Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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| The electric spark has been photo
graphed by means of special camera. in
which the sensitive plate rotated 25OO times q
| minute.
The Cunard Steamship Company em-
ploys not less than 10000 men, and during the
past "A years has lost neither vessel nor life
| through accident.
! -Forty-one years ago G. Longfellow, a
druggist at Machias. issued an advertisement
of his business in the first issue of the local
paper. 1t has appeared in every issue since,
and Longfellow has been prosperous.
Edward Treusch, aged 60 years, who
sold pocketbooks at a little stand in Chicago,
| dropped dead yesterday of heart disease. Sown
up in his underclothing we're found 81 600 anda
deed for the house In which he lived
Lightning struck the Cathedral of the
Holy Cross in Boston recently, detaching three
large granite blocks. one of which weighed 500
pounds, and which fell l25 feet to the sidewalk
below. Fortu nately no one was injured.
Some of the farmers in Greenbush are
using oxen in the place of horses to do their
haying with. A few days ago one was seen in a
horse rake, and last week man had yoke OF
oxen hitched to moving machine and was
moving with them.s
An event has happened IN Kensington,
N. H., which has set the inhabitants wild with
S>ShsSHCh@ AnO uNob uOuSo u Uc Dullb III
place for 30 years is approaching completion,
and grand celebration is expected when the
| inmates take possession.
-Delbert Reynolds, a pretty young girl
Of San Rafael, Cal, who has worn mems
clothes an driven spr1nkling cart and ex-
press wagon, was married at Olema, Cal, to
| Sherbrook Hartman. She wore mems clothes
| In order to earn money to support her mother.
1t is not generally known that the orig
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| line between elaware and Maryland, and has
been attached to Pennsylvania for judicial pur-
| poses 1t Is triangular strip for which there
was no provision made in the surveys of Mason
| and Dixon.
General Booth has taken steps to stop
smoking in the Salvation Army. He has issued
an edict announcing that no member who
| smokes shall receive a promotion, and that
sergeants, bandsmen. sergeant5major, secre-
| taries and treasurers must resign office or give
| up smoking.
AN English scientific person has dis
! covered that sitting down is an acquired habit.
| The majority of mankind do not sit but simply
| squat or. as it is sometimes said, sit on their
heels. This position. the scientific person
thinks, is the natural one, while sitting on a
chair is an artificial one.
"A few miles from the eastern shore of
Florida, nearly opposite Matanzas a large
ance. So large is this spring that Lieutenant
Maury took his little coast survey steamer on
top OF "the boiP' and it was quickly swept to
one side by the boiling spring,
The ways of auetioneeys in different
parts of the world vary greatly. In England
and America the seller bears the expense of
| the sale, but in France the purchaser bears the
cost, per cent being added to his purchase.
| In Holland it is still worse, the buyer being
required to pay 10 per cent additional for the
| expenses of the sale.
Fifteen Indians sold lot of buckle
berries at Saginaw the other day, blew In
nearly all the money they received for fire.
water, and then entertained the passengers
at the Michigan Central depot with Verjtable
war dance. The improvident braves had barely
enough money left TO buy railroad tickets to
their up-country homes.
| "A peculiar freak OF nature was discoy-
cred at Palmyra a few days ago. A farmers
wife brought in from the poultry yard large
| hens egg On examination it was found to
contain well-deyeloped yOIk and white. to-
| gether with well-formed egg of smaller d.
| mensions, the size of a guinea's egg with
shell as solid as tine outer one.
Josiah WardelI, an Ohio farmer, has
the champion egg-laying duck. She began
| operations some time in February and by strict
attention to business she has made a record
that entities her to a red card. Op to last week
| SQo naQ lalQ Ill eggs. just now She is en1OV1Dp
a well-earned vacation, but there is no telling
| how soon she will get tired of loafng and settle
down to work again.
While prospecting for borax recently in
Salt Well Valley. CAL, DIR. " oodin found some
petrided bones of an extinct animal. The ball
part of the hip joint is nearly as large as the
crown Of derby hat The corresponding hone
OF an OK is about the size of a hens egg. The
SIZE OF the extinct animal may be inferred from
this comparison. Other parts Of the skeleton
| OF the same animal were found
Among the examination papers recently
| submitted by candidates in San Bernardino
county were the following answers: Seattle is
on the west coast of Africa" Seattle is in the
southern part of France:' "The towns of San
Bernardino county are: San Francisco Oak
land. San Jose, San Rafael and Sacramento
Another gem: The Gulf Stream is a cool,
moist breeze that helps to cool the air."
Among the exhibits in the Edinburgh
International Exhibition are some beautiful
spoils of the sea. One of these specimen OF
sponge. is particularly interesting 1t was
dredged from 1,9OO fathoms in the Indian
Ocean, and consists Of the root or anchor by
which the sponge fastened itself to the bed Of
Ine ocean. II Is 2S inches long, and it is be-
HeVed TO De tne longest specimen hitherto Sc
cured.
AN Augusta. Me-. gentleman is the
owner of dog that is very cute. He has a
rival in that of a mate. Though larger and
able to monopolize the most toothsome bone is
withal possessed of a very excitable temper for
game. When he finds and proceeds to MUNICH
his bone to the exclusion of all others. the
former canine goes a short distance, barkS
furiously up a tree or by hole in the ground.
When his monopolistic friend finally becomes
SO excited as to leave his bone and Join the
hunt for supposed game the former rushes
back, seizes the bone thus left. and skurries
away with it.
Two young electricians were disputiug
as they rode on an Albany. N. Y. motor car
the other day as to whether they were in an
electric field or not. The argus says that one
strenuously insisted that no electric current
passed through the car. and urged that all the
fluid went underneath the floor. II will prove
it otherwise" replied the other. as he drew
bunch of keys from his pocket. Tossing his
keys on the floor he nodded to his friend to
pick them up. He did so, but found a per-
ceptible resistance. Another part of the floor
was tried, and it was clearly shown that a
strong electric current was passing through
the floor. well, f" he remarked as he handed
the Keys back to his friend and removed his
watch to his upper pocket and bustoned his
coat, II believe 1t nOw."
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