Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-London's streets reach 80, 900 miles.

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"A man at Gregory, Mich, has shipped
ten carloads of Christmas trees. One went to
Philadelphia
"A British professor has estimated that
the cloud of smoke which hangs over London
weighs 800 tons.
There are now 200 regularly ordained
women preachers in the United States, where
4O years ago there was only one.
Virginia will probably adopt system
OF leasing its oyster beds Maryland receives
an immense revenue from similar source.
The second son of lPrin ce Albert of
Prussia is destined to be the husband Of little
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. He is a lad Of
Is years.
The sewing machine is only A years
old Matches have been in common use since
1922 and Americas first street car line dates
from 1928.
"A luminous crayon has recently been
invented to enable lecturers to draw on the
blackboard when the room Is darkened for the
use Of the lantern.
The production of metal aluminium by
eectrolysis at a cost little above that of tin
is what some French chemists are sanguine of
being able to accomplish
The total length of the streets, avenues,
bouleyards bridges. quays and thoroughfares
of Paris is set down at 800 miles, Of which pearly
zoo are planted with trees.
"A Mormon zealot has started a paper
at East Jordan, Mich. which he ehristened
Herald Of the Millennium. One article in his
creed is that it IS ungodly to wear boiled
shirts.
The white mourning of the youthful
Queen of the Netherlands is a revival of an old
custom. Some ancient orders of nuns, CORE.
spending to the Passion1st one for men, used to
dress in white.
-Corsets, tight shoes, and all artificial
and fake ideas of dress are discountenanced at
Mr.. Moody's Worthfield school, and girls are
taught the higher ethics as well as practical re-
suits Of physical culture.
e. Elwood, OF Mt. Morris, Mich,
guessed he would die nine years hence. He was
SO sure of it that he had his tombstone erected
and dated 1899. His prophetic vision was at
fault, as be has Just died.
AS rule it is said that the kola-eating
African gangs who labor at unloading vessels
earn twice as much as their competitors. The
kola bean is nutritive and uuenches thirst,
and at the same time is notstrictly stimulanL.
The wild eockatoos of Queensland, when
plundering eornfield, post sentinels to give an
alarm. If one bird is shot, the Others instead
of at once taking to flight. hover screaming
over their dead comrade until many of them
share his fate.
ing rabbit at Rich Hill recently, it took shell
ter under hen with a brood of chickens. The
| old hen nearly picked and scratched the eyes
out of the dog and from that day to this the
hen and the rabbit are inseparable.
The Physical Culture and Correct Dress
Club is an outgrowth of the Women's Club of
Chicago. 1t has 300 members devoted to the
| realization of classic symmetry in physical
being in opposition to false standards Of
| beauty and to developing and adopting artistic
and sensible modes of dress.
The lady at Stockton Springs who Joins
| the ranks of Maine centenarians. this week.
| finds IL women and 7 men there before her,
| though she is at present the only one reported
| in Waldo county. Bagadahoc claims first
honors, having among Its citizens five persons
who have lived more than hundred years.
-Boehm, the sculptor, whose death was
| reported last week from London, found models
for some of his fine equestrian statues in horses
| owned by himself, one of which he had trained
| to rear uD on command. 1t is said that he had a
| thoroughbred mare which became so used to
the studio that she picked her way among the
| statues like cat
"A Wapakoneta, o., dispatch 70 the Gin
cinnati Enquirer says: There was born to-day
| to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Oberhozer of this CITY,
a boy. Mr.. ObeEhOlzer is so years of age. He
| is the gentleman who gave his wife 5000 cash
and large oil farm on the day of their mar
rage, and for the first time is father He
came up the street to-day singing at the top of
his voice."
"A Brunswick, Me-, physician tells the
| Brunswick Telegraph that the pecuniary loss
for the past year in that town arising from a
loss of time, paid for physicians, medicine, etc..
| from typhoid fever alone, would pay the inter-
| est on system of sewers for Brunswick. The
| same Is probably true of other places. This is
one of the arithmetical facts that can not be
| brought to public attention too often.
about to be opened in South America, connect
| ing Buenos Ayers with Montevideo. This
| however, is not surface road but an overland
"telpherage l1ne" and its object IS to carry
| letter boxes between the two cities. IL crosses
| the mouth of the La Plata where it is 10 miles
wide, and two wires are supported by tower
on each side of the river nearly 30 feet high.
-Chrysanthemum dances are all the rage
in England just now. At a great ball in Bir-
mingham the other evening" Mrs Herbert
| Chamberlain was dressed as a white chrysantb-
| emum in a skirt of white silk stiffened and
| shaded to represent the petals of the flower;
bodice OF green silk to represent the stem, with
and head-dress of petals, forming the heart Of
the flower.
Air brakes are not only coming into
| general use on freight trains, but have oven
been introduced on street cars in Chicago
| taking the place of the old brake which stops
a crank
| rod. The world is certainly progressing when
| even for street cars, rapid motors, thorough
| heating and lighting and the use of continuous
| air brakes are not only proposed but actually
| in operation.
The day after the tobacco factory in
Madrid was burned, 10000 women invaded the
| palace courtyard, and Queen Christine gave
| orders that delegation should be allowed to
| come to her. 1t was a strange sight. says an
| eve witness to see these cigarieres, with their
| shawls crossed on their hips, and their red
| ing the staircase of Charles V.-never before so
| invaded. They brought with them little boy
| about the age of the young King, who, mounted
| on the shoulder of his mother, lisped out little
| touched took the little fellow on her knee and
| kissed him several times. The Queen promised
help and in the meantime gave 5000 to the
| cigarieres.
"A sketch which has just appeared of the
life of the well-known electrician, Emile
| Berliner, refers to the progress which has been
| made in the development of the gramophone
| The gramophone differs from the phonograph
! in that whereas in the latter the sound is
recorded on a wax cylinder in the former it is
etched on q metal plate. A company has been
formed in Europe for introducing a small
\ sized gramophone, suitable for general use,
which will be sold for $40. By taking cellu-
Ioid casting of the sound etchlngs any number
OF reproductions of them can be made. It il
proposed to have depots from which the voices
OF celebrated vocalists and the music of cele-
| brated orchestras can be sent out on gramo-
| phone discs all over the world for social and
| public entertainments Laboratories have
already been established in Berlin and other
| large cities in Germany. and it IS intended to
establish in every city a gramophone Office,
where voice records can be cut In solid metal
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