Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

VUhlVUD CUNDEASAIlUASs
Many New York people who have
taste Tor icecream are trying the fad of eating
Boston brown bread with their cream.
"A luminous buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced by phosphuret
of calcium, and is visible TWO and half miles
away.
Electrically deposited copper is so
ductile that it can be drawn down until is
resembles the finest hair. and this, too, without
annealing.
Washington Hotel. at Vicksburg, Miss,
will employ white waiter girls when the weather
becomes cooler the first hotel in the South to
employ white female help.
"A Cairo bachelor, who, the ad. said.
was ''S7 years old, but rich," has received go
applications from ladies willing to be his wife
-and risk his dying pretty soon.
"A Young man in Findlay, O., whose
afianced died about year ago has now set all
the gossips there talking by eloping with the
girls mother-a woman almost 50 years old.
"A photographer in Klausenberg. Tran
sylyania, named Veresc, has succeeded in
pbotographing the shades OF color between
deep red and orange, but not yet to f1x them
permanently.
There appeared last week in the
obituary columns of the Public Ledger notices
of the deaths of q persons. Is men and D
women, who had lived to or beyond the ao-
vanced age of 80 years.
Some sheep ralsers tried to pasture
Montana recently, but the grass was doctored
with saltpetre one night, and 400 dead sheep
were found the next morning.
The Oxford County Advertisers Bethel
correspondent recently saw several leading citi.
zens of that town flying kites on the common,
among them being prominent physician and
Justice of the Supreme Bench.
"A young Englishwoman has just died
from an excess of tennis. She worked so hard
to prepare for tournament playing often in
the hot sun. that she brought on brain fever
and died. She raved about the game in her lass
hours.
1t is an instructive fact that during the
last month the United States imported S., 345-
$50 of gold in excess Of imports and imported
sS74,475 of silver in excess OF exports. This 10
making a good start toward exchanging our
gold for silver.
A huge lobster was caught by Mr..
Henry Dunbar in the bay, off the town Of
Penobscot It was "a inches long and weighed
Fl pounds. The guests at the Penobscot House
had the pleasure of discussing the lobster,
which was served soon after the catch.
"A man was brought to the hospital at
Eastburn. London, who had driven four nails
into his skill three or four inches deep. He
suffered from severe headache, and took that
means to cure it. The nails were extracted
with difficulty.
Ring the bell when you want the post
MASTER" is the motto in an Oxford county
posroffice. Having lots of other business to at
tend to, the postmaster has placed button at
tached to an electric bell by the side OF the do
livery window.
The amount of water the sun raises from
the earth is estimated at the enormous weight
Of 1000 000 600 tons minute; the quantity Of
coal required to produce heat in any way
equivalent to the sun is calculated to be II 0OO,-
000,U00 000, 900 tons.
Lawyer B. F. Hamilton, of Biddeford,
one day this week made remarkably long
writ. 1t contained an account annexed that
covered AZ sheets of long will paper. 1t took
one of the parties just a week to transcribe
this bill from his books.
An eagle and ram had a desperate
Tight near Port Jervis, N. Y, a few days ago.
The eagle attempted to carry on a lamb, when
the ram went to the rescue. The bird was
severely injured by a blow from the rams head,
and it was killed by the farmer, who was at
tracred to the spot.
"A planter in A1phsretta, Ca, has an
acre of cotton. every stalk of which is of deep
red color, leaf. boil and bloom. This novel crop
is the product of seed derived three years ago
from two stalks of red cotton found in cotton
field. There is fortune in this new variety II
it can be perpetuated.
The largest pair OF. shoes ever seen in
Dawson were received the other day by L. @.
Durham for a negro boy by the name of Aleck
White. The shoes were No. Is and weighed
pounds and ounces. White can never md
any shoes in stock that will it him, and always
has to put in a special order for them.
BY saturating bullets with 7aseline
they may be easily seen in their course from
the rifle TO the target. Their trajectory course
is marked by beautiful ring Of smoke, caused
by the vaseline being ignited on leaving the
muzzle Of the gun, the smoke being suspended
for some time in the air If not too windy.
-Philo Penfeld, of Shelby, when he went
into the war beardless boy, sent his best girl a
picture of himself, but 1t was lost. He recently
saw his name in a list of letters accumulated in
the dead letter office during the war. He sent
for the parcel, and to the now old man the
young picture brings food Of memories OF
other days.
Recent investigations in Indian prisons
have revealed a curious physiological condition
induced by thieves for the purpose of secreting
valuaDles. They allow heavy lead bullet to
slide down the throat, and keep it IN position
for half an hour at time. In about year
pouch is formed, into which anything small
may be thrust, without interfering with speech
or breath. AT present there are In Calcutta
jail 20 prisoners with these throatpouches.
1t NAV be news to some men who smoke
perfectos and Manuel Garcias at 20 cents
apiece to learn that the list price of the better
brands of Cuban stock runs up to $500 thou
sand. This means that they are so cents apiece
at wholesale. Now, with the duties paid and
the profits expected on article OF this kind,
they could not be sold for 81 straight, or about
s. 900 box. These cigars are bought by the
royal families of Europe. There's not mueh
market in America for cigars costing 81 each.