Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Frisco school boys struck until .
teacher was reinstated.
There are 101 life prisoners in the Ken
lucky penitentiaries.
"A Portland, Ore, Chinaman who died
recently left property valued at over 100000
There are couple of 15-month-old
babies in Missouri who sing Annie Rooney"
Oranges are said to be so plentiful in
Grand Rapids, Mich, that dealers sell them for
! scents peck.
"A drainage scheme proposed for Mel
bourne by the Government engineer is esti-
mated to cost SIS, 100000.
| In Swiss canton the municipal au-
| thorifies have decided that all employers must
| share profits with the laborers.
| - Tetramethy ydiamidodiph
| sulphon is the name of chemical preparation
| recently patented by German.
| 1t is curiously noted that girls who
work In candy factories lose their taste for
sweetmeats after the first week
| A company of Russian and Belgian
fnanciers with large capital has been formed
| to cultivate cotton on a large scale IN Bokhara.
The English Lau Times reports gen.
eral complaint among lawyers of lack Of busi-
ness. Crime and contention are both declin-
| Ing"
There is a class of people In Japan who
hire the poor to beg clothes from the charity
| associations, and, dying them, sell them at
| higher rates for new clothes
So severe is the climate of South Amer
| lea upon iron that before railroad ties have
shown signs of decay the hanges of the rails
will be nearly eaten of by rust.
To secure uniformity in the painting
and vanishing of their passenger and freight
cars some railroads employ expert chemists to
analyze the paints and oils used.
The London County Council reports
that the value of rental in London is f42 500 co.,
Capitalizing this on the principal of 20 years.
purchase, London is worth "a, 25O, 600 600.
In Africa the number of missionaries
exceeds 500 and the number of converts 100000,
increasing by about % 900 year. During the
past five years Africa has furnished more than
200 martyrs.
There have been 400 systems devised
for perfecting the memory and it is just as
easy TO forget what one wants to remember and
to remember what one wants to forget as it
ever was.
The camera shows that the star Vega,
one of the brightest in the northern heavens,
is apparently a double star composed Of two
suns, each revolving around a point midway
between them.
The picked women tYpewriters en-
ployed at the British War Office receive IA
shillings a week for seven hours work day.
while the charwomen get IL shillings for i've
hours work day.
The other day a Windsor, VT, farmer
on going out to his sheep pen noticed bunch
on one of his long wool sheep, and upon exam
ination found q rat which had got his tail
woven into the wool and was unable to get
away.
"A California inventor has built boat
made entirely out of soap, and will sail it,
about the bay during the reception of Presi-
dent Harrison. The craft will contain several
members OF the company and the inventor.
This will be the first soap boat ever launched.
1t is curious fact that water pipes un-
der ground Will often freeze during the warm
spell that follows a cold snap. The eIplana-
ton made for this interesting phenomenon Is
that after a cold wave large quantity of heat
is taken from the ground in the work Of chang
ing the frozen moisture into water. and thus.
on the principle of the ice cream freezer. the
pipe is chilled, enough heat being taken from
1t to freeze it,
A device has been recently patented in
England for the purpose of removing grease
from gloves or fabrics. 1t is called a benzine
pencil ard consists of a cylindrical body about
the size of an ordinary lead pencil. containing
benzine. At each end there is a thick piece of
felt One piece is intended to be moistensd by
the benZne. while the other end of the pencil
is kept perfectly dry to take up the superfuous
moisture.
1t is said that for at least five centuries
the Bergen fishermen have killed whales by
the aid of the now familiar bacilli. The whales
are surprised in narrow inlets, where they are
tanned by shooting poisoned arrows into the
skin. AT last the brute becomes so enfeebled
that it can be attacked with harpoons and
lances and is soon dispatched. The poison
used to infect the arrows is the fostering mat
ter around the wounds. An examination of
this deadly material shows that it owes its
vIrulence to a bacillus closely allied to that OF
Sympathetic anthrax"
There is a man from New York taking
baths at Mt. Clements. Mich, who can be
classified among the curiosties. He has
straight black hair and was q white man until
some time ago. when his skin turned to the
color of mahogany. He was afflicted with
jaundice and the medicine he took is supposed
to have caused his change of complexion. In
the morning he is several shades lighter than
toward night. The medical fraternity have
Iabored in vain to bleach him, but by taking q
course of baths he hopes to be able to again
recognize himself.
A train in Georgia was lately held mp
by lone woman. 1t had got about 200 yards
from station, when a negro woman was seen
running frantically after ii. The conductor
aw her, pulled the bell and the train came to
n
and reached out his hand to help the woman on.
But she ran on by. and a negro boy hung him.
self out of the window and kissed her. The
conductor was naturally little wrathy, and
told her so. She told him that her boy was 60
ing of and they didn't give her time to tell him
good-by, and she had to do 1t il she would have
to follow the train ten miles.
"A farmer living near Strinestown, o.,
had a calf born on his farm a few days ago
which is monstrosity. The animals head was
shaped like that of bull dog. The lower jaw
was an inch and half longer than ithe upper,
and full of teeth like those Of dog. There
were no eyes, but creases in the skull and skin
where the eyes ought to be. On the LETT front
knee there was double joint between three
and four inches apart. All four hoofs were
solid like those of colt. 1t had hump on its
back like that of camel. The front part of
the calf was what it ought to be in size, but the
hind part was little more than skeleton.
"A few mornings ago, on arising, resi-
dents of Nashville. Tenn, were surprised and
somewhat alarmed to find the ground covered
with q yellow deposit, resembling powdered
sulphur, and which for a time it was supposed
70 be- The substance was soon found, how
over, to be the pollen of pines, carried by the
winds from strip of pine forest extending
from Louisiana through North Carolina TO
Virginia. The force of the winds is great,
md pine pollen light. that the latter is some
lines carried from the pine regions to Chicago
n such vast quantities that the waters of Lake
Michigan for miles outside the city limits are
covered with a thick, yellow scum This pol
en- although minute in the present age, in
prehistoric times was of great size, spores of
ome species of lyc0podlums and selagenellas,
which are allied TO the coniferB, having
liameter of one-sxteenth of an inch, and COM
,osed almost entirely some Of the European
.oal beds.