Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

new 1Ork mas heOIe" OaAeE unlOns
-Volusia county, Fla, will ship nearly
100000 boxes Of oranges.
One OF the largest babies ever seen in
Florida is the son of Walter Sylvester. living in
Palatka. He is months old and weighs 40
pounds.
DIR. Schaffranek, OF Palatka, Fla, has
recently sent to Europe a handsome bouquet,
composed of wild flowers, the handle being an
alhgators tooth.
Chicago will soon have the largest To-
cent lodging house in the world. The building
will be seven stories high, will cost sS5,O0O and
Will De heated by stRm and lighted by electric
ity.
In hotels the life of a napkin is put
down at three months, provided it is Of extra
good material. A sheet lasts six months, and
tablecloth depends for its existence upon the
care that is taken of it.
The French Chamber has agreed to a
duty on mural advertisements, as suggested by
private member. The duty is to be graduated
according to the population of the localities in
which the placards are affixed.
Breeding Chinese pheasants has become
growing and profitable industry in Oregon.
They sell readily for $40 pair. A large num-
Der OF farmers are making nice sum from the
business, perfectly legitimate one.
w. A. Fulton, one OF Clayton county's,
Ga, Oldest and best citizens, died two days
ago. Just as he drew his last breath, the old
clock, which for 40 years had faithfully kept
time stopped, and has not run since.
"A young gentleman of LAGRANGE, Ga,
upon going to a theater for the first time and
seeing pistol fired at a woman, who pretended
TO be hurt, was shocked to such an extent that
he bad to remain in his room all the next day.
"A third line of telegraph between Ber-
lin and Rome, 1,2lO miles long, is to be con-
structed through Bavaria and the TyroI instead
OF Switzerland, like the present lines. The wire
will be of bronze, and three millimetres in
diameter.
The police force of Carlsbad has been
trebled, and companies of sharpshooters patrol
the streets every night in order to prevent
thefts, which have been alarmiDgly frequent
since the floods, on account of the misery of
the poor classes.
The experiment of DIR. Joel G. Justin,
of Syracuse. with his dynamite shell at Perry
vile Falls on Saturday was success. Three
shells, each weighing 275 pounds and carrying
seven and half pounds of dynamite, were sue
cessfully discharged at target.
About two weeks ago a negro in Ogle-
thorpe. Ala, drank quart of whisky on a
wager. He won the dollar and lost his life. A
short time after swallowing the liquor he be-
came paralyzed, and never recovered from the
effects of the whisky. He died last Monday.
Near Princevi!le, Crook county, Ore,
two of Mr.. RagfiD's children tried to take
horse over a barb wire fence. One of the
children held the wires down while the other
rode the horse over, but one of the wires flew
up, catching the girl who was the horse,
cutting off her leg and injuring the horse Sc
Verely
Several members of the Imperial Yacht
Club, of st. Petersburg, are said to be under
surveillance in connection with Nihilist plot.
the grand dukes and many of the high nobility
of the empire. The NlhIlists are said TO be
unusually active and precautions for the safety
of the Gar have been redoubled.
"A dispatch from Zanzibar states that
the Portuguese found the King of Bihe, who
was captured by them few days ago, to be not
a pure bIooded African. but in part descend
ant of an Austrian or Hungarian adventurer.
who married, many yearssago, the daughter of
the late King of Bihe, the children of the
couple remaining in Bihe as members of the
ruling family.
The people of Boston are pleased over
the prospect of improved car service to New
York. The New York and New Haven in the
early summer will have completed their four
tracks from New Haven to New York. and will
have also completed the separation of most of
the grade crossings. This will shorten their
running time half an hour, making the time of
the present six-hour trains five hours and
half.
The japanese author does not write
books. He paints them. AS soon as he reaches
the indispensable minimum of ideas he shuts
himself in his study, frightened slightly by
soft light from four-corneTed white paper
lantern. He has before him polished table,
one foot high, on which lie his idyllic writing
materials The paper is of an agreeable yellow
and is marked with perpendicular and horizon
tai blue lines. His ink is held in rich ebony
plate, elaborately carved and with depression
in which the black tablets are rubbed to moth
ing. The plate carries also five bamboo brushes
which serve as pens.
An American barkeeper who wants to
sell out his place. has hit upon a novel idea for
doing it. Here's his idea: To every person
who buys, check will be given of the amount
of his purchase. When S. worth of checks are
gotten they can be returned, and a ticket will
be given him. Then. at the end of a given
time, say TWO or three months, the present pro-
prIetor will resign. and the barroom, with all
its contents, turned over to the holders of these
tickets These can then settle 1t among them
selves as to which one is the owner. They can
then rattle for it, or do what they please with
it. 1t will be theirs Jointly, and they settle
it in any way they desire as to who is to have it,
AS light fails to penetrate the great
depths of the ocean there has been considerable
speculation as to how the denizens of the deep
obtained survey of their surroundings to
avoid danger. The naturalist on board the
marine survey steamer Investigator, while on
the recent cruise in the Indian Ocean, made
the interesting discovery that some deep sea
crustaceans are highly luminous, thus furnish
ing what is believed to be the first positive
proof that the source OF light in the dark
abysseS of the ocean is the selfluminosty of
its inhabitants. A large prawn, lying in q
bucket of sea water on deck, was observed to
be shining brightly, and on being seized
emitted eopious clouds of phosphorescence. By
the light of the luminous secretion the natur-
alIst was able, though otherwise in perfect
darkness, to watch the living occupants OF the
bucket. After the removal OF the prawn the
water remained luminous for some time.
"A curious accident happened in q
Georgia sawmill one day last week. Something
had gotten the matter with the carriage track,
and it was being tested. log was placed on
the carriage, but the track was discovered to be
out of plumb and it was removed, and in re-
moving it the headblock next to the saw reared
up, and when 1t came down 1t was several
inches too near the saw. This was not noticed
by MT Moore who held the lever, and he at
TEMPTED to test the track without the log. He
did not discover that the head Dlock was out Of
place until the saw was in few inches of it
and it was too late to avert the catastrophe.
The saw came plowing into the iron headblock
and knocked of every tooth, which few like
bullets from rifle. One of them hit Mr..
Moore in the breast, point foremost, and came
near going through to the hollow, which might
have resulted fatally. Several others went
through both coat sleeves and lacerated the
a esh, but while these wounds were painful,
they were not serious