Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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AN establishment for canning wild geese
| is to be constructed in Alaska ss...,...,el ~
AN SO0-pound cinnamon bear was capt
| ured recently in Lassen county, Cal 1t Is
believed to be one of the largest ever taken
! in trap.
Late tests prove that the strongest wood
growing in the United States is the nutmeg
hickory" of Arkansas. The weakest is the
yellow or West Indian birch .. sg
The man of an average of 154 pounds
has enough iron in hfs makeup to make
plough-share and enough phosphorus to
make half million matches. -s-.-. 70 t-l-
"A few years ago the Belding Bros, silk
manufacturers of Northampton. Mass, sunk
9 well at their silk works. to the depth Of
o,'oo feet without obtaining water. .; s..
"A cat recently killed a fve-foot alli-,
gator in Florida. 1t jumped on the reptile
and bit through the tender hide of the
neck until it reached the vital part. 7's-
The mean descent of the Ohio river
from the junction of the Allegheny and
Monongahela to the Mississippi Is about 81
inches per mile, the distance being 975 miles,
The Algerians know what real plague
OF grasshoppers is. In one district of that
country alone over so 900 gallons of the eggs
OF the pest were gathered and burned last
year. - ssry
|Gergen, Norway, boasts paper church
large enough to seat 1OO0 persons. The
of eggs. ~
The Cars income is about SIS, 900 per
day, taking American currency as the basis
OF calculations: Queen VictoFia's is 1900,
fresldent Harrison is content with paltry
$l37 per day. -
-lncitatus, the famous horse of the
Roman Emperor, Caligula, was actually
consecrated as priest, had a manager OF
pure ivory, and was never given q drink
from anything but gold pail. -.
The Chinese make what is called "Chi.
wa-hi,'' or grass cloth, from the fibre Of the
common nettle. 1t is said to make splendid
cloth for tents, awnings, etc. When made
into betting for machinery it is said to have
twice the strength of leather.
I'm Ireland favorite remedy for every
kind of internal pain is hot vinegar punch;
indeed, vinegar taken either cold or hot Is
considered almost specific for everything.
1t must be comforting in some cases. 1t is
much used for "squeezin' on the hart,'s
whlch Is the commonest complaint of all. -
The people of Paris consumed within
the past year 81 2sl horses, 2s9 aonkeys and
40 mules, the meat weighing, according to
the returns, 4,6l5 tons. At the $50 shops and
stalls where such food is sold the price has
varied from two sous to a franc pound the
latter being the price of the best horse
steaks. -
Cyclones are of tropical origin, and are
chiefly found in five localities: the West
Indies, Bengal Bay and the Chinese coast,
north of the equator; and in the South In
dian Ocean OFF Madagascar and the South
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are not half dozen on the average every
season. t3aPs
Formerly sites for furnaces were often
selected with view to material being
brought to the tops Of the furnaces without
any expenditure OF, power; nowadays the
sites are chosen so as to admit Of ready re-
moval of the iron and Stag in large quanti-
ties within a limited time, plenty of room
and good drainage.
In Egypt the dog was q friend and faith
full servant. He lived in the house with his
master, followed him in his walks, attended
the public ceremonies, sometimes free, as
other times held in leash by slave or child,
or in princely families by a favorite dwarf
At his meals he had his place marked under
the benches of the guests.
The PERCEPTIONS mountain orags around
large lake near the Columbia river in
IDAHO is said to be one of the finest fields
fox sport in hunting the large white noun
tain goat and black bear that there is in the
world. So white are the goats that it takes
Gays of practice hun ting them to detect q
band moving over the snow.
"A phenomenon is observed in an srte-
sian well near Edensburg. The well spoken
of is down about 200 feet, but the water in 10
Is still l6O FEET below the surface. The pecu-
liarity consists in the fact that when there
is no wind the water is that distance below
the curbing; when there is q high wind flow
ing water pours out of the pipe. ...as
St Johns, Newfoundland; Montreal
and Ottawa, Canada; Portland, Oregon;
Temeswar, Hungary: Trieste, Austria, and
Venice, Padua, Verona, Mantua, Milan and
Turin, Italy, are all situated between 45 and
As degrees of North latitude. Who would
think OF putting Montreal and Ottaw wa in the
same latitude as Venice and Verona? r
Watches were appreciably reduced in
size after the invention OF the fusee to OBJ
viate the Inconvenience Of variations OF
power OF the handspring. The watches
made early in the sixteenth century gener-
ally strongly contrasted in- size and porta-
bil;ty with those worn in fobs by men in the
eighteenth century, and which were round,
thick and heavy.
"A Victoria, B. c., Chinaman recently
married ga Melican woman" But he soon
wanted a divorce. In his plea he complains
that she has "too muchee talkee with neigh
bors, too muchee paint face and eyeblows,
too muchee Yulepean blandy. too muchee
fight too muchee snore, too mucbee boss,
too rnuchee dleam, too muchee say kiliam
husband. and too muchee no good" But the
court held the Chinaman to his contract.
I'm Germany, wood with mirror polish
is coming into use for ornamental. purposes
in place of metal. The wood is first SUBJ
mitted to bath OF caustic alllali for two or
three davs at n temperature Of about 1z5o
Fab then dipped into hydrosulphate of
calcium for "a to % hours, after which a con-
centrated solution of sulphur is added.
After another dip in an acetate of lead solu-
tion, at about 10o shining metallic surface
is given by polishing, when dry, with lead,
tin or zinc.
Important discoveries of prehistoric
remains nave been made near Brunn, the
CAPITAL of Moravia, which are likely to
attract the attention of paleonrologists all
over the globe. As canal was being dug,
four and half skulls were brought to light
of dolichocephalous(long headed )charac5er,
and of an exceedingly low stage of develop
nent. The same place contained bones and
teeth of mammoth rhfnoceroses and rein
deer. Close to the skulls lay more than 500
fossil snails, several ca1cinous stones with
holes in the middle, rude figure cut out of
a niammoth's tooth with q hole running
through the middle.
RHYNKLEs AND RHYMELErs,
'sMy DEAR" said Mrs. Chatterly to Mrs