Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Canaca mas ABOUT uoupicu AbS ie1"ei
mileage in ten years.
"A child Just born has less chance Q
living year than an ootogensrian.
The blossom of the wild grape has beer
adopted as the State flower Of Oregon
An alloy of 78 per cent of gold and Q,
per cent of aluminium is the most brfllian
known.
I The New York morgue received 9,65
bodies last year. OF these l07 were neVe
identified.
| One child in every five in the northern
half Of the United States dies before it hai
lived year.
| -Pythons are abundant in the Philip
pines, the species being Identical with thai
Three factories in this country that
| make the albumen paper used In photog
raphy use over 1900, 600 eggs every year.
The most important Japanese holiday
is the Feast OF the Lanterns from July 13 tc
18 1t Is the Japanese Decoration Day.
1t is said to be fact that there are In
Paris 100000 well-so-do persons who
habitually obtain free admission to the
| theaters.
There is man in Montezuma, Ga, who
has had his arm dislocated at the shoulder
SO times and his leg dislocated at the hip
eight times.
There Is q sign on the entrance to q
cemetry at North Wales, Montgomery
county, Pa, which reads: mo admittanoe
| except on business"
Labrador, country which we always ~
| sociate with Arctic snowdrifts, icebergs, ETC.,
| has 800 species of Towering plants, SO ferns
/ and over $50 species of moses and nchens.
| Harvest hands must be scarce in Orland,
Il -.
| There were two women dressed IN mons
clothing hauling hay into that town last
| week.
1t is reported that the first Chinaman to
| die in Sing Sing Prison during the entire 10
years of that institutions history died there
on Saturday. The deceased was named
Wing Lee.
The laughing jackass, when warning
his feathered mates that daybreak is at
hand, utters cry resembling a group Of
boys shouting, whooping and laughing In
wild chorus.
Heads of thin iron are now sold in the
fancy shops in London. The heads are said
to be we'll cast and when enameled and I'M
ished by handsome head OF hair are very
good looking.
If all the Democrats and all the Alli-
ance men, on the basis of the vote Of 1890
should cast their votes this fall for the
fusion ticket in Kansas it would have
plurality of s., 2Q.
Dozens of carefully tabulated tests show
that the blood of man makes complete cir
culation once every 15 to IS seconds, accord
ing to the physical conditions of the subject
experimented upon.
"A German contemporary says that Ber-
lin has lately been suffering from plague
of rats. They came in droves into the seven
wholesale warehouses of the city, and were
of extraordinary size.
Masks are of very ancient origin. In Q
tomb 5000 years old at Mycene DR.. Schlie-
mann found two bodies with faces covered
by masks of gold. One Of the masks repre-
sented the head Of lion.
The natural confguration of many
mountains suggests the human face. and
such physiognomies cut out of the rocks on
q gigantic scale are commonly regarded by
savages as objects Of worship.
Fritz Snitzler, a well-known citizen of
Wichita, Kan. described in a local paper as
famous" claims to be Emin Pasha's cousin.
He says he and Emin went through the uni
yersity together in the old country.
Miss Louisa Reichter, q German girl of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has shocked her friends
by marrying a colored coachman. The
brides explanation is that the "man suited
her if he didn't suit her relatives"
Aluminium is found combined with
1876 other minerals, and, therefore, consti-
tutes a large part OF the crust of theearth,
but until recently has been very expensive
because of the difficulty of separating it.
The famous Khajah tunnel of India
pierces the Khwaja Amran mountains about
60 miles north of Inetta at an elevation of
64O0 feet. 1t is l2 800 feet long, and was con-
structed broad enough to carry double line
of rails.
Miss Nina Cromwell. of Detroit, who
claims to be lineal descendant of the
great Oliver Cromwell, owns a venerable
Bible, which is thought to be the identical
volume which the Protector used 1t was
printed in 1891, by John Wolfe.
India furnishes a market for large
numbers of white diamonds, as well as for
yellow or colored diamonds, or stones with
flaws or specks in them. The natives
invest their savings in them and other
precious gems, as we do in stocks and
shares.
John J. Taylor, of Streater, ILL.,, once
wrote 100 words on the blank side of q
postal card, without artificial aid. The
words on that single card, if printed in reg
ular newspaper type, would fill two and
three-quarter columns of any of the great -
dailies.
When Queen Victoria's dogs die they
are laid to rest beneath the turf where they
gampolled as puppies and were exercised
when they grew up. Each little grave IS
marked by q stone tablet about q foot long
and eight inches across, whereupon few
words are engraved, giving the name and
date of death.
Application will soon be made to the
Government to protect herd of wild
camels that roams over the desolate coun-
try in Arizona between Yuma and Ehren-
berg and Wickenberg and the Colorado
river. The original wild camels were brought
to the Far West during the Civil War to
supplies across the desert.
The average ministerial salary in the
United States is 500, ranging from $50 to s25.-
'0O DR.. Morgan Dix of Trinity, gets $4,000;
Dr. Talmage gets $4,000, supplemented by
literary endeavors TO about $4,000; DR.. Tay-
or OF the Tabernacle, gets $4,000; DR.. Pax
;on S1a, ,000 raised from 81, GOO; DR.. Wilton Mer-
ill Smith received 1000 his first year.
Just before a thunder shower at Hills
boro. Ore, one night last week millions Of
arge insects gathered about the electric
lights, completely surrounding the one at
he corner OF Main and Second streets and
putting out the light. Pedestrians were
truck in the face by the frantic insects, ana
he ent tire brick building on the corner was
overed with them. Where they came from
md where they went to is a mystery.
SUMMER TIME FANCIES,