Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Most sheep die before they are year
old.
The Oldest building in the world is the
Tower of London.
The American gooseberrles require
pruning every year.
The mouth of the Mississippi is three
miles higher than its source.
The polar diameter is % miles shorter
than the equatorial diameter.
The Young Abstainers' Union In Lon
don has now over 5000 members
The best draft horses in the country are
reared in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The flavor of an ostrich egg is excellent
and one egg makes an ordinary meal.
The largest university in the world is at
Cairo, Egypt, which has II, 900 students.
1t is barely so years since the postal
stamp was introduced into the United
States.
The first regular passenger railroad
built in the world is the Baltimore and Ohio,
built in 1927.
"A copy of the first edition Of Poe's
"Tameriane" has been sold at Boston for tho
sum of 81 ,4s0
The distance from the North Pole to
the equator, measured along the earth's sur
face, is 5000 miles.
AT the time of the First Temple every
Hebrew home was a Monte Carlo, as regards
betting and gambling.
Two of the best conservatories in the
world are to be found in London and in the
Jardin des Plants, Paris.
The blood of dogs fatigued by long rae
ing, when injected into other dogs, makes
them exhibit all symptoms OF fatigue.
The Chinese houses are generally orns-
mented with SO many quaint turrets and
gables that they resemble toy houses.
In many places it is believed that the
person who hears the whip-poor-will in the
day time will die before the end Of the year.
The religious fatalism in the Hindoos'
life extends also to tn cir Intellectual state.
In grammar as in faith kismet rules su-
preme.
Somebody has disc overed that eggs laid
in the spring and early summer are su-
perior in quality to those laid late in the
summer.
The longest span of telephone wire
across the Ohio river is between Portsmouth,
o., and South Port smouth, Ky. 1t is s,7s3
feet long.
"A German, living at Pottstown, Pa.
ate one dozen angle worms on wager re
Gently. He says they are just as palatable
as oysters.
I'm little hamlet in Africa ]. 500 men
were recently employed in destroying the
crickets, a passing army of 10 Gusts had left
behind them.
1t is said that 20 years ago there were
not 20 canoeists in the country, while now
there are 10000 of them who write their
names sin water" every year.
"A Dexter woman became 30 infatuated
with the Christian Scientist theory that she
laid away her false teeth thinking her
natural ones would grow again.
Out of total of "a, ,O34 paupers in aims
houses in the United States in the year coz
cred by the eleventh census 81. Is per cent
were white and s.s5 per cent were colored.
I'm China they tie red cord around
baby's wrists, so that it may grow up quiet
and obedient. Should a child turn out bad
they say, "His parents forgot to bind his
wrists"
According to published guide to the
railroads of the United States, there are, or
lately were, seventeen different gauges in
the country, varying from feet to feet Z
inches in width.
"A Lancaster county farmer claims to
own a pair of horses which are so wei
broken that they will pull a harroy
larly across field from morning TO
without driver. *
If the earth should cease to revolve
together. the oceans of the equator woult
forsake their beds and hasten. toward the
poles. Probably the entire globe north Of
Boston would be ubmerged.
New York has accompany established
for the manufacture of. small bombs about
the size of Frankfurter sausages, with which
a farmer can bring down showers of rain
whenever he sees clouds over his land
Last year there were over 2, 800, 900
pieces of mail sent by special delivery, and
the average time consumed in the delivery
of each parcel after it reached the post
office of the addressee was only 20 minutes.
If wool is left on sucking eve till
after the usual shearfng time and her lamb
is meantime weaned, the wool will start a
second growth and will show joint or
break in the fiber that will injure it seri-
ously.
"A gold coin passes from one to another
9, 1000, ,O0O, 900 times before the stamp or i'm.
preston upon it becomes obfiterated by
friction, while silver coin changes between
1880 600, 900 times before it becomes entirely
effaced.
-Gentians were once as common in she
Alpine pastures as daisies are in our
meadows; but the Alps have been rified by
the root-grubber, and genttdnd Gcaulis has
now to be sought on spots hitherto une,x
piored-on spots where hardly a goat can
find foothold.
The palace of the King of Siam is in
closed in high white walls which are mile
in circumference. Within them are con-
tanned temples, public offices. seraglios,
stables for the sacred elephant accommo-
da tions for 1000 troops, cavalry, artillery,
war elephants, an arsenal and a theater-
The so-called ''spake stones" of Ceylon
are celebrated for the efficacy which they
are supposed to have in curing the bites Of
venomous serpents. Secrecy is maintained
as to the method Of their manufacture,
which is a lucrative business carried on by
monks, who supply the merchants of India
with them.
-Ceyion is great place for bugs Most
beautiful of the numerous strange kinds Of
insects found there are the'tgolden beetles"
the wing cases of which are used to enrich
Indian embroideries, while the lustrouS
joints of the legs are strung on silken
threads, forming necklaces and bracelets OF
singular brilliancy.
The champion coin counter in this
is a lady in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, who, It is said, can
count rs, 900 coins a day. Her fingers are so
good money that q counterfeit cannot slip
through them, even when she Is counting az
this lightning speed.
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDOM.
sThis is the year the women should put
fI.fo