Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| - I'm Buffalo one line of street railway
crosses 81 railroad tracks in its course.
| "A letter recently went from Atehison,
Kan, to Brussels in Belgium in ten days
-Forty-eight stage coaches carrying the
United States mails were held up last year
| "A hole one-one thousandth of an inch
| in dianeter can now be bored through dia-
mond, sapphire or a ruby.
1t is the Roumanian practice to plant
| flower on tie wall of every cottage in which
maiden lives. When she marries the
| flower is effaced.
The new census of the Penobscot Indian
tribe shows the tribe to number 1856, gain
of nine during the year. They raised $500
bushels of potatoes in 1891.
The noted Australian Tyre bird is threat
ened with total extinction. In single fort
night one agent alone imported 1000 of their
tails into the United States.
Several kinds of rhinoceros in Africa
have two horns one behind the other, but
! the extinct rhinoceros. known as the dycer-
atherium, had a pair of horns on his nose
side by side.
The severity of the recent drought in
Maine may be realized when it is stated that
| for several days a Machias farmer was
obliged to give his cattle cider to drink, no
water being obtainable.
"A late census of the city of Lima, Peru,
shows it to have "A population of 1856, OF
which 40 $50 are males and 81 105 are females:
| 7O,96l of the inhabitants can read, and 81, 955
| can neither read nor write.
"A petrifed green" pine limb was
found recently by Georgia man near Buena
VISTA 1.-THE limb is perfect, showing where
the StrawS made indentatlonS and the grain
of the wood 1t is somewhat white, and re-
sembles coral wreath"
London is rather slow in adopting ini-
provements. 1t is only recently that extern
sive use has been made of the telephone.
The City Council is now considering the in
PRODUCTION of the police patrol wagon so
well known in great American cities.
Boise City, Idaho, is developing and
building up a strong opposition boom to
Sioux Falls South Dakota in the divorce
business. When the courts opened in the
former city last week there were over twenty
divorce cases on the calendar OF the District
Court.
Last month rain fell on 25 DAYS in Ore
gon. The heaviest rainfall heretofore re-
corded in Portland was 20 II inches, in De-
cember, 1882 but last months dampness
broke the record On an average rain falls
1s days in the month of December in
Oregon.
"A writer in German paper gives the
following the proper temperatures for
different sorts of beverages: Water, $40;
seltzeT water and beer. 80 to 6Oo: red wine,
62o to $50: white wine, 60o: champagne, 46o TO
5Oo; coffee, 73o to 1872; beef tea. 1902 to 125o;
milk, 6Oo to $40; hot milk, 93o to 95o.
The conductors of all the street cars,
omnibuses and other vehicles for public ac-
commodation in Warsaw, in that part OF the
city between Novaya Praga and the suburb
OF Brudno, are women, and fulfill their
duties more accurately and to the better
satisfaction of the public than men.
The first people known to have domes-
ticated cats were the ancient Egyptians, on
whose monuments representations are
found as early 1900 B. c. 1t is on tomb
erected about 1900 b. C. that puss first ap-
pears Enthusiastically as q domestieated
creature, being shown seated beneath a
chair.
"A short time ago boy baby was born
in Salt Lake City who had a birthmark of a
blood-red blotch Immediately over its heart.
The mark was exactly like bullet wound
which killed a brother of the child's mother.
Charless Wanless by name, Overa year be-
fore the child was born, which the mother
had seen.
The labor statistics of Colorado show
that 1924 persons are employed in the
industries of that State who last year earned
ST., 763 So, or an average of about g per
day. The majority of the female wage work
ers earn less than 81 per week The aggre-
gate value of the manufactured product was
,S54 80.
cyclones and tornadoes are both wind
storms with more or less rain, and they
both whirl: otherwise they are very unlike.
The cyclone is from 200 LJOO miles across,
is generally born at sch. does most of it's work
tnere,a and lasts several days. sometimes even
weeks, before dying out. The tornado is
land storm, measuring only 81 few hundred
feet in diameter The whole thing can be
discerned at a glance.
The passion Play" is to be performed
by redskins at great gathering of Chris
tian Canadian Indians in KamlOops, B. c..
next June. The Rev. Father Lacombe is
organizing the meeting, and it is expected
that some 900 Christian Indians from vari-
Gus parts of British Columbia and many
pagan reds will be in attendance. The
ssPassion Play" is TO be but an incident of
the gathering and not its main feature
1t is very easy to secure a divorce in
Idaho and, as a local paper remarks,
"people in adjoining States are beginning
to appreciate the fact" Six months consti-
tutes legal residence, and some county
seats in the State are so remote and secluded
that actions are never heard of until after
they are decided. 1t is as easy to tie as to
unite the matrimonial knot in Idaho. No
license is required and few questions are
asked.
"A missionary who has arrived on the
coast from the interior of Africa says that
one OF the europeans WHO LOCh pdTG IN tn0
disastrous battle between the Zare8sky
expedition and the Wahehe natives, is now
a prisoner in the hands of the Wahehe.
Scattered through Africa are white men who
are IN bondage or have voluntarily taken up
their residence there. DIR. NachtigaPS
servant is an example. He deserted his
master in the SOudan, and ~ last accounts
he was living near Lake Tchad, the only
white man in that part or Africa.
On the land of David Gowan, in ''Tonto
Basin,'' in the northern part of Gila county,
Arfz is q natural bridge that should be
placed on the list of champion wonders. Be-
tween the rock walls more than 700 feet high
it spans cavern 200 feet wide in single
arch The width is 600 feet, and the average
thickness of the arch is 40 feet, though in
one place near the top it is scarcely six feet
thick Here, through circular hole, may
be seen the waters dashing along so far
below. From the numerous caves and cav
erns in the vicinity, in which abound beau
tiful stalactites and stalagmites, it has been
suggested that the now open canon was once
a subterranean passage and that the natural
bridge is the last remains of the roof that
once covered the entire passage. The rock
is limestone.