Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A celebrated French chef is said to
have the art of serving eggs in 500 different
styles.
"A telephone talk between Paris and
Brussels costs 30 cents. A third wire is about
to be added to the circuit.
Electricity was discovered by person
observing that piece of rubbed glass at
tracted small bits of paper.
"A record of 5,435 immigrants arriving
at single port in single day show that this
Is pretty good country to come to.
"A flea is not more than an eighth of an
inch in length, and it jumps yard: in pro-
portion, a lion ought to jump one-third off
mile.
In 1889 fifty Bonapartist journals -four
ished I'm France, but this number has been
now reduced to five, the others having
turned in favor of the republic.
The banana -four, which came into noto-
riety through Stanley's Darkest Africa is
not made from ripe bananas, but from the
green ones. The color of the banana flouris
dirty gray, like ashes.
The custom of kissing hands as mark
of respect is said to be the most ancient and
the most universal. From the remotess
times. through the ages of Greece and Rome
to the present day it has existed.
"A rat attacked pigeon on the window
sill of the upper story of the Boston Federal
building. The rat bit the pigeon and the
latter dropped its enemy off the sill and it
fell to the pavement. Both are dead.
There are now more than 30 restaurants
and more than 600 thousand private tables
in Paris where snails are accepted as 4
delcacy the monthly consumption of this
mollusk being estimated at half million
Hermann, Lane county, Oregon, can
of h,.ov lad prh hn hou
recently taken up a claim on the east fork
Of Indian Creek. Her claim is above all
other settlers, and it is said she stays weeks
by herself.
Crocodile eggs are much sought after
by the natives OF Madagascar. their flavor
closely resembling mixture of rancid oil
and musk In the Pacific and West Indian
islands lizards and lizards eggs are eaten in
a variety OF styles.
"A new method of quickly rendering the
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture consists in forcing into the
melted materials a stream of oxygen gas,
the enormous heat generated oxydiZing all
deleterious materials.
Two California inventors have devised
toll-collecting apparatus for telephones. 1t
consists OF the usual coin-in-the slot device,
with the addition of a clock-work apparatus
that automatically cuts out the telephone
when the time for the talk has expired.
In Sicilian story maiden treacher-
ously thrown into the sea is carried Off by a
norman and chained to his tail. On one oc-
casion peasant is said to have chalked a
cross upon q water sDrites back. preventing
him from going into his natural element un-
til the cross was removed.
The French will eat snails, frogs and
the diseased liver of geese. A Frenchman
once declared that fondness TOR
the flesh of horses and dogs, during
the siege of Paris he acquired quite
ha bit at length rendering palatabie q diet
which was first taken as matter of
necessity.
Some citizens of Oakesdale, Washing
ton, annoyed by large mudhole in the main
street of the town, planted three or four old
hats and pair of boots in the center of it
and labeled them with the names of the City
Council. But the Council retalGted by post
ing up a card with the notice: "Pay your
taxes and we will fill this hole"
The harp, which was suggested by the
lute is ascribed to Jubal, 1915 3. C and was
King David's favorite instrument. The harp
was used by the Welsh and Saxons, and also
by the ancient people OF Ireland. One Of
the oldest harps in existence is in the Dublin
College Museum, and originally belonged to
Brian Borothme, King OF Ireland.
I'm South America the native children
will drag huge centipedes out of their holes
and crunch them up. The negroes of the
West Indies eat baked snakes and the palm
worm fried in fat, but they cannot be in
Luced to eat wed rabbit. Arabs are fond
Of crocodiles and some portions of the
creature is Said to be white and tender when
properly stewed- .
Bees will not swarm unless they are
by the creation of sounds. and
hence the beating of tin Kettles and trays
nay often be heard in villages while bees
tomary to sing psalm in front OF. hive OF
bees not doing we'll, with q belief that they
will thereby be induced to do better and
store up more honey.
From the pipes of Pan the organ was
evolved, and tie invention is credited TO
several persons; some say it was first made
~ Ctesibius, barber of Alexandria, about
80 3. c. The organ came to Europe from
Greece, and was used in church worship in
he seventh century. The Haarlem organ is
me OF the largest and best known, having
20 stops and 5000 pipes.
The foot of horse is one of the most
Ingenious ana unexampled piece of mechan-
SIN in the whole range of animal structure
The outside hoof is made up of 4 series Of
hin, yerticIe laminR of horn, about 500
n mum Der, Into this are fitted about 200
nore thin lamin 8, which belong to the cof-
In bone, both sets being elastic ana adher-
mt.
DIR. Adametz, the great Swiss scholar,
ays an exchange, found that a single gram
# fresh Emmenthaler cheese contains not
ess than 5000 microbes. In gram of the
ind of the same cheese he found 2, ,0OO, 900 IN
Thus it may be seen that piece
# cheese of less than pound weight may
on tain more living, moving. breathing in
ividuals than there are human inhabitants
N the entire globe.
james Gray is colored man of Rich
nond, and he is turning white. just how
nuch he will become white or how long the
will continue is q subjecs
or future discrimination. James Gray looks
{ YOU through white skin and talks to you
trough dark brown skin. The back of one
and is nearly white and the other the nat
raj color. Large white spots appear on MS
rms and his ears. His eyes, forehead and
ose are encased i'll an epidermis of peculiar
Jhiteness.