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

line Suez canal cost u, ,OOO, UUO,VVV'
London has two aluminium yachts
AN Oil City baby was born with two
teeth.
"A dozen different beers are made in
Borneo.
Harrisburg complains about adulterated
buckwheat.
Solomon is said to have collected the
Proverbs at 80.
The first book printed by machinery
wat produced in 1917.
The Germans were the first to use gum
powder for blasting
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided chat alcohol is not beverage.
The latest feat in jugglery is TO exhibi
q man climbing rope winch Is, apparently,
tastened to nothing.
Canals, not railways, have cut the larg.
csc figure in works OF transportation under
execution during 1892.
Immigration Is not increasing. Nearly
100000 mole people settled i'll this country
ten years ago Than last year.
Candy nowadays vies with flowers as a
current coin OF polite society. IL il lar1elv
used i'll acknowledgment of Drief hospftali-
ties.
Out of IA applicants. at Grand Rapids,
for admission 10 the United States Army.
ten were rejected on account OF physical
detects.
"A young woman who advertises to mash
o iy With her foot on an eight-iuot ceiling is
travelling through the great kicking state of
Kansas.
1t was the vogue at one time in Venics
to gild the rolls of bread and the oysters on
the supper table. The candles were also
coated with gold
The largest monolith ever cut in this
country was quarried out OF granite in Mis-
souri, and transported to the East on a spe.
claIly prepared train.
Tests of California roses show them to
possess 20 per cent more of the volatile oil
than tile French roses, which means the
oeVeIopment OF u new industry for CaIifor-
MIA.
Probably the finest body of men-as re-
CARDS mental and physical qualifications
comDlned-that are doing police duty in any
country on eartn are The WOrlu's FAIR
guards.
The art of paper making has reached
the point where it is possible TO cu5 down a
growing tree and convert it IN TO paper suit
aDle tor printing purposes within the short
space OF "a hours.
hAc gave 1OILQ SOUNDS lOuQ
enough to reach the earth, such sounds, in
stead OF reaching US in the space OF about
eight minutes, as the light does, would only
arrive utter u period OF nearly Il years.
From experiments made by English
scientists it appears that camphor and OK
ygonated water are the most energetic ex-
ctCants OF growth, not only as regard germ
lnatlon but as affecting the vigor of plants.
"A typographical error in Harper's Kaga-
zine exhibits Charles Dudley Warner as u
horrible infideI. He is made to say that "the
great mass OF Christian literature is no
longer believed" For Christian read
christmas"
"A Parnellite badge, to be worn by sup
porters of the Parnellite faction and "au
who wish to do so" has been devised. 1t is
made i'll soIid gold and IN solid silver, and
the announcement says it 'can be had upon
application"
One of the famous curiosities of the
Mammoth Cave is Echo River, a body of
water estimated to be some three-fourths of
mile IN length. anu Il ON 20 to 200 Ieet in
Dreadful It's depth at ordinary times is
from 10 TO 40 feet.
The common daphne grown in flower
gardens is one of the most deadly poisons
known to the botanist. Three or four of
the berries will kill a man as quickly as
strychninc, and one has been known to kill
CHILD in half an hour.
When the schoolhouse of the Gala
CHER district, in Mason Valley, New, was
opened after the summer vacation it was
1ound that bees were in possession of the
desks, and it is claimed that about 300
pounds OF honey were taken from them.
AT the Chicago University every stu
dent is compelled to take physical exercise
at least one hour each day. Their instruc-
tor. Mr.. stagg, makes them go through a
certain amount of work in football practice,
because he regards it as the very finest open
air exercise.
The fastest time ever made on an Ameri-
can railroad has again been broken. This
time by a 123. 500 O-pound engine (without the
tender), having driving wheels or y, 400
pounds, which made two miles, Tuesday, on
the New Jersey Central Railroad i'll I75 Sec
onds, or at the rate of 81 miles per hour.
Drawing room salts jars are shown ut
the silversmiths as unique Christmas gifts.
They are OF glass, and are of good size with
sail yer screwtop. They are filled with aro-
matte salts, and stand on the parIor table, to
be occasionally opened to fill the room with
their pungent contents, alter which the
cover is tightly replaced.
The seal used by the Treasury Depart
ment to-day is precisely the same as that OF
the Continental Treasury bearing the same
legend, emblems. etc. 1t was prepared some
time between 177S and 1882 but it is not
known by whom it was designed: The
legend (Thesaur Amer. Septent Sigil) is
translated "SeaI of the Treasury OF North
America"
"A model Paris workingman's bedstead
is made so that it can be taken down and
put up again in half q minnie. By curious
combination of springs, the bed can be in
simultaneously surrounded with curtains, a
washstand wheeled inside, and the oceu-
pant can go through his or her toilet with
out being seen. By another spring the bed
is turned into canopy suited for 1nyaltds,
who have no need to stir to perform the
A dentist of Athens, Ga, has at his Of
fee a curiosity in the way of oysters and ar.
tincial teeth. The teeth had evidently been
lost by someone on board ship or some
one had been drowned. The oysters had
formed around the teeth and the formation
is perfect. dredging boat near Moore
head City found the she'll with the teeth at.
tached and the man VINO found them 5olu
them ior So The Smithsonian Institute IS
now seeking to purchase them, and oilers q
good price.
-Tramps in Cumberland county, Me-,
have a regular scheme OF getting living at
the various poorhouses- For instance, they
will go tn the DeerinG house, get supper and
nights lodging, and breakfast If willing TO
saw the wood required, then will spend the
day loaflng round in the woods, go TO west
brook ut night and repeat the performance
choosing a new town each
night. The Portland Transcript says one
town in Cumberland county thus proVlosu
supper lodging and breakfast Tor over 0OO
Eramps in one year recently; IN otner norus
it supported one tramp for nearly year.