Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Kongo river.
Denver is mile higher than the Missis-
sippi Valley.
Petroleum has been found exuding from
q stream in Oklahoma.
H-Indian elephants cannot live in Central
Africa. the home Of larger and more hardy
species
1t is said that the consumption of i'm
ported beer in New York City has greatly in
creased Of late.
"A resident of Wythe county, Va,
claims to have trapped six ground hogs since
ground hog day."
Two years ago a Bolivar, Tenn, woman
predicted that she would die on her ninety
fourth birthday, and she did.
AT a recent marriage ceremony in Nor.
gan county, Ind, the bride was exactly twice
the age and twice the weight Of the groom
"A petrifed body of prehistoric man
has been found about six miles below Eugene,
Ore Like the famous Fresno perrihcation the
feet are missing.
"A foreign matchmaker has patented
device by which, an hour or two before clock
runs down, the word ''wind' viii appear at an
opening in the dial
AN object of interest in Raleigh, n. c.,
the other day, was blind boy who had clim bed
to the top of a tree, about As feet high. and
seemed to enjoy it greatly.
The largest amount of mail ever carried
across the Atlantic by any one vessel was $40
sacks on bound the City of New York, which
arrived at Queenstown the other day.
"A colored man 1os years of age, died in
Chicago the other day. The most remark
able thing about him was that, though Vir-l
ginian, he had never heard Of George WASH
ington.
An old farmer of Monroe county O.,
was peeked in the hand the other day while
setting eggs under hen. Blood poisoning has
set in from the wound, and his condition Ia
critical.
A horse at Alexandria, La, which was
run over by train and had one of its legs
broken. hobhled to a store near by. knocked at
the door and by signs and brute language ap-
pealed for relief.
"A Pettis county. Mo-, man had his hair
and whiskers cut the other day by Sedalia
barber for the first time since 1855 When he
went home his own dogs barked at him and his
wife shut the door in his face.
"A circus company paid $40 for license
to exhibit at Astoria, L. L The Mayor revoked
the license and returned the money on the
ground that the circus was mo good" and he
did not intend TO have his constituents imposed
upon.
One of the latest exhibits at the quar-
ters of the California State Board of Trade is
a set of peach, almond and prune trees selected
from nursery rows. Although only eight
months old the trees are already lS feet In
height.
Different classes of substances have
been found to effect the organs or taste in the
following order: Bitters, acids, saline sub
stances. sweets and alkalies. The taste nerves
are nearly 1000 times as sensitive to quinins as
TO sugar.
The tail Of rat has been sliced off and
transplanted to the forehead of a cat. By de-
grees the grated member became indissolubly
one with the body Of the cat, though it took TO
itself no fur and failed to swell and lash when
its new owner began to spit FIRE.
"A Chicago Alderman who visited Bos-
ton got lost four times in two days. and he was
a day and half trying to find the station BY
which to get train West. He finally hired =
hack and a policeman and had the latter buy
his ticket and put him on the train.
A doctor of West New York, N. j., at
tended patient who had scarlet fever. A drop
Of saliva from her mouth struck him in the eye.
He told friends that he feared inoculation with
the fever. His apprehension was realized, and
he died in two weeks of scarlet fever.
An Illinois sheriff, who has made .
good thing out of selling tickets to see the seaf.
fold upon which he hangs his prisoners, on be.
ing warned of the indecency of so doing said
IuQeCency
him the right to sell tickets to see the machine
when It was being officially operated.
"A famous surgical scientist mentions
the case of railway guard who had met with
so serious an accident that he was compelled to
have his elbow, including the elbow JOINT, eur
out. At the place of lesion the bones, with
balls and sockets, membranes and Hgaments,
were reproduced, and the arm became as good
as ever
Some months ago the city authorities OF
Mexico Mo-, caused the arrest of man on his
refusal to work out his poll tax. He was fined
So 40, which he paid. Later he brought suit for
S., ,00G damages for illegal arrest. Judgment
was rendered in his favor for the amount stated.
Last week. it is reported, the city compromised
by paying $1,000
"A curious phenomenon has been re-
ported from the village of Kirnujarwi, near
Paja, Lapland- During the winter the earth
became spontaneously heated in many places
to such degree that the snow and ice melted
1t those places, ana it was impossible to touch
hose spots without burning ones hand. The
cause of this phenomenon is not yet explained.
A pneumatic chisel has been introduced
INTO a stone cutting establishment in Germany.
Il resembles In appearance syringe, which the
operator holds with both hands, and as he lets it
hide over the surface Of the stone or metal the
,hisel chips of splinters and particles. Com
dressed air acting on a piston impartS a rota-
don of from 10000 to 120O0 revolutions per
minute.
Americans use an alloy Of one-tenth
copper in making eoins-to harden them. The
English use less-one-twelfth. Some time ago
he English Government filed two spinning
cylinders with coin, one with ours and one with
heirs, and set them both revolving They ac-
that theirs wore away much more
lnder the shaking than ours did, but they were
90 conservative to change their standard.
I'm the telephone an alteration Of
imbre, consisting of a disagreeabls snuf1ing
which distorts words, is said to be due to the
fundamental note and harmon1cs of tho
diaphragm being super-imposed upon those Of
he voice. without becoming cenfounded with
hem and producing a disturbance of the elec-
ric waves of the movements of the diaphragm
molecules, and, therefore, of the sound waves
which reach the ear.
at is stated that soap in India is re-
yarded almost in the light of q natural curl
sity for it is rarely if ever to be obtained of q
hopkeeper there. Of course it Is sold In the
arger towns; but the amount used By the ma
ives must be very small. seeing that the total
Of soap in India last year was
My 600 tons. This means that the amount
sed Dy each person for the year was consider
bly, less than one ounce.