Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


China is to have -four mills
Our railroads employ 10000
Uncle Sam Is worth $50, SOC, ,0O0, 900.
Georgia. has woman train dispatcher.
South Africa is shipping oranges TO
| London
! Sharks are bothering the fishermen in
| Long Island Sound.
The town of Argonia, Kan, is oficered
and run entirely by women.
London omnibus drivers gained $50, 900
year by winning their strike.
"A velocity as high as 2,SS7 feet per sec
ond has been attained by a projectile from q
rapid fire gun.
"A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail Ii one of the latest
schemes in COnnecticut.
-Glasscoek county claims the youngest
groom in Georgia. He is I3 years old, while
his wife is 81 and has grown children.
The glut of potatoes in Southern Cali
fornia continues, In one section they are
being offered at cents a sack in the ground.
According to q Japanese belief the
Mikado Is descended from the gods, being
one hundred and twenty-f1rst in direct line
OF descent.
There are more women In British India
(1s4, ,e00, ,oo0) than there are men, women and
children in Great Britain, France and Ger.
many put together, with the population Of
several minor European states cast in as
well.
The weight Of each anchor plate on the
Brooklyn bridge is % tons. the height oftne
towers above the roadway is l59 feet. just
six years after the first wire was strung
across the East river for the bridge the first
passenger crossed.
An artesian well near Albert Lea.
Minn., which spouts both oil and water,
often changes the programme and sends out
9 stream Of small minnows, which arc
wholly unlike any known species of fish
found in that vicinity.
"A nectarine was found growing on a
peach tree at Ventura, the other day, on the
same stem with q small, fuzzy peach. The
,nectarine was the only one found on the
tree sreewal the others" as the Ventura Oh
The celebrated Treadwell mine on Doug
las Island, Alaska, keeps 240 stamps going.
The mine Is an immense quarry OF pay ore,
enough being IN sight TO keep the mill, said
20 be the largest in the world, at work for 30
years. It is four miles from juneau, q town
OF 200 Inhabitants.
The canal which Is to connect Manches-
ter, England, with the SEQ is one Of the
greatest undertakings of modern times. It's
total length will be SS1S miles. IL will be 26
feet deep, 100 feet wide at the bottom and
$50 feet at the top. 1t Is about three-fourths
completed, and will cost about As 100000.
AN Italian fruit vendor in New York
has fancy for wasps. and on almost any
day nearly 100 Of these insects can be seen
flying around or sucking the fruits and
candies on the stand. They are not all so
harmlessly engaged, however. as many set
gle on his hands and face, and sting him:
His face and hands bear witness to his bad
treatment by his pets, but he takes no no
Hce of the bites. He says he has to Sacrifices
something for his little friends, so he does
not mind.
AT glassworks in White Mills, Wayne
county, there is on. exhibition tnat is re-
garded as the finest set of cut glass ever
turned out in this country. 1t consists Of $40
separate pieces and has been ordered by the
United States Government for the white
House. On each piece of the set. from the
mammoth center piece and punch bowl to
the tiny salt cellera is engraved the coat OF
arms of the United States. This work alone
has occupied months of time. The total cost
will be In the neighborhood of g. 000.-
An Englishman who recently passed
through New York on bis way home from
Australia, whittier he went to give advice
upon the subject of the rabbit pest, de-
scribes that particular curse as something
beyond the Imagination of those who have
not seen 1t. When rabbits descend upon a
plantation in swarTns. as they frequently
do, they leave whole acres bare Of vegeta-
ton. The returning traveller Is now manu-
S Rsg DAY
Australian rabbits.
I'm the matter of mere distance covered
the records Of the worlds famous travellers
do not make much of show beside those Of
some railroad men. An old railroad man
named Layton, now sleeping car superin-
tendent at Indianapolis, has kept a record of
his journeyfngs since 1853 and the total is
2, S38, s+6 miles. Conductor S. @. Boone, late
OF the Reading, has covered 47.05) miles,
and another Reading conductor has ridden
something over !6s7 800 miles. Even these
figures would probably be far surpassed hy
the records of some of the old Captains OF
the ocean steamships.
"A Judge in Hungary was petitioned re-
Gently by members of the Nazarene sect in
the town of GyoTna for permission to cru
city one Of their number, "who was q Mes
siah, and had been called by heaven to save
men," The Judge, for a m oment was dunn
Friends" he replied. after re-
covering his senses, 81 do not wish tn inter
fere with your religious practices. Ir your
Messiah wishes to be crucified let him pre-
pare himself for death. Remember, how
ever, If he does not rise in three days l shall
cause every one of you to be hanged" The .
NaZarenes, it is almost needless to say, al
lowed their chief to live.
"A saddler near Stratford, England,
named Ryan, has discovered on an old oalken
cupboard an inscription to the purport that
The article of furniture was made by Shakes
peare's own hand. The cupboard has been
in the possession of the family for more
than 100 years, but the inscription was
covered until recently, when 1t appeared in
the process of cleaning. It Is said that the
cupboard originally came from an old
house now demolished, which had been occu-
pied by Shakespeare's family. The inscrip-
ton is in copper nails driven into the wood.
ind runs thus: Il bought it. / sawed It. I
nailed it and 1 carved it.