Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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American perfume equals tne tIenen
article.
The Danes lead the world in butter
making.
An aluminium buggy is among the COM
ing possibilities.
The jackal is a greater foe to Indian
humanity than the tiger.
"A quilt with 1 ,234 names written on It
has been made in Florida.
The bell on a church at Cedar Farm,
Ind, can be heard seven miles.
The first counterfeiting was done in
1888 by a man named Richard William
Waugh.
-"Crossing the Bar in Welsh begins:
"Hwyer-ddydd seren naion."
A horse at Osceola, Mo-, stands II
hands high and weighs $40 pounds.
"A pair of George Washington's
breeches were lately sold at auction in
Philadelphia for $40.
"A music box that was accidentally
touched of in st. Louis the other night
frightened away the burglars.
"A Chicago paper wakes cheerful over
the prevalent crime in that city as follows:
Drop a nickel in your vest pocket and watch
it get stolen.
Egypt as early as B. C. 700. They were made
by the priests, who were the physicians Of
that early time.
The Swiss "wine of blood is so called
from the battle OF Birs, fought on the vine
yard: 600 Swiss opposed $4,000 French, and
were all killed butl6
The carelessness of householders in
Lon don is shown by the fact that 9632S
doors and windows were found open by the
police mt night in one year.
In the consular district of Piedras
Negras, Mexico. there is not a single Ameri-
can commercial house. Trade is entirely in
the hands Of the Europeans.
John w. Grantham, resident of john
ston county, n. G., has seven grown daugh-
ters. six Of whom are married, all to men
whose baptismal name is John.
The new brewery tax is causing gen.
eral depression in the beer business in
Germany. The Altoona Brewery Union has
already raised its price three pfennigs the
half-litre-
Having found himself unable to raise
money with which to meet a note for 500.
George Sellers, q young man in Boston,
mortgaged his parents graves in Mount
Hope Cemetery.
"A man down in Maine has found a petit
ton to Parliament written in 1643. 1t is
written IN INK on hand-made paper, and the
brass pin stuck into the paper is doubtless
Older than the petition.
1t is estimated that England's wheat
crop for this year is about 55O0O.OOO bushels,
| or less than two bushels for each inhabitant.
| She must buy at least $50 00O, 600 bushels more
| from some outside source
The Coasrdnt has been published in
Hart:ord since october %, 1884, and is the
oldest newspaper in the United States Of
| continuous publication in the same town
| and under the same name.
Aluminium is found combined with 195
| other minerals, and, therefore, constitutes
large part of the crust of the earth, but until
| recently has been very expensive, because
| Of the difficulty Of separating it.
"A man in Columbus, o., has patented
an electrical device intended to automat-
ically lower and raise railroad gates at
grade crossings at the approach and after
the passing of trains The apparatus IS ex-
pected to supplanE fagmen and gatetend-
ers.
According to the best and most recent
calculations 100, OOO, 900 tons of water pour
| over Niagara every hour. This represents
| 10000 900 horse. power. The annual coal
| production of the world would not furnish
| steam power sufficient to pump 1t back
| again.
Switzerland is not drinking more liquor
this year than last, and has not increased in
her consumption of alcoholics for three
wears past. There the Governments controls
the sale of liquor, and the profits are divided
among the cantons. third goes toward,
remedying the effects of alcohol.
A Roman has offered King Humbert
novel instruments OF warfare. This is a pro-
jectile which on being shot from q cannon
and striking an object will produce lumin-
| GUS disc of 1000 candle power, and thereby
| expose to view the enemy's position by night
| at distance of from three to four miles.
The billiard table at the White House
was purchased for the use Of General Gar
field. he had billiard room fitted up in
| the basement Of the Executive Mansion,
and played there great deal With his 1nt1-
mate friends. Garfield was also fond OF
cards, though he never played game for
| money.
French notions about English customs
and Language are often, If not always, ex-
tremely amusing. recent French writer
| on games gives an interesting resume Of En-
| gIish sports and refers to ''slogging," 4" row
| ingmen, - yachting women" and footing"
as technical words current among English
sportsmen.
The oldest horticultural association in
Europe is the Royal Society OF Agriculture
and Borany of Ghent, established in the
wear IsOs Its annual exhibitions are al
ways of great interest, and every nye years
teenth of which is announced to open on the
18th of April next and to close on the sd OF
the same month.
There has been a decided stand against
wearing Grape for some years past, but the
Princess of Wales gSve it the coup de grace
bv dispensing with it during her mourning
for the late Duke of Clarence. Now there IS
a further protest against tine heavy Grape
worn by widows, and doubtless before an
other year has come and gone the modihca-
tion in this direction will be very perceptt-
Bile.
-Sheridan's little skit giving the charact-
eristic OF each month is as applicable now
and in this latitude as it was when he wrote
it for England ,
April, showery; May. flowery; June, bowery;
July, moppy; August, croppy; September
poppy;
October, breezy; November, wheezy; Decem-
Der, freely.
The passion for gambling finds many
forms OF expression in Spain. A dealer in
matches in Madrid makes each box of his
wares, which are sold for a cent, a ticket in
the lottery. The boxes are labeled Light
and Money The holder of this box is ell
titled to participate in the ticket number 50
and so of the National Lottery of such and
such a day" Each box is numbered, and the
purchaser becomes interested, willy nfllyS In
the ensuing drawing.