Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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! Peaches from the Cape of Good h
are now being sold in London.
More butter per head is used in T
land than in any other country. Theret
use l3 pounds per head per annum; in {
many eight pounds, Holland six poul
France four pounds, Italy one pound.
I'm the Indus, Ganges and other sire
are numerous fish-eating crocodiles VT
| attain length of more than 20 feet. Exc
when near their nests and anxious to def
their eggs they run away from huI
beings.
-Trappers in the States of Washing
and Oregon report that the fur-bearing
mails are very numerous this winter,
beaver especially. Lastweek trapper
Blaine caught a beaver that weighed nea
100 pounds.
There are two factories in Philsdelp
that use up in the season 100 horse hide
week each to cover bsseballs. They
alum tanned. One hide will furnish GOV
for ten dozen No. balls and five to eli
dozen inferior ones. -
"A Deer Isle, Me, man has a curios
in the shape of an egg which had on
end a cap-like excrescence, which, be
lifted, showed full-sized cranberry b,
between the cap of the shell and the in
lining membrane of the egg.
Mail advices from the Argentine
public bring information of the discovery
a vast bed of silver in the bottom of the
of San Bias, Argentine Republic The sill
appears in the black metallic sand VIII
covers the bottom of the bay. 4
The number of bacteria present in m
depends chiefly upon the length of time
the milk has been standing and upon
temperature. Estimates made upon m
under different conditions have shown fr
800, ,o00, 600 to 10000, 900 to the quart.
The Gulf of Georgia is reported to
almost choked with large schools of herri
The Washington and British Columb
fishermen are catching the fish by the
with no trouble whatever, and are max
good money by packing them for shipm'
East.
Ostrich farming is one of the imports
industries in South Africa, which, as
furnishes the bulk of the ostrich pIumes
the markets of the world. There are pro
bly, 100000 domesticated ostriches in CO
Colony. Each bird is supposed to net
owner $40 per annum-
Since the fire at the Benedietine mon
terry it has been revealed that almost 30l
cent of all the benedictine Drewed is
sumed in Finland by about 1O0, 900 people
is the national drink. 1t is drank in Gu
blers, three or four young men not thin ki
anything of consuming couple Of bottles
1t was the Chinese who invented
well-known plan of capturing ducks a
other water fowl by wading toward tn
with basket over the head and draggi
them under water before they knew WI
had caught them by the legs. Theirs is
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fishing.
If it were possible to rise above the
mosphere which surrounds the earth,
sun would look like sharply defined ball
fire, while everything else would be wrapr
in total darkness. There could be no diff
ence of light without an atmosphere
some similar medium for the SUMS rays
act upon.
The census of all India shows popu
ton of 2S7, 100000. Of these 207, ,634, 4O7 &
Hindoos, 1885, 204 Mussulmans. 2,2s4,
Christians, 14l6 6109 Jains. 1907. .s36 Six
7,1o1, ,057 Buddhists, S9.sS7 Parsees. Il, $50 I
brews, 9,4O2 os3 forest tribes (animal w
shipers). 2S9 atheists, agnostics, etc. Amo
the Hindoos are included 3,401 Brahmas
39,94S Aryas.
The discovery of gold has been gre
thing for the Boni negroes on the Marc
poor before the placer mines were disco
cred in 1855 Since then they have be
getting rich in the transport service. tn
carry all freight around the rapids to t
placer digrings at the enormous charge
80 francs BARREL. s-4-
A Montana man has invented ran
snow plow, to be used in scraping the snt
off the ranges so that the cattle can get
the grass. 1t is reported that the machi
works very satisfactorily. Thousands
cattle perish every year, and the numt
this year has been more than usually lar
from starvation, on account of the de
SHOWS cutting OFF the food supply.
Last October the schooner Jennie .
Cheney, lime laden, sprang a leak in Roc
land, Me-, harbor. and took fire. All effol
to smother the fire were unsuccessful, ar
after smouldering all winter at anchor,
vessed was towed the other day to the he:
of the bay and left to her doom. The fam
have now burst through the decks, and
night the flaming wreck presents beautif
spectacle.
"A natural curiosity has been found ]
two men named Burns and Morris, who we
cutting trail at Montborne, near Seattl
Two roots, a cedar and a hemlock, hs
grown together around one another at rig
angles, so as to form link. They we
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Superintendent Corey, of the Oregon II
provement Company's mines, who inten'
to have them polished and preserve them
1t is understood by the Roman popula
that Beatrice Cenci is now in heaven. The
has been legend that when she was e1
cutcd she went to purgatory, and that 81
was to stay there so long as the Borghe
family, to whom the Pope distributed I'll
Cenci property, kept it with pront and
ruined, and so it is believed and reported
Rome that Beatrice's punishment is ende
The Tarratines, or Penobscot Indian
who live on an island in the river doze
miles above Bangor, are the most inseniol
of all basket makers, and no chemist b;
produced brighter colors than those wit
which the children OF the forest adorn the
wares. The baskets are made OF thin Str1l
of ash and maple, the latter for rims an
handles, and much of the work is 1nte
woven with fragrant sweet grass from tl
salt marshes along the coast
New Mexico has very wide range I
climate. The temperatures registered in IL
Territory during January varied conside
ably over 1902 The hottest place during tt
month was La Luz, Dona Ana county. whe1
the Thermometer registered 76o one day, an
the mean temperature for the month wa
81 10 At Dulce, Rio Arriba county, the me
curry on one chilly January day crawle
down tc 800 below zero, and It's record fc
low zero. .s~