Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Experts claim that ''boueless" Goldfish
is for the most part sturgeon.
Grip has Just killed a Washington, D.
c.. colored woman aged l2S years.
More than 5000 wolves and $50 bear
have been killed in Bosnia since 1880.
"A man in Laramie, Wyo.. has sued that
city for 5000 damages for the killing of his dog.
The Prophecy Investigation Society pre-
diets Britain's loss of England and India before
Metals are found to corrode much
faster when in galvanc connection than other
wise.
-Hanu1bal, No., warns its street cars
with electricity and lights its churches with
coal oil.
The japanese administer the oath by
cutting the witness finger and taking blood TO
seal the swear.
Orange pie is something new. if we are
to credit what people say who have in st 70
turned from Florida.
"A barber on the Pacific coast recently
shaved man in S111 seconds. The best prev
ious record was AZ seconds.
1t is fact worthy of note that although
woman may be elected school commissioner
in Missouri, she cannot vote for one.
Probably the rarest stamp in existencs
has just been sold in London for ESQ. 1t is an
American scent stamp issued at Brattleboro,
VT, in lS40.
"A 15-mouths-old Philadelphia baby,
who was endeavoring to emulate his father in
lighting and smoking pipe, ignited his dress
and was fatally burned.
"A scientist has calculated that If the
motion of the earth were suddenly arrested the
temperature produced would be sufficient to
melt and even VolatiliZe it.
Two out of half dozen fish frozen in q
bunch for many months and bought of huck-
ster of Bucks county, Pa, thawed out the other
day and commenced to swim about.
"A scientific investigator using the
method of the revolving mirror, has measured
the velocity of the electric discharge in vacuum.
and finds it to be about half the velocity Of
light.
-Watercress is said to contain very san
itary qualities. A curious characteristic Of it
is that if grown in ferruginous stream it as-
serbs five times the amount of iron that any
other plant does.
The historical gray coat Of Napoleon L,
which was stolen from museum. was found re-
Gently by the police in the Quarter du Temple
in Paris. An old clothes dealer had given the
thief 70 cents for it.
The want of absolute silence on the tel
ephone wires between London and Paris IL
thought TO be due to an improper application
of the well-known twist system for preventing
1nductiye disturbance.
"A remarkable instance of local mag
netic disturbance due to the presence of mag
west Australia, where steady DETECTION Of
tine compass of 800 was recorded.
Since the ice age there is evidence, in
the fossil faunas and horas Of marine deposits
and peat bogs, that Northwestern Europe has
experienced for some time climate consider
ably warmer than that of the present day.
Preston county, W. Va, has a some
thing that is hale snake and half human. It
has the head of snake and the body of
man. but all its characteristics ara those Of
reptile. One of its peculiarities is that it will
not sleep without light in the room 1t is q
years old, and its parents are Uell-to-do people.
1t is familiar and significant fact that
many skilled workmen take a creditable pride
IN their tools of trade. but it is not generally
known that even the laborious hodcarrier has
much the same sentiment. Here and there the
observant man discovers a hod adorned with
ribbons and some hOdearr1ers keep little
mirror in one end of the implement partly for
ornament and partly for convenience when the
Sticking up" time comes
There is a widow in Atchison, Kan,
who is thinking seriously of marrying again
But she is so afraid her first husband will be
offended that she visits his grave and prays to
him to forgive her. His grave has been better
attended to the last SIX months than ever be-
fore. She has an idea thai this attention will
conciliate him.
Gathering chewing gum near St. John,
N. B, at the present time is considered even
more profitable than anything else farmers
sons can turn their hands to. The demand il
large and high figure is assured When it is
known that last year one druggist alone sold
200 mounds of fair idea of
sumption and demand may be had. For q
really choice article, the price to the picker is
70 cents per pound.
The South Metropolitan Gas Company,
of Salisbury, England, is conceded to have the
largest gas holder ever constructed and the
company is planning to build one even larger.
The one now in use is about 256 feet in diam
eter, by $50 feet high. and will contain over
100000 cubic feet of gas. The new holder
will have six lifts of 80 feet each. and the outer
lift will be 300 feet in diameter. The capacity
of this holder will be about IL 900 900 cubic feet
of gas. 1t will be ready for use by October J.,
1892.
A New York woman, reading country
newspaper, saw an advertisement of
trancing bargain. offered in a Sixth avenue
shopping store. She went there, and the clerks
denied that the store contained any such goods
as she had read about. She was long-headed
woman, SO she wrote to a friend in the country
to order the goods in question by mail. She got
them rlghL away, anu discovered WnaC Slo QaQ
not known before-tnat these great stores drum
up a country trade by offers wholly different
from those with which they tempt city folks.
"A genius has received patent for his
automatic mixer. An eccentric three inches
in diameter, is attached to the cows jaw. From
this leads wire connecting with elastic nip
ples on the udder, each of which IS fitted with
a valve making it an air pump when In motion.
When the COW chews her crd the eccentric
reyolyes and the wire is worked back and forth
like piston, creating suction in the nipples.
The milk as it is drawn runs into bucket sus-
pended below The invention will relieve the
dairyman of much labor.
On Jupiter. which is a much larger and
heavier body than the earth. man would
weigh about 484 pounds whose weight on the
earth would be 200 pounds. This man would
weigh 2lS pounds on Saturn. Coming to the
smaller bodies we find that he would weigh less
than on the EARTH His 200 pounds would
shrink to IVA on Venus, to " on Mercury to 90
on Mars and to 30 on the moon, while on the
little asteroids, or telescope planets revolving
between Mars and Jupiter his weight would be
from two to four pounds only. The matter de-
pends on the mass and attractive force of the
planet.
The Capitol dome at Washington is the
only considerable dome of iron in tie world.
1t is a vast hollow sphere weighing S000.300
pounds. How much is that? More than 1000
tons or almost the weight OF 20 900 full-grovn
persons. or about equal to 1000 ladened coal
cars of four tons each. which, if strung out one
behind the other, would occupy mile and a
falf of track. On the very top of the dome the
alIeoorical figure America" weighing 1885
pounds lifts its proud head high in air. The
pressure of this dome and figure upon the piers
and pillars is II, AT pounds to the square foot: