Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

dead but II
There are still "A different places on this
| globe where cannibaIism is practiced but the
custom is gradually dying out.
kansas City's Chief OF Police is looking
| for an embezzler who is only Is years old, feet
| inches tall, and weighs 100 pounds
| Experiment tends to show that the edges
/ of the flame of a petroleum lamp give from 81
to 80 per cent less light than the fat surface.
| When cast and malleable iron are used
In the same structure galvanic action is set uo
between them, and the malleabls iron is cor.
| roded-
"A Racine, Wis, woman has been ex-
| pelled from church because she went to sleep
| during the sermon, snored and made faces at
the pastor.
"A turnip measuring four feet in cir
cnmferencs and weighing so pounds is on ex-
Der of Commerce.
The Poncho Springs in Colorado are all
| on the side of a mountain and hot and cold
water flows from the ground in places not
more than three inches apart
Among the ''arts" taught by lady in
| Cincinnati is that Of "bsing able to shed tears
whenever occasion requires-a most powerful
weapon In the hands OF any female"
Virus taken from hares is being expert
mented with in France, and thus far it has
been found to work equally well for the pur-
poses OF vaccination as virus taken from calves.
Cork covering for steam pipes has
| proved very successful in England, and In some
cases IL has been found to make difference of
loo0 to lA0 from the temperature of uncovered
pipes.
During fire in Chicago, a few nights
ago. man who lived next door to the burning
| building. was awakened by the clamor, and he
| and his wife ran hastily into the streer-ha
bringing a cat with him, and his wife leading a
| dog.
Nearly 80, 900 violent or sudden deaths
occur every year in England calling for In
quests twice as many as the number of Ger
mans killed IN the Franco-German war: and for
| every violent death there are at least 50 acci-
| dents.
The effect which living at high attitudes
has on the blood of animals has been recently
Investigated. and the results show that the pro.
portion OF oxygen in the blood of men and ami
mails acclimatized there was the same as thar Of
dwellers at lower levels.
"A Nevada girl has such monstrously big
feet that she was secured for a dime museum
circuit, intended to advertise that she was from
Chicago This coming to the notice of several
Chicago heiresses, they formed syndicate
and paid her 81 900 to announce ST. Louis as her
base of supplies.
"A man in Milwaukee saw woman fall
down. and he helped her up and spoke words of
consolation and she sent him deed of a 5000
house. man in Peoria did the very same
thing, and the woman yelled for her husband,
who was near by, and he came running up and
broke the CONSIDERS nose.
Persons sitting by a coal or wood fire
are aware of a sharp cracking sound as the
coal ana wood ignite, but few know the reason
for it. gentleman of a scientific turn of
mind explains that 1t is due to the air or liquid
contained in the pores expanding by heat and
bursting the covering in which it is confined.
"A new device is used by travelling men
for the name strap on their valises A card
bearing their name and address Is slipped into
the leather card pocket in the usual way but
now In addition piece of-mica Is slipped in on
top of the card. keeping it neat and clean, and
at the same time permitting it being read by
reason Of its transparency.
"A new discovery was made in the
famous Wind Cave of the Black Hills last week
bywhich openings were found that took a
seven hours tramp to one of the subtsrranean
chambers and return. This cave il SURPRISING
the famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky in
magnitude, and will be principal object Of at
traction to visitors of the Black Hills.
There was lively scrapping match be-
tween two Indiana lightweights the other
night. and when the victor returned to his
home in Seymour, puffed up over his victory
and 500 in his pocket, his mother realized that
his egotism might prove his downfall IL not
nipped in the bud She therefore squared of
and broke his jaw and knocked him out in the
second round.
In certain parts of Africa crickets are
said to constitute an article of commerce.
People rear them, feed them in confinement
and sell them. The natives are very fond Of
their music, thinking that 1t induces sleep.
Superstitions regarding the cricksts chirp are
very varied. Some believe that it is onlinous
Of sorrow and evil. while others consider it to
be harbinger Of Joy.
AN Egyptian scytbe recently unearthed
Is exhibited among the antiquities in the pri-
vate museum of Flinders Petrle in London.
The shaft of the instrument is wood, support
ing row Of flint saws, which are securely ce-
mented into 1t. This discovery will set at rest
the speculations which have been made as to
how the crops of the land were gathered in the
flint and early copper age.
There is truly most remarkable case
of marriage and death reported from Nova
Scotia. A groom and his blushing bride
stood up before a minister to be mar
ried, when the groom fell tn the ground a
corpse. Heart disease was the cause. The
local paDer saws that the groom's father and
grandfather died in the same manner and az
the same period Of the marriage ceremony.
"A law suit at Chicago involved the re-
covery of q cent and the expenditure of s4OO in
court and counsel fees. The postmaster sold
postage stamp to an Englishman, who, after
placing it on letter. rendered a Canadian
penny as part payment. An argument fol-
lowed, then q row and then an appeal to the
courts. Eventually the postmaster got judg-
ment and genuine unadulterated United
States cent.
The biggest insect of its kind in the
world is the Hercules beetle of South America,
which grows to be six inches in length. 1t lis
said whether truthfully or not, that great
on the mammal tree, rasping the rind from
the slender branches by working around them
with their horns until they cause the Juice to
how. This juice they drink to intoxication,
and thus fall senseless to the ground.
Mexico, No., has a man whose beard is
so stiff and stout that he shaves with wire
pincers; carpenter who sacrifices his dinner
every day to play billiards: young man whs
wiIted in the registers Office and sneaked out
without securing the coveted license; woman
who gets up in the morning and builds the IRE
while the husband spanks the baby, and col
lege graduate who has not read paper for 20
years. save only when one was given to him
The women of Fort Scott, Kan, have
sign and token. Just after they had COM
pleted the nomination for Mayor at the opera
house, . rooster that was part of the "Cold
Day" company's properties. hearing the ap-
plause and supposing the show was going on,
came out OF his coop and strutted down TO the
and Tapping his wings, croued
Justify. The ladies encored the performance,
and the rooster bowed his Acknowledgements
and crowed again. The ladies regard this as 0
sure sign that their candidate Is going to win.
CLIPPED CACHINNATIONS.