Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| Salvation Army women nave Deen lor-
hidden TO wear earrings.
The ''one man one vote" system has
been in force in South Australia for 35 years.
No less than 2O9, 300 acres in Great
Britain are cultivated as orchards and mar.
ket gardens.
The London taiIors have asked the
County Council to fix the same rate for
wonen's work as for mems.
Statistics show that eight times as
many murders are committed in Italy as in
any other European country.
Rowing dogs are less numerous and less
ferocious now, but they become at times
terrible to strangers in Egypt.
Nova Scotia exported 7s, 500, 900 super
fetal feet of deal during 1891 the smallest
crop of this material in nine yeAs.
Several towns in Russia have elected
women for mayors on the ground that they.
were best fitted to be intrusted with the
interests of the community.
According to an officer of Scotland
Yard there are 100000 pickpocke is in Lon
don, and each one of them knows an Ameri-
can the moment he sees him.
An effort is being made to build up
big India rubber industry in Mexico and
company has been organized to plant 100000
rubber trees in the State of Sinaloa.
The oyster seems, from all accounts, to
be scarcely less prolific actually, than the
house fly. 1t is estimated that each mother
oyster throws of from 100000 to 100000 ova
annually.
Recent explorations in the district of
Sonora, Mexico, show that the coal deposits
in the San Marcial Valley will amount to
fully O,0O00O0 COO tons, and it is of excellent
quality.
Idaho has just about enough population
aud ,,,S 49,,
state square mile of room. There are
q, 800 square miles of land in the State and
81, ,Ss5 people.
The largest raisin vineyard in the
world now in bearing is owned by A. B.
Butler of Fresno, Cal. 1t contains $40 acres.
The annual income from this vineyard has
reached 100000
Among the "curios" recently displayed
at an exhibition in London were a pair of
''dog-tongs," presumably used by old-ttme
sections for the capture of dogs which had
strayed into church.
"A week ago the Thermometer at James,
town, N. D., registered 40 degrees below zero
at in the morning, and a local newspaper
records that "for the last ten DAYS the
mercury has not risen above zero"
Two particularly fine bouncing babies
were exhibited at a family reunion in
Missouri recently. One, a fve-year-old boy,
weighed 1O7 pounds, and the other, aged
two years and half, weighed 9S pounds.
AN enormous boulder, said to be the
largest ever moved in railroad construction,
was excavated recently on the line of the
Mexican Southern Railway. 1t was 120 feet
in height and measured l. 900 cubic meters.
The followers of the Shintonist religion
in Japan number about 100000 souls, and
have about 100000 temples four or five Of
which are presided over by one minister,
who also teaches in the Japanese grammar
schools.
The first theatrical company to play in
the United States departed from England in
1752, and landed at York, in Virginia. The
first public appearance of the players, then
known as "His Majesty's Servants" was at
W1lliamsDort, Va, september >.
Captain Colson, of the French Genie,
has succeeded in photographing without
lense. A simple camera, into which light is ad-
mitted by pinhole, suffices him to produce
well-defined images of immovable objects.
The exposure must be longer, that is all.
"A clock is rarely seen in the farm
houses of Liberia, and many of the town
residents have timepiece of any sort.
There are few civilized countries where
timepiece can be dispensed with so con-
veniently. The sun rises at A. NJ. and sets
at P. NJ. almost to the minute the year
round, and at noon it is vertically overhead.
While Benjamin WILDER, of Pembroke,
ploring on Machias River they found a
monster skeleton. The bones resembled
those of n fish about 10 feet in length, and
tho spread of the ribs indicated a body
about the size of barrel. Those who have
seen some of the bones declare that the
skeleton is that of fish or animal different
from any now inhabiting the region.
The Recorder of Liverpool recently
sent to prison for three months at hard labor
for housebreaking, man with this history:
o.
tation. In 1862 having returned, he got ten
years for stealing half a crown. In 1872 he
got seven years for stealing'a "hair Dlait"
Then came sentences of five years in 1882 for
stealing q watch and another five years in
1886 for stealing shillings-in all Al years.
-Messrs. f. & ]. Hawthorn & Co., New
Mills, via Stockport have invented an in
senious contrivance. 1t takes the form of
an arrangement which enables person who
wears lace boots to lace and unlace them
literally in moment. The operation can be
performed just as quickly as the thumn can
be moved four times up and down. The ap-
pearance presented by a boot with Mr.. Haw-
thorn's device affixed to it is little bit
clumsy but in all probability most people
would consider the saving of time more than
made up for this.
The Paris crOquemorts, or funeral
rnutes have become envious of the lately
emancipated walters, and are agitating for
the right to wear moustaches. The Ordan-
pateurs des Pompes-Funebres, the gentle
men IN cooked hats whoact as masters OF
ceremony at funerals are bitterly opposed
to the new movement of the croquemorts.
The Ordannateurs des POmpes-Funebres
themselves, however, are to light up their
old dress of black with insignia on the col
lar and sashes of blue and red across the
chest.
Some very large pieces of spruce tim
Der, the largest ever cut in British Colum-
bia, were shipped from Vancouver to Mon
treaI last week. The timber is for the dredges
of the Montreal Harbor Commission. Five
pieces were IA by Is inches and so feet in
length, three pieces were 36 inches square
and 6S feet in length, one piece was 80 inches
square and 63 feet in length, and IL pieces
were over 60 feet in length. Three cars were
required for the longest pieces. The con-
signInent went through labelled in big let
ters: British Columbia ToothplckS."