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


New Yorkers every year spend s, ,2o0.-
000 for umbrellas.
Chicago boasts of 1,463 hotels with
total capacity for ls5.0Oo guests.
AN 80-year-old man of williamsport,
Pa, has tasted for 45 days and still lives.
-Shoemakerville, Pa, has pear tree
over $50 years old. 1t is now full of blossoms.
-Of the II, 900, 900 square miles of Africa
only 500. 900 remains in the hands of the native
rulers.
"A Hlndoo journalist declares that
many crowned heads are trembling in their
shoes"
"A chewing gum concern in Brooklyn
has become . stock company with capital Of
There are 26 monarchies and % repub-
lies in the civilized world to-day. 10 republics
are in South America.
"A St. Louis headline writer has in
vented the word 'pulpitser' to be used instead
Of preacher or minister.
Out of five bushels Of potatoes brought
into Marceline, Mo-, the other day. the smallest
tuber in the lot weighed two pounds.
"A pillow that was lost in the Cheboygan
river. Michigan, by the upsetting Of canoe
more than 40 years ago. was fshed up the other
day.
There are now 40, 600 studying in the
various colleges of the country. And yet it Is
only rs years since the first college in the land
was opened to women.
Unless a Kansas editor lies there is an
carried the same umbrella every day in the
week for ID consecutive years.
"A Wichita, Kan, farmer within year
has sold corn from one crib at l8 cents, % cents
so cents, and rs cents. and has some left foI
which he expects to get 50 cents.
"A Kansas woman who received decree
Of divorce, went direct from the court room 70
the office Of the probate judge and was mar
rIed To another fellow. She was twice wife
within l5 minutes.
"A glimpse up the lagoon ia Jackson
Park, Chicago, as it will be in 1898, with gon-
dolas: flights Of steps extending into the water.
ing Venetian scene.
The North Carolina caterpillar trouble
grows worse instead of better with time. The
day before Yesterday a railroad train was
brought to a standstill by vast numbers Of the
creeping things on the rails.
AN artist has been looking through the
Boston cemeteries and finds to his surprise
that there is no monument in any of the ceme-
teries there that is worth over 5000. The
not elassed with monuments.
The Coroner OF Buffalo, n. Y, was In
vestigating the sudden death Of an old man
when a clock that had been owned by the de-
ceased suddenly struck the hour Of 10. As the
clock had stopped voluntarily when the old
man died, the happening is thought to be rather
strange.
The French Society of Men of Letters.
which heldirs convention in Paris on April g
has pension fund of 5000. 900 for old and ind-
gent members. Its whole property IS worth
between $500. 900 and 100000. Its annual ex-
penditures are S1OO 0O0 or about So OOO less than
It's receipts.
The commander of the 81, Petersburg
police has issued an order that If house owner
Is in arrears with his water taxes he is to be
compelled by police measures 70 pay them
But the water supply is not to be cut OF, in
order that the tenants shall not suffer for she
delinquency of the landlord.
Over n century ago party of Spaniards
hid bar of gold in the river BLUFFS near Roche
port No.. and despite the efforts OF wealth.
seekers the treasure remained unfound until
the other day, when a man with maps and
charts made his appearance, and afIer a short
search discovered the treasure.
The latest fish story comes from Ocala,
Fla, where the cook at a restaurant Is alleged
to have found q diamond ring in a hsh's
stomach. The ring Is of handsome design and
contains seven small stones set in circle, with
one one larger man Ine rest IN tne center. INSIDE
iefters ~ 4. Tbe ring ia yafnabIs one
probably worth from 500 to sI25
"A black water snake, which was dis
sected at the Michigan Agricultural College,
the other day. was found to contain the bodies
of four fishes. One of these which was about
four inches in length had partially Swallowed
another fish two-thirds its size. It was how
ever. nos quite equai no me .asx; anu rne snake
served in Alcohol az a mnseum Specimen
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Key anu nan omL ooiol ., ,,,s - usN OF uiry
Je'o", anu III SIG 70 aoous HAo INC oruinary
owl. The mouth ID large, and the face as
formed by the features presents the appear
ance of monkey in every way. The eyes also
take on that quick action characteristic of
Jocko. 1t makes no sound save that similar to
. crying oaDy.
The Anthropological Department Of the
Smithsonian Institution has received from
China pair of stockings manufactured from
human hair. They are worn by fishermen over
cotton stockings (being too rough for the naked
skin) and under straw shoes as a protection
against moisture. Hair unsuitable for textile
purposes Is collected from bar bers' shops and
sent TO part OF the province Tor manurfng
rice f1elds, which, 1t would seem, are deficient
In silica.
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among emlgrants Tor IL years said recently In
speech: al have been much struck at the ig-
norauce which prevails as to geography A
london butcher came 10 consnIr me a. 70 ami.
nave 70 90 thronr6 the Red Sea rhe cler@y