Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Chicago is to have q card factory-tne
first in the West
-Thers is only one sudden death among
women to every eight men.
"A 104- -year-old woman Of South Carolina
is cutting her fourth set of teeth.
-Bengalore. India, cotton operatives get
10 cents day. II hours and work every day.
A Doylestown, Pa, man claims to be
able to suck four and half dozen raw eggs In
one and a half minutes.
A boy was arrested in Philadelphia re-
Gently for stealing his sisters wedding ring the
day before the ceremony.
I'm proportion to population and busi-
ness, Kansas has more miles of railroads than
any other State in the Union.
Meat had become so scarce and dear
lately in Berlin chat butchers were importing
Russian reindeer for the market.
An Indiana man who was an inveterate
cigarette smoker died recently and short
time after death his body turned hVid green-
1t appears by the Cuban census, which
has Just been taken, that there are DOW nearly
$4,000 Chinese men in Cuba and only 81 Chinese
women.
1t is a mistake to suppose that polar re-
search has cost enormously in human life. De
spite all the great disasters. 81 out OF every lW
explorers have returned alive
An Indiana man has left his wife and
a good deal Of property, and has written from
the mountains out West that he did SO because
his wife was too good for him.
"A Cory, Pa, lady, injured Dy fall
due to a poor sidewalk, offered to settle her
suit against the city for 600, but the city off,
cials insisted on the case going TO court and the
lady won a 81 500 verdict.
"A pony on which 2-year-old Omaha
Indian had been strapped ran away from the
camp near Beatrice. Neb., and was not cap
tured for nearly two days. The boy was nearly
dead from fatigue and thirst.
1t costs 81, 500, 900 year to maintain the
founding asylums of France. They have the
capacity tor supporting g. 600 children. and it is
SAID that last year alone 1000 children were
abandoned by their parents in the republic.
Boston papers show that 81 corporations
in Fall River, with an aggregate Of $50 600
capital, have earned during the year less than
2per cent and in many instances nothing at all,
and argue that labor has received its full share
of compensation.
The newest thing in tulips is dull,
petaled flower, almost magenta in color.
Among the novelties recently shown at the
London flower show was this wonderful tulip
and blue primrose, probably the trst OF that
color ever shown.
The comparative occurrence of the small
or 'qower case'' letters, In English fiction or
history, is as follows: z l; j. K, *, 8; b, Tg.
p, W. " To- C. f. u, m, H. d. ], 20; b, 30; a. n,
,o s, 40; T. As; e. 90; total 5S2. These ratios will
be changed little in newspaper work.
A resident of Bay City. Mich, has
watch which was carried at the battle of Cullo-
den. in Scotland, in 1746 1t has BEEN handed
down from father to son for four generations.
and belongs to the second series Of timepieces
invented. 1t still keeps good time.
The clocks in large hotels and stations
in Paris are run on the pneumatic principle in
stead of the ordinary way. Once every minute
a puff of air comes from central station
through a tube, forcing the hands around, and
therefore the clocks do not need to be ever
wound.
Cuba seems destined to supplant Ber-
muda as the truck garden for this country.
Her potatoes and onions have already taken
precedence over those of Bermuda, and now
her tomatoes are taking hrst prize. Inns mar,
from New York
AT Mont-Dol, in Brittany, already well
known to geologists and palBontologists. the
remains of about a hundred elephants have
been discovered gathered on a small surface OF
about 800 square meters AL the bones are
broken, and it Is thought that the animals must
"A street preacher in Dresden walks
about In a long, white wooden robe, sandals and
a wreath of green leaves on his head The po-
lice interfered, but he pointed out the cos
tunes of oarsmen, polo players and bicyciists.
and asked it his own was not as decent and
proper. And he won the case
Hebrew, it IS said, is again becoming 3
living language IN Palestine. The thousands
of the Chosen People who are going there
from different countries, beng unable to COM
municate with each other in their ordinary
languages. resort TO the knowledge which they
have of Hebrew in their religious services for
a means of communication.
AT Baalbac, in Syria, the traveller sees
at the quarry nearly ready to be moved from
the pillars that support it, dressed stone II by
IA by 13 feet in size, containing 1922 cubic
feet And the stone has waited more than
1000 years. There are four stones nearly as
large which have been transported mile or
more and put into the foundations Of the tenn
pie Of the Sun.
There was an unearthly racket at the
New York and New England Railroad bridge
at Boston the other forenoon. The bridge
keeper refused to open the draw for a number
of tugs that sought passage, remarking that
the draw was shut TO stay till ll:30. Thereupon
the tugs set up mighty and eeaseless footing,
numerous steamers in the vicinity scented fun
and Joined their shrill whistles to the chorus.
and at last the factories in the neighborhood
sent forth their hoarse blasts TO swell the tumult
Ceaselessly the clamor grew, and at last the
stubborn man was sufficiently scared TO let the
procession through without time limit.
"A meteor, ignis fatuus, jack o'lantern,
will o. the wisp, or whatever you may please to
call il, was seen by many persons IN the neigh
borhood of Palatka, Fla. 1t was round, dark
object about as large as peck measure, SEEM
ingly full of augur holes, from which streams
of blazing fire spit and sparkled, of white or
electric appearance. 1t seemed to noat In the
air. sometimes near the earth. and then as high
as the tree tops Some parties tried TO get TO IT,
and it would first advance TO meet them, then
take a sudden turn and leave them; second
one was seen lying upon the ground when No.
passed over it a few feet, both conVerglng into
one, then passed off over the waters OF Dark
lake and were lost to view in the hazy atmos-
phere.
"A farmer of Williamsbridge, on the
northern outskirts of New York City, ploughs
his land with horse and a mule harnessed to-
pether. The mule has hairless stubbed tail. a
drooping ear and dead eye. But what he lacks
in personal appearance he richly makes up in
saeac,ty. The other morning. shortly after
dawn. the farmer found that both horse and
mule had been stolen out of the stable during
the night After breakfast time the mule limped
home, travelling. for the most part, on three
legs One of his rear fetlocks was Dadly
snrained. and his lps were fecked with blood
as though he had been trying TO chew some
thing too tough for ordinary masugatlng pow
ers Almost at the same hour a sorry LOOKING
man with $40 bill in his pocket was arrested as
a suspicious person by the Carmansyille ponce
He was covered with cuts and bruises W1lcn ne
for by saying that be had peen
knock ed down by runaway horse. crusneo Dy
the wheels of the wagon behird IT, and mangied
by a dog that was pursuing the turnout Ine
farmer suspects that the man was IN centses esn
with both ends of his mule. and that the szo are
the proceeds of a cheap horse sale