Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

They have introduced the bicycle into
the militia of Connections.
The Chinese cali agriculture the most
distinguished Of the sciences.
The King of Greece is the most sconom-.
ical of all European monarchs.
There are said to be 10000 different
kinds of postage stamps in the world.
Iron eorrodes with great rapidity at or
about the temperature of boiling water
"A Wichita, Kan, woman straps her
baby on her back when she goes on her BIZ
cycle.
The plane tree under which Godfrey of
Buuillon encamped by the Bosphorus is still
standing.
1t Is estimated that at least 1000, 900
pounds of rubber are annually used fer
cycle tires.
"A perfume lamp, which burns cologne,
and spreads 8 delightful scent about the
room, Is the latest household novelty.
The recent census in Austria shows that
Vienna, out of a population of 1l95, ,175.
The hairdressers of Paris are in great
distress because the present style Of hair
dressing gives them so little work to do.
"A fisherman of Moosehead Lake hooked
a big togue at O'Clock in the afternoon and
succeeded in landing him at in the even
ing.
There are 80 national cemeteries in the
United States, possessing 3271Tg graves,
about one-haIf of which are marked sun
known"
Twenty thousand words have been
added to the English language in the de-
partment Of biology since Darwin's dis
coveries.
Tta al Tv,4I L
Waldoboro, Me-, has stood $50 years, and
| there has never been a collection taken
within its walls.
The word "Preface," +" used in the begin
ming of books was originally word of well
come to a meal and was equivalents to "Much
| good may it do you"
Chicago has nearly twice as many miles
OF streets as any other city in the world, and
almost four times as many as New York.
Her total mileage is 2,04S.
The poorest church living in Great
Britain is that of Wainfeet, Lincolnshire,
where the parson gets Is. 1ald. week for
mlnlstering to 200 peoples
The reader for a London magazine says
that as q result of nine weeks reading he
accepted just % out of l,22f poems offered to
the magazine for publication.
1t is estimated that there are 24O,0OO
women domestic servants in London, and
that 10000 of these are always out of situa-
tions or changing their places.
I'm Madrid no special regulation exists
with regard to the Itinerant guitar players,
but they are obliged to obtain license from
the Mayor being allowed to beg, and this Ii
cense may be refused.
The ostrich Is long stopper. When
feeding, his step measures from 20 to y
inches; when walking, but not feeding 26
irnh she Aad fr,I
feet, or at the rate of about 25 miles an hour.
Professor Tacchini, at Rome, has found
that the marching of regiment of soldiers
$50 yards away was registered by an earth
quake apparatus located in the tower OF the
college at height of l25 feet above the city.
jackson county, Ind, has a curiosity
ga hen with her entire body covered with
brilliant coat of male attire. giving the hen
every appearance of rooster, save that she
is minus the comb and head dress. She
crows in good style, but continues to lay
eggs"
There is an "Ohio Beauty cherry tree
in the old Bassford orchard in Browns Val
ley, CAL, which bears from 1lC00 to 1900
pounds of fruit per year. The tree is so
large that each year big scafolding has to
built around it so that the cherries can be
picked.
"A handful of raw pig iron, weighing
about five pounds, is worth 5 cents. 1t would
make about so table knife blades, worth s15;
converted into steel watch springs there
would be about 10000 of these little coils
which. at the rate OF 81 IS dozen, would be
valued at $1,000 50.
Estimated at 12 pounds COW daily, the
United States produce 100000 coo pounds
of milk year. And as three pounds of milk
are equivalent to one pound of beef in food
elements, each inhabitant has in milk one
and half beeves annually: whereas, in
beef, each inhabitant has only four-ffths of
one beef per capita.
"A single pound of good steam coal has
within it dynamic power equivalent to the
work of one man for one day. Three tons of
the same coal represents a mans labor for
the period of 20 years, and one square mile
of a seam of coal, having depth of four feet
only, represents as much work as 100000
men can perform in 20 years.
The latest fish yarn ahoat in Norfolk,
Va, has it that small fish entered jug in
the bay, and grew there until it was too
large to come out. A gentleman while fish
ing threw his line so that the hook entered
the mouth of the jug, where it was quickly
nabbed by the little prisoner. The fisher
man tugged away until he hauled up both
the fish and the jug.
"A curious story comes from Radun, the
Silisian home of Prince Blucher. The Prince
was hunting in the forest near the chateau,
when he suddenly encountered a wolf, an
animal not common IN tnaG vicinity. Inc
wolf boldly attacked the Prince, much to
his surprise and at too close quarters to
allow him to discharge mis- hunting rifle.
After a severe struggle the Prince, who was
unattended, succeeded in killing the wolf
with O club. He was so severely injured E.
that he had TO be removed to the chateau,
where he rapidly recovered. 1t was found
that the wolf was n female, and had a litter
of young about 100 yards from where the
fight occurred.
The color cure for melancholia is said
to have been successfully tried in Washing
ton. An eminent statesman who was thus
afflicted would at times sit for hours gazing
into space-dreaming, so to speak. His
family became very much annoyed and did
everything to cheer him up, but without
avail. He seemed to grow worse every day.
Finally his wife hung rose-colored shades in
his library, and then she sewed piece, Of
rose-colored velvet around the under rim Of
his hat. His friends guyed him considerably
about it around the halls of Congress, but
they knew not what it was intended for. He
paid very little attention to their fun, for he
had felt the effect of the rose color upon his
mind. 1t was barely two weeks before he
was entirely cured, and there is hot now q
happier dispositioned man in this country.