Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Paris bankrupt selected the door sill
| of the morgue as place for suicide.
| -rhe Rainbow Fire Company of Read
! ing celebrated its l17th anniversary recently
The English flag floats over one-sixth
/ OF the population and one-eighth of the sur
! lace of the babitable globe.
The largest hog that has been slaught-
cred in Bucks county for some time was killed
yesterday by Bristol butcher. IL weighed 9l1
pounds.
| The late Sultan of Zanzibar believed
that he was the only man not born to die, and
ne rad arranged a programme Oh rare tun for
1000 years ahead
"A new oil company has been formed to
| operate at Florence, Col, with an available
capital of s5O.OO0OOO. 1t is hummer and
organized by Major Coon.
The Jewish population of Palestine
ma mas III increased greatly in the last iVe years
| IN lI4l Palestine contained but s 900 Jews; In
lSS2 2OOOO; end of 1888, 10000.
in the formation of a single locomotive
steam engine there are nearly 5000 pieces to be
put together. and these REQUIRE to be as accu-
rately adjusted as the works of watch.
The first American Union flag was un-
furled on January l. l776. over the camp at
Cambridge. 1t had 13 stripes of white and red,
and retained the British cross in one corner.
An old negress in Dallas, Texas, who
claims to be l45. gives a clear and consistent
history of her life Although very feeble she
still keeps up her love for pipe Of tobacco.
AN electric vegetable is said to have
been discovered in India which has the power
Of affecting the magnetic needle at a distance
Of 20 feet when the weather is clear and dry
What is probably the largest cargo of
petroleum ever shipped arrived at Galatz,
Roumania, recently. 1t consisted of 100000
gallons ana was carried in Russian steamer.
Ozark county, Mo-, has a population of
12OO0 of whom 1900 are not taxpayers. In
Gainesville, the county town, is the county
jail. a structure of logs, Sxl6 feet and 20 feet
high.
Mr.. Parnell has had to pay $1,000 to
the Times as costs in the libel suit begun in
Edinburgh and discontinued. The Times
claimed twice that sum, but the court cut down
the bill.
The titles of 'lord" and "right honora-
ble' were first granted to the Mayor of Lon
don by Edward I'LL, in 1854 The title of 'lord''
is also borne by the Mayors of York and
Dublin.
The sight of piece of ice inadvertently
thrown INTO the polar bears pool at the Phila-
delphia Zoo, threw ths animals into pitiful
their old friend.
Miss Elizabeth Hewlett, who lived alone
for over so years In a hoyel near Hampstead. L.
l.. is dead. In early life she was Tilted by
young man who afterward married her sister,
and she became a hermit
1t is claimed that wall paper can be
made in such way that the passage of low
tension electric currents will heat 1t moderately
warm to the touch and diffuse throughout the
room an agreeable temperature.
1t was on July 4, 1929, that omnibuses
first ran IN England. Two then began to run
from the Bank of England to the yorkshire
Stingo" Inn on the New Road. They carried
q passengers inside. but none outside.
The piece of fat in the middle OF leg
of mutton is called the Pope's eye. because one
of the Popes of Rome was so fond Of that par
ueular bonne bouche that he used to have a
sheep killed almost every day for the sake OF it
The news comes from Teheran that the
Shah has affianced TO his youngest daughter
the little page who was his constant companion
during his recent European trip, and the
nature of whose relations to bis master was
something OF mystery.
Previous to July 6, 1876, English money
was in use in the United States. On that date
the Continental Congress established the dollar.
although the exact weight was not fixed until
August 3. l786, when it was made to equal that
The young ladies of Bath, England,
now give german and invite no gentlemen.
Part of them take the gentlemen's place. being
dressed in black, with white shirt front, high
collar and white necktie. Odds are offered
that there will be very few given.
According to figures given by a San
Francisco newspaper, California is the blood
lest State in the Union. In 1880 it had one
homicide to 3,479 of the population. In the
rhar rafa 2 rnO from in in
Kentucky to one in 81, 900 in other States
1t is related of John Rogers, the sculp-
tor, that he began life as a clerk in drygoods
store in Boston and not until he was 81 years
old, after he Fad run locomotive, worked in a
machine shop and been surveyor. did he
produce his first group, the slave Auction"
According to a writer in the Epoch,
Chauncey Depew's breakfast is always the
same-two boiled eggs. buttered toast and
glass of milk. The same authority says that
one of Mr.. Depew's stenogTapheTs is white and
the other black, and both are treated exactly
alike.
Two children playing upon a grassy
.lope at Auchmithie. Scotland, slipped and
rolled down to the edge of a steep precipice,
145 feet HIGH over which they fell to the beach
below. Those who ran to gather up their man
gled remains found them on their feet in the
sand in a general stata of mental bewildeTment
and with no worse injuries than few
scratches.
The Government of Saratoff, Russia,
sells each year to the people an immense guam
tity of tar for use in their business. All the
sales are on credit and, as the peasants can
neither read nor write. the account of each is
kept by means of certain signs made with the
tar upon his doorpost Payday comes every
fall, and then only are the doorposrs of Sara
tof washed clean until new account is
started,