Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are 10000 Chinese shoemakers
| California.
There is woman in Oregon who
worked 20 years at stone cutting.
Hot water cannot be raised to
considerable height by suction.
The normal temperature of man
9s1@o Fahrenheit; that of fish 77o
John Carney. Kansas farmer recen
plowed up a gold ring which his daugh
had lost seven years previous.
Ninety per cent Of the freshmen
sophomore classes in Yale are said to ia
I the substitution of science or modern l
guaSes tor the classics.
The Japanese cite $50 color varieties
the chrysauthemum, OF which 63 are yeIIt
81 white, 81 purple, 20 red, 81 pale pink.
russell and IA OF mixed colors.
1t is a coincidence that the first arr
made in Ohio under the Brewer law for c.
pulsory school attendance is that of c
Zen IN Jefferson named Brewer.
a 3OO-pound shark was washed up
the beach at Sucia Island, Wash, a few d.
ago In its maw was found the remains C
human hand, thought to be thai Of a silva
AT Catholic convent in Fort Be
hold, n. D., all the sisters. including
mother superior, are Indians, and
spiritual director is u priest OF Moha.
descent.
"A velocity as high as 2SS7 feet
second has been attained by q project
from rapid-fre gun. This is at the rate
1905 miles an hour. 1t is the highest veloc
yet recorded.
The rains have raised the waters of 5
ton lake to nearly as great height as tn
were last spring The Gfla river is risir
winch afects the Colorado river and eau.
the lake to fill.
According to Nelson W. Perry, E. Y
the feats. of the several "electric eirlsn "
have been astonishing the public in Il
country and England are merely skill,
mechanical tricks.
An engineer on the Missouri Paci
mas invented coat of mail so contriv
mat when man is held up by robbers
can dIscharEe a revolver while both han.
are confined above his head.
The members of a iury in Iowa have
Gently confessed that their verdict of rryil
against man charged with burpIa.rv w
decided by drawing lots They had beco,
so confused by mass of expert testimo,
that they had no other recourse.
The difference in length of the cabI
IN the East river bridge, Brooklyn, wbr
the thermometer registers zero and when
registers iOO' above is two feet and 70
ihcnes. The difference in the rope whit
hauIs the cars is seven feet and six inches
1t has been discovered that silver exis
IN the ashes of two volcanoes in the And
OF Ecuador in South America The quantit
OF silver is exceedingly minute, howeve
being about two-fifths OF an ounce to a tC
OF ashes at CotODaxi, and about three-t tent
OF an ounce at Tu1gura&ua.
There are two otherwise estimab
women in Atchison, Kan, who are contin
ally quarreling about their complaints, eaC
one trying to prove that she has more al
more deadly diseases than the other. The
physicians say that there is nothing mut
the matter with either OF them.
Probably the most magnificent cornDi
mentary present ever received by IL Eur
pean sovereign is the Emperor of Austria
silver wedding gift to the Gar 1t consis
OF dinner service OF solid silver, superb
wrought and chased, each piece belring
imperial eagle. The service is for 23person
and there are $50 pieces.
Sam. Radges, of Topeka, paid IL
Western doctors So, ,OJ0 to be told that h
eyes wonld not last long and that he SOC
would be stone blind. He then went {
New York. where DR.. Agnew informed hin
home and be happy. For the latter infor1n
tion he paid $500
1t is reported that a mountain of onv
has been discovered in Mexico, about
miles from FL Paso. 1t is said to be of :,
periOr quality, fne-grained and beautiful
marked with calico streaks of varigate
colors blended across the face of the ed2,
The mineral, it is claimed. scales oil in larC
states. making it possible to sell it as chea
as common stone.
There must be a particularly hot spC
in the earth under Wheeling, W. Va. 1t
hoped to sink the well now being drive
there at least Il mile. The well is Iittl
less than five inches in diameter. Its pee,
liarity is that no vein of water has bee
tapped, and, being perfectly dry, scientifi
men have an uneXampled opportunity
conduct their investigations.
Fish are drowned when taken from tn
water into the air, and animals when pu
even for q short time under water, but tn
aXolotl cannot be drowned anywhere Ye
he is nowhere safe, for the inhabitants of tn
places where he is fOund-Mexico Nev
Mexico and Texas-think that his flesE
very good to eat, and eaten great numbers O
the axolOtl for food, which they cook i
various ways.
Coast Indians of the Pacific shores
AlltElCd uSNOuI raw StI uEClllE
with great gusto, crushing them in thei
fists, sucking out the orange colored cluste
OF eggs, which constitute the only edibl
part, amounting to one or two teaspoonfus
and then throwing the thorny case aside
The minute eggs taste much like oysters
and have been fayorite food OF the native
Of the bleak coast OF Alaska for ages.
Children have come into the worll
sparsely provided as regards the member.
)f the hand; some with but thumb anC
index finger, others with no thumb at all o
with hands like that of Mr.. Cesar, vino
Herfefordshire during the las
which was nearly like a lobster:
CLAW as a specimen of humanity could be
to carry; q species of malfOrma
ion he shared according to the records o
he Berlin Academy of Sciences, with
whole family OF negroes dwelling neal
in 1859
"A Polish artist residing in Rome had ar
intelligent and faithful terrier
which, as he was obliged to 90 on a journey
le left with 4 friend, to whom the dog was
trongly attached. Day and night the ter
ier went to the station to meet every train
arefulIy observing and remembering tine
ime of their arrival, and never missing one
Meanwhile he became so depressed that he
efused to eat, and would have died Of star
alton if the friend had not tele9raphed to
lis master to return at once if he wished tC
ind the animal alive.