Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The first Legislature OF Washington
left the State to foot up bills OF s., ,OOOOUO and
over.
The first mail matter received at Port
Osgood since January Z was delivered on
April 9
"A recent school census taken in Marion
county, Ore, shows an increase OF nearly 1900
cnlIuren over that of 1889.
Los Angeles has one sewer 5,OOO feet
long that has not single connection. In one
pace IL IS y feet under ground HOW IL came
u De 50 quilt Is a mystery.
The Watkin Tower, which will be
erected IN London and oyertOp the Eifel tower
by $50 feet, is to have six legs instead Of four.
1t will cost about s., 10000
AT the late session of the United Pres
byterian Church at ALBANY. Ore, a vote was
taken on tne question of using tobacco, ana
the opposition carried by one vote.
Twelve carloads of crushed eggs, sand
wlch papers and other rubbish we're taken from
the White House grounds after the children's
eggrolling picnic on Easter Monday.
According to recent report made by
the commissioners who examined the workings
of the Mints of the United States the one at
Carson City, New, does the best work as 10
fineness and weight.
The heliograph is used to flash signals
that are T5 miles apart Experiments will soon
be made TO test the power of the instrument to
distance of 100 miles.
During dull day in ParliamentreceutIy
London stenographer made a wager that he
could write out three cOlums of the Times in
three hours, and did transcribe three columns
OF the Thunderer, or $500 words, in two hours
and three-quarters.
Buffalo Bill has purchased house in
Naples. He has beceme an enthusiast regard
ing life on the Continent and he was offered an
old house in Naples at a ridiculOusly small
price. 1t Is place of historical interest as
King Bomba once owned it.
"A registered package was recently
mailed in Washington, D. c.. plainly addressed
TO Orlando. Orange county, Fla. 1t went from
Washington to San Francisco thence to Og-
den, Utah. after which it went to New Orleans,
and from there to Jacksonville and then to Or
lando.
New York pickpockets have invented
new scheme for robbing people. 1t is to pour
Kerosene or alcohol over the back of a mans
coat and touch match thereto. Then, while
helping to extinguish the flames, they lift, the
vlctim' watch and whatever money or valuables
he may have.
The sword presented by the Confederate
States Congress to General Howell Cobb at the
opening of war. is on exhibition in the window
some blade and served General Cobb well until
his promotion, when the rules Of service neces-
STATED longer sword.
"A professor in the University of Klausen-
burg claims to have compounded solution
which completely neutralizes the poison intro
duced into the system by the bite of mad dog.
This solution consists of chlorine water salt
brine, sulphurous acid, permanganare Of potas-
SUM and eucalyptus oil.
One street corner in Santa Maria, Santa
Barbara county, is called Mars Hill by the peo-
pie. Here gathers daily four sages whose ag-
gregate ages are 346 years, and two boys whose
united years foot up III. They discuss the
ology, metaphysics ancient and modern litera-
ture, to say nothing of politics
The Englishman, who gave, as a reason
for not trying to rescue man whom he saw
drowning that he had never been introduced
to him." must step down from fames pedestal
to make room for a woman in New Jersey who
declined to cut down a struggling neighbor
who had hanged herself on the ground that she
might get into trouble with the coroner.
Nellie Bly's journey round the world in
Y days was considered a great achievement
but it appears that a copy of the London Times
went around the world by the Canadian Pacific
route nearly three years ago in two days less
time than that. 1t was back in the Times office
in London on the sixty-ninth day after its pub
lIcatlon, and this occurred without prearrange-
ment.
Big Elk, one OF the most enlightened
and conscientious of Omaha Indians, joined the
church recently organized on Omaha creek.
Although having been married according to the
Indian custom for nearly score of years. he
and his wife, Poncusca, upon joining the
church, insisted upon being remarked accord
ing to the custom of the civilized world, which
ceremony was duly performed.
"A New Haven man, after putting rice
into evervthinO ia cOuId think oF halonUin0 IN
a bridal party, put some in the brides travelling
ink-well. OF course the rice swelled when
thoroughly soaked in the writing fluid, and
then the little vessel was forced open and the
ink ruined eXquisitely embroidered hand
kerchiefs and other dainty articles bride
usually carries in her reticule.
While Jay Gould was In San Antonio,
he had some washing done, which amounted to
S2l The clothes were taken to the train too
late and the special had pulled out leaving the
duds behind. The agent offered to send them
on and collect, but the Iaundryman declined,
saying that when he wished to ride on one of
Mr.. Gould's railroads he was required to pay
in advance. The Wizards shirts are, conse-
quently still in hook"
The old cannon which was on the bank
of the Altamaha at Doctortown, Ga, has been
taken away. The gun was placed there during
the war to prevent the Yankees from becoming
too promiscuous around the bridge which
crosses the river at that place. it forming a sort
of water battery to the fort on the bluff
above. But when the soldiers were obliged to
evacuate the fort they spiked the gun that it
might never be turned on them, and sadly
marched away. The fort is in a splendid state
of preservation, but is now grass grown.
There is a mine just above Howards-
vile, Col, that is a curiosity to tenderteet and
a source of profit to the saloon man who lives
near by. 1t is an ice mine, and the ice is as
clear and pure as that to be obtained from the
purest lake The claim is owned by the
Eeigolds, who, in the early days, ran tunnel
through the frozen ground and struck spring
beyond As the water flows out of the tunnel
it freezes and the tunnel is now filled nearly to
the roof with the ice. 1t has long supplied all
the saloons of HowardsYille with ice, and as it
never thaws winter or summer. the place is an
objective point for curiosity seekers.
Some days ago Mayor Fielder, of Ameri-
Gus. Ga, received letter from a firm in
GAINESVILLE, o., stating that they were the own
ers of large mandatory employing $50 hands,
which they desired to remove to some point in
the South, and wound up with request to send
them $50 to help defray expenses of trip to
Americas to look over the situation. 1t seems
that the same kind of letter was sent to a
number of cities in this State. The editor of a
paper wrote to parties in GAINESVILLE regarding
the standing OF the firm. and received reply
that they were no good, and that there was