Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
. Spiders have eight eyes.

Spiders have eight eyes
| Music type was invented in 1902
In the British army 10000 men hav
good conduct badges.
The longest floating dock in the worl
is at Bermuda. 1t Is 3S1 feet long and l23 fec
| ia breadth.
"A curious industry in Paris is that
selling toads to gardeners, to be used as IL
| sect destroyers.
AN attempt was lately made to cult
vate oysters in the Baltic. Last summe
| $4,000 were transplanted from the North Sci
put the experiment. has proved failure.
Ducks fly at a speed of 80 miles al
nour, and with the wind, when it is brisb
they have been known to attain a rate
Veloclty OF two miles and half minute.
"A redbird died at the advanced age
% years in GAINESVILLE, O., the other day. I
had become so feeble that it could not noun
ago.
-Mlcroscopists who recently showed tha
urop of milk contained severnl millioi
aaninhalcGle, a now announce another cheerfu
,.., ace, tney say that u mosquito has 2
IeeIh In the end of its bill.
"A Congressman estimates that in thre
years tne pension list of this country will b
To.VCVWU sTa ms is but s16,OOO.OO0 less thar
Ine coinDlhed cost of the armies of Grea
Britain, France and Germany.
"A discovery of g,eat imnortance =,
South Africa is stone eanable of hein,
burned into a natural cement of o,,od 1roi
ity. The deposit covers ,006 acres sn1
varies in thickness from 10 feet TO n feet
The death of James Gondie, who mil,
and designed the first steamer to cross b.
Atlantic by the aid of steam only, was lateI
announced. Tho vessel sailed from P.cton
Nova Scotia, to Grnvesend, England, in l53:
1t is considered unlucky by many 70
any of the wedding guests to be dressed
green or black-a black Grape bonnet or
band on gentleman's hat. These accident
ontatl lifelong misery to the newly-marrTe
couple.
-"Oxford county, Me-, turns out nearl
all of the spools on which the thread of til
country is wound" said q wholesale motion
dealer. "The spools are made from whit
birch timber, and they are produced by tn
million"
The eggs of the alligator are eaten il
the West India Islands and on the Yves
Coast of Africa. They resemble in shape
hons egg, but are larger and have much th,
same taste. More than 100 eggs have beel
found in one alligator.
AT Gilbreath, n. c., the other day,
when the lightning struck it. The bolt en-
tered the boys coat at the neck and wen
down hisspine, making q blister all the way
He not only survived the stroke, but will re
cover from the effects OF 1t.
1t cost the State of Ohio over s, 900 t
secure the conviction of Will }. Elliott, th
Columbus murderer; IS 1911 for the convit
tion of Van Loon, and So O25 for that of Pats
Elliott. Allowing these to be lair sample.
tie average cost of convicting murderer
Ohio Is something over S. 900.
The latest fad in the line of collectin,
is the collecting of eolored posters-the bill
with which the enterprising poster adorn
boards and fences and dead-walls abou
town. In France aud in several of the Gel
man cities this new mania has taken q dec
! hold and Is spreading rapidly.
"A cable measuring %, O2O feet was man
ufactured last week i'll 81 hours by the Cali
fornia Wire Works for II street cable roa,
i'll San Francisco, and on Friday it wa
drawn through the streets by 50 horse
mounted by Is riders to the power hous
where it was placed in position.
In Paris, in Vienna, in Berlin, til
small house or hotel is the luxury of th
wealthy, and the great bulk of the popula
tion live in flats In St. Petersburg, til
most modern OF European cities, ali th
houses are flats. The modern Italian II
Rome lives, as the ancient Roman did, in
fiat.
- The other day playbill posted il
Cambridge, Mass, announced a dramatic el
hibition with the words: "It is to be TIL
event OF the season, and It is to have th
strongest cast ever presented in Cambridge.
Then followed list of eminent Cambridg
citizens. The bill was accidentally poste'
over Il call for meeting in 1nvor of publ
parks. .~.
The diving apparatus is one of th
latest objects to which the telephone ha
been applied. A sheet of copper is used i
place of one of the glasses in the helmet an,
to this q telephone is fixed, SD that the diveI
when at the bottom of the sea, has only Z
slightly turn his head i'll order to repot
what he sees, or to receive instructions froI
above.
"A servant girl "union" has bee
formed in Chicago, and housewives are di
mayed at the prospect. And well they ma
be, since the demand for domestic labor
mu CHI greater than the supply in that citJ
and the union" is demanding 81 Il week 10
the humblest of it's members. Moreover,
special rate of $40 week is to be mad
during the time of the Worlds Fair.
Probably the oldest man on earth is the
Spaniard living in Mexico. who has reached
tie remarkable age OF Isl. The priest of thu
church which he attends says that the Span
lard was an old man when he (the priest
was but an acolyte. The papers which tn,
old man carries to prove his assertion ar
the copies of a church register in Valladolid
Spain, showing his date of birth and bar
tiSm.
The custom of placing Grape on the doc
of house where there has been u recen
death had its origin in the ancient Englisl
heraldic customs, and dates as far back, a
least, rs the year 100 A. d. At that perioi
Indictments or armorial enSi9nS were place,
I'm front OF houses when the nobility am
gentry died. These Indictments were o
diamond shape and contained the fami
armsquartered and colored with sable.
A musical watch about the size of al
egg Is now exhibited in st. Peter sburg which
performs a religious chant with scenic ac
compartments. Within is a representation
of Christ with the Roman sentinels. Oh
pressing a spring the stone rolls from tn
tomb, the sentinelS fall down, the angels ap
pear, and the holy women enter the sepul
chre, and the same chant which is sung IL
the Greek Church on Easter Eve is actuall.
performed. The atch was made by an in
genious Russian peasant during the reign o
Catherine of Russia.