Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The oldest native of Oregon is 46 years
Of age.
Georgia has 800 lifetime prisoners in
the pepitentiary.
"A thriving mining camp in California
Is named GimletYille.
Seven couples were married in the lit
tie town of Carbondale day or two ago.
"A machine for making shoestrings out
OF paper is recent Philadelphia invention.
"A fir tree was cut IN Washington State
that scaled 2O,5OO feet. The top log was not
An oetogenarian at MaysYille, o., has
Just taken his seventh wife-a woman 30 years
his junior.
"A Pomeroy, o., woman gave birth to
tripleis, two boys and girl, wednesday night.
The combined weight of the three is 1s1f
pounds.
"A new sort Of "taffy" pavement is being
laid on the boulevard Anspach, Brussels. 1t is
composed of India rubber and ground stones
of various kinds.
The engineer on a locomotive near
Green Cove Spring Fla, last week, caught two
partridges in mis- hands out of a covey while
flying through the cab.
Mary r. Tennis was granted divorce
at Columbus. o., Wednesday. When the petit
ton was granted she kissed all the ladies in az
tendance and her attorney.
Some of the small boys in Phoenix, ArIz.,
have made considerable pocket money by col
lecting large scorpions, centipedes and rattle
snakes, which they pickle and sell to tourists.
The curator of the Brooklyn Institute
told reporter the other day that one beauti-
full butterfly in the collection of the institute is
valued at 81 900, that sum having recently been
paid for duplicate.
"A negro living at Newman, Ga, is go
years of age, has had three wives, is the father
of Al children and has nearly 400 grand and
greatgrandchildren. He is capable of doing
fair days work on the farm.
"A doctor and an undertaken heard of
man who was hurt near Menominee and rode
to the scene of the accident in the same rig.
the former taking his pill box and the latter his
coffin. The doctor got the JOB.
The miracle working wells of Galgoeze,
in the district of Pressburg, Hungary, are at
tracing many thousands of pilgrims from
the surrounding coun ries that the authorities
have been forced TO call in the military to keep
order.
-Kllgore is strapping big fellow, but
he has the smallest foot in Congress-smaller
even than that of Joe Blackburn, whose dapper
feet Kentucky ladies are said to travel miles to
see. The largest foot in Congress is carried
around by Speaker Reed.
"A school girl coming home to report
having won two prizes, says the Cincinnati
CoDlne cIGL, remarked that one of them was
for having the best memory. Being asked what
the other prize was for, she replied: ''FOr the
life OF me, can't just now THINK what that
was for"
-Nine-tenths of the raisins sold in this
country are made in California, and yet Cali
fornia raisinmakers ship all their best goods to
New YORK and have them boxed and marked
as if they came from Spain. They claim that
the public looks with more favor on imported
raisins, and for this reason they are obliged to
go TO all this trouble.
"A burglar got fast in the window of
house occupied by John Roach, of Paterson.
John is moralist and he dressed himself and
sat down on a chair and talked to that burglar
for two long hours without break. Then the
burglar asked to be either Knocked the
head or let go,and MI. Roach talked to him one
hour longer and then suffered him to depart
-Postofice Inspector Puleifer is hunting
up postoffice relics for the museum at W ash
ington. He states that posrmaster's commits
sion was found at Green Bay which was dated
in the year 1918, and another in the year 1928
Green Bay is making an effort to take the lead
IN postoffice relics for Wisconsin. and has a
good chance to do so, having about the oldest
history OF any town in Wisconsin.
Out at the Folsom Prison, Oregon, there
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aeteristic, which consists in an earnest desire
to eat all the red and green peppers he can get
hold of. The animal behaves just like any
other horse except in the particular matter
above. He Is q good worker and tame and
manageable. How he acquired the love for
peppers is matter of conjecture.
The old New York Marble Cemetery on
Second street, between First and Secc7d ave-
nues, New York, is notable as containing not
single grave. The ground was filed uP from
the beginning with sunken stone vaults, in
which the dead are placed. These vaults have
a thin covering of soil thrown over them,
which is now laid out in grassy plots and walks.
Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame, is buried in
this cemetery.
--Alvan Clark is now constructing tele-
scope for Los Angeles observatory that will
bring the moon within an apparent distance of
100 miles from the observer. 1t is expected
that when this telescope is finished, the ques-
tion whether there are any inhabitants ON the
moon will be definitely settled, and also
whether the supposed inhabitants of the planet
Mars are slgnalIlng 10 US oy means OF certain
lights which astronomers have noticed on that
planet
Charles Damon, Lansing. Mich, car
penter, contracted to build 4 S955 house for g.
C. Watson, for which he was to pay 80 per cent
before the completion of the house. Watson
did not hive up to his agreement. Damon was
no chump, and instead of wasting his money on
q lawyer ne quietly JdCkeu THAI uOuSS up LOt
moving late Saturday night, and when the
peaceful Sabbath morn dawned that house oc-
eupied another lot. Watson is mad, but this
won't bring back tine house
While working in his sawmill at Plaas-
ant HILL Lane county. Ore, H. NJ. KeIley's
left hand was caught in machine and was
chopped to pieces. His men bound his arm
tightly below the shoulder and sent for doctor.
1t was seven hours before one came, and by
this time the arm was terribly swollen from
being too tightly bound. The arm was ampu-
tated at the wrist, but circulation could be
restored and the blood that collected in the
arm was poisoned, and when carried into the
system brought on lockjaw, which proved fatal
"A system has been invented by an officer
of the United States navy by Will ch stringed
musical instruments can be operated by cleo
tricity. He produces sound by the vibration of
a stretched wire in magnetic held. An
alternating current is passed through the wire,
and yibratir ms are set up and eontinue so long
as the current flows. The best results are
rained where the current is made and broken
uneyenIy, as by rubbing terminal over coarse
file. The inventor proposes to apply his in
yention in an electrical piano, and also in .
system of multiple telegraphy