Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| "A ton OF diamonds is worth S35, ,OOO, OOO.
Never was whalebone so dear as it il
now-s5 so pound.
"A famous Snowman has succeeded in
training geese TO perform.
The London Religious Tract Society last
year issued n. .O00. .OO0 publications.
Hyde Park, large town recently in
corporated with Chicago, has not single
saloon.
The only bronze statues in the United
bus are at St. Louis.
"A boy baby born in Atchison. Kan, .
week or two ago has been christened "Hard
Times" by his parents.
One million oranges were used in build
ing the pavilion at the California State Citrus
FAIR now in progress at Los Angeles.
| Near Atlanta, Ohio, the other day, q
farmer hada battle with a large gray eagle,
| measuring feet 8 inches from tip to tip. After
himself receiving considerable injury the
| farmer killed the bird, which Is SAID to be .
magnificent specimen.
"A genius in Berlin has invented an ap-
paratus by means of which daylight can be
| distributed into the darkest rooms. The power
| OF lighting any room by this apparatus is said
| to be unsurpassed. 1t retains that power Tor
Wnlle being In function all day.
More than 10, 900 medical students have
graduated during the past two years in the
United States. and are now looking for business
in that line. The number seems out of all pro-
portion, but a medical journal declares that
1000 graduates per year can be turned out to
make falr living, as the population advances
in the same ratio.
A canvas-baek duck flies at an habituaI
0f ,;,,t,
emergency to 40 The mallard has flight of
45 miles hour; the black duck. pin-tail,
widgeon and wood duck cannot 10 much better
Inc Dlue-w1ng and green-wing teals can do 100
miles an hour and take it easy. The red-head
can fly all day at 80 miles an hour. The flight
of the wild goose is 100 miles per hour
The Minnesota Legislative Committee
on Expenditures has unearthed a peculiar
fraud. 1t was found that it had cost the State
SIS, GOO the last season for wolf bounties, SIS
being allowed for each scalp. Inquiry de-
veloped the fact that regular wolf farms ex.
listed in the northern counties of the state
where wolves were raised In large numbers
simply for the purpose of selling their scalpS 70
the State.
The elevator in buildings is not so
modern an invention as many suppose. In the
royal palace Mt Luxembourg near Vienna, in
HI, was q machine by which the Empress
Queen Maria Theresa, who was too unwieldy
to go up and downstairs, was conveyed through
well from one story to another. The well or
shaft extended from cellar to roof, and the ele-
vator had three strings. which, when pulled.
served as signals for "go up" down" or
stop"
-Macomb, ILL.,, has colt with human
head. The little animal is perfectly-formed
horse, with the exception of its head. which is
as near like that of man as it could be with
out being human. The neck is rather long and
slender; the cerebrum is round and about the
size of a grown man; the ears are deiIcately
formed. and in proportion to the size of the
head; the mouth and nose, though in their
proper place, are very much deformed, the Two
jonlng each other.
"A farmer near Lunenburg, VT, one
morning found sore place on the shoulder OF
one of his COWS; as she stood at the further end
of the stable he thought she might have rubbed
it, and changed her place, but the next morn
ing it was much larger and another COW also
had a raw place ON her shoulder. The peculiar
disappearance of the hide became a puzzle.
After watching he found that rats were actually
eating the hide off his COWS. Quite large
patches had been denuded.
Over 100 tools and processes, which are
marvels of ingenuity and scientific knowledge,
have been invented by safe burglars recent
burglars outfit, captured by the police, con
sisted of little giant knob-breaker a diamond
drill and a high explosive of the nature Of
dynamite, but put up in the form of a powder.
1t would open the strongest Dank SaIe IN q nall
honr, and without noise enough to disturb
people in the next house. while the entire outfit
could be carried in the pockets of an ordinary
coat.
The criminal courts in Glatz have con-
demned a Breslau shoemaker to two months
for insult of majesty" because
he retained his seat at public meeting while
three cheers were given for the Emperor. The
Judge who gave the sentence explained that
the shoemaker might have escaped with
lighter penalty had he not aggravated his
original offense by placing his thumb to his
nose and wiggling his four fingers" when re-
preached with disloyalty by his friends In the
meeting.
Black wool is worth from to 10 cents
per pound less than the corresponding grade of
white wool. A sheep raiser, in order to insure
the separation of the inferior product, placed
his black sheep in a pen by themselves. There
were 63 of these dark-colored animals when he
left them one night, but. on returning the next
he found three of them killed by a
wolf that had managed to gain entrance to the
pen while the remaining so had turned per-
fectly white from terror. The gain in value Of
the wool on the 80 more than repaid the loss Of
the three.
A young workingman in Dubuque, Ia,
bought colored shirt. In tearing of the tag
be discovered a note therein requesting the
purchaser to correspond with the maker Of the
,hirt in a New Jersey manufacturing town.
md hoped to find home and husband, when
he conld be happy. He wrote to her. was
pleased with her replies, went to New Jersey
md married her. Three weeks after they were
United for life, she received a letter from
England, the home of her ancestors. contain
ng a draft for $1,000, and notification Of the
act that she was sole heir to fortune of over
.15O, 900.
The life of submarine telegraph cable
5 from 10 to II years. If a cable breaks in deep
yater after it is ten years old it cannot be
Ifred for repairs, as it will break of its own
weight On this account cable companies are
repaired to put aside large reserve fund in
rider that they may be prepared to replace
heir cables every ten years. The action of the
ca is the great enemy of the submarine cable;
eats the iron away SO completely as to turn
he outside coating to dust or sediment, while
he core is still intact. The breakage Of an
cean cable is a very costly accident, owing to
he difficulties to be encountered IN repalringit-
often becomes necessary in case of break
0 charter a ship at $500 per day for several
avs IN succession trying to fix upon the loca-
on where the cable has parted. One breakage
! the Direct Cable Company's line few years
90 cost that syndicate Sl25, ,000