Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

In Holland many women are practicing
dentistry.
Austria is reported to have only 155
periodicals.
All twisted boring tools are said to be
| of American invention
The town of Tide, Wash, has been re-
christened Leavenworth.
Great Britain has so miles of tunnel,
their cost exceeding So, 5000
| Millions of butterflies are eaten every
year by the Australian Aborigines.
No British sovereign has vetoed a par.
liamentary bill during the past 1s5 years.
The list of musical prodigies in Boston
at presentincludes young Cherokee Indian
Last year Arizona produced 5000, 900
in gold, 81, 900 in silver and $500, 900 in
| copper.
/ Queen Victoria is quite a successful
| cattle shows.
| For the first time the Russian soldiers
are to be furnished with handkerchSers az
| the Governments expense.
Very few of the Scotch peasantry now
wear the hiIt. Most of the peasants dress
after the manner of Englishmen.
"A blast fired in a quarry at Granite
vile, Mo-, recently dislodged I6O 900 cubic
feet of stone, all in one solid mass.
The smallest inhabited island is that
upon which the Eddystone lighthouse
stancs. At low water it is only 30 feet in
diameter.
Flies are so pestilential in Siam that
every soldier is compelled to assist in reduc-
ing their number by catching enough every
day to fill matchbox.
The obiaf ~ dooorafor Of
New York carriage manufactoryis q woman,
who has 20 women employed IN the depart
ment which she controls.
There are seven British species of
wasps. In one Of their nests the number OF
cells is sometimes more than 5000, almost
all OF which contain eitheran egg, grub, or
pupa.
"A resident of Sanford, N. c., claims to
have unearthed petrified snail the other
day from the bottom of a well. He states
that the shell and flesh have turned 10 pure
stone.
The English Court of Queens Bench
has decided that grocers may weigh paper
with tea, coffee, sugar and such commodities
without being guilty of fraud upon the pur-
chaser.
I'm 1549 Henry IL of France interdicted
trimmings, borders, gold lace, gold and sill
yer cloth and satins. Great lamentations
AAOiLl buo WOLACA CAouCu Auu buo 6Q1cL WAS
modified
Tiger hunting in India, as now con-
Quoted, is perilous sport Formerly the ami
mails were shot from platform erected in
the forests. Now the daring sportsmen hunt
them on foot.
The Babylonians had wine called
cuttach, which they said, "obstructs the
heart. blinds the eyes and emaciates the
body" They also had provero: ut Is
nat fn ink 1ah fhor Inf,
cuttach.'
"A message from Quebec statesthat Mr..
Allard, OF Lewis, the blacksmith who has
discovered a method OF tempering copper,
has tried the same means to temper afumi-
NUN. and is reported to have succeeded
satisfactorily.
The longest electric railway in the
world is reported to be contemplated in
Russia. The project is to construct q line
from ST. Petersburg to ArchangeI, a port on
the White Sea, a distance of more than TO
kilometers (450 miles).
Sir Archibald Gerkie, of the British
Association, after much careful thought
and patient investigation, together with q
good deal of figuring, has come to the con-
clusion that the world is between q, 100000
and 650, 900, 600 years old.
"A woman feet inches in heighs
shonld weigh at 80 years of age. from 7st
SID. to ST.; at 40 she will be 2 lb. heavier; at
so nearly ID. heavier; at 60 she should be
about the same weight as at 80, and she
should get lighter as she grows older.
The hump on the back of the drome-
Diary is an accumulation of q peculiar species
of fat, which Is "a store OF nourishment ben
eficently provided against the DAY of want
to which the animal is often exposed. The
dromedary or camel can exist for long Pc
riod upon this hump without any other
food.
The giant of giants and Titan of Titans,
as far as sewing machines are concerned
has recently been finished at Leeds. Eng
land. 1t weighs exactly 81 tons and is spe-
cially adapted for general manufacturing
purposes OF the heavier sort. This particu-
lar machine will be used for attaching cot
ton betting.
According to DR.. Goss, of Berlin, sui
phur is not an element,.b a compound.
From recent investigations, he has come to
the conclusion that this substance is a COM
pound body, consisting of hitherto un-
known substance combined with hydrogen.
The alleged separation was made by the aid
of electrolysis-
The first Worlds Fair or universal ex-
position was held in London in 1851, and the
second in New York in 1856. The credit for
the first Worlds Fair is generally awarded
to Albert, the Prince consort of Queen Vic
toria. The first exDostiens in Paris were
h eld in 1855 and 1861; the first in Vienna in
1910, anu Iuc uTSG III Berlin IN 1851
-Photographing under water has ac.u-
ally been carried out, so it is said. Expert
ments were made in 1889 in the Mediterra.
mean to ascertain how far daylight pene-
trates under the water. In very clear water
near Corsica, and 18 miles from land, the
limit of daylight was found by means OF
plates to be 1850 feet.
"A Bangor, Me-, business man had occs-
sion to have the lock repaired and the COM
changed in his safe. When the bill
was presented he refused to pay Tor it,
that the charge was too much.
The locksmith thereupon closed the safe,
gave the lock few turns, and walked back
to his stove. The owner soon weakened in
his declaration and paid the bill, on which
the safe was once more opened by the trt-
locksmith.
"A large lake has been found, ii is said,
on the ridge of the Olympic Mountains, in
between the Duckabush and
Sn ohomish Rivers. 1t is situated in q deep
basin of the mountains, at an altitude OF
about 5000 feet, and the basin is claimed to
be, in all probability, the crater of an ex-
tinct volcano. 1t is further stated TO De
two miles long and half mile wide, with
depth unknown, as the cliff de5cends per-
into the water on all sides,
POETRY FIN PASSANT