Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

1t takes two men two hours to wind the
large clock in the steeple of Trinity Church,
Now York City.
An apple tree in Butler county, Kan,
has produced two crops of apples this season.
and is in bloom for the third time.
The Sutlei large river in British
India, with descent of Il 900 feet in $50 miles,
Is the fastest flowing river IN the world.
"A lover of Literature objects to adver-
tisements in street cars, and wants to see the
panels ornamented with quotations from the
Dest authors.
"A bereaved husband in North Carlina
put the touching inscription on his departed
wires tombstone, "a little while" In a "littIe
"nne -three weeks-he married again.
An Iowa court has decided that a me-
falls. but the decision is dispnteo- and case in
point Will De taken to the State Supreme Court.
-The Potsdam Sporting Club has Just
come In from an annual squirrel hunt. One
member OF the club killed 755 sunirrels. another
$500. 0-~--
"A perfect opal, with a movable drop in
the center. was found in California recently.
A negro at the Kimberly, South Africa. dia-
mond mines found diamond of the same char
acter in 1888.
COuuIJJ Ald, mas q lZ-year-
old negro girl who has been gradually turning
white for the past five years. The doctors say
she has lucoDathia, an acquired non-hereditary
skin disease.
There Is good-sized pumpkin hanging
IN vine which runs up the side of brick
louse in West Twenty-fourth street, New
ork. 1t can be seen from the down trains of
ne Ninth avenue elevated as they approach
1"enty-third street. looking westward
The whaling schooner Era, the only
vessel engaged in the pursuit of the leViathans
OF The deep from New London, Conn.,, at the
present time. arrived there last week from
Cumberland Inlet, Hudson Bay, with 44OO
pounds OF bone and $50 barrels of oil as her
carp.
"A Tunnel Hill, Ga, woman gave birth
to s'n that weighed just one and rhree-quarter
pounts. The child was perfectly formed, but
Its nngers were no larger than broom straws
ana II nose no larger than a wart. The infant
looked sprightly and intelligent but only lived
three Ays.
-Ths wire rope used in the tunnel at
Glasgow Scotland. is the largest and longest
wire caoe in the world. 1t was made at Car
dl1. Waes, in 1885, and IS 2,4G0 fathoms in
Iengtn, tr about miles and los yards 8
Welghs Il tons and has nearly 100, 900 fathoms
Oh wire lntts makeup.
The acients placed an immense value
on their gems. The pearl given to Servilla by
julius CesIr was valued at S24 900; the gems
on the scab1ard of Mithridates were valued at
~, ,o6O; the value of the pearl swallowed by
Cleopatra isplaced at $500 the gems worn
by Lolita faullna, wife of Calligula. were
valued at s., 10000.
Smoking is so common in Japan that
all of the mel and most OF the ladies smoke,
the girls beginning when they are about 10
years of age. The ladies have pipes with
m nUa of her
wishes to show Gentleman special mark of
favor, she lights her pipe, takes a Whit, hands
it to him, and let's him smoke.
Baron James Rothsehild, of London.
has adorned his driving room with the most
superb electrolier Gver made. IL Is composed
of gilt bronze androck crystal in a design of
the time of Louis wi. 6S electric lights being
This unique illumhator is about feet high by
70 inches IN diameter, and cost 81, 600.
Did you ever think of how much space
the people who de every year require for
decent burial? If pne could be content with a
grave but 2x6 feet. 1880 bodies could be inferred
III one acre of ground, allowing nothing for
walks, monuments roads, etc. On this crowded
plan London's annual dead. numbering about
sl,OOO, would NIL cemetery of about q acres
In an Episcopal church near Boston
the other Sunday alady in passing up the aisle
caught her dress on corner of pew and tore
it. As the process If tearing was very audible
to the congregation, the feelings of the lady
may be imagined, when at that moment the
clergyman began tie service by reading the
sentence, "Rend yotr heart and not your gar
ment5."
"A pet kitten was found dead at Hood
river Ore, and exahination showed that
lizard was fast in TIN Kittens throat, its tail
and hind legs being in vigorous motion in an
effort to free itself. 1t is imposed the kitten
caught the little saurian, which in its effort to
escape made a dart down the kittens throat
but that being too small foIit the strangling of
both kitten and lizard resulted.
Near Clifford station, on the Staten
Island Railroad. there is a peculiar piece Of
woodland. spot where theroots of the trees
all attach themselves to the trunks at from
four to six feet above the level of the ground,
giving to the stumps an odd, spidery appear
ance. The soil of the vicinity is very porous,
banyanlike grove has been formed by the
action of frost and water.
"A fire was caused in a singular way the
other day in Highland Park, opposite New
Brunswick, N. j. The handsome country resi-
dence of Peter Zimmerman was discovered to
be on fire. The flames were first Ieen in 4 bay
window at the east end of the thirl story hall.
where the sun was shining in. 1t is concluded
that the fire was started by dinpe in the
window glass contracting the suns rays. The
flames were quickly extinguished by using
water from the tank on the roof.
An extraordinary story of cannibalism
comes from Zanzibar. A love match had been
made between couple Of young Swahilis. and
on the day following that of the marriage the
bridegrOom's friends came to offer the custom
ary congratulations. They experienced some
dificultysin getting into the hut, and at last
forced an entrance, when they found that the
bride of day had killed her beloved lord, had
already had one feas; off his body and was pre-
parlng the remainder for future use.
Prairie dogs. t appears from recent
letter by DR.. Wilder, lack the sense Of dis
tance At Cornell University several of them
walked off chairs. tables and window sills un-
This is thought TO be due to the
nature of their unusual habitat, plain, with
no sharper Unequal ties than burrows and
One adult female seemed to have
wonderful immunity from the evil effects of
falls; it once fell from the top of an elevator q
feet high, and another time from window
sill about as high, on granite pavement, huE