Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-"Cooter" is what they call terrapin In
Florida
kansas has q school marin whose name
is Gossip.
-Gorapius once saw q girl Of II years
who was ten feet high.
SAN Diego, Cal, will ship 100 tons Of
honey to New York by steamer.
Santa Barbara has live pelican which
measures eight feet from tip to tip.
Versailles; Mo-, claims a vein of coal 80
feet thick, the thickest vein on earth
1t costs 81 to talk three minutes over
telephone wires between London and Paris.
Nevada, Mo-, has citizen named De
Spair, and with that name he got married
recently.
When the French zouaves were first in
Africa new sort of rat made its appearance
there 1t was called the trumpet rat,n
having long probocis.
There are extraordinary cases of Ion
gevity among the colored people of Chile,
nearly 500 persons, according to the last
census, being returned as over 100 years of
age.
The Burmese, Karens, Hangese and
Ghans have no coined money, lead and silver
in bullion being the ordinary tender in
trade, weight and purity being the standard
OF value.
The Carthagenians were the first to in
troduce stamped leather currency. Leather
coins with a silver nail driven through the
center were issued in France by King John
the Good in 1906.
"A French beekeeper has experimental
with his bees as carriers of dispatches. One
difficulty of the bee service is that the in
sects will not return over distance of more
than two or three miles.
Twelve thousand silk worms when new
ly hatched scarcely weigh one-quarter of an
ounce, yet in the course of their lite, which
lasts only about 35 days, they will consume
between 300 and 400 pounds of leaves.
The defendant in a murder case at
Carthage, Mo-, has just been cleared on two
grounds; first, that the deceased was killed
while committing an assault, and, second,
that he was not killed at all, but died of heart
disease
1t is reported that the plains of Tulare,
CAL, are covered with bald-headed rabbits,
parties having scalped the poor creatures in
order to obtain the bounty and then turned
them loose to replenlsh the earth that the
scalp supply may not fail.
"A Port Huron, Mich, diver will en-
deavor to recover the treasure that went
down in the Pewabic, in Lake Huron, %
years ago. Sixty feet is about as far down
as d1ver can work with safety, but this one
VIII work in 106 feet of water.
During single year SOC, 600, 900 mail
packages passed through the Chicago post
Office, in addition to 81 900 tons of mail mat
ter transferred from one train to another.
The inspector in charge has under his jurfs-
dictfon 10000 postmasters and their en-
ployes.
One of the largest poultry farms in the
vicinity Of New York City is managed by
two young women, who. only three years
ago, were pupils in Dr. Vests Seminary for
young women, on the heights in Brooklyn.
The farm is located near Baldwin's, Long
Island.
The vote of Riley county, Kan, man
was challenged because he had been in the
penitentiary seven times. He was, how
ever, equal to the emergency; he produced
the pardoning papers for each offense. A
voter always goes loaded in Kansas; he takes
no chances. .-
I'm different parts Of the country have
long existed a number of magic stones said
to possess the most remarkable properties.
Tradition tells how certain so-called speak
ing stones" called out when q dead body
was placed upon them, or contradicted q
person who swore falsely by them.
In the interior towns of Northern China
slips of the bark of the mulberry tree bear
ing the imperial "chop" and a stamp which
denotes their worth, have long been used as
we use bank notes. Marco Polo found this
kind of money there in his time, and they
still have an extensive local circulation.
After four years work, the tunnel
through the Khwaja Ameran mountains, in
the northwestern frontier of India, known
as the Knojak tunnel. has been completed.
1t is about two miles and one-third in length,
twenty-three feet in height. and 'thirty-two
n O1lU fVn lhQft Gad
besides the portals.
The Dalles (Oregon) -Four Corners saws
that Oregon girls stake the cake" when 1t
comes to "buckarooing." Last week an emil
grant wagon and band of cattle from Ores
gon passed through town with two good
looking web-foot girls driving the cattle
riding "straddle" and sitting the saddle with
as much ease and grace as the most accom-
plished vanqueros.
1t is estimated that there will be 1000
of 10000 pounds each in Ventura
and Santa Barbara counties, Cal. This would
make q train nearly IA miles long. not in
cluding the locomotives Supposing one
locomotive pulls 20 cars it will take 100 en-
gines to move the crop. There will be 60O.-
boo sacks of beans, allowing 200 sacks to a
car. The empty sacks cost the grower s30.-
DO0, but the beans will bring ST. 100000 into
Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Seven has by old writers been called
the number of perfection, and it is curious
TO notice how often this idea seems to be in
volved in its use. Thus, to quote some few
examples out of many:
Baalam, as an effectual test Of the will of
God, built affairs and prepared oxen and
rams for sacrifice Job, referring to the
protection of Providence, says:
'In troubles there shall be no evil touch
thee," and again, "Wisdom hath hewn her
pillars"
I'm Russian Turkestan. on the right
bank of the Amou Daria in some rocky hills
near the Bokharan town of Karki, a number
of large caves have been explored, which
we're found to lead to an underground town
ouilt apparently before the Christian era
Epgies and Inscriptions have been found,
md also designs upon gold and silver money
which lead to the belief that the town dates
back to some two centuries before the birth
IF Christ. There are number of streets
Ind squares surrounded by houses two and
,hree stories high. Urns, vases, cooking
pots, and other utensils have been found in
,reat abundance. The symmetry OF the
streets and squares and the beauty of the
baked clay and metal utensils, attest the
act that the people had reached an ad-
7anced stage Of civilization. 1t is supposed
he town was concealed in the earth to give
he population refuge from the incursions
II savages and robbers.