Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-Saxony taxes cats.

The price of shoes has been reduced 30
per cent in 25 years.
Census statistics show that there are
over 1000, 600 red-headed people in the United
States.
The screw in the fourth jewel wheel Of
a watch is so small that lady's thimble
would hold 1000, 600 Of them.
"A colored preacher in Kentucky has
made big sensation by declaring that the
forbidden fruit spoken of in the Bible is
meant for watermelons.
The fall crop of agricultural stories has
been started by the announcement that a
Brewer, Me-, farmer has raised a turnip
which weighs % pounds
-Forty-two Hebrews who were induced
to go to Brazil four months ago have re-
turned through the efforts of an American
Consul. The highest wages they could get
was IL cents day.
Finding a meeting house in Hebron,
Me-, to their liking, a swarm of hornets took
possession some three weeks ago. Notice of
eviction has not been served BY the congre-
CATION, who have been compelled to worship
in public hall.
An interesting relic of the past at old
Pemaquid Mass, is street 80 feet wide,
paved with medium-sized fiat stones, raised
in the middle and having good cutters and
walk 1113 feet wide. The street was built in
1880, it is said.
-Greywell, horse of notorious nom
staying power, having been given, just be-
fore starting, a whole bottle of port wine,
won the Beaufort handicap at Kempton
Park easily. Let the cause of temperance,
however, console itself with the reflection
that the first race OF the day was won by
Sobriety, the worthy son of Blue Ribbon.
Dai1 .b of rosr, ~
ed to fall at San Jacfnto, are believed to be
the result of evaporation from SaIton Lake.
Their origin and drift have been watched
from the summit of San Jacinto Peak, and
there is no further room for doubt as to the
effect the lake is having upon the rainfall"
News is beginning to come of hard times
last winter among the Indians of the far
North, in British America. The people at
York Factory on the west coast of Hudson
Bay, could not procure deer, and Indian chill
dren at the Factory itself starved to death.
1t was not until spring brought plenty of
geese and ducks that the suffering was re-
moved.
The riches of the ''far Northwest" de-
velop suddenly and abundantly. Within 45
hours in Oregon soda water deposit has
been discovered in the Nehalem Valley, near
Yernonia; soap mine has been found near
Chadwell, on Lewis and Clarke's: crystal
springs of the pure5t water are bubbling up
on the hillside in Astoria, gold is being dug
ont on Genevieve street and coal on West
Eighth street in the same city.
The long-contemplated demolition of
Clements Inn, London, has at Inst COM
menced, and shortly this retreat from the
roar and hustle of the Strand-fn VIII ich
Justice Shallow, unless Shakespeare libeIled
him, gained the reputation of Mad Shall
low''-will cease 80 exist. Recently the
workmen were busily engaged in stripping
the noble old dining hall, dated Ills, of its
fine oak panelling.
"A Tulare candy seller agreed the other
evening to sell stranger call the candy he
could eat" for 10 cents. To the amaZement
and CONSERVATION of the dealer, the man ate
three pounds of candy and then stopped,
not because he had enough, but because the
dealer would not let him take drink Of
water and go on again. The candy fiends
throat was so sticky he could no longer
swallow.
The wooden nutmeg of fraud fame has
been eclipsed by Dutch ingenuity. Accord
cnrding to~word sent from Utrecht, the Hol-
landers are making artificial almonds in
large quantities from paste composed of
glucose. They are shaped and colored to
nature, and stepped in nitro-benzole to give
the necessary odor. Hundreds of bushels
have been sold to unscrupulous dealers, who
mix them with the genuine article. The
same people are at work on vanished
coffee bean.
1.-THE bull moose up river are becoming
very pugnacious," reports the Bangor (Me.)
Commercial, "and seem determined to pro-
tect their precincts from invasion. One
day last week Boston sportsman with his
guide were on their way down the East
branch in canoe, and, upon nearing Mid
way. they were alongside the shore when q
bull moose sailed out of the adjacent forest
and proceeded to make himself obnoxious.
He drove them into the stream, but that did
H., Il his
paddle down river at top speed in order to
escape. The average bull moose is a pretty
good match for two or three men under GER
tain ctrcums tanceS."
"A disciple of Tom Sawyer-a pro-
fessional geut1eman-noticed that the
grass around his house needed cutting. so,
investing in a scythe, he approached the job
and prepared to conquer or die. In about
three minutes his back gave out, and he sat
down to ponder. Tom Sawyer and the
whitewash job came to his mind. "Pll do
it" he exclaimed, under his breath And
every man or boy that came along was
invited to try his new scythe and "see how
easy it works" Inside of two hours the
job was finished, and our friend hadn't re-
moved his coat-tails from his easy perch.
Brains are what most people need muscle
doesn't amount to much in the battle for
supremacy.
An interesting decision has just been
rendered at the Mansion House by the sit
ting Magistrate-that no more oysters may
be sold in London during the months of
May, June, July and August, unless actually
imported. Hitherto, says q London dispatch
to the Boston Transcript, it has been the
custom to plant Dutch. Belgian and French
oysters in English beds, and to sell them
during the months whose lack of the letter
"r" should mark them as sacred; for be it
known that oysters, like physicians pre-
scriptions must always be signed with that
time-hOnored astrological sign Of
Jupiter. This new regulation will make a
great difference with the oyster-eating pub
lie, as English natives have now reached
the prohibitory price, Sc per hundred whole
sale.