Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A strong flow of gas was struck at
depth of 80 feet in well sunk on farm at
Comber, Ont.
The deepest hole ever bored into the
earth is the artesian well at Potsdam, which is
$500 feet deep.
1t Is claimed that in almond and Ma
deria nut culture the Pacific coast bids fair to
surpass the world.
The Warrick county, Ind, jail is with
ont an inmate, and It is claimed that fear of
White Caps derers crime In that county.
Sixty thousand people are out of work
in the city of Berlin. Ninety thousand are out
of work in the East End Of London alone.
1t Is estimated that nearly 10000 pick
erei have been taken so far this winter from
Long Meadow pond, near Waterbury, Conn.
Mrs. Albert Carpenter, of Prairie
Ronde. Mich, although 81 years old. made
2246 pounds of butter last year, doing all the
cburning herself.
Dearborn county, Ind, has 12-year-
old boy with feet Is inches in length. He is
called Professor" because of the solidity Of
his understanding.
"A band of % antelopes was seen By
trainmen, Wednesday near Ensina station,
Ore The animals approached TO within re"
yards of the train.
hypodermically TO the human body in which
electricity is brought to bear is receiving con-
siderable attention.
DIR. Zoller, of Paris, has just recovered
from an illness of three weeks duration. which
he.attributes to an injection of the Koch lymph
administered experimentally.
AN unfeeling burglar captured pair
of wedding pants at Sturgis Mich. Sin an ex-
ceedingly inopportune moment The wedding
had to be postponed in consequence
AN English newspaper speakes of Okla
homs as being entirely surrounded by "the
Great American Desert" The idea was taken
from the biographies OF years ago.
The advance from 10 to Is cents, which
the BARRIERS of Topeka have made in the price
of a shave, is accounted for upon the theory
that hayseed is highly destructive to razors.
A rival lover of a Sturgis, Mich, girl
succeeded in getting temporary postponement
of the other fellows marriage to her by having
his new dress suit stolen from the tailor shop.
Examples have been found in this coun-
try of kyanized timber which was in a good
state of preservation after 2S years exposure.
but it seldom lasts a very long time when used
for railway sleepsrs.
"A Russian paper says that political
exile sent to Siberia has more money. better
food. more comfortable clothes and lodgings,
dier in the German army.
Judge Loomisr of Sufield, Conn.,, dur
ing the past week has been sleighing in an an
cient sleigh which belonged to his great grand
father, and is believed to be nearly 100 years
old. His horse wore sleigh bells which were
owned by the Judges grandfather, who died in
lS12.
An electrical railway fog signaling ap-
paratus being experimental with in England
s-Foo
metal rail at some distance from the ordinary
signals, sliding contact on the locomotive
completes an electric circuit and works the slg-
nal indicators.
While gathering sand in the river near
Knoxville, Tenn, a few days ago. two boatmen
were attacked by "a huge serpent-shaped ami
NAL, about ten feet in length. and. after des-
perate struggle, they barely escaped with their
lives" The animal. 1t is averred. had a head
like fish, and appeared to be nearly two feet
thick.
The American astronomical party. sent
out to Peru by the University of Harvard. has
removed its observatory from Chosica, near
Lima. to Vincocaya, in the nelghborhood of
Arequipa, place 4, 200 meters above the ocean.
There the party will soon be joined by new
expedition from the same university, provided
with the most improved instruments.
-Horseshoes of compressed paper have
been introduced into the artillery and cavalry
of the German army. The shoe is made Of
sheets of parchment paper cemented with n
preparation of turpentine, Spanish white lac
and boiled linseed oil. The separate layers are
stamped out, cemented and consolidated by
hydraulic press. When dry the shoe is rasped
to fit each horse.
-Collals, near Mines, Franco, village
of 465 inhabitants is lighted by electricity. The
motive power for the 1,6O0 light dynamo is de-
rived from a small waterfall. The streets are
L.. 11.,E.
Besides lighting the village the current is en-
ploved during the day in putting in motion the
pumps for supplying certain parts OF the vii
lage with water.
The sight of gang of convlcts in prison
suits of broad black and yellow stripes at work
in the public parks of Richmond strikes a
Northern man as peculiar feature Of the Vir-
ginia reformarory system. They work even in
the shadow of the State House. keeping the
walks and lawn in order. They are short-term
men, and do not require much watching TO
prevent their escaping.
"A Western Nebraska farmer having no
corn to feed them. loaded up wagon box full
of shoats and took them to Broken Bow to sell.
No one would take them and he turned them
loose. The Marshal told him he would arrest
him unless he took them out of town. He then
drove home. and was going to kill them, when
some one told him that he might be arrested
for cruelty to animals. He hardly knows what
to do.
The third wealthiest man in Prussia is
Baron Won Bleichroeder, the celebrated banker
of Berlin, to whom many of the noblemen of
that interesting capital are indebted. The
Baron has an income of 2,5200O0 marks, and
pays a tax of 10 500 marks. Next TO him are
three men with incomes of l.320.OOO marks,
1000 900 marks and /, 10000 marks. on which
they pay. respectively, $1,000, $1,000 and 3d. 20
marks taxes.
Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe,
who was created a baron in 1886 and is now in
his 18th year. has constructed a clock for the
postoffice at sydney. 1t is the largest that has
ever left England and was especially designed
by his lordship who made the models for Big
Ben at Westminster. The Sydney clock is dis
tinguished by a novel feature. as it will emit
an electric fash light lasting hve seconds every
hour during the night. thus enanling those
living miles away or travelling within a certain
radius to ascertain the exact time.
AN exhibition is to be held this year at
Moscow, Russia, and will be open for period
of six months, from May to October. The ex-
bibition will be exclusively devoted to the
productions of the French nation. a concession
having been obtained by committee of French
merchants and manufacturers from the Gar
for that purpose. The exhibition will be d.
yided into nine sections. devoted to the fine
arts education, liberal arts, furniture and ac-
cessories textiles, raw products. machinery,
electricity, food stutfs, agriculture, vine cul-
ture and horticulture.