Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Chicago expects soon to have law linn
iting the height of buildings.
Paris Figaro prints special edition in
an office 500 feet up in the Eiffel tower.
Mary Fisher, colored girl. is valedic-
torian of the graduating class of the Atchison
High School
Cal Thornton, of W ebbsboro, Ga. killed
size of a dove egg IN 1t.
j. F. Duffey, of Cumming, Ca, re-
Gently set hen on II eggs She Matched 10
chickens and left four eggs in the nest.
"A 4weeks-old big belonging to Noah
Montgomery of Cumming. Ga, was found.
frozen to death on the morning OF June
Human beings are still being sold in
the famIne-stricken districts Of China. A
child under 10 brings from dollar to dollar
and a half.
"A subscription bar is to be opened In
Berlin, where for $3.50 one can drink for
whole year, and where monthly subscriptions
will be sold.
of this years graduating class at
Princeton 80 will, it is said. become lawyers, q
ministers, IA doctors, Il business men and
newspaper men.
-ACollege journalism hourishes at Har-
keep the daily newspapers of Boston, particu-
larly the Sunday papers, supplied with college
news.
The greatest snuff taking country in the
world is France, though it shows decline in
the habit. In 1859 the consumption was 13.0OO,-
900 pounds, or seven ounces per head. Now 1t
it is five ounces
John Williams, bachelor in Augusta,
Me-, was told that certain widow had set her
cap for him. and John was so afraid that he
might be roped into marriage that he went to
the barn and hanged himself.
The care fox takes of her cubs can be
seen from list of provisions found together
about an -earth' It comprised 10 rabbits, 20
rats, 2 pheasants, wild duck, fowls, snipe, 2
woodcocks, 30 moles: total. 10 head.
-AAAmerican was arrested on the Aus
trian frontier for having in his luggage unmis-
taxable dynamite bombs. On further investi-
cation they proved to be cOcOanuts, something
that the Austrian authorities had never seen.
"A Georgia farmer prevents his cows
from jumping fence by cutting off their lower
eyelashes-making them think the fence is
three times as high as it really is. If you cut
the upper lashes reverse Illusion will result
he says.
Great Britain counts on soon having
the largest dynamo in the world. 1t is being
ford. The shaft of the machine will be turned
out of block of steel weighing 20 tens which
has just been cast in Glasgow.
For several years there was stand
ing offer of $40 for partridge's nest containing
more than II eggs, the records at the Smith
sonian institution giving that IS the greatest
number of eggs OF that species to nest. A
party of Worcester girls recently won the
money by finding nest with Is eggs.
g Taff1rdc Of Wauorouu 90 al
of peculiar reptile discovered recently by
one of his sons. 1t was snake about six feet
long, jet black. and having two horns. The
horns were about two or three inches in length,
and crooked so that the tips pointed toward
each other. When it crawled its head was
raised at least foot from the ground, andithe
horns would keep moving, almost touching to-
gether.
France claims the honor of utilizing
higher water pressure than that recently put in
operation in the Chollar shaft on the Comstoek
lode, in Nevada. At Brignoud, II miles from
the valley of Gresivaudad, near GrenOble,
turbine feet 10 inches in diameter was put in
operation in the year 1875, utilizing head Of
1888 feet. 1t Is still working, and gives force
of l,500 horsepower, with flow Of 70 gallons
of water per second.
According TO the latest educational re-
port of 1884 only ,466.9l3 of l5.OOOOOO children
in the Russian Empire attended schools. About
80 per cent, therefore. Of young Russia receive
no instruction at all. In so Governments there
is only one school for secondary instruction to
every $1,000 boys and q, 900 girls. Only % per
cent of the boys Of any age to attend public
high school can be accommodated. For girls,
the number of such schools Is even more insig-
nifcant. The schoolmaster cannot be said TO
be abroad in Russia yet
The common fly lays more than 100
eggs, and the time from egg-laying to maturity
is only about two weeks. Most of US have
studied geometrical progression. Here we see
it illustrated. Suppose one fly commences ITO
multiply and replenish the earth" about June
]. June Is, if all lived, would give $50 Sup
pose 70 of these are females; July would give
u.s. supposing no cruel wasp or other untoward
circumstances to interfere, II, ,259 flies. Suppose
5,625 of these are females; we might have July
15, S43, 720 flies. 1t might cause bad dreams il
carried on further,
Although John L. Sullivan wears q
large shoe, he has not a large foot for so heavy
man. 1t is a very manly. natural. uniform
foot His fighting shoe is No. TO- The high
instep measures 81; low instep, 81, and the
ball, 81. The seam measures IA and the ankle
81. On the shoes the spikes are placed one on
the heel, one on the outside of the ball and one
a little back of the big toe. The shoes which
he will wear in his fight with Kilrain are made
of fine French calfskin. The heel is fiat and
low and the whole shoe is as near the exact
shape of the natural foot as possible. His
dress was made on No. last.
Colonel George W. Adair, of Atlanta,
Ca, has sombrero which cost him $1,000 The
only ornamentation about it is cord of gold
braid wrapped around the crown. Years ago the
Colonel bought copper mine in Mexico, for
which he paid s6, 900 in cash. He left his home
and went to the land of the greasers to show
them how to make money out of a copper
mine He bought the sombrero and big pair
of boots to wear while bossing the workmen
digging out the ore. The mine had been pretty
well salted, or something else was the matter
with it, for it yielded no money, and Colonel
Adair, after some time spent in losing money
on it, was glad enough to leave it and return to
Atlanta. The boots have long since worn out,
and all the Colonel has to show for his 81, ,000is