Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The King of Greece speaks IL Ian
guages.
The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one
foot since 1851
The leaf of the banana is usually six feet
long by two feet wide.
-Mackerel in great numbers and of large
size have struck the Maine coast
-Bovusboro, Md, has pink cup cactus
containing 1893 flowers in full bloom.
"A man in Fisherville, Pa, recently
captured a coon weighing ls pounds.
The tallest oak tree in Great Britain i.
known as the "dule's walking stick"
The Cars. throne is said to be worth
four times as much as Queen Victoria's.
There are more than 1000 square miles
of valuable timber land in Newfoundland.
-Four pounds of gold were recently col
lected from the SCOT of the chimney of the
royal mint in Berlin.
The richest heiress in Berlin is said to
be a Fraulein Hildegard Won Loucadon.
She IS worth s2,000O00.
while a colored resident of Lebanon,
Conn.,, was sleeping on Wednesday night he
swallowed his false teeth.
Every cubic foot of air expired from
the lungs contains on an average o.0ll5l
milligrammes of ammonia.
1t requires upward of 14S, 900 acres Of
rich land to produce the sugar yearly con-
sumed in the British Islands.
The fashion in bridesmaids bouquets
lately has been the horseshoe. with the nails
worked out in contrasting blossoms.
1t Is just 100 years since the Cornish
man, William Murdock, discovered that
m O a illnminant-
November 9th next will be the twentieth
anniversary of Boston's great fire. The fire
destroyed over Sl0O 0OO, ,000 worth of property
The right side of the body perspires
more than the left, and the palm of the hand
four times more than the skin of the
chest.
The Pope can master the English, Ger
man and French languages to the utmost
perfection, besides being a fine classical
scholar.
Portsmouth, N. H., bears the proud
distinction as the place where the first news
paper was established in thiAcountry. This
was in 1855.
"A blood beet measuring Is inches in
in length, IA inches in circumference and
weighing four pounds, is curiosity of st.
Tammany, La.
The auction of the Borghese art treas
ures at Rome on April IA, realized only l,3oO.-
900 francs. mere traction of the real value
of the articles sold
The household of Secretary Rusk, of
the National Department of Agriculture, is
managed by his daughter. The marketing
is done by herself.
Paper quilts are becoming popular in
Europe. They are cheap and warm. They
are composed of sheets of perforated white
paper sewn together.
The little one-story house at Pau in
which Marshal Bernodotte, the first King Of
Sweden, was born, is still standing and was
recently offered for sale
The little Island of Jamaica sells an
nually to the United States bananas exceed
ing in value the entire apple, peach and
cherry crop of this country.
Girls from 10 to 13 years of age fetch in
Morocco about $50 to $50 each, and the slave
merchants find the females more profitable
from 10 to 20 years of age
"A greyhound mother at Nevada, Mo-,
having had two pups carried of, hunted
them up, carried them home, dug a hole
under the house and hid them.
During recent storm at Hopkinton, N.
H. an elm tree, under which Lafayette and
his party stood at a reception given them in
1895, was struck by lightning and demolished.
"A farmer near Martinsburg, No.,
plowed up a perch in his field some time
ago, and when he placed it in a tub of water
it revived and swan about as lively as any
fish.
"A short time ago the Moorish Kaids
gave the Sultan of Morocco and his son a
present of 200 male and female slaves to cele-
brate the event of the marriage of the heir
to the Moorish throne.
The Empress of Austria lately ordered
that $4,000 rose trees should be planted
around the statue OF Heine, to be erected on
her property at Corfu, on q rock over 1000
feet above the level of the sea.
Business women of Buffalo have formed
club. They began with a membership o.
70. Among other provisions is one that a
class shall be opened in any subject of edu-
cation on request of ten members
Seals, when bssking, place one of their
number on guard to give the alarm in case
of danger. The signal is quick clap OF the
ffppers on a rock. Rabbits signal with their
forepaws, and have regular signals and
calls.
Delaware. A Sussex county farmer preserves
with pious care and exhibits with pride an
ear of corn grown upon his fathers farm in
1885, and another produced from the ances-
tral acres in 1885.
There is only one factory in Russia for
the manufacture of playing cards. 1t has
monopoly of the business and belongs to the
Founding Hospital. 1t is figured that there
are 10000, 900 people in Russia who play
cards. and to supply the demand this fac
tory puts out 5000, 600 packs Of cards an
n nually.
The newest great city of Europe is
Budapest, the capital and metropolis Of
Hungary. In Kossuth's day, less than halfa
century ago. the combined population Of
Buda and Pesth, lying on opposite sides OF
the Danube, was about 100, 900. The CONSOLE
dated municipality now has population OF
fully 100000.
"A tradesman on F1atbush avenue,
Brookly, has a big sign stretched across the
front of his store bearing in large black let
ters the legend, "Dealer in Green Goods"
He sells vegetables and general garden
truck, but if the sign doesn't bring him
many rural customers, eager for unhallowed
there is no virtue in appealing
to their inclinations.
The gatling gun is now worked by an
electric moter in the American navy. The
motor is attached to the breech of the gun.
Hitherto O couple of men were required to
serve the gun, one to train the piece and
drop the shot, the other to work the firing
crank; but now one man is sufficient. BY
touching switch he can train and operate
the gun at WILL so as to fire either single
shot or at the rate of 200 q minute.