Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Paris employs 195, 900 dressuakers.

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"A Japanese merchant is said to have
discovered process for manufacturing cotton
from straw.
Houses struck by lightning and de-
stoyed in February are among this years
| weather freaks in Massachusetts.
| YEARLY tickets at the chiropodlst's, to
be used once week-lO per cent discount" is
one of the notices that meet the eye in Boston.
The youngest public schoolma am in
] the world lives at Bernville Pa. She has 40
| scholars. began teaching six months ago, and is
only l3 years old.
| "A Rejected Manuscript Club" has
| been formed. Its members are people who
| have had two or more manuscripts rejected by
leading periodicals.
| 1t is reported that in the last five wears
q American girls have married Cinnamon. and
in only five cases have they lived with their
| yellow husbands beyond few months.
| -Four-ffths of the engines, including
locomotive engines. now working in the world,
| have been constructed during the last p years,
| and represent grand total of 49,OO0,OOO horse
| power.
"A curious white frog has been exhib-
| tied IN London lately. 1t is full-grOwn speci-
| men of the ordinary kind. but unique as to
| color while its brilliant ruby eyes are trimmed
| with gold.
-Thirty-one thousand individuals own
| three-tifths of all the wealth In America.
Twenty-one foreign noblemen own 100000
acres of land in this country, and have bonded
2OOOO,OOO more.
1t has been prophesied that in ten years
time there will be more camphor trees than
| orange trees in Florida, and that the camphor-
producing industry in that State will become OF
great Importance.
In Germany ), 500, 900 women earn their
living by industrial pursuits, in England,
4,OOO.CGO. in France 3,75OOOO. in Austro-H Hun
gary about the same. and IN America, including
| all occupations, over 700, 600.
Down near Akron, o., tramp got into
Il field where fierce bull was feeding. The
race was so rods, and at the end of it the tramp
| made flying leap over a fence eight feet high
and didn't think he was doing anything won
| derful.
-Five-sixths of the gain in Missouri's
population during the last decade was made in
that portion of the State south of the Missouri
| river Ten counties have lost in population in
the last ten years and eight of them lie north OF
| the Missouri river.
AT Hamburg 10, 500 meals are dis
| trbuted to the unemployed. Four thousand
| of these ask the Senate that landlords be pro-
| hibited on next quarter day from eV1ctlng
| tenants unable to pay their rents; also that
| loans of so marks be advanced to destitute
workmen.
When the Hungarian Government took
the operation of the railroads in hand it re-
duced rates So per cent. By the purchase of
Communication tickets a 60-mile trip costs 5H
cents, and more than one can go on book to-
gether. The increase in traffic amounts to
1000 per cent.
"A legal firm in Albany, Ga, was called
upon Saturday by three different men to set
divorce from their wives. None of them want
ing them had any money, however. but one OF
them got the lawyers interested in his case after
giving them mortgage on his mule. The other
two were turned away disconsolate.
In Detroit saloon were four whisky
barrels elevated to a conspicuous position and
labeled respectively "a" "B" &c" and ID"
Someone evidently acquainted with the con-
tents of the barrels added few letters to each
initial and made the significant words, ALIVE"
Barely" "Comatose" and Death"
"A Lansing, Mich, man applied for a
warrant against himself for assault and bat
terry. He said he had been in fight, and he
wanted to get himself convicted and fined be-
cause the fellow he licked wouldn't be abba to
attend to the case for some time, and he
wanted it off his mind. His request was not
allowed.
A Swedish engineer has invented a
novel method of blasting by electricity. He
employs volta arc produced between two car
bon rods placed parallel. When the arc is
effected an intense local heat is created, fol-
lowed by expansion, which has the effect of
| splitting the rock
-The.frst goddess of freedom to whom
a temple was erected at Rome was represented
as a Roman matron robed in white, holding in
one hand broken seepter and in the other
pike SurmouDIed by a cap. AT her feet lay
cat, an animal that is an enemy TO all restraint.
The cap alluded to the Roman custom of put
ting one on the head of a slave when freed.
Shell hunters are numerous at La Jolla
near San Diego, Cal, at low tide. One obseryant
lady found bunch of devil fish eggs in kelp
heap and while examining them an egg opened
and the baby horror trotted it's eight legs over
her hand. The whole thing, now in pickle, is
not larger than n pea. She also found pOlyp,
resembling small purple leaf with hungry,
white tentacleS waving all over the exterior.
"A pair of curious Samoan cattle were
exhibited at Kansas City a few days ago They
are exceedingly small, the male weighing only
about $50 pounds while the female weighed.
about $50 pounds. Both are fully developed
and have very large heads and long horns
These little cattle are only ABOUT ~ feet in
height, and are of a reddish mouse color
marked with white. They are destined for
Columbus o.
Aurora, ILL.,, is the home OF an S-year-
old boy who can perform feats Of memory that
would have staggered Mnemosyne herself His
speciality is the memOrizing of figures, and he
can call the numbers in order the longest
train of railroad cars after it has passed. As
tronomy also furnishes this child with a field in
which he can run riot. The most complicated
astronomical statistics are ratified of with as
much ease as ordinary child would talk of
his playthings.
"A brougham built by an English firm is
a model of conveniences. 1t is fitted with cleo
trio light sufficient for reading or writing. Op-
pOsite the seat is an ivory plate, which are
several buttons properly letfered: Left"
Right (" stop" Go On" Home" and SO on.
On the dashboard, in the coachman's view. is a
knob is pressed he understands at once what is
expected of him. One button brings out the
word Speak" in which case be will put the
speaking tube IN position and receive orders.
Anyone who mingles with the poor i'm
migrants who have come here from Russia or
Poland must be surprised at their ignorance
concerning the great men of this country.
Many of them stay here long time without
ever knowing the name of the President of the
United States or hearing of James G. Blaine
or any other famous politician They find it
very hard to catch the sound of American
names and are apt to pronounce these names
in way that would puzzle the owners of them
who happened to be unfamiliar with jargon. II
the names of many of them seem queer to
Americans, the names of many Americans
seem still queerer to them, and only tt to be
laughed at