Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A double-headed kitten is now amC
the curiosities at Key West, Fla.
"A large blacksnake broke up dim
party among the Savannah, Ga, dockn
the other day.
Antwerp diamond frauds are said
have fooled the world with 2jOOO01O fral
worth of bleached diamonds since they &C
menced the business.
California has taken an invoice Of ,
giant trees left standing, and finds 80.
largest of these is 50 feet in. .circumferen
Visitors at the Worlds Fair.will see ont
them.
Five brothers from Cape Elizabeth, N
who went into the war and came out
scratched, are all dead: and no one of tn
died natural death nor any two III thcsa
State.
The Seminole Indians have good wa
route across Florida from their homes e
of Fort Myers clear through to Nrla.
the southeast coast. They come and 90
their pleasure in their large canoes.
There are ten main lines of railway C,
tering in London. of these 22lO suburb
trains run in and out daily, while the III
line trains are only about 40. In 1859 the
lines carried 400 900 $50 suburban passenge
-''Succi's spOOn," with which the S,
starver took his first nourishment after
days economy, has come into the pOssessi
of the Tenderloin Club, of New York, q
will be added to the museum" of that ecc.
trio body.
The great treasury vault at Washii
ton covers more than quarter of an ac
and is u feet deep. Recently there was :
900 OCO in silver stored there-an amot
that weighed 4,C00 tons and would load
freight cars.
I'm 1858 there was a sale of Madeira VI
in Paris, when "A bottles were bought
Rothschild for their weight in gold. 7
wine was from the famous 1914 pipe of
deira, which had lain at the bottom of
sea for 36 years.
I'm each respiration an adult inhales
pint of air; a healthy man respires Is to
times minute, or 20, ,0OO times a day: cm
25 to 80 times a minute. While standing
adult respiration is y times per minu
while lying down, l3.
"A recent survey has established
number of glaciers in the Alps at !, ,l55,
which 249 have a length of more than fC
and three-quarter miles: the French \
contain IA glaciers; those of Italy,
Switzerland, All, and Austria, 4O2.
Representative Josiah Quincy will 4,
liver the next Fourth of July Grafton befc
the Boston city government. Josiah Quin
delivered one July 4, I79S. Josiah Quin
delivered one July 4. ls26 Josiah Quin'
jr., was the city orator July 4, ls52.
Reliable statistics show that the p
centage of insanity among farmers wives
greater than in any other class. The
PLANTATION is, they work too hard, are
alone too much, and have too little chan
to take recreation and enjoy society.
L.. =
a process for drying rose leaves so as to
tain their fragrance, and has secured q IN.
ket for all she can prepare with a New GC
firm that makes Il business Of filing D
pourri jars and perfulning household {
pliances.
The average number of men employ
by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific co
pany last year was 1,572, against Ii ,i31 in
preceding year: while the average month
pay roll was 1896, ,2S6, as compared with So
0l4 i'll the year befOre-the monthly wag
therefore, showing an increase from an NV
age of $40 So to S52 SO.
Apparently the wheat crop of 1891 W
be the heaviest ever harvested in this cor
try. Not only is the condition of the CT
better than in many years past at this tin
but the acreage is the largest ever know
Experts estimate the probable crop at ]
tween $40, COO 900 and $40 0CO,OO0 bushels. 7
greatest Nltlu ulLutILO WIS III 1901 VI
5l3, 600, 900 bushels were gathered.
-Alluding to the enormous amount
coal handled at Port Said for the use of h.
steamships that pass through the Suez caI
every year, a ButfalQnian writes: "An an
| of Arabs come off on each coal barge and
rapidity with which the dirty work is do
| can be realized when l tell You that this 81
| took on board l.OO4 tons of of 2,2i0 pounds
| four and three-quarter hours, ali handled
| man power"
Politics have become so quiet in Turk
that the Sultan, following the Moha umed
law, has been enabled to arrange for the C,
emOny of circumcising his three youngt
sons. Five thousand poor children, accO1
ing to the habit, underwent the operate
| the same day in different parts of the cit
| IlluminatiOns, distribution of sweatmCa
| and festivities attended the event, which.
all, cost 100000.
A queer mistake has Just come to lig
| at West Camden, Me. In the cemetery theI
several years after her burial, headstOu
were placed to mark the grave of a WONT
who died Is years ago. The friends of &
women have since cared for the lot until Ia
week, when, some changes being made
| the cemetery, the sexton disinterrCQ he 7
mains and found that the body was not tn
of the woman, but that of young man wi
died at about the same time. The man wi
set the grayeStOneS had Dlundered.
A Baltimore freak is frog of good 81
and trif1e light in color, but apparcntlyn
different from any other frog. The :rea
ishness developed when his frOeship W:
worried, when, instead of hopping or or gi
ing utterance to the deep, sOnOrOU, no
usually heard from frogs, lie simply Opene
his mouth and cried. The frog is nothing
not human, and suggests. both in tone an
volume, bad, peevish child. The cry
not single note but several, and l. cOutn
ued even after the annoyance ceases.
The Chinese government has issued
stringent decree against immoral literatur
1t is ordered that 'aII government oflicia
who allow immoral books to be publi5he
within their respective Jurisdictions shall
discharged. Every private person publis
ing such book shall receive 100 blows IN
be banished from his place of residcuc" to
distance of 5000 lees. The seller of an o
scene book shall get 100 blows. Within thirt
days from the issue of this law all the o
scene books Of the empire shall be destrOye
beginning with those now in print"
For many years a spring Of dirty wat
ran from the house of n certain VI. KorOtnc
in the heart of Sebastopol and caused ii
proprietor much trouble. At times II
spring would cover the best street in the eli
with mud. OF late the spring has become
public nuisance, and the city authoriti,
compelled u. Korotneff to build small re
ervoir around it and lead off the mudd
substance by sewer pipes. But as soon {
this was done it was discovered that the SUI
stance in the new reservoir was pun
naphtha. For the last three months SinC
the discovery was made nothing has bee
done to utilize this wasting treasure.