Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

New Mexico has a messenger boy
named Gallop.
Among the recent inventions is calen-
dar that will register for the next 200 years,
besides telling any date figure within that
period.
Chinese philosophers say that manners
differ every hundred Ii of distance, and GUS
toms are no longer the same every thou
sand Ii.
in Independence, Kan, the town clock
is six minutes slow and instead Of setting
the clock right the authorities advertise the
TACT OF its slOwneSS i'll the papers.
1t has been shown that the life Of fish
is very great. Hundreds of fish are still
alive in the royal aquarium in st. Peters
burg that were placed there more than 1j0
years ago.
The vicinity of Palermo, Italy, has
yielded three remarkable human skeletons,
one in l4lO one in l51G and the last in 1850.
Ihe frst was q, the second 90, and the third
81 feet in height.
The man who sells bread IN the streets
of Syrian towns mixes his religion with his
profits. GOD is the nourisher; buy nv
bread" he sings, in Il hiSh-pitched key, as
he goes on his wanderings.
Live offers are rare in Connecticut, but
hunter saw two in the Willimantic river
recently and shot one. which was about two
ieet and u half in lenGhth and weighed 1S15
pounds. The other escaped.
BY intermarriage with colored people
the Nlarshpee Indians in Massachusetts have
increased to about 400. They occupy a res
ervatiOn on the shore of the lake in Marsh
pee, called Ma'shpi by Cape Cod folk.
"A sign of politeness in Thibet on meet
ing person is to hold up the cIasped hands
and stick ont the tongue. When a man dies
one-half of his property goes to charity and
the other half to the lamas. His family gets
nothing.
in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
there is mutilated st. Johns head, which
bears an inscription to the effect that pow
der of it is said to have done great service
to sore eyes, especially where there was a
white speck.''
In London the number of paupers Is
smaller than it has been since 1857. Roughly,
about 5000 paupers were relieved in the
metropolis each week during August, or 20.3
per l-GO0 Inhabitants. In 1865 the proportion
was 4l.2 per 1000.
On the icy peaks of the Himalayas,
says an imaginative writer, there is a .'snow
maggot," resembling the siIllworm in ap-
pearance. and weighing nearya pound. It
Is excellent to eat, but too much of it will
make one bleed at the nose.
The consumption of ladies' cigarettes
in France rose from 10l, $50 francs 20 100000
francs last year. and the orders received at
the tobacco mandatory promise n still
further increase under this head. There IS
one antl-tobacco society in France
AN artesian well in Missouri is throw
ing mp all sorts of things among which
Pyrites and quartz of various kinds have
been found. There are also numerous speci-
mems OF petriffed wood fire opalS shells OF
various kinds and other interesting articles
While man named Samuel French
was ont hunting on Thursday near Birming-
ham, Conn, he discovered a COW stuck in
the mud, "havin9 been in that position for
three weeks, living on weeds that foateu
down the stream. 1t required two yoke Of
oxen to drag her out.
"A remarkable proof of the changes that
are taking place in the shipping trade was
afforded at Liverpool yesterday. when at an
auction sale the best offer that could be got
boat of the InInan fleet, WIS $500 The
ship originally cost about EljG,OOO
"A sportsman in Wilbur. Ore, has
trained two eagles to catch geese. He
weighs their bodies SO that they cannot fly
after they have captured the game. He fol-
lows them on horseback and takes the geese
from their claws. Once they caught four
geese at one time-One in each claw
Six miles from Roseburg a land slide
exposed the iawbone of huge prehistoric
beast. The Pzaindedler says it is the left
anterior portion of the lower jawbone of o
mastodon or dinotherium. The Smithsonian
Institution has been informed and will no
doubt commence q systematic search fer
more discoveries.
while searching for gold and silver in
the Cascade range, Washington, q prospec-
tor stumbled on ledge of crystal quartz
suitable for making glass. According to q
nF
is very low. One ton of it would produce
only 81 cents worth of gold, but prospectorS
have searched in vain for that very quartz
along the coast.
Lake Palmyra is part of the Missis-
sippi river at high water, but at present it's
bottom is dry. with q thin upper crust of dry
earth and deep lower layer of soft mud.
4 halfwitted negro who tried to walk across
to an island broke through the crust. In
one day he sank 10 the waist. end in two
DAYS to the neck. On the night of the sec
ond day be was pulled out.
The Swiss town of Meiringen has been
almost completely burnt toashes. Most of
the inhabitants were unable to save their
belongings; and are therefore in u pitiable
condition. 1t is n remarkable circumstance
that numerous leaves OF Bibles and Illus
trated papers in a partly burnt condition
were carried away by the wind as far as In
which is 10 miles from the scene OF
the fire.
1t is estimated that there are 200, ,000, 900
tons of iron in sight at the 1Iinarets. The
ledge stands up above the surrounding
mountains about LOO feet. 1t is 300 feet
thick and 5000 feet long. This great mass
Of ore is nearly pure iron In purity it
.anges from Ga per cent to So per cent. The
best of this is Is per cent purer than any
Dther iron deposit Known in the world. The
1uality is superior to any other. not falling
below the best that is produced i'll Norway
md Sweden.
The following is the Andrain county,
Missouri, form of marriage ceremony: ''By
the authority vested i'll me as q u Squire in
the State of Missouri: by the golden fields of
,OTn and wheat that wave to and from tho
gentle summer brecze:by the great drOveS of
stock that are continually finding their way
20 different markets of the world: by the
II nOnOtonOus song of the cat on the Dacz
rard fence: ami the pumpkin vine whose
.linging tendrils shade the entrance of a
ummer Kitchen: by the whole earth and sea
md all that is in them pronounce you man
nd WIFE and may the Lord have mercy on
our souls.
JOKELETs FROM JUDGE.