Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| New York has 20O, ,OOO working Womel
| The carniyorous birds croak, grail
| eating birds sing.
Roller skates were invented by Plymp
tan in the year 1868.
The first pair of spectacles vas made
spina an Italian, in 1893.
New York has S,162 dwellings whic
contain over 10 families EACH
American factories are said to produc
nearly 5000 watches every week.
According to the Talmud Daniel Wrot
| his first prophecy at theage of So
The first stock quotations by eabl
| from Paris to London were sent across the
Channel in 1851.
The Watkin Tower, at last decided t.
be built at wembley Park, London, will b
| 15O feet higher than the Eifel tower.
I'm 1867 81, 81, 900 worth of diamond
were imported into this country. Last yea
the importation amounted to Sl5,OeO.GOO
There are 1873 American students at
tending Berlin University and only "a En-
glish. OF the 3,7ss students 8, Isl are Prus
SLAMS.
Richard NJ. Bent, New York piano
maker, stood his boarding house landlady
of for 30 years. He now has a bill of 50 77S &
to pay.
"A white female child born recently in
Washington has six toes on each foot and
seven well-developed fingers on either
hand"
Beginning in October, Russian will be
taught in two of the Paris colleges, and per
haps be put on the same footing as English
and German.
Fine rubies are enormously more valu-
| able than diamonds. A fine ruby of real
On-hl al a
from $4,000 to $4,000
These men in France competed to see
who could drink the most water. One swal.
lowed II quarts, the second and the third ].
All three died from the effects.
"A pair of gloves passes through about
200 hands from the moment that the skin
leaves the dressers until the gloves are pur-
chased by the intending wearer.
The Fish commission steamer, the AL
batross, has brought from Alaska an assort-
ment OF black bass, with which it is proposed
! to stock the waters OF Puget Sound.
| -Crystallized nitrogen is one of the
| greatest chemical curiosities. By cooling
nitrogen gas down to 367o below the freezing
| point, and then allowing it to expand, solid
| snowlike crystals are formed.
| Elizabeth Moore, pretty young girl
of Edgeworth, with the help of girl friend,
has recently built a cottage for herself. lay
| ins the foundation, doing all the carpenter
ing and plastering the rooms.
king Malietoa of Samoa is not paid his
salary (s25 a week) with regularity enough
! to keep him in easy financial condition, so
he has been having his wives do washing
| for the well-to-do white residents of Apia-
George Ill, in his reign of nearly 60
years, summoned but II Parliaments, while
! Elizabeth and George 1.-THE only two other
reigns of considerable length during the Pc
riod-called and dissolved but ten and five
respectively.
"A heavy plate-glass shade, ornamented
| with gold and securely locked to three
| staples set in the marble top of pulpit in a
| church in Brussels, is said to cover one Of
| the thOrns which formed q part of the
| Savior's crown.
The number of volcanic vents still
existing was fixed by Humboldt at 407, Of
| which 225 have been active within the last
| century; it has since, however, been esti-
| mated that the Indian Archigelago alone
| contains more than 9CO
| "A contortionist at an exhibition in
| Halifax, N s., twisted himself into 1udi-
| crous shape and said: "This is an imitation
OF an Albion Hotel bedbug." The audience
| laughed, but the hotel proprietor couldn't
| see the joke. He began suit for 5000.
Fat men are in demand in London az
advertising mediums. They wear clothing
/ OH WHICH, spdC0S dTo dTTGu9ou lOE EdTlOuS
| advertisements: and thus arrayed they
parade the streets. On their caps they bear
this inscription, spaces to be let on go men,"
A valuable goblet has been purchased
| for the sum of 3l2, 900 francs by a member of
| the Frankfort branch of the RothschildI
family. The goblet is of exquisite workman
| ship and is said to have formed part of the
municipal treasures of Osnabruck in Ger
many.
An original method of inducing the
| residents of Alsace-Lorraine to become Ger
| man has been discovered by the V0lE the
| organ of Herr Stoecker. This journal pro-
/ poses that the State shall give dowry to
| every native of fAlsace-Lorraine who marrle5
| German.
A wealthy Scotch gentleman who had
| intended to give each of his daughters
| legacy OF her weight in Ell bank notes had
| an official of the Bank of Scotland to figure
| on the matter for him. 1t was found that
| the larger would get as her share 55344 and
| the Simmer 81, 200.
| "A device to be used in signaling
! along length of fire hose is a recent inven-
| tion. Wires are carried in the hose and in
/ sulated therefrom, so that by making bat
| terry connections fireman from one end of
| the line can send signals to the other with
| out leaving his post.
AT the reunion of the One Hundred
and Twenty third Regiment at Salem, Wash
| ington county, n. Y, it was stated that the
last Confederate killed in the war, was shot
| by the One Hundred and Twenty third and
! the last Union soldier killed by bullet be-
| longed to that regiment.
In cave in the Pantheon, the guide,
| by striking the flaps of his coat, makes q
noise equal to that produced by firing l2-
| pound cannon. In the cave of Smellin, near
Viborg, Finland, a stone thrown down 4 GER
| tain abyss makes areverberating echo which
sounds like the dying wall of some wild
| animal.
The longest cataleptic sleep known to
medical science has been attracting atten-
tion in Germany. The latest report states
| that a mana miner of Silesia-has been un-
| conscious for four and half months, with
no unnatural appearance except absolute
| rigidity of the limbs. During this time the
| patients hair has grown, but his beard has
| remained stationary.
Fine voices are seldom found in q
country where FISH or meat diet prevails.
Those Italians who eat the most fish (those
of Naples and Genoa) have few fine singers
| among them. The sweet voices are found
in the Irish women of the country, and in
most OF the towns. Norway is not a country
for singers, because they eat too much fish;
but Sweden is a country of grain and song.