Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
CURIOUS CONDENSANONS.


preachers every year to keep its pulpit> sup
piled.
| There are 6O3, 900 Catholics in Vienna.
There are more than that in New York. Next
| to Paris. New York is the largest Catholic city
in the world.
| "A Kansas farmer has decreed that every
young man who courts one of his daughters in
| winter time must contribute a load of sawed
| wood.
| AN Atchison, Kan, man, during a re-
| cent case of sickness at his house, paid doc
| tor 81 for giving the medicine and his child 81
| for taking il.
The Detroit G.. A. r. advertise for
| $4,000 beds for the accommodation Of part of
the National Encampment crowd expected
there this year.
Grand Rapids, Mich, leads the world
| in its percentage of divorces to marriages
This year the ratio was one to fve and last
year one to six.
An Alliance member of the Kansas
Legislature who went to see THE Ugly Duck
ling'' very much disappointed because
there was no poultry on the stage.
1t is, said that the blackest man in
Glynn county, Ga. is named White. the whitest
man Is named Brown, the rallest man is named
Lowe, and the largest man Small.
Twenty years ago some one stole gold
ring from w. s. Needham, of Columbus. Ga.
One day recently Mr.. Needham received the
ring inclosed In an envelope without word of
explanation.
A prominent banker at Mexico, No.,
pledged his friends that If General Palmer
should be elected Senator at Springfield he
would stand on his head. He publicly fulfilled
his vow.
"A Leavenworth domestic has deposited
500 for her funeral expenses, has her last robes
already made. has purchased a site for her
grave and planned what kind of coffin she
will have.
An official survey shows that Rhode
Islands nearest approach to a mountain is an
eminence in Glocester which rises sos feet above
sea level and TO which the name Durfee Hill
has been given.
"A Reno county, Kan, man has received
commission to purchase jack rabbits and
snip them to England for the purpose of stock
ing up the game preserves of some of the old
est estates in Great Britain.
Princeton has made move which other
institutions of learning should not be slow to
follow Che is spelling "Wooster" lust as it is
pronounced leaving the ''h' off of Pittsburg
and knocking the ''c'' out of Tucson, Ariz.
EARLY in the century the old church bell
on Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Mass,
used to ring at IL o'clock every forenoon to an
nounce to the working people Of the nelghbor-
hood when 1t was time to take their II o'clock
drink.
-Bluegrass grows everywhere in the
temperate zone, but Kentucky bluegrass be-
longs TO that State alone, and the bluegrass OF
kentucky is as superior to the bluegrass OF
Europe or of other parts Of America as If is
were distinct variety
There is at least two instances in which
streams flow from the sea inland. The little
salt lake of Assal in India, is formed thus fed
from the Indian Ocean. The other stream is in
Cephalonia. an island in the Ionian Sea, and
disappears underground.
Many years ago some careless map
maker accidentally changed Goblin City, Col,
to Golden City on his map. The error was
widely copied into other maps, and to this day
one sees on some of the best maps the name OF
Golden City instead of Goblin City.
The Governor of Southern State is in
correspondence with the Governors of all other
hanging States, hoping to make an arrange
ment by which no one shall be hung on Friday
If other days shall be selected the superstition
which generally attaches to Friday will soon
pass away.
In Paris an aquarium Is maintained for
the purpose of breeding fish for repIenishing
the rivers of France. A quantity of California
salmon are kept in a tank specially constructed
"A
suit, more than 200, 600 healthy fish are trans
ferred to the River Seine every year.
The sod house on the Kansas frontier and
the dwelling of Greenland Eskimo are very
much alike, about the only difference being an
overground burrow in the home of the Eskimo.
All Greenland houses are of the same size. face
the same way, and are built Of the same ma
terial-layers Of rough granite, sod and mortar.
The London Electric Supply Corpora
tiNr,h has Ena Iol -,
000-volt current. According to the statement
of the directors, this current of unprecedented
strength was sent from the companys gener.
sting station at Deptford to the Grosyenor sub
station on the 17th ult. Hitherto the highest
tension attained was 500 volts.
An invention is reported by which il
is said the manufacture of artificial fur can be
simply and cheaply carried on. Nothing def
mite is yet known Of the mode of man ufaoture,
which has been kept entirely secret, bur active
steps are understood to be in progress for its
early development If the advantages claimed
for this process can be established it will ef-
feet revolution in the great fur industry Of
the Northwest.
About year ago young mule was
run over by train at Akron, Ga, and had one
leg crushed below the knee. The railroad com
pany paid negro to kill the mule. The negro
got a pickax and stuck it in the animals head
three times, each time the pick going about
mule was found grazing about and was taken
up and cared for by another negro and to-day
is splowing regularly on plantation.
The first organized Oklahoma raid was
made at night, on April 13 1880. BY ID men,
two of whom, as guides. rode ahead and marked
the trail by placing old buffalo skulls at promi-
nent ridges so that the route is known to this
day as the Hogs Back trail A location was
selected on April q A city six square miles
in area was surveyed, and three houses built
and then on May Is came Lieutenant Pardee
with IL soldiers and IL Indian scouts from Fort
Reno. and arrested the whole party.
The Imperial Bank of Germany has the
right to issue paper to the extent Of S75 900 600
and as much more as it has gold and silver on
hand as security for It, and practically to any
extent beyohd this; but on the excess they
must pay interest at 5per cent per anuum to
the Government. The bank has not of late
avaiIed of this privilege. possibly because it
would not pay, and has confined its issue Of
bank notes to the regular SIS, 900 and the
amount of gold and silver on hand, or say
s22o, 000, 900 in all
A scientific professor who has recently
examined some fossil remains from Morehead
phosphate beds from Reace Creek, Florida,
decides one to be from Hippotherium hither-
to undescribed, which he names h princeps.
He concludes that this animal must have been
fully as large as the best specimens Of our
modern domestic horses, to which il is related.
A number of specimens OF rhinoceros also ex-
listed there in those days, the remains Of one
hitherto undescribed were also found in the
phosphate bed which the professor names r