Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A Philadelphia physician carries
purse made of tanned human hide.
The Italians invented the term infiue
in the seventeenth century, and attribu
the disease to the influence of cert
planets.
Egypt is the only country mentioned
the Bible where shaving was practiced.
all other countries at that time such an
would have been considered ignominious
"A Philadelphia policeman has an ala
clock built in his club, which enables him
nap comfortably and yet make prompt C,
nections with the patrol box at which he
ports.
Until the age of bronze arrived, she
OF various sorts furnished material 70
large PERCENTAGE of the hooks made, a
hard wood, sharpened, was much {
ployed.
A Cherryfeld girl living two mi
from school, has not been absent or ta1
for day during an attendance of three a
q half years. The distance travelled in
time strings out 3,64o miles.
In portions of South America cho
late Is used rs currency, as also are coe
nuts and eggs. Corn is still used for 81
llar purpose In some parts OF Norway,
Oliuih 10 III parts OI CHINA.
In Germany all the mice quit hor
when the family living in it is threaten
with extinction: but whether the desert,
are the souls of it's former inhabitants,
merely ordinary house sprites, see
doubtful. -
In Algeria there is a small river viii
is really and truly writin. ink T.
streams-one strongly impregnated wi
iron, the other, flowing through the pt
moss, contains solution OF gallic acid-a
when they unite they form a river OF ink.
In only one case out of 10 are both ey
IN good condition. In seven cases out
every ten people possess one eve which
stronger than the other. In two cases ont
nVe, patients are affected with astiZmatis
NeariN oo per cent possess an imperfect
preclatlon of colors.
~-COnsiderable excitement prevails amo
both the cOlOred and white people in
vicinity of Trenton, Gs. By reliable
neSses the testifying showed that Re
moore, colored, who was hanged in Trentd
Jail last May, had been seen walking ti
streets as ii he had never been hanged
One peculiar trait of persons who
bllnd IS that there are scarcely any smoke
among them. Soldiers and sailors who 10
their sight Will in action sometimes co
tlnue TO smoke Tor short time nft
that great calamity overtakes them, bu
2ether
There is in Missouri lake, percted {,
top of a mountain, its surface from 50 to
feet below the level of the earth surroun
ing it fed by no surface stream, untorch,
DY the wind, dead as the Sea o. Sodnm. The
IS no point Of equal altitude from whit
water could flow within hundreds OF mile
and yet 1T has a periodical rise of so feet :
over.
The planet, as the storehouse of materi
for every construction, natural or huma
Yields certain number of elements. Abo-
81 may be accepted as the number hither
discovered. and these certainly are all th;
are OF any mass or quantity. Out of the.
Tor structural or working use only aboI
one-iourth are employed either by nature {
by man.
"A most remarkable fish was recent
captured in a net Off the Ardglass coas
County Down. 1t weighed three-qua rters
\ pound, and had head similar to that OF
pike. From the gills to the tail on each sic
there was bright blue band; and around II
head and shoulders there was a network
deep blue lines, which gave the fish yeI
comical, unnatural aspect
AT Dueretaro, near Mexico, soap Is tt
currency of the place. and legal tender rt
payment of debts. The cakes are about tt
size of the familiar brown Windsor, and al
each worth about farthings. Each cake
stamped with the name of the town i'll whic
it is current, and that of the person autbo
lied to manufacture and utter it. Soa
money OF one town is not current in anothe
"A French lady recently died in Toulo
at very old age. She was known in societ
by the nickname of Madame Miss" on aa
count of her mania. In her will she bt
queathed 5000, 600 francs to the explorer VIII
would penetrate the wilds of Africa furthe
than any explorer has hitherto done. III
may take with him company OF 5o0-meI
but must bring half of this number back {
civilization.
In Surrey county, N. c., there is
mountain whose outline displays q strikin
likeness to the Sphinx of Egypt. 1t is in tn
part OF. the State, just east o
the Blue Ridge range, and lies prone upo
the Piedmont plains. At n distance of tel
miles the figure is the exact counterpart c
that OF a gigantic lion, its body at righ
angles to the PERCEPTIONS ridge and wit
head reared aloft as il in the act of rising.
The Chinese, who, in very early ages
had attained to some degree of understand
ing in the elementary principles of scienc
and their applications, possessed also COR
paratively advanced amount of knowledg
In the manufacture and use of steel. or it
origin among them we have no account; bu
it is quite conceivable that it's discover,
preceded that of the lOdestone which, unde
the name of Tche chy directing store6 wa
in use among them fully 2600 B. C.
When Mr. David Lindsay returne,
from his expedition across part of the Aus
tralian desert q while ago, he said the Who'll
of that almost waterless country was fnhab
tied by natives who get their water suppl,
by draining the roots of the malice tree
tree, absorbing moisture from the air, re
tains it in considerable quantities in it.
roots and thus makes it possible to live in M
arid region, which would otherwise be unin
habitable.
The following advertisement appeared
in the New York Gazette of September 1, 173s
Just arrived from Great Britain, and arc tc
be Sold on board the Ship Alice and Eliza
beth, Capt. Paine Commander, several likely
Welch and English Servant Men, most o.
hem Tra0esmen. Whoever inclines to pur
,hase any of them may agree with said Com
nander, or Mr.. Thomas Noble, Merchant, a.
hr. Hazards, in New York: where alsois Il
De sold several Negro Girls and Negro Boy
md likewise good Cheshire cheese"
RHYNKLED RHYMELETS.