Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Vast coal beds are thought to underlie
the vicinity of Blaine, Wash
The hop crop of Washington for 1890
neLted s25Oo,OOO to that State
| After 80 years of married life a New
Lisbon, o., couple have applied for divorce.
More than !, 200 school libraries were
founded in Wisconsin and Minnesota in 1890.
| Bombs were invented at Venlo in 15SS
and were used first in the service of France in
1884
The Canton of Neufchatel, Switzerland,
SENDS annually to America 800, 900 gallons of abb
| sinthe.
IA yacht manned entirely by women"
is promised as a novelty for the next Newport
season.
About all the worlds production Of
spools can be claimed by Maine and New
Hampshire.
Oats are scarce in Eastern Oregon and
Washington. and the farmers are glad 20 pay q
cents pound.
Tape measures are made at but two
places in the United States-Brooklyn. N. Y,
and Cleveland, o.
"A man at Gate City, Wash, has been
arrested for stealing sawmill and carting it a
distance Of 20 miles.
ness in its police court since the adjournment
of the Legislature.
More note paper in proportion to the
population is sold in the United States than in
any other country.
The Legislature of Nevada passed an
act allowing IL cents from the Treasury for
each gopher destroyed
"A dish of escalloped oysters, prepared
by one of he young ladies of the Mexico Cook
ing Club. has resulted in an engagement.
"A pocket was struck in a dry claim at
Osceola, New. recently, from which 81 900 was
taken with rocker in less than two hours.
AN Atchlson preacher gives so much to
the church that his wife has 10 give music les
sons to make up the expenses of the family.
1t is affirmed that in Gunnison county,
Col. there are three hills of solid iron and
manganese ores 500, 1000 and 100 feet high.
"A witness in a contested will case at
Philadelphia said the testator was not hard
drinker. as ''he only took 25 or so drinks day."
"A physician of Otsego. Mich, has been
mulcted in $3.50 for publicly reporting the
cause Of patients Illness as he diagnosed it,
There is an Alliance barber shop in
Sedan, where the price of a hair cut is cents.
Of shave or shampoo 10 cents, and all three
for quarter.
IL 10 cStlmUteu ny LIE dubHOIlbleS III
New Hampshire that summer boarders and
tourists leave s., ,OOO Oc0 in that State and most
OF IL goes into the hands Of farmers.
"A peculiar and fatal disease has broken
out among the horses in Kent county. KY. It
affects the back, redering the animals limbs
useless, and death en5ues in few hours.
-Bayonets were invented at Bayonne in
1870 First used in England in 1893 At first
these had wooden handles fitting into the gun,
but in 1899 the socket bayonet was introduced.
May 13, 1866. at about P. M, the
Sixty-Second United States Colored Infantry
fired the last volley of the Civil War. 1t was
between Boca Chico strait and Whites rancho,
Tex.
The Nevada Legislature having refused
to appropriate money for the travelling ex-
penses of the District Judges one of them has
bought bicycle on which to make his magis-
terial circuit.
-"As blind as mole" must henceforth
take its place in the waste heap of shattered
smiles. A German naturalist has demon
strared that moles have eyes and that they can
see as well as other animals.
The Whitewater river has disappeared
from sight in Los Angeles county. The railroad
station at Whitewater now has to be supplied
with water brought from the Sierra Madre
Mountains, a distance of several miles.
AT Salvation Army meeting in Boston
the other day Hindoo speaker declared that
he finds more spiritual darkness in America
than he ever found In India At which an en-
thusiastic hearer shoufed, on general Drinci-
ples: THAT'S SO; bless the Lord"
Oxford county, Me-, people are laugh
ing at fire company, the members of which
were in such haste to get to fire that they
didn't even stop to collect ladders, hose,
buckets or pumps to take with them-in fact,
didn't even think of these important articles
until they reached the burning building.
Topeka, the one city in Kansas in which
it had been claimed by the ProhibitIonists that
prohibition actually prohibited, was thunder
struck to-day by the discovery of a saloon in
the business center directly opposite the post
Office and only one block from the Metropolis.
tan police headquarters, which had been In
operation since 1888.
A wedding in high life took place at
Port Townsend last Monday. when the Prince
of Wales eldest son of the late Duke of York,
head chief of the Clallam tribe, and Princess
Bessie jackson of the royal house of Clallam
were united in holy matrimony. Queen Vic
toria, the groom's mother, was expected to
grace the festivities, but she was so busy dig
ging clans that she sent her regrets.
AS preliminary to q betrothal in certain
parts of Holland the young man calls at the
house of his inamorata's parents and asks for a
match with which to light his cigar. In the
the parents hunt up his character
and antecedents. ana he calls twice more for
the same purpose when. il found acceptable,
the betrothal is consummated. It is said that
an engagement thus made has never been can
celed.
"A resident of Auburn. N. Y, has hat
in his possession which is over l50 years old.
''The hat my father wore," Gran dfathers
hat' and "Where did you get that hat3' aren't
q circumstance compared with this ancient
tile. 1t is beaver, with a genuine bell top,
and was made in New York City. bit of silk
facing is on the top and bottom OF the top part
of the rim. This was to allow the raisingof
the hat without ruffing the fur.
"A prominent scientist relates that one
day during the summer he observed large
hornet vainly endeavoring to lift and carry
away a locust The hornet, after several at
tempts evidently concluded that the weight
was too great TO lift, and. after resting awhile,
put in operation plan he appeared to have
thought out. He dragged the locust some 80
feet away to tree. up which, little by little, he
hauled It until the top was reached. when the
hornet few of in triumph with its prey.
"A Detroit man with a Psyche knot,
Knob of twisted fiaxen hair pinned to the top Of
his head, sat serene in the Lyceum Theater last
night and never once raised his eye from the
programme. while hundred eyes gaZed and
wondered. His complexion was tair. and as he
back the lovers locks in a most
natural feminine manner, people wondered
ome more. He quietly blew IN at the theater,
poke to no one and quietly blew out with the
ast end of the crowd and went slushing
through the rain into the darkness