Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
-Nutmegs are very strong narcotics

| -Nutmegs are very strong narcotics
The Michigan penitentiary has large
| class in telegraphy.
The small boys in Omaha, Neb., mako
money by selling cat tails.
"A resident in Honcksyille, Md, has an
old cow that eats chickens.
1t is computed that nearly 500, 600, 900
are invested in electricity.
The English Derby was established in
1870 by the twelfth Earl OF Derby.
Squirrels have taken to eat watermeIons
in some parts of the State of Oregon.
The first training school for teachers
was org anized in Prussia in the year 17s5.
"A cannon ball was recently fred nearlv
seven miles from an sOton gun in Dover,
England.
The New Orleans messenger boys
struck because they were ordered to wash
their faces.
"A scheme is now worked in Scotland by
which a high grade of brick is being made
from Clipped granite and clay.
Nickel 3-cent pieces of 1877 are worth
rs cents each, while those of 1S7s, 1852, 1885
and 1886 are worth cents each.
Ice cream is served at seaside resorts In
the shape, size and color of billiard balls.
1t is an idea borrowed from Geneva.
Bergen, Norway, boasts of a church
built entirely of paper and perfectly water.
proof 1t can seat nearly 1000 persons in
comfort.
New York will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair sections of all the trees which are in
digenous to the State. OF these there are
forty-three species and eighty five varieties
Three men in France competed to see
who could drink the most water. One swal-
1rrwva Al.
the third seven. ALI three died from the
effects.
"A new clock ('Great PauI'') is being
built for st. Paul's Cathedral in England.
The bell upon which the clock will strike
weighs II tons, with hammer weig hing $50
pounds.
Two women have been appointed bridge
tenders in New Jersey, one at Green Bank
and the other at Lower Bank These are be-
lieved to be the only female bridge tenders
in the world.
The Indian Government has voted 4O.-
600 rupees for the purpose of making an e1.
hlbit of teas at the Chicago fair and 10000
rupees for the decoration of the Indian pa
vilfon and grounds.
"A single glass eye can rarely be worn
more than q year without being polished,
for the surface becomes roughened by the
action OF the tears, etc., and irritates the lids
as they rub over it.
Stockings made from human hair are
worn by Chinese fishermen as the best pre-
ventive of wet feet. They are drawn over
ordinary cotton stockings, being too rough
for putting near the skin.
A young couple at Rockford, ILL.,, have
signed an agreement to be married and mako
their wedding trip in q balloon. Rockford
merchants will present the couple with
some $500 worth OF useful articles If they re-
turn in safety from the trip.
The Chinese make what is called "Chi-
wa-hi." or grass cloth, from the fiberiof the
common nettle. 1t is said to make splendid
cloth 1or tents, awnings, ETC. When made
into betting for machinery it is said to have
twice the strength of leather.
AT the Palais de PIndustrie the Old
Salon has made way for an exhibition Of art
objects produced by women. There are cam
vases by old masters and groups of wax
figures. as well as oil paintings and water
colors by the women artists of Paris.
--Of the II, 900, 900 women in Italy nearly
100000 are employed in Industrial labor,
and over 100000 in.agriculture. They are
industries, and in the silk trade there are
1l7,OO0 women employed and but 17,7O0 men.
"A country newspaper correspondent in
Maine recently sent the cheerful bit of news
to his paper: Brooks is at last provided
with nice hearse, and our citizens can now
be conveyed to their graves in decent shape.
This is something that has long been needed
here"
During the year 1892 thus far, the as
cent of Mount Blanc, once considered
among the rarest Of achievements, has been
successfully accomplished by five Germans,
four Americans, three Frenchmen and two
Engishmen.
In recent issue of the Cnurchman there
appeared an advertisements from "a West.
p,-ia uakf frry Nr,o$ -
employment and wanted q Job. He under.
hottest day."
Although whales grow to enormous
size, sometimes 80 and even 80 feet long, the
throat is so small that it cannot swallow a
bite as large as q tea biscuit. This applies
to the common whale: the spermacet has o ;
mouth large enough to swallow man.
in q recently invented watch for the
blind, q small peg is set in the middle Of
each figure. When the hour hand reaches
given hour, the peg for that hour drops. The !
owner, when he wants to know the time,
finds which peg is down and then counts
-Savages in various parts of the world
plait the iuner fibres of tree bark for fishing
lines, and the Indians on the Pacific coast of
North America use for the same purpose
seaweed-a sort of kelp-which is plenty
strong enough to hold fast f1nny captive Of
l5o pounds weight.
Large families are very common among
the factory population of Lewistown, Me.
Henry McCraw has raised 10 children, of
whom Is are now living. The mother is q
healthy woman of 43. Noel Gaudette has
raised 10 chill dren, of whom IA are living the
youngest II y ears of age and the eldest 3d.
Russia has still many old and curious
marriage customs which would be interest
ing to the Mona Card cult One is for the
bride and bridegroom to race madly down
the aisle as soon as the bridal procession
enters the church, because of the belief that
whoever places a foot first on the cloth in
front OF the altar will be master In the house
hold.