Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Coal sold for SO ton in Hartford II
1928.
-Twenty-eight thousand patents wer
granted last year.
Elizabeth, N. j., has now one saloo
for every ITO persons there.
The game of Backgammon was invente
py Palamedes, Greek, about 1924.
According to Indian tradition Buddh
began his revelations at the age OF IS.
Six million dollars are invested in the
manufacture or dynamite in the Unitet
States.
"A man in Indiana has plan for revo
lutionizing naval warfare by building India
rubber ships.
-Kentucky's name Is derived from
Kentuckee, an Indian name. meaning 9Th,
head of a river"
of 200, 900 women working at 100 differ
their husbands.
The ''Marco Bozzaris," the poem b,
by which Halleck is best known, appeared
when he vas 81.
Mississippi is from the Indian Meesyee
dee, meaning not the father Of waters, " Du
1.-The great water"
5542 furnaces These consume 1855 tons OF
coal and coke daily.
The Church of the Pilgrims in Brook.
lyn is reported to have q piece of the Ply.
mouth Rock in its wall.
The color of the sharks egg is black, Of
1eathery texture. thin, tough and in form
similar to handbarrow.
The art of stereotyping was invented by
NI.
brought to America in 1913.
The tallest chimney in the world is at
Fort Dundas, Scotland. 1t is 454 feet to its
cope stone from the ground.
"A Paris physician is authority for the
statement that 40 people are annually pre-
pared for burial while still alive.
The latest "true story" is that bolt of
lightning drew all the nails from a mans
shoes in Connections town without hurt
ing him.
The speed of the fastest railway is not
much more than half that OF the golden
eagle's flight. The bird often covers 40
miles an hour.
The Greek Government has voted the
sum OF 100000 drachms to be expended on
the reproduction Of antique works of art for
the Worlds Fair.
"A letter addressed "Charles Smith, z.
Pan," didn't bother the Boston postmaster
little bit He sent it right on to its desti-
nation, Cape Ann.
The cocoon of well fed silkworm, it is
said, will often yield thread 1000 yards
long, and one has been produced which con-
tanned ], ,G95 yards.
Ducks fly at speed Of 80 miles an
hour, and with the wind, when it is brisk,
-. haa fro fai ,0iEr
Of ~ miles minute.
Colorado is named for the Rio Colorado
The name is of Spanish origin, and means
"ruddy'' or "red" referring to the color of
the water of that river.
-Mineralogists now exploring Northern
ThiDet claim to have discovered valuable
mines of gold and many varieties of the
richest precious stones.
"A hunting Horn in Limoges enamel,
made in 1880, and which is believed to have
formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was
sold recently for $500 guineas.
The silver dollars of 1894, 1888, 1889,
1851 and 1852 are worth SIS each, while that
of 1858 is valued at sl5 Silver half dollars of
1885 and 1877 are worth SIS each.
A nephew of Percy Bysshe Shelley, tn .
novelist and poet, is reported to live in
Brunswick. Ga. He celebrated his Tooth
birthday anniversary on Friday.
"A tree near Jackson, Miss, died about
a month after a crowd had used it for lynch
ing purposes. and the people are gravely
theorizing the why and wherefore.
An impulsive Chilean has been SEN
fenced to 80 days imprisonment for kissing
Young woman in the Plaza of Valparaiso
without first obtaining erconsent.
"A will recently probated in the Surro-
gates court at Albany contains this clause:
''To my son Simeon 1 give the sum of so
cents for the trouble he has taken to ill
treat me-"
"A New Yorker has made a clock from
"a, 900 pieces of wood, comprising over 300
varieties. For Is years he has had sailors
bringing MIN rare woods from every quarter
of the globe.
-Appropos of the alleged discovery Of
Noah's ark on the top of Mount Ararat, it is
reported that Colonel Kaiazko. q Russian
engineer. who made the ascent in 1850 found
no ark there
One of the men who rode through the
terrible charge at Balaklva without paying
his life az the forfeit is Thomas Morley, who
is employed in the War Department. at
Washington.
The Grand Trunk Railway men are all
being vaccinated at the company's expense,
against the possible spread Of disease con-
tracted from the hordeS of emigTants which
the company handles
William Brooks, Laguna Beach, Cal,
lad, is years old and weighs 90 pounds. It
is claimed that he can pick up 50-pound
sack of flour in each hand and tip over q
barrel of sugar with one hand.
-Warrenton county, Ga, has quite 9
curiosity in the shape of a watermelon vine.
When the plant came up It bid fair to bring
forth an abundant yield, but instead of
growing melons it put forth lu1uriant
growth of flowers.
"A gold Vermont dubloon is worth 5000,
and a Vermont silver half dollar will fetch
slOO The Massachusetts, cent of 17SS is val
ued at S10 Washington silver pieces OF 1793,
bearing the bust and name OF G. Washing
ton, will fetch $50 each.
The Glasgow Herald makes the graceful
at the head of its column
of humor that "fully one-half the humorous
savings we hear come from America, and OF
the other half fully so per cent should be ac-
credited to that country"
Wonderful men of memory were Picus
Of Mirandola, Scaliger, Angus Politianus,
Petrarca and Thomas of Aquino, of whom
Kant said that they carried with them as
material for scientific exploits, cargo OF
books which 100 camels could not transport.
PIRoUETTEs FROM PUCK-
'T can't work without inspiration" said
The Poet.
And l. ;, observed the Undertaken, ''am quite
Is badly off. cannot work without expiration"