Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Paris contains 81, 426 trees.


Fresno county, CAL, has $4,000 acres o
vineyards
The School Fund of Butte, Mont, con-
tains $4,000 in hard coin.
"A Russian millionaire is building the
largest steam yacht known-1,OOo tons,
"A tunnel between Scotland and ireland
Is discussed, 30 miles long. to cost s40,OOO,OOO
-Parisians send each year 80, OOO. 900 let
papers.
The japanese armv has had its first
maneuvers. Twenty thousand men were en-
sageo IN two opposing forces.
The English professional football plav-
ers get as high as 81 900 for the season and an
additional weekly salary of SIS or $40,
Each year Parisians take ont 1000
patents for various inventions. send and receive
grams. ''''''''' N-'' ''''
"A tusk seven feet long and tooth
weighing over seven pounds. supposed 10 have
Deen part OF mastodon, have been unearthed
at Monson, Ia.
AT Fort Myers, Fla, day or two ago
DR.. "a. j. Brown cut a stalk of ribbon grass
which has been growing one year, measuring
between IA and l5 feet in length.
1t is said that the Red Maize clan of the
Omahas would not eat red maize, and the Elk
clan Of the same tribe would not eat the flesh
or touch any part of the male elk.
"A very extensive domestic in dustry in
Russia consists in the manufacture of wooden
spoons. which are made to the extent Of
SO,OOoOOO annually mostly of birch.
In Paris there are II 900 cabs and the
same number of omnibuses; 25,OOO objects are
lost each year in cabs. and at the railway
stations 81, 100000 travellers arrive yearly.
Believing himself to be descended from.
ard therefore akin to, his totem, the savage
naturally treats it with respect If it is an
animal ne will not, as rule kill or eat it.
The number of species OF humming
birds now known to exist considerably exceed
4OU The largest among them measures no
more than 81 inches, and the least 23S inches. q
Out of the bark of the birch, which is
impermeabe to water kind of bark shoes is
N made u in Russia. of which it is estimated that
= VOoOOO pairs are annually worn by the Russian
peasantry.
Between January 1 and November Is
the shipments of orchard and vineyard products
OF Fresno county. Cal. amounted to % 400 OU5
pounds. 1t required ], ,170 cars to move this i'm
meDse load.
Water in Mad river, Humboldt county,
Cal, is very low. SAYS the Arcata linton, and
the mouth is entirely closed. Countless num-
Ders ot salmon are swarmng in the surf wait
ing lot a chance to run up stream.
AN agent for a San Francisco COM
mission house went to Visalia recently and
bought 8. 200 turkeys in one dav He paid 81 50
Tor each bird, and so placed S4 800 in circula-
tion among the women of that place.
The Osages have a myth that they are
descended from a mail snail and a female
beaver. The snail burst her shell, developed
arms. feet and legs, and became fine tall man;
a1terWard he married the beaver maid
Among the Narrinyeri in South Aus
tralia men of the Snake clan sometimes catch
snakes, pull out their teeth or sew up their
mouths and keep them as pets Sara Bern
tribe.
1t is said that not less than s10O, 1000
worth of corn cures" are annually sold in the
United States. There are some of them that
may be not unreasonably regarded as cultivar-
ing corns enough to account for the sales of the
others.
The singular fact is on record that in
one instance as the young of the humming bird
grew in size the walls of the nest were height
ened by the parents. until at last the nest was
more than twice as big as when the eggs were
laid and hatched.
"A man in Jackson county, Ore, has
been blowing this fall with steam engine, and
has found that 1T works quite successfully.
He pulls eight plows with his eugine and turns
over the soil at the rate of l6 acres per dav.
The cost of running the outfit is not over IS
per day.
The Swiss railways intend to introduce
ths zone tariff for passengers, now that the sys-
tenn proves successful in Austro-H Hungary.
During the first year of the zone tariff in Hun.
gary the various lines carried over I3.OCOOOO
passengers, against 1000 900 during the previous
twelvemonth.
AN extraordinary incident occurred
recently in England during a run with the
hounds of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn In
passing cottage the fox found himself among
a lot of fowls. Absolutely regardless of posi-.
Bile consequences, he snatched up one OF the
BIRDS and carried it is mouth to the end Of the
run. and was killed with it in his mouth.
Two copies of every article that is ac-
cepted by the editors are kept by the great
magazine publishers. When a manuscript is
accepted it is at once copied OUT in typewriting
and after that one copy can be sent to the art
ist who is to illustrate it. to the printer who
is to set it up, without the risk of such loss as
will compel the author to rewrite ii, and the pub
Usher to pay Tor it twice
The other evening, up at Mehama, Ore,
when George P. TerrelPs little l2-year-old
daughter went down to the pasture to drive up
the COWS she found pretty little 2year-old deer
feeding with them. She drove the cows to the
barnyard. and the deer ran along with them, as
sportive as a calf on June morning. When
they were all secure in the barn the deer was
caught with but little trouble and Is readily
submitting to domestication. It is fresh and
hearty and will make nice pet for the chill
dren.
The food of humming-birds consists
mainly of insects, mostly gathered from the
a Ar obs
that even among the common hower-frequent-
ing species he has found the alimentary canal en-
tirely filed with insects, ana very rarely trace
of honey. 1t is this fact doubtless that has
hindered almost all attempts at keeping them
in confinement for any length of time-nearly
every one making the experiment having fed
his eaptives only with syrup. which is wholly
insufficient as sustenance. and seeing therefore
the wretched creatures gradually sink into in
anition and die of hungar.