Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Algeria furnishes the best cork.

| Chicago has the biggest creamery.
In New York City there are 300 Armen.
ian voters.
The camelia is q Chinese plant and
| emigrated in 1911.
The partisan was the last form of the
lance preceding the bayones.
The cotton crop of 1929 was 87O,A5
bales: of 1891 was s,655,5lS bales
One half of the wealth of England is
in possession of 1000 individuals.
About 100 iron mines are at present in
operation in the Lake Superior districts
The library of Congress is the largest
| in the United States, containing $4,000 vol
umes.
The Mikado of japan rules over 40
OOO 900 subjects who live in Is, 900 villages and
| towns.
| New Zealand has set apart two islands
! for the preservation of wild birds and other
animals.
The tournet de nez, which concealed all
| the lower part of the face, succeeded the
| masks in 1850
1t is said that the weeping willows Of
| America all sprung from slip sent over by
| Alexander Pope from England.
-Ox-tail soup was invented by French
were
| given for food only the tails and refuse.
The surprise pie, in old England, con-
| tanned dozen live frogs, that Ieaped over
| the table when the cover WAS removed.
japanese children are taught to use the
left hand as much as the right, and some.
times acquire remarkable degree of ambi.
dexterity.
"A new variety of wheat, the grains of
which are almost twice as large as the ordi-
nary kernels, has been grown this season
neat Moscow, Wash.
In Paris the other day a man nearly
died of the "hiccups.' He had them for 4s
hours at halfminute intervals. He was
cured at last by hypnotism.
Seven hundred fine Durham cattle have
been shipped to England for Christmas beef
by n Kentucky cattle dealer, part of which,
he says. is for Queen Victoria.
The name of the first famous man dress
maker in Paris is said to have been Rhom-
berg. He WAS believed to have been the son
OF poor Bavarian peasant who lived in
Munich.
1t has been said in explanation of the
colors of the United States flag that "red is
supposed to represent courage white integ-
rity Of purpose and blue steadfastness, love
and faith"
-"Uncle Abe" Roe, who lives near
/ Farmland, Ind, is said to have killed $50
deer during his lifetime. He says that when
the one-thouSandth mark Is reached he will
stop hunting.
Elk hunters in Western Washington
are SO insatiate in thefr greed for antlers
and skins that the determination of the elk
in the forests of that section of the State is
greatly feared.
The glow-worm lays eggs which, it is
said, are themselves luminous; however, the
young hatched from them are not possessed
of those peculiar properties until after the
first transformation.
The largest volcano in the world is at
Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands. The
crater is 20 miles in diameter and the stream
of lava flowing from it is so miles long and
in places iour miles wide.
During the reign of Henry I'LL OF
Franco the doublets of men and bodices Of
the women were so eXtravagant that con.
temporary declared the former looked like
bees the latter like wasps.
1t is stated that a number of fine hotels
have been erected during the present year
that have omitted the number l3 in number
ing the room. Many hotels long in operation
also have this peculiar omission.
-"Pledging a health" is a Saxon me-
mento. The drinking horn had to be raised
in both hands, ana the drinkers pledge
stood beside him with sword drawn in order
that no one should stab him while drinking.
The list of the sold English dramat-
lists" comprises the names of Marlowe.
Shakespeare, Jonson. Beaumont and
Fletcher Chapman, Decker, Webster, Mars
ton, Massinger, Ford, Haywood and Shirley.
-Gainsville, Fla, boasts of a fully de-
veloped ear of corn which contains 7S0
grains. The ear of corn has, it is said, four
smaller ears attached, of new growth, which
contain 400 grains, making in all q total Of
l,lS0 grains.
The Marquis de Cussy, political gour-
mand. said that nations should be judged by
their viands: that the commercial instincts
of the English were due te beef, the phfloso-
ply OF Germany was born of sauer kraut,
and Mohammedanism sprang from pilau.
Since the Belgian Government has
absorbed the telephone business, life has
taken a serious aspect to the telephone
girl All operators are required to pass an
examination in English, French, German
and Flemish, and be able to draw q map OF
Europe.
1t may be of interest to the supporters
of the early closing movement to know that,
according to a little pamphlet issued for the
guidance OF commercial travellers, 632 towns
in the United Kingdom recognize the early
closing movement in some form or another.
There is no early closing day in Liverpool.
In Manchester they close on Wednesdays at
tao. Glasgow is marked as town where
they close daily at 8.
There are twenty well-built towns in
Kansas without single inhabitant to wa
ken the echo of their deserted streets. Sar-
atoga has II $50, 900 opera house, a large brick
hotel a $4,000 school house, and large
number OF fine business houses, yet there is
nobody to even claim place to sleep. At
Fargo a s20.000 school house stands on tho
side of the hill a monument to the booming
craze.
"A Zulu chief, when you enter his howell,
remains silent for some moments, and seems
quite unconscious of your presence. At
length he says, in tone of grave dignity,
"Ge saku bona" II see you). to which you
reply in the same way. The longer he takes
to ''see you" the greater man you are sup.
posed TO be: and until you are thus "seen"
you must keep silence, and appear as much
as possible not to be there ut all.
The common daphne grown in flower
gardens is one of the most deadly poisons
known to the botanist. Three or four OF tho
berries will kill q man as quickly as strych-
nine and one has been known to kill child
in half an hour There are numerous flow.
ering plants which are perfectly harmless
both in leaf, flower and seed, and so long as
these can be readily obtained there is no eI.
cuse for florist allowing such q plant IS
the daphne TO grow on his premises.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.