Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Ice was first made by machinery by
Carre in 1850.
"A New York beggsr makes $500 .
year at the business.
I'm the fourteenth century axes were
fixed on the shafts of lances.
The Japanese revere woman and believe
that she originally grew on tree.
William Wordsworth wrote IAN Even
ing Walk" at ID and the Excursion" at "A.
DR. Agnus, of Chicago, claims to have
hypnotized men at distance of eight miles,
The first time electricity was used In
the execution of criminals in New York was
in 1890.
The name of Wayne is the title or pars
of the title of more places in the United
states than any other.
-Perterze IrnehzizkowskelowsHi is San
Francisco cabinet maker. He Is said to oo-
casionally use his name for saw.
The lasso is an invention of the South
American Indians and was In use when the
country was discovered by Spaniards
One million dollars in gold coin would
weigh S6s5.s pounds. The same amount OF
silver coins would weigh 5595s.9 pounds
-Ouida has written q novels, and they
have paid her more than any history pub
lished within the last quarter of a century.
The Salvation Army, every member Of
which must be a total abstainer, is now the
largest temperance organization in the
world.
There are said to be over %, 900 Indians
in the United States who can read English
and over 10000 who can read Indian lam
guages.
In England they do not chew gum, con-
sidering the habit low and vulgar, but in
Australia the people seem already to have
taken kindly to it.
-Telfair county, Ga, boasts smart
baby. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. johnson have an
s-months-old son who can walk and talk,
and weighs 50 pounds.
In Germany they are using strawberry
strawberry plant after they have been dried
and prepared like Chinese tea.
"A breakfast in Scotland consists chiefly
OF cold grouse. salmon, cold beef, MARINA
lade, jelly, money, five kinds of bread, oat-
meal cakes. coffee, toast and tea
AN orange fad is among the possibilities
of the day. Free consumption of the fruit
is said to be good for the complexion and
many ladies are testing the claim.
The longest day of the year has 10
hours at st. Petersburg, II hours at Ham
burg, 16A hours at London, Is hours at New
York ana 81 months at SDitzbergen.
In the siege of Syracuse, B. @. 212,
Archmedes burned Roman ships In the
harbor by concentrating the suns rays on
them by means of an arrangement of mir
rOrS.
When William Henry Harrison, the
grandfather of Benjamin, ran for Presidents
in 1896 he received 4l,2s1 votes in Indiana
His grandson received fn the same State in
1888. 263 1851.
-Petersham is one of those primitive
Massachusetts towns that the railroad has
never reached. It was the scene of the end
of Sbay's rebellion in the days succeeding
the Revolution.
The plans for making Paris seaport
have been deposited at the Hotel de Vile.
The proposed canal from Rouen to Paris is
to be 10 miles long and about 20 feet deep,
and will cost 135, 900, 900 francs.
An English experimenter, Mr.. E T
Chaplin, has given an account of hypnotic
ing laying hen, and inducing her in that
manner to sit on a sitting OF eggs until
seven of them had hatched out.
Several Japanese editors have been
sentenced to four years. imprisonment, with
hard labor, for speaking unexpectedly Of
the Emperor Jimmu, who. if he ever en-
listed, lived about 500 years ago.
The coronach, or mourning for the dead,
Is still heard in many parts of Scotland, as
well as in Ireland. 1t is weird chant, cries
of lamentation being mingled with remon-
strances addressed to the departed for leav-
ing his friends and relatives
Our English ancestors, in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries, had four meals q
day; breakfast at T. dinner at 10, tea at 1,
and supper at or 8, soon after which they
went to bed. The tradespeople and lsboring
men had only three meals: breakfast at 8
dinner at Il, and supper at 6.
A prominent woman doctor of Birming-
ham, England, goes her rounds on a tricy-
Gle. In neat and pleasing dress, equally
suited for the sick room OF saddle, she glides
along through the crowded streets an object
of interest to all. In the suburbs OF Boston
women go calling, shopping and marketing
on their safetleS.
AT a recent matriculation examination
at the University of Bucharest, q female
students proved successful as compared
with 255 males: at Jassy the numbers who
presented themselves were 81 males and
only 26 females, and only one failed to
satisfy the examiners; whereas, out of the 50
males % were rejected
AN Englishman named R. j. Crowley
has taken out patent in Great Britain for
opening up direct communication with
Mars. His plan consists in the arrangement
the light, these to be connected by electricity
and operated by telegraph key.
The Chapter of st. Peters Cathedral
has submitted to His Holiness the Pope tho
designs for the golden throne which the
Chapter, in cooperation with all the other
Roman Catholic Cathedrals of the world,
will present to His Holiness The throne
is designed in Gothic form, and will cost
500, 600 francs.
For the past Is years prophet in Java
has received from his fellow natives about
400 year "for not predicting O tidal wave
which will sweep clear over the island"
The people look on the man as great
and think he has the power to
create or attract wave which would wipe
,ut the island.
in South Carolina there are 1920
white voters and 49,, 900 colored voters. In
Mississippi there are 10000 white voters
md $50 OCO colored voters-a colored maj jority
,f 80 900 in each State. Louisiana has moro
white than colored voters, but it has, on the
)ther hand, more colored voters native born
han white voters native born.
POETRY EN- PAsSANT.