Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Harvard graduated 2SS bachelors OF arts
! this year to Yale's ls7.
There are 80 national cemeteries in the
United States, and they have Sz, ,179 graves,
about one-half of which are marked "un-
known"
1T is estimated that at least 1000, 900
pounds of rubber are annually used for BIZ
cycle tires.
The demand for the revised version of
the New Testament in 1881 exceeded that for
any other book that has ever been published
before or since.
The Missouri river is cutting a new
channel at st. Joseph, Mo-. in such way as
to leave the new $1,OoO,O00 bridge standing
over dry spot.
The British Board of Admiralty esti-
mates that one vessel, carrying two I0-ton
guns, would, in two ordinary engagements,
use up guns and ammunition to the value Of
$3.50, 900.
The Penobscot Indians seem to think
that cornering the market isn't fair play,
They refuse to make trade with Massa-
chusetts house which wants to buy up all
their basket product. ave have too much
customer at seashore," they say.
While n. Ham, of Valdosta, Ca, was
rambling in Swanoochee the other day he
heard a splashing in the water. On. investf-
eating he was surprised to find two large
alligators fghting. 1t was the hardest fight
he ever saw and lasted fully an hour.
-Constantinople has so newspapers; 10 Of
them are daily, 5 semi-weekly, IL weekly, 8
semi-monthly, 8 monthly. In nationality
. French and English, Italian, 2 Hebrew, 4
Bulgarian, l Arabian. Persian. L German.
Mrs. Phebe Brown, of Lowell, Mass,
SO years old, spins three skeins OF fine yarn
a day, lends q hand in the houscwork. keeps
the weeds out of garden and occasionally
varies the monotony of existence by making
barrel of soft soap, doing all the work her.
self
1t is said that there is pucnacious owl
lurking around the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church, of Butler, Mo-, and attacks
people at night This owl is rather fastid-
ious in his tastes, so it is said. Ii attacked a
lady one night, and scratched her consider
ably.
An investigator of the effect of per-
fumes on animals in the Geological Garden.
London, discovered that most of the lions
and leopards were very ford of lavender,
They took piece of cotton saturated with
it and held it between their paws with great
delight.
Ass a sample of the advantages of our
reciprocity Arrangement with Brazil, it is
stated that fifteen locomotives and 1000 bar
rels of flour have recently been shipped to
that country, and the vessel will return with
a cargo Of 10000 bags of coffee, paid for with
the engines and flour.
i, There is no accounting for the ways Of
LLpid. He may bring about alliance in the
most unexpected places. The first Mohan-
medan marriage in England was celebrated
few days ago, when a Moslem lawyer was
welded according to the rites of his religion
to the daughter of a Lord Justice.
1t is not alone the cranks who believe
that in the future people will go sailing
through the air. John w. Bookwalter, Of
Ohio, the art connoisseur and politician, has
spent great deal OF money experimenting
in flying machines. He believes such a ma
chine as among the possibilities.
About Il, 300 acres have been planted to
sugar beets in the territory tributary to the
Norfolk sugar factory, and the company cal
culates to pay the farmers on an average $50
an acre for the product 1t is estimated
that the company will pay out this year for
beets, and labor in working them up, S2Ss, 900.
There were 5,759, S56 savings bank. books
in France January 1, 1891, against 5,224 $50
January /, 1890 The deposits for 1880 were
s6s 900 francs, or lO4, 100000 more than in
1859. The total sum of savings bank de-
posits in France has increased in the last
year from 26S3 500 900 francs to 800, 900 OOO or
5000 100000
The United States is exporting more
steel rails every year. During the ten months
ending April 80, 1890, the total exports were
s,055 tons at valuation of s276,s17 or an
average Of s34 50 Per 81 ton; ,On; During the ten
ported d. 1863 tons at a valuation Of ssh, ,5S1,
an average price of sS4 Il per ton.
"A new plan has been adopted by the
municipal authorities of Rome to prevent
Recognizing the fact that the
public can gain but little knowledge from
the annual reports of food inspectors, they
have required the names of all makers and
sellers of alimentary substances I'M jurious to
health, or adulteration, to be published in
the daily papers.
The boy who has put his tongue to his
skate knows how it burns. SO Calvin Meek,
colored, when pinned against the engine in
a railroad wreck cries out that he is freez-
ing to death. 1t is the same thing. Scientific
persons make pretty experiment with solid
carbonic acid, blistering the fingers with
cold. But Meek is possibly the first man on
record who inverted the sensations in his
perception of them, and used the word
freezing" to describe those of actual burn
ing.
The difficulty of Distinguishing certain
forms of comatose sleep from actual death
has suggested all sorts of ingenious tests,
such as holding bright looking glass in
front of the nostrils, or forcing spray of
water against the closed eyelids. - A still
more decisive experiment however, consists
IN injecting the pale skin of the upper arm
with q strong solution of ammonia. If a
spark of life fingers it will betray itself by
The appearance of q red spot.
"A young man connected with one of the
schools at Augusta, Me-, was boxing with
last Monday, when he received q
blow in the mouth which completely
Knocked out two of his teeth and badly
acerated his lip. He put the teeth in his
vest pocket and went to the dental Office Of
Dr. Hutchins. who trimmed up the wound,
and after properly preparing the teeth, put
them back in their places, where they are
now getting along well, with Il prospect of
again doing good business at the old stand.
Not long since a student was hit in the
mouth and his teeth loosened by an arrow
ired by one of the archery girls.
Tine Emperor of Austria has for years
past found consolation for his troubles in
;he sympathetic companionship of former
we'll known Viennese actress, Catharine
,chratt, whose counsels are said to have
been of the utmost advantage to him in
many important affairs of state. The EN-
,eror is accustomed to drive out to the
palace at Schoenbrunn and there, leaving
lis euiupage, he is met by Nine. Sehratt and
axes long promenades with her in the forest.
As result of this friendship the actress is
lnown in Vienna as the Vice Empress. Her
intelligence and clear judg-
nent are valued in the highest degree by
he Emperor