Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A thle1 was tracked IN new 1Otk Lne
other night by the trail he left of stolen silver
spoons.
California has 1 200, 900 people, yet they
pay as much taxes as Pennsylvania does with
100000.
AN apple that measured IS inches by II
inches and weighed 70 ounces has been plucked
IN Pomona, Cal
"A colored boy in ZanesYille, o., is
named Times Recorder Sammons, after the
| DAILY paper published there.
The Newport beauties have taken up
the face massage treatment The luxury re-
FAILS at the rate OF So toilet
1t is estimated that 20O, 900 bushels OF
| cranberries which New Jersey will send to mar
| ket Will realize to the farmers round million
i of dollars.
More than ], 500 Berlin, Germany, store
| keepers, mostly drygoods men and grocers, have
now signed the agreement to close at noon on
| Sundays and holidays.
Charles D. Young, a Denver bow of Is.
has just built the smallest eoal-burnine loco
motive in existence. 1t is about five feet long
/ and weighs 235 pounds.
"A method of rendering tobacco smoke
harmless to the mouth, heart and nerves with
out detriment to its aroma is claimed to have
been discovered at Vichy.
The people of Truckee complain that
they have had no summer this year. Owing to
the surrounding snow banks they might as well
be living in refrigerator.
Farmer Camp employs 250 Piute
Indians in picking hops near Folsom, Sacra-
mento county. Their time is TO be kept by
young woman of the tribe, who is a graduate Of
the Reno High School.
Fifteen years ago B. II. Glover, the
President Of the Farmers Alliance, came to
Kansas almost penniless. Now he owns 900
acres OF fine land. 70 head of horses, 100 cattle
and lots of farming machinery.
The balloon proposed for polar explora-
tions is 90 feet in diameter and 100000 cubic
| feet in volume. The journey is to be begun
from Spitzbergen, and with favorable wind is
expected to last four or five days.
John Raymond, of Athol, Mass, has
gathered from his hens 1900 eggs so far this
year ana raised 473 chickens, and his wife, be-
sides attending to an extensive dairy business,
has sold 50 canary birds of her own raising.
There is now more beet than cane sugar
consumed. In 1881 the total of the worlds pro-
duction of cane sugar was 2,OO6, 900 tons, and of
beet sugar l774600 tons. In 1880 the total of
cane was 2,246,OGO tons, and of beet 3,3600O0
tons.
"A sea lion in the Geological Gardens at
Paris has distinguished himself by saving the
life of little boy who tumbled into the water
anu COuIun ReL OuI III consequences Oh LQ6 nlSQ
basin. The seal held him up until help was at
hand.
The salt works at Saltair, Utah, cover
900 acres. The watts are 10 feet above the sur
face of the lake, and are filed by means of
huge rope driven at a high speed. which lifts
the brine in steady strean at the rate OF l5,OOO
gallons minute.
There is negro woman living near
Athens who prepares herself for death every
night, and who is always terribly surprised to
find herself alive mornings. She wishes TO die
in a blue gown, in which she arrays herself be-
fore lying down every night.
"A young woman of Rochester, Ont, as
tonlshes strangers by the wealth and luxurianee
of her raven hair. She is only feet 2 inches
high, but her Gresses are feet 6 inches long.
She SAYS her hair gives her no trouble and she
doesn't know what headache is.
1t is asserted that the Pennsylvania
Railroads new train shed. in Jersey City. will
have the largest span in the world. 1t will be
256 feet long, II feet longer than the celebrated
st. PancraS Station in London. The building
will be 80 feet high in the middle.
The telephone has played an important
part in the maneuvers of the Swedish fleet.
There is telephone post on board each vessel,
and when lying at anchor they can telephone to
one another by means of insulated conducto rs,
which are run down the anchor chains and sub
merged.
1t has been computed as an illustration
of the great cheapening of ocean freights which
has taken place in recent years, that half a
sheet of note paper will develop sufficient
power when burned in connection with the
triple expansion engine, to carry ton a mile
in an Atlantic steamer.
According to correspon dent of the
Topeka Capital stock raisers have noticed in
the last three years an apparent increasing
Tt 10 snrilN lNod 70 thn rNraa
tice of dehorning. The horns on cattle must
fulfill some useful function, or they would not
have been provided by nature.
S, S. Karr, of Almond, n. Y, claims
that he was the last Union prisoner to leave
Andersonville Prison. He secured the rebel
flag which had so long fl loated over that prison
and the wretch edness and misery its walls in
closed. and has it still IN his ession-prOba-
bly, one OF the most interesting relics of the
Civil War.
"A most singular accident happened to
Charles Chick, of Ellsworth, Me. While at
work in mill silver flew from plank, en-
tered his mouth, split his palate in two and
stuck into his throat so far TO affect the
spine. He was in very critical condition for
a time, but the doctors think he is out OF dam
ger now.
Secretary johnson, of the Indiana State
Board of Charities, reports that there IS in one
face and some of the characteristics OF a pig.
She realizes her affliction and avoids strangers
in consequence. This is where she differs from
many males who resemble her in the posses
sion OF pOrky characteristics, which they al
ways intrude on strangers.
"A log cutter found bottle containing
81. 900 in gold dust near Sly Park, Ell Dorado
county, Cal. He was saving tree down when
he struck something. He could not imagine
what the saw could be striking in the MIDDLE of
a tree three feet thick. After the tree was
down and an examination made bottle con-
tanning 81 900 in gold dust was found In the
center of the tree. 1t was probably put in there
many years ago by some old miner.
A finger nail led to the discovery of
thief who robbed factory in France. He en-
tered through a window. and the nail was in
some way torn off and left on the sill. The
next day an employe appeared with an injured
finger. and suspicion, of course, pointed to him.
but he fed before he could be arrested. He
was traced to Paris, and. on the police finding
him in apartments, he jumped out of the
window and was dashed to death on the bricks
below.