Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Telescopes were nrst MADE IN lo5U
The Bible is being translated into the
Corean language.
st. Louis boasts of having the first lady
advertising agent.
-Ceur d. Alene are three French words,
meaning "hears Of an awl."
-Minnesota paid the enormous sum Of
$50, 900 last year for wolf scalps.
The altitude of Ell Paso, in the trans
Pecos territory Of Texas, is 1880 feet above
the sea.
I'm England, when printers take vaca-
tion, they are said to be enjoying their
wayzgook.
More United States vessels visit the
Mexican ports than those of all other ma
tions combined.
-Workmen are not allowed to work on
the streets of New Bedford unless they have
been naturalized.
The origin of football is unknown, but
the first mention OF the game is in the reign
Of Edward III. (134s).
"A Berlin inventor has invented an In
strument which measures the one thou
sandth part of a second.
AT an ordinary temperature mercury
in an equal quantity in bulk weighs about
two-thirds more than gold.
1t is claimed that the largest floating
dock in the world is at Bermuda It is 3sl
feet long and 123 feet wide.
AN oil painting constantly hung In
dark place loses some of its vividness and
therefore depreciates in value
According to census bulletin Just is
sued there are only $1,000 female persons to
every 0,oO0 males in the United States.
One man in Wicomico county, Nd, on
the eastern shore, shipped this season nearly
%. COO quarts of huckleDerries in q single
week.
In the Executive Mansion at Raleigh,
N. c. is a card table presented to Governor
harrington by King George II. about the
year 1855.
The Danish Government has issued a
decree forbidding the importation of dogs
from any foreign country except Sweden
and Norway.
AN old soldier in Kansas recently re-
ceived from the Government 8 ents, which
had been due him without his knowledge
for more than 80 years.
An anti-cancer league has been organ
lied in Paris. its purpose being to seek
means of relieving humanity from one of its
most dreadful scourges.
The guests at a Springfield hotel re-
Gently presented one of the Mattresses with
a pair of roller skates, in hopes of being
waited on more rapidly.
English medical authorities are coming
to the conclusion that the smoking of pure
opium is not nearly so injurious to China
men as has been supposed.
"A Maiden man has invented a device
for lifting the lid OF street letter box by
touching the foot on treadle at the foot of
the post to which the box is attached
How do you pronounce Cwm? Easily
opn h
tchent-sah. Throndhjem? Just tronn.yem.
Krzczecki? Simply k(e)rzh-tchets-kee.
AN Indianapolis, Ind, beggar displays
a queer sign which reads as follows: "Help
q blind cripple. Was run over by baby
carriage and struck in the eye with para
SOL"
Manufacturers of obituary monuments
in the United States have the right to re-
move their handiwork from graves in the
event of its not being paid for within six
month.
"A fishing party in Texas took the follow
ing with them: Six fishing rods, a loaf of
bread, three cans of sardines, a frying pan,
one towel, one bar of soap, Ii bottles and
two jugs.
The Fisheries Department has received
advices to the effect that the mackerel
catch of the New England fishing fleet to
date is % 900 barrels-exactly y twice as much
as last year.
New York is named from the Duke of
York, the original grantee. In the charter
he was given all the lands from the west
side of the Connecticut river to the east side
of the Delaware bay.
The Menhaden steamer Alaska ran into
a school of blue fish OFF New London, Conn.,.
Wednesday. big net was set, and it Is
estimated about {, 600 fish were caught which
averaged four pounds each.
mi - ~
1870 leftover one mile-above sea level,
there being on an average less than six days
,ach year without sunshine.
The natural confguration of many
suggests the human face, and
such physiognomies cut out of the rocks on
gigantic scale are commonly regarded by
"a vas es as objects of worship
The taxidermist of the Smithsonian In
,titution at Washington denies that the pea
cock has ugly feet-a condition of affairs
which has been very generally accepted as
truth as long as the peacock has been
known.
"A new method of quickly rendering
glass Transparent during the process OF
consists in forcing into the
melted materials a stream of oxygen gas.
The enormous heat generated oxidizing all
deleterious materials.
"A feature Of a picnic at Pennington,
Me-, was the reading of one of Edwin Ar
,old's poems, whereat a local newspaper is
much eated and declares that Pennington
) lone or the few spots on Gods earth where
picnic is not invariably associated with
Jeer."
-German-born residents furni shed 876
,er cent of the strength OF the Union army
Turing the War of the Rebellion. The En-
,lish were represented by the smallest per-
entage, 226 as against 2.3S for other for
igners not classified, and LIB of unknown
nativity.
The triumph of art over nature is Illus
rated in the fact that an artist recently
make painting of some beech trees in an
Id pasture that he sold for $3.50. The owner
# the pasture parted company with his
at about the same time for sl5O, and
allied it good sale at that.