Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Vaccination in England is compulsory.
Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by an
electrical process.
"A fac, 41x71 feet, was unfurled recently
at Chicopee Falls, Mass.
"A young couple were married the other
day on the summit of Pixies Peak.
"A Georgia boy of II is six feet seven
inches high and weighs 2lO pounds.
In Idaho grain is standing ready to cut
and the ground is covered with snow.
An Alton, Ill, girl was Rugged 50
hard by her lover that one of her ribs was
fractured.
Thirty million dollars has been ex-
pended on London's drainage system in the
last 80 years.
"A Chicago shoemaker says that 70 per
cent of those who try on shoes in his place
have holes in their stockings.
old French forts are being sold very
cheap. The Fort du Guesclin has been pur-
chased by French artist for $1,000.
Twelve monolith marble columns, each
weighing IL tons, are to ornament the front
of the literary halls of Princeton, Vt
-Lunacy appears to have increased in
Scotland to a startling extent. In 1853 there
were 5.s24 lunatics on the register of Lunaoy
commissioners, but now there are 1885.
Coffee drunkards are more common
among people of nervous temperament
than in the ranks of fstolid, phlegmatic folks,
not easily moved by any stimulus, or who,
like many Germans, prefer eating to drink
ing.
Some of the Labrador names are quite
pleasing to the ear when properly pro-
nounced. Checaskonish Lake is reached by
ascending the Anaittewonopitch river
and passing around the Nattecaminahago
Falls.
"A Yolo, Cal, farmer turned band of
mules and horses into patch that had been
planted to cantaloupes. There was quite a
quantity of the fruit left, and the animals
took q great fancy to it. As a result there
were seven dead mules and one dead horse.
I'm Berlin the name Schultz is very COM
mon. The city directory has nearly 200
pages of citizens bearing that name, and in
certain departments of the city government
there are numerous sub-departments each
having a different set of clerks to take care
of special divisions of the Schultz family.
The young women of Hammonton, N.
j., are competitors in raising chickens, and
the town has more poultry than any other
in the State. Under single roof promi-
nent breeder had as many as 5000 broilers
al once, as well as 2,0C0 hens. In one season
Harmon ton has sent 60 900 birds to market
"A prize of 500, offered in Arskansas to
the man exhibiting the largest family, has
been awarded at Warren to Benjamin Par
nell. There were several competitors, but
Parnell dstanced them all by appearing on
the fair grounds with his wife and 9S descend
ants. OF these descendants q were his own
offspring, 80 were grandchildren and 2I were
great grandchildren.
The colony of Sierra Leone is 105 years
old, yet there is no machinery there except
the sewing machine. The population is up
ward of $1,000, and not a sawmill nor any
other kind of mill in operation There is
plenty of building material, stone and wood,
and as for bricks, if ANYBODY would make
them and set them up in the sun they would
'burn themselves" if left alone.
In 1880 the number of cotton mills in
the South was 161, with IA 325 looms and 667-
s54 spindles. By July, 1889, these had in
creased to 355 mills, with $500 looms and p
31,265 spindies. The mills have trebled
since $780, the 1ss 74S bales manufactured
that wear on Southern soil expanding to
546 964 bales in 1890. The foreign exports
of the South ran up from $50, 100000 in 1888
to 1920, ,000, 600 in 1889.
Forest and Stream says that at Woods
HoIl, Mass, some years ago a great many
sharks were cut open to ascertain the nature
of their food and internal parasites ana in
some cases the contents of the abdomen
were removed entirely. 1t was supposed
that such rough surgery wOuid kill them;
but some of the eviscerated specimens were
seen swallowing food after the opera
tion as readily as if nothing had happened
The phrase, 'sWorth its weight in
gold" no longer expresses the idea which it
was intended to convey. For there are at
least 20 substances worth more than gold.
Berylium. for instance, is worth about ten
times its weight in pure gold, and venadium
is five times as costly as the precious metal.
Iridium, also, is more than twice costly
as gold. The text books used to say that
platinum was the only metal more valuable
than gold, but it now costs about the same.
AN ingenious individual has figured that
q woman of 24 has lost three-quarters of the
chances she ever had of becoming a wife.
Estimating woman's chances during her
life of marriage, it is found that they occur
as follows:
Age; Chances. Age; Chances.