Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


of Pslstka, Fla
The Indians Of Alaska are reported to
be fond OF strawberries soaked in sealoiL
-Iauique, the Chilean port recently cap
tured by the insurgents, ispronounced Exec
ka.
"A Lawrence seed house shipped L, 600
pounds Of sorghum seed to Melbourne, Aus
tralia. last week
-Atchison sets up claim to the smallest
calf ever born in Kansas. 1t weighs only eight
pounds, including the tail.
The Nicaragua Canal is more likely to
suffer from eruption than from the miasma
There are volcanoes all around it.
An Eastern doctor experimented with a
lot Of monkeys 70 see how they would stand
tight lacIng. and every one Of them died in
short meter.
One of the burning questions now in
the colleges for the higher education Of women
Is whether the undergraduates shall wear the
cap and gown.
The auctioneer is great parsonage in
the Argentine Republic. An auction is the be-
ginning. the end, and the intermediary period
or almost every transaction.
"A novel design ior a pocket corkscrev
appeared In 4 jewelers. window lately. When
OF crabs claw. which opened on both sides,
disclosing the essential part of the article.
The census shows that kentucky has
only % Cinnamon. which is an increase of 10 in
ten wears. The negro population increased
only l.o3O In the decade. while the whites num-
per No, oE more than they mustered ten years
ago.
While Germany loses only 11O persons
yearly from smallpox, France loses "A 900 in the
same time. This astounding difference is at
tributed to the rigid enforcement of vaccina-
tlou IN Germany. and to carelessness about
the matter in France.
The public dinner was never such an
institution" as 1t is now in the United States.
Our American feasts are more freouert and
more sumptuous, and il we may trust our Brit.
1sh brethren. more brilliant in the speech.
making than their own.
There are ID, ,O56. 100 horses in the United
States. 2296532 mules, I6Ol9,5el mich COWS,
36.675,64S nxan and other cattle 43 43I l36 sheen
a9d oO.6zolO6 hogs-and all these animals are
on ,ne farms OF the country, not counting those
IN the cities. towns, ana villages.
Recent inventions in electrical appli-
ances for the use of dentists are said to make
the operation of filling teeth so pleasant and
PAINLESS that dentists nov furnish their pa-
tients with looking glasses and they watch the
operation with pleasure and amusement
Henry Stragsr, a rich farmer in Brax-
ton county. W. Va, says the Lord appeared to
him in person and commanded him to sell all he
had and give to the ponr- He then disposed of
his property tn his neighbors. VINO succeeded
IN getting his farm equipments at ridiculously
low figure.
Alabama owns about four square miles
Of oyster beds, and these beds are amongst the
most valuable in the United States. Every
a rel 0f nxye for faL of fha
paya tax of 10 cents. which will pay the expense
OF INSPECTION and put into the State treasury
about $4,000 year.
"A novelty in cane heads has just been
produced by New York jeweler. 1t is a per-
fectly plain knob. which, on being opened, dis
closes the surface Of q half dollar. The coin,
however, is onlv the outer cover of a series of
leaves, on which photographs may be placed
There are spaces for eight portraits.
The man who subscribes on Sunday
must pay in Indiana whether he wants to or
not. An indianapolis church member who
subscribed to church building fund at
tempted TO wrggle nuf Of it by claiming that
the contract was illegal as 10 was made on Sun
day, but the court has decided that he must
pay up.
Prof. Langley has detected in the suns
rays long range of ether-waves before un-
known. Light Is composed Of minute "waves'
or pulsarions of extreme rapidity. transmitted
TO Us from The sun, not bv air. as The sound
waves are, but by the "sther." the subtle sub
tutes the only medium Of communication be-
tween the worlds.
The train shed Of the new Pennsylvanis
railroad STATION in JERSEY City is claimed to be
the largest structure of its kind in this country
There is a clear area of 256 feet wide by 600 feet
long. which will be covered by roof of metal
and glass, providing room for II tracks, with
wide platform between. The roof will be car,
ried by % arched trusses arranged in pairs and
rising 80 feet from the ground at the center.
The thrifty citizens of RussellVille, Ky.,
get rid of carcasses by tying them to the rear
of Pullman sleeDers on night trains. At firssa
sucking calf was hitched on by a stout rope,
and only few nights ago it was large hog.
A porter on the sleeper was frightened out Of
his wits on fhe latter occasion when he stepped
out on the platform and saw large black OBJ
ject sailing along in the air about 20 feeE in the
rear.
The telephone was suggested as early
as 1854 by the DtdoskGlid, newspaper, of
Frsnkfort-on-the.Main. Said the editor: The
number of miracles with which electricity has
astonished us lately is said to have been in
creased by one which would not only cause a
revolution in electrical teIegraphy. but would
add considerably tn utility. The invention
in question Is nothing less than the electrical
of the spoken word"
"A lunatic arrested in Brooklyn gives
the following account of himself: II am the
of Japan and have given full in
to my lord high executioner to hang
400 prominent people in Brooklyn, beginning
with Saloon Keeper Rothenback. of Broadway.
and winding up with Mayor Chaplin, Dewitt G.
Talmage and Boss Mclaughlin. After that ]
will have regiment of amazons composed OF
all the tailor girls of DufchtoYn. Their uni
forms are already ordered"
Over 100 tools and processes have been
invented by safe burglars which are marvels Of
ingenuity and scientific knowledge. recent
burglars outfit, captured by the police. con-
sisted of little giant knob breaker diamond
drill and high explosive Of the nature of dy-
namite, but put up in the form of a powder. II
would open the strongest bank safe in a half
hour and without noise enough 10 disturb peo-
ple in the next house, while the entire outfit
could be carried in the pockets of an ordinary
coat.
The visitors first experience of the
hotels in Buenos Ayres is his first disappoint-
nent With the excep ion of the Grand Hotel,
which would rank With third and even fourth
lass houses in Europe. all the 80 or 40 hotels OF
3ueDO< AyreS occupg Inadequate buildings,
md they are badly furnished, badly managed
nd altogether wretched dirty and comfort
ess. NEVERTHELESS, the prOpripfors make good
,rcfits. They charge from g 80 to slz gold
lay for each person, and their houses are al
Ways full.