Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-02
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Buda Pesth makes the finest -four.
There are orange trees in Malta zoe
years old.
-Fifty-three per cent of Iowa's farms
are mortgaged.
Fifty thousand Missouri mules are sold
in st. Louis every year.
Strawberries were picked at Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, last week.
Kansas is the ouIy State in the Union
which produces reeled silk.
If Arabian tradition amounts to any.
thing Eve was over 200 feet tall.
The gifts to Yale during the last year
have amounted to over 81. .O00, 900.
The ratio of sudden deaths is as ten
among men TO one among women.
The Egyptian is taxed 80 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
The practice of shaving the head has
been in vogue in nearly all countries.
Among French dainties of the fifteenth
century were fried leeches and hashed Dor.
poise.
The product of American distllIeries
Of all kinds last year amounted to I17.Ise, ia
gallons.
Two Canadians made a wager on the
chance that the comet would come in COLI,
sion with the earth,
In . little. more than a year 81 bows
have committed suicide in Berlin. Ftfty.
four OF them were less than Is years old.
General Sherman's old home in ST.
Louis, which was sold a short time ago, is b,
become G. A. r. headquarters and war
museum.
1t is said that the people of Toxic re-
cover quickly from surgical operations be-
cause they consume but little alcohol and
eat but little meat.
1t is reported that the Tam O'Shanter
Inn, at Ayr, famous wherever the verses Of
Bnrns are read, was sold at auction, short
time ago, Tor about $4,000.
"A Kansas farmer who had had much
trouble in shipping eggs at last succeeded in
getting q consignment delivered in good
order by marking the box dynamite"
"A resident of Missouri town lately
undertook to carry a hatful OF blasting
powder in his hands and smoke q pipe at the
same time. He will probably recover from
his injuries.
"A rattlesnake will not cross Q hair
rope, Experienced campers, when they
fear the rattlesnakes are around, encircle
tier camp with hair lariat or two, and
feel secure.
tion of German wines in the world Is that
stored away in the cellars of the Grand Duke
o. Luxembourg. Some of the vintages date
back to I706.
"A cable railway is to be erected from
Saint Ergues TO the summit of the Voirons
Mountain in the Upper Savoy, distance Of
nearly two miles. The gauge of the line will
be one metre.
Byron Champlin, of Almota, Wash,
has succeeded in raising a new variety Of
peach, which he has named the November
peach" as it did not mature until the early
part of this month.
-Children's clothes can be made freproof
by adding to the last rinse water two ounces
of pulverized alum A prominent English
chemist says that all children'S dresses
should be thus treated.
-Stenography was first used in the
French Parliament about the year 1890, and
one OF the few official stenoaraphers OF that
period still surviving is NJ. 1Agache, who is
now Senator of France.
The yearly waste in the United States
through drink Is at least $500, 600, 900. In 70
years $4,000, 900, coo have been thus wasted.
This is equivalent to the whole savings OF
the people from 1888 to 1857.
Cats are being extensively used in New
Zealand for the destruction Of rabbits. The
efficacy OF the new "cure" that they have
just given an order for 900 cats.
Among the coachmen of Berlin are
seven retired army officers, three ex-paseors
and l6 nobles London even beats this, for
her "oabbies" include q marquis, a baron
and ar ex-member OF Parliament.
Tine highest chimney in Germany, and
probably on the Continent, has just been
built at Stolberz. near Aix-la- Chapelle. Is
an em1nence which rises some 30 feet above
the surrounding plain.
We are told that NJ Thiers died in
little iron b ed scarcely larger than a child's,
which he had used for so years. It was
wheeled into the small drawing room where
he had breakfast. He took it with him on
his tour through Europe in 1870.
The frizzled glass threads from which
cloth is woven are said to surpass in fine
ness not only the finest cotton but even the
thread OF the silk worms cocoon, their
'oftness and elasticity being even greater
han that OF manufactured silk '1inG"
Two hundred Dutch families from the
Ticinity of Rotterdam came over on the
and are now on their way to q
part of Colorado where the dams are small
'ut numerous. They will settle in the San
Iufs Valley, an irris lated district, and raise
wheat.
The Norman term "maire" afterward
Anglicized into ''mayor," was introduced in
he reign of Henry II, and it was King John
rho first granted the citizens of London the
fight of electinD Mayor annually. The
ref1X '1Ord' and the sLvle of fright honor
BILE" were granted by Edward III in 1854.
"A down-east minister vino is waging
"a against amateur theatricals clinches HIS
rgument against everything pertaining to
he stage by the statement that the loss Of
fe at Pompeii would have been small but
Dr the fact that most Of her people were in
be theater at the time of Vesuvius' great
ruption.
AN Englishmsn has invented rubber
tud Tor floor and stairs. 1t consists Of
mall iron plate with q nail projecting from
nder the surface, around which rubber IS
FOLDED. 1t is fixed in place by a blow OF
ne hammer, the advantage being that when
orn it can be easily removed and replaced
Y others.
The cruiser Rurik, recently launched
n the Nova in the presence of the Czar and
zarina, is the most formidable warship OF
er kind in the world and the largest Of any
ind ever built in Russia. Her displaoe-
tent is 10,923 tons, her maximum speed l8x
nots per hour and her coal capacity 1000
ms. She will be able to steam 10000 knots
! the rate OF 10 knots per hour without put
ng into port for fuel or provisions.