Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


/ -Chicago.will adopt double-decked cable
cars.
The Colorado Canon is Is miles wide at
tthe top and 5000 feet deep.
-Souashes weighing 25O to 300 pounds
| are common in,Southern California.
-Soundings to the depth of 26,7OO feet
have been made on the Coast Of Africa
Persian carpets are made with intricate
designs so that the evil eye may be bewild-
cred
| "A Missouri farmer has killed himself
because mis- wife wouldn't make bread to
suit him.
| Mails are still carried by dogs and
sledges in,winter in the northern part Of
sMichigan-
| During the past year the water of the
! great lakes has been lower than at any time
lin 20 years.
Spokane Falls, Wash, is taking steps
to build mineral palace out Of ores from
the mining camps.
The pupils of some of the Nebraska
high schools conduct daily papers, which
they edit and print for distribution.
| "A bear visited the office of the City En-
gineer of Kalispell, Mont, last week. He
was killed by shot from small revolver.
-SlAJy JHOuSdnU BUSHELS OF pOGdGOe5 HdV6
been allowed to roc in one district OF CALI
foEnia because 1t would not pay to dig them.
THE new Cunard steamship will be about
three times the size of the Scotia, which
ten years ago was the largest vessel Of the
dine.
Railroad cars in England now are sell
dom heated. At intervals porters bring tin
boxes fuIIaof heat for passengers to put their
feet on.
Taking tthe officers holding honorary
rank into account there are 2,O5O generals in
the British army, or nearly one for ever 100
soldiers.
in Kansas the other day Justice of the
Peace being unable to decide a case, allowed
'the lawyers to settle it with a game Of
/ checkers.
"A British Columbia Indian caught a
sturgeon that weighed $50 pounds few
years ago The fish measured II feet
dnchesin length.
-Pachaug Pond IN Griswold is the prize
, pickerel pond of Connecticut. In one week
! this season 500 pounds ofpickerel and perch
were taken from it.
The Indians predict an unusually long
and cold winter in. the West. The fur and
nails on rabbits feet are mucn longer than
usual and this is regarded as an unfailing
token
inspectors who examine pork for trichine
through microscopes are.women, they hav.
ing been found to do the work much moro
satisfactorily than men.
There is.something about the cedar logs
that are being exhumed in Cape May county,
n. J., said to have been buried for more than
1000 years, that imparts soft and melodious
tone to violin, and the logs are being cut
up for themaking ofsuch instruments.
-They4rave three wooden shoe factories
in Grand Rapids, Mich, whose output aver
ages one gross per day for the year. The
price is 81 10 per dozen pair: small ones are
counted as two dozen for onelarge one, and
extra large sizes are rated aStwo dozen for
the price of three.
This Is the way a Macon, ,6Mo., minister
prayed recently for some of his1iock: 80
Lord, we pray that the excursion train GO
ing eastlon the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad tbissmorning may not run Off the
track and killany church members that may
be on board Church members on Sunday
excursions are-not in condition to die, etc."
A prize of, 900 francs was-not long ago
offered by French assoctatfon'fora a method
of keeping potatoes and other vegetables.
Some isolating substance, such as wood
ashes, sawdust or rye-straw, with sand. was
used by four or five of the competitors.
The plan of NJ. Schribaux, VINO gained the
prize, is to put the potatoes for ten hours In
II per cent solution of commercial sui
phuric acid wF1en. after being thoroughly
dried, they will keep without alteration
more than a year. The.same solution may be
used many times.
Sir Charles Giesecke, an eminent
British antiquarian, says that numerous
ruins exist in Southern Greenland, which
are evidently relics of Norsemen who dwelt
there centuries before Columbus discovered
this country. The locality is near the pres
ent Esuuimaux station of Igaliko. The ruins
consist of remains of walls of II stone dwell
ings one of them marked in such manner
that it is reasonably certain that it was the
house of Erik Rauthi, banished Icelandic
iarl who was the first to land in Greenland.
He established his settlement at BrattleIid,
as it was then named. and Igaliko is believed
to be the spot where that colony was To-
Gated. 1t was on iSthmuS between two
fiords, and SO is in Igaliko. The fjordS are
believed to be the Erik'S and Einer's fjords
of the old sagas.
Deacon Hungerford, of Chester, Conn,
is farmer Heis also prohibitionist. His
orchard yielded.an immense crop this fall,
and he did not know what to do with the
apples He couldnot eat them and he want
over the situation. He suggested giving
them away. But the parson vetoed that.
What, give them to somebody who would
convert them into apple whisky! 1t
not to be thought of. Apple whisky, as
everybody down east knows, is a peculiarly
seductive fluid, with an aromatic odor and
fiery body, that makes big drunk with only
a small headache. Its manufacture absorbs
the surplus apples of that part of the coun-
try. But the deacon 'sapples should not be
made into whisky. So they took the whole
crop and threw it into the mill pond.