Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

In the Desert OF Sahara apparently IN
exhaustible veins Of water have been found in
artesian wells lately bored there.
A squash at Colfax, n. NJ, is under
guard day and night. It now measures eight
feet four inches around and is still growing.
Physical education has been suspended
in the New York public schools this year from
lack Of an appropriation necessary for the
purpose.
The fashion for men to wear wedding
rings is greatly on the increase in England.
Heretofore the English have professed to con-
sider IT an atfectation.
The champion butter.producing COW Of
the world is named Euratisamas. owned in
Massachusetts, and her record is 945 pounds and
9ounces OF butter in one year
Robert Ingraham, of Philadel phia, q
guest Of Captain Eicholtz at Gettysburg, found
a gold chain on that battlefield It was prob
ably dropped during the battle.
A column of army worms invaded
Woodbridge. Cal, recently. 1t was half mile
long and was followed by immense swarms of
blackbirds, which preyed upon them.
I'm a certain Maine town there is a dove
which regularly every Sunday during summer
flies into church, perches on the organ, and
listens to the music with much evident satisfac-
ton.
"A town in England, Skiddaw, Cumber-
land, stands unique as a township of one house
and one solitary male adult inhabitant. This
man is deprived of his vote because Of the fact
that are no oveTseers to make out voters list,
and no church or public building on which to
publish one. If made.
The men employed in the German fac
tories in which smokeless powder is manufacs-
ured have been provided with rubber masks
to protect them from the fumes thrown of by
The chemicals entering into the composition Of
the powder. Heretofore the men have suffered
greatly from this cause
"A Neosho, Kan, county farmer sent
this mixed order to Chanute merchant: "send
me.a sack Of flour, five pounds of COTE and one
pound of tee. My wife gave birth to big
baby boy last night, also fVe pounds Of corn
starch, a screwdriver and fytrap. 1t weighed
ten pounds and straw hat"
There is a country store in Arkansas
which is defended by spring-gun. The gun
has caused the death of seven different robbers
in the last four years. killing two at once one
night last week. The owner of the store Is out
in local paper advising the fraternity to
tackle something elsa stage or railroad train.
There is now in San Francisco vol
ume than which there are few more valuable
in the world. 1t is worth exactly $50, ,OOO 1t is
registry of the Whereabouts and identity of
5000 Chinese corpses in the city cemetery. all
of which have to be dug up and returned to
China in due time, while dislnterment per-
NIT costs $40.
There is mule down in Coffee county,
Ga. that has been running wild for several
months and still defes arrest He has been
driven into lot, but he will not let anybody
come near him. When person approaches
with a halter, the rambunctious animal stands
on his fore feet and circulates his hind feet all
around the horizon with the rapidity of a cy-
clone.
The oldest law suit on record was on
trial during the past spring and summer in the
highest Russian tribunal at St. Petersburg. It
was begun 500 years ago by the heirs of dead
nobleman against the city of Kamenes-P Podolsk
for the recovery OF large tract OF land which
the municipality had Incorporated within their
city limits. 1t is needless to say that decision
has not yet been reached.
The Rev. T. n. Blauvelt, of Roselle,
N. j., had narrow escape the other day. He
was sitting on lounge at his home with pencil
and pad jotIing down points for his Sunday
sermon. when a bolt of lightning struck the
side of the house. The glass in the windows
was shattered and piece of wood splintered
from the lounge on which he was sitting. Mr..
Blauvelt felt the shock. but was not injured.
The other day white man sat down on
the steps of a store near the court house in
Americas, Ga, and went to sleep. While
asleep he fell OF the steps and cut his head
quite badly. Strange to say. the man didn's
wake at ALL and he didn't know anything of his
injuries until patrolman woke him. An
artery was cut, and the man might have bled to
death had he kept on sleeping. The man was
not drunk.
Years ago in Japan there was q coin
called the monseng which was worth only
about one-two hundred and twenty-fourths OF
a penny. 1t was an iron piece. In England we
have had piece worth no more than quarter
Co. ar1A rnff TrNroo ia a
piece of one-third of farthing was also minted
in the reign of George ". and William ~. II
IN good condition, IL is now worth shilling as
a curiosity.
"A short courtship is reported from
Maine. Deacon Marvin, one of the early set
tiers of Buckheld, one day mounted his horse
with only a sheep skin for a saddle, he rode
in front of the house where Betty Lee
lived, and without dismounting, requested
Betty to come TO him. On her coming he told
her that the Lord had sent him there to marry
her. Betty. without much hesitation, replied,
THE Lords will be done"
The postal business in the London
House of Commons is something tremendous.
During the session which has Just closed 4I8
money orders were issued and paid. and 1921
postal orders Nearly 10000 kilograms were
received, and stamps exceeding the value of
Sic, 900 were sold. The daily average of letters
delivered at the House was 1000, and the
der that public business progresses SO slowly.
There are but two words in the whole
range of the English language containing all Of
the vowels in their regular order. They are ab-
stemious and facetious- The following words
each have them IN irregular orGer: Authorita-
tive, disadvantageous, encouraging. eficacious,
imporiunate, mendacious, nefa-
rious, precarious, pertnacous, sacrilegious,
tenacious, unintentional, OBJ
jectionable, unequivocal, undiscoverable and
vexatious A short search through the die
Iionary might bring several others TO light
Almost in the exact geographical center
Of Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite
iron ORE with 900 feet OF it above ground more
than a mile wide, and over two miles in length.
Besides the iron the mountain contains bed
Of Ignite coal large enough to warm the entire
world for century, a dozen Of dried-up lakes
Of soda. where the soda is deposited TO depth
IF over 800 feet some of the lakes being over
700 acres in extent. In mountain adjoining
here is a petroleum basin larger than those of
PENNSYLVANIA and West Virginia combined.
Out of some of the springs pure rectified coal
ii, is triekling at the rate Of 20 TO 30 barrels per
lay.