Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Missouri has 16s, 100, 900 bushels of
corn.
in Kansas sunfower stalks are being
used for fuel.
Washington now has newspapers in all
its counties except one.
The only fish that never sleep are
salmon, pike and goldfish.
The French Minister of War is about
to establish three aerostic stations in the
Alps.
In the Solomon Islands the market
quotation on a good quality wife is 10000
cocoanuts.
The Glasgow magistrates have been
fining cyclists 3Os each for riding at night
withoutlamps.
The ,slowest thing on earth, an OK tea=z
has run away and killed a Tennessee family.
Wonders never cease. -
Official statistics show that Colorado
has over 20, 600 square miles of coal, and the
product of 1890 was 8, 1000 tons.
"A fir tree ten feet in diameter has
been discovered in Washington. Its lower
linn BIS are 200 feet from the ground.
-Barnesville, o., has COW which has
presented its owner with triplets. 1t is con-
sidered quite an unusual occurrence.
"A woman of Thibet who chooses to re-
main single and to earn her own living is re-
regarded as an object of scorn and derision.
1t is the lament of an Oxford county
(Me.) village that there are only three young
men in town town eligible for social pur-
poses.
The New Year book of the Congrega-
tional Church reports ASH churches, with
5o6, 1872 members, and 613 $40 in the Sunday
schools. .a.. =,
Five Indians from Indian Territory
passed through Reno, New, the other day
on their way to Walker Lake, in search Of
the "Great Messiah"
"A lump of coal weighing ton has been
sent TO Denver from Rock Springs, Wyo., as
an advertisement One lump broken up
there last week filled seven cars
There are yet few beaver along the
days when this little animal frequented
oregon streams in large numbers.
The population of Rome has decreased
nearly $4,000 during the past four years.
The hand-organ industry in this country
has increased percepIibly during that Pc
riod.
Santa Catalina, small island off the
coast of Southern California, has become a
great summer resort The waters are so
clear In its harbor that fish can be seen ~
feet below the surface.
"A firm of chemists in Birmingham
place upon all poisons sold by them direc-
tions as to the antidote which should be ap-
piled in cases where tine poisons are taken
accidentally or intentionally by human be-
ings.
The palace and even the bedchamber Of
the young King of Seryia were recently in
vaded by a huge monkey, which had es-
capped from menagerie and had climbed in
a window while His Majesty's bed was being
mad.
While the Penitentiary Commissioners
were in session at the Santa Fe IN. Mex.)
prison three prisoners with wooden re-
volvers,'' wrapped with tin-foil, held up the
guard, and succeeded in escaping in car
riage which was in front OF the building.
"A Saco (Me.) man whose house had
been haunted by weird, mysterious sounds
at night for a fortnight or so, at last opened
the unused parlor stove and found therein a
poor little pigeon wasted away almost to
skeleton. The mystery now IS, how the pig
con get there?
-F1ounders and other bottom fishes fire.
quently fall a prey to the appetite of the
Holsters, and sometimes they will nirnbly
capture small minnows as the latter go
swimming by. They dig clans out of the
mud or sand and crush the shells of mussels
w
A Delaware cobbler gave his wife GER
tain sum of money each week for her per-
sOnal use. He never inquired what she did
with it, but after SO years of welded life, the
wife died, and in the drawer of an antique
table the husband found q bag ontain1ng.
gold, also roll of greenbacks, amounting in
all to $4,000.
Some few years ago the Paris picture
dealer Ferrett bought picture-for 10 francs
oy,d hon chav, Ha rad
that it was portrait by Jordaen, and he got
rid of it for 1,500 francs, to the late M.
Rothan, the diplomatist. The picture
which is in Jordaen's best manner-last year
fetched 5000 francs.
Who would believe that any one could
make money ont of cigar ends? Yet the
business of gathering them is so lucrative
that the Russian Philanthropic Society has
organized d regular system in st. Peters
burg OF collecting these tritles and dispos-
ing of them for the benefit of the poor. Up
wards of 81, 500 was realized in the month OF
July. As to what is the ultimate destina-
tion of this refuse matter it would be some
what hazardous to decide.
The Emperor of Germany is fond of
poetry, but does not like. plagiarism. A
Prof. Herman Thorn, of Berlin, recently
dedicated to His Majesty hymn of labor, so
full of beautiful sentiments that it was
greatly admired, and the professor was lib
orally rewarded by the Emperor and OF her
members of the royal family. But upon tine
discovery being made that the poem had
been stolen bodily from an old book of
poetry, Thorn was arrested and sent to Jail.
-Anatomists classify animals by their
teeth more accurately than in any other
way, and the jaws of the small lemur, which
connects the anthropoid apes. like the Chin
pai1zee and gorilla, with beasts not so high
in the scale of creation, are provide with q
dentition so astonishingly human like that
one might well imagine the teeth to be actu-
ally those of miniature man. Molars and
incisors are shaped and placed in exactly
the same way, and the CANNES, two in the
upper jaw and two i'll the lower, correspond
perfectly with the human type.