Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

tre1gns on Two terriers from England.
Eighteen newspapers have been started
at San Diego, Cal, in the past three years. and
all have gone into the graveyard.
"A manufacturer OF one of the standard
typewriters on the market says that there ara
5000 women wha make living in this country
Dy running the machines.
According to the statistics Of illiteracy
that have been gathered in Louisiana the per-
ceptage of colored voters who are unable to
read and write is less than OF white.
The Board Of Education In Columbus,
o.. has decided that hereafter there shall be no
difference in the salaries paid to men and wo-
men who are teachers in the public schools.
I'm the game at Cincinnati on Thursday
Henry knocked foul fiy over the fence. A
man sitting on the cross-arm of q telegraph
pole put out his hand and caught the ball
Some workmen, while executing repairs
in Westminster Abbey. discovered an aperture
which led to a mysterious cell built in the wall,
in which were relics, including q branch for
two candles.
Seven thousand persons have been en-
ployed IN getting out Mr.. Stanley's new book,
and more than 800 tons of paper have already
been used in England. The English edition
alone required 240 tons of paper.
-Sparrows in Springfield, Mass, are not
electric light globes, and. though the nests are
destroyed about every second day by inemen,
the birds return and build them again.
A curious method of suicide was adopted
by Newark, o., man, who, placing a saber in
the ground, point upward, threw his weight on
1t with the intention of piercing the heart. The
attempt, however. failed, the blade striking
rib.
1t is said to be not at all unlikely that
tho i,,r T ,-;11
follow Libby prison to Chicago. Western syn
dicate having made an offer for it. The inten-
lion is to put it on exhibition during the
Worlds FAIR.
The biggest thing in the way Of the or
ganization Of female labor that has yet been at
tempted. is now being pushed forward by the
Melbourne Trades Hall Council. 1t Is nothing
less than monster union of servants, barmaids
and Mattresses.
"A wealthy citizen of Montreal tried to
board a moving train at South Berwick, Me-,
the other day, and found himself in a very uau-
gerous position between two cars. A train
band who rescued him has been promised a
check for IS, 600
-Supposing that you wished to walk
through all the streets and lanes and alleys Of
London, and were able to arrange your trip so
that you never traVersed the same one twice,
you would have to walk ten miles every day for
nine years before your journey would be COM
pleted.
An amateur scientific student at Wake
field, Mass. planted potato in a little dirt on
the top of factory, 40 feet from the ground. to
see If the potato beetle would find the plant. It
has found it, and the Boston IrGnscrfpt say
that now the amateur wants to know whether
the beetle is bird or fly.
The Scotch have hard heads and tough
bodies. 1t was stated in the British House of
Commons the other day that the Scotch con-
sumption OF spirits averaged a gallon and .
half per head of the population. In Ireland
the consumption averages only one gallon per
mead, while In England 1t is but half gallon.
MIR. Barber, an antiquarian OF West
Chester, Pa, has recently come into the posses
sion of Chinese bank note of the fourteenth
century. 1t is a note of the Ming dynasty, made
OF hbrOus paper of grayish color, covered with
Chinese characters. The owner says that there
are but two other specimens of these early bank
notes in existence, one being in the Imperial
Museum at st. Petersburg. Russia.
-Nix's Mate is the name of a submerged
island in Boston Harbor upon which an obelisk
was raised some years ago. 1t is said that Nix's
Mate was the pane of sailor who was hanged
for piracy upon the spot which afterward took
his name nearly 300 years since, notwithstand-
ing his strong protestations of innocence. He
predicted that the island would sink within the
year if he was, as he claimed, unjustly mur-
dered by the law. Within a short period many
feet Of water were rolling over Nix's Mate.
Or the 9TH of this month workmen en-
gagged In sinking an artesian well in Sandy Val
ley, near Mira, N. NJ. struck an open seam,
from which a cold stream Of air rushed with
force enough to remove a l2-pound rock laid
over the opening. The air was charged with
millions of small yellow bugs each having but
two legs, no wings and a small red circle on his
back. They lived but few seconds after
atr inc ha ayuarr air
are puzzling over the question-How did they
get SO far down into the earth?
The elevator in modern big buildings
has only one drawback-the sickness 1t causes
when the car is suddenly stopped. Elevator
sickness Is caused by the same law that throws
. person to the ground when he gets of a
moving car In the wrong way. All this comes
from the fact that all parts of the body are not
stopped at the same moment of time. II the
body as whole can be arrested at the same
time with the feet, there will be no sickness.
This can be done by placing the head and
shoulders against the car frame.
"A singular phenomenon is described in
a Scotch journal. particular species Of
willow tree was in flower, and attached to
these blossoms (which resemble an old-fash-
ioned bottle brush) were large number Of the
"big black bumblebees" with which every
is familiar. They remained a whole
day slipping the extract or juice, and then
QTOppou ueiplcSeIy 10 the RTOuuu, 0AEuly aOl6
to move, and next morning were almost dead
from exposure. One was observed TO climb
verticle board of few inches, and when near
the top to throw out his legs and fall backward,
after the manner of the ordinary inebriate.
"A railroad engineer In Maine saw q
man on the track waving at him a few days
ago, and, his mind being filed with the posi-
bility of impending danger, stopped the train.
Every one was in high state of excitement,
but tbe man coolly boarded the smoking car
without utterng a word. He looked as IL he
had not travelled far from his native heath, and
On being questioned said: "Wa0, l Just waved
nv hand Cos wanted to get on the keers. Pm
going ter Wells, and never been on the keers
before" He spoke, it is said, with an unmis-
taxable air Of innocence, and raised such
iood of good nature that the conductor silently
:ook his fare, and when he landed at Wells
ne was loudly cheered in honor of his first ride.