Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

- Church bells will soon be rung by cleo
tricity
The chief cook at fashionable New
York hotel is paid IS, 500 year.
A Liverpool sign that catches the eve
of the stranger is "egg-shell fuel for gas
stoves"
"A dress made from spiders webs was
presented to Queen Victoria by the Empress
OF Brazil In 1851
Audiences in Russian theaters are for
hidden by law to manifest their displeasure
ut actors by kissing.
The total manufacture of cigarettes in
this. country last year was 3,OOO,O GOO, as
asains: $4,000 in 1873.
AN Indian with the significant name of
"Wets His Lips" has been arrested for grand
larceny in South Dakota.
So cosmopolitan has New York become
in recent years that more than 100 languages
ana dialects are spoken in the city.
The Cottonwood river at EmpOria,
Kan, varies in width during the course Of
the year from three feet to seven miles.
An old soldier of Wichita recently re-
cefyed from the Government 3 cents which
had been due him without his knowledge
for more than 80 years.
The only official in the country whose
right to be addressed by the title of honor
able is constitutional, 1t is stated, is the
lieutenant governor OF Massachusetts.
The largest child ever born, it is said,
was the son OF Bates, the kentucky Giant"
and his wife, the Nova Scotia Giantess."
This infant Hercules weighed 1874 pounds.
- The net debt of the city of New York
is s9S.Oo00Oo. Philadelphia and Brooklyn
combined have the same amount of debt,
and substantially the same population, as
New York
"A new method of census-taking has
been adopted in Chicago. The authorities
have decided that the population is 100000
and the census-takers have been ordered to
find them.
Between 1880 and 1890 the mileage of
Southern railroads, with the exception of
Arkansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri
and Texas. was increased from L, ,235 miles
to "a, ,955 miles.
Six pairs of white swans from the
Thames river have arrived in Philadelphia
for distribution in public and private parks.
Some of the birds will be placed in the City
Park of Denver
During the year just closing the United
States Supreme Court has disposed of nearly
800 cases, yet the number filed in given
period always exceeds the power OF the
judges TO consider them.
Cold iron has been rolled so thin that
ls,O0o sheets, one upon another, would meas
ure only an inch in thickness. 1t is added
that 200 sheets OF tissue paper make but
little more than an inch in thickness
An old man caught on hook in Briar
Creek, Ca, last week. a rock fish that
weighed 80 pounds. 1t was 81 feet long, and
in its stomach there was o lack fish which
IN q hos a Ra oh innh
long.
"A curious case is reported from the Chi
cago Pasteur Institute. An epiIeptic boy
a course of Pasteur treatment,
on account of q dog bite, in August, 1890.
Since this he has had no more attacks Of
epilepsy.
The streets of London are cleaned be-
tween in the evening and in the morning.
Many of the carriag ways are washed daily
by means of hose, and the courts and alleys
inhabited by the poorer classes are cleaned
once day.
AT Tucker, in Ripley county, Mo-,
there is q curiosity in the peach tree line
which will be sent to the Worlds Fair. The
tree is years old, about ~ inches in di-
ameter at the butt, is 81 feet nigh and has no
limb or branch ON it.
superintendent Kinyoun, of the Madi-
son County Ind.) Infirmary, has cat
which is nesting a brood of young rabbits.
Her kittens were taken away and drowned,
Ind she as5uaged her matronly sorrow by
nursing the rabbits.
The centrifugal force developed by the
,arth's rotation tends to throw bodies ofrits
urface as a stone is propelled by a sling,and
n consequence of this fact l293th part of
he weight of every particle of matter lying
Ilong the Equator is employed in keeping it
IN the earth.
A faith-cure physician at Chicago, held
by a coroner's jury for the death
)f sick person thus treated, has been let
IF by a grand jury, which decided that if
Lnybody wanted to submit to this cure, or
make test of Christian science, it was no.
oodys business but his own.
I'm the Julius tower Of the fortress of
'pandau, in Prussia, there is q treasure of
50, 900, 900 francs in gold. The other States
ave only their national banks to depend
lpOn. The estimate gives 947 000. 600 to the
Ierman Empire, 547. 900, 900 for the Austro-
hungarian Empire, and 2OOOO0OOO to the
Kingdom of Italy.
In "a days Handel wrote ''The Mes
iah." DR.. johnson wrote "Rasselas'' in the
lights of a single week. Schubert some
lines wrote four or five immortal songs in
ingle day. He was born in 1897 and died in
s2S yet he set to music 634 poems by 100 diff
erent authors in addition to writing other
MUSICAL works.
AT Shanghai, China, there is a Euro
,ean quarter, which contains handsome
for banks and public Offices In
lost of the streets colonnades are built,
ThiIe the open spaces are utilized and made
laces of beauty by being filed with trees
nd flowers. The inevitable race-courSe,
'hich seems to follow as necessary ad-
1not to Western civilization, is prominent
eature outside the city boundaries.
The rules of a socialistic society in
araguay will be: No individual property;
bsolute equality, without distinction of sex
race: the rule to be exercised by the ma
,rity; unrestricted freedom of criticism by
en- or speech; the total amount of material
.bor necessary for the well-being of the
oIony to be reduced to a minimum, and
Iually apportioned among all, according to
lie abilities of each.
"A useful South American animal is the
inkajou, which, as the dictionary will tell
on, is q procyoniform quadruped, with a
rotusile tongue and q prehensile tail
he chief reason for asserting that
le Rinkajou is useful is that, in
idition to his fondness for fruit,
3 has great liking for insects for lunch,
i'd when tanned is valuable assistance in
outhern homes, where fy-paper is unknown
nd where a mosquito net is more expensive
ian q silk dress.