Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
England eats Australian eggs.

Coal is 80 cents ton at Pittsburg, Kan
There is library exclusively for women
in Turin.
Strawberries sell for 50 so quart in the
Boston market.
Maine and New Hampshire make nearly
all the worlds spools.
"A drove OF !, 900 turkeys were driven
from Parsons to Oswego. Kan.
An Atchison man is soon to marry the
woman who stood sponsor for him when he was
baptised as baby.
AN octogenarian who lives six miles
west of Moberly Mo-, was baptised the other
day by his grandson.
ST. Louis is the largest fur market in
the United States, and on coon skins 1t is far
ahead Of any other city.
The people of Mexico have taken to
drinking beer. Breweries are springing up I'm
every city of Importance.
Fiji is commencing the cultivation of
tobacco. the enterprise being assisted by the
concession of Government land to the planters
on easy terms.
The decrease in the shipbuilding of the
United Kingdom during 1880 amounts to 29S23
tons in the aggregate, but the production OF
tne Scottish yards has increased by 2, 900 tons.
There are more believers in astrology
than the world at large has any idea of. Most
OF those who entertain faith in this occult
sclence are people of intellect, learning, and,
not infrequently. culture.
In counting his small change the other
day, Michigan man found the most valuable
o-eent piece extant: The jarring on the table
caused the piece of money to split in two and
from the center rolled gold dollar.
"A Southern farmer has produced from
cotton stalks a fabric suitable for bagging,
which may rival iute. The problem which the
inventor successfully solved was how to separ-
ate cheaply the material from the woody fiber.
In the death of Mississippi man a
singular coincidence arose. He died on the an
niversary of the death of his grandfather and
the same three men who performed the last
omces Tor the grandfather and kept lonely vigil
with the corpse did the same for the grandson.
The memorable reign of Lady Jane
Grey is said to have given rise to the phrase
"A nine days wonder" Lady Jane was pro-
claimed Queen Of EnglaHd Julv 10, 1853 four
days after the death of Edward vi. After the
lapse OF period of nine days, July 10, she
reilnquished her title to the crown.
There are thousands Of wives and moth
ers in New York who make ends meet by sew
ing on overalls that pay 70 cents shirts so cents
vests 80 cents, trousers So flannel shirts 81 a
dozen. They are obliged to find their own
thread for the overalls and shirts and carry the
work TO and from the shop. If they take
street car one-tenth of their earnings is gone.
"A woman in Bar Harbor, Me-, was
brought before a trial justice charged with
being common scold- The Record reports
thai after an enjoyable entertainment of
with the sentencing the culprit to 30 days
in the county jail She appealed, however,
and the case will probably be heard from again.
For the first time in its history the
Brooklyn bridge was, on Sunday, the 18th inst,
closed to foot passengers. This was considered
advisable owing to the quantity of ice which
had accumulated on the wires and which, as
the day advanced, detached itself and hailed
in Jumps, weighing, some Of them, several
pounds each, upon the roadway below. render
ing passage, except in the cable cars, extremely
dangerous.
"A short distance out from Buena Vista,
CAL, there is cave literally swarming with
spiders of a curious species Of immense size,
some OF them having legs four inches in length
and body as large as that of canary bird.
The cave was discovered in December, 1879,
and was often resorted TO by the pioneers who
obtained the webs for use in place of thread.
Early and late the cave constantly resounds
with buzzing noise which is emitted by the
spiders while they are weaving their nets.
The largest single building on the globe
house of Vienna. In it are I,5O0 rooms, ar
Two thousand one hundred and twelve persons
live under one great roof. a population suff-
cient to make city large enough to incorporate
and furnish with a full set of Aldermen The
immense building has 130 staircases and so ele-
vators. The posrmen say they often deliver
], coo pieces of mail matter at this house in
single day.
AT the Charity Hospital in Berlin yes
terday. Prof. Sonneburg exhibited con-
sumptiye patient whom the doctors had cut
open in order that Koch lymph might be in
jected in the cavity in a diseased lung. The
professor said the patient, who was in an
advanced stage of the diseased, had been max
ing rapid progress toward recovery since the
operation was performed. This Is the first
case in which patient has been operated
upon with the knife for the purpose of inject
ing the lymph.
The skunk has the heaviest fur of any
animal in the country, and is consequently val
liable and salable although when dressed they
are very small About so per cent of all the
skins taken in the United States go to Europe
c. NJ. Lanpson has great sale in London three
times year, one of which has just closed. At
this sale there were disposed OF, among other
skins, 5000 coon. 100000 muskrat, 10000
skunk, 5000 opossum, 55, 900 mink and 1000
gray fox. all of which were shipped from the
United States.
I'm the building trades the six cities in
which the highest wages are paid are New
York. Brooklyn, Chicago. ST. Louis, Galveston
and san Francisco. ST. Louis pays the highest
wages for masonry, New York for carpentry,
San Francisco for painting, Chicago for plumb
ing, Santa Fe for roofing and Galveston for
common labor. The lowest wages are paid IN
the Southern cities. Two adjoining cities
seldom pay exactly the same wages. Philadel-
phia and Boston rank below the i've leading
cities. and many smaller Western cities pay
higher wages.
One of the most hazardous manufacture
ng processes is likely soon to become a thing
,f the past The great increase of celluloid
in recent years has made camphor
10 scarce and dear that the chemists have been
,xerting themselves to find substitute for that
yum. Someone has now succeeded in doing so,
IND company has been formed to manu-
'acture the new product, which Is described as
possessing all the good qualities of the old in
iammabie compound of gun cotton and cam
ohor. while being cheaper and, in addition, alb
olutely incombustible.
Bradford McGregor, the mechanical ex.
pert of Cincinnati. has succeeded after numer-
,us experiments in uniting aluminium with
ylass. and he claims to be the first VINO has
lone so. A large piece of aluminium, with a
ylass tube in the center, was turned in his
athe. and 1t was impossible to detect the slight
{ appears as one solid mass. Heretofore no
METAL could be made to unite with glass in
which the contraction and expansion were the
anne; and it is claimed that this discovery will
reate a revolution in the way of reducing the
ost of incandescent lights, as 1t will take the
,lace of platinum. which costs $3.50 a pound,
While the new compound will not cost $40.