Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Until two years ago there was not .
newspaperin Persia
The new British coinage will bear the
Queens head without the crown
"A 14-vear-old boy killed IS large rattle
snakes recently, near Eugene. Ore.
A meteor weighing 81 pounds crashed
through the house of q Chicagoan last Fri
cay.
in TOXIC there are more than 300 public
lighthouses in which bath may be had for
! cent
Two hundred women are employed by
Edison in working at the more delicate
etails of his electrical inventions.
1t is stated in fashionable London
journal that LOGO 900 bonnets were sold in
the British metropolis during one week re-
Gently.
Lightning flashed into an Eastern Penn
sylvania coal mine the other day and
shockeda a man who was ], 200 feet below the
surface.
-Four families of Penobscot Indians
lived last winter in board shantv at Cape
Elizabeth and earned together sll0 month
at basket making.
"A West Philadelphia clergyman re-
Gently received an envelope containing an
oid.Iashioned copper penny as his fee for
performing wedding ceremony.
In Balakany, near Baku, the center of
the Russian petroleum industry, is witnessed
the anomaly ofthe water used for the steam
boilers in the several establishments costing
more than the fuel.
The increase OF population in France
during the last five years has amounted to
only one-haif of per cent. The population
OF the great cities is increasing and that of
the rural districts decreasing.
"A deposit of $50 made in the Newburv-
port Institution for Savings in 1920 now calls
for interest amounting to ss9S. No one has
ever C claimed the original deposit and no ad-
dftion has ever been made to 1t.
The age of the youngest Confederate
soldier has now been reduced to IL years,
as d. r. Freeman, OF Carterville, Ca, snys
that he enlisted in the Sixth Georgia Cav
airy when he reached that age.
The oldest hotel in Switzerland, and
probably the oldest in the world, is tho
Hotel OF the Three Kings, at Basle. Among
lts guests in 1929 were the Emperor Conrad
H., his son, Henry III. and Rudolph, the
last King of Burgundy.
"A man named Cowles living in Beloit,
Wis, gave his wife on the occasion of her
s1th birthday, some months ago, a coffin
THAT he had made himself She died on Sat-
urday and was buried in the gift with which
her husband provided her.
AN expert rifle shot is attracting much
attention by his feat of shooting glass ball
from his own head. The trick is performed
by shooting at the trigger of a rifle held in a
frame. with the muzzle sighted at a glass
ball dangling by u string directly over the
marksman's head.
The oldest of the Dutch journals has
ma hun n
niversary, and the publisher has issued to
his subscribers copies of the first number of
that Journal AZ it appeared on January g.
1856. 1t is said that the earlier copies of this
paper were carefully consulted by Macaulay
In preparing his celebrated history.
Few of the fruit-eating public are aware
of the source OF supply of what are called
Malaga, or white grapes. From little will
lage in Spain, called AImeria. situated
directly on the Mediterranean Sea, about I5Ol
miles east of Gibraltar are shipped an '
nuaIly from August 25 to November ], be-
tween 100000 and 100000 barrels of grapes.
Norfolk has crop which is worth mil
lions of dollars annually-peanuts. The
street-corner Italian who empties pint in
your overcoat pocket, and the Partisan fruit
merchant who weighs you out quarter OF a
kilogrnm of the homely nuts, get them from
here, for this Is the only peanut market in
the world. Smyrna has IT'S figs Barbary its
dates Bordeaux its grapes and Norfolk its
peanuts.
-Caviare, which is made from tho eggs
of the sturgeon, is an important article of
expectation for many cities of Russia and
and principally Taganrok. The
annual ano.1nt is estimated at 10000 pouds
Tone pond is IS podhds). The greater part
goes to Turkey, Greece, Italy and Germany,
very little to England, and still less to
France. The fisheries are situated at the
mouth of the Volga.
"A woman residing near Thorn Creek, ,
Wash, sowed the seed from one head OF bar {
ley four years ago. She harvested the crop(
with pair of shears and sowed the amounh
received the next year, again harvesting it
with her shears. The third crop her father
cut with a nrass scythe, getting enough
barley from this crop to sow 40 acres last
spring, which averaged 40 bushels to the
acre when threshed, making a total yield of
!. 800 bushels from one head of barley in four
years.
Not long ago, while a gentleman was
out hunting he found four young foxes.
Three he took home with him alive and
gave them to cat that had recently
had O litter OF kittens The cat received
them very kindly. She also adopted q
mouse which she will not allow to get out of
her sight. 1t is a remarkable sight to wit
ness the cat lying in her bed with one kit
ten, three young foxes and n mouse, as
happy though she was the real mother Of
hem all.
AN interesting discovery has been made
n a deep railway cutting ut Andresy, near
Paris, France, where the workmen ran upon
huge Merovingian cemetery of the six
eenth century. As many as 600 tombs have
.lready been uncovered, yielding hithe rto
mass of carved sarcophagi,
.nives, spears vases, ornaments and pot
cry CT unique shapes and styles of decora-
ion. 1t il recalled now that the tiny hamlet
f Andresy, in the generations succeeding
he introduction of Christianity, was an I'M
,ortant missionary center.
AN English journal has been compiling
ONE stories. almost incredible, that illus
rate the tremendous power exerted by
raves. 1t says that on the shores of the
hctland Islands it is not at all unusual for
neiss bowlders weighing upward of three
ons to be moved 800 Geet in a single night.
It Bishops Rock. England, an iron column
) !eet long and weighing 5000 pounds-parr
( Il lighthouse being erected on the rock,
nd which had been chained by means OF
yebolts to two heavy bowlders-was moved
feet in one night and deposited upon pro-
Getting rock IL feet and 10 inches higher than
is original position.