Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There in said TO be a10-year-old Georgis
boy who is cutting his third set OF teeth
"A prominent grocer in London has Q
saproyision cartn that IL run by electricity.
"A PhiladeIphia burglar left q vest but
ton in the house he had broken into, and is
led to his arrest.
Two women photographers in New Or
leans are earning very handsome incomes
from their work.
The people of Hayti and several tribes
in Central and South America hold the moon
In great veneration.
In the Florence oil field of Colorado
there was produced last year 100000 barrels
of Illuminating and 1000 barrels Of lubricat-
ing oil.
More than 81, ,0OO, 900 worth Of Michi-
gan lumber will be used in the Worlds Fair
building. and s45o.ooo will go Michigan con-
tractors.
If geologists be correct, New Zealand Is
a fragment OF q continent which sank be-
meath the waters as the New World rose. 1t
Is q relic Of bygone age.
Jane Scrimshaw lived in London dur
ing the reign Of eight sovereigns, from Eliza
beth to Anne. OF her 1N years, eight Of them
were spent in an almshouse.
The savings banks in New Hampshire
are said to have greater proportion Of de-
posits in proportion to population than in
any other State Of the Union.
In spite of the pressure of modern life
and the abundance of periodical literature,
lN7,I3s books form the Paris municipal
libraries have been read during the year.
Before the introduction of iron tools the
making OF q canoe was q work of enormous
difiiculty The hatchets used were Of stone
and the chisels were of mussei shells ground
to q sharp edge.
The famous Oroya Railroad of Peru has
now been extended to Port Tucker, on the
Pichis river, thus connecting the head
waters Of the Amazon with the Pacific
Ocean at Callao.
Recent experiments have been made In
Germany which show. as reported, that as
bestos paper is not only no advantage in a
floor as a protection against IRE, but Is prob
ably somewhat injurious.
Concerning the self publication OF
rivers DR.. Won Petlanko states that untreat-
ed sewage may with safety be discharged
into o stream II its volume Is not more tnan
one fifteenth of the river water.
"A new cement is attracting considerable
attention in England, owing to its adherins
so strongly to iron, wood and stone. 1t is
and silica earth and parts of natural sui
pilates.
a most extraordinary instance of human
longevity may be found in smellie's "Philos-
ophy Of Natural History" where an account
Is given Of Peter Torten, a native Of Hun
gary, who died January 5, IVA, at the ad-
vanced age Of 1s5!
The kauri pine is undisputed sovereign
OF the Australian forest. No other tree can
approach it in grandeur of proportion or in
tmpressiveness, when, as one Of clan, it
holds as its own stretches OF country nun
dreds Of miles in extent.
A prophet in Athens, Ga, predicts that
the crop yield this year throughout this
country will be the largest ever known, but
that beginning with 1885, and for two years
thereafter, there will be the greatest famine
the world has ever known.
There are wild dogs in droves, as well
as fiocks of chickens at large,and on Charles
and Chatham Islands thousands Of pussy
cats, every one of them entirely black, I've
in crevices Of lava near the soast: and get
q living by hunting for crabs and nshes
DIR. Schliemann found bits of glass in
his excavations at Maycene, though Homer
does not mention 1t as substance known IN
his time. The most eminent Egyptologers
place the date of the first use of glass at q
period too remote to be given in years.
At recent meeting of the Massachusetts,
horticultural Society it was stated that
apples grown in grass ground will keep
longer than the same fruit grown on cultf-
fore, should always be grown in grass lands.
An Austrian provincial paper lately
contained the following advertisements: "A
widow, who still possesses the entire ward
robe of her deceased husband, is disposed to
enter into correspondence with suitable
gentleman, If such can be found, with q view
to IAatrin6hy."
in the Lake of the Woods country,
which may be described as q wilderness Of
forest, rock and brushwood, a race of wild
dogs have established themselves and are
increasing in numbers so rapidly that fears
are entertained that the animals will yet be-
come troublesome.
Since 1885 the course of the river Volga,
Russia, has rapidly been changing until the
city of Saratov. once called the Golden
Port of the Volga,' is left three miles away
from its banks. Saratov Is q well-built city
of about I25 900 inhabitants. Its trade, which
was very large. depended mainly on the
river.
The average girth of trees in Britain is
not more than 12 feet, nor the average height
above go feet. But in New Zealand there are
miles of kauris whose average height Is not
less than 100 feet and whose girth is not less
than 30 feet and 40 feet. The largest kauri
yet discovered was 10 feet in girth, and the
trunk was 200 feet high.
The different county treasurers of Hill
nois have paid out in round figures 500 as
bounty money, under law allowing cents
for the head OF each sparrow killed during
December January and February in that
State. This shows that about 100000 spar
rows were killed, but the frisky little bird
seems more numerous than ever.
The sacred scarab, or beetle, Of Egypt,
was the tumble bug" which forms bits Of
manure into q ball for laying its eggs In.
Two individuals, male and female, always
roll the ball together, and they do this
merely for the purpose Of conveying it to
safe place and hiding 1t. This insect was re-
garded as a symbol Of tho Creator among the
Hindoos, from whom the idea passed into
Egypt, The ball was imagined to represent
the world because it was round, and was
supposed to be rolled from sunrise to sunset.
Even at this day Egyptian women who de-
sire children eat the beetles for that end.
LITTLE HUMORESQUES.