Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

phia institution.
The rabbit excels all other animals in
enduring cold.
i The catalogue of the Michigan Uniyersi.
ty includes 10000 names.
"A Chester street car conductor recently
made n stops in five squares.
Dense smoke from the far-off Michigan
| fires spread over part of Georgia last week,
An Atehison girl who is soon to be mar.
ried viii pay the expenses of the wedding
| tour.
There is church building in New York,
every inch of the front of which is concealed
4 by luxurious growth ofivy.
-'.Kochery" is the name coined by st,
Louis medical paper for the German pro-
fessor's system of treatment.
The boldest band of thieves in New
| York City consists of three little girls, who
| operated in the large flats of the wealthy.
The third party organized at Cincinnati
has been nicknamed the "Cravatless," !" fron3
| the general dress Of the delegates who at
| tended it.
"A Tennessee country newspaper has diss
covered that reaches can fly like grasshop-
pers, and can be seen late at night comtna
homo to roost.
"A Georgia woodman has cut a tree fron>
which he got two saw logs, each As feet long.
after removing this section of 80 feet, max
ing the tree l30 feet high
"A farmer near Bloomfield, Conn,
awoke one morning last week to find that @
hill II feet high on his land had sunken dur5
| ing the night several inches Since then the
mound has entirely disappeared
"A little boy from Northeast, Md, willis
visiting his grandmother in Chester, fell
asleep on the floor and rolled under the bed,
Before he reappeared the police were scours
ing the town for a missing boy.
New York drug clerks contemplate or,
ganizing q labor union. They claim that
they have to work about 16 hours day, SUM-
days included, not to mention the possibility
that they may have to be called up in the
middle Of the night.
Harvard University has 365, 900 bound
volumes in her library; Yale has 200, 900; Corr
nell l50, 900; Columbia, $4,000: Syracuse 75OOOf
Dartmouth, a 6s, 800; Lehigh, 5000; Brown, es,-
600: Princeton, So, 600; Bowdoin, "a, 900; Uni
yersity of Virginia, 10000.
The highest place in the world regular-
ly inhabited is said to be the Buddhist mon
astery, Halne, Thfbet which is about 5000
feet above sea level The next highest Is
Galera, a railway station in Peru, which Is
located at height of Is, 632 feet.
Pulaski county Ga, rejoices in the pos
session Of a gosling with three yell-de-
veloped legs and feet. The extra leg is used
by the gosling in walking. The curiosity
IS IN good health and gives promise of grow.
ing to be fine specimen of the goose family.
"A contract has been drawn up by awell-
known lawyer and signed and sworn to by
some 20 odd of the leading business and pro.
fessional men of WeIlsville agreeing in the
future to neither treat" nor be "freated.a
The badge OF the order is small copper
cent worn as pin.
-Goodvoice, a prophet of some notoriety
among the Sioux, near Chamberlain, s. D..
predicts that for three seasons, beginning
with the present one, we shall have abun[
dant moisture, and he backs up his faith by
putting in 100 acres of crop-seed being
furnished by the Government.
"A floating rock is one of the wonders of
Corea. 1t stands, OF seems to stand, in 'front.'
Of the palace erected in its honor. 1t is an
irregular cube of great bulk 1t appears to
be resting on the ground free from support
on all sides, but strange to say two men on
opposite ends of rope may pass it under
the stone without encountering any obsta-
Gle whatever.
BY including territory so miles square
around the center of each city-that is, its
legitimate suburbs-it will be found that in
population Pittsburg ranks fifth among
American cities, or next after Chicago. New
York Philadelphia and Boston are the onlv
other towns that surpass us. We outrank
Baltimore, Cincinnati and ST. Louis, not to-
mention Cleveland and Buffalo.
"A man in Seneca, NO., invented q
steam catapult which would throw a five.
pound missile mile. He got together pile
of 800 missiles, put one of them into the SLOT
and touched the thing of. 1t landed on the
out of the windows in dismay. They thougho
for moment that the clouds were pelting
them with huge hailstones. Then came an-
other shot which struck poor fellow in the
abdomen and doubled him up instanter and
moment later another. The excited peo-
pie armed themselves with pistols, shot
started for the old mill The man was havS
ing quite picnic, but was at last captured,
extinguished and exterminated.
The inventor of the game of chess, on
being promised by the King, whom he first
taught the game, that he should have any
reward he might ask for, meekly replied that
he would be content if the King would give
two on the second, four on the third, eight
on the fourth, and so on, doubling uD to the
sixty-fourth square. The King gladly ac-
ceded to this seemingly modest request, and
ordered his attendants to bring in the
wheat, which they began to do: but, to the
of the monarch, it was found
that there was not wheat enough in the
ventor 1t would require 9.627 268 1856 a34 775 1853
kernels, equiyalentto30 80 OH O97 1s4 4S5 bushels.
With the exception of the Chinese rail-
ways, with their prejudice-crazed wrecking
mobs, the unsafest roads in the world are
those of Spain, whose landslides and inunda-
mention the risk from bandits and insur-
gents. The safest are those of Northern
and England. Statistics prove that
in 1899 and 1890 only three out s., 900 900 North
German passengers lost their lives by causes
which could in any way be ascribed to ne
glect of precautions on the part of the rail-
way officials. In Great Britain during the
to 19, 900 900 safe trips. In America three out
Of ten fatal casualties can be traced to the
Of the one-track system.
Some idea of the magnitude of the pos
tai service may be gathered from the fact
that the combined length of the railway
postal routes of the country is IA, ,557 miles,
while the transportations OF mails on those
routes in 1890 reached the enormous total Of
ls6, 3s4 miles. Germany, which comes
next only has "a, ,522 miles and total trans
while the railway service is one of great
magnitude, there are the star route and
steamboat services, which extend over 25I.
1872 miles, with total annual TRANSPORTATION
Of over II, 600 900 miles. To carry on sue
cessfully this immense service requires the
work of over $4,000 persons. The postal cor.
of this country with foreign
lands falls little below that of Germany.
Of the 100000 900 pieces sent abroad last year
., 600, 600 were carried by vessels of foreign
register.
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