Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

J Greek infantrymen were always trained
in stone throwing.
| Out of 10,757 farms in Utah, 9,124 are
made fertile by irrigation.
The velocipede was invented by Q
Frenchman named Dra1s in 1917.
"A new remedy for warts is the applica-
tion of the blood of the porpoise.
Women of to-day are on an average two
inches taller than they were e5 years ago.
BY virtue of his Office the Lord Chief
Justice is the principal Coroner Of England,
Superstition has it that the milk of red
cows is better than that given by any other
color.
William Tyndale began his translation
of the Bible into English when he was 4S
years old
-Chrysanthemums, served as salad, are
are tavorite article of diet among the
Japanese.
-Knightly lances were from IL to 20 feet
long, the heads to inches broad and from
Il to 20 inches long.
There is a village on the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad which has "a inhabitants and
two churches, both Presbyterian.
There are about 700, 900 houses in Lon
don which, on cold days, consume 40 900 tons
One hundred and twenty thousand
dollars is the first bid for the exclusive priv
ilege of selling peanuts at the Worlds Fair.
The Roumanian crown is made of metal
from the cannon that were captured from
the Turks by the Roumanians at Plevna in
1861
ireland has only 80 theaters-three for
Dublin. one in Belfast, one at Cork, one in
Limerick, ono at Waterford and one for
Londonderry.
The women of one of the churches at
Hutchinson, Kan. gave a supper the other
night which WAS composed of articles OF
diet beginning with "B.'
The impact water wheel. so much used
for furnishing power for mines, metallurgi-
cal works, and electric plants, has lately
been improved by a new arrangement OF
multiple nozzles.
An advertiser in the Birmingham Post
announces: "Yonng gentlema is founding
a new religion, which is sure to become
popular, and desires q lady of means TO as
sist him in the work. "
1t is not generally known that the sprat
is one of the most difficult of fish to capture
alive, as, when caught in the ordinary way,
the fish dies when it comes in contact with
the meshes of the pet.
An Indiana stone quarry company il
having life-size figure of an elephant
chiselled out of a solid block of stone. 1t
will be IL rect high and weigh 80 tons, and IS
intended for the Worlds Fair.
Japan is appearing in a new character,
as, according to the Maintchi, the Japanese
Government recently accepted an order
from the Australian Government for the
manufacture of u quantity of swords and
rifles.
Eight thousand five hundred red, 5000
A
incandescent electric lights were used for
street displays along the line of march of
the Knights Templar parade in Denver re-
Gently.
The great search light on top of Mount
Washington, which is now in successful
operation, by the intense beam of light it
projects has enabled people to read course
print at the Fabyan House, seven miles
distant.
The little black spots on the end of the
snail's horns are the animals eyes. He can
see with them very little, but they serve to
distinguish for him light from darkness, and
enable him TO observe objects at d distance
of an inch or two.
The balance sheet of the French tele-
phones Tor 1891 shows gross receipts
amounting to S22S, 900, the length of line at
the end of that year being nearly 200 miles,
and the number of subscribers Is ,l91, to
1856.
Glass, as far as research has been able
to determine, was in use 1000 years before
the birth of Christ, and was even then not
in its infancy. In the State collection at the
British Museum there is the head Of q lion
nodded In glass bearing the name of an
Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty.
The bugle horn was once called the
buffalo horn, and it apparently derives its
name from the bugle, or extinct auroch, the
wild OK of Great Britain. In the Isle of
Wight the bulls head on inn signs is often
accompanied by the word bugle, and the
French term for the lowing of cattle is still
beugler.
AN Abilene (Kan.) man recently ad-
vertised that he would like to buy a second
hand mower, and to address TX. L." post
office. He received one answer that struck
him favorably, and, after corresponding
1t 10 be his wife, who was trying to sell him
their old one.
Twice a year jumping procession is
held in honor of Saint WilIebrod, the Apostle
of the Frisians. The fashion Of the process
sion, which goes around the towns and to
the chapel, Is this: The worshipers sing
prayers i'll an antiphonal manner. and jump
two steps forward and one back, thus pro-
crossing one step to every three.
III LUe OF matches
Is noted by German authority. Sodium
,hlorate is now used instead of potassium
salt for "headless matches" which ignite
throughout their length, and may be used
epeatedly. The growing scarcity of suit
.ble wood has led to the use of match-siicks
reported to be excellens-molded from
peat
An order has been issued from the
;iamese military headquarte rs that tho
roops in one of the largest garrisons are to
pc employed every day in fly catching.
every man is expected to capture each day
match box full OF blue flies, and if he does
lot perform the duty he will be compelled,
IS a penalty. to row around the island where
he troops are in camp.
The origin of the name America has
,een disputed, though the weight of testi-
nony leaves no doubt that it comes from the
christian name of Amerigo Vespucci. Some
arly authorities contended that the name
anne from the Peruvian word Amaru, mean
ng the sacred symbol of the cross, made of
erpent and stick, and the SuffiX ca, mean
n9 country. Thus derived, America means
he land of the holy animal.
SPICY SEPTYMRER SPRINKLE