Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


"A machine has been invented which
will turn out 81, 900 corkscrews a day.
The great cathedral in the City of Mex
leo is the largest in America and cost nearly
s2,oO0Ooo
| There is chicken living at Seymour,
Ind, which is said to have four wings and
| four legs.
"A clipper ship for every day in the year
| is required to remove California's surplus
| wheat to Europe.
"A company has been granted permission
to experiment with electric omnibuses In
London the coming summer.
If well could be dug to the depth Of
46 miles, the density OF the air at the bottom
would be as great as that of quicksilver.
"A new religious sect has been estab-
1ished in Virginia by negro named Ma
thaniel Brown, which he calls the "No Meat
Eaters"
"A 100-year-old bearing orange tree,
from San Gabriel, is one of the exhibits an.
nounced from California. forhe Chfcagot
Worlds lair:
"A large white circle around the sun
frightened the negroes at jackson, Miss, so
badly last week that they rusned from their
houses and declared that the Judgment day
Some large blasts of rock have been
made to provide material for the new her-
Dor of refuge at Brest, as much as 100000
cubic yards being thrown out at one time.
"A redbird died at the advanced age of
% years in GAINESVILLE, O., the other day. It
had become so feeble that it could not
mount its perch in its cage, but It sang until
year ago
There are two yew trees in the Depart
menr OF the Eure, in France, which are sup
posed to be 15O0 years old. They measure
about 80 and 26 feet in circumference re-
specrively.
BY the great earthquake of October %
four large cotton spinning mills were dis
abled, and many of the old native industries
were destroyed, some of which have not
been resumed.
Turkish women, all of whom wear ear
rings from their seventh year, derive the
use of these jewels from Hagar, who is held
in veneration as the mother of Ishmael, the
founder OF their race.
"A Wisconsin congregation that de-
termined to stop ritualistic practices in
every form has elected as its rector an ex-
tremely low churchman who stands feet
81 inches in his stockings.
"A most singular method of street no
menclature is adopted in Canton, China
Thus there is a street called Unblemished
Rectitude, Pure Pearl street, a street OF
Benevolence and another OF Love.
In Chile, after making cider and wine
from their apples, they extract from the re-
fuse white and finely-fayored spirit, and
by another process they procure q sweet
treacle. or, as they term it, honey.
Northeast Missouri is the home of the
giants. Ella Ewing, the tallest girl in the
United States, is from Clark county; and
Wahh ak Oa 0f m
feet IN inches, is from Scotland county.
Lighthouses are classified by orders de-
pending on the. height and diameter of the
lighting apparatus. There are four orders
The first three are used for sea or coast
lights and the fourth for harbor purposes.
Dickson county, KAN, has county su-
periutendent of schools who, when he visits
schools, takes along a box OF tools, saw,
hammer, ETC., and fixes all the broken seats,
decayed doorsteps and dilapidated brooms
he comes across.
Captain Robert Gray, of the tea and fur
ship Columbia, was the first white man to
sail into the great river of the Pacific slope
which bears his vessels name. He crossed
the bar on May 10, 1892 The Columbia
drains a basin of $4,000 square miles.
The dimensions of the famous floating
dock in Bermuda, the largest in the world,
are: Length over all, 3Sl feet; length between
inches; breadth inside walls, "a feet; depth
over all, 70 feet; total weight, 5,4O tons.
The system of postal savings banks was
introduced in France in 1882 During 1890
the 6,Sl7 branch postal banks received l. 49,
81 separate deposits represen ting the sum
of $50 465. .S32 AZ, which is a far larger sum
than was han ndled during the previous year.
Caviar, which is made from the eggs of
sturgeon, is an important article of exporta-
tion for many cities of Russia and AS
trakhan, and principally Taganrok. The an
nual amount is estimated at 10000 pouds
Il poud is equal to 35 pounds). The greater
part goes to Turkey, Greece, Italy and Ger
many, very little to England, and still less
to France.
Carp are known to be hard to kill, but
one sent to Pendleton from Portland, Ore,
the other day beats the record. 1t had trav-
eled all the way from Portland on ice. and
there were bruises on its head, showing that
an attempt had been made there to take its
life: but when the box was opened this
'fresh fish" was found to be moving around
as though accustomed to such trlfies.
The Canadian census takers had trouble
with their Indians. The Indians are de-
scrfbed as being, not unnaturally, very curl
ous to know what the census was for. At one
place they would demand to be paid for Civ
ing their names, and at another the enumer-
ator had to brfbe them with tobac co before
theV would tell the names OF cnuQren anu
others who were out hunting or berrying in
the woods.
while the Duchess of Sanfelice was
walking along the Via Fireuze in Rome re-
Gently the cord holding her necklace of
pearls broke and the gems, valued Mt $50, 0OO
rolled into the sewer. An alarm was sent to
the Department of Streets, and Iaborers
were instructed to search for the pearls. the
Via Fireuze in the meantime being closed.
The hunt was successful, and all but four OF
the jewels were found.
"A reason given for the use of the third
as the ring finger by some authorities, is
that in the early Christian marriage cere-
monies the bridegroom, taking the ring, put
it first on the brides thumb, an then sue
cessively on the first and second fingers,
pronouncing in each case the name of one
person of the Trinity Immediately after the
words: "With this ring / thee wed'-name-
ly in the name of the Father and of the
Son. and of the Holy Ghost. until, with the
final "Amen," the third finger was reached,
and there the wedding ring was suffered to
remain.
IDYLLIC HUMORESQUES.