Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

year TO print uncle oaIn 3 paper money an
revenue stamps.
In Georgia barnyard scratches youn
fowl that is half guiuea-chicken and ha,
just plain chicken.
There are now 129 newspapers in Or,
gon-one over an average of four to eac
county in the Stat9.
Over 50 tons of documents deposited
the British Public Record Office have bee
destroyed as OF no value.
The Portland Oregoridn SAYS the dee
about Upper Soda and Warm Springs al
being wantonly killed by the Indians th
fall.
The construction of the great Siberia
Railway has hardly begun, and we alread
hear of strikes taking place among tn
workmen.
"A Brunswick, Me-, young. woman
said to have found 600 different kinds
flowers in a recent botanizihg exploratio
of Mount KineO. s.'-
1t is said that, during the attempt
cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panam
200 900 ounces of quinihe were used annual
in com mbating malarial fever.
The town of Larne has been illumiu
ated with electric light for the first tim,
This is the first town in the north of Irelan
which has adopted electricity for illumini
tion.
The Mongolian pheasants which wer
turned loose in the woods near Grass Vale
are prospering. 1t will be the year 49,
before the law will allow the killing of thes
birds
"A Sedgwick county (Kan. farmer WI
didn't have enough ready money to got
tine circus bought a sack of flour for 81
on trust, sold it for cash for 81, and got int
the show that way.
"A hundred and ninety-nine pounds
Rotatoes from a single pound of seed! Thu
is what a Howell Prairie, Ore, farmer raise
this year. And he wouldn't tell a lie for
single pound of spuds.
1t is said that more covered wagon
filled with immigrants from the East, boun
for Western Oregon, are to be seen on tt
road now than ever were in the days befoI
the advent of the railroad.
Two hundred and eighty-two years ag
Hendrick Hudson discovered the river thi
bears his name. The "Rhine of America
is too poor a little for it. 1t is unique, pee
less, needing no borrowed glorfes.
"A Dubuque, Iowa, man has invented
self-corking bottle. When the bottle is j
the side pocket it remains corked whe
raised to the mouth It is uncorked by tt
cantilever movement of the elbow.
"A California young lady, who has bee
spending the summer at Sullivan, Me-,
voted much of her time to seeking out rel
tives, and now has acquaintance with
whom she never saw before this year.
There is only one woman doctor
Sweden, but several other women are stud
ing medicine, though the time necessary
qualify seems appalling. 1t takes nine yea
from the date of the first examination.
II II
University, known as Prof Rowland's the
memeter is valued at $40, ,0O0 1t is absolute
perfect, and the graduations on the glass a
so fine as to require the use of q micrOscoI
in reading them.
"A fve-foot vein of finest galena o.
ever seen in Wyoming has been struck
Casper Mountain. Geat excitement is sa;
to prevail in camp and in Casper. tt
prospectors are greatly encouraged, ar
new finds are daily expected.
AT Offenbach, Germany, system {
pipes for the transmission of power
compressed air has been established. Tt
pipes are placed about Is inches below tt
pavement. A trial of the system Shove
that only about l3 per cent Of the power wG
lost, which was regarded as an eXceedingl
favorable showing.
The recent census of Paris shows thu
the city contains 1901 residents of the Unite
States. There are ASH BelgianS, 26,s63 Ge
mans, "a 900 Swiss, q, 123 Italians, L, ,727 En-
lish and Irish and 5000 Russians. 1t is ca
culated that there are 100 900 French citizen
in the United States, 26, 900 in England, an
only 1000 in Germany.
st. Charles, Mo-, is in worse positio
than any OF the towns in Massachusetts,. ]
has two willing and waiting young wome
to every ma rria geable man in its population
and w hen a baShfuI VOUnu fellow wants 4
go out for an evenings walk he has gene
ally to carry his grandmother along to sc
that he isn't eloped with. .,..
AS instances of longevity in birds Will
in state of captivity, Nature reports th
death of a European crane tGrus cineres
which had lived nearly 43 years in tho LoI
don Geological Gardens. This is exceedet
however, by the case Of a black parrC
(Coracopsis vasa) which died in 1884, afte
having lived 81 years in the Regents Par
"A French scientist has compiled son
interesting statistics to show that lare
percentage of the worlds most famous me
of learning have been clergymen's son
This deals blow at the old saw abou
ministers sons" and as for the deacon
daughters" many of them, like Mrs. Stow,
the Brontes and Mrs. Trollope, have bee
famous.
From the records of Yale College durin
the past eight years it is shown that the MOI
smokers were 20 per cent taller than tt
smokers, 25 per cent heavier. and had 80 pt
cent more lung capacity. In the last gradl
ating class at Amherst College the mol
smokers have gained in weight a per ceI
over the smokers; in height, 81 per cent; |
chest Eirth, AZ per cent, and in lung capaciG
36-l0O cubic inches.
Toronto thinks the late Dominion Gel
sus was Porter affair and the city official
are debating the advisability of foIlowin
New Yorks example and taking a municfpf
census The Mayor think the city has bee
bunkoed out of about 20 900 population ant
more than 00,G0O inhabitants. 1t is probab
that the police force and fire departmeI
will make a count of the city.
AT Olden, Mo-, there is fruit farm
1900 acres, which was started in the sprin
of 1884 by the planting of 5000 peach tree
In the spring of 1885 some 5000 apple tree
300 peach trees and ten acres of berrit
were planted. In the spring of 1896 ten acr,
of berries, 5000 apple, and 10000 peach tree
were planted. In 1887 five acres of berrie
:, 1,010 pear, 200 apple and 5000 peach tree
were planted In 1883 five acres of berrie
5000 apple and. 5000 peach, trees, wei
planted; and in the spring of 1889 ten acre
of berries, 500 cherry, 1000 pear and 5000 a,
of the farm up to March l, 1890, covered q
acres, of which 500 acres were in peac
trees, 800 acres in apple trees an
100 acres in pear, plum and cherry tree
raspberries and blackberries: This year b
tween 5000 and l00, 900 bushels of peacht
have been picked. The entire crop was sol
to the New York firm of Wing Brothers ft
so cents Il bushel. The peach crop this yef
will almost pay the original cost OF the farr