Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Five great English war ships are now
declared to have guns which are unfit for
service. These range from ITO tons to 81
tons. The French 75-ton guns, however, ara
said to be satisfactory.
There were 157. women patients under
going treatment at the Kelley Institute in
Dwight. ILL.,, last week The average mum
Der of women going there for treatment is
increasing all the time
The annual revenue of the Government
of India from opium some 30 years ago was
about 81, 500, ,000 and after a gradual decrease
it was last year about s15. .000, 600. being one
twenty fourth of the entire revenue of the
country.
The Ohio State Asylum for Epileptics.
now in course OF erection at Gallipolis. is the
first institution of it's kind in this country.
Ot the large number of ep1leptics In Ohio,
asylum.
Grow Island Passage, Grand Manan,
was literally choked with school of mack
erel one day last week, and the native fisher.
men took 2 900 barrels. At Bar Harbor more
than 5000 worth of mackerel have been
taken from the weirs this season.
"A Chicago company which makes .
speciality of manufacturing sermons claims
to have on its rolls the names of 1000
sermons, including "a New York minister
who gets $4,000 year" The charge is only
81 q week.
"A whip presented to William n. Van
derbilt cost 1900. W. X. Vanderbilt has one
that cost $3.50. Pierre Lorillard has one with
q carved ivory handle, that cost $500. Whips
that cost SIS to 500 are favorite articles for
presentation, and America leads the world
in making them.
ha \
excited over the news of the insurrection in
China. The dispatches from Pekin in the
daily papers are translated into Chinese by
Cnlnamen who can understand them. and
then they are read by the groups Of laundry
men who gather to hear them.
"A stony, waterless region of France has
evolved race Of animals that do not
drink. The sheep, feeding upon the fragrant
herbs. have altogether unlearned the habit
The much-esteemed Roquefort cheese is
made from the milk of the non-drinking
ewes.
English sparrows are SO numerous
around a certain brewery in Chicago that
poisoned grain is placed on the open floor
Of the malt tower every evening to tempt
them to eat and die. In the morning a
bushel basket of dead birds is gathered up
oy one OF the brewery employees and dis
posed of.
IAN extensive Indian cemetery, contain
ing the graves of fully 500 braves, has been
washed over by the waves of Seguine Bay,
near Port Townsend. The graveyard was
on SAND spit on the beach, and the neigh
borhood looks now, from the heaps Of
bleached bones scattered about, like q
slaughter pen.
The varieties of money in existence in
the United States are gold coin, silver coin,
gold certificates, silver coin certificates.
greenbacks, national bank notes and the
new Treasury notes, or silver bullion certif-
Gates. of 1890. These are the sorts of money
OF denominations OF 81 or over. and do not
include fractional silver.
AT the foot of Ardrass Hill, by the side
Of the Clane road, near the town of Col
bridge, Kildare, Ireland, is est. Patrick's
Well" It is circular, built around with
masonry, and partially covered with large
fagstone. Some ancient ivy-clad thorn
trees overshadow 1t. 1t is held in high ven-
GRAFTON in the district.
On the estate Of the Marquis de la La
guna in Spain water wheel of 20 horse
power runs dynamo. Flowing by electrici-
ty has been proposed, And the current is to
be transmitted to field three miles distant,
where a motor on plow is to be operated.
The cable to be attached to the plow is to be
wound on reel and drawn over the field.
"A Jersey COW in Michigan City, Ind,
gave birth to five calves, two males and
three females. They all appear healthy and
strong and are doing nicely. Considering
the number, they are quite large. The cow
is of ordinar size. She is very fond of her
family of calves and Is as watchful of each
one as an old hen is of q brood of small
chickens.
"A blue rose is among the impossibili-
ties. There is a law governing the coloring
of flowers which Is simply this: The three
colors, red, blue and yellow, never appear
in the same species of flowers; any two may
exist, but never the third. Thus we have
the red and yellow roses. but no blue; red
and blue verbenas, but no elbow: yellow and
blue in the various members of the viola
family (as pansies for instance), but no red;
red and yellow gladioli, but no blue, and so
on.
The outlook for ship-building is en-
couraging in almost all directions. Ship
builders are indulging in the hope of q
revival of their industry within the next
few years. The ship-builders of New Bed
ford are rejoicing over the orders for vessels
to engage in the trade between our ports on
the Atlantic and on the Pacific. The ship
builders of Duluth are pleased with the
prospect of activity in the construction of
big fleet of whalebacks for service on our
Western lakes and on the Atlantic.
The first theatrical company TO play in
the United States came from England in
l752 and landed at York, in Virginia.
The first public appearance of the players,
then known as "His Majesty's Servants"
was at Williamsburg, Va, September s.
From there they went to Annapolis, Md,
md built theat0r, but, the venture proving
they went thence to New
York, and on September 2, 1888, played
sternes CONSCIOUS Lovers Under tho
of an actor named Hsllam
hey went to Philadelphia in 1854. and in
vacant store rented for the occasion they
played "The Fair Penitent."
The boomerang used in war and in
me chase by the aborigines of Aus
ralia, is usually about two feet in
ength, made of hard wood bent into
curve resembling an obtuse angle, fat on
me side and rounded on the other The
hrower takes it by one end, holding the
,ent side downward, and hurls it forward;
,ut instead of continuing to go directly for
ward it ascends in the air, whirling round
md round describing a curved line till it
caches o considerable height, when it be-
ins to retroerade, finally sweeping over the
Iead of the protector, striking the object for
which it was intended. which is always in
he rear. This surprising motion Is pro-
uced by the reaction Of the air upon the
ends and curves of the oddly shaped
Missile.