
MAN wants but little here below" is
certainly the motto of some natives In India.
A man OF 40 being recently examined before
magistrate at Bangalore stated that he earned
ually quarter of an anna (about lZd) by bot
Ting ginger beer, and that he was quite salts
ned with his wages and position.
Covering bullets with vaseline enables
one to see them easily in their course from the
rlne to the target, it is said. Their trajectory
IS marked by beautiful ring of smoke Caused
by the vaseline being ignited in leaving the
mozzle Of the gun, the smoke for some time
being suspended in the air.
"A desperate horse thief in Maine, who
escaped from jail, has been captured by boys.
discovering him, they gave chase and cornered
him IN a deserted house. where one of the lads
drew toy pistol and fred several blank cart
ridges at him. The fellow then gave himself
up. A carriage was obtained and he was re-
turned to jail by the triumphant youngsters.
The total value of the imports and e1-
ports Of the United States IN the last fiscal
year was 81, ,647, ,192, Ola the highest figures ever
attained. The imports were S7S9 3S5, ,S55 IN
value, and the exports 1857, $50, ,159. The raw
cotton exports amounted to S25l. .OOO. 600. The
combined value of cattle. sheep and hogs ex-
ported was greater than ever before in a single
year.
There is an old eolored man in Sanders
vile who is known all over the county as
"Lum." He is nearly so years old and has been
blind almost all his life. He runs the printing
press for Washington county paper, and can
mend or arrange any part of the machine. He
can nnd anything as easily as IL his vision was
not affected. His full name is Christopher Col
umbus Choctaw Jordan, which he delights in
repeating.
Europe is soon to be entertained by .
troop Of Persian singers, wrestlers. boxers,
equestrians, conjurers and mountebanks to the
number of so, who will give performances of
kind never yet seen in the great capitals.
Most OF these gentry are bandItti, whose local
exploits as by artistic performances, but a Rus
sian impresario has banded them together, and
begins his rounds with them at Odessa.
The "Noon Rest" is the title of an in
stitutIon devised for the benefit of the business
women and girls of indianapolis by the Young
Women's Christian Temperance q nion. It lisa
SORE of woman's club. the rooms of which are
open each day from 10 A. NJ. to P. M, where
all young women who work in stores and shops
are invited to spend their noon hours. Tables
are provided for lunches, and milk, tea, coffee
and chocolate are served for cents per cup.
The Hastings Mill, at Victoria, is now
shipping three pieces of square timber, each of
which is go feet long by three feet square.
Each stick contains 4S0 feet, board measure.
and will weigh from u to 13 tons. The three
pieces are being loaded on two fat cars coupled
together, the sticks lying on four holsters, two
on each car-those on the extreme end being
fixed on q swivel and the center ones sliding,
SO that there will be no trouble in going round
sharp curves The tImbers are consigned to
Montreal, where they will be utilized as anchors
for large dredge.
The quantity Of meat thrown overheard
into the Atlantic is very great, says an English
paper. Out of lS5 cargoes of animals sent to
British ports in one year from Canada, consist
ing of g. O92 head of:cattle .SS2 sheep, and rs
pigs. 65S cattle, I,l70 sheep and pig were con-
signed to the deep during the voyage. OF the
432 cargoes imported from the United States TO
this country comprising l3S 66l head of CATTLE
303l7 sheep. and IL pigs, l,570 of the first and
S57 of the second class of this live stock was
thrown overheard during the voyage, thus
numbering 1856 animals which were pitched
into the sea for the year.
AN automatic Photographic machine
has been invented in England. The patron
after placing penny in the slot, takes his
stand in front of the lens and adjusts his
position by small looking glass placed above
1t He leans against a post placed few feet
in front Of the camera, and in about five Sec
onds the ringing Of bell announces the COM
pletion of his sitting. while 40 seconds subse-
Quently his photograph is delivered to him by
the machine, requiring only half minutes
exposure to the sun or lighted match to dry
or finish 1t. An additional half-penny placed
in slot produces frame for the photo.
Three goats were born in Cincinnati
few days ago. Two Of them are perfectly nat
ural, but the other is not so fortunate Its
body is natural except the head. which is
double. 1t has four eyes, two mouths. two
tongues. Its ears are set back further than
usual While all regularly formed goats have
no upper teeth-only hard gum-this one has
! set in the upper jaw OF each head, making It
have four sets of teeth. In the middle Of the
two heads there is one eye-socket with two
syeballs The mother actually disowns it, pays
no attention to it and seems to Re utterly OBJ
Iiyious to the fact that it is her offspring.