Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
"A camel travels loo miles a day.


The ceremony of civil marriage is conn.,
pulsory in France.
"A Baronetcy and fortune have fallen
to the lot of Eugene Drake, of oglsthorpe, Ga
The depth of moisture in Eastern Oregon
soil is three feet now, against only one foot last
spring.
The massage treatment was practised
among the Chinese before the exodus of the
Hebrews from Egypt.
There is doctor in Germany who be-
lieves in the air cure, while diet of grapes is
exclusively adopted in sanitaIium near
Geneva.
An Albany tobacconist scatters his
garden well with tobacco stems, which, he
says make an excellent manure. It also kills
noxIous insects.
Turkish soldiers are very poor marks
men. Recent target contests in the army
demonstrated that not one soldier in 20 could
hit man at 20 PAGES.
The old Indian practice is to count up
10 ten on the fingers, and then count by tenA
Some tribes more Intelligent than others were
able to count tens of tens.
"A little over year ago" Kansas
editor says, 1--WE were present at an orgy where
Judge PETER was voted a leather medal as the
champion oyster eater. And now he is United
States Senator
An Atchison woman dreamed the other
night that she was in heaven. but she thought
she couldn't find her husband, though she
walked up and down The golden streets four or
FIVE hours hunting him.
The $3.50 feet of the ST. Clair tunnel
was cut in little over year, a rapidity without
precedent in tunnel making The top of the
tunnel is nearly s. feet below the surface Of the
river. The walls are Of cast iron.
"A London paper recently contained the
following advertisement: IA lady wishes to
have twice week from the country supply
OF live sparrows for favorite cat Address
with terms, Trixie, Bishops road, W."
The four most common causes of boiler
explosions are external corrosion, overheating
over pressure and weakness of hue. The four
least common causes absence of safety
valve, bad material weak manhole and de-
posit
The Western towns which showed a
growth in the last ten years exceeding 1000 per
cent are in order, Spokane Falls Tacoma,
Seattle and Kansas City, Kan. The first three
places mentioned are in the new State of WASH
ington.
"A New York young man believes in
even-handed justice on the square. He was
arrested the other day for passing eounterfeit
money. His excuse was that he had been
swindled in the same way and wanted to even
things up.
The Iowa Presbytery has, after due
deliberation and discussion, decided that min
listers should form a combination or gospel
trust, anu that young men desiring to preach
should be discouraged, as they interfered with
men already ordained getting good calls and
good salaries
"A variety of coffee which is said to be
pleasant in taste. though rather bitter, is
grown in the neighborhood of Ascholtshausen.
Bavaria, in sandy SOIL 1t is sown in spring,
and the sky-blue blossoms appear in July. The
fruit is gathered in August and is pale yellow,
resembling Bourbon Island coffee.
AN Omaha paper publishes this ad-
vertisement: persons so years old or over, who
have resided in Omaha for some time, are re-
spectful1y requested to correspond with the
undersigned. Residence should be stated.
Subjects of mutual interest will be discussed
and society of genial spirits may be or
ganized."
Five boys were arrested by the police in
Boston. the other day. on the charge of break
ing into a carpenter shop and stealing 81 so in
coppers. They used the carpenters tools in the
shop to try to break open the safe. When the
police made an examination of the premises
they found book entitled How to Break
Safes" which had been left in the shop by the
boy burglars.
Old Newgats prison at East CRANKY,
Conn, has been sold and will be torn down.
The buildings were erected over the old copper
mines, from which the first metal for the Fed
eral mint was taken 1t was used as the State
prison. and the prisoners cells were in subIer-
ranean passages OF the mine From 17S8 to 1877
prisoners were confined so feet below the sur
lace OF the earth.
A well-known physician saws: "The
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The genuine article-and anyone who has suf-
fered from the grip will never have any diff
Guilty in appreciating the difference-is a new
form of influenza and many cases of the old
influenza are called grip when il is not. The
grip is highly infectious, whereas the other
form of influenza is not, or only slightly
The marks upon the horns of COW in
dicate her age. At years old a wrinkle may
be found forming at the base of the horn. and
as the horn grows the next year this wrinkle is
easily seen. This marks three years growth.
At years second wrinkle appears. After
II or II the wrinkles are smaller and closer and
less conspicuous, and some of the earliest will
have been worn away.
The "pianophone" is the latest 1t con-
sists of keyboard with keys of the same size
and description as the ordinary piano, a simple
but effective striking action, and the substitu-
ton of metallic plates for the ordinary strings.
sufficient sound to make the playing on the in
;trument distinctly audible to the player, but
naudibe at any distance. The instrument
never gets ont Of tune.
"A new statuette of Lincoln, recently
made by Sculptor Volk, has just been presented
% the Libby Prison war museum. With 1t is
he life mask of Lincoln and casts of his hands,
made in 1860 by the same sculptor. The life
mask perfectly displays every line and feature
If the face. The hand casts are also singularly
perfect. the right hand being apparently much
wollen from the constant hand-shaklng at .
eception to Lincoln a few days before.
1t is said that between $4,000, ,OOO, 900
md IOO, 900 900 900 codfishes are taken from the
ea around the shores OF Newfoundland every
-ear But even that quantity seems small
vhen we consider that single cod yields some
hing like $500 900 eggs each year, and that
,yer 600 900 eggs have been found in the roe
II single cod. A herring of six or seven
unces in weight Is provided with 5000. 900 ova.
after making all reasonable allowances for the
destruction of eggs and of the young. it has
,een calculated that in three years a single pair
# herrings would produce l54,0OO0O0
There recently landed In Barcelona,
spain. family of 279 persons. 1t consisted of
father. of I6 daughters. of whom were
Widows. married and l single; % sons, of
ghom we're widowers, 13 married and single;
A granddaughters. of whom are widows, q
married. and single; AZ grandsons, of whom 4
re widowers, 26 married and II single: 45 great
of whom are married and 43
ingle; three great-grear-grandchildre 72 sons
n-aw and -law-in all 279 persons
lie was thrice married. had SO sons, and the
Idest is 20 years old.
HELPS To HILARTTY.