Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Germany has 1886 military bands.


The great St. Paul's Cathedral, in Lon
don, was built from taxes levied on coal.
Next to pork, the banana Is said to be
the most indigestible thing person can eat.
More than $4,000 persons have been
divorced in the State of Connections since
1890
If London streets were put end to end
they would reach from that city to st.
Petersburg.
The revenue collected from last years.
ascents to the top of the Eiffel Tower
amounted to sll5,0O0.
Portsmouth, n. H., bears the proud
distinction as the place where the first
newspaper was established in this country.
This was in 1756.
Above the length of 10 or 20 feet,
snak es in the Philippine Islands increase
greatly in bulk for every foot in length, 80
that snake 10 feet long looks small beside
one % feet long.
1t is estimated that 800, 900 theater
tickets are issued in the country every week
at 80 cents each. The total sum expended
every year for this form Of amusemens
would amount to s91. 900 900.
The greatest enemy of suburban tells
phone and telegraph poles is tho wood
pecker, whose search for the numerous in
sects which inhabit the wood often leaves
the pole literally honeycombed.
"A Dakota clergyman has sent out an
advertisements which reads rs follows: "Re-
ligious doubts and difficulties answered by
private letter. State your difficulty clearly
and inclose one dollar for reply"
"A small cabinet containing an alarm
clock, O three candle power lamp, a medical
coil and gas lighter, all operated by cleo
.;nfk FxNr, fOrrr. Nf drr- hat
among the novelties recently devised.
In order to keep sea porgies through
the summer, the fishermen of Rhode Island
schools are led mp into salt water ponds and
the channels connecting with the ocean are
closed.
"A restaurant keeper of Chica go was re-
Gently committed to an asylum for the in
sane, being crazed from subsfsting almost
entirely npon coffee. During the past three
years he has scarcely tasted any kind OF
solid food.
While capturing large gar in a river
near Velasco, Tex, recently, a fisherman be-
came entangled in his line and was dragged
from his skif by the fish and nearly drowned.
Help arriving he was rescued and the gar
landed. 1t weighed 152 pounds.
I'm one of the Comstock mines new
water wheel Is to be placed which is to run
]. 1.15O revolutions minute, and have a speed
at its periphery of 1O,s05 feet per minute.
A greater head of water than has ever be-
lore been applied to n wheel will be used.
In Beatrice (Neb.) court the other
day a william Trues. Iale was granted an alb
solute divorce from his wife Amelia, on tho
ground that "she was an incorrigible gossip
whose tale-telling propenSities rencered life
with her unbearable." Truesdale AYERS that
in the three years he has lived with his wife
she has tod 10000 lies.
"A strange case of insanity has recently
come to light at Ballston. The unfortunate
person is Charles II. Morris, 80 years of age
and an expert accountant. He has for s
long time been known rs man Of many &c
centricities. 1t is thought that constant
joking and teasing have been n potent factor
in impairing his mental faculties.
A mysterious singer among the nuns
the Church of SAINT Anna in Rome has latel,
attracted an enormous crowd to the ser
vices, such was the beauty of her voice anC
style. One evening recently the congrega
tion was seized with such enthusiasm tina
it burst into applause and cries of "Vivan' sc
that the police had to intervene and clea
the edifice.
In many out-of-the-way places it hs
been found necessary to manufacture nitro
glycerine on the spot in order to avoid th,
very high rates charged by transportation
methods of ma king this explosive that, with
ordinary nrecaution. thorough washing. ant
careful watching of the various changeso
color. It can be made without fear Of seriou
accident.
1t has been discovered recently in Eng
land that the same wire can be used sfmu'
taneously for telegrnphing and teIephonfns
The discovery has been utilized on tn
Great Western Railways line betwee,
Southall and Brentford, distance OF 81
miles and IL is said that the faintest tele
phonic sounds are distinctly heard eve
when the telegraphic message is tickiIa
over the wi;e-
More than 20, 900 persons visited Shaker
peare's birthplace last year. Three-fourth
Of them inscribed their names in the visit
ors' book, and of these 9.549 were Brftis
subjects and more than half as many.
53Sa Americans. 1t is strange to observ
that only 81 Germans are numbered anon
the visitors for Germany buys more copie
of Shakespeare's works every year tina
probably any other nation.
"A stockman of Peoria, ILL.,, recently r
turned from a trip to Mexico, bringing wit
him a rripsack full of horned toads- On tn
morning of his arrival he went 70 his hotc
where he occupied a room with his busfnes
mariner, and found the latter fntox1cate
and sound asleep. He emitted the bagfu
on his partners bed and also filled hi
rockets. When the sleeper awoke he go
down on his knees and took an oath neve
to drink intoxicnnts again.
One of the exploits of Sullivan, q prt
fessional "strong man" in London, IS to Iii
with rope held in his teeth a young ell,
pbant Weighing over 1,s00 pounds. Anothe
is to attach n chain to q 56 pound weigh
and with the end of the chain in his mOufl
whfrl rapidly around Until the chain
sumes an almost horizontal line. This res
makes the spectators on the ground fiot
shudder lest a link of the chain should pal
or his teeth should relax their hold.
In village on Long Island, n. Y, IL
woman who has not been out of bed for
wears, not from any infirmity, but becau'
she never received proposal of marriag
She told her mother, who fs long since dea'
two months before her 10Th birthday that
she did not receive an offer of marriage d.
fore her birthday she would go TO bed an
remain there as long as she lived. Her ha
is now erav and her skin very sallow, Dt
one can easily see that she was once pea
ti:ul girl.
"A student from the Cincinnati Un
versfty recently visited farm, and one da
when the farmer started to get some your
potatoes, took the basket from the latter
hand and said he would get them. HAN
hour later he came back with an empl
basket. saying that he had hunted All ovt
the patch and could find nothing but bio
SONS The student was much surprise
when the farmer took the hoe ana De2a
DIGGING the potatoes out OF the ground, an
he said he thought they grew on the vine
BUDGET OF HUMOR.
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