Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
...Lord, make Us rerr stylish,''

I -sIord make us very stylish, was the
prayer Of little New York girl.
-Hole-in-Hi Pants is the name of an In
dian buck who is attending court at Atchi-
SON.
1.-THE Murdered Woman Likely to
Live,"' 'is the startling headline in Buffalo
paper.
| "A COW at Kennett, Pa, ate a stick Of
dynamite, and her owner is now afraid to
milk her.
"A Reading, Pa, man has just received
a letter mailed to him by his soldier brother
q years ago.
"A resident of East Liverpool voted a
/ one-dollar bill at the primaries by mistake
the other day.
/ "A Meetztown, Pa. Imam ate $50 oysters
in three minutes on wager which he did
not live to collect.
"A bee-sting on the temple has entirely
eradicated the rheumatism from the system
OF a Fallsington, Pa, man.
"A London tradesman recently received
an order for 81 pairs of shoes for a royal
Russian child only a year old.
There are spiders no bigger than grain
of sand, which spin threads so fine that it
takes 1000 of them to equal in magnitude'a q
single hair.
"A woman at Bury Hill, o., now in the
99th year of her age. is recovering from the
grip, the first sickness that ever confined her
to her bed.
The mineral production of Canada in
1890 reached the value of s1900O,O00 OF the
metals, nickel was the most valuable, yield
ing sl,2300O0.
The first steamship to fre.a gun in ac-
ton was the Royal William, side-wheeler,
which crossed the Atlantic in 1888. She was
built at Quebec.
An irrigation canal is in course of con-
struction at Gila Bend, Ariz., to be COM
pleted in six months, from which 100000 to
800, 600 acres will be irrigated.
The oldest college in North America
was founded in 15Sl-the College of St. Hide.
fonso, in the City of Mexico. The next
oldestis Laval College, Quebec.
"A New York fakir has been arrested
for sticking tulip blossoms into perforated
Mexican beans and selling them to unsus-
pecting housewives as Chinese lilies
The Y. M. G. AS of the country now
own property worth s12 25O, ,0O0 One thous-
and and eighty-three persons are engaged as
paid officials, and there are 225OOO members.
The smallest republic in the world is
said to be Franceville, one of the islands of
the New Hebrides. The Inhabitants consist
of 40 Europeans and 500 black workmen, en-
ployed by a French company.
All ADlIeu6 IndQ WHO mas uldQ6 study
of the qualities of Sand Springs, Kan, water
claims that it possesses great fattening quail
tiles, and that in three years no grown per-
son in town will weigh less than 800 pounds.
The latest investigations show that bac-
terra are spheroidal, rod-like, or spiral,
Under the most powerful microscopes they
are found to have granular mass in the
center, surrounded by thin, structureless
membrane.
Tha of OH
coal is such that one pound of the mineral
yields magenta sufficient to color 800 yards
of flannel aurine for 120 yards, vermilion for
1850 yards, and aliZarine for 255 yards of
turkey red cloth.
"A well known Providence, r. l., cler-
gyman, believing that other things than
charity should begin at home, made his
wife's low-necked dresses the subject of re-
cent exhortationS. She became so indignant
that she has sued for divorce.
The Chinese paper currency is in red,
white and yellow paper, with gilt lettering
and gorgeous hand-drawn devices The bills,
to the ordinary fnanciers, might pass for
washing bills, but they are worth good
money in the Flowery Kingdom.
The total number of pupils enrolled in
the public schools in Canada is ASS, ,O25; aver
age attendance, 2S5, 100; per centage of aver
age attendance, 81. In 1873 the average at
tendance was As per cent of the registered
attendance in 1888 it was 80 per cent, and in
1889 it was 81 per cent.
A farmer near Akron, O., claims to
have turkey gobbler setting on 25 hen eggs,
The roosters have been setting four weeks
last Sunday and the gobbler two; the COB
bier having hen eggs under him, they will
all three hatch next Sunday.
Recent Developments in chemical
science promote belief in the existence of
elementary forms of matter not yet actually
observed. Certain peculiar1tles in the spec
trum of the sun are thought to indicate that
much of its matter is still in such elementary
forms owing to its intense heat.
Two cases of pneumonia as a result of
concussion of the lungs have been reported
A boy of II, who was forcibly struck on the
left side of the chest with a hatchet, began
to cough about two hours later, and soon de-
veloped the symptoms OF pleuro-pneumonia
at the base of both lungs. A man of 22 who
strained his right side by trying suddenly to
stop the fall OF q sack of malt, developed all
the signs of pneumonia in both lungs and
died.
The mercuriaI pressure gauge extending
from the bottom to the top of EiffeI Tower
has been completed. This is considered a
notable achievement, rs it enables pressures
to be measured up to 400 atmospheres by a
mercury column The tube is of mild Steel
something more than one-eighth inch inside
diameter. In order TO note the height of the
mercury in the steel tube, glass tubes are
located at intervals beside it, and are pro-
vided with cocks communicating with the
steel tube.
"A Baltimore freak'is a frog of good size
and a trifie light in color, but apparently not
different from any other frog. The heal1ish-
ness developed when his frogship was wor-
ried, when, instead of hopping Off or giving
utterance to the deep, sonorous note usually
heard from frogs, he simply opened his
mouth and cried. The cry is nothing if not
human, and suggests both in tone and vol
ume, q bad, peevish child. The cly is not n
single note, but several, and is continued
even after the annoyance ceases.
1t is remarkable that nearly 3O-per cent
of the total female population, is employed
in remunerative occupations In the last
decade the percentage was only 2l3S per
cent of the whole. Out of the IL classes of
occupations women have increased COM
paratiyely in nine, viz: Governments
service, professional and domestic service,
trade agriculture, fisheries, manufactures
and as apprentices; while they have de-
creased comparatively as laborers and in
personal service. In 1910 there were ID
branches of industry in which women were
not emyloyed: in 1885 the number was re-
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