Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There is only one sudden death among
women to eight among men.
"A movement is on foot to stock Cali
fornia with foreign song birds.
"A marked scarcity of bluefsh in the
waters of Connecticut is reported
-Milwaukee has added cooking school
to her system of public school instruction.
"A railroad tunnel, being built under
the city of Baltimore, is tocost upward of
s6,000OO0.
The pinenut crop being short, the Ne
vada Indians are predicting an early and
severe winter.
Twice as many crimes are committed in
Paris by persons betw cen the ages OF lSTnd
20 as by those between 20 and 40.
Scientists say that the orange was or
igfnaIly berry, and its evolution has been
going on for more than 1000 years
"A female clerk at Washington has
hothouse and last year sold 1000 violets.
She thinks of resigning and becoming
florist
Poker playing among the ladies has be-
come very prevalent in Buffalo. Young
ladies and old play 1t, and they play IL for
money, too.
"A farm in East Bowdoinhsm, Me-, is
worked by a farmer Of 81 years, helped by
his wife of 80, and family of eight middle
aged children.
"A Western Newspaper closes an article
about the canning enterprises Of Yuba City
by saying: 'No Chinese are employed, and
1900 are put up daily"
Carthage, Mo-, has a haunted depot.
The spook is supposed to be the soul of sone
departed commercial traveller come back to
kick on baggage rates.
1T IL said 10 be sn Asiatic myth that the
soul Of poet passes into the body OF q grass
hopper as DEATH from the fact of the latter
singing until it stsrves.
Phosphorus is now being made by cleo
tricity. Tho principal manufactory is in
England, where it is anticipated fully 1000
tons will be made annually.
The newest change pocketbook for
women is fiat square of leather that pulls
out like an ACCORDION, and is tiny enough to
be hid within the palm of the hand.
Owing to the immense number of re-
cruits wanted in the French army the stand
ard of height has constantly been reduced.
1t is at present little more than five feet.
Advertisement in an English provincial
paper: a young gentleman on the point of
getting married is desirous of meeting a
man of experience who will dissuade him
from the step.
The first snow of the season fell on the
ConeJos range, Colorado, last Thursday.
The hills were white for q few hours. On
Saturday morning the mountains were again
covered with heavy snow.
The historical gray coat of Napoleon l.,
which was stolen from a museum, was found
recently by the police in the QUARTER du
Temple, Paris, An Old-clOthes dealer had
given the thief 8 francs for it.
AT Hanover, Ind, recently a swarm of
bees was attracted by jelly which woman
was putting up. The inmates were driven
from the house ana some of them so badly
stung that their lives are despaired of.
The shell of an oyster in its native
habitat is always little open, and micro
scopic, waving hairs set up currents which
carry the food plants to the mouth, where
they are engulfed and afterward digested.
A coupe of Frenchmen have made a
harp of wood with strings twisted from
strips of American fur. They play on it
with leather gloves covered with rosin,
and the tone is described as wonderfully
pure.
During a recent violent rainstorm at
Paris, France, at 2 o'clock in the afternoonN
it vas so dark that it was necessary to turn
on the electric lights. Two men slipped in
the darkness and fell into an open sewer
Both were carried away and drowned.
"A seemingly miraculous cure of ma
lignant cancer has been made at Chattan-
ooga, Tenn, the victim having been pointed
out in dream to q certain herb, which he
gathered and ate, and is now we'll The
story is vouched for by men of veracity.
Austria has an army 300, 900 strong. But
q correspondent says that the Austrian SOL
diers are very poorly dressed in comparison
with the English and German soldiery, and
they are also not so good specimens of man.
hood as the Queens and the kaiser's troops.
The Jericho, Jaffa and Jerusalem Rail-
road through the Holy Land is progressing
very slowly. The Turks are very inefficient
contractors. They perform the easier parts
or the works first, and then rain storm
comes along and washes it all away, and it
becomes necessary to begin anew.
Owners of irrigation canals in Southern
California complain that fish do much dam
age to the banks by sucking the mud to OBJ
tain the fine small roots of grass and weeds
that grow in it. By this means the banks
are excavated and made thin, and actually
become too weak to hold the pressure of
high head of water
"A naturalist tried to enter Duisburg,
Prussia, with u collection of butterflies
without the payment of duty, but as the
Custom House agent there classed them as
poultry" because they had wings, there
was considerable delay before the agents
superior succeeded in convincing him that
he came under the classification of Jack
asses"
"A novel cure for nervous diseases 10
being practiced in Worishofen, Bavaria.
The treatment is the outcome OF the study
of an old priest,and consists chiefly in spray
ing water over the body in various places,
dressing at once without drying, and brisk
walking Immediately afterward. The diet
is carefully attended to, and thousands have
been cured of nervous troubles which had
defied all previous physicians.
In 1885 there were three electric rail-
ways in operation. with lS cars; in 1886,
with 30 cars; in 1887, 7 with 81 cars; in 1883,
% with 255 cars; in 1889, 1O4 with 965 cars; in
1890 I26 with over 1000 cars; and there are
now in operation and under contract in
Great Britain, Germany, Italy,
and Japan no fewer than 325 roads,
over 1000 cars and 1000 motors,
with 1000 miles of track, making daily
mileage of not less than 1000 miles, and
carrying $50. .OOO, 900 passengers.