Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

There are 399 millionaires in this
The Australian dog and the Egy
| shepherd dog never bark.
in Great Britain there are $4,000
lords and ss.OOO,OOo tenants.
The patentee of the "drive welr
ROYALTIES estimated at 81, 100000.
The broken and distorted foot
| Chinese lady Is called Golden lily
| Chinese ad mirers of such distortions.
Ducks fly at an average rate of 80
per hour. With q fair wind it Is bel
that they can mako 16o miles in the
| time.
"A subscription OF s32 81 from eac
habitant of the United States would
out every national, State and mum
debt in the country.
"A calf with single eye, no ears
five legs is the joy Of Wayne county, L
Is now over o month old, and bids fl
grow into full cowhood-
One of the largest Of Boston's
drygoods stores now has gymnasfu
the top floor for the use of the saleswt
and other female employees.
"A New York manufacturer Of tray'
goods imports great many elephant
annually. He uses them for making tn
which he says are becoming popular.
The Women's Temple, in Chi
which cost 5000 COO, was largely paid 70
of the contributions of penny banks,
of which were opened, it is said, for the
pose.
The longest train ever handled
single engine in this country has just
hauled on the Reading road. 1t contt
$50 empty cars and was a mile and gu
in length.
The total force in the naval Sc
afioat in 1890 was So 359 officers and me
whom &c, ,02O were between the ages of /!
"a, 1870 between 25 and IS, s, l50 betwet
and IS and $40 above IS years of age.
AN aged parson, who recently vi
Caribou, Me-. stated that he had writer
delivered 1.5O0 sermons, and that It took
100 of the manuscripts to fill barrel.
measure Is what the unappreciative will;
called it.
A dentist of Ansonia, Conn.,, q
days since advertised that he would sc
auction a set of false teeth, ''now in
mouth of patient" The dentist made
teeth seven years ago, and claims they
ASFSA pau AOA'
jacob Fegley, living along the Pc.
men Creek, near QuakertowD, Md, gath
enough feathers TO make four good
feather beds after g flock of about 500
geese had spent the night in i swamp o
place on their way North.
Seventy thousand people kissed
humerus of st. Ann, the sanity relic W
had stay of two weeks in New York
many miraculous cures were chronicle
the metropolitan dailies. 1t is said tina
cures are not permanent, however
The felt cloth which is made into
is composed chiefly of the hair of rab
hares or goats, mixed with much
These substances are entangled toge
and pressed and beaten until they adheI
form a compact but flexible material.
The Worlds Fair Commission :,
Brazil is at home, actively developin
exhibit from that country, among the
ing features of which will be groups OF
chona, coffee trees in bearing, cochi
cactus, mammoth palms, ferns, bamboos,
and models of fruit.
1t is stated that the height of
human body is generally ten times
length of the face; the face is as long as
hand; the arm is four times the length OF
face; the sole is one-si1th the length of
body, and six times the thickness of
h and equals the thickness of the body.
The guillotine is to have its centen
this year, the first execution on it ha'
taken place in May, 1872, when a brig
named Pelletier was eIperimentally .
cuted by the new invention, being tine
to feel that Eight and pleasant freshne.
the neck" to which DR.. Guillotine woult
often refer.
Medical authorities declare that
people are less able to resist the attack
disease or the shocks of injuries and op
tions than the moderately thin. Thei
spiratOry muscles cannot so easily act;
heart is often handicapped by the deDosi
it and the least e1ertion throws them in
perspiration.
In Australia the aboriginals are
most successfully in tracing game and o
objects in pursuit. With their eyes Fl
upon the grass, sometimes even kneelfn
scrutinize the ground more closely, eIa
ing a torn leaf or broken twig, they
tell how long since the game passed.
whether it was alarmed or unsuspic iou5
The cigarette has been put to a
use. A gambler in Cheyenne smoked
necessarily while playing and so mar
the DdCRS Oh Cne WIFI HlCOIluc 81
that they could readily be read by his
federates. The little scheme was discove
after three weeks of play, and now the g;
bling rooms have signs conSpicuously pos
stating that cigarette smoking is barred.
There have been during the past v
q series of fashiona bic crazes in Jal
The year 1873 was the rabbit year.
japanese went wild over the little quaC
peds. As much as $500 was paid for sill
specimen, and speculations IN El0o and
rabbits were of daily occurrence. L
figh ting, printing dictionaries by subsc
tion, boating, whist, waltZing, gigantic
nerals and table turning are among othe
cent crazes.
AT the last meeting of the Royal Soc
there was shown an oyster shell from Th
day Island, in the Torres Strait, upon VII
q bright and splendid pearl had been
duced by artificial process. The process
self was not divulged. photographs OF
ing bullets showed that q pistol bullet II
eled $50 feet q second; a Martini-Henry
let l.750 feet; new English magazine
bullet with smokeless powder 1000 feet,
nm aluminium bullet under similar col
tions, 5000 feet.
"A curious lawsuit is engaging the
tention of the court at Eciia, Spain. The
is over the sum of 25O, 900 pesetas and ba
A stranger some time ago handed the 7
road station master q sealed letter an
heavy box. On opening the box he foun
baby, and at once handed it over to swift
man and his wife. When the switchma
wife undres sed the infant for bed she fol
rolled up in i is clothing a quantity OF Di
notes, which, as the paper stated. were 10
applied to the child's education. The stat
master demanded the return OF the pa
but the switchman refused, holding tina
was given him Without reservation