Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,
Owls have a good bearing.

Owls have good bearing.
The cry of wounded hare resembles
that of child in distress.
"A hundred years ago the best oysters
were sold at five for cent.
The church members of the United
States number over 20. 0oo. 900.
The most costly of metals is didynium,
which sells at 81, 500 q pound.
London firms are said to spend over
$40, 600 900 q week in advertising.
There have been patents granted to
| 6l6 women from New York State since 1909
"A man in Boston has Mexican bes
still alive, though It has eaten nothing for a
year.
An employer of German clerks saw,
that they work 20 per cent slower than Eng.
lfsh ones.
In 1886 there were 9oO, 900, 900 gallon.
Of beer drunk in Germany 20 liza, ,OOo, 900 gal.
Ions in 1891.
To keep race horse in even moderats
condition, with proper attendance, costs
$l.625 year.
The cultivation of the grape in France
gives employment to no fewer than %, ,ooo.
900 persons.
-Workmen are not allowed to work on
the streets in New Bedford unless they have
Deen naturalized.
In Corfu sheets of paper pass for money;
one sheet buys one quart of rice, or 20 sheet,
piece Of hemp cloth.
The annual product of paper collar,
amounts to 100000 per year, one firm turn.
ing out 5000 per day.
of the L, 900. 900 women in Italy, about
1000. 600 are employed in industrial labor and
over 1000, 900 in agriculture
-Pennsylvania's s wooden mills have cap-
ital OF sS6 600 900. turn over 800 900 of pro-
ouct ana employ 1000 hands.
Tie province of Bhopal, India, is cele-
Drated for the unusually great ad ministra-
1--WE powers of its female sovereigns.
"A M1ddletown, Del, man shipped re-
Gently to New York ], 900 bushels of corncobs.
10 be used in the manufacture of pipes
"A bird named the morepork, of Aus
tralia, is frequently heard yehementIy de-
manding more pork in a clear, stentorian
voice.
The modest maidens of Old Orchard
have adopted the custom of bathing bv
night in the surf since the extremely hot
days have set ins
The costliest toy on record was q broken
nosed wooden horse which belonged to Na-
poleon Bonaparte and was sold year or two
ago for 900 francs.
The bakers dozen of 13 is a recognized
figure in trade; publishers dozen is usu-
ally lS copies. Among fishermen in Corn
wall long dozen consists of 26.
AT the foot of Mt. Tacoma there are
trees that by actual measurement by one Of
the best surveyors on the coast. Prof Fred
high. WV
There are three places known where
green snow is found. One of these places is
near Mt. Hecla, Iceland, another fourteen
miles east OF the mouth of tie Obi, and the
tnlrd near Quito, South America
The largest sum ever asked or offered
for single diamond is g. 900, which the
Nizam of Hydsrabad agreed to give to Mr.
,.lmper1al' diamond, which is even now in
litigation in India. This is considered the
nnest stone IN the world.
Seven handsome orange trees have been
conveyed from Hampton Court Palace to
Windsor Castle and will be placed on the
east % terrace, opposite the royal apartments
The trees are very old and, it is said were
brought to Hampton Court in the time OF
Prince William of Orange.
French peasants will keep goose fresh
for IL months by cutting the bird into joints
placing it in an earthen pot, and filling O.
the interstices with hogs lard. When tn,
feel an appetite for goose they Withdraw
much as they want from the pot, CAREFUL
nlling the cavity with more lard.
About seven miles from Ash Grove
Mo-, is q natural phenomenon known as
"BogGy Mound.r- 1t is ninety feet In. eircum-
ference and ten. or twelve feet high in the
center. 1t seems to be saturated with water,
and the whole mound may be shaken as il
1t was constructed of jelly or India rubber.
1t is reported from England that form
of ball-bearing has been applied to the
spinGles OF textile machinery, and by its use
the high rotative speeds have become possi-
BILE. From 5000 revolutions per minute In
the speed usually main tanned. and it is
claimed that speeds as high as 1000 can be
reached.
"A monster bell, one of the largest of
its kind. specially cast for the new Church
of the Sacred Heart, on the Heights of Mont
martre, has been completed at Anneoy in
savoy. The immense instrument, which,
when hung in its lofty position will be audi
Bile all over Paris, weighs, with its clapper,
nearly rs tons.
-"Trajan's Wall" is a rampant made of
earth and about 35 or 40 miles long, extend
ing from Rassova, just at the big end of the
Danube. to the shores OF the Black Sea.
midable line of defense. Even now, Is CEN
turies after its construction, it is from to 10
feet in height, with clear-cut fosse in front
OF it.
-Seven-eighths of the forest growth of
the State OF Washington consists of the
Douglas fir, so often IN California miscalled
Oregon pine, because when the first mill
was established in what is now Washington,
under the bluff on which tho
present State House now stands at Olympia,
Oregon and Washington were one Territory
under the name of the former.
The old axiom that lightning does not
strike the same place twice would seem to
be falling into disrepute. On the farm of G.
W. Exford, near Carthage, on the Antwerp
road, stands, or rather stood, an elm tree
which several years ago was twice struck
by lightning and has since gradu ally died
During the storm of July the old zee was
again struck. breaking Off the top and level
ing the trunk to the ground.