Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The rivers Madeira and Amazon are to
be copnecteds by railroad. This will DO
built by an american contractor, and will
connect Brazil with Bolivia.
Rich iron ore has been struck in San
Ysidro niue, few miles below Ensenada,
Lower California. vein Loo feet long and
go feet deep has beep found.
1T is said that during the attempt to
cut canal through the IsthmusLof Panama
100000 ounces Of quinine we're used annually
in combating malarial fever.
"A Locust Corners farmer has q calf
which eclipses anything yet seen in the
freak line. 1t is as blind as a bat and minus
a tall and has other peculiar deformftfes.
The gigantic skeleton Of man who
measured feet 8 inches in height was re-
Gently dug up by some laborers near the Jer-
dan river just outside or Salt Lake City.
What is said to be the largest lumber
mill in the, world is AZ Fort Blakeley. Wash.
Last year thfs milf turned ont 90 900 900 feet
OF lnTnber, over 2s,0O0oo0 laths and large
amount Of other stock.
The largest locomotive yet built in Eu-
rope was recently sent out Of the HirschHu
works in Munich. According to the Zeits1g
der DetHchen Eisenbdhn- VeT1rdt,us9en it is rs
feet over all, and weighs 81 tons.
According to the South Riverside Bee,
the force at the Temescfl tin mines, so,far
from being reduced Is being Increased a.
fast rs can be done to- advantage, but thas
work In some other lines has been stopped.
"A Chinese lsuRdryman in Tom Green
county, Texas, advertises his establishments
in the newspaper OF the county with display
type and a quarter-column humorous cue
showing the Melican men driving In donkey
carts to his store.
The LoDer Californian says there is con-
siderable smuggling going on between the
United States and Alamo, the work being
accomplished by pack trains Of burros,
which 90 through the unfrequented noun
tain passes near the deserts edge.
Some military maneuvers to be tried in
Bohemia are thoukht TO be so important as
involving q new problem of tactics that q
trict, and people living in 1t will not be al
lowed to leave their houses for two days
Residents in the timbered districts of
Clatsop and Tillamook counties, Ore, say
that large gray wolves are becoming more
numerous, and are rapidly destroying the
elk, as they kill the young calves in the
spring. and even the old ones when they
catch them alone
There is q present disposition toward
what is called common law marriage" II
the maiden moved TO matrimony will take
hasty glance at Blackstone's Commentaries
she will discover that under the common
law, the husband had right 90 whip his
wife, provided the stick used in hageilation
was mot larger tnan his little finger"
1T appears that the Governments rain
making process Is a patent affair, the owner
Daniel Ruggles. General Ruggles' applioa-
tion ts dated at Austin. Tex, on February
q, 1879 and his papers were fled IN the
Patent Office on June 7. 1890. The patent is
entered, Method of precipitatlng rainfalls."
Few people can form an idea of what is
involved In the expression "an inch of rain.'
1t may aid such to follow this curious caleu-
IatIon: An acre is equal TO 6,272,6t0 square
inches, and an inch deep Of water on this
area will be as many cubic inches. which, at
This immense quantity OF water Will weigh
10000 pounds, or over 100 tons.
"A great Wagon-road scheme is ahoat
for Western Washington. 1t is to have a
public highway from the Straits Of Fuca to
the Columbia river. This movement means
a coast road of nearly 300 miles in length, ex-
tending across the State. The result would
be the immediate settlement of big unoc-
cupied territory, which would add i'm
IDensely to the wealth and population OF
that portion Of the State.
Joseph Howard, an employe at Kearn-
ey's stables, st. Paul and Centre streets,
Baltimore, captured a live alligator the
other day which had erswfed ont of the
sewer, and at that corner was basking in the
sun on top of the gutter plate, The reptile
was about Is inches long. No one seems to
know when or how the alligator got into the
sewer. 1t was seen several weeks ago at the
sewer opening, but became frightened and
crawled out OF sight.
Over $1,000 in greenbacks has been
found hidden among lot OF rubbish in the
trunk of an eccentric widow, who spent her
summer in a cottage near Stonington, Conn.,,
and who died recently. Always on leaving
stonington at the end Of the season she left
the trunk with friend, telling him that it
contained nothing OF account, but she didn't
care to have burglars rummaging through
it, which would be the case If she were to al
low it to remain in her cottage.
The proprietor of the only hotel in Lin
coin, Me-, was brought TO Bangor last week
and fined 800 and costs for selling liquor.
He went back home very angry, cleared the
guests out of his house, bag and baggage,
and proceeded TO board up the doors and
windows, announcing that il he couldn't
keep house in his own way he wouldn't keep
it at all. He even barricaded the veranda,
so that the village loafers would have no
chance to talk prohibition upon his prem
ises.
2 1t is reported that negro employed in
one of the warehouses at Americas has been
in the habit of supplying dressed squirrels
to.tbe good people of Americas. Nothing
was known about him, and It was supposed
that he was hun tsrnan, but some one grew
suspicious, and investigation. followed It
was discovered that the fellow had been
killing the great rats that infest the ware
house, dressing and selling them as squir-
rels. Indignation does not express the feel
ings of the negro's customers when thay
learned Of the fraud that had been perpe-
tratsd upon them.
"A scientist, whom the Pharmaceutical
Record knows, has been engaged in comput-
ing the amount of SCOT deposited from Lon
don air, and arrived at the following con-
cfusions: "He collected the SCOT deposited
eight inches in extent, and obtained from it
two grains of SCOT. As London covers more
than 100 square miles, this would give for the
ured fell in ten days. a months allowance
would need LOCO horses TO cart it of, and
these stretched in line would extend four
miles"