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

! -Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make
2i pounds of refined.
The choir of the Mormon temple at
Salt Lake il 300 strong.
Dogs will be trained for carrying mes
| sases during wars in Austria.
! --Germanium is chemical substance, but
it is worth 60 times its weight in gold.
"A Michigan man has an apple which he
| picked up 10 months ago. and it is still per-
! iectly sound.
In England during the past nine months
there were 90 collisions, in which 4C2 people
were killed or injured.
"A company has been formed in Califor-
mia for the purpose of making printers ink
from crude petroleum.
AN immense body of gray copper and
bromide has been struck in the Monte Cristo
mine on Shields Gulch. near Osburn, Wash.
The metal in Il scent nickel piece is
worth about half cent, and l5 cents will
purchase copper enough to make 81 worth of
cents.
Folding linen is All accomplishment in
which each woman in Holland is expected
to lie proficient before she becomes mistress
OF Il home.
"A dissoiute linguist, teacher of seven
different languages, has been jailed at Lara
mic, Wvo., for beating his wife, who sup
ported him by taking i'll washing.
AT a recent family reunion in Missouri
two unusually fat babies were proudly ex-
hibited by their fond parents. The oldest,
nsed @ years weighs -l01 pounds, and the
youngest, aged 212 years, weighs IS pounds.
"A Stockton well borer recently found
the tooth of animal as depth OF l12t
feet. IL resembles the tooth of monkey.
Another tcotn, apparently that of Il herba-
ceouS animal, WAS found at depth of so
feet.
The Japanese believe in serpents 800
feet long and large enough to swallow an
elephant; foxes with eight legs; monkeys
with four ears: fishes with ten heads at
tached to one body, the flesh of which is
cure for boils.
"A clothing company of Taunton. Mass,
has received an order for pair of trowsers
III inches waist. 20 inside seam, thigh Al,
knee 81. bottom 81. for man who weighs 800
and he is only 20 years old at that. 1t will
take three yards double width cloth TO do
the work.
Calvary, the hill near Jerusalem, where
the cruciffxion of Jesus occurred, is formed
of limestone. The shores of the Dead Sea
are lined with puInice stone, showered out
of some volcano that DESTROYED Sodom and
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank beneath
the waters of the Dead Sea.
followed the moon in determining time, bu5
since the influx of missionaries the Queen
issued an edict that the Christian year
should be followed. But in commencing the
year the date of the first day WAS set some
time in October or November.
Many a huntsman through long life
has chased the fox with enthusiastic ardor
who would be surprised to know that in the
very tip of his tail or brush is a little bunch
II n
forth to the despairing and almost van
quished beast the refreshing ana stilnulat-
ing odor of vioetS.
The largest gold coin in circulation in
any country in the world is the gold "loof'
of AMMAN, the French colony in Eastern
Asia. It is q fiat, round piece worth about
$500 in American money. The next IN size
to this unwieldly coin is the Japanese
"obang," which is exactly equal in value to
ten English sovereigns.
The coats mentioned in the Bible were
square garments of fine lambs wool, worn
by every Israelite. There was a hole in the
center for the head to go through, and IL
hung down before and behind. 1t was a coat
by day, a covering by night, and a Shroud in
the grave. If seized by a creditor 1t mad TO
be returned ut sunset
Take pencil and multiply-tyice two
are four, twice four are eight, etc, and you
will find that in the twentieth generation
YOU had lU4S.JIi ancestors, WITHOUT COUNT
ing the intermediate generations, and that
i'll the thirtieth generation you had over
LEGO 900 coo ancestors, without counting those
between yourself and the thirtieth.
Perhaps the most novel craft ever
sailed on San DIEGO Bay was the one
launched by J. ID. Palmer, the house
mover. the other day. Tic craft in question
was fve-room cottage which Mr.. Palmer
had taken y contract to move to South san
Diego. 1t WIS loaded ON two bargeS and
drawn by napthI launch.
"A classic account of the distribution
of wheat over the primeval world shows
that Ceres, having taught her favorite. Trip
tolemus, the art of agriculture and the sci
ence of breadma king, gave him her chariot.
q celestial vehicle, and tha5 in it ne Travelled
night and day distributing this valuable
bread grain among all nations OF the EARTH
Pierre Ruan, an aged banker of Paris,
had Il prophetic dream few years ago
which told him that he would live until the
wear 1902. lie was 50 firm in the belief that
the dream was correct that he had a monu-
mcn5 erected with his name, age and tine
dare l90l, cut upon il. The old man mas
Just died and the marble-cutter has another
Pierre Ruan inscription and date put on.
in Dikoa, in Ademouah, in Logone and
elsewhere small cotton strips are the reSu-
lar currency. In Bagirari these strips are
so small that from 20 30 $50 of them would
have to be p1eceu tO9eIHS4 W lIdhO a SLiAi
In Darfoor the gray, course shirt1ng c1rcu-
lates as money, ani in Tiout, in Upper
Erypt. this material is dyed dark or blue
and then cut into pieces of three yards
length.
The Japanese believe in species of fox
which. if it lives to be so years old without
having been chased by dog, transforms
himself into q beautiful woman. This same
fox ifbe lives to the age OF 100 years, gains
sone new powers, among which is that of
q wonderful wizard. When he
reaches the age OF 1000 years ne becomes
celestial fox with nine golden-colored tails,
and has the power of going to heaven when
ever he chooses
A pin manufacturer in Ansonia, Conn.,,
is obout to utilize some 20 barrels of imper-
feet nirs in building Il sidewalk in front of
his residence. There is in that town small
,,iace of sidewalk built OF scraps from the
hin factory, which by corros!on mad become
so hard in u few years that IL required Inuca
~ rd work i'll drilling and blasting with dy-
ngulite to make a hole large enough 10 set
pole, although it was but three or
tonr inches thick It bids fair tC last as long
as a sidewalk of solid brass.