Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The French have tried smokeless pow
der with the biggest guns successfully.
The sea serpent is on deck again. This
time it was of Connecticut, and his length was
over 100 feet.
Democratic citizens in several Missouri
towns are boycotting Republican postmasters,
hoping to force them to resign
The friction of millions of shoes has
worn the original smoothness from the flooring
of the Brooklyn bridge promenade.
"A London woman's club has developed
provide a separate room for smokers and also
billiard room.
On an average there are 35 more boys
than girls born in New York City every week.
On the average 50 more males than females de-
So the female population grows more rapidly
than the male.
Broken glass may become as useful as II
is bothersome. The British WGrehousernon
announces that process is now known which
will work glass into cloth Of any color or thick
ness, and incOmbuSttble.
Two Wiscasset, Me-, doctors recently
removed from the jaw of man in that town
eight teeth whose combined length was gL
inches. One cuspid measured over IL inches
one Of the longest on record.
-PhiIadelphia boys saturated q rag with
gasoline from the public lamps and by inhaling
it in their nostris became intoxicated. The
police detected them IN this new and novel
scheme of juvenile dissipation, and arrests have
followed
Antrim Worrillow, of Delaware county,
has been awarded s925 damages for injuries re-
ceived on the public road He was watching
couple Of bulls fighting when an overhangfng
limb caught his head and tore his hair out BY
the roots.
Last week q salmon weighing 16H
pounds was taken at Nashua, N. H., and one
weighing 291a pounds was caught in the lower
Connecticut. At Higganum, Conn, two large
shad were taken. one of which weighed 101<
pounds and measured % inches in length and
the other weighed 95s pounds and was 26 inches
long.
"A boy at Plainfeld, N. j., was at-
tackled BY a large eagle and severely lacerated
about the chest. Although much frightened.
he grasped the bird and choked it, and then.
throwing 1t on the ground, broke its wing by
jumping on 1t. The eagle was then secured
alive and afterWard exhibited In store win
dow.
There are fewer blondes, more brunettes,
and just as many auburn-haired girls and
women as there were ten years ago. says the
New York Sun. As the climate gets milder the
number of dark-haired persons increases, and
the change has been more marked by the fact
that most of the immigration has of late years
been from the southern countries of Europe.
"A Monson, Me-, man was quietly fish,
ing for suckers on the shore of pond the other
day when he was astonished to see a Dig fish
float along by him. Not being prepared for
such large game he pulled his line out and was
going to let it go by. The fish, however, prob
ably seeing the moving bait, made jump and
landed right at the mans feet 1t was pickerel
weighing 2H pounds.
The curious travelling stones OF Aus
| tralia are paralleled in Nevada. They are de-
scribed as being perfectly round, about as large
as walnut. and of an ivory nature. When dis
tributed about on the floor, table or any other
| level surface within two or three feet of each
other they Immediately begin travelling toward
each other until they meet at a common CEN
| ter and there lie huddled up in a bunch, like
eggs in nest.
"A rich Bostonian, Mr.. franklin W.
Smith, has built at Saratoga an exact COPY Of a
| Pompeian villa, his model being the famous
"House of Pansa." His intention has been to
build museum where the splendid decorative
| art Of the first century could be thoroughly
| studied, and where the environment of the
| great Roman mobiles could be illustrated from
| the lares and DenateS to the utensils of the
| kitchen.
Miss Alice Bunnell, a bright and at
tractiye young lady. is the census enumerator
| for Berkeley township. Ocean county, n. j. It
is said her work is better and more carefully
done than that of the male enumsrators. She
has been at work two weeks, doing part of it
foot and part of it in buggy. Because of the
ignorance of the people she has encountered
many obstacles, and only gets her information
by closely questioning them.
"A retired Detroit groceryman says the
most independent man earth is the one who
pays cash and runs no bills, especially where he
buys his provisions When he feels that he can
buy where he pleases and pay as he goes he
buys to better advantage every time and saves
money. If he runs no bill he is not liable to be
Some dealers consider it perfectly fair to make
up on paying accounts what may have been lost
| Oh bad ones.
A rich Australian widow, with an in
| come OF $4,000 year, is the fashionable SEN
| sation in London. Her story illustrates what
| can be got out of a silver mine in New South
| Wales. The lady's husband paid El20 for GER
| tain shares in this mine. When he died not
| long ago the shares were comparatively value
| less and he thought he was leaving his young
wife in destitution. Shortly after his death the
shares rose suddenly to price so marvellous
| that the widow sold one-half of her share for
| fl90OO0, and is now receiving f25,OO0 annually
| from the other.
In the town of Great Valley, in Catta-
raugus county, there is an interesting curiosity
known as the ''whistling WE'LL" About 45 years
| ago the well was dug by Colonel Wesley Flints
father to the depth of 45 feet, but no water ac-
cumulated. A strong current Of air was noticed
rushing into the well at times and at other
times rushing out of it. A fat stone with q 12<-
inch hole was fitted over the hole and a whistle
placed in il, which changed its tune as the air
was drawn up or down. The whistle proved a
reliable weather barometer. In settled weather
| the whistle was silent, but an approaching
| storm was heralded by warning shrek of the
whistle as the air rushed out of the well, but as
clear weather approached the current of air
changed and was drawn into the well and the
whistle changed and told its story by irs
changed tone.