Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-01
Curious CONVERSATIONS.


THE site of the city of Boston was sold
in 1885 by John Blackstone for $50.
-Gunpowder was discovered from the
falling of a spark on some materials mixed
In mortar.
Seven ballots were had in the National
Renublican Convention in 1876 36 in 1850, 4 in
1884 and in 1888.
One of the keepers of the Philadelphis
Zoo says that an elephant Will tremDle with
fear at the sight OF a mouse
-California is about to order twenty
carloads OF special glass jars to hold her
Worlds Fair fruit display
Electricity was discovered by per-
son observing that piece of rubbed glass
attracted small bits OF paper.
Automatic bootblacks will be put on
the market soon by Nuremberg firm. They
will be run on the nickel-in-the-slot plan
An electric railway is projected which
Is to run from st. Petersburg to Archangel.
Russia, a distance of more than 800 miles.
There is q man in Montezuma, Ga, who
has had his arm dislocated at the shoulder
as times and his leg dislocated at the hip
eight times.
"A Knoxville man has captured curl.
osity In the form OF mocking bird, or, in
realfty, two birds grown together in body,
but separate in heads and song.
San Francisco has an earthquake proof
hotel. 1t is constructed of iron and in the
form OF two hollow squares one within tho
other, arranged so as to brace each other.
Strange as it may appear, there is only
one person in the United States entitled to
be called honorable" and that is the Lieu
tenant Governor of Massachusetts, the title
in his case being confirmed by law.
Uncle Sam shipped to Europe this year
1,454, 600 barrels of apples. The new arrange
ment for direct shipment of oranges from
Florida the coming year will give Europeans
q still better chance to enjoy our luscious
fruit.
"A bicycle insurance company, to insure
bicycles against accidental breakage, has
been started in New York. When a broken
wheel cannot be satisfactorily repaired by
the company's mechanics the policy holder
Is given new machine.
"A curious and interesting exhibition has
been opened in Vienna on behalf ofa char
ity. 1t is model on large scale of the bat.
tie of Custozza, in which the Austrian
troops, commanded by Field Marshal the
Archduke Albrecht, defeated the Italians in
o. "A Canadian electrician states that cleo
tricity causes the tides and demonstrates it
u
through the hair and then drawing 1t over
the top of glass filled with water. the
suit being that the tidal wave follows tho
comb.
In a cemetery indefinitely located ION
the Susquehanna river there is q grave
with TINS epitaph on the marble memorial
slab: "Chas. Lewis; He Voted for Lincoln"
legend: Here lies the body of David Jones.
His last words were: die a Christian and
Democrat"
For 10 minutes fish rained on the farms
north of Janesville, Wis, recently. When
the rain storm with which they came ended
the ground was covered with them. There
were thousands, and the cattle tracks, pools
wagon ruts and wherever water could SETTLE
were alive with them. They are all the
common SINNER"
The question has been raised whether the
numerous limestone caves in British Bur-!
nah have been explored for archaeological
remains. Many of these caves were known
to have been used by the B1ddists of former
generations. as Buddhist idols were found in
them, and 1t is probable they were inhabited
by men in the early time.
"A citizen of Portland, Ind, claims to
be the owner of q large tomcat who long ago
developed a great love for the companion
ship OF the poultry tribe. "It eats every
thing they do, even to Shelled corn, and
when night comes perches itself on the
roost alongside of a rooster contented as
il it were with those of its own kind"
-Although'a dread for water is instructive
in cats, a London correspondents states ths.
a person living on the banks of the river
Thames bad a cat which frequently swan
across the river to spot which was in
Tested with rats. She always swan very
low in the water with tail erect and would
shake herself like dog on coming ashore.
A,,,onx he avnart, ap,pIorad h.
Bath Iron W orks is a talented copper worker
who is foreman of a copper shop. Not long
ago he took a small copper cent hammering
it into q miniature tea-kettle. The words
lone cent" occupy all the space on the bot
tom. There is swinging handle and a
movable cover, while the kettle is hollow,
and the nozzle, too.
"A storekeeper in Maine deals in dry and
fancy goods, boots and shoes, groceries,
grain, feed. .crockery and hardware; he keeps
the postof1ce, is Justice of the Peace, is a
conveyancer; agent of an insurance COM
pany; he runs set of hay scales; he has ice
cool soda and other cool drinks" has famous
10 and cent cigars; is agent for very loud
fertilizer, and furnishes aristocratic eggs Tor
putting under aristocratic hens
The changes of terrestrial climate have
been many and various. In Switzerland q
mean temperature equal to that of North
Africa at the present time is shown by its
fossil flora to have prevailed during the
miocene or middle tertiary epoch. Anthro-
poid apes lived in Germany and France, fig
and cinnamon trees fcurished at Dantzic;
in Greenland, up to 20 degrees of latitude,
magnolias bloomed and vines ripened their
fruit.
"A strange story of superstition is re-
ported from Hung ary. Several bodies Of
men have recently been found there with
their heads cut off. 1t turned out that these
had in every instance been COM
mitted by young men who were betrothed
to the widows of the decapitated persons.
The husbands had died q natural death, and
the widows believed that in case they mar
ried u second time their first husbands
would reappear and destroy their welded
happiness.
"A freak of nature has come to light in
the county Jail at Forth Worth, Texas. Hi,
name is Jesse Lee, aged Is years. Turn the
boy'S face so that strong light may shine
into his eyes, and a phenomenon is seen.
Around the pupils of the eyes in the iris are
the 26 letters of the alphabet, arranged SYM
metrically. There are 13 letters in each eye,
those up to "M" being in the left eye and the
remaining ones in the right. He says his
father and four brothers are similarly
affected.
FOOD FOR SMILES.