Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The Santa Fe road is running special
fast trains from Denver to Canon City. They
are called tine "Nellie BY Flyers"
-Orrin Starr, of Kalamazoo, is 81 years
old but inst the same he split and piled y cords
| of wood last week without more than half try
| iEg
The largest sheep ranch in the world is
in the counties of Webb and Dimnet in Texas.
1t contains upward of 400, 600 acres and yearly
pastures 500 600 sheep.
"A benefit performance for the English
| actors fund in London recently realized $500.
The performance lasted for six hours and over
tO actors took part IN it.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, 1851 feet above the sea
level is the highest point crossed by railroad
inslue the limits of the United States
The steam ferryboat. Robert Garret,
| plying between Brooklyn and New York City,
carries oOOO passengers at a trip and IS said to
10 tne largest steam ferryboat in existence.
-Adeibert Bryan was killed by a mad
| bull at the Coldwater, Mich, state Public
| School, and petition will be presented to the
/ State Auditors asking that the widow be paid
| $1,000 for her loss.
| "A Mt. Clemens, Mich, man lost his
pocketbook containing $40 on Tuesday. Every
| body saw the purse the sidewalk but sup
posed 1t was an April fool Joke and the loser
got around IN time to recover 1t.
"A French paper says of a recent mur-
| der: THE miscreant was evidently in search
| of money. but NJ. Durand had prudeptly de-
posted all his cash in the bank, and conse-
| quently lost only his lite"
Some one has figured that there are in
Denver, Col. 81 millionaires, whose aggregate
wealth is SAC, 0O0 and IS semi-nilionaires.
whose wealth
all S64, 600, 600 owned by 66 men.
The largest sawmill in the world in
located at Clinton, Ia. 1t cost $3.50, 900, and is
| capable of saving 10000 feet of lumber IN
eight hours. 1t has seven band and three gang
saws and two batteries of ten boilers each.
The largest tree in the world, according
to statistics lately published by the Italian
Government, is a monster chestnut standing at
the foot of Mount Etna. The circumference
of the main trunk at 80 feet from the ground is
2l2 feet.
Fred and Adam Suiter, two brothers
who lived near Hersey Mich. were sitting at
table when louse appeared upon the table be-
tween them. They quarreled as to the owner.
ship of the grayback. and Adam stabbed Fred
fatally. Adam is in jail
All the frst-class race tracks employ a
doctor by the year, or rather the season. They
pay a liberal price, from $40 day upward, and
expect him to report for duty halt hour be-
fore the races begin, and to remain on hand
till all tho visitors have left.
The costliest horse barn in the world
belongs tn D. E. Grouse and is located at Syra-
cuse, N. Y. 1t has now cost the owner, mill.
ionaire horseman, something like 100000. In
cidental expenses will make the stable cost
little short of round million.
Conductor John Hoffman, of the Orange
branch of the Greenwood Lake Railroad, N. Y,
swallowed a wooden toothpick after dinner on
Thursday, and has been at home in great agony
ever since. An operation will have to be per-
formed TO save his life, it is said
EARLY in the winter a Saco young man
was strolling through Florida orange grove
and cut his initials in the peeling of a growing
orange He is now in saeo. and last Saturday
night he found that identical orange in a
dozen he bought of local dealer.
"A pair of bantam chickens were sold at
the London Crystal Palace for $500, which was
almost exactly twice their weight in gold This
is believed to be the highest price ever
paid for single pair of fowls since the days
of extravagant and luxurious Rome.
1t is said that large proportion of the
plumes worn by the ladies who attend the
| Queens drawing rooms are hired from shop
which makes a busin ess of renting out plumes.
The feathers worth from 81 to SO, and the
rent of them is 81 50 for each occasion.
The Civil Commissioner of Johannes
| burg, South Africa, has ordered that only the
Dutch language shall be talked in his court,
and that the English, who compose the bulk Of
the population, when they appear before him,
must talk Dutch or hire IN interpreter.
The North Pole may at length be
reached, and all on account of a pair of
trousers-oil-sIzin ones-which we're on board
the ill-fated Jeanette. The garment is said to
have been found on the coast OF Greenland,
showing that on their journey from the Pacific
to the Atlantic, the breeches must have passed
the Pole, carried that way by current.
Buffalo Jones, of Garden City, Kan,
utilities the hair which buffaloes shed in the
spring by having it woven into robes. 1t Is
woven with q cloth background so that none
but an expert could tell it from the genuine ar
ticle. He estimates that each buffalo will shed
off enough hair each year 10 make good robe
which will be no small revenue in itself.
Benjamin Sehatfer informs a Philadel-
phia paper that, having lost favorite dog
and spent the greater part of the day in search
ing for it. he dreamed that night that he saw
the animal fastened uD in barn some distance
from where he was employed, in Montgomery
county. and, going to the spot next morning.
there was his lost pet Just as he had seen 1t in
the dream
The making Of wooden shoes is quite a
business in New York. Not only is there a big
demand for wooden soled shoes required by
workers in certain trades. but for the wooden
sabots, sucn seen in pictures of life
abroad. French and German women are the
principal buyers of wooden shoes. These
Shoes cost about 81 % pair. They are mostly
worn IN the Eastside tenement districts.
A citizen of Calhoun county, ILL.,, boasts
that there Is not a railroad, a telegraph, an ex-
press office or bank in his county The county
Jail has not had a criminal inmate within the
last five years. The grand jury of the county
has found only three indictments within the
lasC two years, and these were against persons
who had illegally sold liquor. The county has
only two terms of court a year, and term never
Lasts over three days.