Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The greater part Of the ocean bed is
pitch dark.
"A woman in EllSo, Ga, has crazy quilt
containing 1900 pieces.
Germany publishes more periodicals
than all the rest of Europe,
"A child born without eyes is attracting
the attention Of New Yorkers.
| New York has Turkish restaurant that
is Oriental in every particular.
| "A Detroit manufacturing firm will make
steel wagon wheels, with hollow felloes and
| spokes.
| Tobacco merchants handle a larger
amount Of ready money than any other class
/ of business men.
South Dakota now has the largest arte-
sian well in the world. It shoots water 40
| feet from the surface.
Twenty Saginaw, Mich, boys have
organized Worlds Fair club, and are saw
ing up money to go to Chicago.
Brussels, an inland city, is ambitious
Of becoming seaport. The plan is to build
a ship canal from the North Sea-
A Florida man left at DeLand news
paper office an orange twig inches long,
which had a cluster of l6 oranges.
"A WOudu u udo buOu HCE
husband for the recovery of her false
teeth. She bit him and he took them away
from her.
Makers ofporcelain in Limoges, France,
send their most artistic products to the
United States. American taste, they say,.ts
the finest.
"A determined fisherman at Groverville,
Ga, catches alligators with hook-not an
ordinary hook, however, but an iron affair
attached to strong pole.
"A wellknown professor at Yale has
confessed to a superstition. 1t consists in
putting on and taking OF his clothes in a
regular way. The right shoe, the right leg
of his trousers, the right sleeve to shirt or
coat, are always put on first because of d
foolish idea that somehow or other mishaps
would follow favoring the left shoes, sleeves
and legs in such way.
Saginaw Bay was at one time the
greatest fishing grounds of the great lakes,
but is no more. The cause of the falling off
Is traceable to sawmills and salt blocks.
Every winter the salt blocks throw some of
their refuse matter upon the ice and into the
river, and this in time finds it way to the
bay and is washed upon the spawning and
feeding ground Of the fish.
The Milan museum has recently come
into the possession of a remarkable clock
This unique timepiece is made entirely Of
bread crumbs. A poor Italian workman
made it. Every day he set aparta portion of
his modest meal in order to carry out his
curious project The bread crumbs saved by
him he hardened by the addition of salt, aud
at last his tedious task is completed.
Some two weeks ago, at Joliet, Ill,
Charles Hammond was working on build
ing when large stone fell from the second
story to the basement on top of his head,
driving piece of the SKULL two inches long
and three inches wide, into his brain, and
aDlittiOn tho TaniUJn from The
man was given up for dead. surgeon,
however replaced the piece driven into the
brain and the man is now recovering.
"A curious wedding took place recentlyin
Ashley, Northamptonshire, England. The
contracting parties were a man aged rs and
a woman aged II. The bans had been pub
lished in church 56 years ago, but they sepa-
rated and married different people. The
wife of one and the husband of the other
dying, they found themselves at liberty to
renew their old engagement, and have now
married, presumably for the last time.
The founding hospital wheel or chair
was a well-known institution in France,
serving until a comparatively few yearsa ago,
as a general receptacle for outcast children.
An infant had but to be placed by anyone
wishing to rid themselves of the little crea-
ture upon the chair, turn given to the
same and Immediately, as if by magic, the
embarrassing object has disappeared within
and another chair awaits the newcomer.
During the course of a trial against the
Texas and Pacific Railway at Honey Grove,
Tex, for damages, the fact was brought to
light that there are tw1 s mules in this , county
Marshal Galbraith, one of the wealthiest
and best farmers in the county, and have
been in his possession since before the late
war They were used the present season to
work q crop, and show little evidence Of
their remarkable longevity.
Progressive hammoeks is the latest
craze. The one getting up the affair swings
lot of hammocks in shady places, and then
gets lot of pretty girls to swing in the
hammocks and rigs up a bell. The young
fellows pay so much to get in and then pick
q hammock. Every time the bell rings they
are obliged to move to another hammock.
After that they vote for the best converse
ZIONIST and have to pay for each vote Any
young man found with powder or long hair
on his coat is soaked with heavy fine.
-Mademba, King of Segon, Africa, who
was elevated to his present position by
Colonel Archinard, was formerly in the
French telegraph service in Africa. Ma
demba is native of the country over which
he at present rules, but was formerly con-
troller of telegraphs at Senegal Before ac-
cepting his regal state he made it q con-
dition that his name should continue to be
inscribed on the list Of telegraph servttorS,
and that his situa tiOn of King should be con-
sidered as subservient to that of his original
employment.
"A ''Bone Circulating Library" is an at
tachment of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York City. In this room,
which is fitted up with shelves, cases. etc.,
lust as any other library room, are hundreds
of thousands of human bones of all sizes,
shapes and forms. The bones, which are
numbered and labelled, are placed in order
on the shelves and in the cases. an attendant
being always on hand to act in the same ca
pacity as a librarian. 1t is his duty to keep
track of the bones lent; to enter them upon
books and to see that they are returned un-