Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Lake Michigan has fallen IS inches
since June.
Two hundred births occur in Londor
every day.
The value of land in Berlin has in
creased Is per cent in the last ten years.
Salmon are being frozen in Washington
and will be kept for table use next season.
-Asbury Park, n. j., policemen have
been ordered to shoot all cats prowlng a.
large at night.
-Twenty-one Indian skeletons were re
Gently taken from an Indian mound a
Woodstock, Va.
"A dinner to 2S people was recently
given in a trunk of tree growing on Ia
coma, Wash, farm
Two sides of face are never alike. The
eyes and ears are invariably out of line and
other features are dissimilar.
The greatest number of Parliaments that
have met in any one reign was q, which as
sembled in that of Edward Ill.
Leeds finds employment for 800 womer
and girls as rag-sorters. The earn shilltng
a week. and sing merrily in chorus during
their work.
Coins of low denominations circulate
very rapidly; thus it is calculated that every
penny in circulation changes hands dozen
times week
The first steamship to fire gun in actor
was the Royal william, side-wheeler
which crossed the Atlantic in 1888. She was
bu lit at Quebec.
Polar bears are reported to be unusually
plentiful in Alaska this season. They are
found further south, which is said to be
sign that the winter will be very cold.
-Enterprising people in San Diego, Cal.
are building up profitable business on the
sale of wi1d-fiower seed, from which there is
an extensive demand from tourists and III
the East
Austria, the principal match maker Of
the Old World, produces no less than 2,5Oi
tons of them every year for expectation
merely. In England the individual average
is about eight per day.
The railways of India at the commence
ment of the present year aggregated 1921
miles in operation, with 2272 miles under
construction. The increase during the
previous year was 5lS miles.
To prevent accidents from the4Lauffen
Frankfort cable, which transmits deadly
current of % 900 volts all the poles for liz
miles are adorned with skulls and cross
bones surmounted with warning notice
Happy are the ratepayers of Deides
helm, in Rhenish Bavaria. The Government
has discovered that the inhabitants have
paid higher taxes than their strict due dur
ing the past few years. so the excess will be
refunded from the State Golfers.
The importation of oranges into Eng
land is close upon 81. 500 900 900 yearly. Italy
has over 900 900 trees. which give 500, 900 O0
oranges yearly. The island of st. MichaePs
with an acreage of only 100000 acres, sends
to this country alone every year about 900,
100000 oranges.
Tbo - fo1 At
was settled in memorable sitting of the
Bavarian Houses at Munich in July. 1870
when, after a prolonged debate, the Chiel
Power of Southern Germany consented tC
take it's stand with the Northern Federation
in defense of the Fatherland.
In Germany nursing is one of the dead
lest occupations known to man, or rather
to woman; q healt by girl Of II devoting her
self to hospital nursing dies on an average
241% years sooner than girl of the same age
in the general population. This is due tc
their liability to tuberculosis.
AT Elberfeld, the wives Of the manu-
facturers each take factory girl for'a yeal
and teach her the work of a servant. These
poor girls before could not light fire OF
thread n needle. Now they can marry. Be
fore young girl thinks of marriage she
must pass through this course of instruction
for year.
The pineapple grows upon the upper
part of stem which rises two or three feet
high from the center of a cluster of leaves
growing close to the ground. The upper
part of this stem becomes covered with the
flowers of the plant, the flower cluster be
comes enlarged. its parts uniting and form
ing the pineapple.
"A gang of strikers in Queensland in
sisted on hotel keeper discharging his Chi
nese cook, who was excellent. When he
was turned out the local police engaged
him. The leading striker was soon arrested
for sedition. and the first thing he was set &c
work at in the prison was chopping wood for
the Chinese cook.
The Japanese young lady now learns
fine manners, the etiquette of society, and
above all, the arrangement of flowers. The
mistress of house who was unable to ar
range them would be regarded as absolutely
incompetent to take her place in the world;
and not only mnst she have the artistic
sense of color and form, she must be learned
in the deeper science of their allegorical
sipnifcance. Flower langauage is one of the
tongues in which she must be able to CON
verse.
Western Australia is producing wood
which is destined to be much in favor with
church builders. This is the Jarrah wood,
which is as hard and durable as oak, but pos
sesses a rich, deep color like mahogany or
very old oak, an is well adapted for panel
ing and carving. Old Herne Church, in
Kent-where the TIE Deum was first sung in
the English language-has just been reroofed
with jarrah, and the effect is said to be start
lingly fine. The church is now completely
restored.
One singular fact is that the grip of an
ants jaw is retained after the body has
been bitten of, and nothing but the head re-
mains This knowledge is possessed by
certain tribe OF Indians in Brazil, who put
the ants to very peculiar use When an
Indian gets cash cut in his hand instead of
having it sewed together, as physicians
do in this country, he pTocures five or six
ants and holding their heads near the cash
they bring their jaws together in biting the
flesh and thus pull the two sides of the cash
together. Then the Indian pinches off the
bodies of the ants and leaves their heads
clinging to the cash, which is held together
until the wound is perfectly healed