Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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of the moon.
The population of the earth doubles
itself in 260 years.
The Governors of fQueen Anne's Bounty
hold q capital sum Of S4,456,1a4.
Camel raising is said to afford the King
of Italy much pleasure and profit.
"A Chinese newspaper published in San
Francisco has been sued for libel by negro
and an Indian.
The largest grape vine in the world is
said to be growing at 0ys, Portgutal, and
has been bearing fruit since 1902.
Lord Londesborough is as famous for
his ties as Gladstone is for his collars. He
wears silk tie Of u broad, fiat shape.
Lady snake eharmers are getting scarce,
and the wages paid them by American
museum managers have risen to 500 week.
Several thieknesses of paper pasted to-
gether have from time iInmemorial been
found extremely serviceable in China as
soles for shoes.
An ingenious Pole advertises in the
newspapers his readiness to supply to order,
houses, churches, bells, cannon, and ships,
all made Of paper
The name New York was bestowed in
compliment to the Duke of York (afterward
James II. of England) to whom the land was
granted in 1854.
Although in private conversation with
friends the Kaiser's voice is soft and pleas
ant, all his public speeches are declaimed
in harsh and rattling voice.
The well that is being bored at Wheel
ing in the interests of science has reached
depth of three-fourths of mile. Progress
Is being made at the rate of about ten feet
day.
Out of the British Isles the Salvation
Army have now ], ,705 corps and 1,O4s socie-
ties, altogether 2,754 separate salvation So
cieties. These are led forward by $500 Off
GERS.
The Postmaster General intimates that
letters addressed to the editor of any news
paper for publication in the newspaper are,
like other press matter, allowed to pass by
book post
William Allibone, of Punta Rassa, Fla,
has an alligator which eats up the refuse Of
the Allibone household and is better
scavenger by far than the average city gar
bage man.
"A female tramp at Parsons, Kan, be-
came intensely abusive the other day and
INDUCED in highly offensive language be-
cause she was offered q last years bonnet by
q benevolent Christian lady.
The Gutenberg Bible has the general
1t is an admirable specimen Of the printers
art, and would be no discredit to any reput-
able printing establishments of the present
time.
"A Russian press censor permitted the
following item to appear in a Moscow paper:
at Is our opinion that Russia needs new
railroads and will have them" For this the
censor was suspended for three months and
the editor fined $500.
There has just been completed in Mu
mich huge microscope, with q magnifying
power Of L, 900 linear perspective. Electric.
ity is brought into service in the operation
of the great Instrument. The cost of the
microscope is =, ,75O.
AT great Russian restaurant, when
q guest has ordered a sturgeon, the fish is
brought to him alive on dish, and the grey
hnny creature is then transferred to the
kitchen to be dispatched, sauced and served
up with all the honors of cookery.
Some years ago baby girl was born to
a couple in Virginia, and the fond parents
gave her in baptism the following name or
names: Annie Adelia Amanda Amelia Jane
Rosina Malvina Fitzallen. For short they
call her Annie Adelia Amanda Amelia.
The skewer was formerly used as kind
of tally -stick and it continues to find SINH.
lar employment at Lyons, where the butch
ers rarely fail to stick in the middle of a
piece of meat small wooden cylinder an
nouncing by SO many notches what every
housewife knows to be the exact weight Of
the meat.
Africa is slowly but surely passing from
the control of the native rulers. 1t COM
prises about Il, ,Oo0, 900 square miles, of which
only s,5Oo.Ooo are governed by the Africans.
1900, AS; Germany. Loss, 40; Kongo Free State
1ooo, 600 Portugal, ia 1913; Italy $50, 600, and
Spain, 40 900. While the share of France is
largest, England's is most valuable.
The amount of phosphorus consumed
per annum is about 900 tons, and is chiefly
used in match making. Hitherto chemicals
were used in its manufacture, but by a re-
cent improvement the raw material and
coke are placed in a specially prepared fur
mace and electric heat is applied. The vapor
arising is condensed and marketable phos-
phorous is produced.
An ingenious advertising dodge is to be
found in Paris. Small pointed paper bags,
something like those grocers twist up have
been noticed on the pavements. These,
when opened, have been found to be hand
bills, which would never have attracted
any notice unless curiosity had prompted
somebody to look and see whether there
could be anything in these odd screws Of
paper.
"A certain artist in Berlin has sketch
book with which he would not part for any
money. The other day the Emperor came
to the studio and asked to look at the
sketches which had been made in It. The
conversation turned on naval warfare and
the Emperor, turning over the sketclfbook
to find blank leaf, drew with quick and
practised hand a torpedo boat making its
wav through the water.
The latest discovery in the vegetable
kingdom is made by DR.. B G. Culver, Of
Atchison, Kan, in the propagation of vine
which he has christened potamato, that will
grow potatoes under the ground, in the
usual fashion, and bear tomatoes as does
the tomato plant at the top. DIR. Culver has
spent 81 years in experimenting, and with
the present season, he feels assured, perfec-
ton will have been reached, so that next
year he will be able to distribute seed in
limited quantity.