Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

England boasts of an electric dairy.
The entire empire of Persia has but ons
vessel.
"A rat-cstohing hen is the property Of
an Oregon farmer.
Minneapolis is making $4,000 barrels Of
flour on an average a day.
The costliest dresses in the world are
worn by the women of Sumatra.
! On the railroads in France passengers
are sold cooked snails in packages.
Russia produced in ten years, from
1882 to 1892 s75 $50 400 gallons of pure alcohol.
| The coolie, fed on rice, is more active
and can endure more than the negro fed ON
fat meat.
Celery coffee is a new drink. III,
| said to give renewed strength to the brain
| and nerve.
"A recently married Kansas coupls
| spent their honeymoon in the depth of an
old coal mine.
The shipping entering the Mersey was
| in 1900. 100000 tons per annum. 1t is now
| 10000, 900 tons.
Tungsten added to pure aluminium
obviates all difficulty from attacks by water,
salt or otherwise.
"A party of sportsmen at the chateau of
Baron Hirsch, in Hungary, shot 20 $40 part
ridges in three days.
-Electrotype reproductions of rare
pieces OF silver, such as are found only in
museums or valuable art collections, are
among the latest fads.
Since November 8 to date it has been
estimated that 78 Democrats have been
killed by powder In celebrating the victory.
Ta1a
world is that in the Exchange in Berlin,
Germany, where 1000 wires are connected
with the main office.
"A student IN Western college pro-
poses to deliver a lecture on Commence
ment day on "The Relation of the Wheel
barrow to American Elections"
The auger that bores a square hole con-
sists of a screw au!er in a square tube, the
corners of which are sharpened from within,
and as the auger advances cuts the round
hole square.
-Twenty-seTen men in the English mer-
camille marine who were candidates for
masters and mates certificates last year
were rejected through their inability to dis
tiDguish colors.
The Pennsylvania Railroad depot in
Philadelphia promises to be the most mag.
nldcent structure OF its kind in the world
It will be modern gothic granite and brick.
ten stories high, with tower A0 feet high.
"A well-known French physician asserts
that the bilious fever so characteristic of
tropical countries is due to a special bac-
terium, which, though motionless itself, is
accompanied by numberless moving spores.
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 little fruit
and some olives, yet he walks OF with his
load of 100 pounds.
The amount of coloring matter in
pound OF coal is enormous. 1t will yield
enough magenta TO color 800 yards of flannel
vermilion for $500 yards, aurine for 120
yards and aliZarine sufficient for 155 yards
of turkey red cloth.
No less than 1000 daily and weekly
journals are printed in Paris. This is only
a little more than q third less than those
printed in the provinces. They are repre-
sented by 8, lS0, Algeria by 123, and the other
French possessions by AZ.
I'm the Roman Campagna, at the sepul-
chre of MetelIa, wife of Sulla, there is an
echo which repeats five times. each being in
different key. 1t will also repeat hexa-
meter line or another sentence which can
be spoken i'll two and a half seconds.
The total number of letters carried in
France during 1891 was 57O.0O0,O0O, as CON-
pared with 312, 600, 900 in 1877. The number Of
post cards during the same period increased
from 30 OO0, 600 to Il, 900 900 and newspaper
wrappers from 49,, ,000, ,0O0 to 800 100000
Foreign physicians are agreed almost
unanimously as to the importance of adopt
ing Immediately the repressive treatment Of
cholera by opium, acting upon the theory
which assumes the worst symptoms OF
cholera to be the result of loss OF fluid.
The Roman soldiers, who built such
wonderful roads and carried o weight OF
armor and luggage that would crush the
average farm hand, lived on coarse brown
bread and sour wine. They were temperate
in diet and regular and constant in exercise.
"A Tram (Italv) doctor has the follow
ing notice affixed to his portal: Prof. Ricca
The said Prot. Ricca will use for making
his salves live snakes and large serpents,
wolves, bears, monkeys, marmots, weasels
and numerous other kinds of wild animals,
alive anc in good condition"
On the bank of the river Naha. between
Bingen and Coblentz, there is an echo cspa-
BILE OF repeating a sentence II different
times A peculiarity of this echo fs tnat al
though the original word or sentence be
uttered in a whisper, yet the volume OF the
sound increases many folds in the echo.
Volcanic ashes often travel long dis
tance. A remarkable shower of volcanic
ashes has occurred recently in several parts
of Finland. The ground in some places has
been covered to the depth ofnearly an inch
The phenomenon is attributed to volcanic
eruptions in Iceland, hundreds of miles
awey.
In France there is an unwritten but
immutable law that painting shall not be
exhibited without the artists consent, no
matter what the wishes of the owner may
be- And now a literary and artistic con-
gress in session at Milan, Italy. has decided
that the right of reproduction does not
pass to the buyer OF a picture.
The keeang poles of the Haida Indians,
of the Queen Charlotte Islands, according
to Mr.. Alexander Mackenzie's account Oh
them were erected to commemorate the
event of chief taking position in the trloo
by building q house and making d1sSrlDu-
tfon Of all his property. Each pole mas aiSo
an individual distinguishing name
In many parts of England, in Germany,
and in the north of Europe there are numer-
Gus superstitions concerning the cuckoo, all
of which. however, unite in ascribfng to it
oracular powers. In the maritime HELL
lands and Hebrides if the CUCKOO Is nrse
heard by one who has not broken MS inss,
some misfortune, 1t is believed, may Dc eA-
pected.
in the famous cellars of the Hotel dc
Vile, at Bremen, there are dozen cases OF
holy wine which have been preserved 1or
25O wears. If the cost of maintaining the
cellar PAYMENT OF rent, interest upon tne
original value of the wine and otner incl
dental charges are all considered, bottle or
this choice wine has cost s2,OOO,OOO each
glassful s97O, ,476, and single drop coulu nos
be sold without loss under seOo.
AND ,TOCOSE.