Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The mackerel curing industry of Ire
| land is failure.
| There is said to te not single Baptist
church in Western Australia.
| AN old Indian burying ground has been
| discovered near Winsted, Conn.
| -Mexieo's new tariff will make our beer
cost rs cents pint in that country.
1T is estimated that no fewer than 20, 900
| girls are employed in the public houses and
! drinking bars Of the United Kingdom.
The State of Massachusetts, has ar
ranged to aid the 103 small towns that have
no free public libraries in their effort to Sc
| cure them.
1t is said that the 200-fOot level in the
Temescal tin mine is opening up surprising
| ly well. The vein on the lowest levels is re-
ported as widening considerably and show
| ing an excellent quality of ore.
| "A railroad tunnel 1000 feet long is be-
| ing drilled through a mountain peak near
the village of Galera, Pa, which is 5000
| feet above the level of the sea and 600 feet
| above the perpetual snow line.
"A gun to fire under water has been in
vented, and one for the United States ship
| Destroyer is in course of construction at
| Bethlehem, Pa. The experimental gun is to
be IS feet long, and will throw projectile 25
feet In length. containing 400 pounds of
nttro-glyeerine, LOGO feet through the water.
The princes of India are still able to in
dulge in royal whims and extravagances.
One of them recently had made at Paris a
bed worth $4,000. Its canopy is supported
by four automatic female figures that wave
fans to cool the air. The mattress is hugo
musical box which, when one lies upon it,
plays operatic airs.
Three years ago c. Hachule, of Parma,
Mich, purchashd two carp to put in a pri-
vate pond He estimates that they will
weigh from 10 to u pounds now, and that
their progeny will number 10000. He feeds
them with barrel of bread per week, and
when they are called they come to the sur
face in great numbers to get their rations-
"A silver shekel has been found in Gal
weston of the time of Simon Maccabeus, who
lived 142 years before the beginning of the
Christian era, and consequently is 2,O33
years old. Tho coin is estimated by compe-
tent judges to be worth for its numismatic
value 1000, while the intrinsic value of the
silver it con ntainS does not exceed 5l or %
cents.
"A timid man, living alone in the out
skirts of Hartford, has hit upon a novel de-
vice for soaring away urglars. Each night
upon retiring he places huge pair of boots
outside of every bedroom door in the house
to convey the impression that every cham
Der is occupied by an able-bodied man. a
burglar who happened in would think he
had struck hotel.
"A Novel Idea-A Russian contractor
has found out an original method to test the
/ strength and alertness of the laborers he en-
| cages for his work. He comes to the mar
| ket, where the wOrkingmen are waiting for
| job, and orders them to run, to wreStle and
| to lift each other. When "the boys have
| played" enough for him to make observa-
| tions he engages those who have displayed
the greatest strength and adroitnesS-
mi u
in spandnu, near Berlin, has almost ceased.
A year ago more than 900 workmen were
employed in the factories. To-day less than
| one-tenth of that number remain. There Is
great discomfort among the tOwnspeople in
| Consequence, although disinterested persons
| look upon the discharge of the laborers as 4
guarantee of peace. spandau, by the way, is
| the scene of the famous vault in which part
| of the money paid as indemnity by France
| In 1871 is kept.
Captain Stephen A. Bills, of Toms
River, N. j., has very novel set of DOM
| inoes, which he prizes very highly. They
are made from pieces of % different wrecks
/ which have come ashore on the Atlantic
| coast between Barnegat Inlet and Point
| Pleasant. They were made by Captain
) Charles Tilton, of the life saving service,
1 who was ten wears in making the collection
| Every particular domino has a history, and
| Captain Bills likes nothing better than q
| chance to relate it.
An old style Los Gatos, Cal, carriage
appeared On the street there the other day,
attracting considerable attention. 1t had
| wheels at one end and sled at the other,
not for alternate snow and bare ground, but
as wagon up hill and sled down, the load
| being shifted as one the other met
Ten years since, says correspondent from
that place, hardly any other conveyance
was seen; hundreds of elegant equipages are
now seen every day.
If an Arab woman who has lost her
husband decides to marry again, she visits
the grave of her husband the night before
her second marriage and prays him not to
be offended. As, however, she feels that he
will be offended, she takes with her a dom
key laden with two goatskins filled with
water. The prayer ended, she proceeds to
pour the water on the grave to keep the first
husband cool under the circumstances
about to take place, and, having well satu-
rated him, departs.
The French hairdressers are circulating
q petition which they will submit to the
minister of fine arts when it has 100000 sig
natures. The purport of the document is
that women be prohibited from appearing
in their hats in the theaters subsidized by
the Government, and that the coiffure of the
ladies at such entertainments be according
to the fashion devised by the Hairdressers'
Association. The cause of this strange re-
quest is that the trade in false hair has
the present style fashion of dressing the hair
in Grecian style threatens a still greater
falling of in that trade.