Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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The United States has 100000 miles
| of telegraph wires.
One of Tampa's principal cigar factories
will turn out 15,O 900 cigars this year.
| During the last week in May five per
sons were killed at bull fights in Spain.
! An astronomer estimates that 146, ,OO0,-
900 meteors fall upon the earth annually.
The Declaration of Independence was
read at Graham, Mo-, July 4, by little girl
| only years old.
In sections of Florida cabbages are be-
| ing given away for cattle feed, such a drug
are they on the market
"A Philadelphia surgeon has dissected
and mounted the complete nervous system
of a human being-something never before
accomplished.
"A shower from hoze nozzle placed in
side the shirt collar is proving an effective
treatment for drunkards, instead of the
lookup, at Houlton, Me.
Eighty per cent of the people at Union
vile, Mo-, are church members. There are
hardly enough Sinners in the whole town to
get up dance or card party.
"A Mexico Mo-, man has a tax receipt
in his possession acknowledging the pay
ment OF 43 cents on 40 acres of land in Boone
county. The receipt is dated 1643.
There is now a character, known az
Jack the dude kicker" T" who inhabits st.
Louis. He has assaulted dozen fancifully
dressed youg men during the last week.
"A Virginia old gentleman who is mildly
insane upon the subject of advantages of
out-of-door life has taken up his residence in
an apple tree Strange to say, his health
has not suffered by the expos ure, but has ac-
tually improved.
The highest inhabited place in the
world is the Buddhist Monastery, Haine in
Thibet, Asia, 900 feet above the sea. Next
to this comes Galena, a railway station in
Peru, Is, ,635 feet. Leadville, Col, has an ele-
vation OF 10 200 feet
Vincent Griest, of Lower Oxford, Pa,
witnessed combat between an owl and q
smaller bird, and when the little one seemed
to be getting the worst of the battle he went
to her assistance. The owl thereupon at
tackled him and bit him in the arm and
face.
"A Hollaway, Mich, druggist used tar
tar emetic instead of tartaric acid in his new
soda fountain and invited the crowd, which
had come in to see the new concern, to have
one with him and all joined in the revelry.
They subsequently all leaned over fence
rail and dfsgorged. That soda fountain has
not been bowling success.
One concern at Waterville, Me-, made
last year enough cloth to make a tent that
WOuiu CONcT dCT0B anu HOiu al Luo ptO-
pie of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massa chusetts comfortably seated, with q
ring of 1853 acres in the center. In that ring
the $1,000 horses of Maine could be exhibited
at one time without crowding.
Nathaniel Witherell, who died at Glen's
Falls, n. Y, always regarded himself liv-
ing oddity. He was the 18th child and the
7th son of his parents and the youngest
child in the family. Mrs. Witherell, who
still survives her husband, occupies the
same relative position in her fathers family,
being the 18th and youngest child and the
7th daughter of her parents.
The average number of American pa
tents issued yearly is about 10000 England,
which comes nearest to us, issues only about
1000 to 5000 year, and its system is very
much more lax than ours. Patents are is
sued without any conditions as to novelty or
rejected. In Prussia the number granted
annually is less than 100; in Belgium, 1,5O0 to
1000.
When the first vessel completed the
passage of the new Erie Canal in 1925, there
being no such thing as a telegraph line in
those days, the news was communicated to
New York and to Buffalo by cannons placed
within hearing of each other all the way
along from Albany to each of the other
cities. The signal was passed along in this
way from Albany to New York City and
back again to Albany in 50 minutes.
-Wellsville, o., has pig 8 inches in
length, which has four eyes, feet like the
hands of q human, distinct finger nails and
large ears. The upper part of its face is like
that of an elephant, and the lower part like
a human. There is a trun K projecting from
the middle of the head, which turns back
ward and lies between the ears. In the end
of the trunk are two large holes through
which the freak breathes, there being no
holes in the nose.
-Mascoutah, Ill, has human barometer
in the person of a small boy. He is able to
predict the weather infsllibly by looking at
his hair. The hair is straight and black as
that of an Indian ordinarily, but at the ap-
proach of a storm the hair begins to kink
and curl two or three days before hand, and
it remains in that condition until after the
storm is over, when it again becomes per-
fectly straight. II the storm is of any mag
nitude the hair will curl up into little balls.
1t is estimated that the British mines
will be exhausted in less than 600 to 800
years. 1t is further calculated that, draw
ing upon only one of her fields, the West
phalian, Germany, will not exhaust that be-
fore the end of the twenty-seventh century,
but that by the beginning of year 5000 the
big coal fields of Bavaria and the Aachen
and the Silesan districts will also be en-
tirely used up. What will Europe do for
fuel then? Fall back on the timber supply,
of course. But the timber will also be
thing Of the past
ANY squint or cast in the eye can be
cured without the expense of going to
physician or an oculist. 1t is only neces-
sary to get pair of spectacles with plain
glass in and to color the center of one Of the
lens black. The eye will naturally make an
effort to look straight ahead all the time,
and after few days the effort will be i'm
perceptible. With child a cure can be ef-
fected in a week, and with a grown person
month will suffice to remedy the worst case.
Wearing smoked glasses is the best possible
ufnrrrr frN1-rr L han In
light, and even these will help to get rid OF
a least" by streng gthening the eyes and re-
ieving them from unnecessary exertion.