Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are . dozen women piano tuners
in Philadelphia.
The net indebtedness of the world in
1890 was s2s sl7, 5000
A $4,000, 900 railroad tunnel is to be
bored through the Alps.
Thirteen tons Of postage stamps are
said to have been sold in New York City last
year.
Playing upon the typewriter is said to
produce an ailment known as the type
writer's stub finger"
"A Connecticut judge fined man SO for
disturbing the slumbers of police offcer oT
practicing on the cornet.
Out of total of sc, 5O3 dogs in New
York City, only 1887 were licensed accord
ing to the last dog census.
The Washington office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company has sent out over
100000 words in single evening.
An Englishman who recently visited
Boston was most struck with the fact that
the men there use ice water in shaving a2!e
One bullet in its passage from pistef z
bored through the knee or one man, the caff5E
OF the leg OF another and cut of the toabtsI
third. -s-.-t -
With some 5000 bomicides in stHs.i
United States there were but l23 legal exesde4e
tions. JUDGE Lynch, though, contrivea n5pS
attend to l95 more. Ek4A
There are 800 public baths in the Ell ~
OF Toxic, Japan, where natives are fes
boiled at temperature of 1902 for sdfnsFs
equivalent to cent. f2aE
The eggs of the sturgeon, under the -
name of "caviare, ''are shipped as food deli =
cacy from Russia to the extent of over 5000 :.
tons, valued at sf292, 900.
"A hotel keeper on the upper shore of
Lake Michigan proposes to transport his big
hotel over the lake on a raft to Chicago in
time to open in the spring of 1898.
Philip Stehler, of Marine City, Mich.
who died the other day, aged 95 years, was
buried In his wedding shirt, q garment
which he had kept IS years for that purpose.
Suppose that each baby born this year
weighed eight pounds, it would take half
dozen cradles of the size, capacity and
strength of our new steel war cruisers to
hold the in fants.
According to a law enforced among
some American aoorigines widow is always
compelled to carry about with her for four
years the bones of her dead husband, in
closed in a casket.
-"Horned shoes were first introduced
in the reign of William Rufus, 1890. by "Rob-
ert the Dandy" Roberts shoes were long
and pointed, the toes being turned up and
twisted like rams horn. On this account
history frequently refers to him as Robert
the Horned
Paris is celebrated for dolls and mechan-
fcal toys: Jumeau's is one of the great doll
factories. Switzerland is another storehouse
of toys. Pewter toys are mostly made in
London and Birmingham. Ohrdrutf exports
porcelainrto toys, and many7 plaster toys come
from Prussia
When the effects of man who died re-
Gently in Leadville were examined it was
discovered that he was under engagements
to marry II different girls in various parts of
the country. He had photograph OF each,
and on the backs had written the date fixed
for the marriage.
I'm the South Atlantic it rained on one
occasion for over an hour when the sky was
entirely free from clouds. In the Mauritius
and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere
this IS not rare occurrence; but in Europe
1t is and the greatest known length of its
duration was ten minutes at Constanti-
nople.-
"A steam atomizlng apparatus fell on a
child in an English town and killed him, and
the verdict OF the Coroner's jury was that
"He died from shock following bronchitis
and whooping cough, caused through the
shaking OF the house by the firing of gun
at the Government proof butts on the Plum e.
stead Marshes
"A gang Of strikers in Queensland in
sisted on hotel keeper discharging his
Chinese cook, who was excellent. When he
was turned out the local ponce engaged MN.
The leading striker was soon arrested for
sedition, and the first thing he was set to
work at in the prison was chopping wood
for the Chinese cook.
One of the most successful ranchers in
the West is a young widow slight in stature,
refined in manner and fair of face She is
also a clever conversationalist, intellectual
in her tastes and very FOND of painting, to
which she devotes the leisure she can Sc
cure after attending to the large estate she
manages entirely herself
"A few days ago farmer who lives near
Woodland, Cal, procured a wagon load of
grape pomace from one of the wineries with
which to feed his hogs. Upon placing it be-
fore the swine they ate of it so heartily as to
acquire a load in more ways than one, for
they became intoxicated and remained in a
drunken stupor for several days.
The bread tree has solid fruit little
larger than a cocoanut, which, when cut in
slices and cooked, can scarcely be distin-
euished from excellent bread. The weep
ing tree of the Canary Islands is wet, even
in drought constantly distilling water
from its leaves, and the wine tree of Mauri-
thus Islands furnishes good wine instead of
water.
"A peculiar and extraordinary phenom-
enom was worked on the snow-covered cam
nus of q New York theological seminary re-
Gently. One morning passers-by were as
tonished to see the immaculate field of over
five acres covered with white eruptions
VARYING in size from q marble 20 u pumpkin.
Investigation showed that the snowballs
had been formed by the high wind of the
previous night.
The Hindoo nose ring is said to be
doomed At a meeting of the members of
the Cutchee Veesa Oswal caste, held at
Mandyie Bender, it was resolved that in
stead of q ring women sbould wear q flower
in the nose. Inasmuch as the nose ring had
led TO "much unfavorable COMMENT" hence
forth wearing nose rings would lead to 4 fine
of 10 rupees and four annas, in addition to
forfeiture of the ornaments.
Among the people of antiquity the prac-
tice was not uncommon of disposing or the
dead by throwing them into the sea, by sink
ing them in water courses and by setting
them afoat in boats. The Ichthyophagi, or
fish eaters, who lived in q region bordering
on the Persian gulf are mentioned by Ptol-
envy as having the custom of invariably COM
nlitting their corpses to the ocean, thus re-
paving the obligations they had inc urred to
its inhabitants.