Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The diameter of Mars is 4, 400 miles
-Coldwater, Mich, has an 'old bachelo,
girl club"
The clarionet was invented by
German in 1890.
The alphabet was brought into Greco,
from Phenicia 1893 years B. c.
Oregon has adopted the blossom of the
wild grape for its State flower.
Belgium is declared to be the most in
temperate country in Europe.
"A man in Kentucky has been struck by
lightning four times and is still alive.
"A pet rattlesnake in Florida com
mitted suicide by biting itself in the neck.
There are still over 5000 widows o
veterans of the war of 1872 on the pension
| rolls.
"A Russian physician uses soothin,
| musical tones as a remedy in nervous
| diseases.
"A sign on q street in Philadelphi,
reads: Goal oil, wood, milk and othe
| notions"
-Four salmon, weighing from to 1:
| pounds, were caught in the Hudson rive:
| last week.
The combined weight of three peaches
|
seven pounds.
"A straw hat and linen duster hav,
| been worn for 40 winters by q citizen
| Columbia, Mo.
The Government of Mexico will ex
| hibit at the Worlds Fair rare collection
| of Aztec relics.
| 1t costs So for three-minute attemp
to carry on a conversation over the London
| Paris telephone line.
The old rifle was invented by Whit
worth in 1900, while the new repeating riff,
is the work OF Sharp in 1S4S.
| Captain Davidson, of Detroit, is prob
| ably the king of the fresh waters. His fee
numbers 40 ships and schooners.
On the icy peaks of the Himalayas, il
India. there is "snow maggot," weighing
nearly pound, and excellent to eat.
-Truckee, New, had shaving contest
| recently. The successful artist scraped his
man in As seconds, and no blood was shed.
"A Detroit lady over 20 years of age ha6
| a head of hair which turned from white
to a jet black-the color it was in her girl
hood.
Underground London has 8, 900 miles o
sewers "a, 900 miles of telegraph wires. 800
miles of gas pipes and 45OO miles of watei
mains.
"A photographer says that next to Dabiei
| young married couples are the most trouble
| some, the bride especially being hard tt
please.
In many of the italian universities,
once the most celebrated in Europe, tha
students are so few that there are only fouI
pupils to every professor.
| One of the natural curiosities of Asia il
the Great Salt Desert of Persia. 1t is many
i mi in ia ta
| OF salt several feet thick.
| -Gibbon began the 'Decline and Fall o
the Roman Emp1re'' at 80, and finished it ii
| II years. The work of preparation wa
| really the labor of a lifetime.
| "A street car in Fitchburg. fitted witt
steel ball bearings as an experiment,i ha
| been run for several months without bein
| oiled since it was first put in service.
There is frame house in Lawretce
| Kan, that is feet long, feet wide akd
feet high. 1t has windows with panfs C
| glass, and shelters a family of people.
-Inian newspapers tell of a hoo
| teacher in Lackharabad who was attach
by a lion and kept the animal at Day with
| common broom until assistance arrived. \
The little town of Cumberland i
Rhode Island boasts of q meeting hou 5
which was built in 1740 The late Presidei
| Garfield's mother worshiped in it in he
youth.
If this globe were cooled down to Or
| degrees below the zero of centigrade
| would be covered with sea of Hquefied ga
thirty-five feet deep, of which about sever
feet would be liquid oxygen.
"A Canadian customs officer distin.
| guished himself few days ago by assessing
Buffalo Sunday school picnic party 50 81
| on ice cream which they took over into
| Canada as part OF their lunch.
The Chinese language is spoken by
400, ,OOO, 900, the Hindoo by more than 100000.
OOO tile English by about 9OOOO,OOO the
Russian by S5 600 0OO the German by $1,000.
600, and the Spanish by 100000.
| A Chicago man has recently taken out
patent Tor an electric pickpocket and coat
thief detector, which apparatus is intended,
| automatically, to sound an alarm bell when.
| ever the wearer's personal property is inter
| fered with.
The aborigines of the Andaman Islands
are reputed to be fast disappearing. All OF
| them on two of the islands are dead, and
only few remain on the third. Only a
| small number of children are born, and they
| die in infancy.
-Juvenal first recited his satires in
public at go. He was supposed to have at.
tackled the actor Paris. the favorite of Dom.
| itan; was sent to Egypt to command a
| this honorable exile.
| I'm Malta harbor is large dock, in.
closed with gates, in which can be seen sew
| eral hundred turtles. all marked with the
| name of the ow ner. They are thus marked
| when young and placed there, and can be
| taken out at will by the owner.
| "A curio in vegetation has been found
| near Port Blakely, Wash. 1t is a fir sapling,
| about years old, grated on another sapling
| of the same kind about years of age. Ap-
| parently, the larger of the two trees had
| been broken of and falling had tmpaled
itself on the smaller one.
| A small island in Passamaquoddy Bay
| is inhabited by only one man and his family.
| 1t is said that the man has several wives.
| and he certainly has surprising number OF
children They live by fishing and farming.
| and although the husband and father
| doesn't own the island he is king there.
| The Chinese have an elaborate system
| for the Interpretation of dreams. To be
| whipped by god or devil they regard as
| extremely unlucky, while to enter temple
| and see the gods moving about,is considered
| lucky. To dream OF fighting with wander
/ ing ghosts means that one will live TO an
/ old age.