Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Chicago has 5000 saloons.


A Baltimore mulatto is turning pink.
Brooklyn has the distinction of having
the shortest cable road in the world. 1t is
but 2 500 feet long.
"A COW with seven legs is owned in
Athens, Ga. The extra limbs grow from the
top of her shoulders.
Africa is land of many tongues The
Bible has now been translated into IS of its
languages and dialects.
"A former well-to-do Kansas farmer who
Is over six feet high and weighs nearly 200
pound, IS stranded in Oklahoma, and is sell
ing bouquets of wild flowers for living.
"A public school law recently passed in
New Mexico has caused a great demand for
school teachers. The applicants so far have
not been above one-third the number re-
quired
I'm the museum of the Dead-Letter
Office at Washington, d. c., there is piece
of parchment upon which is penned a copy
of the Lords Prayer written i'll "a different
! languages
AT Munich there is an hospital which
! is entirely supported by the sale of old steel
| pennihs, collected from all parts of Germany
| They are made into watch springs, knives
! and razors.
| DR.. Flers, President of Ecuador wish
| ing to celebrate his birthday by some act of
charity, granted pardon to 81 prisoners
| Forty-six of the 81 were behind the bars again
| within q week.
Colonel Bill Zevely, of Jefferson City,
while at Lake Pulaski, Mimi, last week
caught IL new kind of fish, the Indian name
/ of which he says is the "Razzle-dazZle whip
| per-whopper.'
Herr A. Noll of Reringer, in the Black
Forest, has invented clock warranted to
go without winding until a. d. g9l9. 1t is
| understood that Pension Agent Lemon, who
| is now abroad, may buy it.
"A portable telephone for use on the
| battlefield has been invented by n French
man named Roulez. Farragut at s''e main
top with bis trumpet may yet be succeeded
by an admiral with Il telephone.
Apples are as profitable crop in Cali
fornia as oranges. \ grower whose rancho
is up 4, 600 feet in the Sierra Nevadas figures
out a return of So 1O6 per acre gross at the
rate OF 6L cents per pound, which he re-
| ceived.
"A Banning (Cal) constable arrested
two vagrants, who were tried and given 90
or five days each. They had no money, but
they could both play the ban 20, so the Judge
suggested that they get upa dance, which
was done and enough money was raised to
pay both fines.
A Ukiah, CAL, man, the owner of a
three-story hop house. recently conceived
the idea of turning the building into mann
moth incubator for the Matching of chickens
He has given evidence of his faith in the
practicability of the scheme by setting a
hatch of 24,OtO eggs
"A cubic foot of aluminium weighs 157
pounds. A cubic foot of copper weighs $50
pounds. A sheet of aluminium II inches
square and inch thick weighs IA pounds. a
bar of aluminium inch square and II inches
thick will weigh LII younds. cubic inch
of cast aluminium weighs O.O92
Probably the most remarkable railroad
in the world is that running from Gloggintz
to Lounering, near Vienna. 1t is only 25
miles in length. but cost s9,OO00OO. 1t begins
at an elevation of l,4OO feet and has its
terminus at 13.G00 feet. 1t has l5 double
viaducts, II tunnels and crosses itself nine
times.
The recent hot wave in Southern Cali
fornia cost one rancher there over $500 in
| one day. He had a bee ranch at Newhan
which in the forenoon was worth $500 About
/ o'clock hot wind came up, which in two
or three hours had melted the honey, smoth-
cred the bees, and cleared out the whole
thing.
| Voting day in Japan presents some curl
ous sights. The voters have to don their
| best garments and proceed to the voting
| counter, there to ballot without any parey
ing as soon after o'clock aspossible. After
casting their ballots they make bow to the
| asSemblage present, in which their heads
| nearly strike the floor, and retire as silently
as they came.
A Pennsylvania barber has just COM
pleted novel fishing line which occupied
five years in making, and is made entirely
of human hair of every color and shade,
nicely woven together. Every time he
operat ted on the glossy locks of O female Gus
toner he begged few silken threads. The
line, which is over 100 feet long, is an unusu-
ally strong one.
The fees incidental to the obtaining of
the title of Baron in Germany said to
figure up about So O00 that of Count so 600,
| Duke $50 600 and q Prince $4,000. They say
one of the reasons why Bismarck didn't
| accept the title of Duke of Lauenburg was
| ON account of the expense involved,
| though It is doubtful if he would have
| taken it if it had been brought to him on 8
| silver tray.
"A big leopard seal came I'D in the
| midst of lot of bathers at Santa Barbara,
Cal, causing good deal of alarm at first, as
| some thought he creature shark or sea
| serpent. Some of the boys barked like
| seal and the visitor seemed for a time to
| think it was among friends of its own kind
\ and kept coming closer, until finally, taking
| in the situation, it turned tail and fled out
| to sea again.
| "A countryman from a considerable dis
| tance back entered an Atlanta restaurant
| and proceeded to make himself at home by
| hanging his coat on the electric motor that
whirled the fans. This stopped the motor
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| had washed his face at the water cooler and
| was preparing to wipe it on the dangling
i belt when the proprietor came along and
! took him in charge.
-Telegraphy without wires is said to
| have been accomplished in England. Mr..
| Preece the head electrician of the postal
| system, succeeded in establishing communi-
| cation across the Solent to the Isle of Wight
| and teiegraphed across the River Severn
| without wires merely using earth plates at
| q sufficient distance apart. 1t is now pro-
posed to make practical use of this system
| In communicating with lightships.
According to the Scientific ADaericds, the
earliest Connecticut patent on record was
granted in october, 17I7, to Edward Hinman,
of Stratford, for the exclusive right and lib
erty of making molnsses from the stalks Of
Indian corn, in Fairfield county, for ten
wears which grant ended with the words,
always provided the said Hinman can
make as good molasses, and make it as
cheap, as comes from the West Indies"
"A curious case of gross superstition was
recently brought before the Criminal Ses-
sions Court in Samara, in Russia. Six per-
sons were tried anu sentenced to imprison-
ment for terms Of various duration up to
four months for deliberately disinterring
the body OF q woman who had died of intOX.
ication and floating it down the Volga as q
means of causing rain. 1t seems to be quite
a fixed belief among the Russian peasantry,
saws q correspondent that throwing the
dead body of a drunkard into the river is O
sure cure for want of rain.
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.