Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-lIlDSleS Originally AAOhi
The savings bank was invented by
clergyman.
-Porterville, Cal, has an apricot tree
feet inch in circumference.
The Government Weather Bureau has
just attained it's majority-tnat is, its 2lsE
year.
The Colorado exhibit at the Chicago
Fair will be surmounted with u solid silver
statue.
"A human skull turned up among the
mail matter in the New York postofifce the
other day.
1t is claimed that the plump loveliness
of the Turkish ladies is due to eating buster
navored with rose leaves
"A wagon bearing big sign, "Family
washing by the pound" is frequently seen
On the streets in Buffalo, n. I.
In 1885 tame elephant could be bought
in India for s225. At the present time the
prices range from 500 to $4,000
Mariners report tnat the fastest ship
afloat is the City OF Pekin. owned by the
Pacific Mail Company. She cost sl,OO0.OOO.
Southern California produces $50, ,OOO,-
OO0 oranges year-not enough to give three
oranges to each inbaDitant OF the United
States.
The Baptist University of Chicago is
to nave new gymnasium, a sum of s20O,O0
having been appropriated for its erection
and equipment.
1t is said that the Eskimo alphabet has
only five characters: that the language itself
is not very difficult, but it is the only one
the Eskimo ever learns.
1t has been noticed that when q woman
asks to be taken TO the silk counter she
speaks in a much louder tone than when she
asks to look at the calico remnants.
The famous locomotive General" used
by Andrews and his raiders their dash
toward Tennessee April Il, 1862, has been re-
Fair.
"A crazy Louisiana negro few days ago
informed Il white colonel that he had just
killed a man and desired to be hanged for
1t. Tine colonel promptly got rope and
hanged him.
What will be the 1argeseelectric loco
motive in the world is being constructed at
Baden, Zurich. 1t is to develop 500 to , OD0
horsepower, and Will make It's trial trip in
u lew months.
Tuesday, May "a, was the ninth ami
versary of the opening of the Brooklyn
bridge. During this period the number OF
persons travelling over the bridge has aver
aged 40 OO0,0O0 year.
The law of evolution works in language
as well as in other things. Twenty thousand
words have been added to the English Ian
Suage in the department. of biology alone
since Darwin's discoveries.
"A man has lately turned up in Los
Angeles, Cal, who was reported drowned at
Niagara Falls. His life was insured for So
VO0 by an Eastern company, which sum was
PAID TO his relatives on the report that no
was dead.
"A st. Louis man not long since nailed
horseshoe over his door, as he said tor
good luck, and during a storm few days
later llghtnins struck the horseshoe, de-
mollshinS the mouse and deprivIng min of
his senses.
An Indian has been elected delegate
to the Republican National Convention from
the Indian Territory Indians are not
voters, but this action is probably meant to
call attention to the fact that they should be
when sufficiently civilized.
Every stag that falls in Scottish for
est, it has been calculated, costs the lessee
from f35 to ESQ; but, as what is termed
butchers meat" these animals if placed
on the market. would not yield to those who
XIII them more than sfxpence per pound.
There is a curious looking animal in
Sonth Africa that looks for all the world
like piece of toast with four legs, head
and tail. 1t resembles q pussy cat about
the forehead and ears, but its nose is dis
tlnctly that OF rat. while It's tail is not very
dissimilar to that OF u iox.
"A costly wardrobe is owned by one of
the Chinese Ministers, whose magnificent
and varied toilettes have driven the society
bellies wild with envy. The celestial digni-
tarv never appears at public entertain
ments twice in the same costume, aud his
SILK and satin garments are valued at 100000.
Paris Anarchists are now diligently
cultivating the art OF dining for nothing
Bands of them, it is said, now enter eating
houses, call for substantial repasts, dispatch
them and then refuse to pay the bill When
the landlord demonstrates they threaten to
blow up his establishments wish dynamite.
An English firm has inverted an in
genious device for turning on the currents
Tor electric lamps at q certain hour An Or
Ginary clock is so adjusted that at the de-
sired moment q spring is released, permit
ting pair of ptyoted contacts to fail into
mercury cups, thus completing the circuit.
Two laborers engaged in repairing gas
mains at Madison, Wis, were overcome by
gas last Sunday, and would probably have
died had they not been discovered by three
university girls The young women, not
withstanding that they were elegantly at
tired, jumped into the ditch ana rescued the
men.
The experiment of frightening a man
to death was lately tried with perfect sue
cess. A man living in Wellington, Kan, was
anu plHCtu lli ~ COIlll W Il ltltJy
OF men. When the command to fir3 was
given they discharged in the air, while one
OF the number tapped the victim on the
head with stick. The man died instantly.
"A COW belonging to Mr.. Levi Mogg, of
Lydlich, Dorset, was observed few DAYS
ago to be in great agony, and eventually
dashed its head against the walls of its
shed, breaking its neck. On examination u
live snake, two feet long, and six young ones,
also two water Inewts CFriton Cristatu>)
were found i'll its throat. 1t is supposed that
the animal swallowed the reptiles while
drinking from II tarn.
Two men were heard talking about tho
of dreams the other day. One
asserted that he had gone to sleep when the
clock commenced to strike a certain hour
and by the time it had finished had awa5-
ened and heard the last stroke. In the
he dreamed a dream tnat would
take several minutes to relate. The other
on the peculiariUy OF a dream
where the dreamer takes part in Il converse
tion and can Eea= the words of the man ne
is talking to. furnishing the ideas for both
sides of the dialogue.