Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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woman in the capacity of dinner faster"
Belgium, by adopting Greenwich time,
has stolen II minutes from old Father Time
South Carolina is the only State in the
Union in which no official record OF marrt
ages is kept.
The Germans prepare an excellent sub
stitute for tea from the leaves of the COM
mon strawberry plant
There are 375 Sunday schools in New
York. the Episcopalians leading with s. and
the Presbyterians second with u.
In cave in the Pantheon the guide, by
striking the flaps OF his coat, makes a noise
equal to that produced by firing 12-pound
cannon.
1t is estimated that over 100, 900, 900 of
people now speak the English language,
over 100000 German and over Il 100000
French.
"A gentleman in Ireland recently found,
on cutting open potato, a half sovereign
in its center, the vegetable having grown
around It.
-SeI enty-fve women formed a mob and
prevented wedding in Kentucky town be-
cause the brides first husband had been
dead only two weeks.
A calf with a single eye, no ears and
five legs is the joy of Wayne county, Ia 1t
is now over a month old and bids fair to
grow into full cowhood.
The teachers and school superintendents
of the United States receive $50 600 an
nually. This amount increases 81 500 900
each year, or 81 per cent.
-Politeness shown to the late Frank s.
Bixley, Of Hartford, Conn, by John R.
Maury. hotel clerk OF Reading, Pa, brought
the latter legacy of $4,000.
rriJI t5,a 100th -.
niversary of her admission to the Union on
the 1st of June. The ceremonies will con-
sist of an old time barbecue with all that
the name implies.
The odd sight of kitten adopted by
monkey and being nursed as tenderly as
though the kitten was the monkeys of
spring can be witnessed in a Pacific street
saloon, San Francisco.
1t is not generally known that Great
Britain, in spite of the progress of cultiva-
tion, still possesses more species of wild
fowl than any other European country, how
ever favored by nature as regards breeding
places.
Between the ages of 20 and 40 prisoners
die of consumption much more rapidly than
people outside of confinement, but whether
this ia owing to the confinement or to the
previous lives of the convicts is not clear.
Few criminals of any kind live to be old
men.
"A fowls gizzard, where so many lost
articles turn up, is curious trap as well as
q necessary vital organ OF the fowl. Dia-
monds, pearls, coin, buttons. tacks. orange
peel and about everything else save dvna-
mite, have been found in the gizzard of
fowls.
Mrs. Jacob Kirchner, of Fort Dodge,
Ia, is suing for a divorce on the ground that
her husband would not let her kiss him and
l.
in reply that his wife was accustomed to
kiss her cats, and had already kissed several
to death.
The idea of canal along the present
route of the great Suez was considered prac-
ticable and excavations were actually COM
menced upward of 2,5CO wears ago. and in
the time of the reign of Ptolemy Philadel-
phus, 273 years before Christ, the union Of
the two seas was perfected.
Phillip Bullion, an old and impecunious
soldier, has been for more than two years
in Jail for debt in Elkhart, Ind. The debt
for which he is imprisoned originated in
store bill contracted by his wife, to pay
which he borrowed money and gave his note.
He is sentenced to remain in prison until the
debt is paid
In Russian Industrial establishments
the difference in the working hours is some
thing extraordinary, varying from to 20.
II is remarkable that these great dfverg-
ences occur In the same branches of indus
try within the same inspectors district, and
among establishments whose produce real
iZeS the same market price,
An employe of Barnum s. Bailey's cir
Gus stole a cage of lions the other day. While
the circus was at York, Pa, he drove the
care aboard n train and started West with 1t
10 join a circus in Nebraska A Chicago de-
;ectire stopped him there and ssntthe lions,
which were nearly starved, back to their
owners The value of the cage was So 500.
"A large electric locomotive is now being
built at Baden, Switzerland. 1t will be fitted
With dynamos OF q total of 500 horsepower,
which power will be transmitted to eight
,lectric motors arranged on the same num-
Der of axles. 1t is said this locomotive will
Ittain higher speed than steam locomo-
ives. Trial OF its capabilities will be made
his summer.
Quill penns are still much in use in
treat Britain. A tradition exists in the law
courts there that no document would be
trictly legal If written with any pen other
han a quill. A similar tradition used to
obtain in parts of New England, and 1t Is
lotable that Governor Russell, OF Massachu-
etts. follows the precedent of his prede-
SCISSORS and signs all legislative bills with
lew quill pen-used once for that purpose
md never again.
There was quite sensation near Am
,rfor and Almonte, Ont. over the discovery
N q farm OF stone with a Masonic inscrip-
ion and a date on it. It has a surface three
eet SQUARE, faced very smoothly and a
quare and compass chiseled in the rock
gith a large "C'' in the center. Two hands,
hree initial letters and the date 1904, were
lso carved In the stone. 1t has been iden-
flied with Champlain, who passed through
hat country in 1908
"A new fad has struck New York in the
hape of ali umbrella. 1t is constructed so
8 to curl up around the rim when opened,
orming a complete gutter like those around
he caves of houses. This gutter catches the
lin as it runs down the mansard roof, and
eeps it from running down to the ground
nd splashing ones trousers. By slight tilt
he water is caught and thrown TO a common
enter, where pipe leads down through the
mbrella handle to the ground, allowing the
-ater to run out