Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Teeth are pulled by electricity.
Indiana has women notaries public
Alaska claims the worlds largest quartz
mill.
Boston is building the first American
steel bark
Evansville, Ind, miners will run CO.
operative mine.
of Uncle Sans IA, SOC, 600 cotton SPIN
dies 4,5o0,00o are in Massachusetts
-Newfoundland's annual catch of Goldfish
sometimes reaches 1O0 100000 in year.
One dollar minute is the charge for
using the new London-Paris telephone line.
There are 536 authorized guides in the
Alps. Six of them are over 20 years of age.
The Central London Railway will run
three workmen's trains-fare for six miles, 3
cents.
The first trades union of women in Bel
GUM is an organization of women tobacco
workers in Antwerp
Farmers are travelling by the score to
Mystic, Conn, to get look at grapevine
on which potato vine is growing.
-Pennsylvania makes 81 out of every 100
tons of rolled iron in the United States, and
SO out of every 100 tons of steel rails.
The metal in Scent nickel piece is
worth about half cent, and Is cents will
purchase copper enough to make g worth
of cents.
1t costs 1 Il cents per pound to bring tea
from Yokohoma to New York 500 miles, and.
10 cents pound to send tea by express one
mile up town in that city.
Two Delaware calves having the usual
number of legs are reported; but as one has
three and the other five, they might have
been exhibited as curiositfes if an eagle had
not borne one away the other day.
Cleveland has for years had a deaf
of having been a thoroughly efficient
officer, and as he cannot hear sound he is
obliged to be more than usually watchful.
The harbor authorities of Southampton,
England, the great mail port, have decided
to adopt electric cranes for the unloading Of
vessels on account of the greater rapfdity
with which they will enable work to be per-
formed.
-"Jack the Chicken Ripper is the latest
of his class, and operates among the henner-
les of Montclair, N j. Tfe other morning
more than 800 chickens w6fe found on three
streets OF that town. The throat and breast
of each had been ripped open.
There is a story of an ocean steamship
catching up piece of cable in the North
river, and towing it all the way from New
York to Liverpool and back without discov-
ering to what mysterious cause the strange
reduction of speed on the round trip could
be attributed.
An absent-minded Philadelphia father
consented to wheel the baby to the park in
the coach, and the mother flew up stairs to
put as many unnecessary clothes on it as
possible. When she got down the father
was gone and she saw him in the dim dis
tance pushing the empty vehicle.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about to put on a new train to Chicago to
be known by the name of the 'Illindopany
Special" This mongrel word is conglom-
GRAFTON OF the first letters OF Illinois, indi-
ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, the
States through which the train will run.
I'm Germany at present there is singu-
lar law which makes proofreaders respon-
sible for what appears in the journals with
which they are connected. One of them is
now undergoing an imprisonment of four
as the Reichsgericht thought, was altogether
improper.
The walters of Paris have risen in revolt
against the custom which DEGREES that they
shall shave their faces. They are said to be
the only class of men in France who are not
now at liberty to do what they like with
their faces, and they demand that the condi-
tion which signifies the nature Of their occu.
patton shall be removed.
The fora of Europe embraceS5Ebout
IN ooo snac,es Irdio bas oho,,t Ixnan rb.
British possessions in North America. though
with an area nearly as large as Europe, have
only about 5000. One OF the richest horas is
Snas Oh Gape 1L ~ 6no anu Sa'al, %niea
afso is rich in snecies' abont Ia. 200 being now
known.
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n0 " M - OOJ' Va 'n0
brooklyn Dlssrlct IeIegrapn company nave
been supplied with bicycles, and they go fly
ing through the Brooklyn streets at q speed
not heretofore believed possible for weary
and deliberate messenger boys. The expert
ment has so far been so successful that more
= %heets S,i.S are w oe OOugh'- anu 1ne Ooys are
"A ret1red farmer, VINO mas time to try
experiments and note the results, says that
Ior the past tnree years ne mas planted a
Dean a. or cmo IN, III eacn po.aeo mn, anu mas
heao e,a ,o,-3os ~ ~ POSo So.os SYP' fGt
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= ssh slIliPlS II anu VIII pay 1or Sne VrouDle IN tne
crop ol oeahS'
How is this for matrimonial advertise
ment: "a stamp collector. the possessor of a
collection of ~ IA stanns' wishes 10 ,ner,.z a
lady who is an ardent collector and the Dos.
SCISSOR of the blue penny stamp of Mauritius,
Issued in ls4I" 1t appears in the Mo1sitel7-
0i Gne as. hsianu oi anu ene stamp
az about S1 oOo on aeconnt ot its raT;ty
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Wo1,'.Hs~ s - se-4-
piins 1S uaeHins SOn' onu noU Ho' Anohey
enough le1t 10 get away from the capital.
The administration, going out of power, in
It's very last davs gave him a foreion mis-
z;on Ha dra1r for IL from, the trae