Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS
-Briok was used 4. OOO years AGO.

Brick was used 1000 years ago.
-Umatilla, Ore, lays claim to an Indian
13o years old.
Advertisement in newspapers made
their first appearance in 1859
The first theater to be lighted through
ont with electricity was the Gaiety in Lon-
| don in 1873.
There are 1920 hansoms and $500
four-wheel cabs in the metropolitan district
of London.
The soul-moving accordeon was in
vented by Yienese musician named
Damfan in 1929.
The world consumes 5000, 000, 900
pounds Of paper a year and is supplied by
1900 paper mills.
The gold the dentist buries away in
human teeth amounts to 1880 pounds year
| In the United States.
"A Massachusetts confectioner is putting
in a cough drop machine that will cough ous
one ton OF drops every day.
There are no great woolen factories in
Egypt, but looms are scattered in small
numbers over the whole country.
AT late spiritualistlc seance in Lon
don the ghost Of Voltaire misplaced his his
and was unable to understand French.
One of the richest gold discoveries ever
made in Eastern Oregon is reported to have
been made recently by two men near olive
Lake.
"A New Orleans dealer advertises: "Can
furnish live alligators at any time and Of
long"
"A resident of Florida, speaking about
the many attractions of that State, relates
that there never had been a case OF sun
stroke there nor mad dog.
The famous $500 sword presented to
General B. M. Prentiss, the "hero of Shiloh"
was recently discovered in a New York
pawnshop and purchased for SIS.
The British general elections are never
on one or the same day. because an elector
has the right to cast ballot in every dis
trict in which he owns property.
"A street car in Fitchburg, fitted with
steel ball bearings as an experiment. has
been run for several months without being
oiled since it was first put in service.
"A town out West the other day
shipped carload of hogs in which were
pounds each" The weight OF the hogs is not
stated.
I'm hens nest at Dahlonega, Ga,
softshel egg, about seven inches in length
was found. 1t was "round like a marble at
one end, and tapered OF sharp as a pencil at
the other"
"A pair of shoes and stockings were
found in the stomach OF a shark eight feet
long, which was caught at Brunswick. Ca,
on Saturday.
If this globe were cooled down to 200
degrees below the zero of centigrade, it
would be covered with a sea of liquefied gas
IS feet deep of which about seven feet would
be liquid oxygen.
The formation of q new island in the
Caspian Sea, near Baku, Russia, by up
heayal, is announced Its surface is re-
ported to be irregular and composed of
blackish gray and yellow hardened mud
BY judicious marketing the South
Carolina melon growers have made the $50
carloads which they have shipped this year
pay them 81. 500, twice as much as they re-
ceived for 1,l69 carloads shipped last year.
Mrs. Patsy Shears, of Howard county,
Ind, is dead. Her family was noted for its
longevity. "Her father lived to be 100 years
old and her mother died at the age of 100
years. Her husband lived to be q century
old"
Chemical action formed a stone in the
stomach of La Marshale, the famous hurdle
jumping horse of Paris. He died, and the
stone, ball nearly eight inches in dame
ter, is in the museum Of Partisan veter-
mary.
The world-famous grapevine at Hsmp-
ton Court, the largest in England, and sup
posed to be 125 years old, bore nearly
200 punches of ripe grapes this year. The
fruit was packed in boxes and sent to the
Queen.
When Sunol trotted a mile in 2:08H
and Nancy Hanks went under the wire in
2:O7L both horses were shod with aluminium
shoes The horses making the best time
this year were all shod with the new light
metal
L.. =
tributing prizes at the annual show of the
Cottage Garden Society at Sandown Park
fox terrier ran from the spectators, mounted
the royal dais and, standing on Its hind legs,
begged for prize, too.
One of the greatest novelties in weaving
machinery recently invented is that de-
signed by an Englishman, in which the pile
in plush fabrics Is gained in an expeditions
manner during the weaving. The picks or
wefts are actually cut before being driven
in.
"A woman nonplused the information
bureau man at the railroad station in Port
land, Ore. some time ago by telling him
that she had forgotten her destination. He
called of the names of a long list of stations,
but she was unable to recognize the name OF
her place
According to statistics recently pub
lished, the United States buys from Nun ich
each year more works Of art than Bavaria
does and nearly as much as the rest Of Ger
many. And this in spite Of the fact that the
fashion in America for buying foreign pict.
ures no longer favors Berlin.
"A Frenchman has recently made i'm
portant advances in the WORK OF photo
colors. One Of his plates gives a
view Of stained glass window, containing
red, green, blue and yellow: others showa
group of flags, a parti-colored paroques
and plate of oranges with poppy lying on
the top.
"A Captain Blondel1 at Oxford, Ala,
offered SIS to anyone who would get intos
boat and allow it to be blown up with dyna-
mite, so that Blondell might show his life-
saving methods. A young man named Nicely
accepted the offer, and was blown about 40
feet into the air unhurt, but on his return to
the waters surface he alighted on the frag.
ments of the wreck and received fractured
eg and other injur les.
In Paris an interesting series of expert
nents is being carried on by MN. Caliletes
Ind Colardean, in which they are seeking to
verify the law of falling bodies, and at the
,ame time those OF the res istance Of the air
20 the passage of bodies. In order to carry
put their work the investigators have in
stalled their laboratory on the second land
ng of the Eiffel Tower, which gives them
rec fall of l20 metres, or about $40 feet