Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


| utes.
The Indian boys and girls at the Indian
school have $1,000 on deposit in Carlisle, Pa,
| banks.
"A game called progressive potato pick
Ing' is all the rage in North Platte, Neb, social
circles.
"A Toronto paper figures out that the
drunkards of that city lost $40, ,682 in wages
last year.
A man recently arrested at Williams
port. Pa, for larceny gave his occupation az
that of dude.
California seems to be lucky State.
Natural gas has been discovered three miles
from Vallejo.
France spends nearly 1,oO0, 900 francs a
year in providing warm meals for the poor
school children.
Bavaria, bv recent census. Numbers
$3.50 S82 inhabitants, the female exceeding the
male population by 13l, 1856.
Norway is wealthier in nickle ores
than any other European country, but only
two mines are now working.
The Academy is the only French insti-
tuition which has come down unchanged from
the times before the Revolution.
The 'old slave market which is pointed
out to every Northern visitor IN st. Augustine
bC'oi ID" bue Sale Oh q SINCE slave.
internal revenue receipts in the North
west show that the production of oleo.
margarine IS rapidly gaining upon that of but
ter.
"A French daily paper has been started
in Lowell, Mass. 1t is the only French daily in
the United States. and is Democratic In poll
tics.
The earth's fifteen undred millions Of
human Inhabitants speak 3,O34 different Ian.
guages, ana possess about !, 900 different re.
ligious beliefs.
"A belief is, or used to be, current among
the mormons, who suffered grievously from the
pest, that locust was cross between the
spider and the buffalo
The man who hauled the first load Of
sand used in building the Polk county, Ia.
penitentiary. has jast been sentenced to that
institution for six months
"A large body of antimony has been
found in Inyo county, California The owner
says he has in sight bouiders of the metal
weighing from 200 to 800 pounds. 1t is a val
liable find.
1t has always been supposed that there
were no coal veins in California, the geograph-
ical formation not being favorable, but soft
coal and lignita has been found and is now
mined in large Quantities
Oscar Wilde says that the chief adyan-
tages of socialism is that it would relieve US
from the sordid necessity of living for others,
which in the present condition of things
presses SO hardly upon everybody.
"A man living in Talbot county, Ga,
has never attended services at a church, has
never ridden on q train or ever been to CITY
Recently a gentleman offered to pay his fare to
Columbus, but he refused to 20.
An instance in enormous rise in values
in Butte City is commented on. A month or
two ago certain mining property was recorded
as transferred for $50. Only a few weeks
thereafter the same property was bonded for
T500,000.
The heat produced from the light of a
FREELY is only per cent of an equal amount Of
candle light. The bugs light is produced by
chemical action, as 1t is increased by putting
the ny in oxygen and diminished in an atmos-
phere Of nitrogen.
-German engineers are said to be adopt
ing new line for bearings, composed of com
pressed vegetable parchment. When lubrt-
Gated with an emulsion of mineral oil and
water the parchment becomes .impregnated
with the oil, and will last for a considerable
time.
In Columbia, Mo-, the girls attending
college have organized all engagement and
marriage club. Every time one of them has a :
gentleman escort to whom she is not engaged
she pays % cents into the treasury. When a
a member gets married the club presents her
slO0
An old directory of PHILADELPHIA, pub
lished in 17S5, has been brought to light.
Among the notable names found in it are
these: Franklin Benjamin, His Excellency.
l Franklin court; Morris Robert, merchant,
lOl Market street; Rittenhouse David, lO9
Arch street; Hamilton Alexander, S55 Second
street."
1t is commonly believed in England
that good way to get rid of cockroaches is to
address to them written letter. saying: "Oh.
roaches you have troubled me long enough; 90
now and worry my neighbors." The letter
must be put where they most swarm. properly
sealed. 1t should be written eligibly and prop.
erly punctuated.
If cloth can be made out of fine spun
glass; it would seem a simple matter to make it
out of wood, and this IS done by boiling strips
of fine grained timber, crushing them between
rolls, ,carding the faments into parallel lines as
with ordinary textile material, and spinning
them into threads, from which cloth can be
woven in the usual way.
An intoxicated Atlanta, Ga, negro
went to church and because the preacher did
not happen to suit him, threw the reverend
gentleman down and sat on him. The negro
vas arrested and held, not on a charge of as
'ault, but on a charge OF having brought liquor
nIo house of worship, though all the LIQUOR
about him was in his stomach.
Aaron Andrews, colored man living
Jour or five miles from Halycondale presents
phenomenon in human nature. Heis so deaf
hat he cannot hear the report of a gun dis
charged near him. The loudest thunder is not
wen family heard by him. but he can be COM
nunicated with by the agency of the human
Toice. He can't understand any one except
hose with whom he is intimately acquainted.
"A workman at the Davenport, Ia, gas
works concluded the other day that he would
lectrocute a troublesome cat He placed the
cline in tub of water and turned on the cur
ent. 1t was found that the tub had to be
moved slightly, and while moving it the execu-
ioner got his finger in the water and nearly
himself. After he was brought to-
With desire for vengeance, he renewed the
experiment.. There was hitch in the pro-
eedings this time, for Just as the cat opened its
Mouth for the forty-ninth yell after e had been
laced in the tub. the current was turned on