Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
There are 80 Roman Catholic peers

There are 32 Roman Catholic peers
London has 125,O0O male shop q
sistants.
"A cluster of Mayfowers was plucks
near Machias, Me-, on January 3d.
Plants grow faster between 4and 6iA.s
than at any other time during the day.
-One-sixth of the Postal Departmer
business in London is conducted by twomel
One of the scholars in a country schoo
at Grayson, Ky, is a Justice OF the Peace
aged A years.
The Emperor of Germany standstwtnt,
first in the direct line of succession to tb
British throne.
To open an oyster the force require
appears to be 1,3l915 times the weightof th
shelless creature. -1lT
The Germans prepare an excellent sui
stitute for tea from the leaves OF the coEamo
strawberry plant.
The War Department reports thu
there are S,567, $50 men in the United State
who are available for military duty.
"A pretty Sumner, Ill, school teacher
few days ago met, became engaged to an
married young man all within the spsce
an hour. "a.
"A mathematician has discovered that
bicyclist can travel Is miles over goodiroa
on his wheel with less exertion than he ca
walk three miles. 80
"A single bee, with all its industry
energy and innumerable journeys it has
perform, will not collect more than a tes
spoonful of honey in single season. 10
The Germans have various descriptiv
names for the grip. such as ''blitz-catarrh
lightning catarrhl, "schaafshusten" (shee
cOnObl fbr1a hno ior1'j
neber" fashionable fever), etc. i-0t
"A wealthy old man of Bordentown, N
Y, who has been paying 81 90 a week TO
board for many years, came to the conclI
sion that such extravaganza must ceas
and he has therefore got married.
The exterior of buildings is now cleane
in America by the sandblast instead of tn
hose. The front is covered with staging, an
the blast Is applied by system of pipes an
nozz!es carried by the workmen. 80
Three tons of steam coal represent
mans labor for period of 20 years, and on
square mile of seam of coal, having a dept
OF four feet only, represents as much wori
as l,000,o00 men can perform in 20 years.
According to the figures of Prof W.
McGee, it is only question of time vhe
the slow but never-cessing inroads of th
ocean will engulf many populous cities c
the Atlantic seaboard, and perhaps Who'll
States.
"A man who died in Cincinnati fe,
days ago, it is said, had not single har
substance in his body which would indicat
that he possessed such a thing as a bone
Even his skull "was of about the same cor
sistency as India rubber"
twenty-five acres of land are needed t.
sustain man on flesh meat: while The sam
amount of land under wheat feeds 42 people
under oats, SS people; under potatoes, India
corn and rice, 176 people, and under tn
plafntain, or bread fruit tree, over 500
people. I-
The custom of having court poet-on,
whose duty it is to write to order, as it 8er
is at present confined to Britain, anon,
civilized nations. In ancient times the Gus
tom was wellnigh universal. Every cour
had its poet and painter, as well as its dwar
and DuffoOn.
About 1887 horseshoe was found unde
the ice of the glacier Theodul, in sw1tzer
land, which LED biologists to the idea tina
this pass, 1922 meters high, was formerly no
imbedded in ice. This has been further cor
f1rmed by recent find OF coins bearing the
ikenesses of Augustus and Dioclesian.
"A remarkable evidence of the extent
the mice plague in Dumfriesshire, is that OF
one hill farm in the county, one man has
during the past five weeks, killed over g. 90
mice. A few weeks ago large numbers o
cats were imported. one farmer having oveJ
100, but they have been found of little or NJ
use.
Many savage tribes constantly use
without harm, the flesh of animals dlleG
with poisoned Weapons; and in recent IN
vestisations with animals killed by variou
poisonS. such as stry chnine, tartarised anti
monv and oserine, the flesh was found to b,
OF unimpaired flavor and to produce no il
effects. --i-'
AN infant loses from three to six ounce,
in weight during the first four to six days
by the seventh day it should have gained it
birth-weight; from that to the fifth month
ought to gain about five ounces per week
or about six drachms day; at the f1ftl
month it ought to have doubled its birth
weight, and in 16 months quadrupled it,
There have been several peculiar show
ers in the United States during the last quar-
ter of century; among others, a shower o
"uuiyering fleshr in Kentucky; a shower
edible mushrooms, in South Carolina;
shower of small seeds, in Statesburg, South
Carolina, in 1882; and shower of sulphur, IL
the Indian Territory. in the spring Of 1888.
The first pomade was made BY macerat-
ing oyer-ripe apples in grease. The Wort
came from pomum, an apple, because thess
were first used in the making of hair oint
ment. By and by, however, it was found
that the apple was useless IN the prepaSe
ton, and the grease was then employed
first alone, but was soon afterward perfumec
with the finest scents procurable. gs
"A wonderful example of patience in the
Chinese is afforded by consular reporf
dealing with the manufacture OF salt in
Central China. Holes about six inches in
diameter are bored in the rock by means OF
a primitive form of iron drill, and some
times period of 40 years elapses before the
coveted brine is reached, so that the work
fr.Nrr Nrnn aTsnkf fnrrN
another. 71
While the Hytopagi of Ethiopia are
said to have had the power of jumping from
tree to tree, there exists people who never
saw tree, shrub or leaf. This peculiar race
was discovered by Sir John Ross, in latitude
between Is and II. So ignorant were they
of the properties and weight Of wood, that,
seeing a beam lying across the deck, they
to lift it, and were surprised to
find they could not do so.