Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| -Uolu-Dearing quartz mas been discovered
in stone quarry near New Haven. Conn.
| Tennessee has passed a law providing
| that school directors must be able to read and
write.
European physicians are now insisting
that cows milk is deadly when not boiled be-
fore using.
"A Boston man advertises for female
heas. He is willing to pay good price for all
he can get.
"A resident of Reading, Pa, was bitten
by pet parrot some DAYS ago and after suffer.
ing terrible agonies, died.
IA bill in the illinois Legislature pro-
vides that Coroners' juries holding inquests on
women shall be composed Of women only
The prisoners in the Galloway county.
KY. jail have petitioned the pastor of the local
Meth odist Church to come and preach to them
During February the railroad accidents
in this country included SO collisions. 90 derai-
ments and 100 other accidents, in which 81 per.
sons were killed and 275 injured.
"A young lady who was visiting at Nor.
gantown, W. Va. claims to have seen near
there blacksnaks 20 feet long that had nu-
merous rattles on the end Of its tail.
"A resident Of Joinville-Ie-Pont, near
Paris is said to have 100000 geese, which
produce annually 20O0O0O0 OF quills. He has
the largest quill manufactory in the world.
Judge Eve, of Augusta, Ga. had before
him the other day poor devil named Adam
and sentenced him to the chain gang for three
months. 1t was the same old spirit over again.
"A member of theater orchestra in New
York recently went to sleep during a perform
ance, and snored so loudly that people in the
front seats moved into vacant chairs to escape
the noise.
in the New York drygoods shops both
male and female clerks compelled 70
dress In black or very dark clothes. A sales
man who appeared in gray suit would be sent
home to change it
An ingenious Frenehmsn has discoy-
cred process Of recovering the tin contained
in the wash waters of silk In Lyons alone the
application of the discovery will effect an an.
nual economy of $4,000.
The University of Michigan has 2, 40
students in attendance, of which 40 are
women, and of these 81 are studying medicine.
The attendance of women has nearly doubled
within the past four years.
Mice and moles are working ruin in
many parts Of France at present. and the Min
lister of Agriculture has issued q circular which
is being generally distributed recommend ing q
certain method for the destruction Of the little
pests.
"A colored man stole eight eggs from
farmer near Canton, O., and put them in
basket to take to that town. When he arrived
there and opened the basket he found instead
of the eggs, eight little chicks, alive and
hungry.
"A Chinese medical practitioner has been
discoursing in Shanghai native paper on the
treatment of cholera. Among other medica-
mixed with brickdust from the inside Of .
furnace"
The best recruiting station for the regu-
lar army is In St Paul, MINI. In February it
furnished Is per cent more men than any other
station in the country, and during March also
the numb er OF enlistments is reported as un-
precedent ed in that region.
"A German physician proposes that the
manufacturers of preserved meats should be
compelled to stamp their cans with legible
date mark. For year or so. he says, canned
meats may remain perfectly wholesome. but
after that they deteriorate in a way defying
alike precaurion and explanation.
According to Shasta, Wash, news
paper, fire broke out in the Mott postofice
one night last week, destroying that building
and three others. In one of the buildings .
barrel of modern whisky was stored; the head
and slaves of the barrel wers burned, but the
contents stood upright a monument in the
ashes, solid block of ice.
1t appears that the grip is not entirely
new in Japan, for there is a full description Of
its rsvsges between 177317sO by 4 native writer
named Bskin. 1t was called the Okoma Koss,
Tenkow KoEe Satsuma Koze and Tanika
Koze, the last being the more popular. being
derived from Tanika, famous wrestler whose
boast it was that only illness could floor him,
and who died from the Koze. ~.
An electric apparatus supplies strong
light which attracts the insects and moths; .
suction fan worked by the electric current
dror ham, inn f6au IfohN
and carries them into a small mill, also worked
by the electric current. where they are ground
up and mixed with flour, and thus converted
into poultry food of excellent quality. This Is
said to be Bayarisn contrivance.
"A man-of.war doctor, whose name is
unfortunately lost to posterity. had . simple
method OF locating mans ailment and
alleviating 1t (save the markD by drastic and
remedies. He would tie a piece of
tape around the waist of the complaining
mariner. and command him to declare whether
his pain existed above or below the tape. II
above an emetic, and If below dose of salts
followed as matter of course.
AT least one person in three between
the ages of 10 and 40 years is subject to partial
deafness. The great majority of cases of deaf
ness are hereditary and due to the too close
of the parents. Deafness is more
prevalent among men than among women, be-
cause the former are more exposed to the
FIcissltudes of climate. 1t is thought that
telephones tend to bring on deafness when
one ear is used to the exclusion of the other.
i'm connection with the equipment for
ire protection, it is recommended that gallon
pail, filled with fine sand, be always placed
within convenient reach of each workman.
This practice might well be followed wherever
here is a possibility of fire starting in oils or
materials. There is nothing which
will squelch fire in its incipiencY more quickly
Ind effectually than sand-and there are no
in the way OF water damage, either.
Hot water is now automatically sup
,lied in Paris by penny-in-the-slot machines.
Nine quarts are delivered for this sum. and the
water is found useful by the poor and by cab
men for their footpans, or bouillortes. A coil
II copper pipe inside the machine communi-
,ates with the street main, and is heated by
.asburners; the penny allows the tap to be
'pened on pushing in button" glass of
lot wine is also sold by similar machines in
Paris.
An instructor recently exhibited lect-
ire room device for determining 'g." the ac-
eleratIon due to gravity, by means Of a num-
er of iron balls falling through a certain dist
nee, one starting at the instant when its pre-
ecessor reaches its destination. This is ac-
by means of an electro-magnetio
evice, in which ths balls, falling a key,
lake and break a circuit, each ball as it falls
berating the next. From the time occupied
" all the balls, the time for one may be found.
he apparatus Is said TO give fairly accurate re-
ults.
MORE WITTY THAN WISE.