Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-17
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

1t is "Allegheny" in Pennsylvania,
"Alleghany' in Virginia and "Allegany" In
New York.
IF you had as many lenses in each eye
| as the common dragon fly has, each of your
| organs of sight would be as big as box
| car.
"A prisoner in a Bohemian reformatory
has finished perfect running-straw watch
which is said TO be mo larger than shirt
button"
Charlottesville, Ga, has Shaking
rock" similar to that mentioned in this de-
partment a few weeks ago as being located
IN Kentucky.
Among the relics in the rooms of the
New York Historical Society is the tail of
George Ills horse, which was taken q {
Bowling Green.
The tulip was first made known to
botantsts by descriptions,and figures made
by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner,
in the year 1853.
IF we could penetrate the earth's sur
face to distance of two miles, we would
find the place where water could not exist
except in the state of steam.
-Enos Kerr, man we'll known at Knox
vile, Ia, found perfect miniature ear Of
corn with grains no larger than mustard
seeds, growing on a stalk of foxtail.
The pyrometer measures heat in de-
grees and fractions and will give accurate
figures even though the heat runs up to the
unthinkable intensity of 1000 degrees.
The very finest specimen of engraved
gem now in existence is a head of Nero.
carved on firstwater diamond by the
brothers Castanzi in the year 1870 A d.
1t would take three and one-fourth
thousands t325O) of the little vegetable par
asites which grow the human hair to
cover the white center of a nonpareil "o.'' '
"A Meriden (Conn. cutlery factory has
just finished wonderful toy-a perfect
pocketknife with 80 blades, pinchers, shears,
avis, ETC., which weighs but one-eighth of
an ounce.
"A piece of frogs skin not larger in di-
ameter than the rubber tip on your lead
pencil has more pores in it than there are
meshes in the mosquito netting on your
screen door.
1t can be proven by a simple caicula-
tion that the number of people which have
existed on the globe during the past 5000
years approximates the grand total OF &c.
0O0, 900, 900, 600 900.
The glow-worm lays eggs which are
themselves luminous; however, the young
Matched from them are not possessed of
those peculiar properties until after the
first transformation.
1t is now known that precious and semi
precious stones were engraved With all the
delicacv of modern filagree work as long ago
as the time of Horace, centuries before emery
powder, wheel and lathe were known.
The British Museum proudly boasts
the possession of small square of yellow
jasper bearing the figure of horse and the
name and titles of Amenophis IL, believed
to date back to about the year l4jO B. C.
One and half million men work in the
coal mines of the world OF these England
has 535 900; United States. 100000: Germany.
2s5, 600: Belgium, 100, ,000 Russia, 40O0. The
world SINNERS of metal number 4O00,0 600.
"A London (England) woman has
patented a machine for making watch
screws that is provided with a thread cutter
so delicate as TO be almost invisible. 1t will
cut perfect threads on the finest human
hair.
There is point near the famous Stony
Cave in the Catskill Mountains, where ice
may be found on any day in the year. This
locality is locally known as the Notch, and
is walled in on all sides by steep noun ntainy.
some of which are moFe than 5000 feet
high.
AT Burnt Cove, Deer Isle, Me-, an aged
woman, who owns a good farm, spends most
of her time in summer sittings in the barn
and making quilts for the poor. 1t was
through her energy and benevolence that
the only church around Burnt Cove was
built
According to letter written by a mis-
sionary in Palestine to friend in this coun-
try, Jerusalem has been enjoying boom
since the completion of the railroad that
connects 70 with Jaffa. Over 800 houses,
hotels, stores, and residences have been
erected.
There are many curious trades in the
world. but the most strange must surely De
r. "a
Yet well known English doctor in China
has just certified from his own personal
experience thar this art ia regularly prac-
ticed in the Flowery Kingdom
in many countries the rainbow is
spoken of as being great bent pump or
siphon tube, drawing water from the earth
by mechanical means. In parts of Russia.
in the Don country, and also in Moscow and
vicinity, fr is known by name which is
equivalent to ''the bent water pipe"
The law of Denmark now gives to every
Danish subject, man or woman, the right to
a pension at 80 years of age, except in cases,
of convicted criminals, of those who have
fraudulently made over their property to
relatives, and of those who have brought
themselves to distress by extravagance.
Death Valley, California, notwith-
standing its suggestive name,is the abode of
more curious and wonderful specimens of
animal creation than any place of its size
within, the limits of the United States. The
oldest of these creatures, perhaps, is q
species of rodent called the kangaroo
lat"
"A two-years' study at G1zeh has con-
vinced Mr. Flinders Petrie that the Egyptian
of 4,0O0 years ago had a sur
prising acquain tance with what had been
considered modern tools Among the many
tools used by the pyramid-builders were
both solid and tubular drills and straight
and circular saws
Mrs. Mary Green, of Scarboro, Mo-,
who is 81 years old, has during the last six
spun So skeins OF yarn, knitted five
pairs of Stockings, picked three bushels Of
and tended large hOckS OF
and ducks, besides doing much
general house work. She has six grandchtl-
dren and eight greatgrandchildren.
-Augustin Daily has one of the most re-
of bibles. Long having been an
art collector, he has gathered material that
has extended a rare copy of the Doua Bible
to the 42-folio volumes. 1t is collection
that comprise q history of scriptural art
ALI the maste rpieces are there; all the Ma
donnas, for in stance, of every age and every
school Of art
The native newspapers of Japan are la
nentinx the decay of good manners among
the newly educated Japanese girls. They
a ssert that under systems OF education
brourbt from foreign lands the usages Of
female life have, one by one, been aban-
doned and the modern girl, in her attempts
TO initiate foreign manners, mas almost
herself into a man.
IDYLLIC HUMORESQUES.