Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-16
CURRENT CONVERSATIONS.


One tree in the Sierra Nevadas meas
ures 12Y14 feet in circumference.
New towns are springing up in Mary
land and growing like Jonah's gourd.
Over 5000 men in the United States
struck during the month of September.
The China Sea and the Bay of Fundy
are the two toughest seas in the world.
New England, as we'll as ireland, Will
suffer from potato famine this winter.
"A Georgia farmer has bought only 81
keeping.
France will initiate Russia and Ger
many in the use of carrier pigeons for military
purposes.
"A Presque Isle, Ga, young man dug on
a wager SO barrels of potatoes in ten hours, one
day this season.
"A bill to forbid and punish the making
of caricatures has been introduced in the Yer.
mont Legislature
1t is now asserted that President Harri-
son cannot attend the Emancipation celebra+
tion at Richmond.
Hosea Brown, of Linn county, Ore,
aged 1O2 years, and a veteran of 1872, has just
been awarded pension of $40 q month.
AN association of Philadelphia house,
wives will abolish kitchens in their homes aud
start cooperative central cooking house.
Babies are now very scarce in France.
One may pass hundred houses without ind.
ing cradle in it. Such a country IS doomed.
Relic sellers at Gettysburg are said to
import wagon loads of junk from Southern bat-
tie fields and sell them for Gettysburg battle
relics.
AN Indian paper, the Pipe Of Peace,
says that an effort will be made to vote the
Sioux by wholesale at the North Dakota capt.
tai election.
The winning candidate for Clerk in
Kentucky county died just before the polls
closed on election day. His competitor now
claims the office.
During colored revival meeting at
Baltimore last Sunday night a colored female
exhorter suddenly fell back and expired in fit
Of religious ferVer.
"A Pacific coast man brought to Astoria
the other day $50 pounds of beeswax. 1t is res
ported to have come from a ship which was
wrecked lOO years ago.
"A dog in Trenton, N. j., minus an
owner. lodges in a car barn. He boards street
cars regularly to and from his meals which he
picks up at the market.
An Austrian has invented an instru-
ment, resembling piano in appearance. which
contains six violins. two violas and two VIOLIN
cellos, and is manipulated by keyboard
"A drunken man in East Providence. r.
l., fell asleep in the gutter and snored so loudly
that he was arrested and fined, not only for
drunkenness but also for disturbing the peace.
A young locomotive engineer on the
Southern Pacific Railroad is the son of mll'
ionaire of Terre Haute, Ind. The son VOlun'
tarily chose his present life on account Of a
quarrel with his father. The family is trying
to induce him to return.
"A Morgantown young lady thought she
had found the long g-looked-for man under the
bed a few days ago, but after arousing the
whole neigh borhood she found the supposed
man was nothing but a pair of boots and gum
coat.
Now that the Louisiana lottery can no
longer use the mails. they propose to utilize the
express companies in distributing advertising
matter. Even in that case they will be check
mated, as the law forbds private companies to
carry postal matter.
"A man died in st. Paul the other day,
leaving a fortune of s4.OO0,OOO. The will di-
rected it's division among his wife and children,
except one wayward son. who is $4,000 in debt
The benefciarles destroyed the will, allowing
the young man TO receive his share of the prop
erty
Mr.. McMeans, of Santa Rosa, Cal. owns
a horse that deserves gold medal One day
last week the animal escaped from the barn.
he proceeded to eat apples from the nearest
tree. and after it had eaten all within its roach
the beast turned around and kicked the tree
repeatedly. bringing down a shower Of the
luscious fruit.
No objection was made to the marriage
of young Louisville couple; yet, for the sake
of romance, they executed a sensational elope-
ment. They met by appointment at O'Clock in
the morning, and boarded locomotive for
country town. There they routed justice ouE
of bed in the small hours. and were quickly
made one. They then returned to the city,
where the bride reused her parents and intro
duced her new husband.
A Chattanooga lawyer has peculiar
views of the duties of policemen. He wrote to
Cincinnati for information about his missing
Son. He wants the policeman that finds him
to obtain for him a situation in some lawyers
office. the boy being good stenographer. Tho
salary must not be less than $40 a week More
than that, the officer is to see that the boy pays
his board and behaves himself, and is then to
report The lads progress to his father.
-Four yea-s ago, Miss Lena Woodard, ,liv-
ing on Thorn Creek, Wash, sowed the seed
from one head of barley. She harvested the
crop with a pair of shears, and sowed the
amount received the next year, again harvest
ing it with her shears. The third crop her
father cut with grass scythe, getting enough
barley from this crop to sow 40 acres last
spring, which averaged 40 bushels to the
], 900 bushels from one head of barley IN four
years.
-Krupp, the maker of great guns, has just
given to the Emperor and Crown Prince a can
non each. The Emperor's present is elabor-
ately decorated with military designs, and is
considered by Krupp to be the finest bit of
ever turned out from his
foundry Although supposed to be but mini
ature coast gun, it weighs 1000 pounds. The
Crown Prince, the Emperor has said. will be
taught to load and unload his new cannon
within two three years.
"A California civil engineer visited To-
ledo in 1884 and fell victim to a remarkable con-
spiracy. in which his present wife, her mother
and physician combined to entrap him into
matrimony. He was informed the young lady
who was very ill., loved him passionately, and
would not recover health unless he married her.
After the wedding he discovered she was
hopeless paralytic He continued to be faith
full to her until this year, when he discovered
she did not love him, but married really to show
the man she really adored that she could get
husband. The victim now sues for a divorce.
"A Bangor, Me-, electrician thinks that
the wire running under the electric railway
track IS unnecessary. He believes that the
rails are sufficient conductors for the ground
current. On the other hand the men who have
worked on the road are very confident that
this wire is indispensable. 1t is connected
carefully with every rail and a sure circuit thus
secured. Should any rail be skipped 1T would
he known as a dead rail-" The copper wire
that IS used in this work is quite expensive and
has formed an importantitem in the cost Of the
road.