Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A New Haven man has worn the same
coat for IS years.
aged fat mules" are quoted in soma
of the Missouri market reports.
There are so national cemeteries in
which 5as, ll5 soldiers are buried.
One of the smallest coins in size is the
new cuatroreal gold piece OF Guatemala.
Two beds of pearl oysters have been
discovered on the Caribbean Sea above
Colon.
Before the Reformation 80 per cent Of
the land in the United Kingdom belonged to
the Church.
"A Citizen of Paris, Ky., was fined 81
recently for allowing his own cat on his own
| premises to kill his own chickens.
Fishermen recently captured devil
fish at Isle an Haut, Me-, which measured
AZ feet in length and weighed 100 pounds.
1t is predicted in several of the West
ern centers OF civilization that there will be
90 feet OF undrifted snow in the mountains
| in February.
Among the curiosities of game shown
in Bangor recently was a jet black hare.
which is so rare that even the Smithsonian
Institute lacks one.
The American people are subject in
their domestic relations to 40 odd codes OF
law, an anomalous condition not to be found
In any other civilized country.
The Hindoos have a cocoanut festival
every year at the end of August to mark
the beginning OF the end of the monsoon.
During the festival athletic contests take
place and wandering minstrels recite their
tales and poems.
"A chain shot was dug up the other day
in a street in Seattle, Wash. 1t is supposed
to be one of the missiles thrown from the
guns of the United States sloop Decatur at
the time of the Indian engagement that &C.
CURED there in December, 1855.
-Old-fashion hunting matches have been
revived in Connecticut. Fifty men, some
times twice that number, elect captains and
hunt for a day and night, the side bagging
the most game winning game supper at the
expense of the defeated hunters.
AT the conclusion of a mock marriage
ceremony in Pattison, N. j., last week, the
girl declared that she did not regard the
matter Us joke and stated her determina-
tion to compel the man TO carry out to the
letter the provisions OF the marriage.
Living near the Tennessee city of Mem
phis are seven sisters whose names rhyme
beautifully, but do not scan. The names are
Nancy Emeline, Lucinda Caroline, Mary
Haseltine, Jane Palestine, Lulu Paradine,
Virgie Valentine and Maudie Adna Adeline.
The proportion of travellers killed in
railroad accidents in the different countries
is as follows: In France, one to every 24.000,-
many, one to every 9oO,O 600; Belgium, one to
2,sOo,ooo.
Old Queen Angelne, daughter of Chief
Seattle, after whom the city of Seattle was
named, Is now supported by the county,
though allowed to live outside the poor
Gently received by the Board Of Commission
ers was cigarettes, 10 cents.
Several English medical journals have
recently called attention to fact sustained
by common observation, that the young
women of the present day are better de-
veloped physically, taller, plumper, stronger
and healthier than the young women of so,
100, l5O or 200 years ago.
The Turkish Government has a desire
to encourage longevity, and recently Musta-
pha Raba, an old gentleman, who has feted
his l52d birthday, has been granted q hand
some pension. If he should be asked to
prove his age this centenarian and half
could produce q grandchild aged 80 years.
Between two small lakes near Boras,
Sweden. a strip of land has interrupted
traffic, but engineers have overcome the
difficulty by constructing a ship railway
across it and building small steamboat
that can run itself across from one lake to
the other. The vessel has accommodations
for so persons.
"A key for the decipherment Of Central
American hierogIyphs is constantly being
found. Actual cave-dwellerS are frequently
being discovered; graves of Indian giants
clad in complete arnor are not unusual,
while sculptured tablets and inscribed pot
terry are reported every year from many
States in the Union.
There has been discovered in Pompeii
n of afuJa
tural proportions, and adorned with still
viyid and unspoiled frescoes. At the end OF
the chamber there was a wellpreseryed
painting of Hercules with his cup and lions
skin; on one of the sides was boar, and on
she other was a sacrificial altar.
Down to the time OF Homer, who -four
ished POI B. c., as little was known of the
surface of the earth as is now known of the
interior. Greece was then regarded as the
center of the earth, which was surrounded
at the distance of 500 miles. by the ocean
river. Later the land was extended farther
and limited form given to the old contf-
nent.
Virginia City, New, has female ghost.
Unlike the orthodox prowler from spirit
and, she dresses in deep black and her fav-
,rite pastime is in lowering about the Di-
vide about midnight and throwing mouldy
'hroud that retains an odor OF the tomb
,ver the head of any belated pedestrian.
Reno has also seen her. and she seems to di-
Tide the time between the two cities.
Corn bread has various names in differ
mt localities The general name of the
rticle is Indian bread. In Delaware griddle
akes made of Indian meal are called corn
akes. In Maryland they are called cookies
'one is the name for Indian bread an inch
,r more in thickness and baked to a crisp
rust top and bottom In parts OF New En-
land corn meal, baked into a thick, crisp
AXE is called Indian hammock. The Puri-
ans it Is supposed learned the art of
making that bread from the Bannock In
Iians.
The pine thrush of British Columbia
,asses the winter in Mendooino county. CAL,
nd has been seen as far south as Lake
Iajella, in the redwoods of Monterey. but
most of the California woodbirds manage to
spense with lengthy winter migration.
brushes stick to the timber zone and wood
eckers rarely stray beyond the hills Of
iapa county. California bluebirds, how
yer, love sunshine too much to enjoy the
rinters of the climber counties" /" and are apt
D get rather numerous on Monterey Bay
fter the end of October.