Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Arctic ocean is yellow.


rfer pigeons.
1t is reported that Lake Michigan has
fallen Is inches since June.
Only one British officer who partici-
pated in the battle OF Waterloo is yet alive.
The longest bridge draw in the world is
projected for the new bridge which is to
span the Harlem river at New York.
1t took two sailors who were wrecked
in the South sea five months to reach Homo
lulu in an open boat. They touched at sew
eral islands, Obtaining supplies of food.
South Jackson, Mich, is afflicted with
a plague of yellow jackets They swarm
around residences thicker than house flies,
and South jackson people resemble small
| pox patients.
The schools of Osawatomie, Kan, have
! been closed for want of funds. Citizens are
trying to raise by subscription enough
money to pay the salaries of the teachers
and the janitor.
| "A Chicago paper has held an election on
| the pronunciation of the word advertise
ment." The question is undecided, as go
votes were polled for advertisement" and
230 for advertisements" which latter has the
| dictionaries on its side.
The Turkish girl of the present genera
| tion is expected to know as much about
mathematics. geography and the sciences as
any average American girl. while in needle
| work and general housekeeping she sur
| passes her American sisters.
The weasels are said to be killing off the
| rabbits in Tulare county The creature
comes up behind bunny as he sits at peace
with all the world, and, springing upon his
back, clinRs and sucks his life-blOod as he
runs, until he drops dead from exhaustion.
"A fisherman at Tennville, Ga, claims
that he put worm on a hook and cast it
into the water. Soon a minnow caught
then a Yarmouth perch caught the minnow,
and, before he could take them out, a large
trout caught and swallowed the whole busi-
ness.
The mining industries of New Mexico
are undergoing a great development. The
Overtou and Clay Hays have both been
worked with better results within the past
year than q any previous period. At pres
ent all the ore has to be carted n distance OF
"a miles.
Six hundred Mormons per week, it is
reported. are passing through Deming into
the State of Chihuahua, where John NJ.
Young. a Mormon leader, has purchased
about 5000 900 acres, and secured a railway
franchise from the State line to the gulf
near Topplobampo.
The laughing plant of Arabia produces
black, bean-like seeds, small doses of which,
when dried and powdered, intoxicate like
laughing gas. The victim dances, shouts and
laughs like madman for about an hour,
when he becomes exhausted and falls asleep,
to awaken after several hours with no recOl-
lection of his wild antics.
Probably the largest newspaper ever
published in this country was The Hl1nni-
mated Qundrliple Constellation New York July
4, 1859. 1t was q 2s 900 edition, and sold at 50
cents copy. The size of this sheet was 70X
100 inches, or almost 40 square feet. s pages
IL columns to the page, or a total of lO4 col
umns, each 4s inches in length.
The house of Moslem is always divid-
ed into two separate parts, the haaremlik
and the selamlik. If the husband gives
dinner he can invite only gentlemen, and
the guests can never intrude into the haa-
remlik. If the wife gives a reception no
gentlemen are admitted to disturb the har-
monv. In all mosques, theaters horse cars,
ferries, ETC., special places are provided for
women.
On an average about 800 messages are
sent daily from New York to Lond on be-
tween the hours of 10 and u. Messages are
sent to London and replied to within four
minutes. The result of this wonderful SER
vice is that the New York and London mar
kets are brought so close together that
either city feels the slightest fiuctuation in
the markets of the other almost instanta-
neously
"A mammoth scheme is on foot to turn
all the machinery in Athens, Ca, by cleo
tricity. At Barnett shoals about eight
miles from Athens, is enough water power
to turn any number of machines. A party
of Atlanta capitalists have made proposi-
tiOn to the owners of Barnett shoals to
cure the use of 10.0C0horSe power. The COM
pany will grant this right, and an electric
plant is to be put in, from which. at small
cost, the motive power can be transferred to
the city.
"A new hospital has lust been opened in
st. Louis, in which the sick are treated
wholly by the hygienic system, without
medicine The principal hygienic agencies
and appliances are: l. Hand manipulations
including massage. q Mechanical vibrations
Swedish movement, etc. 3. Careful dieting,
both as TO quality and the proper combina-
tions of food. 4. Baths and water applica-
tions.. 8. Electricity. g. Healthful arrange
ment of clothing, securing eyennesS of tenn
perature to the entire body and unrestricted
action.
American naval officers are men of
many clothes, and the official etiquette OF
dress aboard ship is appalling to q lands
man. Every officer must have four or five
styles of hats and caps, at least as many diff
ferent kinds of coats. and even prescribed
styles OF neckties in considerable variety.
The captain ordinarily prescribes the uni
form of the day, but when flagship is with
in signaling distance of another man-oEwar
the admiral is the authority on clothes as
on other things. To appear on deck with
the wrong necktie is to invite reprimand.
One of litter of pups born in Muncie,
Ind, the other day is the premium freak. It
has human head and q boa constructors
body. The forelegs are much longer than
the hind ones, which gives it giraffe-like
Importance when standing on its feet. Its
skin is soft and pliable and is possessed of
no hair, with the exception of a very small
oasis on the top of the head. Instead of
like all pups, it gives out hideous
scream like that Of an eagle when fighting
for it young. While the freak snaps like
dog and is possessed of full set OF teeth, its
instinct causes it not to neglect or disturb
It's relatives.
"A physician in ST. Louis saws: f1 recall
case of young man, personally known to
ne, who had been dumb for five years. One
lay he was out hunting, and in the excite
nent of the chase he yelled with his COM
oanions till the air resounded with the echo
or a mile away. After considerable yelling
he surprised his friends by calling upon
hem with perfect articulation. From that
lay forward his voice remained, and was as
natural as that Of any man in the commu-
lity. There are several such cases on record,
though In most of them, unlike the one I
rave mentioned, the cure has been effected
~ medical treatment. Electricity is the
,hief and surest means by which to bring
bout the happy result"