Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-15
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Paris has 81 daily papers.

Paris has 81 daily papers.
Illinois pays her Lieutenant Governor
81 II a day.
There were $50. 900 chickens reared for
market in Sussex during 1890.
The people around Dark Harbor, Grand
Manan, are somewhat excited over big
| whale which got into the hnrbor ana cannot
| get out
Chemists say it takes less than half the
| amount of sugar to sweeten preserves if the
sugar is put in after the cooking has COM
menced.
The energy OF stroke of lightning is
estimated by Carl Henry to be equal to that
| OF a one hundred horsepower engine work
ing ten hours.
The gray hair of an Elbert county (Ga)
woman. 81 years old, is falling out and being
replaced by Il luxuriant growth of jet-black
locks so it is said
-f1fteen per cent of the students attend
ing Sydney University in Australia, are
women, whose Advancement there is keep
ing step with their progress in America.
1t IS curious coincidence that the two
Greatest republics of to-day, namely, the
United States and France, are each presided
over oy the descendant of regicide.
In 1903 the first Russian newspaper was
PuOA'ShCO, anu 80 MUCH interest was taken
in it that the great Peter himself wrote
some OF its editorials and corrected proofs.
"A Long Island man is very indignant at
the conduct of his dead wife. He declares
that she not only refuses to remain in her
grave, but insists on visiting him at night
and preventing his sleeping.
The earliest reference to shaving of the
beard i s found in Genesis, chapter xii.
verse IA, where we read that Joseph, on be-
self. - O--'' - Ai-''A
AN official in Texas town recently
wrote to the local treasurer asking that his
salary should be sent to his house, as he had
several weeks.
BY the aid of old manuscripts at Paris.
Vienna, Venice and Munich, NJ Berthelot
maintain that the invention of gunboats
and armour-protected guns is as old as the
hfteenth century.
There are now 120 women in the Berlin
telephone exchanges. 1t has been decided
to employ only women in the future, as their
voices are much more audible than mems
owing to the higher pitch.
In Michigan, recently, a woman was
sentenced to the Upper Peninsula prison, as
Marquette, but, because there were no fe-
male convicts there and no matron it is re-
ported the warden refused to take her in.
AT wedding at Brookfeld, NO., last
week, the bride and groom each wore very
valuable gold nuggets, old family relics
dug from Deadman's gulch, Sacramento
Valley, CAL, by the father of the groom in
1856.
White ash leaves are Stunned by rattle
snakes 1t is said that rattlesnake placed
in circle, one-half OF which is formed of
ash leaves and tho other half of live Goals,
will cross the Goals rather than touch the
leaves.
"A pigs tail is said to unerringly indi-
cate the condition of the animal. If it
hangs loose it shows that the pig is not well,
and that its food should be changed If it
be coiled tightly the pig is healthy and
happy.
"A quiet rancher in the foothills of Cali
fornia has been experimenting with the
olive, and now makes the sensational an
nouncement that olives can be grown on our
native willows by the ordinary process of
grating. He makes good the assertion by
exhibiting willow branches with clusters Of
fruit growing on them.
When Clinton, Mich, woman visited
her woodpile one morning recently she
foundevidences that it had been tampered
with and pair of mittens. The last she
washed and carefully mended, and then adj
vertised for the owner to come forward and
prove property. To her surprise no one has
appeared to claim them.
In the Caucasus, suspension bridges of
80 feet span were made with cables of three
strands of grape vine, secured to trees on
opposite banks of the river. with a footpath
of narrow plank suspended at intervals
from the cables. The suspension bridge does
not seem to have been introduced into
Europe until about the close of the sixteenth
century.
If the populations of England and Scot
land increase tor the next census decade in
the same ratio as they have done over that
of lSSl9l, and if, correspondingly, Ireland
decreases proportionately in population the
respective numbers of the United King
dom will be thus divided in the year l90l
England. b. 46s 4S9: Scotland, 4564 IO5; Ireland,
4, 259 56s-total, Al, o., ,462-
-Nuptial garlands may be traced back to
the "confarreation" ceremony; indeed, they
were equally employed by both Hebrews
and Gentiles. The Anglo-Saxon garlands
were ecclesiastical property. and did duty,
so long as they continued to be presentable,
for successive bridal ceremonies Some
times they were flowers, sometimes of myr-
tie, frequently of corn ears.
AT meeting of the members of the
Cutchee veese Oswal caste, held lately at
Mandvie Bender, Hindustan, it was resolved
that instead of ring women should wears u
flower in the nose. Inasmuch as the nose
ring had led to much uniavorable comment,
henceforth wearing nose rings would lead to
a fine of 10 rupees and annas, in addition to
forfeiture of the ornaments.
Two strange fish were taken in a trawl
net off the coast OF Maine recently. One,t
lampris is the only specimen of the kind
ever taken in Eastern waters. In shape it is
like very large sunish, and its weight
was about 800 pounds. Its back was of .
sky blue, the sides were snowy
W btte and the fins scarlet. The other fish,
the ecolar of the Canary Islands, is common
in warm Iatitudes, but has never before
been taken so far north rs in this case.
Both were taken at a depth OF 1000 feet.