Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

navy this nscal year.
A new $4,000, 900 British battle-ship,
the Hood, is being built at Chatham.
The boys in Guilford, Cheuango county,
have killed 2793 woodchucks this fall.
1t is a superstition that where the eagle
builds its most the lightning never strikes.
1t has been shown that if the sun were
a burning sphere Of solid coal it could not last
5000 years.
If dog desecrates any church in Salt
Lake City by entering its door, the owner of the
brute is liable to fine of 81
The holly, as Christmas green, comes
to MS through Christian traditions; but the
mlstletoe Is relic of the Druids.
There are in the United States 35 or
more colleges of pharmacy, or departments of
pharmacy of universities or colleges.
An illuminated vellum fan will last for
centuries. Illuminating paints are body water.
colors that preceded the discovery of oil paints.
Sir John Lubbock kept queen bee for
10 years. test proving her eggs to be Just as
fertile at that age as they were II years before.
The sun is tremendously large. 1t is
equal to ], 300 900 earths. but owing to its small
density its weight equals that Of only $4,000
earths.
-Bodenianche and John Davenport, two
Indians of the Coeur dAlene, Washington,
reservation this season raised and sold for cash
5000 bushels of oats.
An indianapolis man has constructed a
bicycle of steel tubing and aluminium. which,
though exceptionally light, is claimed to be
practically unbreakable.
Oregon has the name of raining IL
months in the year, but Grandma Vanhorn
dried six bushels of apples in the sun this
week, says the Sheridan Courier.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson
said recently: The State of Washington has
more coal than Pennsylvania. more pine than
Maine and more fish than Massachusetts.
The use of holly, in particular, dates
back at least to the founding of the Roman
saturnalia, for the plant was dedicated to
Saturn, and regarded as an emblem of peace
and good will.
The library of the Seventh Regiment,
of New York City, contains new treasure. It
is an album of about 75 Photographic views
taken along the line of Sherman'S march
through Georgia.
Emperor William, of Germany, has is
sued a book of regulations ordaining, among
other things that 1.-THE distance between the
rows of gold lace on 4 field officers sleeve
shall be .27T559 of an inch.''
1t is only within few years that pho
Biography has been applied to the investigation
of the heavens with SO much success as to
make 1t one of the most powerful and fruitful
means OF research in astronomy.
"A carload o! Indian ponies from the
Snake river country passed through Athena,
Oregon. last week en- route for Missouri. They
were purchased for Sl3 per head on an average
and sell from $50 to $50 per head.
MIR. Gladstone is theowner of the largest
lead pencil in the world. 1t is The gift of a
pencil maker of Keswick and is 80 inches in
length. In place of the customary rubber cap
1t has gold cap. Its distinguished owner uses
1t for walking stick.
Can we look forward to a time when the
| chemist will manufacture our sugar, when the
| sugar-cane and the beet-root will cease to be
planted. because their products can be more
cheaply manufactured from coal or wood? Re-
| suits apparently as improbable have happened.
Every stone in the tower and spire of
st. John the Baptist's Catholic Church, in West
| Thirtieth street, New York, was hoisted to its
| place by derrick. the motive power of which
| was an old white horse. The congregation is
going to see that its last days its best days.
"A large pumpkin was recently exhibited
| in a store window in Cleveland, and a prize
| offered to the person guessing the number of
| seeds it contained. Over 10000 guesses were
| made and three persons named the exact num-
| Der, l,O17 The guesses ranged from no seeds to
| 20000.0C0.
| The total area under ditch in Ell PasO
county (of which Colorado Springs is the chief
| eity), is II, ,946 acres There are 81 reservoirs
! constructed at an estimated total cost of $685.
| CO., and four partially completed reservoirs
\ which, when finished, will have cost Sd, 900.
There are in all 60 bitches.
| Forty years ago a Rose du Barry vase
| sold in London for nearly $1,000. wedgwood
sold his copies of the Portland vase, ten inches
| high only. for E2u0. A century ago Dr. John
son said that the Crown Derby ware was as ex-
| pensiVe as silver. Tie sale of the peachbow
| vase in New York shows the possibilities in
| values.
The Salvation Army has money and
property in the different countries where it is
established valued at S3 2l3.6gO The trade
| effects, stock machinery and goods on hand
| are valued at S560000. Some idea of the trade
| department may be gathered from the fact that
| they sell 1000 army bonnetS every year to the
| female soldiers.
MIR. Arnell, while cutting timber one
day last week, north of the city. says the Gray's
| Harbor (Ore.) Times. came upon petrifed
| deer He brought it home with him and has it
| on exhibition. 1t is the root of tree. twisted
| and gnsrled into most startling likeness to a
| deer with its four legs, neck, head, body ears
| and even hOOfs complete.
| -Carrenter mentions the case of SOM
nambulist who sat down and wrote with utmost
| regularity and uniformity. Not only were
the lines we'll written, and at the proper dis
] tances but the is were dotted and the Us
| crossed: and in one instance the writer went
| back half a line to make correction, crossing
| Off a word and writing another above it, with
| as much caution as If he had been guided by
! vision"
The suferings and death of Osiris were
the great mystery Of the Egyptian religion; and
some traces of it are perceptiblc among other
| people of antiquity. HIS being the divine
| goodness and the abstract idea of good. his
| manifestation upon earth like an indian GOd).
| mis- death and resurrection, and his otfce as
In fIra of the dead in a future state, look like
| The early revelations of future manifestation
| of the Deity, converted into NEUROLOGICAL
| fable. etc.
Even now we have some active vol
! canoes Of no little energy on our earth, and we
| know that in former days the volcanoes must
have been still more powerful: that in fact. the
| Ve5uyius of the present must be merely pop
| cuu III comparison with volcanoes which have
| Shaken the earth in those primitive days when
! il had lust cuuled down from IT'S original fiery
| couditIIn. 1t seems not impossible that soma
| of these early volcanoes may in the throes Of
| their mighty erupIions have driven up pieces
| of iron and volcanic substances with a violence
| great enough to shoot them of into space.
| THE MERRY WAR.