Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| LUhlVUO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
| Dixie was named for a planter who had
| no ear for music.
The shepherd dog is the best mother
in the animal kingdom.
| The worlds typewriter record is 1S3
words a minute, held by lady.
| 1t has been proposed to import snakes
to Australia to kill Off the rabbits
in France laws prescribe the sort Of
bottles nurses must use for babies.
An old Vanderbilt hack has turned up
| in jackson, Miss, the property of colored
| driver.
Owen Mulligan, a hermit in Clinton
county, I'LL, died recently leaving fortune
of 100000.
The great Cathedral in the City of
Mexico is the largest in America, and cost
nearly s2,0O0,OOO.
Nineteen years ago this month a circus
put up its tent in Mexico, Mo-, in the midst
OF 1s inches of snow.
"A farmer at Nevada Mo-, had his dog
treated with maidstone after it had been
bitten by q rabid animal. 4,
The remains of a supposed extinct sea
monster have been unearthed near West
minister, Los Angeles county, Cal
The vexed question of what is the high
est mountain in North America has been
determined in favor of st. Elias.
AT Hopkinsville, Ky, the other day,
father allowed skin to be grated from his
arm to his child's face to save her beauty.
AT jackson, Mich, an important case
was interrupted because one of the Jurors
got the mumps and gave them to the
other IL
"A Baptist colony mas located at Cedar
Valley, Ore. The first improvement will be
sawmill to be followed by church and
schoolhouse.
In Austin, Tex, man was arrested on
charge of playing dominoes. The Judge
released him because there was no money
bet on the game.
After years of vain negotiations the
Royal Bota nical Society Of London, have at
last obtained a specimen of that rarest of
Oriental rarities, the COCO de mer, or double
cocoanut.
The latest literary success in Munich
is said to be dramatic curiosity in the
shape of a play translated and freely
adapted by Emil Pohl from the Sanscrit of
King Suddaka.
Some time ago New York jeweler
missed $500 diamond. Another was drop
ped on the floor when dog swallowed it.
The animal was given an emetic and soon
produced both gems.
The most voracious of all marine beasts
of prey is the orca or killer whale. It
reaches length of 25 feet, and its jaws
bristle with teeth from four to six inches
long and as sharp as dirk knife.
Within the next few days nearly 500,-
900 pansies will be growing and blooming in
the parks and public squares or New York
city. German pansies have been used by
the Park Department for six years.
-Americus, Ca, has freak in the shape
of little white puppy, born Tuesday night,
which has only one eye--located in the GEN.
ter OF the head-has no upper jawbone or
nostrils, and breathes through its mouth.
kangaroo farming is to become an
established institution in Australia. In
few years, perchance, the trade will become
SO valuable that it may enter into the ranks
of the most lucrative of pastoral pursuits.
The French chemists Frenzy and Ver-
neuil'have for yearssbeen experimenting on
production of ruDies by chemical synthesis
and announce that they have at last suc-
ceeded in making stones OF marketable
size.
During a residence of two years In a
tomb at Gizeh, Mr. VIM. NJ. Flinders Petrie
collected evidence showing that the tools
used In working stone 900 years ago were
made with jeweled cutting edges, as is the
modern custom.
The cooperative cooking club of juno
tion City, Kas.. is great success, and begins
families. Over S., 900 was expended last year
in table supplies, but fully $500 was saved
for the families as whole
Nearly 40 years before Stephenson's
victory, a Swedish engineer, Karl Hogstrom,
not only constructed q locomotive on SINH
lar lines to the one of Trevitbick and Vivian,
put, according to an American newspaper,
also conceived the plan of a regular rail-
road.
There is a little Sevres vase in LON
don, which is only 8 inches high, very thin
and urn.shaped, which was at one time pre-
sented by Louis XVI to Tippoo Sabib. 1t
sold recently for s7,205 which sum in gold
weighs upward of 1000 times as much as the
vase.
The hume which CONVEYS the water
from the mountains to the reservoir at San
Diego, Cal, is said, by. those who know
whereof they speak, to be the largest and
longest thing of the kind in the world. 1t is
a5 miles long, and is composed almost wholly
OF redwood.
A horse fell into a water course near
Lawrence, Kas., and could not get out. A
friendly dog ran to the stable. made another
dog understand the situation and then took
his master to the scene. There he found the
second dog licking the horses face and wag-
gins his tail for encouragement.
Bees will never thrive in quarrelsome
family. Many think that bees only thrive
when they are stolen, while it is generally
considered unlucky TO purchase Dees, ana
that the only way TO get them-if they are to
do WELLS to have them given. eaten a wild
swarm, or to steal them, leaving some goods
in exchange.
1t is said that when Colonel John
Thompson, n prominent New York lawyer
goes to Washington he is kept busy explain,
ing to people, who think they know him,
that he is not eX-Con2ressman Phil
Thompson. of Kentucky. The resemblance
is marvellous. even to the tone OF voice,
gesture and carriage.
This is how prisoners are fed in Eng
land and Wales on their first day of conf ne
ment: For breakfast the get eiIht ounces of
bread and one pint OF cocoa. The midday
meal consists or II ounces of bread, four
ounces of colonial or American beef or NUT
ton; the supper menue is, perhaps, u little
measer-namely, eight ounces Of bread and
pint of porridse.
Many persons have puzzled their brains
wondering why the Red" Sea should be so
called. The name was originally applied to
it because portions of it are covered with
patches from few yards to some miles
square, composed OF microscopic vegetable
animalculae which dye the waters blood
red. When not affected by these organisms
the "Red'' Sea is intensely blue, the shoel
waters showing some shades OF green.
SAID TO BE HUMOROUS