Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Crime is very rare among women In
| Scotland.
Only one Englishman in q pays in
| come tax.
An English peer cannot resign his
peerage.
There are 13 regiments of heavy cavalry
in the British army.
Preston is supposed to be the most
Roman Catholic town in England.
AN average of four persons die daily in
England from de1irium tremens.
"A LitchfieId man, who Is looked up to,
stands feet inches in his slippers.
Statistics prove that only one man in
six who emigrates does so with advantage.
Before the reformation 80 per cent Of
the land in the United Kingdom belonged to
the church.
"A gourd, with a neck coiled like ser.
osity in Mount Holly, N. c.
of mixed marriages only 44-5 per cent
| of Hawaiian women are married to for
| efgners, being in number 6O0 or Ills per
cent of the Hawaiian married women.
The banks of the Columbia near Una
tilla have for many years been rich with In
dian relics and curios. One woman of that
which has an enormous value.
1t is said that the King of Siam dis.
| guises himself and walks about the streets
of his capital for the purpose of learning the
true condition of his people. In conse-
quence OF the knowledge thus acquired the
King has already started various reforms.
Railroad statistics show that Americans
do more travelling than any other people,
averaging % trips year. The Englishman
Swede, Norwegian and Spaniard s each,
while the Turk, Swiss and Italian take but
/ each.
Over the door of every house In the
large village Of Gojumura, Japan, Is the
motto, Frugal in all things, Liquors pro-
hibited.' That town believes in local option,
total abstainers no spirits Of any sort can be
bought in the place.
The percentage of individuals above
years old and able to read and write
Hawaiian, English or some European
language, is as follows in order of merit,
viz: Americans, 93.04: British, 5000; Germans,
s9.SS; half castles, e3.05; natives, 1880; Ha-
waiian-born foreigners, 52.H.
One of the longest chutes in the world
slocated at a logging camp at Clifton, Ore.
1t is nearly three-quarters of q mile long,
and cost $4,000. The bottom Is shod with
railroad iron, and 1t takes q log 20 seconds to
make it's descent into the water which at
times will be thrown to height Of 200 feet.
I'm Maine an ear of corn, or more strict
ly speaking, six ears of corn, have been
found, combined at the stalk, but spreading,
dividing and curving into separate ears, till
hoof of q horse divided into toes. The en-
tire cob is covered with small kernels OF the
popcorn variety.
"A lady residing in Port Angeles has
curiosity in the shape of chicken born
with four legs. 1t is nothing curious to see
a chicken born with four legs, but they sell
dom live as this one has done-now nearly
five months. The lady has two of the legs
tied up, so that the chicken is not embar-
rassed while walking.
The first water mark on record vas the
coat-ofarms of q town. The early paper
makers were not slow to adopt this idea in
impressfng upon their sheets the device Of
the place where their mill was situated. For
instance, the coat-ofarms of the village of
Rives, dolphin is q common mark on old
papers. This mark is still in use to-day.
-Corea has its seven wonders, among
which is hot mineral spring believed to
cure all diseases; two springs, one of which
is full and the other empty and vice versa;
a cavern from which a wintry wind perpet-
ually blows; forest that cannot be de-
stroyed, and drop of the sweat of Buddha.
No plants grow within 80 PAGES Of this drop.
The total wealth of an Alaska village
has been estimated as follows: Number of
dogs. 175; hunting sleds, AZ; freight sleds. SO.
igloos (houses), 50; canoes, 81; kyaks, IA;
rifles. 49, breech-loading shotguns, 5; muzzle-
loading shotguns, 81; revolvers, "a; axes
(mostly old), SO; pickaxes, 6. Total value.
81, ,497.
France possesses ], ,102 mineral springs,
of which ,O27 are turned to account, and Al
319 are sulphurous, like that Of Amelie-les-
Bains; 354 are alkaline, such as Vichy: l35 are
ferruginous, for instan ce Orezzo,a and Dare Of
various sorts, some containing common salt,
others Sulphate Of sodium, and a third group
sulphate of lime.
-Corea has famous Floating stone''
1t stands, or seems to stand, in front of the
palace erected in its honor. It is an irregu-
lar cube of great bulk. 1t appears to be
resting on the ground, free from supports
on all sides; but, strange to say, two men at
opposite ends of a rope may pass it under
the stone without encountering any OBJ
stac1e whatever. Corea also has "hot
stone" which, from remote ages. has lain
glowing with heat on the top OF high hill.
"A king crab was recently captured in
Japan In his native element the crab was
of deep green color, but in death he be-
came red. The body was round, resembling
that of a turtle, and was inches thick and
legs, the forward ones measuring 81 inches
in length and the bindmost pair25 inches.
The pincers of the forward legs were each 9
inches in length: the first joint Is % incnes,
the second inches and the third 25inches in
length. The distance from claw to claw
IL feet.
The three tribes of the Fort Berthold
are includediin the nine tribes
in the United States thatihave never been
at war with the Government. Ofthese three
the Mandans are the smallest. numbering
little over 2O0 smallpox having almost de-
stroyed them about 1858. But they are the
most interesting. There is a story to the
effect that they are descended from some
Welshmen who sailed West from Wales in
the eleventh century and were never heard
Of afterward. The story is that the party
reached the mouth of the Mississippi and
worked their way up that river. Many Of
their words resemble the Welsh language,
and they are Of much lighter complexion
than Indians usually are. There are full
blooded Indians almost white among them
wRYNKLED RHYMEIETS.