Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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"A couple whose ages aggregated 146
| wars vera married q few days ago at Fort
Dodge, Ia ?
"A wine cask has recently been built in,
Toledo. O.. which holds 66,OOO gallons and
weighs 1000 pounds. ;
On April 6, the word telegram will be
Just forty years old. 1t was introduced into
the language by the Albany Journal in a]
formal article.
Two doctors in Idaho succeeded in cap
turing an enormous bear by means of a
piece of pork saturated with chloroform and
sprtnkled with sugar.
After having lived happily together for
more than 30 years, a New York wife, aged
go years, applied for and secured q divorces
from her husband, aged 20 years. /
The postage stamp will be 81 years old
May s. Its inventor was printer,
James Chalmers. of Dundee. Its introduce
ton into the United States dates from
1s4l.
"A girl four years old, three feet two:
inches high, and who measured two feet
three inches around the waist, is what tho
Marion, N. c., people are boasting abouti
just now. /
"A correspondent of Forest and Streams
reports the finding of a water dog in trenchi
leading from 1250 foot artesian well near
Huron, N. D., from which it is supposed to-
have been elected :
Utah derives its name from the Utes, q
tribe of Indians originally inhabiting it. ID
was originally part Of Upper California
and was conveyed to the United states by
Mexico by the treaty OF ls4o
-"One of Aroostock's giant cedars, " re-
ports the Augusta, Me-, Journal, twas cub
down on Cary brook last week. This cedar
was feet on the stump, sc feet long, and 10
inches in diameter at the top end, makingl
1,491 feet"
The Hindu hells, or narakas, are 1876.
The walls of the principal of these are over.
100 miles in thickness, and their shine OF fire.
is so fierce that they burst the eyes of thosei
who look at them even from the distance OF
400 leagues.
So many husbands and wives are living;
apart in the little town of Kensington, Kan3
sas, that society is all broken up on accounts
of it. Nobody dares to give party, but
fortunately, there are two churches and
religion goes on just the same.
A historian of Macon county, Mo-, re-
marks that the first Sunday school in that
county created q commotion among the
church mem bers as breaking in on the prac-
tice of shooting for beef' on Sunday. Re-
ligion finally prevailed over beef.
"A young man of Dubuque, La, who,
in the process of sowing his wild oats, got
into the Wisconsin Penitentiary for short
term, was released short time ago, and now
learns that he has been left S36OOO py con-
vict whom he knew at the prison.
What is said to have been the most e1-
pensive dinner ever given in Washington:
was spread the other night. There were 10
guests the cost was s17 plate, and $500
extra for flowers. There have been many
more expensive dinners than that given at
Delmonico's.
The potato, a bacciferous herb with
esculent roots as Houshton calls it, or opti-
mum benigni Numinis donum, dapes grata
diviti; pauperi panis, as an eminent botanist
STYLES it, was first discovered in America.
according to Gerard's Herbal, published in
1897 which authority is quosed by the En-
cyclopedia Britannica.
There will be chosen this year 444 Pres!
idental electors, an increase of 43over the
number in 1855. In that year, 20l votes being
necessary to a choice, Cleveland received 1888
and Harrison 233 Now 223 votes are needed
to elect. The Cleveland States of 1sss have
175 votes and those carried by Harrison and
Morton have 269 electors
The tramp's name for himself and his
followers is Hobo, plural Hoboes. Bread is
called punk" and policemen and other off,
GERS of the law are known as screws"
Begging is called gathering for chewing;"
railway brakemen, "brakies:" poorhousess
"pogies;" prisons, pens" and liquor drink
ing, SlOW1Ci-
"A stranger entered the Newtown, Kan,
postoffice one day last week, and, buying q
quantity of postage stamps. asked permfs-
sion to stamp all letters that the office was
holding for postage. His request was
granted and he departed saying that it was
3 charitable fad he had to go about the
country supplying the neglect OF thousht-
less people.
in Buffalo woman runs street clean-
i,or 1,,,ro in lie m
the fire department.: at Vassar a young
woman combs hair at % cents a head; a.
LOUSY ilie lady makes special shopping trips
to Paris: anoth er in New York makes fat
furnishing business; still another in New
Hampshire is president of a street railway
company, while Chicago has woman en-
balmer.
The Spanish peasant works every day
and dances half the night, and yet eats only
his black bread, onion and watermelon.
The Smyrna porter eats only a little fruit
and some olives, yet he walks Off with his
load of 100 pounds. The coolie. fed on rice,
Is more active and can endure more than
the negro fed on fat meat. The heavy work
of the world is not done by men who eat the
greatest quantity. Moderationin in diet seems
to be the prerequisite of endurance
in horse mill moving at three feet per
second, track 25 feet diameter, he exerts
with the machine the power of ~ horses.
The greatest amount a horse can pull in
horizontal line is 900 pounds, but he can
only do this momentarily; in continued ex-
ertions probably half of this is the limit.
He attains his growth in five years. will live
25 average is years. A horse will live %
days on water without solid food, II days
without eating or drinking, but only five
DAYS on solid food without drinking.
During fall of snow at Lancaster re-
Gently, accompanied by violent wind
storm, great quan titles of worms fell, being
probably brought from some distant point
by the wind. Some of the worms were the
ordinary cut-worm. but there was speci-
men unknown, a long, many-footed insect,
with horned head. A strange feature was
the fact that the worms should, at this sea-
son of the year, exhibit so much life as did
these remarkable visitors. The snow in
some places was full of the worms, and ig-
norant people were not a little worried over
this strange visitation.