Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

-Thunderstorms occur most frequently
| ut sunset.
Japanese women are almost wholly veg
| etarians.
-Coons are now hunted in the South will
roman candles.
1t takes Just 27 81 notes to weigh 81
much as $40 gold piece.
Nearly 900, 900 grown English peopl,
can neither read nor write.
Three hundred and thirteen places ar,
licensed for stage plays in the kingdom.
There are IA, 900 Band of Hope unions
having gross membership Of more thar
100000
An Augusta, Me-, dentist is credited
with having taken gas and extracted one o
his own teeth.
The town of Union, Me-, boasts of
citizen who in three days last week drank q
gallons OF cider.
| Along the coast of the United State.
curing 1 the last IA years there have been l6,
lZS casualties to vessels.
On the 10th day of December, 1925, nc
banks stopped payment. The Bank of Eng
lands credit was saved by the timely issue
| of Ell notes.
Farmer Hardin and Lavye Mckinney.
q
dog. The farmer lost the suit and also lost
over 500 in costs %
The Turks believe amber to be an infaI
| lible guard against the injurious effects OF
nicotine: hence its extensive use for the
mouthpieces of pipes.
-Nurserymen now sell trees on the IL
year plan, that is the nurseryman is to re
ceive choice of any two crops grown on the
trees inside of ID years in payment of the
trees.
Eight hundred and forty yards of cot.
ton thread weighing one pound is numbered
/. II pound contains twice that number
OF yarus the number is 2, and so on down
the scale.
The people of Great Britain consume
ABOUT nve times as much tea per head as do
the inhabitants of this country. and the
consumption there is steadily increasing
every year.
Coins are weighed at the mint TO
hairs weight. Not long since hair fell
into the weighing machine, and until it
was discovered large amount Of coins
were rejected.
The statistics of the London Fire De-
,partment, just published, show that there
were nearly 5000 fires in London last wear.
and dnring that time 81 lives were lost at
fires and 2G7 lives were saved by the fire.
men.
Orange blossoms for weddings are of
comparatively modern adoption. The Sara
cen brides used to wear them rs emDIems
ana the custom was probably introduced by
the Crusaders on their return from the Holy
Land.
"A tame groundhog is owned at Moberly,
Mo. He went into winter quarters under
the house December and on the ID of Feb
ruary he appeared on the surface and went
about his business all day although it was
cloudy from morning till night.
-Drewy, on the authority of Davalia
HISTORIAN at the end of sixteenth and be-
ginning of seventeenth centuries), states
that Charles IX. used bridges of cordage at
the siege of Piretius, toward the close of
the sixteenth century, which is, perhaps,
their first Introduction to Europe.
Engineers of railroad trains in Texas
and most of the Western,States carry revol-
vers. and often rifles, in the cab. for various
contingencies that might arise. They amuse
themselves by shooting at the telegraph
poles or any other mark while running at
full speed, and attain wonderful skill in
craftsmanship.
I'm Berlin there is no personal liberty.
The police methods greatly aid in the pre-
paration of an accurate census. No room
can be rented at hotel or boarding house.
and no apartment or house can be legally
leased, until the landlord has sent to the po-
lice the name and purpose of the newcomer
and the length of time for which he will
probably make the city his home.
The oldest old folks dance on record
came off recently near Sappington, Mo. The
dance was led by Mr.. and Mrs. Par<e. az
respectively 70 and 7s years, and the you-s;-
est dancer in the set was Miss Mary PaTke.
merry Young maid of 30. The music was
furnished by Prof Dick Wells,aged -. whose
fiddle was made by his great-grandfatner.
and the tunes played were older than the
fiddle.
The most curious of pets is that pos
sessed by some Singhalese children. tits
nothing more or less than an immense rbf-
noceros, with plates of tough hide like an
armored ship. He is just such beast as has
killed scores of daring hunters who have
penetrated the jungle. But this big fellow
is as gentle as Mary's lamb, and allows
children to play on his back or SQUIRT sweet-
ened water into his mouth.
An eminent French statistieian makes
clever and graphic presentation of the
thrift OF the French people He says that a
duplicate of the Eiffel Tower, which weighs
between 7.0O0, 900 and 5000 900 kiIoerammes
built of silver and with two additional
stories added. would barely represent the
actual savings Of the French people depos-
tied in the national savings banks The kilO-
gramme is pounds 326 ounces
Considerable ingenuity is displayed bv
a firm of "engravers, printers, and makers
of novelties" in the form of n letter marked
personal" enclosing a faded rosebud with
its leaves and the firms card, with this note
in n girls handwriting: 'Take back the
flower thou gavest. l love you no longer
All my affection is now given to Messrs So
and-So because they do such beautifu.
printing. am no longer yours. MAUDE''
Ants are used by the Indians of Brazil
to draw together the edges of wounds Its
well known that the grip of the jaws OF tho
Brazilian ant does not relax even after death:
therefore the Indian who has received
wound draws the edges of the skin together
with his fingers, then places five or six ants
along the cash. The ants grasp the skin
with their jaws, and the line Of the cut is
narrowed. The Indian then pinches of the
bodies of the ants, leaving the heads ad-
herring to the cash. In few days the wound
will be healed and the ants heads may be
washed of.