Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Missouri had 6, 72s, 900 acres in corn this
year.
| Skating parties are all the rage now in
Northern Michigan.
During October 434, 155 barrels Of salt
| were inspected in Michigan.
Among the rece nt,agricultural n products
of Georgia is a potato that was "half yellow
yam and half red Spanish potato
There is street in Mexico named
Glove" 1t is said to be the favorite resi-
dence street for newly married couples.
A farmer in Missouri grated tomato
vine into a potato vine and got two crops,
one from the top and the other from the
roots.
-Hymnologists give 1897 as the year in
which Bishop Ken wrote the 'fDoxology" as
the last verse of his morning and evening
hymns.
The total police force of England and
Wales is to-day composed of very nearly
1000 men of all ranks. OF this total 1870
are metropolitan police.
1t is estimated that there are between
1000 and 5000 colored residents of this city
who were born in slavery. and some of whom
grew to maturity in slavery.
1t is estimated that the right hand of a
good compositor in taking type from the
frame to the stick while setting up g. 900 ems
in eight hours covers distance OF 36 900 feet.
Arabs, on discovering litter of cubs,
watch for the departure of the honess and
then rob her of the whelps. They post them
selves on high cliff, or in a tree overlook
ing the lair
Among the 'curios" recently displayed
at an exhibition in London was pair of
"dog tongs" presumably used by. old-time
sections for the capture of dogs which had
strayed into church.
Farmers in the vicinity of South Haven,
Mich, are obliged to draw water from Lake
Michigan. The severe drought has caused
hundreds of cisterns and many wells to go
dry. South Haven is in dry county.
One of the arguments of Minneapolis
against st. Paul is that by building an ice
palace as an advertisement it attracted at
tention to the frigidity of the climate and
checked immigration to the Northwest.
Hunters near Carthage, Ill, have un-
earthed two tablets bearing the following
Inscriptions: "June IL, Ills. / Puts Hop in
Ocobock hop in tbs will L. d. T." and Trait
in 10. They have been sent to the Smith
sonian Institute.
The Danes do not require the makers
of oleomargarine to stamp the kegs in which
it is packed, but they do require that it be
nearly white in order to distinguish it from
butter. ANY Dane can tell at a glance the
difference between butter and oleomargar-
| inc.
-Mahommed's birthday has been duly
| celebrated in the metropolis of the British
Empire by the "Anjuman-iIslan. London"
"a society consisting of Indian Mussulman
gentlemen residing in England-giving a
dinner in honor of the prophet in the Hol-
born Restaurant.
Chile is a great country for ne ewspapers;
there are more 40 of them in Valparaiso and
Santiago, and there are others in all the
head towns of departments. Chile has many
literary men. including a regiment of poets,
and also many scientific men and a multi
tude of statesmen and generals.
"A Chicago drummer, who has inst re.
turned from Madagascar, where he tried to
sell mining machinery, says that a mine su-
perinteDdent laughed in his face when he
named the price of Il drill, and said that he
could hire whole gang OF men to work for
him for lifetime for that amount of money.
Laborers receive only to 10 cents a-day for
IA hours work
Last week the remains of Mrs Archis
Cox were disinterred. She was buried on
her husbands farm in Benton county, Mo-,
SO years ago. The coffin was in pretty good
condition, also the silk dress in which the
deceased was buried TIE strange thing
about the remains was that about one-half
the body was turned to stone and the bal
ance left skeleton.
"A native bride in Hindostansis loaded
down with all the jewelry she can get. She
has girdle at the waist, numerous rings,
anklets, bracelets and bells and decorations
for the hair. Although she has never seen
her intended husband she goes and sits be.
side him on the day of the ceremony. The
priest takes a corner of the BRIDES veil and
ties it to the groOm's shawl, and they are
married.
Since the Mikado of Japan permitted
his subj ects to emigrate to other countries,
m IzfE AI,A.-
tive land. There are about 10000 of them in
Hawaii and more of them arrive every
month. There is large number of them in
Australia. They are to be found in various
countries of the Asatic continent, and some
of them are in Europe. There are about
1000 of them in California, and others are
constantly arriving there to work in the
vineyards.
Three colossal statues, ten feetthigh, OF
rose granite, have just been found at Abou-
kir a few feet below the surface. The dis
covery was made from indications furnished
to the Government by local investigator,
Daninos Pasha. The first two represent In
one group RameseS II. and Queen Hentmara
seated on the same throne. This IS unique
among Egyptian statues. This third statue
represents RameSeS standing upright in
military attire. scepter in his hand and a
crown upon bis head. Both bear hiero-
giyphic inscriptions, and both have been
thrown from their pedestals face downward.
Their site is on the ancient Cape Zephyrtun,
near the remains of the Temple of Venus at
Arsinoe. Relics of the early Christians have
been found in the same locality.
-Minnesota has an electric well neara
place called Red Wing. According to the
story the drillers had drilled about $50 feet
when they lost their drill rods and dia-
mond drill. The whole business had dropped
to nowhere in an instant There was quite
force of air coming out OF the hole, and the
men said there was use going any further,
because there wasn't any bottom. They con-
cluded to fish for the rods and drill but as
soon as the rods were dropped into the hole
they began to shiver in a queer way. One of
the men took hold of the bar with pair OF
leather gloves, and he was knocked down.
Then another man touched the rope and got
a shock because it was wet. '"There seems
to be perfect natural stOrehCuse of electr1.
city. 1t is generated in some way in thas
pocket where the drills went.