Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are ~ representatives In Con
gress who are under 36 years of age.
"A man was fined in Washington day
or two ago for driving his horses too slow.
The ant is said to have the biggest brain,
according to size Of its body, of anJ
creature.
There were at the beginning of last veal
sO97 artesian wells in the Western States
and Territories.
The sole personal effects of man who
died in Auburn, Me-, recently were Bible
and pack of cards.
Red river farmers are complaining that
the sparrows eat the oats faster than the
said farmers can SOW them
The New York Central Company is
about to lay the first 100 pound rail ever
rolled or used in the United States, and il
Will be laid on steel ties.
Italian titles are not very expensive.
That of Prince costs only $4,000: that OF
Duke. $4,000: marquis. 5000: Count, $4,000
Viscount or Baron, "A ,0OO
When America is as densely peopled q.
Europe, this half of the world will have
nearly ACC, 900 OOoO-practically the same as
that Of the whole world at the present time.
"A Frenchman is reported to have de-
yised q suspended camera, by means OF
board OF a ship, even when she is very lively
in tie sea-
The most populous continent is Asia,
which contains two countries-China and
India-whose swarmin1 millions outnumber
the people OF all the other countries of the
continent
In the fourteenth century, and still
more generally in the fifteenth, open sea ts,
or benches OF wood. with carved ends, were
fixed across the nave, but leaving broad
central passage.
North Dakota has full community Of
Indian Sisters established under an Indian
Mother Superior, the irst community of the
kind ever established, though there have
been before this Indian Sisters In other con-
vents.
The various colors of flame in a wood
fire is caused by the combustion of the ele-
ments of the fuel. The light blue is from
the hydrogen. the white from carbon, the
violet from manganese, the red from mag
nesia and the yellow from soda.
"A man who has access to six head Of
horses. they standing idle in q stable walked
two miles out in the country on little
matter of business day or two ago while
another man who had no horses and very
little money hired u team to go the same
distance.
The new Bombay water works, which
have been in course of construction seven
years, cost 1900 COO rupees (about S. 25O, ,01O).
artificial body formed by dam in the val
ley. and having a superficial area of eight or
nine square miles,
According to the Theosophists, we have
still some 427, 600 years left, however, before
we arrive at the end of our present age. The
Kali Yuga is known as the Black Age, tho
age of spiritual darkness. and during its e1-
istence the human race pays up for its mis-
deeds in the previous ones.
BY beating out between two pieces Of
membrane, gold may be fattened into leaves
of such thinness that 2s2, 900 of them may be
laid one upon the other in order to make the
pile one inch high. Gold beaters have sue
ceeded in spreading a single ounce of gold
over a surface of 100 square feet.
The nickel and bronze 1-cent pieces are
a legal tender in sums or 25 cents, and so are
the bronze 2-cent pieces and the nickel 3
cent and scent pieces. The silver Scent
pieces are a legal tender for S. and the 10
cent, 25-cent and 50-cent for $40, while in the
standard dollars the legal tender quality is
unlimited
1t making sleigh bell the jinglet of
iron is placed inside a little ball of mud. just
the shape of the inside of the bell. Then q
mold is made OF the outside of the bell.
This mud ball is placed in the mold and the
dirt 30 that it can be shaken out after cast
ing, leaving the jinglet within.
Gamblers and actors are of all people
most given to superstitions respecting luck.
and it is not surprising to find that they are
greatly addicted to amulets of various
kinds, carrying them on their watchguards,
in scarfpfns and set in rings for the fingers
Miniature boars' tusks and the shells so
much affected by gipsies are both of very
ancient Priapic origin.
A while ago a hotel was built in the
desert near the pyramids. Several hundred
acres of the desert land were bought in 1884
by u wealthy Englishman. who was a suf-
ferer from consumption. He believed that
the desert air would be a specific. For two
years he lived with his wife in little house
erected on the sand waste he had bought,
and regained much of the strength he had
lost.
In Denmark one day norman enticed
a maiden to the bottom of the ocean. She
became his wife and bore him several chill
dren, but she always felt a longing to go up
when she heard the bells in the steepes OF
her native village. Finally her husband
permitted her to go, on promise that she
would return, but she never did come back,
and his walls from the depths are often
heard.
In the cemetery of Jefferson City, No.,
is horizontal slab of white limestone sup
ported near the ends, that has sagged near
ly ~ inches in 25 years. The slab is 6 feet
lon. feet wide and inches thi ok, and Mr.
Arthur winslow calculates that under the
same stress for the same time q long two
inch slab of the limestone, or marble, would
be bent into q circle less than so feet in di-
ameter.
"A curious taste prevails in many parts
of the world for clay. According to Hum
boldt ft is eaten in all the countries in the
torrid zone, but the practice is also observed
in the north, as hundreds of carloads of
earth containing infusoria are said to be an
nuallv consumed by the country people in
the most remote parts of Sweden, and In
Finland n kind of earth is occasionally
mixed with bread.
Several traditions treasured by various
tribes of American Indians trace the first
man and the first woman myth back to
where they were white and red corn! One
tribe tells how the first man, while in search
Of n "helpmeet" came to the land of the
King of the Muskrats and asked the daugh-
ter Of the King for his wife. After she had
been formally presented this red Adam took
her to u certain lake and baptized her. As
,he came from the water she was trans
formed into an Indian woman Of average
II 70 and intelligence.