Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

All dRtu lidNClluS otiSsOio SAAhNNA hec
died in Michigan City, Ind, leaving an estate
valued at 81 200.
"A seamless steal boat made from one
piece of metal by hydraulic pressure prom
ises to be very desirable. 1t will last great
while and cannot leak.
The earth is gradually growing larger
from the fall of meteoric matter. An as
tronomer estimates that the globe is annu-
ally being pelted with 1861 1000 projectiles-
"A wren built nest on a machine in the
shops of the Dawson, Ga, Manufacturing
Company that made about 5000 revolutions
a minute, and raised four birds. The young
birds left the nest last week.
M. Marcy the French scientist, by ar
ranging his own apparatus, has succeeded
in photographing the flight Of insects, the
exposure of the plate being necessarily not
over LIS, OO0th part of a second.
The hours of the cabinet-making trade
in England have, since 1850 fallen from so
and 20 a week to S. In London the hours in
the tobacco factories were, in 1850, from 81 to
so week: they are now from 4s to a.
"A book has been written purporting to
trace the descendants of Pocahontas down
to this day. and President Harrison is in the
list. He, according to this book, is her great
great-greatgreat-great great great great
grandson.
" Hllc slA years dSO lHeIe WASH y an
electric launch on the Thames, Is were
counted at the Henley regatta this year, and
there are nine stations between Kingston
and Oxford at which the storage batteries
can be replenished.
There is post at the corner of the
public square in Fairmont, Mo-, which gets
a bolt of lightning from nearly every
thunder storm that comes along. Three
men, five horses and 20 or 30 sheep have been
electrocuted at the spot
A drill sergeant in the British army was
recently ordered to ascertain the religious
views of some recruits, and this is how he
did it: Fall in. Church of England men
on the right; Roman Catholics on the left
all fancy religions to the rear.
In the early elections of Oklahoma the
rival candidates stood in wagons placed
some distance apart and their adherents
gathered around them and were counted.
The elected man took office at once, and his
edicts were as implicitly obeyed as an
act of Congress.
The recent discussion abroad on tobacco
and alcohol following Tolstoi's merciless
screed against their use. has revealed man
who smoked for 70 years without interrupt
tion, consuming between 5000 and 900
pounds of tobacco, and yet retaining perfect
physical and moral health.
The other day an old buck belonging to
flock of sheep which were being driven
down street at ST. Joseph, Mo-, happened to
catch sight of his reflected image in plate
glass window and charged upon it, shiyer-
ing the glass and scattering a display OF
gold, silver and bronze goods in all direc-
tions.
Two little children recently went to
| church alone in Westfield, Conn. They be-
came tired during the long sermon, and the
| elder one, supposing that school rules held
good in church, led his sister up in front of
ha nd sir -,ua
go homer" He said yes" and they soberly
walked out.
"A salmon feet 2 inches long, and
| weighing Is pounds was found by some of
| the New York operatives at SacO, Me-, on
Friday last, dead on the rocks below the
dam. There were several bruises on his
body, and it is thought that his death was
caused by falling back while attempting to
| go over the dam.
The Springfield Republican records .
| notable horse trade made in that vicinity:
| "a well-known jockey secured snowy colt
and hied himself to the dale to see the boys.
| When he came back he was driving fine
| black horse, leading good bay, while there
| followed behind a pair of oxen, a COW, an
| old sow and eight pigs"
In 1864 the London General Omnibus
| Company carried 42O0O,OOo passengers; the
| Metropolitan Railway soon afterward car
| ried H. ,0O0 In 1889 the Omnibus Company
| carried 1O4,O0OOOO, and the Metropolitan
| 81 900 OOO the District Railway "a 600 0OO the
| tramways 169 600 900, and the Road Car COM
6oo. 68snS i''O'O'OOO' NAAs LII oil A''u' ''''0'
! The latest fashion in Partisan society is
to give entertainments for young moth
ers.r to which only young married couples
| are invited. The dance becomes of secondary
| consideration, ana only square dances arc
| tolerated Instead of the customary favors
| in the cotilion, children's toys are distrib-
| uted which the young mothers take home.
| The following day the participants of such
| entertainments call with their children on q
| "visfte de reconnaissance"
"A clergyman at a summer resort the
| other Sunday preached an eloqent sermon
which pleased everybody but one lady, who
openly declared that she had heard the same
sermon preached 10 years ago by visiting
clergyman in her own church. Things
looked little bad for the Clergyman until
he proved that he was the visiting clergy
man in question. In the interval he had
grown stout and raised a heavy full beard,
so that she did not recognize him.
To make something that looks like gold:
Take 100 parts (by weight) Of pure copper,
II parts zinc or tin, parts magnesia, IS parts
sal ammonisc, ls parts quicklime, parts
cream of tartar. Melt the copper and add
gradually the magnesia sal ammoniac,
quicklimo and cream of tartar, each by itself
in the form of powder. Stir the whole for
half an hour, add the zinc or tin in small
pieces, and stir again until the whole is
melted. Cover the crucible and keep the
mixture in a molten condition for IS min
utes. Remove the dross and pour the metal
into moulds 1t has fine grain, is malleable
and does not easily tarnish.
DIR. Bumbaugh says, in his ''Gleanings
for the Curious Dictionary English is
something very different, not only from
common colloquiaI English, but even from
that of ordinary written composition. In
stead of about 10000 words, there is prob
ably no single author in the language from
whose works, however voluminous, so many
as 10 600 words could be collected. OF the
600 words there are certainly many more
than one-half that are only employed. ii
they are employed at all, on the raj est occa-
sions. We should be surprised TO find, if we
counted them, with how small number OF
words we manage to express all that we
have to say, either with our lips or pen-
Our common literary English probably
hardly amounts to ten thousand words; our
common spoken English hardly to 5000"
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