Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

EUROPE.
There are nearly $1,000 Germans
Kansas, Notwithstanding that prohibitic
has driven all of them out of the State.
The material for an az head has to !
heated five times and pass through the hant
of 40 workmen before it is in proper shape.
There are 629, 9S7 persons who go md
the name of Muller in Germany. In 9th
words, there is one Muller to every 70 &c
mans.
"A Philadelphian has educated hou,
ny to respond to n prolonged "buz-z-z
which brings it from It's Granny any time I,
day for its supply Of sugar.
German railway directors are exper
menting with rails made of paper, which al
said to be as superior to steel rails as papt
car wheels are to those of iron.
AT Marshall, Mo-, rat has made up wi
a litter or kittens and comes TO play wit
them every day, but it is without the know
edge and consent of the kittens mother.
In Burmah 1t is a rather suspicion
thing to give money for charitable objeC
1t Is supposed to mean that the donor h:
Deen very wicked and is desirous to NAL
amends.
line Chlnee makes great account of h
bed, which is very low indeed-scarcely II
ing from the fioor-but is often carved
quisitely of wood: but it never occurs to hi
to make it any softer than the rush mats W
render it.
Beaver are plentiful in places alor
Center Creek, a stream in Jasper county, NJ
local newspaper which has studied &
habits of the beaver says that the amin
cuts down trees with his teeth, and not b
tail, as many people suppose.
,noraHo11
Frankfort. Germany, for using Bible qu
tation to head an advertisement. The Ne
York Nail and Express man ought to hu
that merchant up and pay his fine az
penalty for the bad example he daily sets.
While the people of the northern cou
tries cannot sleep unless they have plenty
room to stretch out their legs, the 1nhaDi
ants of the tropics often curl themselves
like monkeys at the lower angle of q su
pended hammock and sleep soundly in th:
position.
The famous ''sunken bridge" in Matt
wamkeag, Me-, is again being repaired. 1t
built over bog which is said to be bottoI
less. However this may be, it is q fact tn:
bridge after bridge has been built over
each one of which, alter q time, has sur
out OF sight.
Professor Lors, the Greek rifle shot,
attracting much attention by his feat
shooting glass ball from his own hea
The trick is performed by shooting at IL
trigger of rifle held in frame, with I'll
muzzle sighted at glass ball dangling by
string directly over the marksman's head.
I'm the recess of an old tree somebot
recently came across the apparently muI
mified body of n large gray cat. 1t appeart
to have been quite flattened by some
ri flnr0r
agonies, the poor animal had driven i
powerful eye-teeth quite through thick aI
solid branch of wood.
There is a usage, general in Franc
that bread before being cut must be markt
with the sign of the cross. The neglect
SO marking the bread is supposed to involy
misfortune. In Lille, to step on bread is
blameworthy act. 1t Is a common supers'
tion that the falling OF piece of bread
the buttered side is fatal to luck.
The value of the words "not tran
ferable." usually printed upon season tic
cts, has been tested in an English court, an
it has been decided to be unimpeachable.
lady loaned two of her servants a couple
season tickets to the Crystal Palace. The
were suspected and questioned, and the fl
imposed by the Court amounted in all
about Sis.
The buttresses of ''Trajan's Bridge.
which are still to be seen on the Danube, a
the remains of what was, in some respect
the most remarkable structure ever erect,
by man. 1t was not q mere floating brid;
of large boats and massive timbers, but WI
a permanent structure carried on piers
feet high and 60 feet wide, comprising
arches, extending altogether 4,470 Romf
feet.
AN expert who claims to "speak wher
of he knows asserts that wine is goC
investment, taking the chances of tIiys
mobs and earthquakes and a revolutiC
in public opinion all over the world
good port of 1915 sold in 1859 for sl75 p
dozen. Tokay laid down in lsOO sold in II
for $50 per dozen, and that must be cons.
cred as paying a fair interest on their &C
and keep.
A Steubenville, O., man had cat q,
two kittens which he thought great O
Of The other day he found the cat in d
perate battle with a large blacksnake whi
had killed the two kittens. The cat
holding the snake at bay and had inflicte
several scratches on the snake, when I'll
man arrived. The snake sprang ut him an
buried its fangs in his wrist before he coul
kill it. The reptile WAS nearly seven fet
long.
-Marius was the first Roman to wear
gold ring, and no one, unless lie had been o
Ambassador, could wear one except on stat
occasions Gradually the ring came to !
the badge of knighthOod, and finally all
strIctions as to its being worn were ca
aside and the ring was adopted generally
an ornament. The Roman dudes final
became so enamoured of their rings thi
they put one on every joint of both hand
Then they had "weekly" rings and Summt
and winter rings, and some never wore ii
same ring twice.
While gathering flowers in the wood
a farmer recently stirred up snak
which he attempted to kill with
stone. Contact of the stone with 81
snakes body gave back a METAL
sound, and thereupon he hammered the re
tile upon the head until it was dead. !
then discovered that two-thirds OF Il
snakes body was encased in section
gas pipe one inch in diameter. Whether Il
snake had crawled into the pipe whe
J oung and grown fast, or was wearing 1t it
9 self-protectiOn, is conundrum.
From Albany, n. Y, comes the stor
that in July, 1888, the hunko artist, job
Price, now serving a l9-year sentence
Dannemora. slipped up behind P. X. De
rick lust as lie left his carriage on the froI
Of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank ande.
tracted from the seat package containir
KS 900 in negotiable bonds. a few days az
the ponus were received by ex-D1strict A
toraey Hugh Reilly. The package was II
tact, and the accumulated interest MAKE
them worth about $4,000. There Is no Gle
rom whence they came except That the
we're cent from New York City. The M
tery lies in the TACT that they were returne
1 NIL as they were negotiable.