Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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weighs 27O pounds
Henry johnson, a Chicago baseball
amateur, weighs 317 pounds.
1t is said that of 10,757 farms in Utah
9,724 are made fertile by irrigation.
In 20 years there has been no counter
feiting o: the American postage stamps.
Elton, or the collection of schools which
constitutes whati popularity known as Eton,
| has ], 900 scholars.
-Hailstorms do not occur in well-wooded
districts, according to the observations of a
noted Swiss forester.
| Japanese lace is coming into market.
1t is new manufacture, and hitherto has
been mainly consumed at home.
| "A woman in Atlanta is the mother of p
children, all living and unmarried The
youngest two are twins, and have just been
| born.
The "city article of the London Times
| informs its readers that Chicago is destined
to become one of the greatest grain-growing
states in the Union.
The little Kansas town of Quindaro,
that once scorned Kansas City as a rival, is
| now ruin, with moss and ivy covering its
once handsome buildings.
"A colored man is in Jail at Oskaloosa,
Iowa, charged with stealing a church ut
Evans. He was one of the trustees and ne
gotiated a loan by forging the names of
the other trustees.
Considerable British indignation has
been aroused by q fancy dress ball in India
in which officers dressed as fiends with
horns and tails danced a quadrille with
eight ladies costumed as reluctant angels"
There has been seven marriages among
the female clerks of a New York weekly
paper in seven years, and they each occu-
pied the same desk. which has become a
greatly priced one among the remaining
clerks.
At the Naval Exposition in London
there is colossal electric lamp, constructed
by the admiralty. 1t gives light equal to
that of 100000 candles, and is placed in a
model lighthouse, So meters above the
ground.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area OF 80, coo square miles.
it is all meadow land and is filled with lakes,
ponds and canals. Alt ogether it is as large
as the States of New York and Pennsylvania
combined.
There is a post at the corner of the
public square at Fairrnont, Mo-, which gets
a bolt of lightning from nearly every thun-
der storm that comes along. Three men, 5
horses and 20 or 30 sheep have been electro
cuted at the spot.
Railway statistics show that the Ameri-
can takes takes p railway trips year. the
Englishman 10, the Belgian II, the French
man, the German, Swede Norwegian and
the Spaniard, each, while the Turk the
Swiss and Italian take but each.
Australia, it would appear, has some
gigantic caterDfllars. Mr.. AS. Orliff of Sgd
ney, mentions one moth larva, abundant
during the summer season, which is from
to II inches long. Species are numerous
which vary from to 8 inches in length.
The biggest doctors fee of the age is
the 10000 marks paid by Herr Won Donner,
Hamburg merchant for Dr. Michelson's
cure of his wife. The money wasn't given
to the famous Wiesbaden practitioner, how
ever, but, at his wish, to found a hospital in
Hamburg.
DIR. NJ. A Holmes, of Waterville, aged
75, has grandfather still living in England
at the great age of ia years The latter is
surgeon by profession, and DIR. Holmes re-
members that when q boy, over 60 years ago,
he assisted his venerable ancestor in the
amputation of soldiers leg.
The old Pusey House on Race street,
Upland, is occasionally visited by people
who have a love for historical relics and
buildings. 1t is the oldest house in Pennsyl-
vania and its historic interest is enhanced
by the fact tnat William Penn was at one or
more times the guest of the Puseys. The
dwelling is now occupied bya colored fam
ly.
"A little humming bird is said to be
making himself unaccountably familiar at
the home of Dick Smith, near Thomson, Ga.
Regularly every Sunday, when the family
goes to the dining room for dinner. the bird
flies into the family room and brings up be-
fore the family mirror. where he bows to
himself and hutters and capers around ex-
tensively.
"A fall of about thirty feet between Lake
superioriand Lake Huron at sault Set Marie
gives probably one of the greatest water
powers in the word. 1t is to be utilized on
the Canadian side by a race and on the
American side bya canal ,O0O. feet wide, and
giving 2360OO horse power. Around this will
inevitably grow great manufacturing city
whenever the country around is sufficiently
settled to stain 1t.
According to the Scientific Anleriean the
earliest Connections patent found on record
was granted in October, B17, to Edward
Hinman, of Stratford, for the exclusive
right and liberty of making molasses from
the stalks OF Indian corn, in Fairfield
county, for ten years, which grant ended
with the words: "Always provided the said
Hinman make aa good molasses, and make
1t as cheap, as comes from the West Indies"
"A negro boy living in Georgia met his
death in a curious manner last week. The
boy was subject to fits, and, hearing that a
rope used In hanging u person would cure
them, the father came to town and got a
piece of the rope Sam Smelling was hanged
with, and returning home, tied it around his
boys neck. The boy had a fit shortly after
ward and 1t is supposed the commissions
caused the neck to swell. and the boy was
checked to death before the cause of the
trouble was discovered.
"A farmer named Shut, living near Sui
phur Springs, was up at the cranberry
marsh ut work, says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
when he found six pretty round eggs and so
greatly pleased was he at their appearance
that he picked them up and put them in his
pocket to take HON to his children. The
warmth of his pocket spoiled the eggs as
for the children, for when he
reached home Mr.. Shut found that he had
five little blacksnakes in his pocket, one OF
the eggs failing to hatch.
"A Cincinnati woman the other day
wanted a warrant for the arrest of a man for
theft on the ground that the spirits had in
formed her that he was the guilty person.
'Oh, we can't issue a warrant on such evil
ience as that" exclaimed the clerk. Not
when Bright Star, the late chief of the Chip
oewas told me himself?" exclaimed the wo-
nan in astonishment. "I'm afraid not" was
The reply. "This is an outrage" she eX-
claimed. bright Star seen him when he
lone it. And If that amt evidence I'd like
20 know what is. But it's gitrin' so there
lint no justice in this country, anyhow. I'll
ell Bright Star bout this, see If don't.
And he'll paralyZe the hull blamed court,
hats what he'll do" And she walked out
ike an offended Juno.