Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

There are counterfeit almonds.
Nickel steel does not corrode in salt
water.
Twelve average tea-plants produce one
pound of tea.
The 'cabin boat" is disappearing from
the Upper Mississippi river.
The exclusive use of white bread has Q
tendency to make teeth decay.
During one month recently Japan ex-
ported sl4. $50 gross of matches.
The first American newspaper was
printed at Boston, September 25, 1880.
The discovery of rich sapphire fields Ii
reported in the vicinity of Craig, Mont
Carpets were used in Nineveh and
Babylon. as shown in paintings, B. C., l5e0.
Free drawing schools for girls were
first organized in France by Rosa Bonheur.
I'm the eleventh century both English
and French dandies covered their arms with
bracelets.
The King Chan, the Chinese official
journal, has been published in Pekfn for
many centuries.
The modern health drinking arose from
the ancient custom of dedicating cups o.
wine to divinities.
"A Kansas City farming implement.
house intends sending out young woman
as q dru miner next year.
"A Californian has produced for assay
a piece of gold-bearing rock which h5
claims is part of meteorite.
The Pope in 1186 prohibited the cros,-
bow as barbarous, and threatened cros.-
bowmen with accommodation.
Sherman, Tex, has 800, 900 Jail from
which ten prisoners lately escaped by saw
ing through iron bars with a 35-cent file.
The playwrights of the last two GEN.
turies usually received a dedication fee from
the nobleman to whom the play was dedi-
Gated.
The amount on deposit with savings
banks in 1891 eaualed s1,65i s26, ,142; of their
loans, investments and cash on hand, 81, 1,s24,-
1876 594.
The Cars personal expenses are
SO, 900 900 year, which is Sc 200,O 600 more than
Russia's annual appropriation for common
schools.
"A negro digging on his farm in Liberty
county, Ca. recently, found an iron pot con-
tanning 81, 600 in Old French and Spanish sill
yer coins.
AN ingenious Indianian has invented
pIow In which an anger or screw mold
boari is operated by means of drive wheel
in the rear.
"A chute, measuring three-quarters of q
mile in length, in the logging camp at Clay
ton, Ore, is described as one of the longest
in the world.
An average of three British seamen
lose their lives every day by drowning, and
300 British steamers and sailing vessels are
lost ut sea yearly.
The barroom of hotel at Bordentowr,
N. j.. is decorated with a pair of elegans
chandeliers that were brought from Spain
by Joseph Bonaparte.
-Porphyry bolders, which greatly re-
semble watermelons in size, shape and
color, are to be found in the Cascade Noun
tains east OF RoseDurg, Ore.
AT the head of the Gulf of Bothnia
there fs a mountain, on the summit of which
the sun shines perpetually during the five
days OF June, 10, 20, 81, q and %.
The peach is of Persian origin and the
apricot is Syrian. The former fruit is mem
toned by classical writers as early as 200
Be, but the latter not until 30 AID.
During the reign of Henry ". of Eng
land no person of a lower estate than a
knight banneret was allowed to wear cloth
of gold, or large sleeves. or to use either
ermine or marten fur on his gown.
1t was not until the reign of the En-
press Josephine in France that the pocket
handkerchief was tolerated at all as an arti-
Gle for public use. No lady would have ,
dared to one in the presence of others.
Even the name was carefully avoided in po-
lite conversation
The great organ in the old Mormon
Church at Salt Lake City has 2,7O4 pilbes,
each 32 feet long and large enough to aqfntt
the body of man of ordinary size. Ikwas
built in the early DAYS, when all freight was
handled from Missouri rive points across
the plains with OK teams
BY placing two iron bars at seven or
eight yards distance from each other and
putting them in communication on one side
by an insulated wire, and on the other side
with q telephone, it is said that a storm can
be predicted II hours ahead through GER
tain dead sound heard in the receiver.
I'm the limited space between Worth
street and the battery, New York, where
there are many large Wholesale houses, it is ,
stated that 1900 women are employed as
typewriters. A single typewriting machine
company finds employment, through It's
various offices, for 10000 women year.
The largest specimen of extinct animal
ever found in the world was the skeleton of
Dinosaurian reptile discovered in the Bad
Lands IN 1882. The weight of the skull alone
was 694 pounds, and of the whole skeleton
1890 pounds. 1t is now in the rooms of the
Academy of Natural Science. Philadelphia.
-Koumiss, mares milk fermented, is
mentioned in the thirteenth century by
uO ASuOl uQuAoJ bAdfOAld9
after a man has taken draught thereof is
lcayeth behind taste like that OF almond
milk, and maketh ones insides feel very
comfortable, and it also intoxicateth weak
heads"
Some English newspaper women who
wanted to find out whether the people who
sing in the London streets make good liv-
ing or not, put on disguise and taking
guitar went out to try it for themselves.
After singing and playing for an hour and
half they had collected Is sd. And they
were only amateurs at that and with no
previous experience in pleasing the people,
The oldest man in England is said to
be Amos Jinks a native OF Shropshire, now
living at WellingDoroush, Northampton
shire. The claim that he is l07 years old, it
is averred. has been investigated and thor
cughIv verified by responsible pa rites. The
old man is withered and bent, his eyesight (
has failed and his voice is shaky, but apart
from these evidences of age he is free from
ply ysical 'infirmity. He eats. drinks and
sleeps well, and is lot at all deaf.