Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Native Australians eat butterflies
There is no half vote in the Electoral
! College.
-Pbiladelphia has 5000 more women
than men.
The m!eroscopists say that . mosquito
has q teeth.
Texas has 81 counties each larger than
Rhode Island.
Rain has fallen only twice in % years
at Eden, Arabia.
The State of Pennsylvania leads In
cigar production.
Aluminium slate pencils are among the
latest inventions.
The editor of Missouri paper takes
'possums on subscriptions.
There are three places in this world
where green snow is found.
Boston enjoys the distinction Of being
the ravorite city for tramps
There are q foreign ships with guns
having a range of ten miles each.
London undertakers send out price cir
culars to families having cases Of serious
| illness.
Mexico has public bath houses in every
town, however mean it may be in other
respects.
The Palace Hotel in San Francisco has
the largest isolated lighting plant in the
country, there being 5000 incandescenS
| lamps.
The electric street cars of Albany, n.
| Y, are provided with an automatic device
: that shows the name of each street just be-
| fore it is reached.
| Australian vit1culturists are agitating
for bonus of 6 cents per gallon on all vine
| made in the colonies that reac-'S cerSaan
| standard OF excellence.
In Boston they are getting to call after
noon teas "smoke talks because the host
ess usually has incense burning in little
| oriental incense burner.
The largest wooden statue in existence
| is that of a woman. 1t is in Toxic, the
capital of Japan, and is dedicated to Hacne-
man, the Goddess of War.
Russia has enacted further restrictions
ON Hebrew mechanics They can exercise
their calling only in cities where there are
| Government Boards OF Trade
AN eland, species of South African
antelope, which had been in the menagerie
in Central Park, New York, for the past ID
years, died OF old age on Monday.
Fifteen men, 13 hounds and 25 dogs
chased a solitary Jack rabbit for several
hours the other day, in Pettis county, No.
| resulting in the triumphant escape OF Drer
rabbit.
The aggregate capital represented BY
| the various "trusts'' in the United States
amounts to more than s2 900, ,COO,OOO or more
| than two-thirds CT our entire Manufacturing
| capital
The largest sheet or pane of glass in the
world, it is stated, is set in the front OF
building on Vine street. Cincinnati, o. It
| was made in Marseilies, France, ana meas
ures 1856 by 104 inches.
During the G. A. r. encampment at
Washington lO0, COO new 1Gcent pieces, 1000
quarters and 10000 half-dollar pieces were
| carried away from the treasury exchange
by visitors for souvenirs.
A horseshoe was nailed over his door
by a st. Louis man for good luck. few
| davs later as the man was entering bis
| home, lightning passed through tne hOFSs-
shoe and knocked him senseless.
in India and South America there Is
said to be q small tree, known as the "sor-
rowful tree" which bears sweet scented
flowers that 'rbloom only in the nighttime
and fall of at the break OF day."
| During a run of salmon in the Nehalem
river. Washington, the other day, the peo-
pie living along the banks killed thousanos
| OF the fish by spearing. so plentnuI NeEo
thew that one man found no d1fhculty In
killing 200 day.
The ''Zone tariff pays in Hungary.
The Iare is according to distance, FIRST nVe
miles. second five miles, and 30 on IL u
very low, and the income has increased ~
per cent the travelling 464 per cent since sne
| introduction of bis method-
| -Chrysanthemum dances are "aI the
rager in London. At a recent ball the hostess
was dressed as a white chrysanthemum- She
wore pretty girdle of chrysanthemums
about her waist, and carried on her arm .
large bouquet Of that much-loVed no"er.
The number of persons carried by the
railroads of the United States the last year
WIS. in round numbers, 10000 900. Owing to
the worlds Fair, the number for next year
viii probably be much increased. though &c
is not likely to reacn round 4OOO,OOOOOO-
No railroad seems to be perfectly
happy until it has nickname. Every road
out of Cincinnati has one, some more forci-
BILE than others. The c.. P. & ". (Cinc1n-
natl Portsmouth and Yirgtnta( Railroad Is
known all along the line as the Coat' Fans
and Vest road.
| There is fresh water spring Wh1cn
| covers a. area OF two acres in the Atlantic
ocean, two miles from the Florida shore and
| fen miles south of st. Augustine The spring
| is defined by the silver cleaning white caps
| irving TO force themselves from the power
| ful boiling spring.
The best insect destroyer known IL hot
alum water. Put alum into hot water and
boil until dissolved, then apply the water
| with q brush to all cracks, closets, Deoseeaos
| and other places where insects may Do
| found. Ants, cockroacnes, fleas and other
| creeping things are killed
"A powerful lamp, which distinctly
| illurninates objects over half mile distant,
by means OF a great reflector, is to be adopt
ed in the French army. 1t is carried on .
Iiqht wagon behind the soldiers, and they
| will be in obscurity, while the enemy and all
| objects in front will be made conspicuous
"A very sympathetic gentleman, who had
| the welfare of the ladies at heart, delivered
a lecture on 1.-THE Duties OF Husbands" to
provincial audience. In impressive sem
| tences he urged the gentlemen to treat their
| wives kindly, and had not completed DIS
| advice when an officer appeared upon the
| stage and arrested him for bigamy.
The question, sis light or darkness
conductive to the growth Of an electro
| plant9" was recently discussed by deoaS
| ing society in a Western college. some
| stated that light was, because II no lamps
| were lit there would be no pronts, while
others said that darkness was, because II
there was no darkness there would Do no
need of lights. The debate finally teImlnr
| ated in a draw.
There are nearly 2 900 known species Of
orchids. Probably as many more remain
| undiscovered in the depths oil une1plored
| tropical forests He who comes upon new
one obtains almost as much glory as Is got
| by the discovery of a star. IL seems curious
| that, whereas these plants are spread over
| nearly all the world, us far as the borders OF
the frozen zone, there should be so rev
kinds that are useful in any way to man.
| ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.