Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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Rag baby parties are the latest Lenten
diversion in Missouri.
Eleven battle ships are now being built
for the German Government.
There are about 120, 900 hairs on the
head of a man-if he is not bald.
AN Australian photographer is reported
10 get excellent pictures of objects at a distance
of sixteen miles.
"A ghost that whistles through its teeth
is reported to have made its appearance in
Kansas City, Mo.
The Turkish Government is considering
designsfor a bridge across the Bosphorus, to
connect Asia and Europe.
OF all the Kings of European countries
the steadiesr opponent to capital punishment
has been the King Of the Belglans.
Dried toadstools pushed into a bleeding
nostril will stop the hemorrhage. They are
also said to make excellent pipelighters.
"A New Haven physician who refused
to attend an urgent case an the ground that he
had a previous engagement has been fined $40.
-Four bottles of DR.. Koeh's lymph have
been seized because they were sent through
the mails as merchandise. They were worth
Natural gas is reported to nave been
discovered at Cleveland. in Yorkshire. England,
and the owners of the land refuse to sell at any
price.
"A Connecticut woman, aged 48 years,
died the other day of hydrophobia. the result
of a bite from q cat ON the foreinger of the
right hand.
"A young woman in Genessee county,
Mich, who had obtained $1,000 in a breach of
promise suit, has rewarded her chief witness
BY marrying him.
Sands Carpenter is a Port Huron char
acter, 90 years old. He supports himself on $50
year, and one of his eccentricities is to chew
tea as he would tobacco.
"A Scotch terrier is a regular dead head
on the West Shore Railroad, and will only ride
travelling and is well liked by railroad men.
Some thirsty people of S~teubsnvilre, o.,
got into q saloon-keeper's cellar, bored a hole
through the ceiling into a barrel of whisky,
took what they wanted, and allowed the rest to
go to waste.
In European countries before the Refor-
nation it was the custom to drink TO the health
of the Pope-"Aub bon pere-to the good father"
This French expression has been corrupted
into bumper.
lin these days of so many alleged cures
for consumption, oysters are commended and
are given to consumptive patients because they
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mon in the South.
The weather in Paris during January
was SO severe that the flower market was sus-
pended. One florist lost 10O. 900 rose bushes,
an the total loss to rose growers is estimated
at 1000 goo francs.
Scarcely a train passes through Ash
land. Ore, for the North without having from
one to three carloads of fruit attached to it.
The fruit consists almost wholly of oranges and
lemons at this time.
An Oregon man claims to have a hen
that has established a nest in the center of his
flower garden. in the most conspicuous part of
his front yard and deposits an egg regularly
every day except Sunday.
A colored man at Coushatta, Louisi-
ana, charged with disturbing the peace, went
into court. pleaded not guilty, declined to en-
ploy counsel. asked for trial by jury, conducted
his own case and was acquitted.
in England, in the seventeenth GEN.
tury, there was a renowned hangman, named
Derrick. who erected gibbets and attended exc
cutions by hanging. Hence a machine with
ropes for hosting took his name.
A relic of Marshal Ney, Napoleon's
famous general. in the shape of a brass bound.
rosewood jewel or toilet box, is IN the posses
sion of a Lancaster druggist. Its history is
said to have been automatically established.
"A DOA dllcScu " COuLdlu DOOkS, S.lu du-
dressed to a minister of the gospel in Montana,
was examined by custom inspectors. and found
to contain So pounds of opium, valued at over
el,400. The reverend smuggler has not claimed
his goods.
"A special kind of paper has been in
vented, which, it is alleged, is absolutely i'm
pervious to water. and will even stand boiling.
The waterproohng can be carried out cithor
after the paper is made or during sho operation
OF maklng:it.
Swallows in dry. clear weather fly high
because the insects which form their food are
high in the air during such weather. When
the weather is cloudy and damp the insects set
tie nearer the earth. and the swallows of
course follow them
Electricity has found use in the stable
in a new idea for grooming horses. The power
furnished by an electric motor is taken by a
flexible tube to a brush that r~evolves rapidly.
With this brush a man can groom a horse bet
ter in five minutes than in a much longer time
by hand.
In Warrensburg, Mo-, lives a lightning
calculator who has done. in three hours, work
that would have taken SIX ordinary accountants
six days. He can also, at any period of the day
or night. give the exact meridian time in hours,
minutes and seconds, though he cannot tell
time by looking at a watch or clock
The oldest newspaper in the world is the
Ktng-Pau. or Capital Sheet" published in
Pekin. China. The paper was first printed in
Gil A. D., but for many years was issued only
at irregular intervals. Since the year 1851,
i5 has been published weekly and of
uniform size. During the present century, and
perhaps longer, it issued a daily edition, pub
lished about noon and selling for 2kesh, or
something less than l cent
During the year 1889 the mines Of
Georgia produced gold to the amount of s1O7,-
sos "a, contributed by the following counties:
Carroll. s314 81; Cherokee, s14. 645 so: Dawson.
sl.Z1 IS: Forsyth, sl29 So; Habersham. 1895 90;
Hall, $3.50; Lumpkin, S42,2 46 "a: McDufie. So
56S 90; Meriwether. S1,33 Al; Rabun. sL.040 vs.;
Warren, $50 A; White 26,273 20; Wilkes. SOS 81;
miscellaneous. SIS, 2S5 08. The product of gold
in 1883 was SlO4. 500. thereby making the increase
of 1889 over 1885, S3,045 "a
The introduction o. the electric light
caused a great sensation in Jerusalem. 1t is
used in a large -four mill adjoining the sup
posed site of Calvary and close to the Damas-
Gus gate. II the Arabs and Hebrews were filled
with wonder by the flaming gas Jets in 1887.
they are COMPOUNDED when they see the light Of
electricity in 1891. Many of them are so
alarmed that they hardly dare to look at 1t,
and the Mohammedans call upon the prophet
for safety. They ask what 1t is, where IL comes
from and how the magicians make 1t. When
told that ir is the same thing as lightning, they
become still more mystitied, ask how it can be
caught or held, and take care to keep at q re-
s~pectful distance from it.