Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-27
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.

CURIOUS COADENSAflUAn. {
Birthdays we're kept even as far back
as the time of Pharaoh.
Diamonds are found at depth of 150
feet in Brazil and Siberia.
The Mosquito Indians of Central Amer
lea inter their dead beneath the floors Of
their huts.
-Four pounds of gold have been collected
from the SCOT in the chimney of the Royal
Mint in Berlin.
1t is expected that emerald will be
found in Australia that are As fine as those
produced in any other country.
The first matches were pieces of wood
about six inches long tipped with sulphur
They caught fire easily from piece OF hint
1t has been said that lightly laden
camel will take with the same foot IS
strides minute, each being about seven
feet.
Strong City. Kan, has 1000 inhabitants
and the only lawyer among them has so lit
tie to do that he must also teach school to
make living.
An experienced dealer in watches says
he has known many men who have tried TO
wind their watches every morning instead
OF at night, but he has never known one TO
succeed.
Some flowers, fortunately few in num-
Der. have livid red color, resembling that
OF dead meat, by which land by their un-
pleasant odor), they attract the attention
of flesh flies.
Most people have no doubt heard of the
precious jewel which the toad carries in his
brain box, and so-called toad stones, which
were in reality the teeth OF fossil fish, were
formerly worn in finger rings as protection
against poisons.
Legendary history says that Noah took
the true and original Philosophers Stone-
with him in the ark. and that he changed it
up IN the center of the great boat that all Of
the living creatures gathered therein might
be lighted by its presence"
The Kentish plover, like the stone cur
lew or thickknee, is being rapidly extermin,
ated in the county from which it derives its
name by collectors and so-called natural
lists. VINO, with walking stick guns in and
out OF season, destroy all they can approach.
The curator of the Colombo Museum.
has discovered that carbolized oil is one Of
the most perfect preservatives of the colors
of fish and other animal specimens The
most delicate frogs, snakes and geckoes re-
tain their evanescent tints when kept in il.
There are two remarkable species of
crabs on the Pacific Coast, more plentiful
there than any other kinds, which are called
respectively the yellow and purple "shore
crabs" Their bodies are nearly SQUARE and
their claws very large for the size of the
animals.
Housewives of New England have
growing abundantly on the seaside rocks in
their neighborhoods little living bottles of
indeIibte ink, not to be excelled In beauty or
dura bilfty by any manufactured product,
since neither acid nor alcohol will affect this
Juice OF the whelk.
1t is not generally known that the
reigning houses Of Europe, with few e1cep-
tions, are descended from two sisters, the
one being the mother Of almost all of the
Catholic princes and princesses, and the
other of the majority OF those OF the evan
gelical confession.
The use of jewel points as cutters has
been increased by the invention Of electrical
appliances. The fine lines-2O0 to an inch
on the cylinders of the phonograph and the
graphophone are cut by steel points, but it
mas been ascertained that grit in the par
anime injuries the points and causes ragged
lines.
Harrisburg, Conn, has grove of trees
from which musical sounds come during q
wind. In September, during what is known
al the equlnoctial storm, this strange grove
is heard Then, above the bowling Of the
wind, the roar rises and falls like the moan
ing of 10000 leviathans in the agonies Of
DEATH
In Belgium the rural folk maintain
all farming operations, but that throughout
the year the young of the domestic animals
will not thrive as at other times. A similar
fatality, they argue, extends to every kind
of grass and plant, which becomes stunted or
is blighted before attaining its normal size.
If the shell of the purpura lapiIlus be
broken there is seen on the back of the ami.
NAL Just under the skin, a slender whitishs
vein, which contains yellow liquor. When
this liquor is applied to linen with small
brush and exposed to the sun it becomes
successfully green, blue and purple, and
finally settles into brilliant uncnangeable
condition.
No horned tortoise now exists, but q
fossil specimen was found awhile ago on
Lord Howe's island, in the Southern Pacific,
which had four horns on its crest and re-
semDled cross between horned toad and q
swapping turtle. Doubtless you have often
heard OF human beings with horns. Such ap-
pendages in their case are abnormal deyel-
opments OF bone.
For days previous to the earthquake.iu
the Riviera, the horses there showed every
symptom of abject fear, which continued
without any change of character till the fury
of the CONFUSION broke forth. But not till
few seconds before the earth began to
quake did human beings hear any sounds,
while it is extremely probable the horses
heard the subterranean noises for two or
three days previously.
Many curious s1mllarltleS are found be-
tween the burial customs of ancient Euro
peans and those of American Indians The
latter frequently placed food with the corpse
and money in its mouth, just like the ancient
Romans who thus supplied coin to pay
Charon's fare for waiting the departed soul
over the Internal river, furnishing also
cake composed of flour and honey where
with to appease the fury of Cerberus at the
gate of hadeS.
Important discoveries of prehistoric re-
mains have been made near Brunn, the cap
ital of Moravia, which are liable TO attract
the attention of paleontologists all over the
globe. As a canal was being dug "A skulls
were brought to light OF fdolichocephaloGs
(iong-headed) character, and of an exceed
ingly low stage OF development. The same
place contained bones and teeth of NAM
moth rhinoceroses and reindeer. Close to
the skulls lay more than SEQ fossil snails,
several calcinous stones with holes in the
middle, a rude figure cut out of a mammoth's
tooth with hole running through the mid
die. This discovery is the first of the kind
in Austria. and it is Important as showing
tIxt there were human beings in the nam
moth period