Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

| "A New York woman mas copyrighted
dance.
Nearly a quarter of all cases of insanity
are hereditary.
The railroads get 500, 600, 900 year for
| carrying the mails.
There are said to be 100000 lilies in
full bloom in field at Bermuda.
The Federation of Women's Clubs has
issued an edict against the filthy trailing
skirt.
The bold idea Of ferrying loaded freight
cars across Lake Michigan is soon to be put
into practice.
An Ashboro, n. c., man has among hi,
deeds a land grant to amember of his family
from George III.
"A clipper ship for every day in the
year is required to move California's surplus
wheat to Europe.
"A Dublin doctor lately sent in bill to
LADY which ran thus: ITO curing your hus-
band till he died."
I'm the Chicago postofice 100, 900 letters
are sorted, stamped and bagged in IS
minutes by 2l7 men.
An African missionary reports that he
has been able to make almost all of his jour
ney1ngs on his bicycle.
1t is estimated that $3.50, 900 will have
to be expended yearly to enforce the new
Chinese exclusion law.
"A German has invented an incandescent
lamp apparatus for showing the interior Of
boilers while under steam
"A company has been, granted permis.
sion to experiment. with electric omnibuses
in London the coming summer.
"A log jam in the st. Croix river, at
Eagle Island, is said to be over five miles
long and contained over $50 900 feet of
lumber.
Only few years ago there was net
mile of telegraph line in rhe Chinese empires
to-day there is more than enough to girdls
the earth.
The Italians invented the term ir
f1uenza in the seventeenth century, and a
tribrted the disease to the influence of ce
tam planets.
Instantaneous photography has reveale
the fact that the former method of repre-
senting lightning as fiery zigzag was en-
tirely false.
Traffic has been DELAYED in Oregon by
millions of large crickets. which cling to the
rails and make it utterly impossible for
trains to move over them.
There is bowlder in the Ozark Noun
tains so denseIy charged with magnetism
that knife dropped to the ground nine feet
away VIII w 'tbileAObCu w w.
An ocean steamer has gone all the way
from Norway to CHICAGO. being hailed with
great joy, as may readily be imagined, at
the Western metropolis.
During last year there were only 8, 236
marriages in San Francisco, less than II to
LOCO of the citv's population. The rate In
London is more than Is per 1000
In testing the conditions of the atmos-
phere inside petroleum tank, if the air at
the bottom is fonnd not infiammaDle or ex-
posive the air above is sure not to be so.
-Molasses burns with a high heat in
combination with the dry stalks of the sugar
cane. and its substitution for coal as fuel i.
practiced in certain sections of the South.
India, the home of serpents, has " ha'
is known as the vegetable boa constri ictot.,'
n species of climber which twines abot1t
great trees so tightly as to strangle them i II
death.
The wild potato vine q. pandurata)
sometimes has root that attains tho size
and occasionally the form of boys body,
and weighs 81 pounds.
"A New York woman has invented
cushion headrest for church pews to enable
those who bow their heads upon pew backs
to do 50 with comfort. The contrivance can
be set at any angle and can be clamped to
any pew.
The part of the larynx commonly
known as Adams apple. has just been re-
moved from the throat Of a man at the
Carnev Hospital in Boston, the first opera
tion of the kind in that citv. cancerous
growth had started in the affected part.
-EngIand's Queen since the beginning Of
her reign has only signed one death war
rant which was for an, execution in the Isle
of Man, the act passed for relieving Her
Majesty of the signing death warrants hav-
ing. by an oversight not included that part
of Her Majesty's dominions.
Among the most remarkable spiders
is the Dolomede5, which runs over the tlr-
face of water in pursuit of it's prey. aid
dives to escape from its enemies. Stranger
still is the Argvroneta, which builds IFS
house wherein it lays its eggs and rears IL s
young at the bottom of streams.
The public are more credulous now
than sixty years ago. Aerial navigation,
says o writer, is no DOUBT an accomplish
ment of the future, and when some supposed
crank says that he is going across the ATTAIN
tic in an air ship don't discourage bim nor
predict failure they did poor Fulton
with his first American steamboat.
Among the latest patents is design
for an ink bottle in which the ink is used
from the bottom and the surface for eyapor-
alton is limited to the cork hole only, the
pen point being passed into the bottle so
that the ink will not creep up the holder.
while the bottle. if accidentally tipped over,
will always stop with the hole up
1t is claimed that a person dreams
almost from the first hour of existence. Let
a babe have but one experience, either that
of light warmth or the IN ore pleasurable one
of suction. and in it's sleep that experience
NAV and proba bIv will be recalled Ifa childs
mouth be watched in its first sleep its lips
will be seen to be i'll motion. the action Of
sucking is going on-the child is dreaming
of Its first meal.
The photograph has been introduced
into medical practice. DIR. G. A. Leach, OF
Washington, has been experimenting with
the talking machine with such result that
he expresses the opinion that deafness can
be cured by a quickening of the ear drum
with vibrations from its disk. His theory
is that the vibrations will Gisiodge the for
nation or coating on the inner bones of the
ear which produces deafness, and thus re-
store the process of hearing.
AT the 1876 Centennial at Philadelphia
an electric light was exhibited as curiosity,
and now nearly all of the cities of the United
States are so lighted, and Mr.. Edison has
Civ en- the world the incaDdescent light for
the interior of our dwellings and buildings
The storage battery is now being so per-
fected that it is reasonable to prophesy its
being employed to convey passenger cars
over common railroad tracks, and even to
be used in the place of the steam engine LOT
freight trains