Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
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| The oil wells in this country supply
10000 barrels day.
Plants are synthetical feeders, animals
| are analytical feeders.
There are 1000 applications for The
three vacant army chaplaincies.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are said to
| be the only fish that never sleep.
The site of the city of Boston was sold
in 1885 by John Blackstone for $3.50.
"A too excited Atlanta lawyer dislocated
his arm by making too many gestures.
Rouge was first used by women in Eu-
rope in the middle of the sixteenth century.
| in philadelphia there are 1917 arc
\ lights, including so owned by the Girard
| Trust.
In Toxic there are more than 800 bath
| houses in which o bath can be had for |
| cent.
Agricultural implements are now bs.
| ing manufactured extensively in Buenos
| Ayres.
The greatest distance covered by
| steam vessel in one hours run is fxedaty
miles.
Bermuda has the largest dock in the
| world,~which is 3s1 feet long and l23 feet in
| breadth.
The drive well, one of the simplest of
| inventions, has yielded its inventor q, 100000
in royalties.
-Wellsville, Mo-, has twice as many
dogs as inhabitants. 1t has 1,740 residents
and 1850 dogs.
Seventeen hundred copies of Shakes
peare in a cheap edition were sold in Ger.
many last year.
Indiana has more Germans than any
other State They constitute 50 per cent Of
the population.
"A man who is to be hanged in Savannah
in July has sold his head for chronological
purposes for $l5.
The soil of Hayti is very fertile. Corn
is easily grown, and three crops can be
| raised annually.
If you know the length Of the rails you
can determine the speed OF any rail car by
counting the rails.
! "A hippometer, invented by q French
officer, will measure the PAGES and ground
covered by a horse.
The poet Burns spelled his name Burn
ess (his family name) until the publicatio
of his poems In 1885,
A strong negro in Maryland killed
bull by catching it by the horns and throw
| ing it to the ground. breaking its neck.
-Gal1leo's first telescope was made out
| OF q common lead pipe, into the ends of
| "A man in Vermont has saved all the
| maple sugar he ever made. He started In
1912. and has now over 10000 pounds on
! hand.
| London has firm of opticians whose
| speciality is the sale of spectacles for horses.
| The object of the spectacles is to promote
| high stepping.
"A little vase of Sevres ware, presented
| by French General to Tippo Sahib. was
! sold in London not long ago for s7.a05 It
was only eight inches high.
One of the attractions at the coming
; Chicago Exposition is to be pyramid OF
| 400 pianos connected by electricity and
i, manipulated by one woman.
-Tertullian, who wrote about A. d. 1876
! said that kissing was first instituted for the
purpose of discovering whether the person
kissed had been guilty of tippling.
The highest priced newspaper in the
| world is the Mashonaland Herald and lam
| besian Times. 1t is daily about the size Of
a sheet of foolscap, and.its price is shilling.
On an average each inhabitant of
| France consumes so liters or quarts of WIN
| in q year. In Paris they do better-or W.
with an average consumption Of Is
Louis XIV, of France, caused an
shock from a battery of Leyden jars
| administered to 700 Barthusian m
| Joined hand in hand, with prodigious e.
| 1t is stated that it is possible to b,
come a prince in Italy by the payment OF
s13. .00o in fees and other costs. The title Of
duke may be had for $lO, 600, and tnat OF
| baron for a, ,Ooo
of the entire amount of money con.
| tributed for charity in England last year, an
amount that reached the great sum OF
SIS COO OOO two-rhirds or just $40, 0O00 900, were
given by Baron Hirsch.
| 1t is estimated that $500, 900 theater
tickets are issued in America every week at
so cents each. The total sum expended
every year for this form of amusement
would amount to S9i, ,OOO,Oc0.
"A yellow fish, called Alaskan mackerel,
and fully equal to the mackerel Of the At
lantic coast is found at the west end Of the
Alaskan Islands. The fish move in large
schools, and are of a fine flavor.
The curious custom of rafting for Bibles
took place in the parish church of st. Ives,
Hants England, recently. The custom
dates from 1875; and is in accordance with
the will of DR.. Wilde, who left $3.50 TO pro
vide a fund for that purpose.
"A new industry has been invented by
clever girl She calls herself an acceuntan
and auditor for large households. She finds
pIenty of employment in looking after the
business of few families of large expendf
lures, whose heads have not taste for the
work.
The following note from an indignant
mother was recently received by a master
in one of the London board schools: u
must complain about the wicked things you
teach my boy-sinful things. You light
candle, put tumbler over it. ana makeis
go out without blowing it out"
"A p1aybill in Cambridge, Mass, the
other day excited unwonted interest. Tie
names of eminent citizens of the town
seemed to bear out the boast, but q close
inspection revealed the fact that It wass
combination Of dramatic bill at top and
municipal election bill at the bottom.
"A fleet of three whalebacks left Chi.
cago last Saturday evening grain loaded for
Buffalo and they made a big record. The
respective cargoes were as follows: Whale
back steamer Bartlett 81 900 bushels corn,
whaleback barge, lO2 9l,OO0 bushels corn
whaleback barge l09, 10000 bushels oats
Total. 303. 500 bushels.
The automatic fortune telling nachinef
in railway stations and at street corners o.
New York and London have been turne'
into a new form of gambling 1t will be re
membered that the faces Of these machine,
are covered with variously colored trt
angles, They are, in brief, handy roulett
tables, and certain people have taken Il
dropping pennyfn the slot and betting upoi
what colored triangle the finger or the gypsy
girl will rest.
JoLLYIsMs FROM JUDGE.
'Boggs SAYS that the 11th Of July will be
Indenendence Dsy for him-the first he'll celebrate
otp he narried.b