Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16


Some insects are in state of maturity
/ 30 minutes after birth.
The husk of Indian corn is being used
for the manufacture of paper.
"A Chinese newspaper published in San
Francisco has been sued for libel by an In
! dian.
| The Columbian river is so clear at low
water that salmon fishing can only be sue
| cessfully conducted at night.
| 1t was so hot in Illinois the early part
! of this week that it is a fact that apples
were roasted on the trees in some orchards.
| "A fruit merchant in New York sold this
season to one restaurant 1900 pineapples
for making pineapple syrup for soda water.
Two brave Connecticut girls, young and
attractiv have started for Oregon with the
| avowed intentions of getting husbands and
of making living until they succeed.
Lizzie Arnold, of Fenton, Mich. weighs
only IS pounds and is 81 years of age. She
/ hns received overtures from circus mana
gers, but her parents prefer to keep her
home.
I'm Southern Arizona there grows plant
from which rope and twine that will almost
never wear out can be made. 1t is the mes
cal plant But very little of this rope has
been made thus far.
The first canal maker in England is said
to have been Morton, the Bishop of Ely,
who in the reign of Henry VIII. constructed
cut for navigation between Peterboro and
the sea, 40 miles long.
The growth of horse racing in the last
ten years Is illustrated by the fact that in
1880 the money added to prizes by the racing
associations amounted to SlS0,OO0. Now it
reaches 81, 900 900.
The greatest bird cage on the continent
is said to be the Grand Central Railroad sta
tion in New York. The noisy English spar
rows swarm there by thousands and nest in
the great arching of roof girders.
There is curiosity near Cordele, Ga,
in the shape of a pine tree. It begins from
the ground as two separate and well-devel-
oped trees, and continues for distance
of IA feet, when they join and go upward as
one.
AN old ranchman in Harvey Valley,
Ore, has been in the habit of hauling his
daily supply of water from so miles away, in
order to save digging well. He could Sc
cure an abundance of water 10 or Z feet
deep.
1t is related as a curious fact that Paris,
with population of nearly 250O,OOO souls,
has less than 100 negroes within its limits.
Statisticians say that the whole of France
cannot muster negro population exceed
ing $40.
Washington is the only city of its size
in the United States which has no factory
girls. Women who earn their living there
are principally in politics, though there are
a few employed in retail stores, Photographic
studios and private offices.
The costliest dresses in the world are
worn by the women of Sumatra. They are
made of pure gold and silver. After the
metal is mined and smelted it is formed into
fine wire, which is woven into cloth and
afterward made into dresses.
The ruins of the palace of the Queen of
Sheba have not been found in Mashonaland,
whence the wonderful gold of Ophir is sup
posed to have come. But the Zimbali ruins
show that this strange country was once the
scene of mighty civilization.
The growth of nails on the left hand re-
quires from eight to ten days more than
those on the right; the growth is more rapid
in children than in adults and goes on faster
in winter than i'll summer. 1t requires an
average of l32 days for the renewal of the
nails in winter and but 1l6 during the sum-
mer months.
"A foolish COW near Thompson, Ga,
that got her tail caught somehow in a tree
made trouble worse by going around the
trunk until she wound up like a clock She
then became frightened, and giving a lunge
pulled the tail out by the roots. Afterward
the tail was found as described by the ami
mails owner.
"A valuable bird dog owned by Grass
Valley, Cal, man was recently shown par
rot He Immediately pointed" when polly
marched up in front of him and said,
you're rascal" The terrified dog turned
tail and ran away, and is ruined for hunting,
as he cannot now be induced to point" at
any sort OF birn-
Walter Besant SAYS that a clever Eng
lish girl OF his acquaintance was employed
~.
cheap novelties. She got 30 shillings for
writing a story of 3O,O 900 words; thatts to say,
a penny for every 80 words. And she was
not allowed to put her name to the thing, be-
cause, as her sweater told her. eff you put
your name the people will ask for you and
your price will go up"
"A luminous outburst on the sun was OBJ
served by French astronomers on the I7th
of Jnne. First appeared luminous spot of
a yellow golden tinge, soon followed by an
other Just above it. The spectroscope
showed the first spot to consist of a central
eruption, from which volcanic bombs were
thrown to heights above the chromosphere,
where they seemed to rest as dazzling balls.
A few minutes later these were replaced by
brilliant jets or filaments.
"A young man in Berlin, Germany,
stepped upon q cherry, slipped, fell against
q window and had his nose almost severed
from his face. A young lady came forward
and acknowledged that she had careless
ly thrown the fruit upon the side
walk, and her parents promptly betrayed
the bill of the surgeon who stitched on the
Young mans nose, amounting to 450 marks
Now romance should lead the victim and
the cause of the mishap to commit matri-
mony and give some novelist the cue to
1.-THE Romance Of the Cherry"
"A gentleman in Waterbury, Conn, had
two canaries. ana to protect them from cats
he kept them in heavy wire cage, hung in
the second story of rear room. A grape
vine twined around the window of the room.
the other morning the gentleman
found a blacksnake over i've feet long in the
cage making the most desperate efforts to
escape. 1t had swallowed one of the BIRDS
which had caused it to swell SO much that it
could not slide out between the wires
through which it had entered. The snake
had crnwled up the grapevine 20 feet.