Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Artificial grass for the grounds of
side cottages is one Of the industries of NJ,
chester.
South Carolina is the only State in I
Union in which no official record Of m
riages is kept.
In 1887 there were AT competitors
tered in the Harvard athletic sports. In
the number had increased to 72.
1t takes 5000, 900 words of telegral
to tell the story of a national convention
the different daily papers OF the country.
The Roumanian crown is made of met
from the cannon that were captured frc
the Turks by the Roumanians at PleVna
1871.
Whenever a Russian peasant enters
leaves his cottage he always bows humb
before the image of n saint which has
ways place in his home.
Hitherto the British bushel has bee
reckoned as 81 pounds of grain, but a chant
having been made in the standard weig
the bushel in future will be defined by
pounds.
"A Dexter. Me-, man received S. from
friend fe days ago to whom he had loane
that amount 25 years ago. Accompanytr
the payment was q diamond ring or lars
value as interest.
Getting up early tends to exhaust th
physical power and to shorten life while IL
so-oalled invigorating early hours are apt
produce lassitude, and are positively dal
gerous to some constitutions.
AT the dictation of the men put
power by the Unionists. in Australasia, all in
migration into the colony is prohibited, s
that thousands of people now unemploye
there may have an opportunity to find worl
AT certain church near Ledbury a
annual sermon is still preached against tn
vice of dueling. This is done in accordanc
with the last will and testament of q dan
sci whose rival lovers died fighting for he
hand.
With desire of giving her husband
true picture of herself, a woman in Atchi
son, Kan, had her photograph taken as SHIT
appeared ut daily housework in her kitchen
dress, with q baby on one arm and broom
and dustpan on the other.
The difficulty of obtaining fresh eggs a
a reasonable price has led to the use of sub
stitute for eggs by many dispensers OF eg,
phosphate. 1t looks and tastes like th'
product of the industrious hen, and can bt
produced at moderate cost when she Is or
vacation.
One soda fountain in New York tina
dispenses large quantities Of egg phosphate
of 100 hens up in Westchester county. There
is pretty little income to this while it lasts
for these eggs average IS cents n cozen the
year round.
Goldfish swarm in the small lake occu.
pied by the lotos plantation on the west side
of Central Park, New York. The fish are
usually brilliant in color. and when the sun
shines they may be seenby the score gliding
about the lake along with like numbers Of
less brilliant fish.
The extent of the street railroad inter
est in the United States may be estimated
from a recent report, which states that there
are 5,7s3 miles of such roads in operation,
having Sc, sos cars, and employing 70764 men.
The total number of passengers carried last
year was 2,023 0l0 202. being 349,s per mile of
road work, and 81, 237 per car.
I'm Miramichi, n. B., a double cedar
knot is carried in the pocket as a cure for
rheumatism. In Missouri this disease IS
prevented" by carrying in the pocket a
nutmeg or q walnut. In other localities a
hickory nut is used, in others, still, buck
eye, while perhaps the commonest OF all
these amulets is the horse chestnut.
Russian tea is gradually making its way
in New York. The Samovar is scarcely ever
seen in any restaurant, though it is MAIN
tanned in few Russian households. The
tea has been sold for many years in the He
brew quarter of the tenement house region,
and an importer who shares the shop of far
East side matchmaker reports the demand
growing.
"A Frenchman undertook some time ago
to write a book upon his travels through the
land of Goethe. This is the way he began:
Germany is country inhabited by peo-
ple called Muller" Now, it turns out, ac-
coruing to Official figures. that the empire Of
William II. has 629. 9S7 Mullers within its
thaf il 70 "
70 Germans.
There has almost always in English
history been some one industry that was
supposed to be king. In the middle ages it
was the growth and export of raw wool; last
century 1t was the woollen manufacture
itself: early in this century ans down to a
very late date cotton was king; more lately,
since the beginning of the railway and
steamship era, it has been coal and iron.
"A dog is refractory to the incubation Of
the tuberculosis of birds, but quickly sue
cumbs to that of mankind. Hence NM.
Charles Richet and Hericourt have en-
ployed the virus of bird tuberculosis to vac
cinate the dog against human tuberculosis.
The result of their experiment. Is to prove
that after incubation by bird tuberculosis
a dog becomes refractory to human tuber-
culosis.
1t was generally believed in Mansfield,
O., many years ago, that the seeds of Jobs
tears (Coix Lachryma), If worn about the
neck, would cure poitre. In Portland,
Me-, and Boston it is thought that chill
dren teethin5 should wear n string of Jobs
tears They are somewhat commonly sold
for children to wear at this critical period In
and Cambridge, while in Pea
body, Mass, they are generally kept for sale
ut the drug stores.
An English railway carriage company
IS building for an Indian potentate three
superb railway carriages, which will con-
stitute q palace on wheels. In the frame
work of each carriage is to be used SOD
worth OF teak, to resist the ravages of in
,ects. The suite of carriages includes day
and night apartments for the Prince and
MS retinue, and also q cuisine department.,
the latter having facilities to carry two tons
Of water and two tons OF ice.
Honey bees from somewhere haunt the
lowers and blossoming trees of New York.
specially the horse chestnuts. The bios
IONS Of this tree have peculiar fascination
or bees Of all sorts, and in regions where
bees are plentiful there is q noise as of 1
swarm about each horse chestnut. 1t is an l
I'D tradition that the horse chestnut bios 4
;om contains an intoxicant which makes |
;he honey seekers drunk, and causes them
10 drop senseless TO the ground, where they
become the prey of ants.
SOME THINGS FOR SMILES.