Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

|
Not single infectious disease is known
in Greenland.
-Escanaba, Mich, is the greatest iron
| port in the world.
The old court house in Tampa, Fla, has
been sold for sS45.
The Farmers Alliance has been intro
duced in Germany.
Six young women recently graduated
| as pharmacists in Cincinnati.
1t will take 1OO, 900 barrels of cement to
mend the break in the 500 Canal.
| There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men.
! Excellent wheat lands north of Mani
toba overlie frozen earth that never thaws.
1t is reported that gold has been dis
covered in paying quantities near Linnsus, Mo.
Hudson, Mich, has an anti-shaving
society which the BARRIERS are trying to break
| up.
The ground on which Yakutsk, Siberia,
is built is perpetually frozen to depth of 6l2
| feet.
The roller towel has been the means Of
| spreading the grip in the Kalamazoo, Mich,
| High School.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in
length by 3O20 miles that of all the rest OF the
United States.
The proceeds of a mushroom farm in
| England will be devoted to the support of .
| scnool for boys.
The salmon fisheries of Alaska have
| yielded since 1884 more than the original cost
of the territory.
"A resident of Groton, Mass, has served
in both houses of the Legislatures of Iassa-
chusetts and Vermont
When Herschel studied astronomy only
four double stars were known. Now nearly 1000
OF them are distinguishable.
The Government will exhibit at the
WORLDS Fair a model Of the "Soo' canal lock g.
in st. Mary's river, Upper Peninsula of Mich
igan.
The first industrial exhibition ever
given in Asia took place during the past sum-
mer in Tashkend, the capital of Russian Turk
estan.
"A miner near Halifax, N. s., recently
was carrying Is pounds of dynamite on his
back when it exploded without seriously injur-
ing him.
"A New York magistrate sentenced girl
of IA to ten days Of hard labor and three
months in the reform atory for stealing maya
zine worth 20 cents.
Frozen game partakes and absorbs
whatever Impurities the ice may contain. and
everybody knows the best quality of ice ia
never used for packing.
"A member of the Syracuse Bar startled
his legal associates by declaring that case he
commenced so years ago is still pending never
having been tried or discontinued.
"A farmer brought to Milton, Fla, q
few days ago the tusk OF a hog he had recently
killed. The tusk measured 90 inches In
length. The point Of the tusk was kept worn
OF or it would have been considerably longer.
There is an old oak in the graveyard at
Midway, in Liberty county. Ga, that measures
Is feet and inches in circumference. three
feet from its base. This cemetery dates back
TO the first settlement of Georgia as colony OK
Great Britain.
1t is noted in London that the girls are
growing taller and the men shorter. The ex-
PLANTATION is that men smoke too much and
begin the practice too young. 1t stops their
growth and Injuries their health, while the girls
grow tall, healthfu and beautiful. 1t is not the
most improbable explanation that could be
offered
"A Muskegon, Mich, man went to
Whitehall the other day and bought 12O dozen
eggs. He hitched his team TO an empty freight
car while waiting for his train at the depot and
when he wasn't looking an engine hauled the
freight car away. The wagon was upset, and it
was necessary to get snow plow 90 clear the
track.
The wonderful invention of an instru-
menr which discovers comets of itself will be
great relief to the telescope and give a rest to
astronomers that have hitherto sat up nights
cunning for comets They can go TO bed, leav-
ing the new invention to do their work. It has
an advantage in never getting sleepy and let .
comet Slip by unawares.
The Homestake Mine, in the Black
Hills is generally supposed to be the richest
gold mine in the world. FOr IA years the com.
pany has never missed paying a dividend and
each month from sl50GO0 TO 500, ,OUO in gold is
taken out. The vein is 800 feet wide, and about
two miles in length, and there is enough ore in
sight to keep all the mills busy for the next 20
years.
There is a curious freak of nature to be
seen along the road leading from Atglen to
Cochranville, Pa. Two good-sized streams of
water meet at right angles on almost level
ground, each having a heavy fall in reaching
the point. The water of both streams meet
but neither is impeded in its course. They
cross like two roads and continue in their re-
spective beds.
Here are some French advertisements;
"a goyerness-with diploma-would like to ac-
company musical lady to the country and on
the piano." Here is another: "Wanted-A
French nurse who loves children of 8, and
years" And here is the queerest: "Wanted-A
professor to come twice week to the house of
noble family in order to reform the pronun-
citation of a parrot"
While well digger was working on q
farm two miles east of Nevada, o., he struck
his pick on a rough-looking stone about the size
of an egg, which attracted his attention by its
sparkling lustre- He has since had il exam
ined by experts. who pronounce it a diamond
of the first water. Considerable excitement is
caused by this extraordinary find, and the i'm
preston is that there is q valuable mine
near by.
The workmen in the deepest mines of
Europe swelter in almost intolerable heat and
yet they have never penetrated over one severn
thousandth part of the distance from the sur
face to tie center of the earth. In the lower
levels of some of the ComstoCk mines the men
fought sealding water, and could labor only
three four hours at q time until the Sutro
tunnel pierced the mines and drew OF some of
the terrible heat.
While workmen were recently engaged
in putting new set of rollers in . mill about
two miles north of Greencastle, Pa, Cupid
played an unusually strange trick. It seems
that one of the workmen looked with favor
upon a certain m aid who dwelt near by, and
the maid was not altogether adverse to these
kindly glaDces. This of course was natural
enough but when the mill-owner found IN the
barn few days later . newly-laid egg, upon the
inside Of which were engraYen lin strange
letters" the names of the workman and the
maid, he scratched his head in wonder aud
can account for the mystery is that the hon
that land the egg had probably found and eaten
one of the missives that passed between the
parties
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