Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| An old graveyard in Grange county,
Ind, has been found to be rich in petrified
| bodies At last accounts 16 had been taken
| out
An ex-policeman, who has done ten
| years duty in one of the large cities of the
| East, declare that he has never seen q bald
| headed tramp.
Owing to the new sanitary measures in
| England, there has been q diminution Of
more than 81 per cent in the death rate from
consumption since 1851.
"A new car on the Michigan Central
Railroad does the work of 300 men in scrap
ing the dirt dumped on the sides of the
track to the edges of the I'LL.
"A Georgian editor is accused of stopping
the press "to announce that nothing has
occurred of sufficient interest to induce US
to stop the press to announce it."
Missouri is outstripping Kentucky in
the stock raising business. Formerly the
best horses and mules came from Ken
tucky, but now the best stock is raised in
Missouri.
The honey crop this season will be the
lightest California has ever known. The bees
can't find nectar enough, and hives that
yielded 20 tons last year win not prodCce q
pound this season.
The catacombs of Rome contain the re-
those of Paris about 100000. The latter
were formerly stone quarries. Many of the
victims of the Revolution of 1924 are buried
there.
The people of Thessaly were the first to
break horses for service in war, and their
proficiency as equestrians probably drst
gave rise to the ancient myth that their
country was originally inhabited by
centaurs, fabulous creatures supposed to be
half horse and half man.
The ornithologist of the Death Valley
(Cal) expedition has secured many rlIra
specimens of mammals, some OF which are
almost unknown. At PigeOn Spring soms
so specimens of very rare mouse were
taken. OF this peculiar species but one
specimen, taken about so years ago, is said
to exist.
The law of Mississippi requires three
things of every voter: First, to register.
Second, he must be a taxpayer. Third, he
must be able to construe the Constitution of
the State. This last clause is vague and un-
certain and under it one-half the voters of
the State can be deprived of the right of
suffrage
The collection of electrical apparatus
on exhibition at Frankfort-on-the-M Main has
been insured against fire and damages by
explosion 20 the extent of 100000 marks
The risk has been undertaken by % of the
principal German insurance offices. The
mated at ], OO00OO marks
"A young lady in Partisan society had
an unpleasant quarter-hour the other day,
for upon proceeding to the Marie for her
baptismal certificate in order to get married
she was told that she entered as a boy
However, the damsel faced this dilemma,
though wincing; but she tainted on return
ing home to find q notice from the War
Office to Immediately report as a conscript-
The stock of paid notes in the Bank of
England for five years is about 77745OOO
in number, and they fill I3 400 boxes, which,
if placed side by side, would reach "a miles
If the notes were placed in pile they would
reach to a height of 525 miles: or if Joined
end to end, would form ribbon II 4j5 miles
long, The superficial extent is ather less
than that of Hyde park; their original value
was over El,75O 626, 600 and their weight over
9O2s tons.
The population of Chinatown in San
Francisco is said to have fallen OFF nearly
5000 in the last six months. Streets once
crowded have become largely deserted. and
many business firms formerly located there
have either retired from their trade or have
removed elsewhere. The Chinese attribute
the change to diversion of trade to Seattle
and Portland and the rigid enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act. A further de-
cline of the noted locality is anticipated.
"A simple and excellent plan to preserve
and strengthen the ey,s is this: Every
morning pour some cold water into your
washing bowl; at the bottom of the bowl
place a silver coin or some other bright OBJ
ject; then put your face in the water with
your eyes open and fixed ON the object at
the bottom; move your head from side to
gently, and you will find that this morning
and preserve them beyond the or
dinarily allotted time
Honest Hans Sachs was the poeticaI
genius of medieval Germany. He was born
(the son of a tailor at Nuremberg, 1894, and
died 1878. A few years before he died he fol-
lowed the trade of a shoemaker, the pro-
ceeds of which served his needs; for the pro-
ductions of his genius he obtained nothing.
He left behind him 5000 different compost
tions, which Schlegel says are superior in in
vention and the true poetic spirit even to
the works OF Chaucer His irreproachuble
life, and cheerful and amiable character,
have caused him to be remembered through
oil ages as Honest Hans Sachs.
"A strong solution of extract of licorice
destroys the disagreeable taste of aloes.
water DISCUSSES the nauseous
taste of EPSON salts. Milk is a good abater
Of the bitter taste of Peruvian bark, and
cloves that of SIENNA. Castor oil cannot be
tasted if beaten and thoroughly mixed with
the white of an egg. Another method OF
the nauseOus taste of castor or cod
liver oil is to put tablespoonful of strained
orange juice in wine glass, pour the oil
into the center of the juice, then squeeze
few drops of lemon juice upon the oil and
rub some of the juice on the edge of the
glass.
AT the Royal Society conversations .
great deal of interest was excited by the ex-
hibftion of 60 tools and utensils of the Roman
period, found together in a pit in the Roman
British city Of Silchester, Hants. These in
,luded an anvil q pair of blacksmith IS tongs,
hammer, axes, gouges, chisels, adzes, large
carpenters plane, two shoemaking anvi1s,
;wo plow coulters, standing lamp, grid
ron, bronze scale beam and others. Many
If these articles were most remarkably like
similar tools of the present day, the plane.
which was evidently a trying plane,' and
entirely of metal, being very suggestive of
Yankee origin. 1t is said to be the only
Roman plane found in Britain.
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