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

There are close upon 10000 professors
of music" In London.
The London Religious Tract Society
last year issued 1900, OOO publications.
| To make one pound of honey the bees
must visit from $4,000 to 200. 900 flowers.
| The Sultan OF Turkey has attached to
his body guard soldier who is ITO years old.
| "A Salt Lake City editor, who is blind,
is to have his eyes replaced by those of rabbit.
| Geneva, o., thinks it has the only horse
| in the world tha- can turn complete somer-
| sault
Arizona has a gross area of 113, ,O2O
square miles, of which only 120 square miles
| are water.
A Gordon, Ga, school teacher promoted
! a boy to the head of the class for spelling cat
"quatte."
A woman, to prove she was ia years
old, recently produced love letter written by
her in l790
Two million and half is the number Of
persons who are said to work on Sundays in
this country.
/ The Danish Kings crown is worth $780,
900; the Queens crown 81. 800 and the sword of
State $1,000.
New York City has over 1000 million
aires. while London has 6OO. Paris 500. Berlin
2DO, Vienna 100.
"A mahogany trse lately cut down in
Honduras made three logs which sold in Eu-
rope for Sll 700.
"A woman who died recently in Bla-
quenine. La. left $780, all in GOLD. nickel and
silver hidden away IN her residence.
"A young woman was so worried at the
prospect of her approaching marriage that she
jumped into the river and was drowned
"A farmer in Holt county, Missouri, has
26 living children, none of whom are at ONE.
There are IL pairs of twins in the family.
The walters in the caes are striking
against the practice Of putting all the tips re-
ceived into common fund and then dividing
It.
Grand Rapids leads the world in its
percentage of divorces to marriages. This year
the ratio was one to i've and last year one to
Six.
In April, on the railroad lines to st.
Petersburg, Russia. wagons will be placed with
special appliances for the transportation of
live fish.
A professor in the Lemberg Polytech-
mic Academy processes to have discovered .
successful method of photographing by electro
magnetism.
Nine hundred and fifty subm ariue tele-
graph cables are now in operation. most of
them in Europe. Their total length is over
So, 600 miles.
"A species of the duck known as the
''murrs" Is readily captured at Portland, Me-,
as it seems insensible to fear. and will not move
until the hunter is upon 1t.
The acreage of the geological gardens in
Europe ranges from about half dozen to half
hundred acres, but hardly one of them has
room enough for its animals.
"A system of electric cabs has been in
troduced in Stuttgart and with such success
that the cab horse is likely to be relegated to
other fields of usefulness
in is cities of Virginia the negroes own
property worth s3, 324, 542, the greater part Of
which is in real estate. In Richmond their
possessions amount TO s820. l38
Some smokers have an idea that 'tobac-
CO heartburn" can be cured by swallowing the
white ashes from the end of cigar Chemists
say that it IS merely faith cure,
One of the recent applications Of cleo
tricity that promises to be of considerable ben
eft to sea-going men is log for registering the
rate of travel of high-speed vessels.
The first French breach of promise case
has Just been tried at Besiers. The intended
bridegroom was sentenced to pay ESQ damages
"for the moral injury OF the family"
"A new fad in New York is called the
hot pine bath. Those who take it lie in tank
and have the tepid extract of pine poured on
them. 1t is said to be very Strengthening.
"A little over % years have elapsed since
the English Parliament was first plainly asked
to grant to women the right to take part in the
election of members OF the House OF Com
mons. ...-- s. s-. r'
One of the industries of London is the
selling of sea water, which Is delivered at the
purchasers house for pence gallon. 1t is
brought to town every night by the railroad
companies.
T. "A very explicit Connecticut statute pro-
vides that no man shall kiss woman against
her will, and behind it is still more rigid old
Blue Law that says man shan't kiss his wife
on the Sabbath.
Kansas City has an organization Of col
ored men called the Attucks Club. The clubs
name is from Crispus Attucks, the negro shot,
with other people. in the streets of Boston by the
soldiers Of King George.
A Missouri weekly paper recently in
dulged in some critical remarks about Shakes
peare and farmer named John Shakespeare
thinking the family insulted, came to town aud
gave the editor thrashipg.
The natives of Griqualand are Just now
suffering from curious epidemic. If alarmed
by any sudden noise they will start violently,
contract Lnelr features. etluen Lnolr umD5,
Jump about and waltz like dervishes.
The new States have already received
their nieknames. Washington is the ''Chin-
ook State, North Dakota the "Flicker-tail"
State. South Dakota the "Signed CaS' State
and Montana the 'Stubbed-toe" State.
1t Is claimed that an Eastern chemist
has discovered process for making soap from
corn. The discovery promises to revolutionize
the art Of soap making. The product is said to
be absolutely pure. and better than the finest
toilet soap now made.
The dancers IN the Paris Opera House
objec. to the degradation of the green room by
the vulgarity of the millionaire dudes. These
men have trampled upon all the rules of eti-
quette that were formerly observed with great
rIgidity behind the scenes.
A Jacksonville, Fla, negro, who halls
originally from Hayti. is a natural born snake
charmer. He handles the most venomous
reptiles with confidence, and though he has
been frequently bitten, he has never expert
encsd any ill effects from his wounds.
The Royal Commission appointed to e1-
anime Westminster Abbey in its relations to
future buriaIs report that there Is comfortable
room for 40 or 90 more; but space can be made
for IS more by dev0tlng every available
SPOT for the purpose. The present rate Of Alb
boy funerals is about one year.
FACT FITTING FANCTFS