Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01


or two.
Two Sw.
and Trumholt 80
duced artificial au.
work of electric G.
mountains.
"A Nebraska girl, VIII.
committed suicide after ban.
his property. amounting to B.
sne VIII in court and renouncen
IN Iavor OF his mother.
The use of electricity in tam.
pears to be a success. One establishmeA
France has an annual capacity of 900 tons
tanned hide, while in Portugal there are tv,
electric tanneries at work.
The earth's surface only exceeds the
moons by about l31I times. The moons sur
face is fully as large as Africa and Australia
together, and nearly as large as North and
South America without the islands.
"A Berlin mechanic, in testing his cells
to see If the current was flowing, was in the
habit of putting the two ends of the wire in
his mouth, and the soluble salts of copper
produced eventually causeL Ills death.
The French call the n.,ratee "ses
woman" and dugong is named by tn, Dutch
'little man." Stories of mermaids singing or
talking may have arisen from hearing.
cries of seals, which resemble those of child
rem somewhat.
1t is not generally known that an orange
hft in the exact center by a rifle ball will
vanish at once from sight. Such, however,
Is the fact, and shooting it through the GEN.
ter scatters it in such infnitesimal pieces
that 1t is at once lost to sight.
The marriages of "a, 500 persons were
solemnized in London during 1851, the pro-
portion to the population Deing higher than
in anv year since 1888. The births numbered
l34. 4.ooS, or 3lS per LOCO, the lowest on record,
2 n fho iOy, ~ = Nfa- IaOn
M Inandi, young Frenchm an, aston
ished the Paris Academy Of Sciences by solv-
ing the most abstruse mathematical prob
lens offhand. He can multiply or divide
sums of 81 figures mentally without a blum.
der, but in all other Intellectual ways he is
dull
"A man in Liberty, Me, who is feet
inches in height, has beard feet inches
in length, that is tied up ia kind of q
queue. Nobody notices its length exceps
when, to startle strangers, he SHAKES out the
reefs and lets his great beard trail upon the
ground.
The reports of the fire department Of
Boston show that during the past four years
but l.6 per cent of all the fires which had oc-
CURED were attributed to electric wires,
while over per cent of all were caused by
kerosene lamps and 81 per cent were caused
by gas jets and gas explosions.
tached to the barrel of a gun is the inven-
ton of Mr.. Lerchner, of Vienna. By an au-
tomato shutter, working in union with the
trigger of the gun, the sportsman is able to
obtain perfect photograph Of the bird or
animal Immediately before the shot or bull
let has reached il.
In England, perhaps, the oldest exist
ing works In iron are hinges to doors,
strengthening bars, handles, escutcheons,
lock plates, and the like. Even the nails
were things of beauty. Abroad, the massive
doors of the Cathedral Of Notre Dame do
Paris offer wonderful example of early
iron work.
"A Canadian gentleman has expended
vast amount of patience and shown consid-
erable perseverance in gathering q collec-
tion of buttons of officers of every regiment
and department. of the British army. The
collection. which comprises l45 buttons, has
taken nine wears for its formation, and the
owner wrote 5sl letters TO all parts OF the
globe in pursuit of his hobby.
in Rockland, Me-, is dog that is
born thief Its favorite plumber is clothing,
and in daily excursions about the neighbor-
hood during the past winter it has pilfered
enough to stock shop. Last week it wens
into an open hallway, picked up a costly
muff and started for home, hotly pursued by
n man and two excited women. The owner
got her mutt and the dog got a beating.
The Russian is a very religious man.
Whenever he leaves his cottage or enters is
he will bow before the image of a saint that
invariably has its place in corner at the
window, and before which a small lamp 10
constantly burning. Never will he touch
any food or drink until he has made the sign
of the holy cross; that takes the place OF
PRAYER and is not done without thinking Of
the Creator.
"A fine geological specimen Of fossil
tracks was found few days ago in Brain
erd's quarry, in Portland, at a depth of l3o
feet below the surface. The stone is about
OK feet long by feet wide and q of an inch
thick On the upper side, as the stone lay
when found, there are eight tracks, evf-
IDENTIFY made by some animal about the size
of a large dog. They are absolutely perfecs
in shape, representing the toes and the ball
of the foot.