Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

j, New York has 60, 900 night workers.
The world has 325 electric railroads
London buttonhole makers get 50 cents
day.
1t may interest some people to learn
that blondes get seasiek much more easily
than brunettes.
They pay 80 week for hired girls in
Trenton and allow them the use OF the par
Ior one night in the week.
The big 26-ineh lens which Alvin Clark
has made for the United States Naval OBJ
| sition.
Officer Rollings, of Philadelphia, is
said to be the largest policeman in the
United States. He is 6feet inches in height
and weighs $40 pounds.
| An iron buoy belonging to the United
States lighthouse service recently drifted
across the Atlantic and was picked up on the
/ west coast Of Ireland.
| AT The Dalles, Ore, last night destruc-
tlVe nre burned a number Of blocks in the
heart of the town. The flames were famed
pS onlgh wind. Loss roughly estimated at
Out of Jas strikes in England last year,
In which &4,4s0 people took part, 476 were
successful, 207 were failures and 81 were un-
decided. Theavefage duration OF the strikes
was Is days.
AN illinois man has just completed q
tramp from North Lawrence, ". Y to Chi
eago, distance of 500 miles. He is n years
old, but In spite of his long walk "his step Is
firm and elastic.n
Halliday, the inventor of the cable street
car system, states that the sight of six horses
EVaainly endeavoring to draw car up steep
hill at San Francisco first suggested to him
the foundation for his invention.
1t has been reekoned that if the whole
ocean should be dried up, all water passing
away in vapor the amount of salt remaining
would be enough 20 cover 500, 600 square
miles with layer one mile thick.
A French mechanic committed suicide be-
cause he had lost the power to drink. He
left letter saying: "One small glass of
n9uor makes me i'll now. As 1 cannot live
WITHOUT drinking, am killing myself"
st. Charles, Missouri, has two young
ladies TO every marriageable young man in
town. The girls are all pretty and smart
ana the boys are in clover A matrimonial
bureau has beer formed. Object-so induce
twenty-five young men to locate there.
-Brookfeld, Conn, was badly scared re-
Gently by claps of thunder that are reported
10 nave sounded like large musical gongs or
far-of bugle. "a great many who heard
them, them were sure they presaged the end of the
would give small fortunes to have for
gotten"
-Ihe queen" or Indian river pines
for which st. Augustine is famous had their
source In the pinery OF Mrs Kate Chase
Sprague at Canonchet, where they were
grown from plants presented to Mrs. Chase
Dy the Duchess of Devonshire. Mrs. Chase
gave some Of the plants to Mr.. ID. A, Nc
MILAN, OF Providence. who introduced them
in Sc. Augustine in 1870
The most extensive salt mine is in
Wieliezka, near Cracow, Austro-Hungary.
For 800 years it has been constantly worked.
and from it IS, 900 tons of salt are annually
taken. The mass of salt in it is estimated to
be 500 miles long, 20 miles broad, and l2OO
feet in depth. Its collective galleries are
fully 30 miles in length, and its lower levels
contain streets and houses, making it a
complete underground village.
"A labor problem of very serious
nature is troubling the people OF Brazil.
The recent emancipation of the slaves has
completely demoralized the agricultural
and domestic labor of the new republic. It
is verv difficult to get sufficient field labor
to cultivate the crops, and many families
are entirely without servants and are unable
to get any. The negro ex-slaves positively
refuse to work for love or money.
Another relic of the rebellion has been
discovered in Virginia. A few days ago
being cut in two near Bloody ANGLE in
Spottsylvania county, the saw went through
the butt end of II 2pound shell which was
imbedded in the log out of sight. 1t is sup
diameter ar the time the shell was fired In
1868. as these trees grow about quarter of
an inch year.
"A strange discovery has been made in
France at the Chateau Champlain, A grower
found that his vineyard was encumbered
by an old decayed wall, and obtained per-
mission to have it pulled down. In a sort of
cavity be discovered two male skeletons
with their necks, hands and feet riveted to-
gether with iron fetters; some remnants of
clothes reduced to dust were found on the
ground where the skeletons lay, as well as
some rusty iron fragments.
1t is not often that person will apply
for admission into an insane asylum on the
ground that he is crazy. But that is what
Nebraska man did the other day. To his
disgust he failed, however, in convincing
the county poormaster of his insanity, and
he remarked as he left the office: Before
the end of the week I'll convince you that
I'm as wild as hawk. I'll take of nv
clothes, run the town, make speeches from
the court house steps and other freaks of
like nature that I'll undertake will insure
my bed and board until next spring."
-Ringgold, Ga, was visited by a won
derful phenomenon recently. Millions upon
millions of ire-hies issued from neighbor-
ing mountain ridges and took down the
course of the Chicamauga river, which
skirts that city on the southern border. The
pyrotechnic display was grand. Trunks Of
trees skfrting the river were plainly visible
D quarter of a mile distant, and the entire
mountain side was illuminated. the horde
Of fire-fies was fully 40 feet high, and it took
l quarter of an hour to pass down the
stream, extending over a mile along its
course.
AN enthusiastic fisherman in Connecti-
,ut enjoys the sport without sacrificing any
of his home comforts. His residence is on
he Williamantic river From back win
low he has strung a wire across to the top
If tree. just over a very good Fishing
lole" he has blocked the wire, and with
carrier and a reel he slides his baited hook,
tinker and line down the wire to the block
rhe contact releases the reel, and as it un-
Winds the baited hook drops unto the water
md '1shirg'' begins. sitting at home he
an feel the nibbles and bites, and a quick
notion secures his prey and pulls it along
he wire tc the house.