Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Detroit will spend s., 900 for wines at
the big G. A. r. banquet.
More registered letter business is done
in the Chicago postoffice than in any other
postoffice in the Union.
AN aged travelling scissors grinder has
has died In Michigan City, Ind, leaving an
estate valued at s2l 900.
Next to Germany Great Britain and it's
colonies now send the most immigrants to
America. Ireland follows next.
"A resident of Eyart, Mich, has invent
ed device whereby brakes applied to a
locomotive will operate every brake on the
train.
AN Adrian CMich man showed lawn
mower over nest of bees the other day, and
according to a local paper hasn't done any
thing since but apply poultices and quote
Greek.
When the owner of a pet donkey in
Jackson, Tenn, purchased rival and in
stalled it on his farm the jealous original pet
resented the intrusion by braying 80 loud
that 1t burst blood vessel and died.
An old ranchman in Harney Valley,
Ore, has been in the habit of hauling his
daily supply of water from 80 miles away, in
order to save digging well. He could
secure an abundance of water 10 or Il feet
deep.
Napa, Cal, who employed nearly two score
of Japanese in his orchard. has brought with
it the conviction that in industry, sobriety
and discipline they cannot compete with the
Chinese.
In the early elections of Oklahoma
the rival candidates stood in wagons placed
some distance apart and their adherents
gathered around them and were counted.
The elected man took office at once, and his
ODpVe0
Congress.
Two cooks of Ashland, Ore, one a
negro and the other Chinaman, INDUCED
in q novel contest q few days ago to see
which could clean a chicken in the shortest
time. The celestial won in % seconds and
the fowl was still kicking after being de-
nuded OF its feathers.
Fla, decided to tear up and renovate an old
pin cushion that she first made over 80 years
ago 1t had on it nine coverings, that had
been put there from time to time. From the
inside of the pincushion she got 80 whole
needles, besides several broken ones and q
number of pins.
One section of the historical collection at
Dresden is literally museum of boots and
shoes, being, it is believed, un equaled in
the world as a repository for the footwear OF
celebrities. Among the things of interest
shown are pair of shoes worn by Martin
Luther at the Diet of Worms, and the toilet
slippers of the great Maria Theresa.
Brussels walters are organizing strike
against fees, the greater part of which goes
to the proprietor, what remains being in
sufficient to make up for non-payment Of
wages 10 them. The proprietors regard the
present system as the more feasible and are
not nkely to encourage any change that Will
compe! them instead or their guests to pay
the walters wages.
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The Xerobates Agassizii, the grass-eat-
ing turtle of the A1ojave Desert, is said to be
the only one of the turtle species which
lives by grazing like a horse or an OK Xer-
obates digs hole in the sand to escape the
intense heat; is about ten inches in length
when full grown, and weighs from six to
eight pounds. Coast dealers in curiosities
value them at 50 each.
Prof. Tolomei, an italian chemist, con-
oludes that the ozone produced by electric
discharges in thunder storm coagulates
milk by oxidizing it and generates Tactic
acid. Mr.. Treadwell, of the Wesleyan Uni
versity, in discussing this, states that the
action 1s not mere oxidization, but it is
partly produced by the growth of bacteria,
which is very rapid in hot, sultry weather.
-Atypographical error caused the render
ing Of "Gambetta" as "I am better;'' and
what was intended to read "a bridge carried
away by drive of logs'' being rendered as
"A bridge carried away by drove of hogs"
Another blunder of this sort made an adver-
tisenent which should have read, The
Christian,s Dream; no Cross, no. Crown" ap-
pear as "The Christians Dream; no Cows, no
Cream"
"A girl baby born near Mendoza, Va, q
few days ago, but which soon dice, had three
eyes. The eyes in front were rather wide
apart, while the third eye was situated on
the left side Of the face, midway between
the left eye and ear, and about half an inch
hn1O 1OtU ina hofx
stead Of a nose there was a tumor, the size
OF an egg, lacking nasal ducts; the occipital
bone was wanting.
"A dense school of herring has appeared
in the White Sea along the Soomski SETTLE
ment in ArchangeL 1t was godseDd to
the people Of the whole settlement, who had
been reduced to actual starvation by the
dearth and want of food. The villagers
netted such quantities OF herring that there
was not salt enough in the whole district to
preserve the entire crop,and many hundreds
Of pounds had to be thrown back into the
sea.
This is the way Lady Caithness, Mme
Blavatsky's successor, was bedecked at g
recent reception in Paris. The diamond
cross which she wore was the most amazing
thing in the room, and was as great curios-
ty as the Mozaim set of gems in the French
crown jewels. She wore an olive velvet
dress, embroidered with steel. She had riV-
1rs VI ulhlnonus euSlng Cne upper part OF ner
coPsage, the stOmacher and the sleeves, and
on her head countess coronet, with pearl
On each spike nearly as large as pigeons
sgg. She has n large fortune, and has just
q, ,O00, 900 more.
Eight years ago inquiries were made
which showed that in the lesser colleges
!, 800 a year was the average for full pro-
fessorship. Columbia paid $500; Harvard
and Johns Hopkins, 5000; Yale was endeav-
oring to reach this level; the maximum at
,he University of Pennsylvania, Amherst,
williams and other colleges of like rank was
(, 600; at Michigan q, 500, and so on down to
q, ,0C0 or less in small institutions. These
figures have not materially changed, but the
rood man unless he is very young.