Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

-Grecian women had longer feet ths
average man has now.
Green vegetables will retain their
it is said, if cooked in al uncovered
The Turkish Government has forb
the importation of all patent medicine
this country.
According to the best authorities
heat generated by an English sunslass
equal to l65. 1922.
An Ashboro n. c., man has anon
deeds n land grant to member of his (:
from George III.
The mole can swim e1cellently an
often sinks wells for the purpose of oil
ing water to drink.
Adhesive postage stamps were
duced in England 50 years ago, and il
country one year later.
-''Mr." is the favorite title at Har
and even the President of the Univers
usually spoken of as Mr.. instead of DIR.
The peasantry of the Tyrol and of
of Germany and Switzerland generally
case in their pockets containing a k
fork and spoon.
"A house-to-house collection of Il
for the mails has been tried by the
master OF st. Louis, and is declared tt
complete success.
"A set of false teeth made of ivory
New York dentist for George Washin
and used by him, is on exhibition o.
Patent Office in Washington
On the eastern shore of Maryland
business is treated by boring three holes
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times around it, saying, "Go away, bilio
There are at present in China only 1
citizens OF the United States, nearly ha
them women. Of this number 400 resit
Shanghai, 1S6 at Tien-Tsin and IS at Car
The Rajah of India, who likes sE
things, has had made a furniture set
glass-glass bedsteads and chairs, huge
sideboards and other articles of dom
use.
The hydraulic railroad now daily o
ated in Paris consists of four carriag
cars, each having a capacity of 2J pa.
gers. THE train runs as smoothly as
on water"
"A man in Georgia bought pil
other day and took it home. 1t did moi
ish its new quarters and returned to
former owner, swimming halfa mile &C
a pond in its Journey"
Five minutes lost each day is in a
days, hours, minutes: 10 minutes
days, hours, 10 minutes; 90 is 13 days
minutes; 30 minutes is 10 days, hou
minutes; so minutes is 80 days, hour.
"A Chinese merchant of San Franc
having had his 15-year-old son arrested
vagrancy, the police have come to the
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be educated in English at the expense
State.
The millstones used in the United ST
formerly came from France, but an
cellent substitute was found in the b
stone of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and tn
now used to the exclusion OF the foI
product.
1t was customary at one time in FRI
when a gentleman was invited to dinner
him to send his servant with his knife, !
and spoon, and the request to do so-wa
most invariably embodied in all formal
State invitations.
In East Tnrkestan, as we'll as in
extreme North, there are almost no thun
storms. The northern limits of the thun
storms are Cape Ogle, Northern par
North America, Iceland, Novaja Semelja
The sacred scarab. or beetle, of E.
was the "tumbIe-bug." which forms a
for laying its eggs in. Two individr
male and female, always roll the bal
gether, and they do this merely for the
pose of conveying it to a safe place and
ing it.
People have been known to wes
potato with Il hole bored through it, so
form a gigantic finger ring, as cure
while others carry q potat
their pocket for the same purpose. In
places the potato thus carried must
stolen one.
The European or American, in orde:
sleep well, ordinarily requires dowEy
low under the head, but the Japan
stretching himself upon n rush mat on
floor, puts a hard, square block of wood
der his head, and does not sleep we'll i
does not have it.
If timepiece or clock stops uneIp
edly, you will get intimation of a death;
corpse is kept unburied over a Sabbath
other death of a relation will follow be
another year or twelve months h
hence so many funerals in Scott
on Sabbath afternoon.
Three men have been condemned
500 francs fine for insulting the army. I
of them had said: "The army is tbs set
OF crime; look at Anastay." Another
called the flag the "base tricolored rag un
which all infamies find shelter"
In all probability the first mirror
the placid surface of a bodyof water.
next most accessible object was q piect
polished metal, and it was of this mater
that the first artificial mirrors were ma
The Israelites, under Moses. had mirror
brass, and doubtless other metals were
ong before that period.
Some writers still use the French sp,
ng, "Esquimaux," to designate the matt
IF Greenland. "EskimOs'' is the Dar
'orm of the word, and it has now alrr
wholly superseded the older French SPELL
md is, undoubtedly, preferable. None
he natives, by the way, ever called tht
elves Eskimos- The native name is INN
The mole is gifted with incredi
1t pursues the earth worms
which it chiefly feeds with an energy tina
Intiring, and, when it has caught one
levours the prey like starving tiger, re
ng it with its powerful claws and tee
it will capture a bird and
t to fragments, devouring eagerly thsbl
ng flesh.
The Diet of the Tyrol has passed
heavy fines upon persons
elling any sample of the beautiful but
Alpine flower, ca He'd edelweiss, which
een pulled up by the roots on the L
aims. a similar act was passed seven
go by the Diet of Salzburg, with vie
he preservation of the edelweiss |
which is threatened with extinction il
AUSTRIAN Alps.
IDYLLIC HUMORESOUES.