Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


IL feet long and feet wide.
"A fine pussy cat in Chester, Pa, fam
fly jumped for rat, caught its neck ribbon
on a nail and strangled to death.
"A resident of New Moorefeld, O., has .
cat which has adopted an infant skunk and
is as attached to it as to her own kittens.
Wheeling, w. Va, is proud Of COLI
ored man who eats nothing but lamp chims
neys and live chickens, If he can get them
"A hen which grows mustache every
spring and sheds 1t each following fall is one
of the able-bodied curiosities OF Atchison,
Kan.
"A four-legged chicken has been pur-
chased by the bulls of the New York Stock
Exchange. It is hoped the fowl will prove
TO be mascot.
Burial ground being very scarce in
Hong Kong colony, the Government pro.
poses to take up and urn Chinese unclaimed
dead buried for five or six years.
The biggest orange tree in Louisiana is
claimed to be in Terrebone parish. 1t is 10
feet in circumference and so feet high. The
yield this year Is expected to reach 1000
oranges.
The first word spoken through the Lon
don-Paris telephone was the old English
word "HeIlo." So was the second, third,
fourth and fifth. The sixth had the syllae
bles reversed.
One of the milder claims to future
greatness advanced by Pittsburg, Kan, Is
that beneath the surface of that town there
still remains s552, 900 900 worth OF coal, at tbs
lowest calculation.
1t has been reckoned that if the whols
ocean were dried up, all the water passing
away as vapor, the amount of salt remain
ing would be enough to cover 5000, 600 square
miles with layer one mile thick.
"A large number of Manchester, n. H.,
people, old and young, are saving all the
cent pieces of the issue of 1891 on the curl
Gus rumor that the Government has called
in all the cent pieces of the 1891 series.
The wife of a clergyman in New
Goshen, Ind, complained for several months
of an acute pain in the side, and the surgeon
which the lady swallowed when little girl,
nearly 40 years ago.
The depth at which some of the Belgian
coal mines are worked is something pro-
digious. In pit at Flenu the work is now
done at $500 feet; in a pit at Fremerin af
2,600 feet, and in the st. Andre pit at Nom
tigny- y-sur-Sambre at 1900 feet.
"A 12-year-old youngster at Robinson,
Me-, went to the woods four weeks ago with
his ak and felled a rock maple, and made q
violin out of it. The other day, for a caller,
he executed a reel, while his father 66 years
old, danced to the music in manner that
would test the powers of a young fellow Of
20 years.
"A Georgia editor says: "We came
across a snake few days ago that surpassed
anything in the snake line we have ever
pencil, put was about or 13 feet long, and
It's head was about the size and shape of a.
tea saucer: On top of its head was an exact
likeness of a tiger"
Under the Dakota statutes a man who
robs stage can be sent to prison for life. II
he attacks but fails to get any plunder, he
can be sentenced for half a lifetime In
half q life, the Supreme Court has upset the
sentence, figuring that 10 years,
months and days is the correct figure.
"A colored man was hanged at Trenton.
Ca, the other day. The landlord of a hotel
in that little town, advertised as followsf
"Are you going to the hanging? The Blank
House at Trenton, Ca, offers an excellent
view to witness the execution. Stop at the
Blank House, Trenton, Ca, when visiting the
hanging, May Is. Can see all from windows.
Gallows within 15O yards. Meals 80 cents"
1t is customary for the Emperor OF
China to offer prayers every New Years Day
for the welfare and bright prospects of his
subjects in the Is provinces Of his empire.
At the ceremony Is pairs of candles are
burnt, and the name of each province is
marked on each pair. Any of the candles
that burn badly signify that such provinces
as are named will suffer great calamities-
sickness and the like.
The biggest cooking main ever fought
in South Carolina was concluded in Charles
ton the other day. 1t was between South
Carolina and Georgia and North Carolina
combined, and consisted of Is fights, with
81, 900 on each side and 81 200 on the odd.
South Carolina won against Georgia and
" n n a
three days fighting Over $17, 900 changed
hands in the three days.
"A report comes from Leadville of ths
discovery of an arrow head, made of tenn.
pered copper, and of a number of human
bones, in the Rocky Point mines near Gill
beneath the surface Of the earth, imbedded
in O vein of silver bearing ore. More than
800 worth of ore clung to the bones when
they were removed from the mine. Here is
a puzzle for the geologists.
The latest scheme for direct railway
communication between England and
France provides for a double water-tight
tube, capable of containing two railway
tracks, and sunk about 40 feet in the channel.
The engineer proposing this method pro-
poses to utilize the displacement and buoys
ancy Of the tube to give the necessary sup
port, piles being driven into the channel, to
which the tube would be chained to prevenr
1t rising.
"A citizen of Stamford, Conn, has been
driven insane by his young lady neighbor
practicing on the piano, and his mania took
q very queer form. When it seized him, he
went to all the piano dealers in the town and
ordered them to send costly instruments to
the young lady's house at intervals of half
an hour. As he was rich, his odd orders
were complied with, and the young woman,
despite her objections, had ten instruments
blocking the street in front OF her house,