Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

! "A six-footed calf at Mooresville, Ind, ID
the latest freak.
/ The first American steel bark Is being
built at Boston. @
San Francisco is flooded with counter
felt silver dollars.
There are over 1,oO6,OOo trades union.
lists in this country.
"A Buffalo girl has inherited magni6-
cent estate In Australia.
--Myriads Of criekets are destroying veg
| citation In parts Of Washington State.
-s'Oh, dear!'' is profane expression. Il
Is equivalent to so Dio Mio," or 30 my
"A white Detroit mother has given her
beautiful daughter to negro family for
! Two large blocks of coal in the Presi-
! dental arch in Tacoma, Wash, weighed six
| tons each.'
Dime savings banks are becoming a drug
on the Buffalo market. They go begging
now for 10 cents apiece.
Through recent railroad changes, the
little town Of Frederick, Nd, hopes be-
come rival of Baltimore.
Through ages of contact with civiliza-
/ tion the English sparrow has almost lost the
| instinct for nest building.
-Delaware's old whipping-post has been
| purchased and destroyed to prevent its
being exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
| All Of the Southern States except KEN
| tucky have made provision for pensioning
disabled veterans Of the Confederacy.
"A man near Athens, Ga, has been tax
ing gold for years from a stream near his
farm, which panned out about 81 q day.
The brownish diseoloration of ceilings
where gas is used is caused By dust carried
duced by the gas.
The current in its channel represents
only a small part Of the Rio Grande. Most
of the river percolates through loose sand
and gravel on its way to the gulf
Great Britain's greatest naval station
ON this contineat, Halifax, is defended by
nine strong forts. The Bermudas and Ba-
hamas are also strongly protected.
"A wonderful freak of nature is to be-
seen on the place of horseman near Albion,
Ill. A mare belonging to him has just foaled
twin colts, one a mule and the other horse.
The total light of the full moon can be
compared with the total light OF the sun,
though 1t Is q very difficult problem, and the
result will be that the sun is as bright as
66O,OO full moons.
A photographer at Arkansas City, Kan,
has taken q group picture in which four
generations were represented-a child, its
mother, the grandmother and great grand.
mother. The latter was only IS years old.
The former idea that connection exists
between an earthquake shock and the
height of the barometer has been proved to
be incorrect This statement is based on the
observations of 53l earthquakes recorded in
Japan.
The old United States Monitor Sangus
has been purchased by John H. Dialogue, Of
the Camden Iron Ship Works. Since the
purchase Mr.. Dialogue has been approached
by people from foreign Governments who
want to buy the boat, but he has declined to
sell.
"A missionary, who recently returned
from Angola, said he thought it far more
sensible for a white man in tropical Africa
to take some native woman for his wife than
to carry with him white woman from the
temperate zone, who would be certain to
lose her health in that trying climate.
AN Italian engineer has originated q
system by which he proposes to utilize the
power of trains running down grade. He
has perfected a machine for COMPRISING air
as the train goes down grade which can be
used to actuate motor at the will OF the
engineer, and be used to assist the locomo-
tive on up grades.
The railroad is at last knocking at the
doors of the Transvaal. From Kimberly it
IS pushing across the Orange Free State to
the frontier of the South African Republic,
while the Natal railroad has already reached
the frontier, and perhaps will soon enter the
Boer Republic, which has so long been inim-
ical to the introduction of railroads.
"A physician has hit upon an excellent
way of utilizing rubber in the treatment Of
wounds. He places one end of the strip Of
rubber on one lip of the wound and then
stretches the rubber to fasten the other end
to the opposite lip. In this way he draws
the severed parts closely together and the
elastic rubber continuously holds them
there.
Marriages are concluded in can orig
inal manner" among the convicts on the
island of Saghalien. When party of fe-
male convicts arrive the men are given
half holiday and taken to a park, where
they meet the newcomers. A general in
spection of brides then takes place. In an
an hour or so the guards call time. The
men must then come up to the officer in
command and point out the women they
have selected. If the women are satisfied
the bonds are tied then and there.
I'm Georgia county the grand jury, in
the intensity of their zeal in the cause Of
morality, left the haunts of sin and sought the
parlors of the ladies of the town. One Of
the most prominent and highly respected
young ladies of the town became the subject
of a rigid Investigation for having drawn Q
prize at progressive euchre party, and
thereby being guilty of gambling. The fact
was suddenly revealed that several of the
jurors themselves were members of the
club, so the whole thing collapsed
Among the sweltering millions Of
China, the mother carries her infant ina
kind of bag or pannier on her back, and
not-as in other countries-with the face
turned outwards, but-as, probably, we
ought to expect in China, where everything
seems to go and come by the rule OF contra.
ries-with the face turned inwards. The re-
suit of that Is that the baby's nose is pressed
against its mothers back, whence has been
evolved, in the course of ages, the peculiarly
or blunted nose, characteristic Of
the Chfnaman.
"A dentist of Moscow is reported to have
discovered q method of supplying the
human mouth with false teeth which will
grow into the gums as firmly as natural ones.
The teeth are made of gutta percha, pOrce-
lain or metal. Holes are made at the root Of
the false tooth and also upward into the
Jaw. The tooth is then placed into the
growth finds its way from the patients jaw
into the holes in the tooth; this growth
hardens and holds the tooth in
position.
THAT the Importance of smokeless fuel
20 the public in general and to the manufac-
,urer in particular is recognized, Is shown
,y the fact that new methods of producingit
ire constantly being devised. A product of
his kind has been tested in England with
results. The fuel consists of dust
,r waste coal reduced to a fine powder, and
" pitch and some other mineral substances
o the extent of from to 10 per cent, ac-
ording to the nature of the coal used. 1t is
hen, while in a plastic condition, nodded
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