Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

crane in memory of deceased director of the
gas company.
"A vein of copper ore, supposed also to
contain gold, has been discovered by pros
pector about II miles southeast OF Pilot Rock,
| Ore.
The returns of the pensioned veterans
who fought under the great Napoleon, who
now receive $50 year. put their number at III
instead OF $50 as in 1883
Within the past week the Sheriff of At
iantic county, N. j., has sold 200 farms to fore
close mortgages. and over 40 families have been
eVlcted and are without homes and shelter.
AN Americus, Ga, negro is starving
himself to death after three efforts to kill him.
self by poisoning. all because his affections have
bert.
WINE IS now transported in Europe In
tank cars just as petroleum is here. One car
recently carried 5000 gallons from Italy to Ber-
lin, and the contents were received in good
condition.
There is now on exhibition at the Thir d
National Bank in Scranton a check bearing
the signature of George Washington. 1t was
drawn just three months and one day before
his death.
While fire alarm pole was being sunk
into the ground at Macon Friday it went into a
grave that had evidently been the remany long
years, as nothing was found save the remnants
of coffin.
"A young lady who was recently ad-
mitted to the Massachusetts, bar secured a
client. and last week married him. She is now
going to apply for admission to practice before
the United States Supreme Court.
The English Postal Department is ad-
vertising for bids for the carrying of the mails
by coaches between London and several nearby
places The coaches are to run only at night
and TO take the mails which now go by train.
"A woman, Miss Jessie Carson, drives
the stage between Usage and Park Rapids,
Mlnn. She has done it for years-making three
trips week-summer and winter, and often
with the thermometer down to 40 degrees be-
low Zero
"A factory for condensing milk and coffee
has been built at Buena Park, Cal 1t was
started up tor business last Wednesday and
was inspected by many visitors. When in full
operation 1t will use the milk of $500 cows
every day. The plant cost $4,000.
Matilda Louise Shumack, Is years old,
died at st. John. N. B., from an electric shock
While at the Salvation Army barracks she
touched an electric lamp with an iron poker,
and at the same time she unconsciously caught
an iron post, thus completing the circuit.
The construction of the pillars and
foundations. of the great Forth bridge con-
sumed q 900 ton: of cement and 707, 600 cubic
feet of granite. The total amount of resulting
masonry is Iii, 900 cubic yards. The weight Of
the steel in the bridge proper is 5l,oOO tons.
"A new museum will soon be started in
Paris, to be known as the Museum of the
French Army and to comprise ancient uni
FORMS equipments, arms and everything relat-
ing to the history of French regiments. An
enormous amount of material has already been
secured.
-One-seventh of the coal mined is lost
from being broken up too finely to be burned
with profit, A prominent railroad company is
now mixing the dust with pitch, and compress
ing 1t into blocks that burn like hard coal, with
the advantage that they are entirely consumed
to ashes and leave no clinkers.
MIR. Jacobs, of West Chester, Pa,
weighs 800 pounds and his wife tips the beam at
275. There are eight children in the family and
each weighs over 200 pounds. Mr.. Jacobs
mother was a very weIghty lady, weighing over
800 pounds. Combined, the weight of the FAM
lily Is considerably over 200 pounds
There is a very curious stone about
which very little is ever heard 1t is called the
"Alexandrite," in honor of Alexander of
Russia, who was very fond of them. In the
daytime they resemble an emerald, except that
they are somewhat darker, but at night they
are deep purplish red They are found in
India, and, like all rare stones, vary much in
their qualities.
rnn out is stranded on the beych opposite the
mouth OF the Banana river, near Melbourne,
Fla. His length over all is 45 feet and inches;
beam about 10 feet; breadth of tail, 10 feet
inches; length of jaw. 9 feet inches The i'm
mense carcass is the center of attraction Just
now, but it bids fair soon to be noted more for
its power of repulsion than of attraction.
The District Attorney of Georgia says
that moonshiners make broad distinction be-
tween perjury in the State courts and perjury
in the Federal courts. They perjure them
selves outrageously IN the latter tribunals and
think nothing of it. They consider it their
privilege to beat the Government if they can.
fair means or foul. These same people can
not be induced to perjure themselves in State
court.
"A new yentilator car has been col
structed for the transportation of bananas and
other perishable fruit. The car has small win
dows, with slat shutters in the front. rear and
sides. On the inside of the windows are the
iron slides to slide over the windows should the
draught caused by the moving train be more
than Is required. inside the car movable
open-work shelves are placed 40 that twice as
many punches of bananas can be packed in the
car as in the ordinary freight cars.
"A Scotch baker named Cameron, in
Melbourne. had a strike in his shop, and when
his delivery wagon went out it was followed by
buggy containing pickets Of the strikers, who
endeaVored TO induce the men in the wagon to
quit WOTk. cameron nlr6u aDOlner buggy and
drove along behind the pickets with gun
across his knees. Whenever the pickets at
tempted to talk to his men on the delivery
wagon he jumped down and threatened to
shoot He succeeded in making the pickets
abandon their work, but he has Deen summoned
to appear in court for intimidation with armed
weapons.
An automatic nickel-in-the-slot photo
graphing machine has been invented. The
person who wishes to be photographed stands
in front of the machine, at distance OF about
Ok feet and looks steadily into the lens
for the space of five seconds. The sound OF a
ponr informs him when the operation is over.
The interior machinery then passes the tin
plate on which the likeness is taken through
chemical bath in order to develop the picture,
ana another to secure its permanence, and
finally tsrough water bath, where it is
washed In less than so seconds the finished
portrait is elected
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.
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