Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The hop crop of Oregon for 1890 is esti-
mated at 1000 bales.
-Sanilac county, Mich, has frstclass
/ jail, but it is without an occupant.
| AN orange measuring foot in circum-
ference has been found in Starke, Fla
"A new daily paper has been started at
Cloverdale, KY, called The Dairy Girl
Some 60 convicts are now working on
the tunnel through Pigeon Mountain, Georgia.
"A Calhoun, Ca, man has chair which
he claims is lis years old, and has its original
| bottom.
The police authorities of Atlanta are
being sued for damages by the owner Of 3
gaming house, whose tools of trade were
burnt after raid in 1882
"A miller at Oothcaloga, Ga, found the
wheels in the mill clogged so that they would
the wheels turned once more.
A box of Italian rabbits has been re.
ceivsd in Palatka, Fla. The animals are noted
for the length of their ears, some of them
measuring Is inches from tip to tip.
Two horses were drawing an express
wagon in Seattle, when they touched an else-
tr1c wire that had fallen across the street.
Both animals were instantly killed.
Miss Lou Cochrane, compositor at
Oregon City, successfully manipulates an en-
gine that runs the presses, and thoroughly un-
derstands the workings of the machinery to the
minutest detail.
Money deposited in a ''cooler" in G. T.
Fields market, at Shelton, Conn, disappeared
one day last week. but was found in a hole in
the ceiling, where rats had arranged iI for
soft but expensive nest.
In Russia there are 494, 228, $40 acres of
f0raats. in T1Qf Il fr.
Sweden, AZ, 100000 acres; in France, 22.24l. 600
acres; in Spain, 19 769, 900 acres; in Italy SS4-
572 acres; and in England, AZ, 900 acres.
ID. H. McCarty, of Lexington has dog
which not only trees the 'possums, but climbs
the trees and brings them down. He was seen
to do the like few nights since, having
climbed 20 feet from the ground up a straight
sapling1
There are more public holidays in
Honolulu than in any other city in the world
Among the days observed are Queen Vfctoria's
birthday, Coronation Day. all the French and
Portuguese holidays, the American Thanks
giving Day and the Chinese New Year.
Sammy BrazeIton was caught in one of
his own bear-traps at Trafton, Cal and while
waiting for assistance nearly STAYED to death.
Postmaster Esterbrook happened along how
ever, as Sammy about to FAINT from
hunger, and released him from his unfortunate
predicament
Gin Non, Chinese merchant of River
side, Cal, is about to return to China to secure
himself wife, and, in order to be allowed to
land upon his return, he has drawn up a certif-
cate setting forth who he is, and had his photo
graph pasted on the same sheet, and had the
different county officials sign the document.
On plantation nine miles from Savan-
nah. Ga, a monster rattlesnake was killed last
week. 1t had charmed a cat, and when the
snake was hit with billet of wood the cat
sprang into the air as though released from
enthrallment. The snake was shot. It
measured feet ana had z rattles and a button.
"A three hours drive with a snake was
taken recently by a lady In Ceylon. On getting
out Of her carriage she moved the cushions to
find something which had slipped down, and to
her horror discovered hugh cobra coiled up
underneath. Had not the creature been in q
semi-torpid condition she could not have
escaped alive.
The street car conductors and police use
the same kind of whistles in Bay City Mich,
and it creates more fun than barrel of mon
keys. Every few hours a whistle will sound
and copper start on a run in the direction of
the sound, only to learn that some conductor
has been starting the car. It's fun for the
street car folk, but death to the police.
The remains of the Swedish chemist,
Edward Sandstrom, which are said to have
turned to stone after being embalmed in an
q
been taken to Sweden. His young wife, who
came all the way across the Atlantic to take
his body home. followed it on its way thither
Wednesday. The strange corpse will be in-
TERED at Stockholm
AN innovation in the method of hand
ling green fruit at the port Of New YORK is
about to be put into practice. The new ar
rangement consists of steam-heated wharf
In the past fruit has been landed on the wharf
without regard to the weather, and when the
temperature ranged below the freezing point
great damage resulted. The heated wharf will
be 56x1S4 feet in dimensions.
Some people have q queer idea of the
function of the Census Bureau. The other day
the superintendent received the following let
ter from oroyille Col: "Csn you inform me
how can get on to inforce the lobster law?
haf Deen on the police force here five years and
last week was discharged by a rum Bord we
we was put in by temperans Bord and now
the rum Bord is goin' to have its own way this
year."
e. A. Garland, Wisconsin man, has
invented peculiar clock. It consists of three
egg-shels set on pivots, one to denote the hour,
one the minutes and the other the seconds.
The shells revolves on the pivots without appar-
ent mechanism to give them motion. Mr.. Gar
land intends making one with glass balls and
hanging an ineandescent lamp in each ball. so
the clock can be made to serve as lamp as
well as a timepiece.
Two 8-year-old boys are in custody in
st. Paul for attempting to ''crack'' safe.
Stealing sledge from blacksmith shop they
entered an office and broke OFF the handle and
combination Of the safe. Here they were
foiled as they could not devise means for going
further. A short time ago one of the boys took
part in theatrical representation in which
there was a safe-robbery scene. 1t is thought
that this suggested the action in real life. for
which the lads will probably go to the reform
school.
Several policemen were summoned q
few nights ago in Brooklyn. N. Y, to go to .
house where burglars were reported. Accord
ing to Captain Brennan's story, the officers
found the female members of the family as
house was in his room, afraid to come out. A
search of the house disclosed no trace of ma
rauders, but it was made clear that the resi-
dents had taken alarm at sounds produced by
a ereaking screen door. The noise made the
family think that burglars were at work.