Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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The first slmanacin in German was printed
in Hungary in A7o.
| The Death Valley in California Is the
hottest region on earth.
Diamond cutting BY machinery was
first done in Holland in l4S9.
"A cubic inch of soil contains from go, 600
| to 2,25O 900 minute organisms
"A young woman in Port Jefferson is
reported to sleep with her eyes open.
There are 266 cities in Kansas contain
| ing less than ], 900 inhabitants apiece.
The Government provides 10000 new
mail bags annually at cost of $4,000
in the southern part of Europe $4,000
oranges have been picked from one tree.
giants skeleton has been unearthed
at Brunswick. Ga, which Is nearly nine feet
long
Emmanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure
Reason" appeared when the author was "
years old.
The project of an Atlantic cable was
first started in the year 1858 by Cooper,
Field and others.
"A new lining for bearings is reported
from Germany as composed of compressed
vegetable parchment
The telegraph has been used with some
success as adjunct to the herring fishery
OF the coast OF Scotland
"A Mexican while prospecting near
Castle Dome, in Arizona, found a silver bar
claimed to weiSn l04 pounds
"A Chicopee man, just dead at the age of
IS, boosted that he never voted, could not
read nor write, and never rode in q railroad
car.
The Shut-in Society, composed entirely
of invalids, was started by Mr.. Conklin, at
Madison, n. j., Is years ago, and is still -four
ishing.
Washington is to have a museum for
all sorts of curious life-saving appliances, in
cluding the earliest kinds of lifeboats, rock
cts and life preservers.
"A wash made of witch-hazel and
cocaine, to be applied to the nasal pas
sages when the asthma comes on, is an eE.
fective cure for hay fever.
The famous Treadwen mine in Alaska,
which has yielded more than s3.0O0.O0o in
gold bullion, was purchased by the man for
whom it was named Tor S3OO
The largest greenback e1tant Is
SIC, GOO bill, and only one such note has been
printed by the Government. OF the 5000
bills, the next largest, there are seven.
-Cliquout, known as "the human os-
trfch," !" is reported to have swallowed q
watch, and allows people to listen to It tick
ing in his chest for the small sum of one
dime.
An old way of interrogating fate in
love affairs is to slice an apple in two with a
sharp knife. If this can be done without
cutting seed the wish of the heart will be
fulfilled.
The following odd adve rtisement ap
peared in an English paper of late date:
Home Work-Good Plots for Novels for
Sale. Apply Miss Smallwood, The Lees,
Great Malvern"
The Romans had their mile passuum,
1000 PAGES, which must have been about
5000 feet in length. The German mile of to-
day is "a 3ls feet in length, more than four
ana half times as long as our mile.
An Indiana girl started out in a house
dress and without head covering, to visit a
near neighoor, met her sweetheart on the
way and was induced to board an approach
ing train, and was married at the next sta
tion.
An officer in the British Army thinks
that ducks would be preferable to pigeons
for carrying naval dispatches over the sea,
because they would drop down and sit on
the water when tired and resume their flight
after resting.
One hundred and fifty of the songs and
ballads of Burns are soon to be published In
Czech by the editor of a Prague newspaper.
In every instance the Bohemian translator
has preserved the metrical form of the
skill.
-Engravers in Germany are said to
harden their tools worry satisfactorily in
sealing wax. According to this the tool is
heated to whiteness and plunged into the
wax, Withdrawn after an instant and
plunged in again. the process being repeated
until the steel is too cold to enter the wax.
"A tight-rope dancer was performing at
music hall at Rouen, Fan ce, some time
ago, when the wire suddenly broke, and she
fell from great height on the conductor OF
the orchestra. He was so overcome by the
shock that he tainted, and when he recov-
cred consciousness was discovered to be
deaf and DUMP.
I'm the dining rooms of some of the
large cafes in Russia there is pool of fresh
water, in which fish Of various kinds and
sizes swim about. Any patron of the res
taurant who may wish course Of fish for
dinner goes to the pool, picks out the par.
ticular one he may desire, and in moment
after he is served with it.
Currents of water serve to a vast extent
the purpose of distributing seeds. Walnut,
butternut and pecan trees are found close to
streams, where they drop their nuts into the
passing flood, to be carried far away and
start other groves perhaps hundreds OF
carried by oceanic currents.
In Cochin, town on the coast of Ira
vancore, state in the southwest of India,
there is a small body of Hebrews who are
called White Hebrews because their skin is
fair and their hair light. They were once
very numerous along this coast, but in
Cochin. where they have quarter all to
there are now only some 200 Of
them.
The earliest chest was simply the trunk
of an oak tree scooped out and cut down the
middle, one-half serving as lid, which was
1t first kept closed by a strap of leather, and
later by one made of fron- As late as the
century the oak chest. in addi-
ton to being q repository for valuables,
served as u seat and sometimes, also, as q
,able.
"A boy, IA years old, who lives near
Ga. is said to greatly resemble an
alligator. Scales of a delicate texture can
De seen all over his body. He has a fat
read, O long, wide mouth, and eyes like an
alligator. His legs and arms are fiat and
,rooked at the joint. He can neither talk
,or walk, but bellows and crawls like
'eptile.
FLIGHTS INTO FUyNTDOm.