Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Boston market.
john Woodbeck, 1O1 years old, died at
Pewamo. Mich, Monday.
"A Leslie, Mich, woman has gersnium
four feet and one inch high.
w. A. Kent, living near Rea, Mich,
has 6-year-old son who weighs 90 pounds.
For rapid pronunciation: An anony-
nous Ananias is an anomaly and an anchron-
ism.
The proprietor of Philadelphia cigar
store has posted a sign in his place forbidding
smoking.
The underground system of telegrsphs
of the German Empire has total length Of
$500 miles.
The Chinese have no straight streets or
walls, because they believe the devil travels in
straight line.
"A cluster of fine ferns frozen in the
heart of block of ice decked a Philadelphia
dining table lately.
Am octogenarian, who lives six miles
west of Moberly, No. was baptized the other
day by his grandson.
The people of Mexico have taken to
drinking beer. Breweries are springing up in
every city of Importance.
The soreness can be extracted from q
Quantity of burning sugar.
The printing press which Voltaire set
up in Fernay to demolish Christianity, is now
used TO print Bibles in Geneva
"A carload of maple sugar was received
at st. Joseph, Mo-, the other day from Canada.
It contained 20, 40 pounds, and was valued at
81, 4S0 45.
The new Archbishop Of York, DR..
Magee, formerly Bishop of Peterboro is the
first Irishman who has ever become Primate of
England.
Statistics show that about 13 per cent of
all railway accidents in the United States aris.
ing from deraiments are caused by defective
frogs and switches.
AN English company is working a sill
yer mine in Bolivia which yields more than $50
ounces to the ton, while specimens of almost
pure silver are met with.
1t costs cents to swear in a certain
Grand Rapids factory, and the box which con-
talns the fines and which is now nearly full is
soon to be sent to the heather.
In 16 cities of Virginia the negroes own
property worth s., 81, ,542. the greater part of
which is in real estate. In Richmond their
possessions amount to $50, l3S
During the 40 years of his life the
Prince of Wales has drawn s16,5O0, 900 from the
public treasury of Great Britain. and his debts.
Little Matilda Oreicb, the Detroit girl
whose scalp was entirely torn from her head
last fall is now able to walk out on fine days.
The process OF skin grating is going success
fully on.
The press and land owners of Portugal
are becoming alarmed at the dearth of culti-
yators. and demand that the Government shall
put stop TO emigration, as husbandry is suf-
fering.
"A nursery for the raising of skunks has
been established at Homer, Mich. Phewl A
rabbit hatchery is also in full blast at the same
place, but that isn't quite SO bad. Their skins
are wanted.
The official Russian bulletins now be-
ing issued assert that the number of German
colonists within the empire have become dan
gerous. In one province they form 10 per cent
of the population.
The largest olive oil factory in the world
will soon be built at Los Guilcos, in Sonoma
county, Cal. The plant will cost S25U, 900. The
company has 80 acres of six-year-old trees and
is planting 700 more.
In counting his small change the other
day, a Michigan man found the most valuable
scent piece extant. The jarring on the table
caused the piece of money to split in two and
from the center rolled gold dollar.
"A Southern farmer has produced from
CObLOn SIdlho ldDTIC SulbaDl6 IOE DaKR1Qg,
which may rival jute. The problem which the
inventor successfully solved was how to sepa-
rate cheaply the material from the woody tber.
Bruce Douglas, aged &c years. who
claimed to be nephew and heir of Robert
Percy Douglas sixth Earl of that name, died
recently at the County hospital in San Fran
cisco as a result of dissipation and pneumonia.
"A curious scarfpinworn by Nashville
man is a petrified human eye set in gold
80 Nt,.1
ornament found it in Peru while he was on an
exploring tour in the land of the Incas with q
party of scientists.
of Cardinal Simor's immense fortune,
one-third is beQueathed to the canons OF Grau,
one-third to the Cardinals sister, and one-third
to the poor. All cash found in the Golfers of
the epfscopate is left to the Pope amounting
to probably sl,OO00OO.
"A man was recently sent to prison in
New ork City because he could not furnish
$500 bond to keep the peace. As there was no
one to furnish it for him this was practical i'm
prisonment for Lille, so after a couple of months
the man was called up and discharged
1t is authoritatively stated that the
electrical underground railway in London has
proved that speed of "a miles an hour IS prac-
ticabe. There are bills before the House of
Commons from many other British cities for
rapid transit railways on the same plan.
1t has been calculated that the electro
motive force of bolt of lightning is about
35OO,OOO volts. the current about 14,OOOOOO
amperes and the time to be one-twenty
thousandth part of second. In such bolt
there is an energy of 2,45O,0OO,O00 watts,
3, 2S4, lS2h.p.
Experiments were made last week in
Lake Como with a submarine cannon. The
gun can be lowered to any depth desired aud
remain quite invisible when in the water. Its
ProJectiles may be discharged at will with Toss
destructive results without the use of cleo
tricity. The gun is destined tor the defense of
ports, bays and gulfs.
The sermon delivered by Rev. Thomas
K. Beecher, on Sunday, the 1lth inst, at the
Park Church. Elmra, N. Y, on the life of the
late Mrs Olivia LangdOn. mother Of Mrs. Sam
uel l.. Clemens. was distinctly heard by the
latter and her husband MARK Twain). at their
home in Hartford, Conn.,, by MEANS of long
distance telephone. The distance is 450 miles.