Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A mining corporation in the copper re-
gion OF upper Michigan will sink the deepest
shaft in the world-over 1000 feet at least.
Recent examinations have shown that the
amount of SCOT which falls in London each
month would require LOCO horses to cart it
away.
Probably the rarest stamp in existence
has just been sold in London for ESQ. 1t Is
an American Scent stamp issued at Brattle-
boro, VT, in 1910.
Itinerant musicians are not allowed to
sojourn in st. Petersburg, and those who are
of foreign nationality are not permitted to
pass the frontier of the empire.
Coal equaling that of the finest Lehigh
Valley grade has been discovered In Brazil,
the veins being from to IS feet in thickness.
The mines are situated at and near sonora
"A stamp collector in Boston, the posses
sor Of q collection Of Il, ,545 stamps, wished to
marry a lady who is the possessor Of the
blle penny stamp Of Nautilus, issued IN
1s47.
1t is now the intention of European engi-
neers to store the waters Of the Nile to such
an extent as to enable greater extension OF
the cotton and sugarcane crops In that re-
gion.
Last October zine women were ap-
pointed station agents on the elevated rail-
ways of Brooklyn. They have been so sue
cessful that the managers will appoint
more.
During the last month the total value Of
British and Irish produce and manufactures
exported amounted to E2l,9i5,l2, against
f24 81, ,336 in July, 1890, or decrease OF so
per cent.
1t Is proposed to put up In New York
City the largest business building in the
world. 1t will be constructed of steel, 28
stories high. containing LOCO offices and cost
ing 100000.
In Michigan alone it is believed that
5000 900 bushels of peaches will be gathered
this season. The crops of pears and plums
promise also to be beautiful in various parts
Of the country
There is a marble mine, recently located,
at Providence, Cache county, Utah, that
Yields O marble so much like mottled onyx
That the difference can only be discovered
by the use of chemicals
1t is said that chocolate is used in the
interior OF South America for currency, as
are cocoanuts and eggs Norway even now
uses corn for coin- In India cakes of tea.
pass as currency, and in China pieces of
silk.
1t is reported that nugget of gold in
one mass weighing s5 pounds has recently
been found in the newly explored gold dis
trict in British Guiana, and has been sent to
England as a specimen of the auriferouS de-
posits in that country.
I'm Austria it has been found that the
slanting of letters in writing causes curva-
ture of the spine, due to the position main
tained at the table or desk, and a supreme
council has recommended that upright let
tiers be cultivated in schooling.
"A lady living in Torrington, Conn,
found q hu1nmtng bird with its bill buried
half an inch in one of the wooden posts of
the veranda of her house and quite dead. II
had evidently darted at a flower close by and
struck the post with such velocity that it
could not get away.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedbug was quite common
in the armies of the world at least 12o years
before the Christian era, and that he was
ever q sea rover, as the fleets Of that dav
had their timbers stocked With this breed of
nocturnal providers.
Boston is the only city in the world
which preserves an exact record of the pro-
ceedings of its Common Council. Every
motion, argument and remark, no matter
how unfmportant, is stenographically taken
down. The members are, therefore, very
careful of their utterances.
&C. P. Bailey, of San Jose, the leading
importer, breeder and dealer of Angora
goats in the United States, and who has for
wears kept herd of Angoras at Soledad.
estimates that his clip of mohair this year
will reach $4,000 pounds, of value OF SIC, 600.
The total number of goats and kids in Mr.,
Bailey's different herds is said to amount to
10000.
Vegetation in the Alps recedes down
ward fro ON year to year. Formerly Alpine
roses grew at an altitude of 1900 feet. Now
they are seldom found higher than $500 feet,
and are at that height stunted. Beeches
have gone down to 1000 feet Various ber-
sea level, do not grow in higher attitudes
now than 900 feet.
Italy, country which furnishes Eng
land with so large supply of organ-grinders,
has national law by which the whole itin-
Grant class, whether peddler, rag merchant,
shoeblack, or musician. together with a list
of Others are required to enter their names
on q register and toobtain certificate from
the local police. Registration may be re-
fused to young persons and to suspected
characters.
The quickest bridge building on record
was done by an engineer named Dredge,
who, in eight days, put an iron span across
the Blackwater IN Tyrone county, Ireland.
1t was "a feet in length. Dredge died before
the popular agitation was begun in Phila-
delphia for a modern bridge across the
Schuvlkil1 at Walnut street. That project
The Schuyllxill, at this point, is deeper than
the Bronx and nearly as deep as the Harlem
river.
Newark has most eccentric woman
She is old, and is said to be just as rich as
she is eccentric. Her sole companions are
cats, and the house fairly swarms with them
She holds an idea that her feline pets are
more honest than men, and, therefore, she
rolls up the money she receives from rents
in small packages and gives them to the
cats saying: "Here, pussy, put this away
for me- Her home is Uttered with money,
it is said. Under the carpets, in the corners,
in rat holes and in every conceivable place
bills and coins are stuffed.
AT a recent meeting of the Royal So
ciety of Edinburgh. DIR. A. Bruce read q
paper on a case of cyclopia, or single eye,
which has come under his notice. There
was a single socket for the eye, of a lozenge
shape and situated in the middle of the base
of the forehead. The socket was furnished
with two pairs of eyelids. upper and lower.
The nose was represented by short process
of tissue and skin attached to the forehead
above the medal eye. A microscopic Sec
ton of the socket showed two rudimentary
ewes with the two rudimentary retinB ap-
parently springing from single optic
Yesicle.