Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| There are over 80, 900 people connected
| with the stage in London.
The first geographical map of England
was made in the year 1520.
The foreign trade of the United Statesln
manufactured furs reaches IS. $4,000 year.
-Of the II, ,oOO, 900 wage earners in this
country. 600, OF "A per cent. are engaged In
farming.
The French chouvinists rebel against the
| use of the English word yacht" and in defer
ence to their feelings the word will probably be
| spelled 'yaute."
"A mechanic of Covingtou, KY, has sue
| ceeded in welding aluminium wIrh glass; and
the manufacture Of flexible glass, he thinks, is
involved in his discovery.
A Mussulman is now travelling through
India collecting money for Mohammedan
mission in England. Part of the money Is to
be spent building mosque at Liverpool.
An official letter from the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum, of Virginia, to the Governor
of that State, states that one of the inmates
has been there for 81 years, and Is lou years old
-Chesaning, Mich, has a man that goes
into frances and conyerses with the angels.
While in this state he can be lanced to the bone
without bleeding. the wound healing In a lew
hours.
An English scientist writing of light
ming, quotes figures showing that in England
and Wales. from 1852 TO 1880, the average annual
death rate from lightning was considerably
below one per 100000 OF the population.
"A wealthy Atchison, Kan. woman made
her will recently. and she says IN it that at the
end of five years all her fortune is to be gwen
to her husband if he can prove that he has
visited her grave ten times in that length OF
time.
1t is perhaps not generally known that
every important factory in Russia is opened
with divine services. A great brandy distlllery
was opened near Kazan, on the Nolga, with
services conducted by the clergy OF that To-
cality. ..-
The Cincinnati Chief of Police recently
received queer letter from Breen. o. The
| writer Says he has preparation that will
| prevent prisoners from resisting arrest. 1T
| kills them for an hour" he says, but after
| that time they recover"
The turkey roost of a Pipestone, Ber-
| rlen county Mich, man was robbed the other
night, Dut the thieves left behind good watch
i The Pipestone man found the watch. and now
| advertises that the owner can have the same by
calling and proving property.
The Superintendent of Sewers and
| drainage ander the Ohio State Board OF Health
was summarily discharged some time ago. Last
| Saturday he handed in his Resignation, ask
| ing that it be accepted. He evidently dldn's
know when he was out of job.
There is now being finished at Green
| ville Pa . disc of glass for a refracring tele-
scope lens, which is claimed as the largest that
has ever been made in the United States The
| disc is S013 inches in diameter by 5H inches In
| thickness, and weighs over 500 pounds
The statistics of the trade unions in
| Germany show that about 2,0O0. 900 workmen in
] that country have an annual income of less
| than Sl55 and that in the weaving districts OF
| Saxony and Silesia there are thousands OIL men
| earning but SI5 per year by their trade.
"A New York club recently gave dinner
to all the principal freaks in the dime museums.
| Living skeletons, fat women, turtle boys, con
| tortionists, magnetic women, Chinese giants
| calfheaded boys three-armed and fourlegged
born dined and danced with their hosts.
A farmer near Sparta, Tenn, has an
| effective way of getting rid of hawks and owls.
| He keeps a steel trap in a tree near his house,
| where the brus light and are caught He has
caught in the past two years that way IL hawks
and seven owls, and has lost scarcely any chick
| ems.
When Mars is nearest to the sun, and
the earth farthest from the sun, the two planets
| are at the least possible distance from each
| other. The most favorable condition occurs
| once in about l5 years. Such will be the case
| in 1892. and such was the case IN 1877, when the
/ Martian moons were discovered
| in Berlin cafe coffee is brewed by
| electricity A platinum wire passes in spiral
| through severs! gl ass jars; the electrical cur
rent quickly raising the water contained to
boiling point. and the coffee is thus prepared
in the view of everyone in the room; then
small electric railway transmits the conee 10
| the several tables, 50 that the guests may help
themselves to their liking
"A sailor who has just come into port
with full pocket paid Stephen Kemble f3OtO
have a performance Of Henry Nv. all 10 him
| SELF with Kemble az ''tEe old boy with the
| round forecastle built like a Dutch Iugger.and
| lurchng like a Spanish galeon In heavy sea-
| He chose the music to be played oy way OF
| overture saw the play through, and gave Vlg-
orous expression to his appreciation of the
| Fdlst9f Of the occasion.
The word "milliner" is said to have
originated in the fifteenth century, when the
| city of Milan held the primacy in the world of
| dress and fashion, and gave TO Europe the
modes" as Paris has done in more modern
| times But although in this respect the center
of gravity has shifted, an English traveller tells
that you have only 60 enter one Of the hand
| some Milanese shops to be convinced that the
| miliiner IN Milan is by no means moribund-
The great festival of the English milk
| maids and chimney-sweeps of the 1st of May
! dates its origin back to the Romans, who were
| wont to commemorate the festival of Flora, the
goddess of flowers, for several days in May
| May poles were forbidden to be erected by
Parliament in 1644, but they were restored
| again on the restoration of Charles IL, and in
| 1861 the May pole IN the Strand was reared
with much ceremony and rejoicing. This pole.
which stood near where Catharine street joins
the strand, was of cedar, and was raised by IL
seamen, commanded by the Duke of York, who
was then Lord High Admiral of England.
Some years ago retired army captain
| bought an old Spanish residence IN st. August
inc. Fla, and tore the building down. In a
corner formed of concrete large gold medal
was placed in an upright position and covered
Ir uiP
most as bright new. On the diverse side
there is a marine view showing vast array Of
warships in line of battle, and eneircling this
scene are the words: Almighty God has
blessed His Majesty's arms" and beneath,
VICTORY of the Nile, August !. 179S." On the
reverse side is the Goddess of Peace, extending
the olive branch with one hand and resting the
other on a large medallion likeness Of Nelson,
and above the likeness is the motto, "Europe's
hope and Britain's glory" There is here also
view of the sea- a large anchor, and surround
ing all Rear Admiral Lord Nelson, of the
Nile" About the edge of the medal is this
sentence: "A TRIBUTE OF regard from Alex
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