Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.
-One person in every nine is lefthsnded
-Quakers are said to be unusually long
lived.
There are nearly 27O religions In the
United Kingdom.
-Spain has fewer daily papers than any
other European country.
| -Malhear county, in the State Of Ore
| gon, has petrified forest.
| Express trains in Russia rarely travel
faster than q miles an hour.
Iowa is named from the river of that
name, the river from the Ioway Indians.
| According to Edison but very few peo-
pie know the sound Of their own voices.
1t is estimated that nearly $40, 600, 600
| is spent in America yearly in advertising.
Gliding with gold leaf was done first
| by Margaritone, an italian. In ithe year 1913.
I'm Great Britain the yearly loss in
| wages through Ill health is about $50 O0o, 900.
| The alphabet was first brought into
Greece from Phosnicia 1,4s3 years before
| Christ.
"A brain specialist says that nearly
| quarter of all the cases of insanity are here
ditary.
Curious to note, clergymen come next in
number to mechanics under the head of in
ventors.
Expedition Island, off the coast of
Australia, has mysteriously disappeared
| from view.
John is said to have written the Gospel
which bears his name at so, and the Book of
| Revelations at 95.
The "History of the Reformation in
Scotland" by John Knox, was published
when the author was 70.
Goethe published his 'Die Leiden des
Jungen werther" at 25, the "WilheIm
Mefster'' at 46, and the Faust" ut S.
Alabama is named from an ancient
Indian tribe of the Mississippi Valley. The
name itself signifies "here we rest"
The baby clothes made by Mrs. John
Adams for her son, John Quincy Adams,
will be exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
An ice yacht has travelled mile in I'm.
los, running horse in I'm. 3511s., torpedo
boat in I'm. 5Os., steam yacht in I'm. 12s.
"A quarter of each generation die before
attaining the age of II, but a man 80 years Of
age may expect to live for another 81
Portsmouth, N. g., bears the proud
distin ction as the place where the first news
paper was established in this country. This
was in 1855
Ohio takes its name from the river
on the southern boundary. The word is
from the Wyandotte Indian dialect, "O-he-
zah, and means something great"
Samples OF tea grown and cured at
summerville, S. c., have been received in
Baltimore, which expert dealers have
pronounced superior to East India tea.
-Four men in every six use tobacco. A
medical man in Vienna asserts that dfph-
liberia is thrice as prevalent among smokers
as those who deny themselves the luxury OF
the weed
"A SOW on a Kentucky farm recently
gave birth to nine pigs, of which one was
born with only three legs. while the right
forefoot of another is that of a dog with
sharp claws
-Thirty-ive millions of people die every
year-few of these from old age. In doct
tors opinion nearly as many people shorten
their career by over eating as from excest
siye drinking.
Few blue-eyed people are said to be col
or-blind. Women a rule have better eye-
sight than men, but, on the other hand, three \
women have ialse teeth to every two men
who wear them.
A New Yorker has made q clock from |
a. 900 pieces of wood, comprising over 800
varieties. For Is years he has had sailors
bringing him rare woods from every quar-
ter OF the globe.
There are four times as many words in
our language as there are in the French, yet
a philoIogist estimates that the coinage Of
new words in our tongue goes on at the rate
OF 100 annually.
1t may surprise many people to learn
that there are in the United Kingdom nearly
1000 miles of inland navigation. upon which,
on an average, SO, 900 900 tons Of goods are
carried in the course of year.
Three hundred thousand people in
Europe suffer from blindness. Spain ap-
pears to be the greatest sufferer in this re-
spect. An oculist says that scarcely one in
20 of watchmakers suffers from weak eyes.
Seals, when basking, place one of their
number on guard to give the alarm in case
of danger. The signal is quick clap of the
f1ippers on a rock. Rabbits signal with their
forepaws, and have regular signals and
calls.
The self-registering thermometer that
was left at the Mount Washington signal
station last autumn when the station was
closed showed on opening this year that the
temperature last winter went to 490 below
zero.
Colonel Powell, of the United States
Army is authority for the statement that
among the Cheyennes a man is never per-
mitted to speak to his mother-in-law except
through the intermediation OF third
person.
"A curious superstition prevails in Nor
way. When people are in quest of a drowned
BODY they row to and fro with . rooster in
the boat, fully expecting that the bird will
crow when tile boat reaches the spot where
the corpse lies.
"A citizen of Southport, Conn, was ar
rested lately at Fairfield for "vain sport and
recreation by then and there riding about
said town upon q certain vehicle, known as
n bicycle, to the great disturbance OF the
good people of the State"
The largest school of porpoises ever
seen in Long Island Sound appeared OH
Roton Point on Wednesday night. Hun
tireds of people watched them gamool within
500 ieet Of the shore. They drove all the
bathers out of the water.
The British chancellor of the exchequer
acknowledges the receipt ofone-half of a five
pound note from q conscience-stricken man
Who cheated the government in the matter
of income tax, and who, perhaps, retained
the other half as his receipt.
Caffeine, the active principle Of coffee,
has recently been recommended as an excel
lent local an@sthetic, and is said may, for
many purposes at least, advantageously
replace cocaine, the use OF which is not alto
gether liked by many medical men.
The State-line monument, standing on
the shore Of Lake Michigan, marking the
boundary line between Indiana and Illinois,
WINS erected by the Government in 1888 It
il of soft limestone, and so worn by the
elements that part of the inscription Is
flleOih1e