Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Tennille, Ga, lays claim to 3 19yesr-
old cat
The lobster catch Of this season Is only
so per cent of last seasons.
"A fullgrown elephant is capable Of
carrying load of two tons.
Two persons, on a average, die Of starv-
alton every week in London.
"A sign in saloon in New York reada.
''Three masted schooner Of beer"
Sweden has larger area of woodland
than any other country in Europe.
Greek women went barefooted indoors
and wore sandals when walking abroad
Several thousands of hair pins in many
styles have been recovered from Pompeii.
-Californis roses contain 20 per cent
more perfume than those grown anywhere
else.
The Queen of Siam has the smallest
feet yet seen on any woman. She wears X
in boots.
The echo at the Eagles Nest KiIlar.
ney Ireland. repeats bugle note at least
100 times.
The State of Washington is one of the
heaviest consumers OF condensed milk in
this country.
BY the law of Missouri third conyis
tion for larceny carries with it fmprison.
ment for life
The salesman of q New York flower
store heightens the summer effect by wear
ing straw hat
About 9, 600, 900 kids are slaughtered in
Europe annually to supply the one town In
France where gloves are made.
In the chapel of the Abercorn family,
at Paisley, the closing of the door produces
sound which roars like distant thunder
"A woman has patented a machine for
making watch screws that is provided with
a thread cutter so delicate as to be almost
invisible.
Cripple Creek, a well-known mining
town of Colorado, now has a population
OF over 10000 people, while one year ago
| there were less than 80 persons within ita
! borders.
Between the two wings of the castle of
simonet:a, two miles from Milan, the report
| of pistol shot is repeated 80 times. At the
same place single musical instrument pro-
ouces the erect OF a full orchestra.
1t is estimated that it costs well-to-do
people in this country SIPS, OOO, ,OOo yearly to
support charitable institutions, while abouu
| $500, coo 900 are invested in permanent buiId-
ings where the needy are cared for.
German beds are furnished with q huge
pillow or upper mattress, which answers the
purpose OF ordinary PED clothing. Travel
| ers agree that there is not enough of the
Continental bed-that, in fact, it ends too
| quickly.
| Jane Halloway, a colored woman, said
to be los years old, recently called on the
| Workhouse Board in Cincinnati and secured
the release of her gay and festive son Sam
| uel, giddy young fellow Of IS, who was do
ing time for beating his WIFE
The Chinese empire and dependencies,
Mongolia, Manchooria, Chinese Turkestan,
Kokanor and Thibet. occupy an area of at
least 5,OOO,OOO square miles, or about one
| third OF Asia. The population is estimated
at from 800 900, 600 TO 10000 900.
lingo county, California, has q wonder
full natural curiosity which closely resem-
bles monster petrified elephant. The rock
| which nature has given such an extra
| ordinary form is dark gray granite al-
| most the exact color OF the Asiatic ele-
| phant's skin.
| "A German scientist learnedly discusses
the question of driving q tunnel through
the earth from Berlin to Chicago, through
| which and by means of gravitation alone
| the journey between the two places could be
| quickly and comfortably made. He eI-
| presses decided opinion chat the scheme is
4 physically possible.
| There have been numerous cases Of
| poisoning among hat makers. NJ. Jungheisch
traces it to the nitrate of mercury used in
| preparing rabbit skins for manufacturing
| hats. He found half gramne OF mercury in
| not exempt from the dangers OF poisoning
by mercury in this way ...sz..'
"A veteran English correspondent and
| traveller, after much experience with rail-
| way lamps, has abandoned them for a
| candle perforated with holes through the
| center, which he holds in his hand. The
holes absorb the grease, and transform the
nfh hnr ruvid inn lion Ia infn oil
most perfect illumtnanG.
Among the whimsical titles which ap-
pear on the pages of national history. few
| are more apparently frivolous than the
'Duke OF Marmalade, ,"the "Count of Lemon
ade," and the Earl of Brandy All three
names were those of places, the first two
being originally plantations, but latterly
towns of some Importance.
An extraordinary sentence was passed
upon murderer in Neuruppin, Germany, q
couple OF weeks ago. The criminal was q
workman who had murdered his two chill
dren and afterWard mutiiated the bodies in
q shocking manner. He was sentenced to
undergo = years 1mpr1sonmens st hard
labor, and a6 the expiration of the term to
be executed.
The, greatest work of antiquity on
angling is said to be t1e Halleutica of Op-
plan, a Greek poet, who hourisned in the
time OF Severus, A. D., 1885, from which We
learn that many articles in fishing thought
to be modern were known TO the ancientS.
We also learn from ACheneus that several
other writers had written reatise5 or poems
on fishing some centuries before the Chris
tian era
Some large cargo steamers are being
built-so large, indeed, that colossal is per-
haps the most appropriate adjective in
which to describe them. The other week
the launchin. on the Wear of a 9000-tOn
steamer was reported, and last week a
Tyneside firm began to lay down the keel
of an oil steamer to measure 40 feet in
length, and to have a deAd-Weight capacity
of nearly 5000 tons.
Two well-known Munich physicians,
Prof. Pettenkofer and Prof. Emmerich, have
been making experiments with cholera
microbe with the result that their general
health has not suffered, though both Tor
time suffered from diarrhea. Prof. Petten-
kofer concludes, therefore, that epidemic
cholera is induced only by local conditions,
which thorough cleanliness and good Sant-
tary arrangements can remove.
The Amazon warriors of the King of
Dahomey at Poguessa were armed with Win
chesters and sharp sabers. The French have
captured q number of European officers who
were serving as officers In the army of King
Behanzin OF Dahomey. Three Germans
named Schulz, Puech and Weckel, and a
Gently. There was prompt and brief court
martial and at its conclusion the four men
were Immediately shot.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.