Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


city in April.
Apples are selling for cents a pound
at Vancouver. Wash, while ''spuds" can be had
for 81 a bushel.
Harrisburg cars were running back
ward few days ago. the turntaDle In thestrees
having been frozen up.
"A new borax deposit was found recently
20 miles from Independence. Inyo county, Col.
The lucky finders took $50 tons from less than
three acres of the marsh.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
pany use only Mojave Indians as section hands
and in ordinary construction Work. They are
much better than Chinese.
Hydraulic power at pressure of $50
pounds to the square inch is now conveyed
about beneath the streets of London as steam
is conveyed in this country.
Michigan has population of about q
S SOo OO0 and mortgage debt of 500, 0o00 goo In
lS1O the State had population of 1,35O,OOO and
mortgage debt of S72,OO0,OO0-
Fifteen thousand people in the Rogue
River Valley, Ore, have been without letters
or papers for the past month, and they may not
get any Tor the next six weeks.
"A 3-year-old child walked off rapidly
moving train near Elkhart Ind, day OF two
ago; and, strange to say, when the train ran
PACK the little one was found standing in the
nludIe Oh the track uninjured, except for .
sisht scratch on one ear.
The Yreka, Ore, Union office ran short
OF wnlte paper during the recent snow blockade
put IL came out regularly every week One
issue was on purple paper another was printed
on light buff wrapping, while the next showed
up on regular Manila such as Is used in gro
Gerry stores.
j. w. Nance, Texan, advertised that
he would be at Murfreesboro, Tenn. one dav
last week, to buy all the hens he could get ar
% cents apiece. He came along in a poultry
car capable of holding 5,OOO and he had to
telegraph for another as there were 10 OO0
pullets waiting for him.
The oldest lawsuit on record, perhaps. ia
one now being tried in the highest Russian
Court at st. Petersburg. 1t was brought 500
years ago,against the city of Kamanez-P Podolsk.
by the heirs of a dead nobleman, to recover
many thousand acres of his estate which had
been confiscated by the municipality The
written testimony is said to weigh As tons.
On the Willamette river, near Dundee,
Ore. in 1851, man chopped a notch in tree at
high water mark, and since then thousands of
people have said they didn't believe the water
some of them saw the waves running over that
very spot on the tree. So it is said. 1t is in
order now to ask whether or not that tree has
grown any since 1861?
After a delay of nearly five years the
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
have received their firman granting permission
to excayate on a site previously approved by
the Porte. 1t is understood that all objects
Except duplicateS) found in the course of the
excavations shall be forwarded to the museum
at Constantinople; but that the committees
agents shall have the right of making squeezes,
sketches, models, photographs, and copies Of
all such objects
A =.
awaited at the church the arrival of bridal
party. After long delay the bridegroom's
friends went to the house of the bride to see
why she did not come. They were warned off,
and found that the brides parents. being Op-
posed to the match, had, after she was dressed
for the ceremony locked her in her room while
one of the family mounted guard at the door
and threatened to shoot anyone who ap-
preached. The wedding was postponed
"A young woman in Waterbury, Conn.,,
attributes her loss of sight to coal gas which
escaped from a stove in her bedroom during
the night. Before retiring she removed the
lids from the stove and the next morning she
awoke with the sight of the right eye much
dimmed. AS the day wore on the sight got
weaker, and at P. N. it disappeared entirely.
Then the left eye began to grow weak in
sympathy. Physicians were summoned, but
they were poweriess to check the departing
power of the eye give the suffering girl relief
in any way. 1t is feared that the young womans
sight is lost forever.
DIR. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, in a
lecture before the Geografske Selskab at
Christiania. explaining his plans for a North
Pole expedition, advocated the employment of
4 ship built with special view to strength, and
having its sides constructed at such an angle
that instead of being crushed by the ice the
vessel will be raised by it. The route proposed
by DR.. Nansen is through the Behring Straits,
where advantage is to be taken of the favorable
current to carry the vessel nOrthward and thus
attempt to reach the New Siberian Islands as
soon as possible. Here the vessel would enter
the ice foes and would proceed toward the
North Pole, in which direction the currens
would probably carry it.
The discovery of lode of uranium at
the Union mines, Cornwall. was announced sew
eral months ago. This is believed to be the only
known lode of that metal in the world, as it
had previously been found only in isolated
pockets and patches. Since the discovery was
made steps have been taken to develop the lode
and to work the mine. Experimental works
for procuring the metal from the ore were fitted
up in London, and there the ore has been sub
mitted to treatment in order to determine the
best and most economical method of extrac-
ton. The market price of the metal is about
10000 per ton. 1t is proposed to substitute it
for gold in electrOplatng. and 1t is also expect
ID to prove useful in electric light installations.
There has been terrific fuss at Con-
tantln0ple IN consequence OF German pho
ographer having rashly attempted to take an
photograph of the Sultan as His
Majesty was proceeding on horseback to the
Mosque. The guard rushed upon him, smashed
III his instruments and dragged him off to
Prison. The Koran forbids the depicting of the
luman form, and his attempt to photograph
he Sultan was regarded as high treason Of a
peculiarly diabolical kind. If he had not been
foreigner he would probably have been quiet
y strangled, or otherwise got rid of; but,
hanks to the energetic Intervention of his
ambassador, he was released after months
on condition that he quit Turkey
{ once and forever.
The Battle of Flowers, sort of carni-
al celebration. took place at Nice Just before
4ent began. The occupants of more than 200
arriages pelted each other and the bystanders
With flowers. Minnie Hauk had 1000 bouquets
n and upon her carriage. Colonel North, the
Nitrate King" was also conspicuous in the
,arade. After it was over there was found on
lonely road Just outside the town the dead
,ody of man costumed as PierrOt, who had
zen stabbed to death. Not far away lay two
'ierrot costumes and hat II is supposed
hat the dead man had been one Of the
nasquers in the parade, and that he was either
nurdered for money or that he fell In duel
gith some of his fellow merry-makers His
1entity Is unknown.