Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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clerk.
Missouri will have zinc statute ct the
Worlds Fair.
"A Washington State man won $lO,OOO
in one game Of craps.
The latest holiday novelty Is Derby
hat which contains cigar rack.
Many prominent scientists have held
that hades is located on a comet.
"A Western newspaper offers prize Tor
the best definition OF the word "honor."
-Emetics have no effect on horses, which
have no gall bladders to be acted upon.
DIR. Nansen's exploring ship will be
the strongest vessel of its size in the world
"A resident of Leomins.er, England, has
won renown as a collector Of human skulls.
"A case of bleeding through the sound
skin is the subject Of European medical
report.
Topeka is better of than New York, in
a social way. 1t has "junior" and a ''sen'
ior' 400.
Brussels boasts of q clock which IL
never wound by human hands. Wind
power does it.
The negroes about Camden, Ark, have
found q new Messiah in the shape OF a negro
boy years old.
Some authorities consider the horse the
most highly organized creature, not even
excepting man.
The Chinese postal service, which IL
slow and crude is controlled by many prt
vate companies.
"A spouting artesiau we'll has been
drilled in the heart of the Yuma desert near
Salton. The deserts time is up.
-Thorghatten, the famous Norwegian
mountain, has a hole extending entirely
through it from one side to the other.
If Cleveland should call Congress to-
gether it will be the twelfth extra session
called since the organization Of the Re-
public.
"A species of eyeless fish has been
found in subterranean boiling spring found
in Nevada mine, The fish would perish in
water of ordinary temperature.
State Senator Veatch, of Oregon, as
serts that he gathered from his garden on
December twigs of raspberry vines upon
which were blossoms and ripe berries.
The sIowest railroad in the world is the
Arizona and New Mexico. From Benson to
Nogales is SO miles, and the &C hedule time is
eight hours. TIE fare is S. 80, or 10 cents a
mile.
Physicians have at last decided that
the small toe of the human foot must go
that civilization tends gradually to crowd
lt out OF existence, and to depend more than
ever for locomotion on the big toe.
H. Devaux has been making expert
ments with the sense of taste in ants, in
course of which he found that while fond Of
sugar they dislike sacchAr1n, ana even re-
fuse sugar when mixed with saccharin.
"A lady writes to say that as daily ex-
perience she carries 16 pockets-two in her
divided skirt, four in her waistcoat, five in
her indoor jacket (Which by reason OF their
contents weigh just s pounds ounces), and
five in her outdoor jacket.
All the motions and sensations of the
various parts of the body are represented in
the surface of the brain as on u map. Thus
there is a separate brain area necessary Tor
sight, another for hearing, another for the
motions Of the fingers. and so on.
The honesty of granger in Idaho il
suspected. As proof against him the local
paper publishes q statement that on the day
before Thanksgiving every turkey which
this man sold at 25 cents q pound had about
two pounds of wheat in its craw.
"A Hannibal, (Mo.,) man has had an
from box made all in one piece, with slit in
the top. When he feels like taking a drink
he drops a dime into the box and swallows a
glass OF hop tea. The box holds half
bushel and he expects to fill 1t by spring
A locomotive that took the star role in
a melodrama playing out West blew up the
OTHER evening in the enthusiasm of bubbling
over with dramatic art. The members of
the company took up q collection and de-
frayed the burial expenses of their fellow
momber. -F .--
"A yew tree, almost destitute of branches
or bark, grows abundantly in the Caucasus
TO height of from so TO so feet, and diane.
OF Tf
but its timber is almost indestructible, ex-
cept bv fire. 1t is con sidered superior to
mahogany.
I'm certain secondhand bookstore in
New York there is displayed for sale a copy
of Longfeilow's poems, on the hyleaf OF
which is written: ITO my friend, Fran els
Bret Harte, from Henry w. Longfellow."
The price of the book but for the autograph
inscription would be 81 so. As it is, it ls
held ut So.
AT Manchester, England, the penny
in-the slot machine has been adapted to the
use of the elephants in the Zoo. When the
visitor gives an elephant penny he drops
it in the slot and gets cake. There is no
use trying to deceive the animals by half
pennies. Those despised coins are always
1iung in the lace of the giver.
over the whole world the proportion
OF the sexes is about equal, but in separate
OF Ln6 WOflu Whites SEedLlys TUT
stance, in this country there are SO women
to every 100 men; in Europe there are rather
more than 100 women to 100 men. Canada
has % women to 100 men. In unciviliZed
countries the men are believed largely to
outnumber the women, this on account OF
the fact that more men are needed to carry
on the wars in which such people are con-
stantly engaged, and because or the rougher
ways OF living.
Many people have but very obscure
idea of the principle of the arc and incan.
descent lamp respectively. In the arc lamp
electric discharge takes place between two
pieces of hard conducting carbon separated
from each other by an interval which Is
kept as nearly as possible constant by auto
matte devices. An arc of light of intense
brilliance called the Yoltaic arc is thus OBJ
tanned. In the glow or incandescent Tampa
filament of carbon inclosed in a globe ex-
hausted of air by mercury pump serves as
q path along which the current passes. The
resistance the electricity meets with in
passing through this filament is sufficient to
raise the latter to incandescence, and light
is Thus obtained more suitable for the llum-
ination of interiors generally.